[ { "id": 228830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "26\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\nBack spring, cupboard japanned, 4 inch\n\nChest\n\nDrawer\n\nCupboard\n\nDesk\n\nLocks\n\nLong lights\n\nGun and brass flint\n\nDitto and carronado per\n\nIron rim and brass knob, 3 bolts\n\nDitto, dead\n\nMetal\n\nMortice\n\nMusket flint\n\nPad, iron\n\nStock\n\nLoops for uprights, iron\n\nLuting\n\nFor firing signal rockets\n\nMachines\n\nFilling small arm cartridges Sweeping chimneys\n\nCopper\n\n-\n\nMagazines Tin for cups\n\nPortable, with poles\n\nMallets\n\nCarpenters' wood\n\nFascine\n\nFuze\n\nMasons' -\n\nTampions\n\nMarline, white\n\nMaps and Views of Hong Kong\n\nMasks, wire\n\nMatch\n\nMats\n\nMauls\n\nMonkey for pile driving. (See Boring tools.)\n\nBrass liquid of sorts\n\nCartridge\n\nMusket\n\nCopper\n\nPowder\n\nMeasurca\n\nPewter -\n\nSpirits\n\n1 quart\n\n2 quarts\n\nPint\n\npint\n\nGill and half gill\n\nPowder\n\nTin, oil\n\nWood, dry measure\n\nMedical store case\n\nMetal pivots and gudgeons, 18\", with bolts and nuts\n\nModels\n\n-\n\nFor stone work\n\n6 panel doors Mirrors in brass cases\n\nMomatres, or broad hoes Mops, heads, and nails\n\nMoulds, bullet\n\nBrass,\n\n-\n\nRifle, percussion\n\nMoulding, iron, for Ionic capital\n\nMullers' paint\n\n133\n\nDifferent natures.\n\n8.\n\nR.\n\nU,\n\n36\n\n22\n\n03 as a NN\n\n2\n\n57\n\n81\n\n10\n\n10\n\n55\n\n25\n\n98\n\n24\n\n22\n\n53\n\n81\n\n8\n\nDescription of Stores.\n\nBoat 14-inch Fine 2 inch\n\n27\n\nDifferent natures.\n\n9.\n\nன்\n\nR.\n\nA\n\n3\n\nMixed\n\nCopper,\n\nwrought\n\nlbs. oz.\n\n1.102. 5.4\n\nSpike 5 inch\n\nStrong rose\n\nFine clout\n\nNails, Ibs.oz.\n\nJacks 1inch Spike Rose\n\nFine clasp\n\nStrong ditto\n\nStrong ditto\n\nlbs. oz.\n\n9 295 32.12\n\n3\n\n1,282\n\n1,040\n\n56\n\n175\n\n15\n\n5\n\n94\n\n182\n\nScupper or bellows, No. 66\n\n12\n\nIbs.\n\n198\n\nSacks, black Flemish\n\n2\n\n2 2 ☆\n\nIron, Dbs. oz.\n\nBrads and sprigs, wrought\n\nFlooring brads\n\nCut brads\n\nMop, 136\n\n17\n\n16\n\n8\n\n6\n\n101\n\n30\n\n1\n\n3\n\n2\n\n2\n\n293\n\n14\n\n11\n\n6\n\n115\n\n6\n\n117\n\nOakum\n\nOil\n\nskeins\n\n15\n\nscts\n\n5\n\nBrass -\n\n6\n\nIbs.\n\n1,196\n\n108\n\n32-pounder\n\n3\n\n30\n\n24-pounder\n\nOrdnance\n\nGun\n\nIron\n\n18-pounder\n\n12-pounder\n\n6-pounder\n\nHowitzer, 8 inch\n\nMortar, 8 inch L. S.\n\nCart tier, 189 Bellows\n\n5.6\n\n1.8\n\nMixed\n\nOld\n\ncwt. qrs. Ibs.\n\n3.0.14\n\nditto\n\n7.0.13\n\nTacks\n\n171.4\n\nSpike of sorts\n\n61\n\nMusket\n\n765\n\nNeedles\n\nNippers, carpenters', common\n\nNipples, musket, spare\n\nGun, 9 and 6-pounders\n\nHowitzer, 24 and 12-pounders\n\nMortar, 4 inch -\n\nCarronade, 32, 24, 18, and 12-pounders\n\n859\n\n1\n\n1,282\n\nIbs. oz.\n\ngalls.\n\n10 10 000 14000 2\n\n552\n\n5\n\n629\n\n3\n\n8\n\n3\n\n6\n\n6\n\n32\n\n3\n\n54\n\n9\n\n20\n\n15\n\n7\n\n2\n\n2\n\n3\n\n38\n\n5\n\n26\n\nBrass captured at Borneo and deposited by Sir. T.\n\nCochrane\n\n5\n\n2\n\nOvens, iron, complete\n\n3\n\n1\n\n2\n\n2\n\n4\n\n15\n\n14\n\n5\n\nPails, water\n\nPaint\n\nPalls, sling cart Palms, sailmakers'\n\nPaus\n\nBed pewter\n\nClose stool Frying\n\n181\n\ncwt. qrs. Ibs.\n\n12\n\n180.3.22\n\n2\n\n55\n\n$\n\n121\n\n46\n\n26\n\nTin oil\n\n6\n\n1\n\nCoarse\n\n4\n\n12\n\nFine\n\n4\n\n5\n\nEmery\n\nGlass\n\n4\n\n1\n\nSand\n\n4\n\n2\n\n66\n\nPaper\n\nBlue or purple\n\n25\n\nBrown\n\nIG\n\n62\n\nCartridge\n\n2\n\nPortfire\n\n1\n\n3\n\n6\n\n1\n\nWhite, fine, and brown Wrapping\n\n44\n\n14\n\n7\n\n5\n\n2 N\n\n15\n\n810\n\n3\n\n4\n\nPickets\n\n962\n\n32\n\n7\n\n13\n\n8\n\n00\n\nI\n\n3\n\nPikes\n\nPincers -\n\nFuze\n\nPegs, iron, for clothes\n\nPencils, black-lead\n\nPendulums, with boards\n\nPerambulators\n\nPickers, grass, unhelved\n\nCarpenters, common\n\nsets\n\n2\n\n17\n\n2\n\n3\n\n1\n\n6\n\nFarriers'\n\nGun\n\nCON: 2:\n\n17\n\n430\n\n41\n\n6\n\n6\n\n61\n\nComplete with\n\nFuzie\n\nMuskets\n\nrammer, steel\n\nFlint\n\nPercussion\n\nL. S. & S. S.\n\nIncomplete\n\nMuzzle stoppers\n\nE 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "content_text": "A 16 of 1851.\n\nInclosures No 1 in Dish:\n\nat Cantons intimating\n\nSeizure of Phuc-tho-\n\n\"Letter from a Chinese\n\nRevel 147\n\nAt The Gowary, 1851,\n\n70\n\nat even its greatest advocates will not assert how far they followed as he was lying on the ground\n\none officer was short, the other tall never saw them of use in reclaiming offenders. With the verdict differ; and we have also something afterwards; but not see the body of Captain DaCosta; never saw the officers before, knows nothing more of to say on the manner in which the case was brought before the Court; up these points how his own knowledge.\n\nCross examined, -Chuy-apo lives next door; there ever we cannot enter present, but may do so in is no communication between the houses-does not our next issue.\n\nknow whether Chuy-apo was armed before he was On the subject of the line of defence we are also struck; he aimed at himself immediately after he was unable to speak Tough, and wherefore for the struck. Chuy-apo was in a 'passion; he did not pretext re fuse from speaking merely re-speak or say what put him in a passion; his daughter-in-law and Chuy-in-law ran away after the foreigners had been wounded outside; his wife called out \"save life,\" Chuy-apo ut uke exes would have resulted as it has done,\n\nhad created a disturbance in Chuy-apo's house be- fore this, but does not know anything from his own\n\nAn extra Sessions of the Supreme Court was held knowledge. He did not see the officers wounded, on the 10th instant, for trial of Chuy-apo, charged locks with other things; the paddy field belongs to Chuy-apo is possessed of a house, and 7 or bull- with the murder of Captain DaCosta at Wong-na-chok, on the 25th day of February, 1849.\n\nThe Attorney General for the Crown. Mr. Gaskell for Prisoner.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to consolidate the two indictments, one for murder by stabbing, and the other for murder by drowning.\n\ndid not assist in killing the officers, saw Clan-kow\n\nsman, Ahing, Leen-ping, Aman, and others assisting killing the officers; the men gave a reason for attacking the foreigners.\n\nLe-arow, boy, sworn, (son of last witness), ---Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was at home at\n\nrice, his sister-in-law waking up a fire, when two off-\n\nMr. Gaskell agreed to this. He objected to jurisdiction, founding objection wording of Supplementary Treaty, (rote taken by his Lordship),\n\nChuy-apo refused to plead; indictment read by Mr. per came into the house and embraced her; his sister-in-law's witness name is Lo-chun-ehe; she and ins R. D. Cay, Registrar of Court, plea of \"not guilty\" ther called out for help, and Chug-apo and others entered.\n\nFurther objection on ground of kidnapping, to being annoyed came and beat the officers; the officers settled by Su and Sir George Bonham: warrant of did nothing else but embrace his sister-in-law; she Curader demand, to show the illegality of con- ciste, is father tried to get the officers out of mittal. His Lordship remarked that it mattered the house before Chuy-apo came. Chuy-apo esme as ittle, there was the man. Indictment translated by soon as the women called for help, his father was M. R. D. Caldwell. Answer by Choy-ebo on the head: then Chay-apo went and anointed above and earth below. Told he might challenge embraced, he first of all requested them (the officers) himself; when his father saw his daughter-in-law the Jury. His counsel demanded a Jury de meditate Langue, when the following were empanelled. Eng-father on the head, the ground bled; the prisoner and to leave the house; they would not, they struck his\n\nlishmen, J. C. Bowring, G. Smart, and W. A. Bow\n\nhis party then came on; after Choy apo came he stab- Foreigners-J. A. Barretto, S. Dellevic, and F. A.\n\nbel the officers at the corner of the house; Chuv-apo only came once, he was armed, did not see what Lo-chun-she, girl, sworn,-Recollects the 25th February, 1849, was then living at Wong-ma-kok in L-ace's her father-in-law) house. While cooking dinner, two foreigners came in and embraced her, one was\n\ndressed in dark clothes, and the other in white; they were dressed as civilians. They came from Chuk-chu; never saw them before; both embraced her his house; the rick field was what he meant when is a road to the brick field where they were killed from embraced her from behind, the other from before he said the corner of the house; the officers struck Her mother-in-law tried to get her away from them. Lo-chow-she is her mother-in-law's name, does not know where her mother-in-law is at present; they struck, her mother-in-law, blackened her, eye and cut her father-in-law's head. Her father-in-law's wound bled from blow with a stick; both had sticks, they were among walking sticks with knobs. Father and mother-in-law tried to push them out of house-they would not go, but flourished their sticks at all near them. Chur-apo came with spear in hand, and wounded them both: would not know the spear. There were several people with Choy-apo, about five people Chay-apo interfered because he was a relation, and also, because her father-in-law and mother-in-law called. All five men were ed for assistance to save their lives.\n\nthe Chinese before they went out of the house, both parties left the house, the officers ran away; they were dead when slung on bamboos; the bodies were cown into the water, the bodies were tied by their hands and feet, and slung on a pole with a rope round their waist; was distant from there 100 covids when they were slang on the bamboo; saw them speared from his house; the shortest space he was from them was as the bodies were carried past, about 30 covids; would know the men that slung the bodies; Chuy-apo did not carry; does not know the bodies; he saw the prisoner and his party sling\n\nif any thing was done with the bodies before they were thrown into the water; knows no more. Has\n\narmed with spears. Cannot say on what part of the elder and a younger brother; his young brother's name is Ea-show; he has gone to see some relations badly they, the officers, were wounded. They were\n\n& Tam-showy; does not know if his brother is sub- wounded at the door of the house; Choy-apo then ran\n\ntall: would know the spear with which the officers were stabbed, identifies it, it belongs to the prisoner.\n\naway. Chuy-so called some people to carry the bodies, and throw them into the water. The integn-\n\ners ran away first; they were pursued by Chuy-po and\n\nCross examined, Cannot see the place where the the men with spears-they were pursued 50 or 60 covids-they were then killed with knives and spears, officers were killed from his house; the time was Could not entity any of the other men besides Chuy-about dark, the place was several tens of covids off; apo, had only been in village a short time saw nothing he went out; dire about half-past 7 P. M.; both were more take place; being frightened ran away to the hills. killed; others assisted besides Clay-apo. There Saw the bodies carried away before she ran away; they were six or seven, he saw when he describes when he were tied and slung on bamboos; they were carried went out. He could see from his house, all he has towards the sea, they were dead when so slang. She described. The officers were stabbed before he went was about 50 feet from them when they were slung on the bamboos. She remained two days in the hills; knows nothing further.\n\nout, he did not see them stabbed; they were dead when slung on the boo; did not see a spear taken | out of Choy-apo's hand; saw the officers come to Choss examined, Chuy-apo lived next door but the village and saw them go into his father's house; one to her father-in-law, there is no communication he was in the house. The Chinese only came to his between the houses; he brought his weapons from his father's house once; did not see the officers go to own base. Chuy-apo was struck first; was struck Chay-apo's house; saw them go into other houses, by both officers with their sticks. They struck him a and interfere with women, saw but himself; did not good many blows before by carned them; cannot go into the houses but could see from outside; the describe the nature of their wounds; they were made officers went inside of the houses; did not see the with a spear. Says the \"did not, and then she did,\" officers strike Chuy-apo before they went this give the above esilencent Coroner's inquest. She said father's house; did not swear so at Coroner's in the fight with her own eyes. It was about & te quest; saw Chuy-apo come out of his house with a o'clock . ., dark, could just see, disturbance first took place in the house and afterwards contioned out- Charles May, sworn. Remembers the 25th February, 1849; received on the morning of the 26th, in- and then followed. The foreigners returned to the formation that Captain DaCosta and Lieutenant Dwyer house, the Chinese also returned. The Chinese were were missing from their quarters at Stanley; went armed both times when they came. She did not say at Stanley with Mr. Caldwell and a party of police. the Coroner's inquest that she knew Chay-ago, Ins Arved at Stanley about half-past 10 . ., found had no conversion with any one in jail on this sub-three Chinese in charge of the Military, examines jech; was in jail with a woman, boatwoman; had no them through Mr. Caldwell; the last witness was one; conversation with her; swears Chug-apo and others the others are not here to-day. The last witness killed them.\n\nsaid he had been at home all day at Wong-ma-kok, Re-examined, Two or three days elapsed between and has seen no Europeans during the day. Made the death an inquest; as at Coroner's inquest as at present.\n\nof Wong-ma-kok, having heard that the missing Jasze, old man, sworn, is a husbandman, lives officure were last seen in that direction. On a path at Wong-na-kok,--Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was living at Wong-ma-kok; that day is of blood; trace the marks upwards about 400 yards, daughter-in-law was cooking in his house, two foreigners came in, and went and embraced her; she was could not discover any blood opposite the village that then only 10 years old, was frightened and ashamed; day; next day saw this rings of blood opposite it in requested them to leave the house; was afraid they different places. At the last corner opposite house would take liberties with his daughter-in-law, they of Lo-ase, saw marks of blood on a rock, the took hold of her by the breast. He and my feng tigt mck was at the corner of another path than tint kuey wutuu vaktave ner, only that they would take li- | heating a dinner the path at the other side berties; desired them to desist; they would not leave of the rock led to a brick field; searched the houses the house when he spoke to them. Some people the village, and in them were clothes hanging up making gunpowder came to drive them away, being dry; they were not perfectly dry then. In Lo vexed with their conduct. When he told them to go anze's house, in addition to the clothes there was a away one struck him on the head, the blow knocked towel with marks of blood, it had been washed; bra down and he bled; there was blood all over bus while ascending the path to village saw a Chinatman clothes, the blow was given with a common walking on the hill, beckoned to him, he came, it was Lo-asze, stick having a silver or zinc knob. The men who examined him, saw a fresh wound on right side of came fought with the foreigners, but when they left his head, he had marks of blood on his heels, also the house he does not know what occurred as he on a band fastening up a trowsers. He said was lying on the ground. His daughter-in-law and he had been at the village all the preceding day wife enlad for assistance. The men then came were but had not seen any Europeans; said the wound armed with spears; would know the men so armed, on his head was caused by falling over stone, Identifies Chuy-zpn, he was one of the men that returned to Hongkong that night. On the morning of 27th came out to Staley (a large party of military The foreigners struck Chily-apo first: were ordered out to search, went from Stanley in e, Clay, went out first and called the officers to a boat and landed i a fishing station at bottom of a come out, but they would not go; Chuy-ape then went path leading to Wong-ma-kok, on this path: drops of and arrested himself. The fight commenced before he blood were visible; saw where the drops of Blood was struck the low on his head was received accident- seemed to end on this path, and on another path on ally while the foreigners were fighting their way outside of hill parallel with the sea, discovered ber Kows nothing further. Two of prisoner's party were drops of blood at some distance from the fishing sta woel in his house, the officers were not; the for- tion; among the racks in a cave found several bundles eigners left first, the Chinese were forcing them out. of clothing ascended the path to the village tracing Prisoner's party followed the officers, does not know the blood all the way. Several seamen and soldiers\n\nforeigners.\n\nwere searching; towards evening heard that one of the seamen had seen some blood on the rocks near the water; went to the place and found two or three large pools of blood, and in one place as if a body covered with blood had been dragged over the rock, this place was about 200 yards from fishing station, and in same direction in which the blood was traced in the morning. Directed my boatmen to search opposite this place; they searched with a boat hook without discovering any thing for some time. There was a heavy swell, and in keeping the boat off the rocks the broken handle of a spear fell into the water; he ing one of the spears from the village, I ordered the boatmen to recover it, as it was part of the evidence, it had sunk and was entangled among the seaweed). While the boatmen were trying to recover it a body became visible among the seaweed, which I recognis- ed to be that of Captain DaCosta. There were several wounds on head, hands, and body, that in the eye appeared to have been inflicted by a triangular spear; the body was taken to Stanley Enrracks that night, and subsequently brought to Victoria.\n\nDanie! R. Culdwell, sworn,-Has heard Mr. May's evidence; accompanied him to Stanley and Wong- ma-kok, on the 26th and 27th February. Was not with Mr. May all the time; ordered by him to trace the blood towards the water, found the blood on path leading from Wong-mu-kok to water: Mr. May went up to the village, I went towards the water; Acarted about half way from Wong-ma-kok traced blood to within 60 yards of small fishing but, a short distapes from the water; found live Chinese in the but and took them to enslody; found nothing suspicious, and not being able to trace blood further went back to the vil-\n\nlage, where I found Mr. May, Ailer searching about the village, returned to Hongkong with Mr. May. We went hack next morning to Wong-ma-kok; found a portion of spear in the village with marks of blood in consequence of a report that a large quantity of blood had been seen near the water, we all went dawn corroborates Mr. May's statement as to find- ing Captain DaCosta's body; jumped into the water, and brought it on shore by a rope round the arts; returned, finding that further search was useless as it was becoming dark. Searched the pockets, found the watch has gone, the rings were also missing; touk the body Stanley, Corroborates the account of the state of body as to wounds on head, hands, and face, saw other wounds after the body was undraseed; } the body was taken from Stanley to Hongkong. Went to the village some days after with Lo-acow, who point- ed on the exact places where the others were killed, one was in a brick field; there was a pool of blood there.\n\nCrons examined,-The place where Captain Da Costa was killed was absent 74 yards from corner of house at the end of village. Could not see from the house the price where Captain DaCosta was killed, there were trees intervening. The place where Jasze-\n\ntenant Dwyer was killer is about 150 yards further, from where Captain DaCosta was killed. Could not see the place where Captain DaCosta was killed until within 30 yards of it.\n\nRe-examined. When the boy pointed out the spot where Captain DaCosa was killed he said he was an eye-witness to the killing\n\nW. Morrison, Colonial Surgeon, sworn,Examined the body of Captain DaCoste on or about the 29th, in Conjunction with Dr. Tweddell, at the dead house of the Military hospital, Vistoria, dll not make an exact post- mortem. Discovered three wounds inflicted by a knife or sword on the scalp, penetrating to the scull; at outer angle of left eye a perforated wound, made apparently by a spear. Such an instamment as the spear with a cutting edge might have inflicted the wounds on the scalp. There was a large wound on the right hip three inches long made by a cutting instrument, the esa kond of spear might have done it; there were very severe contusions, on the hands, face, and back, us if the body had been beaten. Think none of the wounds sufficient to cause death. Did not open the body from the advanced state of decomposi tion. Dr. Tweddell, agreed in my opinion. I think Captain DaCaste was thrown in alive and drowned. Probable that Captain DaCosta was either in a state of syncopé or altering from concussion of the brain when thrown into the water. I form this opinion from the appearance and nature of the wounds-the water would operate in the same way to came death whether the person suffered from syrempe or concussion of the brain---drowning would be the cause of death. Chain DaCosta if suffering from concussion ang't have remained in an insensible state for two or three days, if in syncopé could not remain so two 3 hours and live,\n\nCross examined,--The handle of the spear could i not produce the wounds on the body, the head of the y spear broken off, would not produce the cat wounds, it might produce the wound in the eye.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to read the depositions of the absent witnesses,\n\nMr. Gaskell objected on the ground that the late Ordinance only applied to Chinese witnesses and ) was not retrospective.\n\nLieutenant Macdonald's filed deposition read. L-acow, re-examined as so City-apo's attaching the bodies to the bamboo. Flo-yung-ping, Aman, Acheng, and Chahen, carried the bodies; the prisoner did not carry the bodies, but was present. Chuy-apo accompanied the bodies to the water; he witness did not go himself to the water, saw when they passed, the prisoner accompanying, following behind\n\nCase for prosecution closed.\n\nMr. Gaskell in defence pointed out the conflicting nature of the evidence.\n\nThe Judge in summing up entreated the Jury to dismiss from their minds all prejudice; to give the prisoner the same chance as if he were an English man or as if he were guilty of killing one of his own countrymen. Read evidence. Convente on its discrepancies, especially in the difference between Lo-chua-she's evidence before the coroner, and that now delivered. If they thought the prisoner had? sufficient provocation (and he undoubtedly had some) ( that the verdict would be manslaughter; if so, war der the prisoner would of course receive the benefit of any doubt which they might have on the case.\n\nThe Jury retired at 5 o'clock P. M., to consider their verdict, and returned at 5. m., with verdict, \"guilty of manslaughter.\"\n\nThe prisoner said he ought to be sent to his own country to be punished.\n\nThe Judge agreed with the verdict; he could not have condemned the prisoner to death on such evidence.- Sentence to be transported for life.\n\nTHE RIVAL NAVIES.\n\n(From the Naval Service Magazine for December, 1850.J Whenever there The lull in the excitement of public affairs, the cry is raised country is in danger. I danger of winter France, of Tais, of America, ex- claim the writers of alarm. The fortifiedips of Cher be impregnable; a vast aval force to s", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "[ 20 ]\n\nExtract from the Minutes of the Executive Council of Hongkong.\n\n“SATURDAY, 3RD APRIL, 1869.”\n\n«PRESENT:”\n\n“His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor,\n\nThe Honorable COLONEL KNOX GORE, Commandant of the Garrison.\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honorable JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, Attorney General.\n\nThe Honorable W. H. RENSHAW, Auditor General.\n\nThe Queen v. Saint.\n\n136\n\nINFORMATION\n\n“His Excellency the Governor lays on the Table the Letter addressed to him by Governor De Souza (10th March), together with His Excellency’s Minute thereon of same date, referring it to the Honorable the Attorney General, also the Report of that Officer on the subject; And it is resolved, that Application for Special Leave to appeal in Reg. v. Saint be made, through the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.”\n\n(True Extract),\n\nL. D’ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTO WIT.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nTRINITY TERM, IN THE THIRTY-FIRST YEAR\n\nOF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA.\n\nBE IT REMEMBERED, that the Honorable HENRY JOHN BALL, Esquire, Acting Attorney General of Our Lady the Queen, who prosecutes for Our said Lady the Queen in this behalf, in his proper person, comes here into the Supreme Court of Hongkong, before the Chief Justice thereof, on the Eighteenth Day of May, in this same Term, and for Our Lady the Queen, gives the Court here to understand and be informed, That before and at the times of the printing and publication of the false, scandalous, malicious and defamatory libels and libellous matter and things, hereinafter mentioned and set forth, there subsisted and now subsists, alliance, friendship, amity, peace and concord between Our Sovereign Lady The Queen, and His Most Faithful Majesty The King of Portugal, and the subjects of Their said Majesties respectively, and that before and at those times, His Excellency Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL was, and yet is, the Minister of Marine and for the Colonies, in the Government of His said Most Faithful Majesty, and had previously been Governor for His said Majesty of the Settlement, Province, or Colony of Macao, upon the coast of the Empire of China.\n\nThat CHARLES ABRAHAM SAINT, of the City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, being the Proprietor, Printer and Publisher of a certain Newspaper called The China Mail, well knowing the premises, but being a malicious and evil disposed person, and unlawfully and maliciously devising, and intending to revile, traduce, defame and vilify the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, so being and as such Minister as aforesaid, and to bring him into great hatred, scandal, infamy, disgrace and contempt, as well among the liege subjects of Our said Lady The Queen, as among the subjects of His said Most Faithful Majesty, and to cause it to be suspected, that he had acted corruptly, improperly and dishonestly, in his said Office of Minister of Marine, and for the Colonies of His said Most Faithful Majesty, and also unlawfully and maliciously devising, as much as in him the said CHARLES ABRAHAM SAINT lay, to interrupt, disturb and destroy the friendship, amity, peace and concord, subsisting between Our Lady The Queen and Her subjects, and His said Most Faithful Majesty and His subjects, on the Fifth Day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-eight, at the City of Victoria, in this Colony, unlawfully and maliciously, did print and publish, and cause and procure to be printed and published, in the said Newspaper called The China Mail, a very false, scandalous and malicious libel of and concerning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL, as such Minister as aforesaid, that is to say --\n\n“Curious rumours are floating about respecting Macao (meaning the said Settlement, Province, or Colony of His said Majesty) and the action taken by the Portuguese Government regarding the recent exposures of the coolie trade. It is asserted by those who have good means of knowing, that Senhor AMARAL (meaning the said Jose RODRIGUES COELHO DO AMARAL,) who enjoys the honor of representing the coolie Colony (meaning Macao) in the Portuguese Parliament, has become alarmed, lest the thorough ventilation of abuses recently commenced, should lead to legislation likely to prejudice the interests of the pig-dealers (meaning persons accused or suspected of kidnapping and man-stealing) and influenced by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "In 2649/69.\n\n[20]\n\nExtract from the Minutes of the Executive Council of Hongkong.\n\n\"SATURDAY, 3RD APRIL, 1869.\"\n\n\"PRESENT:\"\n\n\"His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor. The Honorable COLONEL KNOX GORE, Commandant of the Garrison, The Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honorable JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, Attorney General. The Honorable W. H. RENNIE, Auditor General.\n\n#\n\n*\n\n\"His Excellency the Governor lays on the Table the Letter addressed to him by Governor DE SOUZA (10th March), together with His Excellency's Minute thereon of same date, referring it to the Honorable the Attorney General, also the Report of that Officer on the subject; And it is resolved, that Application for Special Leave to appeal in Reg. v. Saint be made, through the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.\"\n\n(True Extract),\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nProceedings on Non-appearance of Party charged.\n\nProceedings on Non-appearance of Prosecutor after Notice of Trial.\n\nProcess for procuring Attendance of Witnesses on Criminal Cases.\n\nHow many Witnesses in one Subpœna.\n\nPrivate Prosecutor to pay Sheriff's Costs together with Expenses.\n\nENCLOSURE 2.\n\nExtract from Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.\n\nXV. When it shall appear by the Return made by the Officer executing the same that the Copy or Copies of the Information and Notice or Notices of Trial have been duly served in Manner hereinbefore provided and the Party or Parties charged on being thrice called on the Day appointed for the Trial does or do not appear, it shall be competent for the Prosecutor to move the Court, if the Party or Parties charged have been admitted to Bail, that he or they and his or their Sureties may be called upon their Recognizance or Recognizances and in Default of his or their Appearance that the same may be estreated; and it shall also be competent for the Prosecutor to apply to the Court for a Warrant for the Apprehension of the said Party or Parties.\n\nXVI. If the Prosecutor or his Attorney having given Notice of Trial shall not appear in Court to prosecute or prefer the said Information before the Close of the Session of that Court before which he gave Notice of Trial, it shall be competent for the Party or Parties charged to move the Court to discharge him or them therefrom: and when he or they, or any other on his or their Behalf has or have been bound by Recognizance for his or their Appearance so to take his or their Trial then that the said Recognizance may be discharged; and where the Information is at the Instance of a Private Party it shall also be competent to the Party or Parties charged to move the Court that the said Private Prosecutor or his Sureties shall be called on their Recognizance and in Default of his Appearance that the same may be estreated.\n\nXVII. The Subpoena or Process of the Court for procuring the Attendance of any Person on Behalf of the Crown who shall not have been bound by Recognizance to appear before the said Court to give Evidence in any Criminal Case, shall be sued out of the Registrar's Office by the Crown Solicitor, or, where the Prosecution is at the Instance of a Private Party, by the Prosecutor or his Attorney, or by the Party or Parties charged or his or their Attorney; and the same shall be delivered to the Sheriff at his Office, for Execution thereof, together with so many Copies of the Subpœna as there are Persons to be served therewith.\n\nXVIII. The Names of Four Witnesses may be inserted in one Subpoena, and they shall be described therein with such Certainty that the summoning Officer may be able readily to find them; and the Form of the Subpœna shall, as near as may be, be according to the like Form established in the said Court in and for Civil Cases.\n\nXIX. When the Prosecution is at the Instance of a Private Person, he or some one on his Behalf, shall at the Time of delivering the said Subpœna and Copies thereof, also pay to the Sheriff his lawful Cost and Charges for executing the same, together with such further Sum or Sums of Money as the said Private Party intends the said Sheriff to give or tender to the said Witnesses respectively for their Travelling Expenses.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "# Extract from the Minutes of the Executive Council of Hongkong\n\n## \"SATURDAY, 3RD APRIL, 1869\"\n\n### \"PRESENT:\"\n\n* His Excellency **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B.**, Governor\n* The Honorable **COLONEL KNOX GORE**, Commandant of the Garrison\n* The Honorable **J. GARDINER AUSTIN**, Colonial Secretary\n* The Honorable **JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE**, Attorney General\n* The Honorable **W. H. RENNIE**, Auditor General\n\nHis Excellency the Governor lays on the table the Letter addressed to him by Governor De Souza (15th March), together with His Excellency's Minute thereon of same date, referring it to the Honorable the Attorney General, also the Report of that Officer on the subject; And it is resolved, that Application for Special Leave to appeal in Reg. v. Saint be made, through the Right Honorable the Secretary of State, to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.\n\n(True Extract),\n\n**L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO**,\nClerk of Councils.\n\nA despatch is then read and considered from His Grace the Secretary of State, dated the 27th November 1868, No 194, transmitting a Correspondence with the Law Office, relative to a claim of £30 advanced by that department for the value of certain Barrack Fire Engine Stores, which were damaged or lost at the Fire in the night of the 2nd November, 1867.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor lays on the Table herewith the Papers connected with the Leave of absence which, with the concurrence of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "# \nIn another case, six Chinese lives were lost. The fire broke out in a room on the first floor and communicated itself to the stair-case before the inmates above were made alive to their danger. There were no means of escape either by the roof or by windows and all six lost their lives.\n\nThe last incident that occurred was at an extensive fire in Bonham Strand, where, without a minute's warning, five houses fell outwards across the street resulting in the most serious injuries to **Mr. Ross** the foreman of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. A member of the Government Fire Brigade was also slightly injured, but to those who witnessed what took place, it was a mercy that no more harm was done than was actually occasioned, as there were at least six firemen whose position at the time seriously jeopardized their lives.\n\nIt may not be out of place at the commencement of another year to take stock of the existing condition of the Fire Brigade and of its adequacy to meet the requirements of the Colony.\n\n## \nAt the present moment the Fire Brigade consists of thirty-three Europeans of whom seventeen are firemen, six engine drivers, and the rest, superintendents, foremen, and assistant foremen, and of ninety-one Chinese firemen besides stokers and interpreters. The pay of the European firemen is four dollars and fifty cents a month and that of a Chinese fireman from one dollar and fifty cents to one dollar. The foremen, stokers, and interpreters are of course paid at a higher rate. The Brigade is further strengthened by the services of the **Hongkong Fire Insurance Volunteers**, the **Pawnbrokers**, and other bodies all of whom have been present on every occasion of a fire and have rendered most valuable services.\n\nThe head quarters of the Fire Brigade are at `No. 5 Police Station` in Queen's Road.\n\nWatchmen are stationed at the Clock Tower and at the Tower of the Fire Brigade Station, and upon an alarm of fire the bells are rung at the Central Police Station, at the Fire Brigade Station and at the Clock Tower. Three separate strokes indicate a fire west of the Harbour Office, two separate strokes a fire between the Harbour Office and the Murray Barracks, and one stroke a fire east of the Murray Barracks.\n\n## \nThe Engines are located at the Fire Brigade Station. They are four in number, not including the floating engine which is known as the `No. 1 Engine`. The latter is located in the harbour near `Yau-mati`. It is an invaluable engine and can throw four jets of some sixty feet high. It has recently been modified with a view to increasing its speed and it is now capable of steaming at a rate of about eight knots an hour.\n\nIn addition to the steam engines I have mentioned, there are also a certain number of manual engines stationed in different parts of the island. So far as the City of Victoria is concerned, there is one at Government House, one at the Central Police Station, one in Hollywood Road, one at the Harbour Office and one at `Saiyingpún`. There are also boxes with fire appliances in various parts of the Town.\n\n## \nPractically speaking however the main strength of the Brigade is at the Fire Brigade Station. At an alarm of fire in the City of Victoria, a telephonic signal is immediately sent to what is known as the `No. 2 Tank`. This tank is situated in Caine Road, and supplies the City of Victoria with water from the `Pokfulam Reservoir`. The water is distributed by two main pipes from which branch out smaller pipes throughout the Town. Its limits are broadly speaking Queen's Road at the foot of Gough Street to the west, Queen's Road to the north and the City Hall to the east. At frequent intervals are what are known as street fire plugs. They are distinguishable by iron plates level with the street, and on removing this iron plate, hose can be attached. Many of these plates have a raised knob on the top of them. The knob is to distinguish them from the other plates that are without them, and indicates that they are stop plugs, that is to say that they are merely for the purpose of shutting off water. Before this distinguishing mark was put, the greatest confusion often resulted, and much time was lost in waiting for water at one of these stop plugs, when there was none to come.\n\nThe `No. 2 Tank` is in its turn supplied from another tank at the western end of Robinson Road. This tank also supplies Caine Road and some other streets. These are the two chief distributions of water from the `Pokfulam Reservoir`. There are other subsidiary supplies which are strictly local. One is in `Glenealy Ravine` and supplies the Gaol and Police Barracks. Another is above the Government Civil Hospital and another near the Albany. `Wanchai`, as far as the City Hall, is supplied from the tank that is to be seen in the `Wong-nei-chung Gap`.\n\n## \nGenerally speaking the fresh water supply is very unsatisfactory. It is uncertain inasmuch as it is not always running, it is inadequate and its pressure is not uniform. Much of its possible pressure is also diminished by leakage throughout the houses in which it is distributed along its route to the fire and by other causes such as the friction of the pipes, and sudden changes in their diameter. In reducing therefore, the working of the Brigade to a system, it is impossible to regard the fresh water supply as other than a very poor adjunct, and in almost every instance recourse is had to the harbour.\n\nis able to afford a sufficient jet for houses placed between Queen's Road and the harbour. The rule therefore is to work direct from the harbour with all houses comprised within those bounds, but in the case of fires at a higher level than Queen's Road, the engines are distributed at intervals up the hill as far as may be required; they are connected the one with the other with hose and each engine pumps into the other until the level of the fire is reached. All this occasions great wear and tear of engines and hose and fire materials, and leaves only a very limited supply of water when the fire is reached, but it is inevitable so long as the fresh water supply is arranged as at present. Nor do I see that the increased supply of water from `Tytam` will much improve matters unless with it there is an increase of pressure, a uniformity of distribution and a certainty of water at all times.\n\nIt is impossible to insist too much upon the element of certainty. It is not as if fires could be met by arrangements devised for them at the moment. They must be treated in accordance with general arrangements applicable to all cases, and of these the first desideratum is water, and until one can base one's arrangements upon the certainty of a sufficient fresh water supply at any given point, the harbour must be regarded as the single basis of one's calculations.\n\nThe hilly nature of the site of the City of Victoria would seem to point to a system of high level tanks as being that best adopted for the requirements of the Town. In the case of a fire spreading up the hill it would be of immense advantage to be able to meet it from above and the constant growth of the Town up the hill points still further in this direction. Nor am I at all sure that with such a system, if properly devised and carried out, the necessity for land steam engines will not almost entirely cease to exist. The cost would of course be considerable and it may not be thought to be worth while to incur it. The proposed **Praya reclamation scheme**, however, if carried out, will necessarily bring this matter to the front, and in the meantime I would merely ask His Excellency's attention to the question and also to the consideration as to the extent to which the working of the reclamation scheme will interfere with the water supply from the harbour.\n\n## \nThe following is the arrangement at present in force with regard to the steam engines. Three of the engines proceed to the Praya. Two of them run out hose to the fire. The other stands by with fires lighted, but does not run out hose until the order is given. The fourth engine remains in the station in reserve. Each engine has its own hose reel, and the branch pipes have special marks to indicate to which engine they belong. In order that in the confusion the branch pipes may not be attached to the wrong hose, a slight delay takes place between the removal of each engine from the station, and the driver is under orders to see that his engine never starts without the proper hose reel accompanying it. With a view further to obviate any miscarriage from hurry or ignorance or neglect, duplicate branch pipes are supplied, two being attached to each engine and two to each hose reel. The branch pipe is frequently termed the nozzle, but strictly speaking the term \"nozzle\" is applicable only to the end of the branch pipes from which the water issues.\n\n## \nGenerally speaking the efforts of the Brigade have been directed rather to the simplification of duties and to the instruction of the men in a few broad elementary rules with regard to the running out of hose, the protection of the adjoining property, and such like matters, together with the provision before hand of all such arrangements as are likely to be of service on the occasion of a fire.\n\nOwing to the constitution of the Fire Brigade, which consists of Policemen who have in the first place to consider their Police duties, it is not possible to assign particular duties to individual firemen and it has been sought rather to familiarize each one with the elementary rudiments of Fire Brigade drill, and by a careful prearrangement and simplification of appliances and by general rules as to dealing with fires, to minimize the drawbacks occasioned by the impossibility of assigning special duties to selected individuals.\n\nAmong some of the principal changes that have been made in this direction, I may mention the substitution of a broad thread screw for the narrow thread that it was customary to use in the hose couplings. A great saving of time and labour has been effected by this change, and it has been found to be of the greatest possible advantage to the Brigade. Another change that has been found very valuable has been the institution of a light service in the form of what is termed a `Supply Cart`. This Cart can be drawn by two men, and contains all the necessary appliances for dealing with a fire at the outset. Inasmuch also as it has been found that very frequently a fire without actually spreading to an adjoining house, will ignite it inside to the extent of making it necessary to play water upon the incipient flames, the `Supply Cart` carries with it two hand pumps and two extincteurs, which have been constantly found sufficient to extinguish the flames, when without these appliances resort must have been had to a hose, with the consequent delay of stopping the engine, attaching a new length, and a great destruction of property by a deluge of salt water, even supposing the flames to have not made uncontrollable way in the interval.\n\nOther changes of a similar kind have been made, of which I have already mentioned the duplicate branch pipes, and in which I may include the institution of reserve hose reels to be taken to the fire.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344448, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "40248\n\n157\n\n12\n\nof money, perhaps as much as 140,000l. He added that it was also proposed to sell or dispose of Spring Gardens, and ultimately the commissariat buildings and head-quarter offices, and that it was expected in each case that the property would realize enough to re-provide the accommodation lost by its surrender, and to leave a balance of profit to go towards meeting the cost of the additional barracks for the increased garrison.\n\nMr. Knox estimates that the sale of the North Barracks and Spring Gardens will only produce 126,229l., and as he adds that provision must be made for the head-quarter offices, and the commissariat buildings elsewhere, my Lords presume that the lands on which these offices stand, and which Sir Lothian Nicholson thought would produce a considerable sum over and above the price of the North Barracks (140,000l.), must be included in this sale. If that be the case, it follows that Sir Lothian's estimate was altogether too high. It is most important that there should be no misunderstanding on this point, and my Lords must ask, therefore, for a description of the lands in possession of the War Office in Hong Kong, and also for explanation showing how far the proposal made in Mr. Knox's letter agrees with the proposals named by Sir Lothian Nicholson, so that the Treasury may understand to what extent deficiency is likely to arise upon Sir Lothian's estimate.\n\nMy Lords ask further whether it is intended that the lands proposed to be sold should be officially valued.\n\nIt is not clear whether the sum of 50,600l., required to replace the building lost by the sale of the lands, includes the cost of site. My Lords cannot but think that the Secretary of State should be able now to give a fairly accurate estimate of the cost of barrack and hospital accommodation, assuming the increase of the garrison to be sanctioned. The Secretary of State must have observed how invariably approximate estimates for works and armaments have resulted in an increase of the burthen imposed on the British taxpayer, and he will understand my Lords' anxiety to ascertain, as far as possible, the financial result of the somewhat complicated arrangement by which the War Office propose to furnish the accommodation required for the garrison of Hong Kong.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nThe Financial Secretary,\n\nWar Office.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\nEXTRACT from Treasury letter addressed to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 28th September 1889, respecting the contribution which the Colony of Hong Kong may fairly be expected to make towards the cost of its defence.\n\nBarracks.\n\n10. It will be necessary to provide additional barracks at Hong Kong for double the existing garrison. The rough and preliminary estimate of cost is 212,000l., apart from the value of a new site estimated at 30,000l., but Sir A. Haliburton's Committee say that this estimate may be exceeded.\n\nIt is proposed, as my Lords understand the proposal, that the Imperial Government shall sell land it now holds, valued at 140,000l., to the colony; that this money shall be applied towards the new barracks, reducing their net cost to 72,000l.; that the Imperial Government shall pay two-thirds of the charge, or 48,000l., and that the Colonial Government shall pay the balance, or 24,000l., providing also the land for the new barracks, estimated at 50,000l. The proposal therefore means that the Imperial Government should give up sites worth 140,000l., and should spend 48,000l. in cash; that the colony should find a new site costing 50,000l., and should spend 24,000l. in cash. The Committee do not say how they would provide for the excess which they anticipate upon the estimate.\n\n26. My Lords cannot, therefore, agree that the contribution of 40,000l. a-year is sufficient, and they will, therefore, propose that the subject should be referred in November to a committee of Her Majesty's advisers. But, in the meantime, they are prepared to accept, for two years, the contribution of 40,000l. a-year, recommended by the Committee, and accepted by the Secretary of State.\n\nMy Lords further consider that the arrangement should be strictly observed under which, in carrying out plans of defence, the colony provides the works, and the Imperial Government the armaments. The colony should therefore refund 9,000l. expended on submarine mining works.\n\nLastly. Any excess of expenditure and the estimate upon new barracks, should be equally divided between the Imperial and Colonial Governments.\n\nSir,\n\n13\n\n443\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n\n12th November 1889.\n\n1319188\n\nrespecting the\n\n40248157\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 28th September, No.— sale of land at Hong Kong in connection with the provision of additional barrack accommodation, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that the sum of 140,000l., mentioned in Appendix D to the IVth Section of the Report of the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions, was not intended as an estimate, the words used being that the North Barracks are worth a large sum of money, perhaps as much as 140,000l.,\" a sum having been mentioned merely in order to make it clear that the profit anticipated from the proposed sale of property would be a substantial one.\n\nThe estimate of the value of the lands proposed to be sold, given in Mr. Knox's letter of the 9th January 1889, Hong Kong 2, is the only one which Mr. Secretary Stanhope is at present in a position to furnish; but as it is gathered from the letter that their Lordships are prepared to view favourably the proposals for the sale of the land at Hong Kong, contained in the War Office letter of 9th January 1889, 41237, a letter is now being written to the station in order to obtain, if possible, a more complete valuation of the lands.\n\nI am to observe that there may be some difficulty in obtaining this information, as it would not be advisable to employ the Colonial Surveyor-General in a case in which the Colonial Government may become the purchaser, but that a valuer, unconnected with the Colonial Government, will be employed, if there is one available. Enquiry will also be made as regards the prices realized at any recent sales of landed property which have been effected in Victoria, which will probably afford the best basis for a valuation.\n\nPlans, showing all the War Department property in Hong Kong, and the portions thereof proposed to be sold, with their areas and valuations, according to the War Office letter of 9th January before alluded to, are herewith forwarded; and it is believed that these plans will give all the information required by their Lordships on this point.\n\nMr. Secretary Stanhope regrets that he is not yet in a position to give a complete estimate of the cost of providing the additional accommodation for the increased garrison, but he hopes, in a few months' time, to furnish such estimates for certain definite portions of the scheme which will serve to check the confessedly rough estimate in Appendix D.\n\nThe 50,000l. mentioned in that Appendix as a very rough estimate for replacing the accommodation that will be lost by the proposed sale of lands, does not include any amount for sites.\n\nThe view of the Secretary of State is that the colony should provide such sites on Crown lands, but that it should not be called upon to purchase them at its sole cost, considering the very high price of land in many parts of Hong Kong.\n\nAs the War Department is not prepared to pay any large sum for the purchase of sites, it will be necessary to confine the sites, as far as possible, to Crown lands, to be provided free by the colony. From the reports hitherto received, it appears likely that this can generally be done, though it may turn out to be necessary in some cases to supplement the sites thus obtained by purchases to a small extent, to be effected by the War Department, and to be treated as part of the cost of providing barrack accommodation, which their Lordships proposed should be shared equally between the colony and the War Department, as far as it is not met by the proceeds of the sale of property.\n\nShould such cases arise, and every effort will be made to avoid them, they will of course be separately submitted for the sanction of their Lordships.\n\nI am to observe that the paragraph on barracks in the Treasury letter of 28th September 1889, to the Colonial Office (a copy of which letter was forwarded to this office with the letter now under reply) should, apparently, run as follows, after taking into consideration the information contained in the War Office letter of the 9th January 1889, Hong Kong 2, which was written about five and a-half months after the date of Section IV. of the Report of the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions :----\n\n10. It will be necessary to provide additional barracks at Hong Kong for double the existing garrison. The rough and preliminary estimate of the cost is 212,000l. (apart from a sum of 50,000l. for re-providing accommodation that will be lost by the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344461, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "456\n\n1\n\n38\n\nof the Admiralty, the accompanying Plan illustrative of the War Office letter of the 10th January 1890, Hong Kong 2, but I am to observe that it is very doubtful whether\n\n4310\n\ntheir Lordships' wishes can be complied with. They will, however, be borne in mind.\n\nI am to suggest that possibly the commissariat buildings would meet their Lordships' requirements.\n\nThe Secretary to the Admiralty, S.W.\n\nD.W.\n\n779 1185\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nH. G. DEEDES.\n\nAdmiralty to War Office.\n\nAdmiralty,\n\n28th February 1890.\n\n39\n\nbarrack and hospital buildings at Hong Kong, unless it be on the understanding that not less than one-half of such cost is to be borne by the colony.\n\nUntil this understanding has been arrived at, my Lords must withhold their approval of even the provisional estimate of 50,000.\n\nMy Lords would take this opportunity of correcting paragraph 10 of their letter to the Colonial Office above referred to, relating to barracks at Hong Kong. That paragraph speaks of the site of the new barracks which will have to be erected if the North Barracks are sold to the colony, as estimated to cost 50,000. But this is really Sir Lothian Nicholson's estimate of the cost of building these new barracks apart from cost of site, the presumption being that the site will be provided free by the colony. Again, that paragraph supposes that Sir A. Haliburton's Committee recommended that the Imperial Government should pay only two-thirds of 72,000, whilst in fact that Committee recommended that the Imperial Government should pay two-thirds of whatever the barracks may cost, after applying to them the proceeds of the land to be sold to the colony, such excess cost being estimated at 122,000, though it might prove to be more.\n\nThe following table shows the recommendations of the Committee more clearly, on the basis of Sir L. Nicholson's confessedly very rough estimate:--\n\n2\n\n4341\n\nHong Kong\n\nI am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acknowledge\n\nHong Kong 2 your letter of the 28th January 1890,\n\nin which you say that it is 4314 very doubtful whether their Lordships' wishes that the whole of the North Barracks site should be handed over to the dockyard, can be complied with.\n\nTaking this statement in connection with that made in your letter of the 10th January 1890, my Lords are led to the conclusion that the reason that the strip of land (coloured yellow upon the tracing forwarded with your letter of the 28th January) cannot be transferred to the Admiralty is, that it is intended to sell or transfer it to the Colonial Government.\n\nWith regard to the plot coloured green, which is suggested as a substitute for the yellow plot, my Lords are informed that this land was bought for the War Department from a private individual, who could convey no right to the foreshore, and that the Colonial Government could, by a stretch of authority, claim the land in front of this property, which may be formed by the extension of the Praya.\n\nThis land is therefore quite unsuited to Admiralty requirements, which can be satisfactorily met only by the transfer of the whole site of the North Barracks.\n\nI am, therefore, to repeat most clearly, that if the naval yard remains at Hong Kong, the whole of the North Barracks site, including the piece coloured yellow, will be urgently required by the Admiralty, and I am to express their Lordships' strongest hope that, in dealing with the question, the interests of the Navy may not be subordinated to those of the Colonial Government.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for War, War Office.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nEVAN MACGREGOR.\n\n \n Expenditure.\n Mode of Provision.\n £\n \n \n Cost of erecting additional buildings\n \n 212,000\n \n \n Cost of replacing North Barracks..\n \n 50,000\n \n \n Proceeds of sale of North Barracks\n \n £ 140,000\n \n \n Payment by Imperial Government (two-thirds) of balance..\n \n 81,333\n \n \n Payment by colony (one-third) of balance\n \n 40,667\n \n \n \n Total\n 262,000\n \n \n \n Total\n 262,000\n \n\nMy Lords have no objection to offer to the proposed application of the proceeds of barrack property towards the provision of new barracks, but they object to the apportionment of the balance of cost recommended by the Committee. That apportionment was grounded on the fact that the cost of the Hong Kong fortifications of 1884-89 has been roughly divided in like manner. But the latter division is very different from what had been originally intended, and, in my Lords' opinion, affords an unfair criterion for dividing future expenditure. As stated, therefore, in their letter to the Colonial Office, they must ask that the colony should contribute not less than one-half of the balance of cost whatever it may be.\n\nThey understand that \"erection of buildings\" includes first, outfit of furniture, and that all sites are to be provided for by the colony, so far as new ones have to be acquired at all.\n\n15171\n\n89\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n12th October 1889.\n\nThe Financial Secretary,\n\nWar Office.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\nFRANK MOWATT.\n\n4279\n\nGen. No. 2 2389\n\nSir,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury desire me to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. De la Bère's letter of the 18th ultimo, respecting the estimates of barrack and hospital accommodation at coaling stations abroad, and more particularly at Hong Kong, the cost of which will be chargeable to the Imperial Defence Loan (Land).\n\nMy Lords will confine their remarks to the case of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War explains that the estimate of 50,000 at this station is for certain of the more important services only, and that no complete estimate can be framed until my Lords have decided upon the sale of property proposed in Mr. Knox's letter of the 9th January last, but he hopes that my Lords will approve of the estimate as a provisional one.\n\nMy Lords request that the attention of the Secretary of State may be drawn to their letter of the 28th ultimo, in which further information was asked regarding the proposed sale of property, pending the receipt of which they must suspend their decision upon it. They would also refer to the last sentence of their letter of the same date to the Colonial Office, a copy of which accompanied the letter above mentioned, which shows that they are not prepared to sanction any estimate of the cost of erecting\n\nSir,\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n\n15171 89\n\n12th November 1889. respecting the estimates Hong Kong\n\n2\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 12th ultimo,\n\nof barrack and hospital accommodation at coaling stations abroad, and more particularly at Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to observe, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that most of the questions raised therein were also brought forward in the Treasury\n\n13191\n\nand I am to refer to the War Office letter of this letter of the 28th September, 88\n\n40248 day's date, in reply to that letter, in which it is shown that no estimate of the\n\n157 proceeds of the sale of North Barracks was intended by Appendix D to Section IV.\n\n(247)\n\n4279", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 179, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## No. 4\n\nIt is therefore proposed to sell the following properties situated in the town of Victoria, viz.:----\n\n## No. 5\n\nI am to add that, on this being received, steps will be taken to lay before their Lordships, as soon as possible, a more detailed financial statement of the operation, but that now submitted is sufficient to show that there will be a very large profit, and consequently Mr. Secretary Stanhope solicits, with confidence, their Lordships' sanction to the scheme, in principle.\n\nR. H. KNOX,\n176\n\n| Property | Description | Feet | Rate per Foot | Dollars | £ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Spring Gardens | for Chinese dwellings | 41,652 | 2 dollars | 83,304 | 13,537 |\n| East Married Quarters, front | for Chinese dwellings | 18,000 | 4 dollars | 72,000 | 11,700 |\n| Ditto, half of back | | 60,000 | 2 dollars | 120,000 | ** |\n| North Barracks | for Europeans | 162,400 | 2 dollars 50 cents | 406,000 | 65,975 |\n| Commissariat buildings | for Europeans | 47,746 | 2 dollars | 95,492 | 15,517 |\n| Total | | | | 776,796 | 126,229 |\n\n## CONTRIBUTION AND LANDS.\n\n## No. 6.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\nThe above calculations are based on the assumption that 3s. 3d. is the value of a dollar.\n\nThe accommodation thus lost, which will have to be reprovided, will be as follows:--\n| Location | Description | Quantity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Spring Gardens | | 12 married quarters |\n| East Married Quarters | | 11 |\n| West Married Quarters, adjoining and part of North Barracks | | 18 |\n| North Barracks | | 17 |\n| Total | | 42 married quarters |\n\nAt 350l., 14,700l., say 15,000l.\n\n| Item | Cost (£) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Provost Prison for 18 prisoners, at present at North Barracks, to be reprovided elsewhere, perhaps at Kowloon, as part of the proposed military prison, say | 5,000 |\n| Barrack for one battery, Royal Artillery, at present at North Barracks, to be reprovided elsewhere, half at Stonecutter's Island and half at Lymoon, say | 8,000 |\n| Head-Quarter offices, at present at the Commissariat buildings, to be reprovided elsewhere, probably at Scandal Point, say | 5,000 |\n| Commissariat Establishment, at present at Commissariat Buildings, to be reprovided elsewhere, say | 10,000 |\n| Alterations and reappropriations in Victoria, especially in Wellington Barracks, consequent on the above moves, say | 3,000 |\n| Add 10 per cent. contingencies | 4,600 |\n| Total | 50,600 |\n\n| Item | £ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Assets from sale of War Department property | 126,229 |\n| Re-provisions | 50,600 |\n| Net profit | 75,629 |\n| Say | 75,000 |\n\nI am therefore to solicit their Lordships' sanction for the proposed sales being effected.\n\nI am to observe that the valuations and estimates submitted are merely approximate, but that, as regards the valuations, letters received from the station show that the Colonial authorities are prepared to look upon the sale to them of a portion of North Barracks, at 3 dollars per foot, somewhat as a favour, which, coupled with the prices which the War Department had to pay a few years ago for land in Victoria, affords fair grounds for believing that the valuations are not too high.\n\nWith regard to the estimates, I am to observe that it is believed that they are fairly liberal, but that it would be premature to work them out in detail until a general approval of the scheme be obtained from their Lordships.\n\nSir,\n\n28th September, 1889. I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to forward, for the information of the Secretary of State, and with reference to Mr. Knox's letters of `6th August, 1888`, and `9th January, 1889`,* a copy of a letter on the amount to be provided by the Colony of Hong Kong in aid of its military expenditure.\n\nI am to say that my Lords have difficulty in reconciling the extracts given in the memorandum of the Inspector-General of Fortifications (Appendix D to the 4th section of the Report of the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions) with the proposal made, in Mr. Knox's letter of `9th January`, respecting the sale of land in the town of Victoria. Sir Lothian Nicholson contemplated the sale of the North Barracks, including Provost Prison, and West Married Quarters. He thought that the North Barracks, owing to their position and large extent of water frontage, would be worth a considerable sum of money, perhaps as much as 140,000l. He added that it was also proposed to sell or dispose of Spring Gardens, and ultimately the Commissariat buildings and Head-Quarter offices, and that it was expected in each case that the property would realise enough to reprovide the accommodation lost by its surrender, and to leave a balance of profit to go towards meeting the cost of the additional barracks for the increased garrison.\n\nMr. Knox estimates that the sale of the North Barracks and Spring Gardens, will only produce 126,229l., and as he adds that provision must be made for the Head-Quarter offices and the Commissariat buildings elsewhere, my Lords presume that the land on which those offices stand, and which Sir Lothian Nicholson thought would produce a considerable sum over and above the price of the North Barracks (140,000l.), must be included in this sale. If that be the case, it follows that Sir Lothian's estimate was altogether too high. It is most important that there should be no misunderstanding on this point, and my Lords must ask, therefore, for a description of the lands in possession of the War Office in Hong Kong, and also for explanation showing how far the proposal made in Mr. Knox's letter agrees with the proposals named by Sir Lothian Nicholson, so that the Treasury may understand to what extent deficiency is likely to arise upon Sir Lothian's estimate.\n\nMy Lords would ask further whether it is intended that the lands proposed to be sold should be officially valued.\n\nIt is not clear whether the sum of 50,600l., required to replace the building lost by the sale of the lands, includes the cost of site. My Lords cannot but think that the Secretary of State should be able now to give a fairly accurate estimate of the cost of branch and hospital accommodation, assuming the increase of the garrison to be sanctioned. The Secretary of State must have observed how invariably approximate estimates for works and armaments have resulted in an increase of the burthen imposed on the British taxpayer, and he will understand my Lords' anxiety to ascertain as far as possible the financial result of the somewhat complicated arrangement by which the War Office propose to furnish the accommodation required for the garrison of Hong Kong.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n* `Nos. 1 and 5`.\n\nT. No. `13191/88`\n`40248/157`\n\n(135)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 182, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## 10\n\nNovember to a Committee of Her Majesty's advisers. But in the meantime, they are prepared to accept for two years the contribution of £40,000 a-year recommended by the Committee, and accepted by the Secretary of State.\n\nMy Lords further consider that the arrangement should be strictly observed under which, in carrying out plans of defence, the Colony provides the works, and the Imperial Government the armaments. The Colony should therefore refund £9,000 expended on submarine mining works.\n\nLastly, any excess of expenditure on the estimate upon new barracks should be equally divided between the Imperial and Colonial Governments.\n\n## 11\n\nThe following table shows the recommendations of the Committee more clearly, on the basis of Sir L. Nicholson's confessedly very rough estimate.\n\n| Expenditure | Mode of provision | £ | £ |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cost of erecting additional buildings.. | | | |\n| Cost of replacing North Barracks | | 212,000 | |\n| Proceeds of sale of North Barracks.. | | | 140,000 |\n| | Payment by Imperial Government (two-thirds of balance) | | 81,333 |\n| | Payment by Colony (one-third of balance) | | 40,667 |\n| | | 262,000 | 262,000 |\n\nT. No. 15171\n89\n\n## Hong Kong\n\n2\n4279\nLANDS.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 7.\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n12th October, 1889.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury desire me to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. De la Bère's letter of the 18th ultimo,* Gen. No. 2\n2389\n2\nrespecting the estimates of barrack and hospital accommodation at coaling stations abroad, and more particularly at Hong Kong, the cost of which will be chargeable to the Imperial Defence Loan (Land).\n\nMy Lords will confine their remarks to the case of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War explains that the estimate of £50,000 at this station, is for certain of the more important services only, and that no complete estimate can be framed until my Lords have decided upon the sale of property proposed in Mr. Knox's letter of the 9th January last; but he hopes that my Lords will approve of the estimate, as a provisional one.\n\nMy Lords request that the attention of the Secretary of State may be drawn to their letter of the 28th ultimo, in which further information was asked regarding the proposed sale of property, pending the receipt of which they must suspend their decision upon it. They would also refer to the last sentence of their letter of the same date to the Colonial Office, a copy of which accompanied the letter above mentioned, which shows that they are not prepared to sanction any estimate of the cost of erecting barrack and hospital buildings at Hong Kong, unless it be on the understanding that not less than one-half of such cost is to be borne by the Colony.\n\nUntil this understanding has been arrived at, my Lords must withhold their approval of even the provisional estimate of £50,000.\n\nMy Lords would take this opportunity of correcting paragraph 10 of their letter to the Colonial Office above referred to, relating to barracks at Hong Kong. That paragraph speaks of the site of the new barracks which will have to be erected if the North Barracks are sold to the Colony, as estimated to cost £50,000. But this is really Sir Lothian Nicholson's estimate of the cost of building these new barracks, apart from cost of site, the presumption being that the site will be provided free by the Colony. Again, that paragraph supposes that Sir A. Haliburton's Committee recommended that the Imperial Government should pay only two-thirds of £72,000, whilst in fact that Committee recommended that the Imperial Government should pay two-thirds of whatever the barracks may cost, after applying to them the proceeds of the land to be sold to the Colony, such excess cost being estimated at £122,000, though it might prove to be more.\n\n* Not here printed.\n† No. 26.\n\nEnclosure in No. 26.\n\nMy Lords have no objection to offer to the proposed application of the proceeds of barrack property towards the provision of new barracks; but they object to the apportionment of the balance of cost recommended by the Committee. That apportionment was grounded on the fact that the cost of the Hong Kong fortifications of 1884-89 has been roughly divided in like manner. But the latter division is very different from what had been originally intended, and, in my Lords' opinion, affords an unfair criterion for dividing future expenditure. As stated therefore in their letter to the Colonial Office, they must ask that the Colony should contribute not less than one-half of the balance of cost, whatever it may be.\n\nThey understand that \"erection of buildings\" includes first outfit of furniture, and that all sites are to be provided for by the Colony, so far as new ones have to be acquired at all.\n\nFRANK MOWATT,\n\nCONTRIBUTION AND LANDS.\n\nNo. 8.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n17th October, 1889.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for War, copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Treasury respecting the Hong Kong Military Contribution, in reply to their letter of the 28th September*, which is understood to have been communicated to the War Office.\n\nLord Knutsford would be obliged if he can be informed whether a more complete estimate has yet been made of the cost of the new barracks, and generally to be informed of the position in which the question of their construction now stands. His Lordship would also observe that whatever estimate is finally made, must necessarily form the basis of the demand upon the Colony, for it cannot be expected that the Colony will consent to provide more than the sum which is first asked for, or to allow that sum to be increased at the will of the military authorities, in whose arrangements it will have no voice or control.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nEnclosure in No. 8. Colonial Office to the Treasury.\n\nDowning Street,\n17th October, 1889.\n\nSir,\n\n13191\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, of the 28th of September, respecting the Hong Kong Military Contributions,* in \n\n88\n\n* Enclosure in No. 6.\n\n179\n40248\n157", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347745, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 187, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "# I-Value of War Department property to be Sold.\n\n| | Estimate in Mr. Knox's letter | Sir L. Nichol-son's rough guess |\n|--------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------|\n| | £ | £ |\n| North Barracks, including West Married Quarters and Provost Prison | 65,975 | 140,000 |\n| Commissariat Buildings and Head-quarter Offices | 15,517 | 11,700 |\n| East Married Quarters: Front portion | | 19,500 |\n| Spring Gardens | 13,587 | Valuing dollar at 38. 3d. |\n| | | 126,229 |\n\nThey learn, however, that Mr. Secretary Stanhope is taking steps for obtaining another valuation from local experts.\n\nIt will be observed that the question of the cost of the new barracks is left over in this draft, and on this subject a further letter will shortly be [reference to previous letter].\n\n## CONTRIBUTION.\n\n### No. 14. Colonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street, 7th January, 1890.\n\nWith reference to the letter* from this department of the 17th October last, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to request you to lay before Mr. Secretary Stanhope the enclosed draft of a despatch† which his Lordship proposes, after obtaining the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, to address to the Governor of Hong Kong on the question of the Military Contribution of that Colony, together with copies of correspondence with the Treasury on the subject, as noted in the margin.‡\n\n* No. 8. Treasury, 5th December, 1889.\n† Enclosure 1 in No. 14, returned to Colonial Office with No. 16.\n‡ Colonial Office, 7th January, 1890.\n\nLord Knutsford would be much obliged if Mr. Stanhope would cause any details in this draft relating to matters in the knowledge of the War Office to be verified.\n\nROBERT G. W. HERBERT.\n\n# II-Cost of Accommodation to be provided, exclusive of Sites.\n\n| | Estimate in Mr. Knox's letter | Sir L. Nichol-son's rough guess |\n|--------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------------|\n| | £ | £ |\n| In replacement of North Barracks, &c. | 26,874 | 50,000 |\n| Commissariat Buildings, &c. | 14,300 | |\n| East Married Quarters | 4,713 | |\n| Spring Gardens | 4,738 | 50,600 |\n| Additional Accommodation for increase of garrison | | 212,000 |\n| | | 262,000 |\n\nNo trustworthy estimate can yet be given of the cost of additional accommodation, but estimates for parts of the scheme may be expected in a few months.\n\nPending the arrival of the fresh valuation, and of the further estimates of cost, my Lords suspend their approval of the scheme.\n\nThey are glad to learn that the Colony will be called upon to provide the new sites required, out of Crown lands, so far as possible. When purchases are inevitable, the cost should be treated as divisible between the Mother Country and the Colony in the same proportions as the net cost of erecting the buildings.\n\nMy Lords note that the estimates include the cost of all fixed barrack furniture.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 14. Treasury to Colonial Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers, 5th December, 1889.\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that they have considered Mr. Bramston's letter of the 17th October on the Military Contribution to be paid by the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Secretary of State demurs to my Lords' proposal, that the contribution of £40,000 a-year should be fixed for two years. He refers to the letter from this Board, on the subject of Singapore, in which my Lords named three or four years as the period which the two Secretaries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had fixed in conference, and in fulfilment of this agreement, Lord Knutsford proposes to fix the said contribution for five years. The Secretary of State therefore departs from the agreement as much in one direction as my Lords departed from it in the other direction. It must, however, be recollected that, at the time when the letter of the 10th August respecting Singapore was written, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had not agreed with the Secretary of State to ask Her Majesty's advisers to refer the question of these contributions to a Cabinet Committee. It is obvious that the opinion of such a committee, if accepted by the Cabinet, would supersede an agreement made by the three ministers above named, and it would be desirable that duration should only be given to that agreement for such a period as would be required in order to give full effect to the decision of the Cabinet.\n\nMy Lords, however, are anxious that there should not be any difference between the Secretary of State and this Board upon minor points, and they are ready to make the concession of naming three years, instead of two, as the period for which the contribution of £40,000 will be binding.\n\n2. It is true that my Lords were satisfied with the description of the Committee of 1861 given by the Colonial Office itself. It is probable, from reference to `Hansard`, that Sir F. Rogers based his description of the Committee upon the proposals put forward...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347749, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 191, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## 28\n\nMajesty's Government in determining that a portion of the cost of their construction should be borne by the Colony.\n\n21. Four different heads of expenditure were required in 1884-85 for putting the Colony in a proper state of defence, viz.:--\n\n1. Forts.\n2. Armaments.\n3. Submarine defences.\n4. Barracks for additional troops.\n\nIt was determined in the special agreement of that year, that the Colony should provide the works, and the Imperial Government the armaments, the estimated expenditure being-\n\n| Works | Armaments |\n| --- | --- |\n| £55,625 | £37,500 |\n\n22. This estimate, as I have stated above, has, however, grown into an expenditure of £325,427, of which £209,427, or nearly two-thirds, will have been borne by the Imperial Exchequer, and if Her Majesty's Government now call upon the Colony to make a fair contribution towards the new barracks, it cannot complain of unfair treatment, especially as the additional barracks are in fact a necessary part of the defences.\n\n23. It must be added that if, in the course of the three years, necessity for any new defence works should arise, their cost would form the subject of a separate agreement, and that it is not to be understood that the whole charge of them would be borne by the Imperial Exchequer.\n\n24. In the confident hope that the present arrangement, which they consider equitable and reasonable, will be readily accepted by the Colony, Her Majesty's Government request that you will lose no time in laying this despatch before the Legislative Council, and in pressing forward the necessary votes by all the means in your power.\n\n## APPENDIX A.\n\n## KNUTSFORD.\n\n## LANDS.\n\nSir,\n\n29\n\nNo. 19.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n25th January, 1890.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them Mr. Knox's letter* of the 8th instant `T. No. 4307` respecting certain new barracks at Hong Kong. They regret that Mr. Secretary Stanhope has ordered the commencement of these works, in anticipation of Treasury sanction, especially as it is impossible for them to give this sanction without further information.\n\nOn comparing the estimate now submitted with that embodied in Mr. Knox's letter† of the 9th January, 1889 (`599`), my Lords find the following discrepancies:-\n\n| Estimate of January, 1889 | Estimate of January, 1890 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Barrack for half battery, Stonecutters Island, and half battery, Lymoon | Barrack for half battalion at Lymoon |\n| £10,000 | £10,000 |\n| | Married quarters, viz.:- 42 at £450 each (say) £30,000 (Married quarters in Victoria) £15,000 |\n\nHow is it that the estimate for half a battery now is as much as that for a whole battery a year ago?\n\nWhy has the estimate for married quarters doubled?\n\nHow will the increase on these two items affect the total estimate of £50,600 given in Mr. Knox's letter of the 9th January, 1889?\n\n## PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GARRISON OF HONG KONG.*\n\n| | Officers | Warrant Officers and Serjeants | Rank and File, Drummers, &c. | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Royal Artillery, 2 batteries | 10 | 32 | 242 | |\n| Staff, &c. | 7 | .. | .. | |\n| Royal Engineers, Officers and Staff | 2 | 7 | 5 | |\n| Fortress Company | \" | \" | \" | |\n| Eastern Battalion | \" | \" | \" | |\n| Infantry, 2 battalions | 12 | 21 | 1,372 | |\n| General Staff | 2 | .. | .. | |\n| Ordnance Artificers | 1 | 1 | 10 | |\n| Gymnastic Instructor | 1 | .. | .. | |\n| Army Schoolmaster | .. | .. | 2 | |\n| Medical Staff and Corps | 16 | 2 | 87 | |\n| Pay Department | 6 | .. | 98 | |\n| Commissariat and Transport Staff and Corps | 10 | 5 | 54 | |\n| Ordnance Store Department and Corps | 2 | 2 | 62 | |\n| | | | | |\n| Europeans | | | | 2,525 |\n| Natives | | | | |\n| ‡ Local Artillery | 8 | 20 | 412 | 440 |\n| Engineers, Submarine Miners | 3 | 4 | 46 | 53 |\n| Total | 125 | 189 | 2,710 | 3,018 |\n\n* Exclusive of 200 Volunteers and 150 Militia Engineers.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n## No. 20.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n6th February, 1890.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 25th ultimo (No. 550), respecting the provision of barrack accommodation for the increased garrison of Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to furnish, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the following explanation in regard to the points raised by their Lordships:-\n\nAs regards the cost of the barracks for half a battery of Artillery at Lymoon, I am to observe that the estimate first given was based upon an approximate estimate supplied from Hong Kong, which was made before plans had been drawn.\n\nA more accurate estimate has now been received.\n\nIt should, however, be remembered, that the Colony of Hong Kong is in a flourishing condition, and that prices have risen since the date of the original estimate.\n\nAs regards the cost of the married quarters at Victoria, I am to point out that the number of quarters proposed to be provided for £15,000, were only 42, which were to take the place of the quarters vacated when the properties proposed for sale were disposed of.\n\n* No. 15.\n† No. 5. `4321`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Page 439\n\nHong Kong\n\n1307\n\nSir,\n\nYour No. 19.\n\nColonial Office to War Office\n\nDowning Street\n\n21st July, 1892.\n\nHong Kong 6\n\n1298\n\nIn reply to letter* of the 4th instant,\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to state that his Lordship has again considered the memorandum which was enclosed in his circular to the Colonies, and regrets that he is unable to deduce from it the conclusions which are drawn in your letter from the 4th paragraph of the memorandum. He reads that memorandum as an agreement that the Colonies shall pay immediately, or record for prospective payment, the value of any property surrendered to the Colony by the military authorities; but he does not find that it is agreed that the Colonies, as contended by the War Office, shall pay or record the value of their own interest in the land. It is, however, agreed that when a Colony does not wish to retain possession of the land for civil purposes, the same shall be sold and the proceeds dealt with in the same manner as if the Colony had retained the land; a condition which would be satisfied by the Colony paying or recording such an amount as would represent the military share of the proceeds, while applying its own share to the civil purposes of the Colonial Government.\n\n2. I am directed to point out that the proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford had proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor, who, as a prominent member of the Home Government, would, after deciding the legal effect of the agreement, have been able to recommend to the two departments the best method of carrying it into effect. His opinion would have been perfectly independent, and would have been accepted as final by the three departments interested in this question, and thus a troublesome and difficult question would have been settled once for all.\n\n3. As, however, Mr. Stanhope objects to inviting the assistance of the Lord Chancellor to settle the difference between the departments, Lord Knutsford is willing to state a case for the opinion of the Law Officers, and when they have reported upon the meaning of the agreement, any difficulty in settling the details will be considerably diminished, if not entirely removed. Until the proper legal construction of the memorandum has been decided, Lord Knutsford thinks there would be little use in referring the subject to the Cabinet.\n\n4. I am only to add that if it be conceded, which, however, Lord Knutsford is not prepared to admit, as stated in the 5th paragraph of your letter, that a right of occupation for an unlimited period is, for all practical purposes, as valuable as the freehold, or in other words, that the fee simple, while subject to such a right of occupation, has no appreciable value; then the contrary must also be true, namely, when lands are about to be surrendered as being no longer required for the military purposes, which alone stand between the Colony and the full enjoyment of its land, the military right of occupation has no appreciable value, and the Colony is entitled to claim the fee simple freed from any obligation to the military authorities or anybody else.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 20.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\n1307\n\nWar Office,\n\n9th August, 1892.\n\nWith reference to the letter addressed to you from this office on the 22nd July,\n\nHong Kong 8\n\nHong Kong\n\n1298\n\n, enclosing copies of correspondence between the Colonial Office and this office, on the subject of the general principles which should govern the assessment of the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the enclosed copy of a further letter from the Colonial Office, and to request that you will be good enough to move their Lordships to express their opinion upon the questions at issue between the two departments.\n\n2. Briefly stated those questions are---\n\nI-Whether the value of the lands should be taken (a) as the full saleable value, or (b) as the saleable value, less any interest which the Colony may be considered to possess in the lands, notwithstanding their having been set aside for defensive purposes.\n\nII.-Whether the above question is one that should be decided (c) as a matter of law, by reference to legal authority, or (d) in final resort, if the three departments concerned are unable to agree, by reference to the Government.\n\n3. The opinion of Mr. Stanhope on questions I. and II. is fully stated in the letters* addressed to the Colonial Office from this office on the 23rd March, nor does it seem necessary that he should do more than make the following observations on the enclosed letter from the Colonial Office.\n\nHong Kong, and 4th July,\n\nHong Kong 8\n\n1289\n\n1298\n\n4. The Colonial Office, in paragraph 2, state that the \"proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum enclosed in the Colonial Office circular of the 9th June, 1890, addressed to the various Colonies is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor\"; but this is scarcely borne out by the Colonial Office letters of the 4th December, 1891, 10th February, 1892, and 19th May, 1892, in which the question for proposed legal arbitration is the general question of the mode of valuing the lands, and not the interpretation of the memorandum. Moreover, the memorandum itself does not possess the character of an Act of the Legislature or of a legal instrument. It was the outcome of the deliberations of an inter-departmental committee endorsed by the Treasury, Colonial Office, and War Office, and its right interpretation and application are not matters of pure law, but of policy, and belong in last resort, as this office contends, to the Government.\n\nR. H. KNOX.\n\n*\n\n* No. 18.\n\nR. H. MEADE,\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 21.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n11th August, 1892.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st July, and to acquaint you, for the information\n\n‡ No. 19,\n\nNos 16 and 18.\n\n+ Nos, 12, 15, and 17.\n\nPage 18\n\n19\n\n439", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351046, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 714, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "5320\n\n23000\n\nLETSOUN\n\n3 abouteness \"63 708 A\n\n40 ALBUMAD MU\n\n273400A JING/SUB)\n\nMOGĦOJ ZAM\n\nMOWE 205\n\nFE.D.Fairfield,Esq.,0.M.G, Cont'd.\n\n0.0\n\n704\n\nVesti3 SEF 92)\n\nzebf**IS fp*\n\n.D.M.D\n\n.W.2.231TTO JAINOJÒD\n\n9 A13AP IOLMA\n\nDINOT A 380* AV- 0 --\n\nMÁRAL\n\n2238GGA SINGKASSL\n\nhsrpur\n\ņ.paï blottis7.0.8\n\n-112\n\n»,«tent NJOI sad to Tovs↑ woy ot begiido GIS OF IIIw odw, Ieimsë narrieb£A.IM,Toine2 two of atmetnoo att etsotmummoɔ ev ns 101 tnemintoqqs na rot emit a galxit,Joenib voy of viqqs easitduob .We ivredni\n\nJETZOT OW,Ietteľ toy to S dqstysIsq of yiqer ni molestırmaq gattasty voleb of bezoqorq at di Jædt Ised of yigatbeeoxe ylawolverq @vad ew es 10t,redmevok to dděl edt Itta ainst nt exota of Vibigst #1s gnox groн of ebsr‡ of benttaeb zremeetz two to betaloq „atzeretnt quo of zotwint vrev at ysleb dora & nofteIqmos zaidosorqqs Hamrevod ent to Froger ent tant eqod of mozser evad ev\n\nedd yď sol770 Isim(o) edit bedoser even vidsdorq IItw grox gmoH to Láłw noqtЯ to sasupi6M edt tært tauit ew bas,Tab-ot berøvlieb Itsm zxnst to rottoesa erið oð ezrevbe ton at evelled ow 25, Ioqer dowa ti ent yonelIeos alн of digstyelet eɔno je,au yd bezoqorq etta edt ts .atejtam etibeqxe of gnox gnox to zomrevod\n\nju Lobjâ fo bsßμ 2 06 200% Jeffer’\n\nJatog of ged ow atremugis erit better yierem zu yɗ bentstdo azettel ent tant voy of tuo Tegneb end of berreter odiw,emedos ent of atrenoqgo erð yď beonsvɓE bmwoznu erew atremugis Iterð Jedd gatworl bas,gnox gnoH,strotolV Ja ainst erit mort Tegasb etsitanomeb of medd yɗ ebam asw jqmette on Tegneb terit anted two exam of bewovsebne yedd o2so edt,zevlezmedit need aari aldiT.Temseta last edt to egzaroath sdt yntrub eztzs birow eqod viereontz ew dart fretatxe-non ed of betertznomeb vieteIqmoo 02 Jqmorq edt er galbrotts eolito Istmolo) end of mtamer [Itw slostado on Jttened serg ddiw Jdgusti, emedos ent two zatyr180 at ertyper ew bis vino gnigsweb bris,anido to dèwo2 edt å groй groн to atmstidsint end of egstota erit rot yloqonom s galblod Jnezerq je wilt Isubivibat as of\n\nin Japan our firm in Kobe have obtained permission from the Japanese Government to erect tanks there, and this work is actually now being proceeded with.\n\nFrank steamers enter regularly the Port of Malta where there are tanks. The steamers would in a very short time since got astore at the entrance of the harbour & was assisted by a government tug, she discharged some of her oil into an ordinary lighter & got off without the least damage\n\nME SLO*2ŢL'\n\nOL G926 OIT IN HOUÊ KOU?•\n\nejnsviez Jnetbedo TOY\n\nTetani a'zote IH\n\nof adment terit,bbs of av Jimmeq.2.9 651170 mgteroï end to constataas evitos ent", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 601, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "597\n\nTwo qualities of fibre plant were submitted to the process: the LANGUE-BOEUF and the SAKSUVIRIA. The out-turn of fibres from the former was 10 pounds per hour; from the latter, 50 pounds. This was \"wet\" fibre. The out-turn of good, dry fibre was: LANGUE-BOEUF 3*08 pounds, and SAKSUVIRIA 1 pound. The total cost of cleaning one ton of dry fibre with this patent machine was $44 9 for LANGUE-BOEUF, and $51 60 for SAKSUVIRIA. It is hardly necessary to say that under such conditions the fibre industry could not be profitably entered upon. Mr. J. Tomlinson justly remarks \"a machine that can turn out from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds of fibre per day is much to be desired\", and Mr. Hart, C.E., in the spirit of doubting Thomas, reiterates an expression of that desire. In Trinidad Mr. Death's machine, worked by skilled men from the Public Works Department, achieved the ridiculous out-put of about 40 pounds of dry fibre per day of 12 hours.\n\nIn the Bahamas where they understand these things better than we do the result has been rather more satisfactory, but not nearly sufficient to lead one to believe that either Death's or the improved Kennedy's machines are under any circumstances likely to be the machines of the future.\n\nNow Mr. J.S. Knox, the able and energetic Chairman of the Colonial Sugar Company, St. John's, and also of the Monroe Company in the Bahamas, has naturally given great attention to fibre machinery lately, believing very properly that next in importance to the cheap production of the agave plant will be the economical and efficient machinery for manufacturing the Fibre.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 595, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS-continued\n\n| No. | From and to whom, and date | Page | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 81 | War Office to Colonial Office, 2nd August, 1894 | 7 | Presuming that, if Lord Ripon concurs in the Committee's Report, he will cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be informed of the amount to be paid. |\n| 82 | Colonial Office to War Office, 9th August, 1894 | 7 | Transmitting Colonial Office to Treasury, 2nd August, 1894 |\n| 83 | War Office to Treasury, 21st December, 1894 | 8 | Asking whether the payments which Colony is making for 1894, at rate of £40,000 per annum, should be regarded as final, and whether £40,000 is to be claimed for 1895. |\n| 84 | Treasury to War Office, 27th December, 1894 | 8 | Agreeing that £40,000 per annum may be accepted as a final payment, until the Government decides otherwise. |\n| 85 | War Office to Colonial Office, 4th January, 1895 | 8 | Transmitting copy of Nos. 83 and 84, and following enclosure. |\n| | War Office to General Officer Commanding, Hong Kong, 3rd January, 1895 | | Giving instructions to claim contribution at rate of £40,000 per annum for 1895, and until further orders. |\n| | Colonial Office to War Office, 7th January, 1895 | 9 | Stating that Lord Ripon is awaiting receipt of the 1895 Hong Kong Estimates before expressing an opinion on the rate of contribution for the five years ending 1898. |\n| 87 | Colonial Office to War Office, 29th January, 1895 | 9 | Transmitting The Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office, 22nd December, 1894 |\n| | The Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office, 22nd December, 1894 | 10 | Stating that the Military Contribution for 1895 will be paid at the Treasury rate of exchange. |\n| 88 | Colonial Office to War Office, 27th May, 1895 | 10 | Transmitting draft of proposed despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| | Colonial Office to Governor, Hong Kong (draft) | 11 | Communicating the decision of the Government in regard to the Military Contribution. Hong Kong to pay 17 per cent of revenue. Also suggesting that a permanent Ordinance be passed, appropriating that percentage. |\n| 89 | Treasury to War Office, 22nd June, 1895 | 11 | Transmitting Treasury to Colonial Office, 14th June, 1895 |\n| | Treasury to Colonial Office, 14th June, 1895 | | Concurring in draft of proposed despatch (Enclosure in No. 88), subject to slight amendments. |\n| 90 | War Office to Colonial Office, 27th June, 1895 | 12 | Concurring in the draft despatch, as modified by Treasury. |\n| 91 | Colonial Office to War Office, 28th June, 1895 | 12 | Transmitting Colonial Office to Governor, Hong Kong, 27th June, 1895 |\n| | Colonial Office to Governor, Hong Kong, 27th June, 1895 | | The despatch as finally sent. |\n\n**Correspondence relating to the Military Contribution payable by Hong Kong.**\n\n### No. 71. War Office to Treasury\n\nWar Office, 16th June, 1892\n\nWith reference to the letter from this department of the 24th February last, No. `T. No. 3279`*. I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to request that you may be informed at an early date whether the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury agree to the proposal that the present arrangement, under which the Colony of Hong Kong pays a Military Contribution of £40,000 a-year up to 31st December next, shall be continued to 31st December, 1894.\n\nR. H. KNOX.\n\n### No. 72. Treasury to War Office\n\nTreasury Chambers, 16th July, 1892\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had under consideration the proposal affecting the Military Contribution payable by the Colony of Hong Kong, which was submitted in Mr. De la Bère's letter of the 24th February last†, and they direct me to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Stanhope, that they will consent to the Military Contribution from that Colony remaining at £40,000 per annum up to the 31st December, 1893, but that they are not prepared for an extension of the period beyond the date originally recommended by Sir A. Haliburton's Committee; and in accordance with the suggestion of that Committee, they will ask that, at the commencement of 1898, the contribution may be reconsidered with a view to its readjustment in 1894.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n### No. 73. Colonial Office to War Office\n\nDowning Street, 3rd January, 1893\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, with reference to the letter from this department of the 31st March last, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, on the subject of the rate of payment of the Hong Kong Military Contribution for 1893.\n\nR. H. MEADE.\n\n*No. 64. \n†No. 66. \n`(526)` \n`40248 366` \n`$76` \n`590`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "## \nNo.\n\nIn any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted, \nand \nthe communication should be addressed to \n\"**The Comptroller and Auditor General**.” \n\nSir, \n\n**EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT**, \n**SOMERSET HOUSE**, \n**LONDON, W.C.** \n\nC. O. \n9595 \n\n31st May, 1895. \n\nI am directed by the Comptroller and Auditor General \nto acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of \nState, that Mr C.C. Bowring, the Clerk in the Local Audit \nOffice in Hong Kong, arrived in England on leave of absence \non 20th instant. \n\n2. Mr Bowring has drawn his salary in Hong Kong, \nat the rate of $960 per annum, up to and including the 17th \nultimo, and is entitled to draw pay when on leave of absence \nat the rate of 4/- per dollar. \n\n3. I am accordingly to request that the Crown \nAgents may be instructed to issue Mr Bowring's pay to him \nat that rate, on the production of his last pay certificate, \nup to and including 17th proximo, after which date it is \nproposed that Mr Bowring should cease to draw pay from Hong \nKong funds. \n\n4. I am to add that no double payment of the \nHong Kong Clerk's salary is contemplated, as Mr E.M. Knox, \nwho has been selected to succeed Mr Bowring as Clerk in \nHong Kong, will not commence to draw pay until 18th June. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient servant \nF. Phillips \n\nThe Hon. Sir Robert Meade, K.C.B. \n**Colonial Office, S.W.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "103\n\n3.\n\n... mondigd dooя qua and beffas ad bluow xaT Ianolibbs\n\nwhigh dooя qвû add nerw easao bluow ti dadi brB BJAT\n\nand to JToq87 mijadrov A .110 bisq saw stutibasqxs\n\nod JIiw asvig asw sabeiq zidt dołdw robnu BRONAÍBANOTIO\n\nIstened end mort redsel & to yqos baxanna sáð at bakot\n\n:anox snoll 18 vr8391592 Isinofo) and od soremmoɔ to tednad)\n\n8e8i ylut 1308 and betab\n\nni\n\n13833 two bedrloq osia al 11 metsel Jant al\n\nsaɔX groll add yo bawaal nuder Istoitto as ddiw sonsbrooda\n\nTonalJibbe aidd 79bar beaÍCH JUBOMB Ísĵoj ent ,INSMATSVOD\n\nno babasqxe mwa ant bobaasxs bari moj raq sines †I to vvsi\n\nari159/000 eldan otaqgstgeled edt,samodidglI Xoof quð sdt\n\nAlyauqu va\n\nsonsnejciam 10 Jaoo sit bra gnoX gnok ediw Ji\n\n,90tamm00 te tred:ad) end to estim:o) et bas ,000,0♪ à 10\n\n9d das of bovirta bed smit sad Jerid betaeggua ‚etoterant\n\nob msilli xiƐ yd nevis sabeiq odd moebat of tremaTØVOD\n\n.gaiqqide no xat Isnoltibha atdi dalloda of hns\n\n• X37ed?\n\nJnomgbeIwondoa 919′′ siid bnoyed,‡sáð ar88qq8 $I\n\n#nanatiovod end yd abæn need aad viger on „‡qisos“ aði 10\n\nbab sad no dud 90ramm00 10 Tedmaɖo add to ma‡daí ads of\n\n+\n\ndquouis) gaoй gnoï ni nwond visifdeg smaosd ti tasi teɗmasal\n\nacw doldw Joeldua aint no esnebnogaertod a to mulbam sit\n\npublished in the \"China Mail\" of that date) that His\n\nExcellency the Governor had, on the 12th November, made a\n\nprivate communication to the Unofficial Members of the\n\nLegislative Council, to the effect that this additional levy,\n\nif continued, was estimated to yield during the year 1897,\n\nabout $ 65,000, and that if it were withdrawn, the official\n\nestimates of expenditure for the year 1897 would exceed\n\nthe revenue by that amount. He, therefore, requested\n\ntheir opinion whether it would be preferable to continue\n\nto levy Light Dues at the total rate of 2 cents per ton,\n\nor to devise some alternative source of revenue in order\n\nto make good the deficiency in the official estimates which\n\nwould result if the special charge of 13 cents per ton\n\nwere abolished, as suggested by the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nHaving regard to the dates of the letter from\n\nthe Chamber of Commerce (31st July 1896) and of His\n\nExcellency the Governor's communication to the Unofficial\n\nMembers (12th November 1895), it seems unquestionable that\n\nthe estimates referred to in the latter must have been\n\nprepared by the Government at a considerably later date\n\nthan the question of abolishing the additional levy was\n\nbrought to their notice, whilst the financial difficulty\n\nbedaliduq\n\nwhich", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365303, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "sloe of 39Jeempor erew atadmek Isisittoal edt dolde \n\ntoda visvitataqnoɔ s Iljau marid exoled bessiq Jon \n\nViimisitio ed of bad of berrelet sejamidae »At &Tolad \n\n.beaasq hrs beaupoaib \n\nsit no ancicavisado yos galdam m. 7t nistler #\" \n\nend Jud,soiton quoy rebnu toyword aunt Baso art to atost \n\nri Ilsteb red‡rul ni ditiot jes ed of bпuct ad Iftw 76‡İ8m \n\nyonslisox\" BIH of basnadinW .H.T :noll edt mort rettei sdt \n\n,681 rodmsoed bcs at hetsb .anoX anok to zoпrevoð ed‡ \n\nevors somebnoqzarzoo bedailduq and mi hebufoni at doldw \n\n.od baчA197 \n\n-Leox a mort roitastnummos end of antyiqer al \n\nSYJN \n\ntonuod to arzedmsk aloittomü est ,10пevoo ent voze \n\nsabsig and maeber bipoda sd født gulxoblanoo ni awomineNU \n\nLoissge and tedd Joelle end of ,7028908b9nq atd yd nevig \n\nmedit to ydinotam sdt Jud 9ases bluoda edar aevi digil \n\n+ \n\nJade (19319l a1yonefisox al mi sbam noitaegqva ert beorde \n\ned bloode not req esnes †S to støt bexit s erutut gad rot \n\n.neodrell edt gritetas gałqqida Lle no asu¤ Jdgid as banoqui \n\n10 aradus IsioiTtonu edt Jant tho betaloq ed Jaum ji ju8 \n\ncaw tostdue and doldw 28 galto9) add ja Jneaarq Itonwoo \n\notow, Lusogong aid to rovst at ørew odw,baɛauosib \n\nabsolutely unconnected with the shipping interests of the \n\nport, and were mainly representatives of landed property \n\nrather than of commercial enterprise. \n\nIn bringing this fact under notice, we do not for \n\none moment impute any selfish action on the part of these \n\ngentlemen, but we simply call attention to what must \n\nreasonably be felt to be the natural bias of their views. \n\nAs soon as the action of His Excellency the Governor \n\nbecame publicly known in Hong Kong, it called forth a \n\nprotest from the shipping and mercantile interests affected, \n\na copy of which is also attached. It will be seen from \n\nthis document that the present estimated cost of the whole \n\nLighthouse establishments of the Colony amounts to less \n\nthan 17,000 per annum, whilst the estimated amount to be \n\nraised by the imposition of a charge on shipping of 2 \n\ncents per ton is 113,000 per annum. It is, therefore, \n\nbeyond question that the proposed fixed additional charge \n\nof 1 cents per ton is to be devoted to purposes in no way \n\nconnected with shipping, and in view of the fact that the \n\nare \n\nadvancement and welfare of Hong Kong due to its having \n\nA \n\nbeen a free port, we submit that the unfairness and \n\nunwisdom of the proposed tax are clearly apparent. \n\nWe \n\nvfeduloads \n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369326, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# No. 2.\n**Treasury to War Office**\nTreasury Chambers, 29th November, 1893\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 13th instant,* in which Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman proposes to spend up to 30,000 dollars from the Imperial Defence Loan of 1888, in buying private land within the cantonment at Hong Kong, which would be utilized for some of the barrack works specified in Schedule B, annexed to your letter of 31st ultimo.†\n\nAs intimated, however, in their letter of 11th instant, my Lords cannot concur in any expenditure on the works in question, before an agreement has been arrived at with the Colony of Hong Kong as to the proportion of cost to be borne by Colonial funds.\n\n## \n\n# No. 4.\n**Treasury to War Office**\nTreasury Chambers, 4th January, 1894\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Knox's letter of the 23rd ultimo, Hong Kong 2,* and to state that in deference to the strong and renewed representations of Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman made therein, they authorize the acquisition, for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars, of the land within the cantonment at Hong Kong, referred to in your letter of the 13th November,† which will be utilized for barrack works at that station, the expenditure to be charged to the Imperial Defence Loan, 1888.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n## \n\n# No. 3.\n**War Office to Treasury**\nWar Office, 23rd December, 1893\n\nWith reference to your letters of the 11th and 29th ultimo,§ respecting the statements of barrack works completed, in progress, or proposed at Hong Kong, I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that the Secretary of State for War regrets that it is not possible to follow the course taken for granted in your letter of the 11th ultimo,† under reply, as it is a matter of urgent importance that the housing of the increased garrison at Hong Kong should be proceeded with as quickly as possible.\n\nMr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman is accordingly taking every step to ensure the early execution of the required works to the extent of the funds at his disposal for barrack purposes under the Imperial Defence Loan.\n\nThe purchase, for which authority was applied under date the 13th ultimo, Hong Kong 2, would facilitate provision of accommodation, which stands high in the order of urgency of those services, and would go far to secure, as pointed out in that letter, an object which has been considered for many years to be of great importance, viz., the acquisition by the Imperial Government of all property within the cantonment.\n\nIt is rare for the Government to meet with an owner willing and anxious to sell property which it is known that the Government wish to purchase, and, in the interests of economy and of the good of the service, Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman must press their Lordships to be so good as to reconsider the matter and not to withhold their consent to the proposal put forward in the War Office letter of the 13th ultimo, Hong Kong 2.\n\nR. H. KNOX.\n\n## \n\n# No. 5.\n**Colonial Office to War Office**\nDowning Street, 4th July, 1895\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to request you to lay before the Marquis of Lansdowne the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, respecting the purchase by the military authorities of a piece of ground at Hong Kong, which is subject to a Crown rent.\n\nMr. Chamberlain is of opinion that the rent should not be extinguished, as it is evident that the land in question is leasehold property only, and that the freehold is vested in the Crown, so that in the event of the military authorities selling the property at any time, the purchaser would be required to pay such rent to the Colonial Government.\n\nHe considers that the Governor in the last paragraph of his despatch has indicated the right course to be pursued in view of recent correspondence on the subject of Colonial military lands and buildings, and he proposes, with Lord Lansdowne's concurrence, to approve the suggestion.\n\n**Enclosure in No. 5**\nThe Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office.\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 10th May, 1895\n\nI have the honour to refer a question that has recently arisen between the military authorities and the Colonial Government, respecting the payment of Crown rent to which certain property, viz., Juland Lot, 73 B, situated in Queen's Road East, is subjected, and to request your Lordship's decision on the matter.\n\nOn the 23rd May, 1894, the military authorities purchased of Mr. A. F. Smith, the property above mentioned, and they now claim that, inasmuch as it has passed into their hands, it should no longer be liable to the annual payment of Crown rent to the Colonial Government.\n\nA precedent appears in support of this claim in the despatches referring to the purchase of Messrs. Gemmell's premises for naval and military purposes in 1852, and the general principle was laid down \"that the military departments should have allotted to their purposes free of charge, all Government lands and premises in the Colonies.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370641, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hong-Kong, 10th March, 1899\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have provisionally appointed Mr. C. W. Duggan of the Police Department to be Secretary to the Sanitary Board in succession to the late Mr. McCallum, and to recommend the appointment for your confirmation.\n\nThe other applicants whose names were favourably mentioned and who possess a knowledge of Chinese, an acquaintance with which is regarded as necessary for the holder of the post by the Members of the Board, were Mr. G. A. Woodcock of Queen's College and Mr. E. M. Hazeland of the Public Works Department.\n\nIn view of the report of the Examiners in Chinese, a copy of which is enclosed, and of Mr. Duggan's experience and long service, extending over 30 years, I am of opinion that he is the best officer for the appointment.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient \nHumble Servant, \nHenry May \nGOVERNOR, &C.\n\n## \n\n**Telegram or Note**\n\nis about $3,000. Mr. Knox, U.S. ofS. for War, knows unofficially, and son of Sen R. Knox is a candidate for Sist. Mr. Kron has spoken on the subject some time ago.\n\nNo. 56. Hong... his father called for more to Sir E. Wingfield... been clerk to the local Audit in Ray for about 3 years only. He is rather better educated... out of the running, but he has doubtless been regarded as... as it is pretty certain that he doesn't know Chinese. It is proposed to transfer the Knox, who is now in this colony to the B. East Africa Audit Branch.\n\nAfter Mr. Duggan's... it was found impracticable to promote... \n\nG.W.J \nSr. 9. Wingfield Lord Amathill \nI agree \n4 So... to this could... but it should be noted that the vacancy... reported and no particulars of the office have been sent out as regards the Cl. Regent.\n\nJ. Chamberlain \n24/4 \nApprove of Mr. Duggan's appointment \n1899.\n\nRed 10 APR 19\n\n| Date | Reference | \n| --- | --- | \n| 22/4 | C.P.L 22 | \n| 24/4 | 800 | \n| ... | ... | \n\n## Metadata\nPage 363 (if present at top or bottom of original scan)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374858, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "£81\n\nCopy.\n\nSure 3 A\n\n184\n\n.vgor\n\n+\n\n.8[ [inqA 38[3\n\n„ONI YUANJOD HTAHULIET MANTRAZ\n\n.m.q AX-SI da bavtober mergelat gatwellot »d?\n\n„nobrol „blo[idva¥ o* gnoy amok moTE\n\nazenido yd da bevimnos molenetxe mooIwol moldaqusoo moltiaoqqo*\n\naistattro datang bus agitary avse of yiquorte egru,Bimialtto\n\nrodfrut Belim vəzidə vishnued to misvefxe ytio noolwoX motzulsai\n\n*.BUSABI (VAZ .001##69 I3qteqroq otul Basel to nošenavnos\n\n.9281 IIMqA ba89 .m.a II ta beviszen mangoist gatwollot aft\n\n.gobrol,biollðnæ¤ of anoX gnok mo¬%\n\n.egideong avaa asel gnidton prebavod #redtion ed Jamm reviñ tead\"\n\nThe Tung Kiang or Fast River is one of the tributaries which go to make up the network of waterways which converge round the estuary of the Sikiang.\n\nIt falls with the eastern arm of the branch known as the Pearl or Canton River just above the second bar between the Lintin Bay, and Whampoa, after draining a considerable portion of the N.E. section of the Kwantung Province, which is almost entirely under cultivation of the sugar cane.\n\n1.\n\nThere is only one town of any importance on this stream which is insignificant in comparison to the Sikiang or the North River, this being about 100 miles from its mouth.\n\nThe basin of the Tung Kiang is well defined by hills which could be used for the purpose of commanding the surrounding lowland valleys. In this regard the frontier offered by the East River possesses advantages over the existing line of Boundary between Deep Bay and Mirs Bay, where the hills run at right angles to the line of demarcation. The Tung Kiang is not navigable for vessels of heavy draught.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "content_text": "# Clerks at Hong Kong, 1891-1900\n\n| Name | Appointment Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| TAVERNER G. (Son of a Clergyman in Hong Kong) | Appointed locally. Drowned in the wreck of the \"Bokhara\", October 1892. |\n| BOWRING C.C. | January 1893 to May 1895. Sent out from London Office. Afterwards Local Auditor. Plague Medal. |\n| KNOX E.M. | June 1895 to June 1898. Sent out from London office. Afterwards Assistant Auditor, East Africa Protectorate and Uganda Railway, and at present detached for duty in South Africa as \"Official Auditor of the Military Railways\". |\n| HARDCASTLE H.R., B.A. Camb. | October 1898 to April 1900. Sent out from London Office. Invalided home. |\n| HANSON B.E. | From July 1900. No charge to Colony for Passages. |\n\nD. G. 444 111 PES 2 JAN 01 \nPage 444 \nPage 111 \n\nNo charge to Colony for Passages: HANSON B.E.\nPassage charged to Colony: others.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# .3081 \n\nanj io \n\n.o Boisgas os I .ck erIZOLOM \n\n,1admevoй JzIS „ppolynoH \n\n.712 \n\n-anoĤ to solvï93 [tvið ed♬ lo sjabeo noinut end of \n\n-woliot add noijsettanoo quoy no1 Jimdua oj quonod edƒ eved .gnoX .ynolod add lo soivasa adj ni noijiaoq 700 gniansonco sjoki qat ils at need evað erods VG21 .gnituioni bas „ecal? \n\n## 3 \n\n-:anoXgnoH os tejnłoqqe sjakso naj \n\n\n## 447 \n\n**E.C.Lewis**. 1899. Assistant Post Master General. \n\n**E.A.Irving**. 1901. Inspector of Schools. \n\n**P.P.J.Wodehouse**. 1901. Assistant Superintendent \nof Police. \n\n**F.A.Hazeland**. 1901. Second Magistrate. \n\n**G.A.Woodcock**. 1901. Secretary, Sanitary Board. \n\n**Captain Lyons**. 1902. Deputy Superintendent of Police. \n**J.N.Jones**. 1902. Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court. \nAnd from Cadets outside those appointed in the first instance to \nHong Kong:- \n\n## 4. \nIt is stated in your despatch No.171 of the 13th June 1902 that Hong Kong cadets have a preferential claim to all these appointments, and we would venture to refer you to the Earl of Derby's despatch No.155 of the 3rd August 1883 in reply to Sir G.F.Bowen's despatch No.84 of the 23rd May 1883, which together with your despatch under reference may be regarded as defining the rights and privileges of cadets in the Civil Service of this Colony.\n\n## 5. \nYour decision was conveyed to Sir J.Gascoigne in paragraphs 7-9 of the despatch above mentioned and is as follows:- \n\"I have followed the system adopted in the Eastern Colonies, by classifying separately the appointments for which cadets are eligible. This arrangement proved to be exceptionally difficult in the case of Hong Kong, owing to the smallness of the cadet service and the fact that there are very few appointments in the lower classes of the Government service,\n\n**L.A.M.Johnston**. 1902. Post Master General. \n\n| Name | Year | Appointment |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| E.C.Lewis | 1899 | Assistant Post Master General |\n| E.A.Irving | 1901 | Inspector of Schools |\n| P.P.J.Wodehouse | 1901 | Assistant Superintendent of Police |\n| F.A.Hazeland | 1901 | Second Magistrate |\n| G.A.Woodcock | 1901 | Secretary, Sanitary Board |\n| Captain Lyons | 1902 | Deputy Superintendent of Police |\n| J.N.Jones | 1902 | Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court |\n| L.A.M.Johnston | 1902 | Post Master General |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388423, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 599, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "#1 bas dзnom req \n\n(.orit saso eno nt) „OTI# of .280 mort \n\naeauod eft to ajner ni salt edt Jadw wonx of zatiaezetni eď blwor \n\nneed sef, Jasne et xosliW .7M dołdw \"yot ,906778T 20liii»a ¤t \n\n.JIkud eiew wedt sonte \n\nvino das erster xooliW .¬M doldw of ‚eegegtrom no ɛɛof ent \n\n~mod Isoof s oteaof on el eredt ‚emod mort jdquord venom os viqqs \n\n-07 bne “Svita nt ebnel ±1 ea eviis ni at Isdiqes eɛodw, yaBY \n\n-la verao brus ynsqmoð brød groxynok edT Tevils at Xoad aevieo \n\netiqa ni asysation nt aasataud galvindt æ ob anoljutitent чalim novila ot af Lettqað vient Ils dyvodtis ‚aves zooliw .TH Jadw to aealedjie van jud „tevila ni et dosa gaoX gaoH sit to Latiqað sdt \n\nbervasem Istigao Iskimon SAT .Insa Isteseɔour viev a need asd †1 esinsquo saodt to atenas Lautos sit tuɗ dnrıda evad yem blog mi Lajiqso Lentziro eds to saeoxs at Ilije ers blog ni berwasen gedw Istiqat Isnimon 10 Isnigiro sɗJ constant 70% blog at bajate Aek is doldw .000,000,01% sow ins8 LedynedƐ 3 gnoX goн ent to \n\n585 \n\n77 \n\nequals £ 2,000,000. sterling, the actual Capital today is $25,500,000. which at 1s/8d equals £ 2,125,000. There is no loss \n\nthere. In the case of Mr. Playfair's Bank, the National Bank of China, the original Capital was in gold, and its funds having \n\nbeen laid down here in silver, there has been a loss by shrinkage which would not have occurred had the Capital been in silver, as \n\nin the case of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. \n\nIt is not denied that a silver currency here discourages Capital from being sent out from home, but the lender gets 7 1/2% on mortgages out here as against probably 3 1/2 at home and takes \n\nhis chance of a profit in exchange. He cannot complain if instead \n\nof a profit there is a loss in exchange due to a fall in silver. \n\nThe comparison of the value of stocks and shares at the end \n\nof 1901 with that of the end of 1902 is not a fair one, as 1902 \n\nwas a bad year for share dealers and values were simply unduly \n\ndepreciated through over-speculation, more especially at Shanghai, \n\nwhere Mr. Wilcox's figures were compiled. \n\nLastly I can only suppose that \"to perish in the process\" is \n\na mere figure of speech on the part of Mr. Osborne, for I know \n\nof no one who has been ruined in Hong Kong by the fall in exchange. On the contrary, the continued prosperity of Hong Kong \n\nduring this Fall has been remarkable and cannot be denied by Mr. \n\nOsborne and his supporters. That depreciated silver does not \n\nspell ruin to a Colony or Country is shown also by Mexico whose \n\ntrade returns are most favourable, although she is now the largest silver producer in the world. The same remark applies to \n\nthe Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, all of \n\nwhich places have thriven wonderfully with the fall in silver. \n\nTo sum up I cannot see what practical good the adoption of \n\nthe gold standard at present would do us in Hong Kong. It is \n\nlittle more than keeping our books and accounts in a new currency \n\nbut that will not add to our wealth nor ensure its stability. It \n\nmay encourage cheap money from home but that as in the case of \n\nJapan will not be an unmixed blessing. On the other hand as \n\nIt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390943, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 496, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "C8B\n\nworth namabad. I s vairo t\n\nHorsk sier\n\nto fam\n\n+718-\n\nannerster diły niaga woy saetbbs od zvonod eft won evad eW\n\ngnol groĦ to biswolf & enedqed2 .exaseM to Jdgif to`mold ite¶ sát of 10o£ redo±30 d‡BS ed‡ no soitto emol edt ja au yď baybol saw dɔide Notów mi 1001 vadmosⱭ djèl add to ¿\\880v2 .4 .oll rstief zwoy of ima quɛasiq sid ytingla of heaseIq ton aaw yjaotsM at tædt æ¤ meroʻtal wor -myotni bra \"enob ed idylЛ teJ* beerohre ad blvoda moltijaq edt tstil edi voi Jeruos reqorq edt tædt beatvba aaw y‡aðtæM siH tedt au gal Io settimmob Intokbuk sáð oð víqqs of medt zot ad blwow arenoititi wo☺ sdt to motatoeb sɗt mort Iseqqe of evael tot Lionwoð yvi¶ súb atysmoltide¶ ed‡ to molnigo edð ni Il,reddam edð at gnox gooë to 19q0ng 800 new sɛso sát bus via869090 saw evasi dove wiseivba Lagal .Laeqqa zot\n\n-\n\ntwo Jadd bestvba grivad .9.X aqqho .A .0 .7M Ísanpoð tvÛ\n\nsramott ide¶ edt,ajmnif to settimaro) Istsibut end of yiqqa biwoda\n\n„rejtei quoy at betseggua es Iseqqe of evasi yot Ilonuoð yvM¶ 34 sɗð hne,#aoqing dadd rol aqeje Visa8esen edt xoot gono ta # ‚dtlweyed eaofont ew doldw to yqoo,a,Ineqqa ot avael yot moitié* dias edi mo sett immoð Islslbut add exoted gatesɗ not do sne beastmalb saw nottiteq adt Legnuoð gatrned rette bra Jasí zadmavo *atnetID wo jantage sisos de\n\n490\n\nThe reason why such application for leave to appeal was dismissed appears to be that under the Praya Reclamation Ordinance 1889 of Hong Kong Section 7 Subsection 6 our Clients' legal right to any claim to compensation for the damages they have sustained by the reclamation was in the opinion of the Judicial Committee taken away from them, that the words in that Subsection empowering the Governor, if he thought fit, to award them such a sum of money or such a Crown Lease of new land as he might in his absolute discretion think sufficient as and by way of compensation - constituted the Governor the Executive Officer to award such compensation; but that\n\nhis decision being absolute the rules and regulations which bind an Arbitrator over whom the Courts had jurisdiction did not apply to the Governor as such Executive Officer and that consequently no useful result would attend the granting of the application for leave to appeal.\n\nThe facts relating to the unfortunate position in which our Clients have been placed and the serious damage they have sustained by the Praya Reclamation appears from the Petition of Right and from the evidence of the Valuers set out in that Petition there seems to have been some error made in the calculations upon which the sum awarded by the former Acting Governor of Hong Kong was based and which they are unable to get rectified because the present Governor of Hong Kong will not interfere in a matter decided by the Acting Governor, although as we maintain, decided wrongly, it only remains for us to draw your attention to the circumstances as they", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nNo. 15536\n\n(Subject.)\n\nSalaries\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC. 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Isox quoy ni od benneter \"esitlusb Isoljosnq\"\n\nem not justroqui oot rst at rejtem ent .donøy .dtsi To Tettel\n\nerf new,[ilw data to vistetoeä ert tant sqer sit nobusde of notað tapette re moltonnants stoted elseoqorq tasi eɛsdt aadi\n\noved I ainsi tortoise Tor a no radtam end Jug of sham\n\nGomultoqae7700 *9*wi aid and deeuper of Tuonor! edt etoterant\n\ndata to kedengan srid of bebiswrot aď you\n\nD's eve! I\n\n\" (58)\n\n.oldeut 16:0\n\nPutby service?\n\nBroj 66 enspend action in anticipation of your\n\nanswer Gor's desh 37\n\nhp fildes Lucas\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n? Reply h Alegraph that mattor will h. discussed with hatwan\n\nNo Receive or\n\nB need to blepage: he will\n\ndash 12190\n\nPutly D C.Pd. 2\n\n2/5 at ance\n\n† E && (78) — 172307–35000-17-0 ext subsequent Paper.\n\nYou 15945 tons/legx! 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No.\n\n$1907\n\n15 June\n\nHONG NG\n\nNo.\n\n25112\n\n(Subject.)\n\nSanitary deft\n\nast previous Paper. Proposes to provide for\n\nYou\n\nRECE\n\nC. 3\n\n597\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n25112\n\n(REG 15 JUL 07\n\nan Adm Head othe\n\nLeft in Ecturales for 1908,\n\n› recommeuts\n\n25000 hr C. M. I. dresser for appt. with hathar rather\n\nfavoured to Hallegex.\n\nMr Lucas\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nPRO 100\n\nJolie A\n\n2976JKI* Ĉns auntied 4 lepaitlin tow enculed\n\n3\n\n896/7049 0\n\n#godas3o4 .0\n\nDOLFOUTÉRUC0 .4\n\nJ1819 Eas elood cool,3\n\nnovat tos abeira) .0\n\n$3179981508 .1\n\n** 1000 K011105 OPOGE\n\n40018 Seillon 440.*\n\n3\n\n02: 019.86\n\n00 $26.00\n\nVi\n\n00: 080,08\n\n00: 00S,ASI\n\n$ (88)\n\nThis is\n\nF\n\nather for the for, wat\n\nfor M May\n\nangnado is wES!\n\n? Referent the Sgt. will await the for's Recommendation\n\nSee also 25110\n\nP. 17.7 CP.2.19\n\nAck: on 23273\n\nat once\n\n&L (15)—523087--25000-11-0\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nУво 27005\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 634, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "(s) \n\n(3) \n\n级 \n\n628 \n\nto anoitefkolso ym 023d of matos na dna viuniŠNO \n\nHA WAAAman 15.aw tw roidideqnoo ojek erejné yswitch air \n\nplant \n\ncă multat” tetar eft „^$pnes asi onols Beckig auoitar \n\nIV. Pa voi vienonixe al nedaw od enetx160 aut eckig Moldy of \n\nfarm breys redBor? Us Kowa tremeɔwhat snica exoted bitsa \n\nB/Forec euifood to redmon o .enti erit of oftastȧ wath of duo \n\n@tmvon SII ne, diture [Ima Tier s talt 3376f ce ai tevevod #bebol al 13 erode judete sncR467 10% brus venom to mua boog s of \n\nO DI I .eps9`im d en taxa ofatend etrid tot atitora to \n\n*no 75*#‡ asumir etni \n\nJon G7X I low not oftland re:zeassy to endoso nadjonk \n\nsaa tuodis eonstrogmi eroe 10 mot & nurin me? at aequaİT \n\n.01% Teraude zd erst e .Vrodinust eueniat al vettmort ent \n\nta ei de verruol and to disq dazit OKT .atnen 08 at gno \n\nd to wefle on seob netto her abit erft as nedt bra donna I \n\nLumens of erad erognecasq ‚onate gribral erit gatdosen Temesta têm a évoda et erata goźbnsi efT .deod Iseriw mete a otzi \n\nacter 79-iştri doum dobry of sobiq s et alḍT .nwod erit \n\nI .81enneben edd IIa den vileae jay bus bentoño er mað fota selst barit snoe ti netew polisie od gatwo sosiq dart phamrocesų ant node brɛ,mert van of enoll smol mort on od vab \n\nSTOORLERAU quird IIbw yawltaf SHE .elim a Juods Haw of 9vai! \n\n.eellly ent seen foum : srið bral bra setunia 27 trods ni stent sxo no doth to aclim ES Juods at aro soft mort constatɔ̃ 96T \n\n.nottoed sesután edd no al lim so, sineo I vae eten dhte a edcup of newoo edt svad taum noirɔe? \n\n.87034888sq Beald JE*& TOT elim \n\nsiin rood hon erat I tud,nožškuoų tolimia a mi at grun? dəni \n\n62% te qrul\" wmo noswtor pittsyd erld not astugit uns mhaddo os \n\nIovane of ¿SHAR 970 the Jusestq JA \n\nod gradony hlvow bus soyqiro te qiranart teum anoX grof bus \n\n.netme? rigvord\" anaq \n\nfolia of Poulu ne era al etort \n\nCISTELLANE be seduin vie? \n\ngo per day namely to Sha U Ching in Mirs Bay. At present to \n\nreach this place they have to go by launch through Lyemoon Pass \n\nand the sea is often very rough. The fare is about 60 cents \n\nfor the trip. When the Railway is open, they will travel by rail to Taipo and go by launch from there avoiding the rough sea met with East of Iyemoon. Very much more than 14 cents a mile could \n\nbe charged to passengers booking through to Sha U Ching, but I would not advise this unless the Railway care to start running \n\nthe launch. I do not think the ordinary passenger travelling \n\nto Taipo would pay more than this amount. \n\nFrom this you will see that the rates per mile for the 3rd. class passenger must vary according to the way in which there is competition with the steamers and I will endeavour to prove that \n\nwith careful adjustment of rates a fair profit can be made by dividing up the gross earnings of each class by mileage without going to the extreme of making it a sine qua non that the earnings \n\nbe divided in the ratio of the capital cost. \n\n* \n\nThe cost of running this section will be expensive and I \n\ndo not want to take too sanguine a view now when I am estimating \n\nthe profits. \n\nSir Matthew Nathan has made a note that an endeavour should \n\nbe made to get the Chinese to agree to run both sections as one line under a joint board of management. This of course would \n\nbe the best plan under ordinary circumstances and every effort \n\nmust be put forward to try and get such a scheme agreed upon by \n\nthe Chinese. \n\nIt will be necessary to have a Traffic Manager, a Chief Engineer and an Auditor and if the pay of these officers and their \n\noffice establishment can be divided up over 120 miles instead of \n\nover 20, the working expenses per mile would be greatly reduced. \n\nAll the same it is necessary to look at it from a Chinese point \n\nof view. It would pay the Chinese much better and suit the \n\ngeneral feeling in the country more if the Chinese section of the \n\nKowloon Canton Railway were worked as a branch of the Canton \n\nHankow Railway. \n\nThis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413562, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 64, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "# \n62 \n\nof angsa, not atqo ald tot estteul toldt øde of bejtimɗva need \n-M03AT &'@olders toiño ent (Ilta vienibroætjxe atom ed of en \naoivos elf to dégnerte add no bubregeraib maad svai enoltabnam- \nedt gatiflt of of små! end is boneqqal ofw startetge1⁄4 8 aort \nsvad vant dat dat of studney T .Vistazo#2 Istrolo0 to 901710 \nyons[Inox woy belleqaoo #vad godt tot Dot Detow [Itta a bad \nbenistnoo eis dollw anolteaup sdt woltent tsiɗo odð of tug of \nwas at anottasup sagt bker tonnso I.IqST rebar Mettel eft al \nat botsets nood aad nolazerqmi ne darit atdit mert vaw redito \natste ent not (bemet ent Ila retts text balm 8'yɔas[{sox\" WOV \navo ali al al betroqo't esd wolfest tel:0 ad? dotdw arlatta to \nSlow bas (191207 aɛsnleud ali bootarobou ed 11 Jadt bus ebrad \n· \n\nbeen on ad bluow gredd,potrisɛ ollduq edð oð sælt aron etovab \n.ngbul varitone to themtntoqqa ent not \n\nMilw vasɔlich mit vigaiboooxe etalonians I \n.A \n\nof slamb I bus ‚emoldaeup nesdt dug end voralisoze wo” doldw \n19'o on bed von Ileox? *cy tadt brstarobnu VIIut I jedt VAB \n-er gaant Jand welr ya səalasıqmə vino aldi buk „evitantæðis \n101 sm of Jasa noed øved of two Atle .1M to enoltabus/rioo- \nus vfistonqas erom obam eyew Vand emit sið is notalgo ya \ntostiva erit no dtime ‚1 yd sban tuemolata Jarit edd Jacmis \nwarrant.\n\n## 5.\n\nIt is common knowledge that since I have been \nin the Colony the Court has been more busily engaged than it \nhas ever been since its creation. For the first time in its \nannals the judicial machine has been working at full pressure \nand its resources taxed to the utmost. I make this remark in \nno self-laudatory spirit, and with no intention of casting a \nslur on my learned predecessors in this respect; but the fact \nremains, and in order to justify and illustrate it I have had \nprepared a comparative table of the amount of Court work done \nfrom January to September in the years 1904 and 1907. These \nyears were taken at haphazard, and I think they tell their own \nstory; which is, that making such allowances as are necessary \nfor inevitable delays the Court was as full of work during that \nperiod of 1907 as it could possibly be. Speaking from memory, \nand without consulting the Registrar's books, I think that the \nother years of my work in the Colony would tell the same story. \nYour Excellency will, I think, now understand why I so much \nresent the action which has been taken before Your Excellency's \narrival, and which compels these questions now to be put to me.\n\n## 6.\n\nI have been much disposed to leave these \norit vi mwo.ia naw \nP \nDezsetont Joy bad tuod add to frov ert tart \nTables to supply the answers to those questions, for I cannot \n•JUSTIBW \nPuolitiw ed of‚000[‚£inga to nettet za of boxenns zeidai \nhope to answer then except at length, and even then I may omit \nSOME", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413932, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 434, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n082 \n431 \n\natedrano \n„anodynoн,dro) smarqua \n800f ‚It”qA „KJAI \n-Inox wo¥ sybeIwordɔa od rhonod ert svad I \nI ɛs of vigor of undear I rolde ‚£t7qA .1‡e to nettať a'vonal- \n.notane:farqqsain s robnu najživ \n.$ \nof baliqqa I bari Jarit ByAB yone! IsozI TOY \nano of to bastant constant dan27 sɗíð ni tinamid rantalgeƐ and \nbinow betianb I noitservotal ads ‚anaoitto edanibroɗve ald to \nmud iliw yonelis:x *OY TI «diteß .mif yď becalmut good evad \n-moo Jarit vr bentatnoo roidw Jual Hono3 „djèl to 183381 * 03 \nAUSE .*M of viqqa bih I desit bait Liiw vor „4792 .\"M_to_Jnlaiq- \nvn đờiw vigson of Inauter aid to sausond now 31 Jadit bu \nerit deiw en daimut of aenol-soI .~M batountant I tadt Jaempo” \n.betupat I moldamotał \n\n## \n\n+9989 \nta bereutba ed vart noijɛsup sno ániás I \n.& \nAtiw be~tupe“ I moitscrotal sið 10% dts2 .M od bellqqs I \n,vizažąsi odd to ansoitto stanibrodua ent to drow scit of branat \njud,$namtiaqad ant to haoH eft mid bereblanos I sawmoed Jon -onstroqxo viove as bna imjaiņaя end to egredo at ei ed saunoad of entiqtoalb of Laložburiang al si‚avond Jnemtraged to bask be- \nerongi han sinisitto atanibrodva odit diku vidoenib otROłKUPTOJ \naiskoitto eaoɗd to Iordnoo add ddiw betavnéne at oɖw Tepitto enl \n*Boonatani Imloeqa vrev ni tqo»x» \n‚ moitærriotak ent of bransı MJEW \n-Insuperdra erí,anottasl\\ilaup »'enwodis *H of na sm baliqqe \nBratrov I \"aolbuterq tuodtiw\" noviy new di Jadt mer bemtotal vie taoggs blow 31 Jud zanaou of Jaťw taolo stiup ton ma I Jarið Kolriw en od nowo sɗ y‡ub ext to sanes Jedi ton nail set Sand \nof dost ml reeggs binow off :mid of ae:udiadds vonsĺIsoxA MOY \narca avan of amasa sH .IIs Ja esitub vna nad ad testeňw moltsauf \n**aq amor deg of gatruovsebne nssď øvar I dołdw,noidon surgeAY \nnoldqeo- \n\nperception of; but hitherto without success. He declines to answer some queries; he answers others \"without prejudice\": he answers others without any limitations. I am not able to distinguish between the quality of the different questions I have asked him, as they all relate to the duties of himself or the officers of the Department.\n\n5.\n\nThere is of course a very important question involved in this correspondence - the relation and responsibilities of the Chief Justice to the Government; I have for some time seen dimly, but now clearly, that the views which I have formed after 15 years experience as a Judicial Officer are not in accordance with those held by the Government of this Colony. That is a serious issue which I trust may be ultimately settled in the way most conducive to the interest of the Colony. But Mr. Seth's grievance stands on another plane. The position of an independent Head of Department who owes duties to me is one which I find, with great respect, difficult to appreciate; the lines of division of duties consequent on it are quite unfamiliar to me, and I should be at a loss to know how to carry on the work of the Supreme Court subject to it.\n\n6.\n\nBut I doubt whether Mr. Seth seriously wishes Your Excellency to take that view. And there is one point on which I have not perhaps dwelt on sufficiently in my letters - the novelty of Mr. Seth's pretention. He has never questioned my authority before, but has invariably complied with my instructions and answered my requests. I have little doubt that he objected to the written request to keep a diary. As he said to me afterwards, if I had only sent for him as usual there would have been no difficulty: but he was 'very upset', and unfortunately sought the advice of the Colonial Secretary. If the Colonial Secretary had taken Your Excellency's view that the Registrar does owe duties to the Chief Justice, he would have told him to see me and point out that my request was unusual, or couched in an unusual form (which however I certainly do not admit); everything would have been put straight, and work would have continued as harmoniously as in the past.\n\nUnfortunately", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419447, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "«Yadimar) \n\nGerol Fuo) apterque \n\nH+81,gnoxprof \n\nperson as Your Excellency might think qualified to fill the position.\n\n542 \n\n• \n\nJqisoar and agheIwondos oð xuonori art sved I \n\nJunonai „dðal betah,à0\"888 „oll notrof a1yone!Inox wwOT to \n\nanloggs of elɗlasst ed how at noiniqo vt at redterw gat¬kupne \n\nIsaqqɅ ns as die of vnofon si to støttelmall solfo¶ Tolna? erit \n\n.enbut \n\nEntre on ob I twit atsta hlnow I ̧viq** mI \n\nøtextałymi sollo¤ rotusă sit Jakoqqs od slisfw sidrow of hlwow di \n\n.IseqgA to duob erit od dors as gleren \n\neils taut antnessing on Dia terts at over? \n\nOF WARBROAn enotzeotrils alt svar hlnow startaiqali tofnað \n\nProb Issqqë na mi tie \n\n-ab need word I es \"st oa Zaven Bar I \n\nt \n\nsed daim odetcat-pk rolnsë ant dant avob hial vist tatt-\n\nevast hinoría est grów rozser Istonqa on ai sverit bas,redaltref \n\n.guinisný Isgel to dros yua hari \n\nTadernet a to notstbha srit rerit eriw adoh I \n\nart meritqustda 5Lwow sonelioqxe duro) zolfof yferent bat bail ofw \n\n-Itil of moldostatzea retseng skin to R \n\nerid mhildde tibuord alsequi eft to retram doaldre af aðmag-\n\nh£*£2 oforiv suit tevo Bagitar dio) zaodtok odd ai arang vet dual \n\nto notto ataloq uo narys a to nožniqo sit bus,wa! raiIgi to \n\nerumaeng 7 „vikrofibus (Iane to and blow ytilsaturloet emantze \n\nnofob and to aepustartrozio art ti ,00 7838I VIdiazoq 2sIIT \n\nod mera yarı sabut bukris a to notrasun erit,ŠI SHINDEN of 18sqqs \n\nna gainierɗo to vtilidianoq air tait avoided I .qu zikrond \n\nvhae\" is mend Ball adno e de adient? edo mort egbut Isaqqa \n\nenkrakka siis varið Hatið oð suðuay I sIkilnsal „bet¬bianos \n\ntntoqqa of rawog Food чors!Isox to) th tam ad trinket v+Drak?TID \n\ndoua two CeeqqA end to radsert Cistogrist as emit of smit mont \n\nnoa og \n\nofficer by name, \n\nIf I might without indiscretion mention an such a one might at the present time be found in Mr. Hazeland, a barrister of some ten years standing who has had long experience in the Registry and at the Police Court.\n\nI trust that Your Excellency will not think that I have exceeded my province, in appearing so to speak to recommend an officer for advancement. My excuse is that no other arrangement occurs to me as feasible and that I feel it my duty to advise Your Excellency to the best of my knowledge and ability.\n\nHis Excellency \n\nSir F. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., \n\nGovernor, &c. . \n\nI have etc., \n\n(Sa.) H. H. J. Gompertz, \n\nPulane Judge.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420449, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "330\n\n...\n\n# TKO NANGANA\n\nBORAD \"YZBit * to Els con ti citu.. to numi fu eru Idar or\n\nİNAL VITA sila ở snob azw ¿row olarki woT SAY - *rkbrey Rady\n\n$83 nolfanew not adsen TRAIN AND ADS\n\nzolva ngo♬\n\nto sida ja ylénov, #w on eart\n\ncala mairiça to mw. I\n\n¿PTCA.. BINGE UNAV oh broo\n\nhluola I anotererbratio ban's al rædd her pro · 1&haus eis pelak\n\n\"Bro 28 ¢ Katıls *\n\n.das.boyja aut havinunn at Mi haly way Bo\n\n#CORET MErta silv 4 16va ¢?\n\nRADIOL\n\n* how\n\nI\n\nnolesti\n\n009\"\n\nevgi or si bo' tutur SVAZ DULOV. yors · Lanxi tot de 't hondurS\n\nno band cap?\n\n9.10\n\n837 AVASI 9+ Not JIKA BRATNA\n\nさ •\n\n.onA AUCHÓW subit sriog vand fox) *5**\n\n#1 of\n\na' sorte! Inox? \"ro\" 28 Baw co bysseuh tu.”\n\nrežu on od dog * te koaxi woy of dile getinere o\n\npong parts,X8,0° ads DJiw Donk jo aŭtvað a\n\na bas (duSTON\n\nHR\n\nCorset do natos of ss #nel, yi wałworof “o auto-bɛob otev\n\nneo nsw a bub GI 0 un að nual ca may get-al mani\n\nbus,brails taw mool & Nood or aconstelaronda Hore di vanaboen\n\naniver goni *** no azokaigo ve vin' or bastach protere ? po\n\nqiyiqqa o* MA *HDÌ, vrai qe mew brands\n\n*** OF MR mot kyo ợi yous) fong\" to” eyes bun (078', SYROJ 01\n\nsvods na sakaruh, tekan RA 208 OF #noitepl ̈Fait »'Belvan preli\n\now humo.de andvall atoll .1. re e hantera TILT NAW c】 .zuo c90\n\nai sit oF OF anchon xi.. not aban Bela VIZ QE Sveel no\n\nhoiriot &Raiunostra alif!! .notre mis al ovend ao paion on ile bu\n\nONC\n\nthe basis of the recent correspondence referred to in paragraph\n\n2 above.\n\nI am of course familiar with the rule\n\nreferred to by Your Excellency in paragraph 5 of the letter\n\nunder reply. But a Civil Servant has a right to expect that\n\narrangements come to in such circumstances should be observed.\n\nWithin a very short time after the recent correspondence Your\n\nExcellency informed me with regret that they could not be\n\ncarried out unless I paid £50 to enable Mr. Hallifax to return.\n\nTo this opinion, expressed at the eleventh\n\nhour, I most respectfully demurred. There was no question of\n\nthe exigencies of the service, but of the exigencies of Mr.\n\nHallifax's leave consequent on his unfortunate accident. There\n\nhad been an oversight in the grant of his leave, the existence\n\nof which was apparently not present in Your Excellency's mind\n\nat the time of the correspondence as to Mr. Rees Davies'\n\nextension of leave.\n\nIn these circumstances therefore I should\n\nnot have assented to the charge being made against me. And\n\nwith deference I suggest that in the recommendation to the\n\nSecretary of State the possibility of its falling on me should\n\nnot even be suggested, but that it should be stated that owing\n\nto an oversight in regard to Mr. Hallifax's leave the charge\n\nmust be borne by the Colonial Government.\n\nYour Excellency\n\nSir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sgd.) F. E. Piggott,\n\nChief Justice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420643, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "warb tnwoodå mi? to vyoo sit al aifft .axoo¶ meebreɗA mit da\n\nduoda ro no beased saw yraɗodul eft .(X baxtaɛ) taxaf vat\n\n(8RAL «VIESMAL „du£ and\n\nmid aham DONIST TOBÍ (Viando\" £lóru\n\na exam don hib I .asami. Ladrev a naw dI\n\n„prurasið gæ«Y deiw samei\n\nmels gulrub vraciətuk wrið da sam rata? „posel elád to Juo nes\n\nreal ni dal gas? or hioa baw caenland s2 .beuse! saw ýl emis\n\nnaslo 004, Ika I .ewthrust to Jaco edit asw dołów COS$ rot\n\nads to aznimas ten edt Vlad dard berebiznos I .texsoą to tuo\n\nquis tedd betongue oɛla 7 .Jeerajal IL art \"evoo bluow Treffoduk\n\ngnizovaos\" antfiæ¶ .mɛnoung meine erit vd blage, ed birow Istiqas\n\nsið na wag of metal „t of badnoI I bezneval Latigao erit\n\nedit nachwietariodel and ta stel araw akood acft „betaeval fetiqso\n\nadood mit ta ograío Xood I eað gnɛ” of bennetement now seenland\n\ndon BAW MATAT *** .qu shæst od ok.18%#* ***} 0t merit babard bea\n\nerla La hommia I adnew owt desit and rudtA „molod eft ni meda\n\ngrozyno} mið nọt am yď bangla arow aeupedo edit SIA „amupazio\n\nKraf karignach bra gnoxynoĦ sið og trew I hna meta”,vradiotra\n\nLikw boycaya naw at bne beneɖo dan}% aaw czeńoduk arts nocie\n\n»groß and tot aarpedo eris ngla hluoda pusta” so I Jant Krak art\n\nJasiv Jnoci?*sqad væ to baoli erið Iled ton bib I .Yzerintuk anoX-\n\n«anoitsfuper end dantaya di rebinano ton bib 1 .gulob daw I .bu$ ade m© ‚{LLowoR . of bemuter @ hna,0 ‚¤‚A asidicx%)\n\nel dart dinod emorquë ndie al em hlod majal (8021 (EIBA” LĪDIM,\n\nIIA MI77am bas 0088 to 008 mid ovla od nezdari am tag blow\n\norið da baðaða orla m2,cå et bazitor 1 niựt .nu meeWISÉ NAIT BEI\n\n.@nivien adó mo¬h bannirmih od vidadong bluow I dmt seit omse\n\na Lavirus va refta vah sad,GOR£,wedod60 .dsel meið no\n\nser blot er! bra matst nese bad arī blæɛ hra de of eneo moskalieë\n\nbirow 21 bna zaos ni 000,01% zrada sa taos bisrow sako add dadd\n\nbra aralloh basarred? wet a {rista?) mid evty of “matted nat od\n\nFAAMOJATA mio Cia warbet?kw bfrow matst tadt bas mi♫ dółw eitten\n\ntetto aid heautat vistukonda I « dram^@Toð árið að #hem barf mai\n\n„noksiaoqorq a dous gnidae nok siksi si9kw znanylbni naw bos\n\nbertno LbA\n\nAdjourned until 5th. instant at 2.30 p.m.\n\n(sd.) 7. A. Haseland,\n\n523\n\nAttorney-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 73, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## List of the various Classes of Foreign and Chinese Employés in the different sub-Sections on the Northern Section of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway\n\nEngineers of the first, second, and third grades, in charge of Machinery, engine shops, construction, registration, surveying, the receipt and issue of funds, correspondence, materials, telegraphs, and rolling stock. Overseers.\n\nDeputies stationed on each section, and dealing with the purchase of land, correspondence, investigations, the preservation of order, interpreting, receipt and payment of funds, supervision of work, Office servants and messengers, guards, grooms, &c.\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[24157]\n\n**(No. 142.)**\nSir,\n\n(June 28.)\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n### No. 1.\n\nMr. Bryce to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 28.)\n\nNorth-East Harbour, Maine, June 16, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that upon the receipt of your telegram of the 11th June relating to the proposed Hankow-Szechuan Railway I addressed to the Secretary of State a letter on that subject, a copy of which I enclose.\n\nThe reported wish of American financiers to participate has attracted some attention in this country. Articles appear in the newspapers, copies of three of which, one purporting to include a statement issued by the State Department, are enclosed herewith.*\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Bryce to Mr. Knox.\n\nDear Mr. Secretary,\n\nNorth-East Harbour, Maine, June 14, 1909.\n\nYOU will doubtless have already heard from your Ambassador in London of the conversation that has passed between him and Sir Edward Grey regarding the proposed Hankow-Szechuan railroad in China. I need therefore only observe that in July, and again in September 1905, my predecessor at Washington enquired of the United States Government whether any American financiers desired to take part in that enterprise, and that your Government replied that the project had been announced publicly, but that no American financiers had intimated any wish to take part in it, and that thereupon my predecessor had in October 1905 verbally informed the United States Government that the British and French financial groups who were taking up the matter had, under the circumstances, assumed that American financiers had no wish to join, and were proceeding upon that assumption. No objection was then or subsequently taken by the United States Government; and the United States Embassy in London was informed that any suggestion or offer on the part of American financiers must be considered to have lapsed.\n\nAs His Majesty's Government now gather from your Ambassador in London that a wish to join in the enterprise has now been expressed by some American financiers, I am instructed to say to you that nothing is or could be farther from the wish of His Majesty's Government than to do anything which could be prejudicial to any rights or interests between the United States and China. But so far as British capitalists are concerned, the action of the latter in going on alone appears to His Majesty's Government to have been justified under the circumstances, and they could not have been expected, after what had passed, to have done otherwise. His Majesty's Government therefore earnestly hope that the United States Government will, having regard to these facts, think fit to instruct their Minister at Peking not to place obstacles in the way of the issue of an Imperial edict approving the agreement for the making of the railroad, which has been already signed. That agreement has been the outcome of protracted and difficult negotiations. Were it now to be prevented from taking effect, a situation would arise which His Majesty's Government could not view without serious apprehension.\n\nI am further instructed to convey to you the suggestion of His Majesty's Government that it would be desirable that in any further arrangements regarding a loan in which a recently formed group of American financiers might desire to take part, communications should be addressed to the British and French and German banks concerned.\n\n*Two not printed.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 198, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[25918]\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce** \n**(No. 183.)** \nForeign Office, July 12, 1909.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of the Hukuan loan, I have to inform your Excellency that at a meeting held at London on the 7th instant, between the British, French, and German groups and the representatives of certain American banking houses, the latter agreed to accept 25 per cent. of the Szechuan (Hankow-Chengtu) loan, with all the same privileges, including the nomination of an auditor and accountant, as the European groups. In view, however, of the American claim to 50 per cent. of the Szechuan line, they regarded this as a concession, and therefore asked for 25 per cent. also of the £2,500,000 for the Hupeh section of the Canton-Hankow line.\n\nIn this last demand the British, French, and German groups replied that they were unable to agree, and must consult their Governments. It was finally arranged that the Americans should telegraph to their Government for authority to withdraw the claim, and it was understood that they themselves would support the application.\n\nAt a further meeting held on the 8th instant, the Americans announced that they had been informed that their principals were not prepared to give way on this point. It was stated that a faint hope of reaching a compromise lay in the fact that Mr. P. Knox, the United States Secretary of State, was absent from Washington, and that on his return it was possible that their instructions might be modified. It was not, however, considered probable, and after some discussion the meeting was adjourned sine die, without the negotiations being actually broken off.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n*Also to Sir E. Goschen, No. 178; Sir F. Bertie, No. 299; and Sir J. Jordan, No. 201.* \n(2336 m--2)\n\n2\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\nJ. N. Jordan.\n\nunjustly treated in not being afforded active support in underbidding the Germans and ousting them from the position they have secured in the Canton-Hankow line.\n\nAlthough there appears little probability of amalgamating into one combine all these diverse British elements, there is, in my opinion, great room for increased efficiency on the part of the British and Chinese Corporation and for fuller co-operation between it and the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank. Instead of attempting to direct affairs from Peking, the agent of the corporation will probably find it necessary in future to pay some personal attention to the construction of railways on the spot and to rely on his own powers of organisation rather than upon protests to secure the successful working of the railway agreements.\n\nThe Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, on the other hand, should clearly define its position with regard to the corporation and not expose itself to the charge of inconsistency in acting in the matter of loans sometimes through the corporation, and at other times in its own name, as its interests may happen to dictate.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427621, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "OP Y.\n\n(To accompany III.)\n\n135\n\nrotaal wedusif erft bus \"allid ont arton od rognersen Isneiðibba\n\nJLaw Jon Jaum ad Jud mort arise aso Ttoude oft yon,40“ boli?p?\n\nttoula ort „botqoba nood bad goltnozava aldmud ya 11 .\"yenom 107\n\ncow add no affid oma auttoefloo to ydinuthogge en ovart blow\n\n.emit ode no silid bortes of mort\n\nroairaque naw f191) Jant” e:\\d,167I5% „My\n\n..\n\n.TI Jasi smrt, at ornot no juew eff qošta bus softte elody ndd Te\n\n„ooltto sfodv ait to realybenß obar osv yo:estra?\n\n„936 svari I\n\n.kul waɗ3 („DR)\n\nbčá .0% .anoX) To570 aʼrodaai vloďts!! ed\"\n\nvia etqtoo9% ON\n\n+\n\n.2.4\n\nezudut end 10% cand toatte arlé od (01.01.IE TO\n\nod of at Yenon on bra aflid ca,benŋla \"bastia,zuo znoa ed ot\n\nTino saw molt10 wodian ond ni sqauze Tioida via vi befoe!ion\n\n•one ¤1⁄4æb OI bosnai\n\n.4.0 (.5(JI)\n\n.(185 97092 Istnot:0\n\n#ide wool ed\n\nSir,\n\nHarbour Department,\n\nHongkong, 10th November, 1910.\n\nI beg most respectfully to state with reference to your letter No. 5760/10 of the 9th instant as follows:\n\nAs regards the Harbour Master's minute of 3rd November, 1910, I am afraid that I did not receive any order (either verbal or written) not to sign bills until money has been paid. As far as I can say, I was directed in the afternoon of the 24th October last, not to sign bills after the shroff had absconded; and Harbour Master's order (memo. No. 434) was only issued on the 31st last month.\n\nAs to G.S.O. Circular No. 37 of 14th December, 1909, the absconded shroff, as was well known to every one in the office, only called at the office for a few minutes in the forenoon and in the afternoon, except days when pay-ment was made into Bank, and during his absence I only received covers sent by firms and containing bills, compradore's order &c., and I handed the same to the shroff immediately on his arrival at the office. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the same Circular do not concern me.\n\nAs to Treasury Circular of the 18th December, 1909, I received no instruction to discontinue signing bills for Light Dues before handing same to the shroff. It had been the practice for many years to sign bills before handing same to shroff for collection. Had I received instructions to the contrary, I would certainly have complied immediately.\n\nI have &c., (Sd.) Fan Tsung Hing.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nSir F. H. May, K.C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2 \n\nmences to operate in Manchuria the question of the maintenance of peace in that region will become an international one. That would mean that in the Far East, which \n\npeace is so necessary for us, would be guaranteed.\" \n\nThe \"Svet\" (of the extreme Right), considers that the American proposal is unacceptable, and says that Russia could not participate in an undertaking which would cause serious injury to her interests, and could not admit that an enterprise which had cost her so many sacrifices should pass into the hands of financiers, who only think of their own pockets. \n\nThe \"Golos Pravdy,\" the Octobrist organ, is strongly against the proposal, which it regards as the expulsion of Russia from Manchuria, and the destruction of her position and of her prestige in the Far East. It asks what has occurred that Russia, and especially her far eastern frontier, should be treated in the manner of the American memorandum? \"In this historic note there is such a disregard of our interests in the Pacific Ocean, that we shall have to ponder deeply over our international position.\" I may add that M. Sazonow observed to me that the Finance Minister estimated the value of the Eastern Chinese Railway and the Russian interests which would be affected at 50,000,000l. As to the Chen-chow-Aigun line, M. Sazonow said that as far as Tsitsihar the projected line would be of more importance to Japan, but beyond that point it would be a matter of serious concern to Russia. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nA. NICOLSON. \n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] \n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS \n\n## CONFIDENTIAL \n\n[1987] \n\n[January 18,] Tops \n\nCO \n\n196 \n\n4196 \n\nSECTOR 11 FEB 10 \n\nNo. 1. \n\nSir A. Nicolson to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 18.) (No. 30.) Sir. \n\nSt. Petersburgh, January 15, 1910. THE \"Novoe Vremya,\" in an article on the proposed neutralisation of Manchuria which it publishes to-day, says that the communiqué of the telegraphic agency was so loosely worded that it has given rise to various false ideas. From the communiqué it might be supposed that the American Secretary of State, before dispatching his memorandum to the Powers, had already succeeded in securing a promise from the London Cabinet to support the American Government in their plans for the \"trade neutralisation\" of Northern Manchuria. As a matter of fact this was not the case, and could not be the case. On the 30th December, 1909 (the 12th January, 1910), there appeared in the columns of the \"Novoe Vremya\" the text of the Anglo-Russian Agreement of April 1899, by which Great Britain bound herself not to seek, on her own account or in the interests of British subjects or others, any railway concessions whatever to the north of the Great Wall of China. This agreement has not lost any of its force to-day, so that there can be no question of the London Cabinet giving any kind of promise in support of American proposals to acquire railway concessions of any kind in Northern Manchuria. \n\n\"Novoe Vremya\" states that it learns from unimpeachable sources that the British Government has never even thought of lending its authority to Mr. Knox's plans. England, in common with every other civilised Power, has no objection in principle to any proposal which aims ostensibly at removing causes of international friction. In the present instance, however, the London Cabinet has imposed as a condition of its participation in the Manchurian neutralisation scheme that the Powers most interested in the matter, i.e., Russia and Japan, should come to a preliminary agreement on the subject. In his aide-mémoire Mr. Knox apparently made no mention of this condition on the part of the British Government, the result of which has been that a conditional acceptance was converted into complete agreement. It stands to reason that serious statesmen proposing to the Powers an international plan of such vast importance cannot act in such a manner. It was possible, of course, that Mr. Knox did not regard his own proposal with seriousness. In that case it is regrettable that the Chief Adviser of the President of the United States did not postpone his jest to the 1st April, when, according to American ideas of political humour, it might perhaps have been justified. \n\n-- The \n\nThe \"Novoe Vremya\" goes on to say that in a previous article, devoted to a discussion of the American proposal, it explained that the motive of the American Government was to create new markets for American industry, but that the diplomatic methods now disclosed compel it to modify this explanation. A person of average or even less intelligence would understand that, sooner or later, Great Britain's true attitude to the plan for intervention in Russo-Japanese-Chinese affairs will be disclosed, and that then there will be only one of two possible conclusions: either that Mr. Knox is incapable of understanding the simplest diplomatic documents, or that he purposely Whichever of these resorts to perversion of their sense for some ulterior motive. conclusions prove the true one, either of them would prevent negotiations being begun between Mr. Knox and the diplomatists of Europe and Asia. In these circumstances it would be futile to consider an American proposal based, not on the well-known common-sense of America, but on--rather naïve diplomatic humour--a New Year's joke of rather bad taste. In a \n\nprevious article the \"Novoe Vremya\" pointed out the acceptability in principle of the alternative proposal of Mr. Knox respecting the construction by an international syndicate of a line from Chinchow to Aigun. The \"Novoe Vremya\" in their present article disclaims any change of principle, but says that it can only give practical consideration to the American proposal when on the American side there is a serious statesman and not a diplomatist of the school of Mr. Knox, who considers it permissible, in the most important international questions, to have recourse to playful omission of the most essential portions of diplomatic correspondence. The question of the construction in Manchuria of new railways \n\n[2581 s--3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 290, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Page 188\n\n.noidaeup ni asinoloD пworƆ\n\n5538/10.\n\nCO 288\n\n5486\n\nRECR Rra 23 FEB 10 FORLICK OPPre-\n\nasimolo) sailsneq of audit sidanoaserow areeqqø JI\n\ne sd blow ti bna,aboog done^t #imbs Vieert doldw\n\nsd blwoy JASM:TIƏvo✪ doneTI sat ti au of 9olvisa jae79\n\nnodeid edd ynisoqmi notatoeb aJi WATONJIW od beoubat\n\n.зnox noн Ja VIIxiosqas,Doqqidan.IJ ONTBɔ noqu seldub\n\n*\n\n-Te ed alvoo #1 t belg od bivoria swaldt galist\n\n-uger s to 9gødnevbs sne nevtg ed bluoda ew dedt begnSI\n\nTedald and aeview ridw\n\nsmodavo doneti edt to moital\n\n-X9 TOT ON NOH JA\n\nJnemqi dansïd to 988ɔ nt astðub\n\nqidarseja amea eft to snill \"yrous8004* NA MOri,siqma\n\nau of beautex Jnoaang ja at egetnybs BINT VILBYMOD\n\naлOH OF TеvuoorsV mori egsyov ons døde baworz und no\n\nJa no aromaeda to solvrea o Tot wol ood at anox\n\n+\n\n.9пld Vroe89508 14 8a bebruget ed of SJVOT\n\nGentlemen:-\n\nFebruary 19\n\n1610.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 15th.\n\ninstant respecting the application of the \"rench runar-\n\nal Tariff to tinned salmon from British Columbia, when\n\ntranshipped at Hongkong, I am directed by Secretary Sir\n\nF. Grey to inform you that this question has already\n\nbeen raised by Messrs. Timpson, Roberts and Company of\n\nLiverpool, and that it has been thoroughly examined.\n\nIt appears, however, that in view of the existing regu-\n\nlations in France no useful result would ensue from of-\n\nficial representations and Sir Edward Grey therefore\n\nhesitates to address the French Government on the sub-\n\nject.\n\n#TS SW\n\n(Derr312)\n\n.sqmoo bis JIH bertA\n\nMessrs. Alfred Holl and Company,\n\nIndia Buildings,\n\nWater Street,\n\nLiverpool.\n\nI am,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n(Signed)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "CO 329\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nPren REG 24 10 [B]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[February 10.]\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n[4811]\n\n(No. 59.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.\n\nForeign Office, February 10, 1910.\n\nI TOLD the United States Ambassador on the 7th instant that, while he had been absent, the Chinchow-Tsitsihar railway project had passed into a new phase. The proposal now was to build a railway from Chinchow to Aigun. I had found that the Russian Government considered that such a line would affect their interests in the north, just as the previous project would have affected Japanese interests in the south. The Russian Government said that if such a railway should pass into hostile hands their strategical position would be very much prejudiced, and they would be obliged to spend a great deal of money for defensive purposes in their own territory. I had been obliged to admit that the Russian interests in this respect were entitled to as much consideration as the Japanese interests, and I had therefore asked M. Pokrovsky to let me know his views. Meanwhile, I had suspended all action with regard to the line until I should receive his views and consider them. It seemed clear to me that China could not possibly carry out the proposal for this line without entering into discussion with Russia and Japan.\n\nThe Ambassador told me that Mr. Knox still adhered to his view that the internationalisation of all the railways in Manchuria would be the best solution of this and other difficulties.\n\nI said that we had agreed to this in principle when it was first mentioned to us, but at the same time we had advised that any project of this kind should be deferred. It now appeared that Japan and Russia would not be willing to internationalise the railways of which they had leases, seeing that the interests they had in these lines were the result of the expenditure of much blood and treasure on their part. I had not discussed the general proposal for internationalisation with Japan and Russia, but I understood that they had given their replies to the United States Government direct. I felt sure that, even if they agreed to internationalise new railways in Manchuria, they would wish to reserve those which they already leased and in which they were especially interested.\n\nThe Ambassador explained that, in Mr. Knox's view, if Russia and Japan retained control of the railways in which they were interested the policy of the \"open door\" was a dead letter, and this was a violation of the spirit of the Treaty of Portsmouth.\n\nI replied that it would certainly be a violation of the policy of the \"open door\" if Japan or Russia were to give preferential rates to Japanese or Russian traders on railways in Manchuria; but so long as they maintained equal rates for everyone, I thought the fact of their retaining leases which they had acquired before the making of the Portsmouth Treaty could hardly be regarded as inconsistent with the general policy of the \"open door.\"\n\nThe Ambassador seemed to be under the impression that Russia was still claiming jurisdiction over foreigners in territory 75 miles wide and some hundreds of miles long. In reply to an observation of mine that I thought their attitude had been modified, he expressed doubt as to this being the case.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2631 k-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428440, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[B]\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n14811]\n\nNo. I.\n\n363\n\n5654\n\n(February 10\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRecd FEB 10\n\n(No. 59.)\n\nSir,\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.\n\nForeign Office, February 10, 1910.\n\nI TOLD the United States Ambassador on the 7th instant that, while he had been absent, the Chinchow-Tsitsihar railway project had passed into a new phase. The proposal now was to build a railway from Chinchow to Aigun. I had found that the Russian Government considered that such a line would affect their interests in the north, just as the previous project would have affected Japanese interests in the south. The Russian Government said that if such a railway should pass into hostile hands their strategical position would be very much prejudiced, and they would be obliged to spend a great deal of money for defensive purposes in their own territory. I had been obliged to admit that the Russian interests in this respect were entitled to as much consideration as the Japanese interests, and I had therefore asked M. Isvolsky to let me know his views. Meanwhile, I had suspended all action with regard to the line until I should receive his views and consider them. It seemed clear to me that China could not possibly carry out the proposal for this line without entering into discussion with Russia and Japan.\n\nThe Ambassador told me that Mr. Knox still adhered to his view that the internationalisation of all the railways in Manchuria would be the best solution of this and other difficulties.\n\nI said that we had agreed to this in principle when it was first mentioned to us, but at the same time we had advised that any project of this kind should be deferred. It now appeared that Japan and Russia would not be willing to internationalise the railways of which they had leases, seeing that the interests they had in these lines were the result of the expenditure of much blood and treasure on their part. I had not discussed the general proposal for internationalisation with Japan and Russia, but I understood that they had given their replies to the United States Government direct. I felt sure that, even if they agreed to internationalise new railways in Manchuria, they would wish to reserve those which they already leased and in which they were especially interested.\n\nThe Ambassador explained that, in Mr. Knox's view, if Russia and Japan retained control of the railways in which they were interested the policy of the \"open door\" was a dead letter, and this was a violation of the spirit of the Treaty of Portsmouth.\n\nI replied that it would certainly be a violation of the policy of the \"open door\" if Japan or Russia were to give preferential rates to Japanese or Russian traders on railways in Manchuria; but so long as they maintained equal rates for everyone, I thought the fact of their retaining leases which they had acquired before the making of the Portsmouth Treaty could hardly be regarded as inconsistent with the general policy of the \"open door.\"\n\nThe Ambassador seemed to be under the impression that Russia was still claiming jurisdiction over foreigners in territory 75 miles wide and some hundreds of miles long. In reply to an observation of mine that I thought their attitude had been modified, he expressed doubt as to this being the case.\n\n[2631 k-1]\n\nI am,\n\n&c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428473, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "396\n\n2\n\nWe therefore venture (at what we would term the eleventh hour) to ask His Majesty's Government, instead of forcing the Chinese Government and the American Government to solicit this information from the Russian and Japanese Governments, to act as a friendly mediator in the matter, and to obtain on our behalf a definite statement from the Japanese and Russian Governments as to what is the moderate participation in this scheme that they desire, and to inform us accordingly, as we have reason to believe, provided this participation is a reasonable and businesslike one, and definitely described, that it will be granted.\n\nIn the event of the participation demanded by either or both Governments being clearly excessive and unreasonable, will His Majesty's Government use their best endeavours to support our American allies and ourselves with the Chinese Government?\n\nWe are, &c. (Pauling and Co., Limited),\n\nJ. M. SCOTT, Secretary.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n6486\n\n[B]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[6157]\n\n(No. 71.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce,\n\nSECTION 3.\n\n[February 16.]\n\nPAGE 4 MAR 10)\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, February 16, 1910.\n\nThe United States Ambassador told me yesterday that Mr. Knox was much surprised to hear that we had made a representation at Peking adverse to the Chinchow-Aigun Railway proposal, as he had understood that we were prepared to support it. Mr. Knox wished to know what was the explanation of this change of attitude on our part, and what our attitude would now be towards the project.\n\nI explained to the Ambassador in general terms what had passed, but asked him to call again when I had been able to look up the history of the whole project; and I told him that I would then give him a copy of the 1899 agreement with Russia, of which he had not previously heard.\n\nWhen the Ambassador came again to-day, I explained that we had originally expressed our pleasure at the co-operation of British and American financiers in a railway project to which in principle we were favourable. But we had stated that in view of Japanese interests we could not press this project at Peking until Japanese participation had been arranged. We had therefore enquired whether the United States Government would be favourable to Japanese participation. As a result, we had both recommended Japanese participation to the Chinese at Peking. Pending the settlement of this point, we ourselves were unable to do anything further, though the American Legation had continued to support the project, and had secured an edict in favour of it which had not been communicated to us by the Chinese.\n\nMeanwhile, the Russians had heard of the project and had been told that we had supported it. M. Isvolsky at once pointed out that the railway was intended to extend to the Russian frontier, and that it would raise serious strategical, as well as economic, questions for Russia. He had reproached us for not having told him about the matter before, and had said that we had broken the 1899 agreement between Great Britain and Russia by supporting the project. I had replied that, as a matter of fact, we had not supported the project at Peking, because we had been unable to do so until the settlement of the point as to Japanese participation. M. Isvolsky had then intimated that, as the proposed railway would in its final form affect Russian interests quite as much as Japanese interests, it would be only reasonable that we should say as much at Peking on behalf of Russia as we had already said on behalf of Japan. This had seemed to me to be reasonable, and I had warned the Chinese Government of the impossibility of ignoring Russian and Japanese interests and of arriving at a final settlement without consulting the Russian and Japanese Governments.\n\nAny misunderstanding at Washington must have arisen through my omitting to inform Mr. Whitelaw Reid here that we had actually made this representation at Peking, as well as of the position in which we were placed by the 1899 agreement with Russia. Had the point occurred to me, I would have informed him sooner, though I had already, on the 7th February, pointed out to him what our attitude was with regard to Russia.\n\nFurther reference to the papers has reminded me that we had instructed His Majesty's chargé d'affaires on the 5th instant to inform his American colleague of the warning to be given to the Chinese Government.\n\nAs to the 1899 agreement, I had told M. Isvolsky that it seemed to have lapsed when the Russians asked for participation in a railway in the Yang-tsze region. To this M. Isvolsky had replied that the Russian request for participation in a railway in which Great Britain was already participating and to which we were favourable was not so important a matter as the giving of our support to a project for a railway in the north that would actually touch the Russian frontier, a railway in which Russia was not participating and by which her interests might be damaged. There was some\n\n[2631 y--3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 580, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nclaimed is now confined to a mere question of engineering rights, absolute equality as regards finance and material having already been conceded.\n\nIn these circumstances I earnestly trust that the United States Government will see their way to accepting the point of view of His Majesty's Government in the matter, and I have no reason to doubt that their acquiescence would greatly facilitate an agreement between the four groups, which, in view of recent events in the Yang-tsze Valley, is daily becoming more urgent.\n\n[B]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[12286]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Bryce to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 11.)\n\n(No. 72. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nC. O.\n\n112) 50\n\n[April 11\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nTREST\n\n(REG. 28 Ark 10\n\nWashington, March 31, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that I had this morning an interview with the President of the United States, in the course of which the subject of the Manchurian railways was mentioned, and I took the opportunity of speaking to him in the sense of your telegram of the 26th instant. Though he said that the Secretary of State had kept him au courant of the negotiations that have been going on his knowledge did not seem to be complete, for he was under the impression that His Majesty's Govern- ment had in the first instance encouraged British financiers to take up the projected Chinchow-Aigun line, and had thereafter drawn back and refused their support. I told him that this was not the case, His Majesty's Government having never committed itself to any financiers regarding that line, and I explained to him that Messrs. Pauling had all through acted entirely on their own responsibility, His Majesty's Government neither supporting them nor interfering to hold them back. He said his wish was to see Manchuria become a sort of buffer country between Japan and Russia, its railways being internationalised, i.e., managed and policed in the general interest without preferential advantages to any Power in particular. Stating that while in principle His Majesty's Government saw much to recommend that view, they were at the same time obliged to have regard to the practical difficulties which arose from the positions and claims of Japan and Russia respectively. I described the general situation and the attitude Great Britain felt herself bound to assume in terms similar to those which you had used in your conversations with Mr. Whitelaw Reid, adverting to the reasons which made it necessary at present to take due note of the susceptibilities of Russia, and conveying to him that we had no selfish interest whatever in the matter, nor any wish except to prevent friction. So far as His Majesty's Government could co-operate with the United States without departing from their engagements they would gladly do so, and it was my hope that he would at any time, when any question might arise regarding the relations of our policy to that administration, frankly express his views to me in order that I might convey them to you. I need hardly observe that not only is it quite usual and regular here for the President to take up questions of foreign policy himself, but that he is by nature so much more frank and expansive than his Secretary of State, from whom it is difficult to extract anything whatever, that an exchange of views with him is far more likely to attain substantial results. It was his direct interposition that averted the tariff war between Canada and the United States which the tactlessness of the State Department had nearly brought about.\n\nThe President did not appear to me to have taken umbrage at the action of His Majesty's Government, though he may not have quite understood all the reasons for it, and in what little he said to me there was nothing of the querulousness which has, I find, been attributed to Mr. Knox, though, as the latter has never spoken to me at all on the subject of Manchuria, I do not know what his personal attitude may be.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.\n\n[2706 1-2]\n\n577", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428888, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "12\n\nEnclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from \"Shih Pao\" of April 7, 1910.\n\nMemorial by Chang Jên-Chün, Viceroy of Liang Kiang.\n\nOWING to the increasing density of the population of the northern quarter of Shanghae and the undesirability of making an agreement with the British company for the supply of drinking water, application was made in an earlier memorial for the provision of 50,000 taels by the Shang Pu and for authority for the taotai and gentry to raise a loan of an equal amount.\n\nThe taotai and gentry now write as follows:---\n\n\"After repeated consultations, we were unanimously of opinion that to connect with the water-mains would only be a makeshift and the best course would be to undertake the business ourselves. We engaged Mr. Engel, engineer of the inland waterworks, to make a survey along the side of the Woosung River, and he found that at the north end of the Kuangtung Mortuary the water was deep and clear. There is in that place an area of over 20 mou, where the works can be placed. It is proposed to make a modest beginning with one water tank, two filtering tanks, and one pure water tank; to buy from abroad two sets of pumping machinery with a capacity of 600,000 gallons per twenty-four hours; and also an electric lighting plant for 2,000 lamps for lighting roads and shops in Chapei. It is estimated that the cost of land and buildings will be 100,000 taels, and this, together with the 100,000 taels for laying pipes, makes a total of 200,000 taels. By unceasing work the water could be ready to be supplied after eight months. This scheme is in all respects preferable to making connection with the (Shanghae Waterworks Company's) pipes, and will bestow lasting benefit at the expense of a single exertion.\n\nAs regards the additional 100,000 taels required, we would ask the Shang Pu again to provide 50,000 taels from the sums at its disposal, while the taotai will again raise a loan of 50,000 taels, thus making 200,000 taels in all, at 7 per cent. per month interest. Within one year after the opening of the works shares may be issued for the purpose of repaying both the board's advance and the loan.\n\nIf the subscriptions for shares do not amount within the year to enough to repay both, the board's advance, together with the interest on it, must be first repaid in full. If there is still not enough, repayment must be made from the annual profits.\"\n\nAs an impure water supply is injurious to public health, and it is better that we should have our own waterworks than join on to the British company's system, I feel it my duty to memorialise the Throne, praying that the board may be commanded to make arrangements to allow the proposed loan at 7 per cent. per month interest, in order that it may be possible to begin work at once.\n\nI have communicated with the Wai-wu Pu, the Board of Commerce, and the Board of Finance.\n\nImperial Rescript.-Boards to be informed.\n\n13\n\ncounty (\"hsien\") of Paoshan, which has never been opened to international residence and trade.\n\nThese objections do not appear to the department to be well taken. As to the first, no boundaries agreed to for such a settlement can be regarded as fixed for all time. The chief commercial metropolis is probably destined to continue for many years to come the wonderful growth which has characterised it in the past, and due provision must be made for such growth. The treaties expressly provide that the extent of such ground to be assigned to foreign residents at the open ports shall not be limited, but shall be determined according to the need and convenience of the parties (British supplementary treaty of 1843, article 7; French treaty of 1858, article 10).\n\nThe second objection is equally inadmissible. Although Shanghae was one of the five ports opened by the American treaty of 1844, it was not the county (\"hsien \") of Shanghae that was opened, but the port, and the fact that the port is situated near the boundary of another county cannot prevent its growth in a natural way over such an artificial boundary. Neither does the extension of the settlement into an adjoining county make necessary the opening of the city of Paoshan to foreign residence, much less the opening of that whole county, neither is there any insuperable obstacle to the opening to such trade and residence of any unopened territory which may be needed for such purpose.\n\nIt is impossible for the department to assent to the position taken by one or two Americans that an extension of the settlement would violate the consistent policy of this Government in the maintenance of the territorial integrity of China. This Government was already committed to that policy in 1899, when the last extension was agreed to and failed to see them, as it does still, that such extension affected the territorial integrity of the Chinese Empire, since Chinese sovereignty over such territory was recognised.\n\nThis department is unable from the data at hand to determine how much territory should be included in the extension in order to conserve American interests, or the exact location thereof. You are instructed to make careful investigation on this point, and unless serious reasons present themselves to your mind for acting otherwise, you will support the request of the Shanghae municipal council for such extension as will seem to meet the requirements of the present situation.\n\nThe legation will be instructed to give the project similar support at Peking. The department relies on your discretion to avoid in your presentation of the case any unnecessary friction with the Chinese authorities.\n\nI am, &c. (For Mr. Knox),\n\nI. WILSON.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Knox to Mr. Wilder.\n\nMarch 1, 1910.\n\nI HAVE to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 24th December, 1909, enclosing copy of the report of the annual meeting of the American Association of China held at Shanghae on the 16th December, 1909, when resolutions were adopted favouring the extension of the international settlement at that port.\n\nIt appears from this report that the American community of Shanghae is all but unanimous in support of the proposed extension, and that the principal objections of the Chinese Government are two :-\n\n1. That the boundary of the settlement as determined in 1899 was fixed for all time; and\n\n2. That the proposed extension will carry the settlement into the neighbouring\n\n227", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428892, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 231\n\nо\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[20107]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n19141 [June 6.]\n\nSECTION 23 JUN 10\n\n(No. 157.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 6.)\n\nPeking, May 18, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Harbin respecting the Russo-Japanese Society which has been recently established in that town. I do not transmit the enclosures to Mr. Sly's despatch, as they are lengthy and of no particular interest, and the principal points are contained in his covering despatch. Mr. Sly goes fully into the aims, objects, nature, and probable influence of this society. It has been formed to develop and improve commercial relations between Russia and Japan and to disseminate a knowledge of the language of each country among the subjects of the other. It will probably not be easy in the future for the association to adhere strictly to its original programme, which is likely to assume a political aspect as time goes on, and the fear has already been expressed in the local Russian press that the association will serve rather to increase Japan's influence in Northern Manchuria than to develop Russia's commercial relations with Japan.\n\nBut\n\nI should not have troubled you with this lengthy despatch were it not that the establishment of this society appeared to me indicative of a desire to improve the relations between the authorities of the two countries in Manchuria.\n\nFor many weeks there have been rumours current here as to negotiations proceeding between the Russian and Japanese Governments for the conclusion of a convention in regard to their present position and future policy in Manchuria. The papers have published more or less definite statements as to the scope and object of these negotiations, and a few days ago a short résumé of a letter from the St. Petersburgh correspondent of the \"Times\" was telegraphed out by Reuter to the effect that Russia and Japan have realised the expediency of a closer understanding in political and economic affairs and recognised that their interests would be strengthened by a tendency towards rapprochement.\n\nAt present there is nothing but rumour to go on, but I learn that the Chinese Government are nervous as to the possible results of any such rapprochement between the two former rivals in Manchuria.\n\nMy Japanese and Russian colleagues are unable to give me any information, in fact, I believe, they have none to give, but Mr. Ijuin says that he has no doubt that some negotiations of the nature indicated are proceeding, and that his Government would inform His Majesty's Government as soon as they assumed any definite shape. Mr. Ijuin is of opinion that any rapprochement between Russia and Japan must be ascribed to the unreasonable attitude of the American Government in regard to Manchuria, and more especially to the Knox railway neutralisation scheme, the net results of which, in the opinion of most of my colleagues, have been to show up American diplomacy in rather a ridiculous light, and to prove to Russia and Japan that they have certain common interests in Manchuria, e.g., the administration of their respective railway zones, and that it will be to their mutual advantage to show a united front in regard to such questions vis-à-vis the other Powers.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul Sly to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nHarbin, May 11, 1910.\n\nI HAD the honour in my despatch No. 9 of the 30th ultimo to refer to the Russo-Japanese society recently established in Harbin and to state that I hoped to be able to furnish you with additional information in regard thereto in a few days.\n\n[2788 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nC O\n\n19141\n\nBeck [June 9 JUN 10\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n237\n\n[19448]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.**\n\n(No. 180.) Sir,\n\nForeign Office, June 9, 1910.\n\nI HAVE received your Excellency's despatch No. 124 of the 21st ultimo, reporting a conversation which you had that day with the Secretary of State, respecting the situation in China, more especially in regard to the request of the Chinese Government for raising the duties at the ports in return for the abolition of li-kin.\n\nI observe with some surprise that Mr. Knox should entertain the opinion that His Majesty's Government do not appear to share the views of the United States Government as to the necessity for strengthening the control of the central Government in China. They are, on the contrary, firmly convinced of the imperative necessity of rendering the control exercised from Peking over the provinces more effective, and they are prepared to consider in a most sympathetic manner any scheme for promoting this end.\n\nThe proposal to abolish li-kin in return for an increase of the import tariff did not, however, appear to His Majesty's Government to be specially calculated to contribute to the aim in view, but they expressed themselves ready to join in any discussion which might facilitate an agreement about the increase of customs dues with satisfactory guarantees.\n\nThe objections entertained by His Majesty's Government to this particular suggestion are enumerated at some length in my note to the United States chargé d'affaires of the 14th January last, copy of which is enclosed for convenience of reference, and I should be glad if your Excellency would, when a suitable opportunity occurs, bring the considerations therein stated verbally to the notice of Mr. Knox, should you think advisable, and at the same time point out to him that His Majesty's Government are in entire accordance with the United States Government in regard to the general policy of strengthening the central Government.\n\n[2788 i-1]\n\n* To United States chargé d'affaires, January 14, 1910.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429280, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[29461]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n16\n\nAugust 1913\n\nSECTION 3,5\n\nRegd. & Sep. 10,\n\n(No. 246.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received August 15.)\n\nPeking, July 27, 1913.\n\nI HAVE already informed you by my telegram No. 120 of the 13th instant of the official communication of the Russo-Japanese Convention to the Chinese Government on the 11th instant.\n\nM. Stchékine, the Russian chargé d'affaires, informed me that the members of the Foreign Board appeared to be much preoccupied as to the ulterior meaning of the convention. He delivered a reassuring message as to the real purpose and scope of the agreement, which, from what he tells me, must have been very similar in tenor to the official explanatory statement published in the press, together with the text of the convention. As he was leaving the Wai-wu Pu one of the councillors came out with him, and asked him whether it was true that the new agreement between Russia and Japan was the direct result of the Knox proposal for the neutralisation of the railways in Manchuria, but M. Stchékine was able to reply that he had no reason to believe that such was the case. The councillor then referred to the rumours in the press as to the existence of secret clauses, but M. Stchékine replied that he had no information on the subject at all.\n\nM. Ijuin was received immediately afterwards, and delivered a similar reassuring message, but added the further explanation that it was the false and disturbing rumours which had from time to time been prevalent as to the probability of a renewal of hostilities between Japan and Russia in the Far East that had convinced the two Governments that they should by some overt act prove the baselessness of such reports, which were a menace to the peaceful development not only of their own interests, but also of those of China and other foreign Powers in Manchuria. M. Ijuin told me that the Wai-wu Pu asked him no questions, though they appeared apprehensive, and they took particular objection to the words in article 3: \"In case any event arise of a nature to menace the status quo.\"\n\n55\n\nM. Ijuin, however, was able to explain that these words were not especially directed against any action that China, or, for the matter of that, any other particular Power, might take in Manchuria.\n\nIt was, as usual, very difficult at first to ascertain what the views of the Chinese Government were in regard to the convention. The matter was discussed at the Grand Council, and the official Chinese view was embodied in a note sent to all the legations, copy of which I have the honour to enclose herewith. The Chinese Government take note of the assurances of Russia and Japan, and therefore regard the new convention as a mere reaffirmation of the recognition of the sovereignty of China in Manchuria, and of the principle of the \"open door.\" They will therefore merely continue to act in accordance with the principles of the Treaty of Portsmouth and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1905. In fact, the Chinese Government try to make out that the new agreement has in no way affected the political situation in Manchuria.\n\nThe Grand Secretary, Na Tung, who, it must be remembered, is strongly pro-Japanese, in talking of the convention said, that at first sight, there was evidently nothing to object to in its terms, as it was in effect a mere confirmation of the convention of 1907. To his mind it was too early to pronounce an opinion, and they must wait and see how the parties to it interpreted it, and put it into practice, as it might manifestly be applied in such a manner as to have a seriously prejudicial effect on China's sovereign rights in Manchuria. In his Excellency's opinion, the agreement was the direct outcome of the Knox proposal, which he qualified as not only ill-timed, but senseless, and he evidently is not at present best pleased with the results of American policy in China. His Excellency said that one of the results of the new convention had been that the Prince Regent had given orders that a more conciliatory attitude should be adopted towards Russia in regard to all pending questions.\n\n[2862 p-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429281, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "17\n\n2\n\nThere are signs of a guilty conscience both on the part of the American Government and of the American press. A few days after the communication of the convention, the American Minister, who, two days previously, had not been able to come up to Peking from Pei Tai Ho about the identic notes on the subject of the Hukuang Railway Loan, suddenly appeared at the Wai-wu Pu, under instructions from his Government, to communicate a message to the effect that the United States Government had carefully examined the convention, and saw nothing in it inimical to China. I understand that this explanation caused more amusement than satisfaction at the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nThe extracts from the American press which have been telegraphed out here appear to be all in the same strain, striving to minimise the effect of the new convention, and to show that there is nothing in its terms prejudicial to the rights of China in Manchuria, or the principle of the open door, while some state that they have ample proof that Mr. Knox's proposal for the neutralisation of the Manchurian railways did not lead to the convention.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a résumé prepared by Mr. Ramsay, third secretary in His Majesty's Legation, of the comments published in the Chinese press, native and foreign, on the subject of the new convention.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nWai-wu Pu to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nJuly 21, 1910. I HAVE the honour to inform you that the Board have carefully perused the new Russo-Japanese Convention, concluded on the 4th July, 1910, copies of which were recently handed in personally to the Board by the Japanese Minister and the Russian chargé d'affaires.\n\nI fully realise that since the convention expressly states that each of the High Contracting Parties engages to respect the treaties, conventions, and arrangements concluded between China and Japan, China and Russia, and between Japan and Russia, it therefore accords with and confirms the Treaty of Peace between Russia and Japan of 1905, and the treaty concluded also in 1905 between China and Japan relating to matters in Manchuria. By the Portsmouth Treaty, the sovereignty of China in Manchuria was recognised, as well as the doctrine of equal opportunity for all nations, and, further, the two Powers agreed to assist China in any measures which she might take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria. Again, in the China-Japan Treaty of 1905, it was decided to open Manchuria.\n\nThe Imperial Government will therefore, in the future, act in accordance with the principles declared in the Russo-Japanese Treaty of Peace, and execute the provisions of the treaty and agreement with Japan, maintaining with increased efforts such matters as measures arising from the exercise of China's rights of sovereignty, the principle of equal opportunity, and the development of the commercial and industrial prosperity of the three Manchurian provinces, with a view to the promotion of the best interests of all parties.\n\nNotes in this sense have been addressed to the Japanese Minister and the Russian chargé d'affaires, and I have the honour therefore to communicate this note to your Excellency for the information of His Majesty's Government.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nPRINCE CH'ING.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nRésumé by Mr. Ramsay of Comments published in the Chinese Press respecting the Russo-Japanese Convention.\n\nTHE editorial opinions of the leading papers in Europe, America, and Japan have been freely reproduced, and conspicuous among them is the assertion of the \"Tägliche Rundschau,\" that the agreement originated with British diplomatists, in order to create a quadruple alliance against Germany and America in the East. But while most of the foreign press in China seize the opportunity to air their views on Far Eastern politics in general, and the agreement in particular, it is a curious fact that native papers in Peking, and in many other parts, have maintained an attitude of reticence, which can only be attributed to prudent measures of precaution taken by the Government to prevent the dissemination of inflammatory material among the ignorant masses.\n\nAs far as the native press indulges in comment, it is to lament the loss of China's sovereign rights in Manchuria. A leading article in the \"Peiching Jih Pao,\" of the 17th July, points out that it was to the interest of Japan and Russia to prevent America securing political interests in Manchuria. Japan was the prime mover, and, having by her close relationship in race and language a thorough grasp of conditions in China, was bent on increasing her power at China's expense. This could only be done by alliance with a European Power. The article finally states that Eastern Asia is Japanese and not Chinese. In a later number, the same paper alleges that secret clauses exist embracing all the provinces of China north of the Yellow River.\n\nThe \"Chung Wai Jih Pao,\" of the 8th July, and the \"Chung Kuo Pao,\" of the 16th July, state that the agreement is the answer to the Knox proposal, and is aimed at the Chinchow-Aigun Railway project. The latter traces the Manchurian difficulty back to the Sino-Japanese war, when Russia was allowed to get a footing in Manchuria, and states that the exclusion of third parties is an infringement of China's sovereign rights, the recovery of which in Manchuria is now beyond hope.\n\nIf absence of comment characterises the attitude of many of the native Peking papers and the provinces, the \"Peking Daily News\" and the Shanghai weekly, \"National Review,\" both Chinese owned, and printed in English, are troubled with no such scruples. These publications may be said to reflect the ambitions of \"Young China,\" and they have not hesitated to give full vent on this occasion to the vapourings of Chauvinistic patriotism, enlarging on the violation of China's sovereign rights, and the many sins of the various Powers in their past dealings with China. The \"Peking Daily News,\" whose foreign policy favours America, and is anti-British, regards the convention as a counter-move to the Knox proposal, which, it affirms, would have checked the monopolising tendency of Russo-Japanese ambition, and enforced the policy of the \"open door,\" and equal opportunity. China is exhorted to demand an explanation from the contracting parties, and take action to secure better respect for her sovereign rights in Manchuria. In the opinion of the \"Peking Daily News,\" the early results of the agreement will affect China as regards extra-territorial claims in Manchuria and the Sungari and Amur River navigation questions. In this respect, the assurances of the two Powers are not to be trusted. After quoting treaties in which Japan and Russia recognise China's sovereign rights in Manchuria, it contrasts the action of those Powers in not consulting China before concluding the agreement, with their attitude a few months ago, when China, in the exercise of her rights, granted a concession for the construction of the Chinchow-Aigun Railway, only to be informed by the same two Powers that she was not at liberty to make this contract without previously consulting them.\n\nThe \"National Review,\" a well-edited weekly periodical, had a cartoon representing a Cossack and a Japanese soldier carving in two the Manchurian piece of a toy map of China, regardless of the latter's meek claim of ownership, and published two violently patriotic articles, entitled, \"The Great Betrayal\" and \"Robbery under Arms.\" The first article points out how Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany have all, in one way or another, pledged themselves to the defence of the integrity of China, but with the conclusion of the present agreement, the utter worthlessness of these guarantees is demonstrated. Faith in the United States was shaken by the signature of the Treaty of Portsmouth, when the solemn pledge of Corean independence was virtually disregarded; faith in Great Britain has been undermined by the hopeless incapacity which she has shown to act for herself since the entanglement with Japan. The history of the Japanese absorption of Corea is being repeated, and foreigners will soon be deprived of exterritorial status in Manchuria. The article terminates by declaring that it finally bars, bolts, and bars the door in Manchuria, not only to the nations of the West, but to China.\n\nThe article entitled, \"Robbery under Arms,\" is similar in tone, and proceeds to show by various instances how neither Russia nor Japan have refrained from violating China's integrity. The \"National Review\" surmises that the important part of the agreement deals with Mongolia, and though it is being kept secret for the present, it ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "18\n\n4\n\nwill appear after a decent interval, and Russia will seize the Ili region to correspond with Japan's Corea.\n\nAs would be expected, the foreign-owned papers, printed in English, are more moderate in tone. The \"Shanghai Times,\" an anti-British paper, edited by an ex-American missionary, says that the only impelling motive for the agreement has been the importance of the control of Manchuria as the chief factor in the control of China, and regards it as full of significance for China.\n\nThe \"North China Daily News,\" the most reliable and influential English journal in China, also attributes the Russo-Japanese rapprochement largely to the inauguration of a forward policy on the part of the United States, and in a lesser degree to the American protest against the status of Russia at Harbin, combined with Mr. Knox's proposal. It discredits the rumoured existence of secret clauses, and says its immediate effect is to give Japan a free hand to carry out the incorporation of Corea, and adds that no diplomatic language can obscure the fact that Manchuria is to all intents and purposes lost to China. If Japan is relieved of anxiety, and an unproductive increase of her financial burdens, even though her interests clash with those of the United States, it is also true that the Russian Government will be free to direct their attention to Russia's position in Europe. For the rest of the world, the advantages would seem confined to the new guarantee of peace. The same paper points out that while events have been taking place which have made the loss of Manchuria a matter of fact, if not of name, China would seem not only to have been blind to the gradual filching of her authority, but to have been doing her utmost to estrange those who might have helped her to retrieve her position, and declare that if the Peking Government had contrived not to alienate the sympathy of every foreign Power, China might have been able to rely on the kindly offices of one country or another at this juncture.\n\nOf all the Shanghai foreign press, the \"Shanghai Mercury\" alone takes an optimistic view of the preservation by Japan and Russia of the open door in Manchuria. This is accounted for by the pro-Japanese leanings of the paper. The same paper expresses the opinion that the agreement will limit, and not increase, the friction between Japan and America, and professes to see a chance of its bringing the Far Eastern policies of Great Britain and the United States more into line.\n\n0\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[30081]\n\n(No. 249.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1,\n\nсо 2/913\n\n[August 18\n\nR8rp 10. SECTION 3,-\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey. -~(Received August 18.)\n\nPeking, July 29, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 234* of the 19th instant, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a further despatch which I have received from His Majesty's consul at Harbin on the subject of the payment of municipal taxes at that town by citizens of the United States.\n\n(No. 18.) Sir,\n\nI am, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Sly to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 14, Confidential, of the 10th instant, I have the honour to report that my American colleague is now in receipt of definite instructions in regard to the payment of municipal taxes in Harbin by citizens of the United States.\n\nHarbin, July 22, 1910.\n\nThe American Government, being of opinion that a satisfactory settlement of the municipal question at Harbin will not be long delayed, has agreed—provisionally and without prejudice to subsequent regulations—to the payment through the American Consulate by citizens of the United States of a proper proportion of the taxes levied on account of police, roads, lighting, and sanitation. A communication to this effect has been addressed by Mr. Greene to the Russian consul-general.\n\nI gathered from my American colleague that the United States Government, having now determined to pursue a more conciliatory policy towards the Russian authorities on this matter, and being desirous of coming to an understanding with the Russian Government in regard thereto, Mr. Rockhill, the American Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, will return to his post armed with the instructions necessary to enable him to discuss the question at the Russian capital.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. E. SLY.\n\n* Not yet received.\n\n[2662 s-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "151\n\n! \n\n10\n\nbroad idea of the lines upon which the administration is conducted. It remains to consider the position now occupied by foreigners in the municipality, and the possibility of devising some scheme by means of which the present anomalous situation may be ameliorated or rectified.\n\nAt the present moment, Chinese and Japanese residents are paying taxes-- British, French, American, and German subjects are not, with the sole exception of one German firm, Messrs. Valdeker and Peppel. The attitude of foreigners towards the municipal administration has of late received some attention in the local press, and was the subject of a somewhat protracted discussion at a meeting of the assembly of delegates held on the 10th May last. I append, in translation, copy of a report of this meeting and of articles appearing in the \"Nova Zizn\" of the 27th April, and in the \"Harbinski Viestnik\" of the following day, and of the 10th May (Annexes 7-10). It is possible that the discussion held at the meeting of delegates and the three press articles, were all partly inspired; but it is to be remarked that--speaking generally--though there is some exaggeration, a strong sense of injustice goes hand in hand with a lack of full appreciation or clear understanding of the political considerations which are mainly responsible for the state of affairs now existing. These and other important factors apart, few, I think, will be found to hold that, as a matter of principle, it is either just or proper for a small portion of the community to bear no part of the municipal burden whilst sharing largely in the benefits provided at the expense of the remainder. The position, it has long since been recognised, is one of no little difficulty, and a solution has yet to be found. There are various conflicting interests, and some observations thereon will not be out of place.\n\nRussian Interests.---The plan of the railway area which is annexed to this report will show more clearly than any written description the extent of the country over which the Russians hold sway. Harbin is no ordinary treaty port. The new town and Pristan make together a Russian town of very considerable extent, and, from the point of view of Russia at least, it is intelligible that the proposal to internationalise a place of this nature--which owes its being to Russian initiative and a lavish expenditure of Russian money--is not regarded with favour. It is not easy to think that the Russians, if they can possibly avoid it, will be willing to forego in their entirety the special privileges to which they consider that they are justly entitled.\n\nChinese Interests.--By the May agreement of last year the Chinese Government sought to establish its claim to the recognition of Chinese sovereignty over the railway area. No steps have, as previously stated, been taken towards the elaboration of the detailed regulations contemplated by this agreement, and the agreement itself is (if my Russian colleague is to be believed) regarded by his legation as already lapsed. It would, at all events, not appear that the agreement has had any practical effect locally beyond the appointment of the three representatives of the Chinese chamber of commerce to assist in the municipal administration.\n\nA few words as to the meaning and effect of China's \"sovereign rights,\" with particular reference to the matter now in point, may be permitted. The general purpose of the assertion of these rights, if I may be allowed to express my own opinion, is one and one only: it is to withdraw and curtail to the greatest possible extent the privileges accorded to foreigners under treaty, and to use every effort to withhold from them the grant of further concessions. Into the rights and wrongs of this policy it would be out of place here to enter, but it may be interesting to adduce a few instances to show the manner in which Chinese amour-propre can in this matter be satisfied. The system under which foreigners ordinarily acquire land in China is one of perpetual lease; this satisfies the fiction that the soil of China is the Emperor's, and cannot be alienated by sale to a foreigner. In the agreement concluded between Japan and China for the working by the former of the Fushun and Yentai coal mines China's sovereign rights\" are considered adequately safeguarded by the payment of a tax on the output of coal, and the same may be said of the agreement made with Russia for the development by her of coal mines lying along the Chinese Eastern Railway, copy of which was sent to you in Mr. Willis's despatch No. 24 of the 7th March, 1908. The last clause in this agreement is particularly noticeable, since it denies the Chinese police the right of entry, except under Russian escort, within the limits of the mining properties. Coming now to the case of Harbin, the Chinese Government protests against the interpretation put by Russia upon article 6 of the Chinese Eastern Railway Agreement of 1896, and maintains that it was never its intention to forego its administrative rights within the railway areas. I would venture\n\n* Not printed.\n\n11\n\non this point to invite a reference to articles 2 and 5 of the agreement for the purchase of land in Heilungchiang by the railway company, copy of which was forwarded to you in the acting consul-general at Mukden's Confidential despatch No. 23 of the 7th March, 1908. Article 2 states that the land will be administered in accordance with the original agreement for the construction of the railway. Article 5 provides that at time of demarcation of the railway settlements a piece of ground in the vicinity of the railway station and commercially convenient shall be set aside for the use of Chinese merchants, such land to be administered by Chinese officials and merchants. The question suggests itself why, if China possesses the right of administration within the railway areas, is it necessary to establish special reservations of land of the nature and under the conditions described?\n\nFrom the consideration of China's sovereign rights in so far as they affect the railway areas at Harbin and other places, it is but a step to an appreciation of her other action in declaring in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1905 that Harbin would be opened by China herself as a place of international trade and residence. As stated\n\nin my despatch No. 9 of the 30th April on the subject of the negotiations in connection with the Sungari regulations, on the one hand, the Chinese authorities deny that Fu-chia Tien, the Chinese town in the vicinity of the railway area and the only populated quarter in which Chinese authority does reign supreme, is part of the open port. On the other, they contest the rights claimed by Russia in the town of New Harbin; the official centre, Pristan, the commercial quarter and other places which together form the foreign or railway area comprehensively called Harbin. To the question \"What or where is the open port of Harbin?\" nobody can give even a passably satisfactory answer.\n\nForeign Interests.--It is well known that the American Government and its agents on the spot were foremost in contesting the special position and rights which Russia has claimed in Harbin. I have, however, been led to believe from informal conversations with my American colleague that his Government might be prepared to recede from the strongly antagonistic attitude hitherto adopted, and recent issues of the local Russian newspapers published a telegram dated Washington, the 10th June, to the effect that Mr. Secretary Knox had informed the Russian Ambassador that the United States' consul in Harbin had received instructions that Americans should pay taxes on equal terms with Russians and Chinese. My American colleague has not, he informs me, received any instructions to that effect, but he seems to think that the report is not without foundation. According, also, to information received from another and confidential source, the railway administration has, in fact, received a telegram from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs stating that the American Government has agreed to the temporary payment of taxes by American subjects pending a final settlement of the whole question. As far as I can gather, the German authorities favour a scheme of internationalisation; there are no French or Austrian consuls resident in Harbin, but the Austrian attitude would appear, from such information as it is possible to obtain locally, to be somewhat indecisive. Thus, there is reason to think that some of their subjects, such as restaurant keepers, cannot evade the payment of taxes, even if they would. As regards the Japanese, it may be taken for granted that they will not oppose the Russians. Sir John Jordan, in his despatch to the Foreign Office No. 454 of the 8th December last, stated that the Japanese had always encouraged the Russians in their opposition to any compromise on the question of the status of the railway settlements, and had viewed the agreement of May last with little favour. Excluding the Japanese, it is not improbable that in several instances the authorities concerned are waiting upon events. It remains to consider British interests. His Majesty's Minister, in his despatch to the Foreign Office\n\nNo. 461, Confidential, of the 16th December last, suggested that if, as Mr. Willis stated in his despatch No. 60 of the 29th November, 1909, British subjects were willing to accept the Russian municipal regulations provided they could obtain a guarantee that they would be fairly taxed and not subjected to annoyance at the hands of the Russian police, it might be better to obtain safeguards on these points than risk the conclusion of an understanding between Russia and Japan on the lines described earlier in his despatch. Conversations which I have had with representative British firms in Harbin confirm Mr. Willis's statement that they would not object to paying taxes of an equitable and proper nature, and, as regards their being subjected to annoyance at the hands of the Russian police, the possibility of such an occurrence is, even now, not great. The principle of exterritoriality, as far as foreign subjects who have their own representatives in Harbin are concerned, is at the present moment recognised by the Russian authorities. There are, however, certain features\n\n[2893 e--1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429516, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\n# OPIUM.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n32219\n\nRECE (October 5) 1917 10.\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n[36069]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.(Received October 5.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, October 4, 1910.\n\nI duly communicated to my Government the substance of your note of the 17th September last with regard to the proposed International Opium Conference, and I have now the honour to inform you that my Government is highly gratified at the acceptance by the British Government of the proposal of the United States for an International Opium Conference to be held at The Hague,\n\nTo avoid unnecessary delay in the meeting of the conference, the Netherlands Government will immediately be informed of the British Government's proposal, that before the meeting of the conference there shall have first been made the necessary preliminary studies as to the trade conditions and manufacture of morphine and cocaine in the interested countries, and their preparedness to impose severe restrictions on such manufacture and trade.\n\nThe question of restricting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphine was thoroughly discussed in the Shanghai commission, and the delegates thereto united in urging upon their Governments that it is highly important that drastic measures should be taken to control the manufacture, sale, and use of this derivative of opium and such other derivatives of the drug as may appear on scientific enquiry to be liable to similar abuse and productive of like ill-effects. This conclusion was embodied in Resolution 5 of the Shanghai commission, which, prepared by the British delegation, is as follows:\n\n\"That the International Opium Commission finds that the unrestricted manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphine already constitute a grave danger, and that the morphine habit shows signs of spreading; the International Opium Commission, therefore, desires to urge strongly on all Governments that it is highly important that drastic measures should be taken by each Government in its own territories and possessions to control the manufacture, sale, and distribution of this drug, and also of such other derivatives of opium as may appear on scientific enquiry to be liable to similar abuse and productive of like ill-effects.\"\n\nThe question of the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cocaine was not officially considered by the Shanghai commission, but there were many informal discussions which tended to show that the abuse of this drug had begun to make headway in the Far East as well as in the United States and Canada. Therefore, it seems to the Government of the United States that Resolution 5 indicates a willingness on the part of the interested Governments to include cocaine in the category of menacing drugs, and that a cordial co-operation of the Powers may be secured to place it under the same drastic restrictions that are needed in the case of morphine.\n\nThe abuse of cocaine is widespread in the United States, and my Government is highly pleased that His Majesty's Government should have taken the initiative in proposing that the question be brought to the attention of the Governments which are to participate in the Opium Conference.\n\nThe United States has already completed its examination of the morphine and cocaine questions, reports on these subjects being contained in the general opium report, a copy of which was forwarded to you with my note of the 8th August last. In conformity with the ascertained conditions in the United States and its possessions legislation has been drafted, which, it is hoped, when enacted by congress, will bring under effective control both the foreign and domestic traffic in these drugs.\n\nMy Government has made note of your reservations in regard to items numbered (H), (L), (M), and (N) of the tentative programme, which was contained in Mr. Knox's circular note of the 1st September, 1909, that especially they would exclude from discussion your arrangements with China in regard to the ten-year agreement for the progressive restriction of opium and opium production, as well as\n\n[2957 e-1]\n\nPage 252\n\n330PM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429690, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "426\n\nReign Office\n\n1910\n\nBr No\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n...\n\nBr\n\nwits to for bearet 19 se\n\n6,655) Wt.21,659-1, 40,000.\n\n1109. A&E.W.\n\next subsequent Paper.\n\n$7666\n\nthoug\n\nC\n\n36747\n\nAffairs of China Prmits of ores.\n\nThe Com\n\nA. AJ Harding\n\nNov 3 $2 and\n\nNov. 17 51\n\nSenate.\n\n& Dais\n\nver.\n\nNov 12 $2\n\nlor agreement\n\nbe bother\n\nRec\n\n36747\n\nBras L SFC 10\n\n§ Chinsic\n\nmost\n\nint Casting\n\nDetails o\n\nDe new\n\nmight\n\nalso\n\nNov. 22 (interview with Mr.\n\nuutin Knox) had better be omitted.\n\n'L' YEAD\n\nAr\n\nnon The prints\n\nO Derric\n\n?\n\nsent to HIT.\n\nsend prints\n\n10\n\nail 3470/12 1074 9/20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Then as regards the scheme for internationalising the railways in Manchuria, Mr. Knox spoke strongly as to the breach of confidence on the part of Russia in publishing his communication, which was a purely confidential enquiry, the untimely publication of which had put him in a disagreeable position.\n\nThough he spoke as to England without bitterness, the wounded feelings were evidently not yet quite healed, and I thought it best to let him state his case and avoid argument. So, without contradicting him, I said that your policy was dictated in theory, not solely by a loyal desire to preserve the peace so recently established. No doubt, Mr. Knox was right, and Japan and Russia had no more right to dictate China's policy in Manchuria than had any other country, but we were dealing not only with documents but with human feelings. Manchuria had been the scene of a great war, and might be again. Russia and Japan were watching each other like cat and dog. The passions aroused by the war had not yet had time to subside. Countries—more especially defeated Russia—were excited, suspicious, nervous. The ink of the Portsmouth Treaty was hardly yet dry, and you felt that the only policy was to give that treaty time to do its beneficial work undisturbed. The \"door\" was of more importance to us than to America, and the wisest policy at this moment was to avoid any action which might cause combinations to arise which would make it more difficult to keep it open.\n\n\"One has a right to expect,\" broke in Mr. Knox, \"that one is dealing with sensible men, and not with a lot of over-excited children. And in the meanwhile America and England are to be forbidden to invest their capital in Manchuria, and China is to be forbidden to develop her territory. You will see that things will eventually work out on the lines of my policy, and the rejected stone will become the corner-stone.\"\n\n\"No doubt,\" I replied, \"it often happens that what has been rejected in times of excitement may later on be quietly accepted; but for the present we must take human nature into consideration, and time must be given for passions to cool down.\"\n\nWhat, I think, rankled in his mind as much as anything was reserved to the end. \"Look here, Mr. Innes!\" he exclaimed, \"I have not only carefully refrained from giving to the press any statement of the case, I have prevented any such statement from being made, simply to avoid embittering our relations, and the only gratitude I have received is that the inspired English magazines have published mendacious articles directed against me, and showing my policy in a false and offensive light.\"\n\nI said that I did not think we had any inspired magazines, and asked to which he referred. He mentioned some articles written by Dillon.\n\nI had lately read a mischief-making article in the \"Far Eastern Review\" by a certain Millard, a journalist, publishing a quantity of diplomatic correspondence on the question of the Manchurian and the Hupeh loans, and unmasking with their aid the base designs of England, Russia, France, and Japan against America. I mentioned this and other similar writings of the same author, and asked if he had inspired them. Of course he answered that he had not, and I replied that you and the Foreign Office had just as little inspired the articles of Dillon. He had been assured, he said, that they were inspired, and I emphatically assured him that he had been misled.\n\nThe opportunity to unburden his mind did Mr. Knox good. He expressed his earnest desire to work with His Majesty's Government, and we parted with mutual regrets that distance made it often necessary to deal by correspondence with delicate questions when, if the two Ministers could only come together in friendly conversation, all misunderstanding could be dissipated.\n\n\"Yes,\" he said sadly, \"I feel sure that with fifteen minutes' conversation with Sir Edward Grey I could have changed his view.\"\n\nThe great difficulty with Mr. Knox is that he is too much of a lawyer, and too little of a student of man. To him a treaty is a contract, diplomacy is litigation, and the countries interested are parties to a suit. He does not realise the effect of his acts, while being impressionable and impulsive personal contact is more important with him than with many men, and unless he surrounds himself with better advisers than he has hitherto had, correspondence will always entail the risk of misunderstanding. But he has had a lesson he will not forget, and of his sincerity and friendly feeling I have no doubt.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. MITCHELL INNES.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nPage 37\n\nPage 2\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREG 1 DEC 10\n\n[November 22.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n[42427]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.—Received November 22.)\n\n(No. 438.) Sir,\n\nParis, November 21, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 103 of the 18th instant, in regard to the Chinese loan of 10,000,000l, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a note verbale from the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which the hope is expressed that His Majesty's Government will take into further consideration the proposal made by his Excellency that the four legations concerned at Peking should concert to take action with the view of obtaining the joint signature of the loan. M. Pichon points out, in support of his proposal, that it would be a mistake to allow one Power to gain alone the moral advantage of signing the loan, more especially because America, who cannot subscribe the loan herself, would promote her own policy with the money of the European market. America, moreover, is hardly fitted to carry through negotiations successfully which will dispossess her of her preponderant position. M. Pichon also considers that there are serious objections to allow America to negotiate alone the conditions of the loan, a part of the proceeds of which may be devoted to Manchuria in a manner not agreeable to Russia and Japan.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nFRANCIS BERTIE.\n\nNote verbale communicated to Sir F. Bertie by M. Pichon.\n\nPAR une note en date du 18 novembre, l'Ambassade d'Angleterre a bien voulu, en réponse à la note verbale française du 15 novembre courant, faire connaître à M. Pichon que Sir Edward Grey estime prématurée la proposition française, qui tendait à une action concertée à Pékin des quatre légations intéressées (pour obtenir du Gouvernement chinois la signature du contrat d'emprunt de 10,000,000l, par les représentants des quatre groupes financiers anglais, français, allemand, et américain). De l'avis du Principal Secrétaire d'Etat pour les Affaires Etrangères, c'est au Gouvernement américain qu'il appartient de convaincre la Chine, les autres légations n'ayant pas de terrain solide pour négocier avant que soit obtenu le consentement du Gouvernement chinois.\n\nLe Gouvernement français, qui a prescrit à son Ambassadeur à Washington une première démarche, pour amener le Gouvernement américain à se prêter à une action concertée des quatre légations à Pékin, et qui a obtenu du Gouvernement allemand une démarche analogue, serait désireux de convaincre le Gouvernement britannique de la nécessité d'une action commune dans cette affaire, en raison des questions politiques qu'elle soulève, questions exposées confidentiellement ci-dessous.\n\nIl estime, en premier lieu, qu'il serait fâcheux de laisser une seule Puissance retirer le bénéfice moral de la signature de l'emprunt envisagé, et se créer ainsi des titres prédominants à la direction de la réforme financière éventuelle de la Chine; d'autant plus que l'Amérique, n'étant pas en mesure de souscrire elle-même l'emprunt, se servirait ainsi pour sa politique propre de l'argent du marché européen; en toute hypothèse, les Etats-Unis se trouvent peu qualifiés pour suivre seuls et mener à bonne fin à Pékin une négociation tendant à les déposséder, eux-mêmes, d'une situation prépondérante, au profit des trois autres Puissances.\n\nEn dehors de cet ordre de considérations, le Gouvernement français voit de sérieux inconvénients à laisser négocier par les Etats-Unis seuls les conditions d'un emprunt qui doit être, d'après les confidences chinoises et américaines, consacré en partie à la mise en œuvre de la Mandchourie, dans un sens dont les Gouvernements russe et japonais ont déjà commencé à se préoccuper. L'emprunt soulève ainsi des questions qui donnent à réfléchir aux alliés et amis de la Russie et du Japon.\n\nPage 450", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 106, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# No. 784.\n\n## I. American Consular Service\n\nHongkong, March 1, 1911.\n\nThe Honourable \nThe Colonial Secretary, \nHongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that I have received an instruction from the State Department at Washington reading in part as follows:-\n\n\"Consul at Harbin cables that James Kogan alias Rogers charged with embezzlement two thousand rubles from Manchurian Company Limited British Corporation Harbin reported on Steamer Saint Albans bound Hongkong inform British Colonial Authorities and report what action taken if Kogan arrives. \nKnox.\"\n\nI am informed that the Saint Albans will arrive in Hongkong tomorrow, Thursday, morning at about eleven o'clock. I will be glad if you will inform me what action will be taken by the Colonial Authorities and if Kogan arrives and he is arrested if you will inform me immediately by telephone or messenger of such action. I shall be glad to serve you in any way possible in this connection.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n**(Sd.) George E. Anderson,** \nConsul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# CO 1168\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nRESP REGS 13 JAN 11\n\n[December 28.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey**,(Received December 28.)\n\n**(No. 268. Very Confidential.)** Sir,\n\nTokyo, December 9, 1910.\n\nAMONGST the confidential print recently received at this embassy is your despatch No. 288 of the 22nd September, 1910, in reply to one from His Majesty's representative in Washington, No. 183, Very Confidential, dated the 24th August, 1910.\n\nMr. Bryce points out that the State Department in Washington do not appear to have succeeded in fully appreciating the views which have guided the policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to the construction of railways in Manchuria, and the attitude of Great Britain towards the Chinchow-Aigun project, which attitude appears to have to some extent irritated American official feeling.\n\nMr. Bryce further states that Mr. Huntington Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Secretary during the summer absence of Mr. Knox from Washington, had indulged in language of unbecoming strength with reference to the Russo-Japanese Convention recently concluded, and particularly with regard to Great Britain's share in its conclusion. Mr. Bryce adds that very similar expressions had been used by Mr. Miller, the head of the Far Eastern Department, who also \"showed himself equally hostile to the convention, though at the same time manifesting a juster appreciation of the attitude of Great Britain in the matter.\" In concluding his despatch, Mr. Bryce thinks that it is desirable that His Majesty's Government should take any further opportunity that might present itself of soothing American susceptibilities in Eastern matters, and should make it plain to them that, whatever be the purposes of Russia and Japan, His Majesty's Government have no share in any policy unfriendly to the commercial policy of the United States in that part of the world.\n\nBoth the gentlemen mentioned by His Majesty's representative in Washington were for many years attached to the American Legation (as it then was) in Tokyo, Mr. Wilson as Second Secretary and Mr. Miller as Japanese Secretary, and they are both well known to me. Of the former, Mr. Bryce says that he enjoys little weight among his countrymen and none at all with the President, though his voice carries a certain weight in the State Department owing to the not very keen interest taken by Mr. Knox in the affairs of his office.\n\nThat Mr. Wilson's voice or opinions could carry any weight anywhere is remarkable; when attached to the American Legation here he was considered of no consequence whatever; tactlessly hostile to the people of the country, he was much more occupied in ascertaining whether he had been properly placed at diplomatic functions in accordance with his rank (he was for a brief period chargé d'affaires) than in cultivating friendly relations with the Japanese or with his colleagues. He had the good sense, or rather the good fortune, to marry a very pretty and clever wife, to whose influence and management of her husband was due his transference to the State Department.\n\nMr. Miller, originally a missionary in Japan, was possessed of a scholarly knowledge of the Japanese language, a sound judgment, and wide appreciation of the good and bad points of the Japanese character. His relations with this legation and myself were always most cordial.\n\nIn your reply to Mr. Bryce you fully concur with his Excellency as to the extreme desirability of working with the Americans and not imperilling our good relations with them in other parts of the world by adhering too literally to the policy of strict reciprocity in the Far East, but you point out what a difficult position His Majesty's Government have been placed in by the recent policy of the United States in China. As evidence of this policy you refer (1) to the ill-timed proposals made by the United States in the winter of 1909-10 for the internationalisation of railways in ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### [46655]\n#### No. 1\n##### [December 28.]\n###### SECTION 1\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received December 28.)\n\n**(No. 268. Very Confidential.)** Sir,\n\nTokyo, December 9, 1910. AMONGST the confidential print recently received at this embassy is your despatch No. 288 of the 22nd September, 1910, in reply to one from His Majesty's representative in Washington, No. 183, Very Confidential, dated the 24th August, 1910.\n\nMr. Bryce points out that the State Department in Washington do not appear to have succeeded in fully appreciating the views which have guided the policy of His Majesty's Government with regard to the construction of railways in Manchuria, and the attitude of Great Britain towards the Chinchow-Aigun project, which attitude appears to have to some extent irritated American official feeling.\n\nMr. Bryce further states that Mr. Huntington Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Secretary during the summer absence of Mr. Knox from Washington, had indulged in language of unbecoming strength with reference to the Russo-Japanese Convention recently concluded, and particularly with regard to Great Britain's share in its conclusion. Mr. Bryce adds that very similar expressions had been used by Mr. Miller, the head of the Far Eastern Department, who also \"showed himself equally hostile to the convention, though at the same time manifesting a juster appreciation of the attitude of Great Britain in the matter.\" In concluding his despatch, Mr. Bryce thinks that it is desirable that His Majesty's Government should take any further opportunity that might present itself of soothing American susceptibilities in Eastern matters, and should make it plain to them that, whatever be the purposes of Russia and Japan, His Majesty's Government have no share in any policy unfriendly to the commercial policy of the United States in that part of the world.\n\nBoth the gentlemen mentioned by His Majesty's representative in Washington were for many years attached to the American Legation (as it then was) in Tokyo, Mr. Wilson as Second Secretary and Mr. Miller as Japanese Secretary, and they are both well known to me. Of the former, Mr. Bryce says that he enjoys little weight among his countrymen and none at all with the President, though his voice carries a certain weight in the State Department owing to the not very keen interest taken by Mr. Knox in the affairs of his office.\n\nThat Mr. Wilson's voice or opinions could carry any weight anywhere is remarkable; when attached to the American Legation here he was considered of no consequence whatever; tactlessly hostile to the people of the country, he was much more occupied in ascertaining whether he had been properly placed at diplomatic functions in accordance with his rank (he was for a brief period chargé d'affaires) than in cultivating friendly relations with the Japanese or with his colleagues. He had the good sense, or rather the good fortune, to marry a very pretty and clever wife, to whose influence and management of her husband was due his transference to the State Department.\n\nMr. Miller, originally a missionary in Japan, was possessed of a scholarly knowledge of the Japanese language, a sound judgment, and wide appreciation of the good and bad points of the Japanese character. His relations with this legation and myself were always most cordial.\n\nIn your reply to Mr. Bryce you fully concur with his Excellency as to the extreme desirability of working with the Americans and not imperilling our good relations with them in other parts of the world by adhering too literally to the policy of strict reciprocity in the Far East, but you point out what a difficult position His Majesty's Government have been placed in by the recent policy of the United States in China. As evidence of this policy you refer (1) to the ill-timed proposals made by the United States in the winter of 1909-10 for the internationalisation of railways in ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## E. G. Hillier to Sir Edward Grey\n\n2 \n\nof nationality. As it is, I do not think they are likely to make any further progress with their negotiations, which will only block the way for future operations; and the best thing they can do now is to invite the other three groups frankly into the negotiations, and avail themselves of their experience in devising means of overcoming the deadlock now created. I have not formed a great opinion of Straight as a negotiator.\n\nAs regards Korostovetz's forecast of international control of China's finances, perhaps he is going rather fast. Constitutional affairs in this country have been proceeding lately with such rapidity that they can no longer be neglected as a factor. Our experience of international control of this sort is practically limited to countries without a constitution, like Turkey and Egypt, and it remains to be seen how it would work in a country which had a popular voice and of the vast extent of China.\n\nAs regards the Hukuang loan, we are expecting the memorandum from Liang Shih-yi every day. Two days ago he informed Sir J. Jordan in conversation that he was sending it in very shortly, and that he was working in complete accordance with the views of the new president, Sheng Kung-pao. On the other hand, I am told that Sheng has a personal interest in the success of the present negotiations, since he realises that the construction of the projected lines will materially enhance the value of his various coal mines and ironworks in their neighbourhood. On the whole, I think we have reason to be hopeful of the outlook.\n\nYours very truly,\n**E. G. HILLIER**\n\n(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 1 \n405 \n7234 \nProt 6 MAR \n[February 15]\n\n### SECTION 1\n\nSir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 15.) (No. 75.) \nParis, February 14, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 9 of this evening, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a communication from M. Pichon which reached me this evening, in reply to the enquiry which I addressed to his Excellency on receipt of your unnumbered telegram of the 11th instant as to the views held by the French Government on the proposals recently put forward by the United States Government in regard to the projected Chinese loan.\n\nI have, &c. \n**FRANCIS BERTIE**\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\n**Note communicated to Sir F. Bertie by M. Pichon**\n\nLE 12 février courant, Son Excellence l'Ambassadeur d'Angleterre a bien voulu communiquer à M. Pichon une information et une demande du Gouvernement des Etats-Unis relatives à l'emprunt de 250,000,000 de francs qu'il négocie actuellement à Pékin, en exprimant le désir de connaître à cet égard les vues du Gouvernement de la république.\n\nUne communication analogue a été faite à la même date à l'Ambassadeur de France à Washington, qui l'a transmise au Gouvernement français. Le Ministre des Affaires Étrangères a fait connaître à M. Jusserand, en réponse à sa question, que les Gouvernements anglais, allemand, et français, ainsi que les financiers de ces trois pays, s'étaient entendus sur le principe de n'encourager qu'un emprunt chinois présentant toutes garanties financières et économiques et conclu dans des conditions de partage absolu des avantages entre les participants. Les financiers et le Gouvernement américain ont paru disposés à se rallier à ces principes et à participer dans ces conditions à l'entente des trois groupes.\n\nToutefois, la demande persistente de nomination d'un conseiller américain, fût-ce pour la réforme monétaire seule-demande qui heurte d'ailleurs à l'opposition énergiquement formulée à Pékin de la Russie et du Japon-ne paraît pas conciliable avec les principes d'égalité des avantages susmentionnés.\n\nQuant à la déclaration éventuelle des quatre Puissances à Pékin, suggérée par Mr. Knox (pour affirmer qu'elles n'accorderont à leurs nationaux aucun appui en vue d'emprunts sans garanties, ni surveillance d'emploi des fonds), elle serait conforme aux principes de l'entente anglo-franco-allemande et ne soulèverait pas d'objection du Gouvernement français, si les Gouvernements anglais et allemand étaient également disposés à donner des instructions dans ce sens à leurs représentants à Pékin.\n\nLe Gouvernement de la république, en remerciant le Gouvernement britannique de son obligeante communication, lui sera reconnaissant de lui faire connaître également ses vues sur la question posée par le Gouvernement américain.\n\nParis, le 13 février, 1911.\n\n`[1913 p-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434564, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 565, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir G. Buchanan.\n\nForeign Office, March 8, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nThis letter will be presented to your Excellency by Lord ffrench, the agent of Messrs. Pauling in China, who, as you are aware from my despatch No. 21 of the 19th January last, intended to visit the United States in connection with the Chinchow-Aigun Railway scheme and then to proceed to St. Petersburgh.\n\nLord ffrench has now returned from Washington, where I understand he was well received by Mr. Taft and Mr. Knox, who approved of his proposal to endeavour to ascertain the views of the Russian Government in regard to the project or to some other alternative line.\n\nI shall be glad if your Excellency will place Lord ffrench into communication with the competent Russian Ministries, viz., Foreign Affairs, Commerce, and Finance, and suggest that the authorities concerned should be invited to give him a benevolent hearing.\n\n&c.\n\nI am,\n**E. GREY**\n\nPage 3\n[8721]\n(March 8)\nRECE Pro 3 APR T\n563\n[1920 h-1]\n10672", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 170, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n### SECTION 4, No. 1\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.**\n\n**(No. 154. Confidential.)**\n\nForeign Office, April 3, 1911.\n\nTHE United States Ambassador told me to-day that there was some apprehension that Russia and Japan were concerting common action in Manchuria, which would mature this year, and which would deprive China of Manchuria altogether. His Government had received information from their Minister at Peking that this was in the air, and he seemed to have founded his belief partly upon something which the British Minister had said to him.\n\nIn reply, I said that Sir John Jordan had not sent any information of this kind to me. As a matter of fact, when the dispute between Russia and China was acute, Russia had prepared to move such troops as might be necessary to protect her railway in Manchuria, for at certain points the Chinese were in superior force, and might attack the railway. The Japanese had expressed the hope that no more Russian troops than were necessary for this purpose would be sent, and that they would be withdrawn as soon as the danger was past. This was what I had heard from the Russian and Japanese Governments. I explained to the United States Ambassador that I could tell him this only confidentially, and that I hoped he would take care to prevent it from leaking out. As, however, there was apprehension at Washington that the Russians and Japanese were concerting action for the annexation of Manchuria, I thought it right that Mr. Knox and the President should have this information, which pointed in the opposite direction and might allay apprehension.\n\nThe Ambassador asked me whether I had heard anything as to an intended movement of troops to Aigun.\n\nI assured him that I had not heard of anything of the kind.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**E. GREY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435061, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 475, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\n**REG 16 JUN 11**\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[17855]\n\n**Mr. Addis to Foreign Office,-(Received May 11.)**\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, \nDear Sir Francis, \n31, Lombard Street, London, May 10, 1911.\n\nCHINESE currency loan. I enclose for your information a copy of a telegram from Mr. Calhoun, the American Minister at Peking, to Mr. Secretary Knox, from which you will see that the Chinese Government have agreed to the appointment of a foreign financial adviser on the terms suggested, which I understand to be a three years' engagement at a salary of £5,000 per annum with a house.\n\nYours truly,\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Mr. Calhoun to Mr. Knox.**\n\nPeking, April 29, 1911.\n\nIn reply to your telegram of the 24th March, I have not been able to get a definite answer as to China's opinion until to-day. Shêng first objected to the price as being too high, but to-day he told Tenney that the terms as suggested by you will be satisfactory. I am to have written confirmation to-morrow. Sheng hopes that the adviser selected will be able to speak English, also wishes him to assist in the reorganisation of the Ta Ching Bank. Hopes he can be here as early as July.\n\npart of China to another. The matter, however, does not appear to be one which it would be altogether easy to adjust.\n\nA state of things which is somewhat analogous arises in connection with native goods sent by steamer from Canton via Hong Kong to Shanghai or other coast ports; but in this instance, things are simplified by the fact that the method of transportation does not change, and that the Imperial Maritime Customs do not at any time lose control. The goods declared for Amoy or Shanghai, as the case may be, are thus entered on the steamer's manifest and are not landed in Hong Kong.\n\nIn the case of goods shipped via Vladivostock, matters are more complicated: from Pogranitchnaya, the goods pass into the Primorsk, a foreign country, and out of the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs and, on arrival at Vladivostock, they are transshipped from the railway to the steamer in which they are to be conveyed to the port of destination in China proper. Possibly, the practice adopted in Yünnan regarding native goods transported from one part of China to another, and carried over a portion of the journey by the French railway via Tongking, may in some respects be adaptable to local conditions.\n\n## The two \"Exempla\" of the Draft Treaty.\n\nThe object of these drafts is to embody in succinct form the recommendations of the committee contained in Annexes (A) and (B). The points which have seemed to be of chief importance have already received consideration, but in Annex (F), the two alternative drafts have been contrasted with a view to facilitating a comparison between them.\n\n## RETURN of the Total Trade coming under the cognisance of the Imperial Maritime Custom-houses in the Harbin District during the years 1909 and 1910.\n\n| Port | 1909 Haikwan Taels | 1910 Haikwan Taels |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Aigun | 819,452 | 2,114,869 |\n| Sansing | 1,080,708 | 2,967,470 |\n| Manchuria | ... | ... |\n| Harbin | 7,865,700 | 10,864,419 |\n| Pogranitchnaya | 4,416,250 | 8,420,694 |\n| Total | 23,670,924 | 20,196,050 |\n| | 37,869,034 | 44,563,002 |\n\nIt should be stated that the year 1910 was the first in which the Imperial Maritime Customs had control for a full season of the trade on the Sungari and at Aigun, and that the total customs revenue collected at the five ports was in 1909 814,361 Haikwan taels and in 1910 1,031,050 Haikwan taels. It may be remarked, also, that in one way or another, Russia was interested in the bulk of the large total trade of 37,859,034 Haikwan taels in 1909 and 44,563,002 Haikwan taels in 1910.\n\nH. E. SLY. \nHarbin, March 30, 1911.\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** \n`19607` \n`[May 11.]` \n`0.0` \n`470`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 511, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 3\n\n### No. 1. Sir Edward Grey to Sir G. Buchanan.\n\n**(No. 144.)**\n\nForeign Office, May 29, 1911.\n\nTHE Russian Ambassador spoke to me to-day about the loan of the four financial groups to China. The French Government were prepared to refuse a quotation on the Bourse, unless it was ascertained that the loan would not be used for making railways in Manchuria. But it would be undesirable that the French Government should take this step alone, unless we were prepared to support them in some way. It was suggested that we might subsequently say at Peking that the attitude taken up by the French Government was reasonable.\n\nI told Count Benckendorff that I had had great trouble with the American Government over this matter. At first we had told the Chinese Government that, if they wished to make a railway in Manchuria, they ought to come to some terms with the Japanese Government. In a sense, this was giving our support to the project of the railway. M. Isvolsky had complained of this as a breach of the agreement which we had made with Russia years before, and had asked whether we could not say at Peking at least as much on behalf of Russia as we had already said on behalf of Japan. I had therefore spoken similarly at Peking with regard to Russia. Mr. Knox had complained bitterly, and I believed still continued to complain, that this was going beyond the negative attitude imposed on us by our agreement with Russia, and taking a line actively opposed to a legitimate enterprise in which the United States were interested. The Americans had pressed for our support, and I had explained that, under the agreement with Russia, I could not give them support; and that I intended to leave the matter alone. This I had done ever since then, and I did not wish to depart from this attitude.\n\nI did not see what diplomatic action was yet required at Peking. What I proposed to do was to ascertain from Mr. Addis, who was a member of the British group, what projects it was proposed to forward by means of the loan, and to explain to him that we could not give our diplomatic support for the construction of railways in Manchuria.\n\nI would also explain the position to Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who had asked me some days ago what diplomatic difficulties there were. As the Americans had originated the matter, I would suggest to him that the American group might perhaps remove all diplomatic difficulties by making it clear that the restriction to the four groups of all future applications for financial help applied only to the programme to be undertaken by means of the present loan, and by making known the items of which this programme was composed, in order that the Russian and Japanese Governments might be satisfied that it did not include railways in Manchuria.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n`[2023 f-3]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435099, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 513, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 2\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.\n\n(No. 241.)\n\nSir,\n\nAS Mr. Whitelaw Reid had asked me a few days ago what were the diplomatic difficulties in connection with the Chinese loan I told him to-day what had passed with the Japanese Ambassador, and how I thought the apprehension of Japan that she was being excluded from all future enterprise in Manchuria could be removed. Since Mr. Whitelaw Reid had put the question to me I had been approached by both the Russian and French Ambassadors. The Russian Government were afraid that the loan was to be used to construct a railway, to which they objected, and the French Government were naturally anxious to support the Russian Government.\n\nSo far as I know, the object of the loan was not necessarily to promote railway enterprise in Manchuria. If the four groups could arrange the specific programme of industrial enterprise with the Chinese Government so as not to include railways, and then let the programme be known, I thought that all diplomatic difficulties would disappear. It should be quite possible to do this if, as supposed, the groups did not make a point of expending the loan upon railways, but only wished it to be used for useful industrial enterprise in Manchuria, for which there was ample scope in other directions. It would surely be much better to get rid of the difficulties and apprehensions in this way rather than to have some legations in Peking supporting the loan and some opposing it.\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid told me that the Japanese Ambassador had applied to Messrs. Morgan and Grenfell for a copy of the agreement. The American Government were being consulted as to whether this should be given, and when the point was settled he would communicate to Mr. Knox what I had said.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\nForeign Office, May 30, 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441123, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 459, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# \n13 \n455 \n12 \n\n27. About the quantities of morphia in illicit use no figures can, in the nature of things, be procured, but the available figures of seizures are given below:\n\n| PROVINCE | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Madras Presidency | oz. dr. gr. | oz. dr. gr. | oz. dr. gr. | oz. dr. gr. | oz. dr. gr. | oz. dr. gr. | |\n| Bombay | 1 0 0 | 3 0 0 | 49 0 35 | 7 2 8 | 1 0 13 | | |\n| Bengal ¿Mofassil | | | | | 108 0 0 | 99 7 13 | |\n| (Calcutta and suburbs | | | | | 16 1 0 | 8 4 48 | |\n| United Provinces | | | | | 9 2 14 | 2 11 0 | |\n| Punjab | | | | | 60 5 61 | 167 5 0 | |\n| Burma | | | | | 196 7 31 | 98 6 2 | (Mixture of morphia in pills,ty and 10 phials, 1 packet and 3 bottles of morphia.* |\n| TOTAL | | | | | 541,031 6 21 | 626 3 50 1,193 1 23 | Weight not known. Number not known. |\n\n28. The sixth of the Shanghai Resolutions deals with the scientific investigation of the properties of opium and of possible remedies for the opium habit. The evidence taken by the Royal Commission of 1895 contains all that we can say on the properties and effects of opium: and we consider that the scientific study of anti-opium remedies will more usefully be conducted, in the first instance at least, in European laboratories. On the seventh, eighth and ninth of the Shanghai Resolutions we have no remarks, as they do not directly concern the Indian Government.\n\n## Fourth Resolution\n\n29. We revert now to the fourth of the Commission's Resolutions, which opens up a question of the highest importance to the welfare of India. So far as we are in a position to prevent contraband trade in opium, we are fully prepared to take our part, and to carry out any detailed control over our exports upon which your Lordship may decide after receiving the conclusions of the Conference. The only ports at which opium is permitted to be exported from India are Bombay and Calcutta; and export is only permitted under Government supervision and regulations. The exports to China are strictly controlled under the terms of the Anglo-Chinese agreement of last May. The exports to prohibitionist countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia, will be brought under supervision as soon as international action is agreed upon. The practical steps for India would be (1) to prohibit the export of opium under section 19 of the Sea Customs Act; (2) to take supplementary action to see that such prohibition is not evaded by first exporting to a non-prohibition country and thence to a prohibitionist country; and (3) to prohibit the transmission of opium abroad through the post.\n\n## CONTROL OF DRUGS OTHER THAN OPIUM\n\n30. The subject of higher importance to us, however, in this fourth, as well as in part of the fifth, Resolution is the recommendation in favour of drastic control, in the countries of origin, over the distribution of opium, with its alkaloids, derivatives and preparations, and of morphine with its harmful congeners. If this principle is accepted as a subject for international concert, we most earnestly urge that it be at once extended to cocaine with its allied drugs and synthetic substitutes. The extraordinary growth in the use of these drugs in India has caused us the gravest alarm. They threaten to produce a degradation and demoralization among classes which have hitherto been free from this form of vice and to an extent which will entirely overshadow the evils arising from opium. We cannot speak of the Far East, though we believe that the potential danger there is as great as it is in this country. But for India the question of checking the influx of these drugs has assumed the gravest urgency. Our means of dealing with their import are limited; and it is only in the countries of manufacture and export that the control can be effective. We trust that the Conference will regard it as their clear duty to help India in this matter in the same spirit as India has co-operated in forwarding the eradication of the opium habit in China.\n\n31. Concerning morphine and other derivatives of opium, the questions of export and of production are equally important. We are prepared to take all reasonable action in both directions, and we must look to the other countries represented at the Conference to agree to similar action on their part. The Indian production of these drugs, their distribution, their imports, and the countries from which they are imported, have already been detailed. There is practically no export of such articles from India except that from the Government opium factory at Ghazipur to the well-known English firm already referred to. We would suggest, as regards exports, similar precautions to those described above in respect of the export of opium; and as regards production, a system of control by means of licenses (where a Government monopoly is not desired), and a system of accounts by which the manner of disposal of the drugs produced can be ascertained in so far as their exports are concerned. We quite understand that the Conference may not interest itself in the question of production except in so far as it affects exports, licit and illicit, but it is urged that no precautions against smuggling will ever be effective unless there is full control at the centres of production. This is fully recognised in the American Federal Bill of last year, imposing a tax upon and regulating the production, manufacture, and distribution of habit-forming drugs.\n\n### Dr.\n\n32. The dangers of cocaine and its allies and the necessity for their international regulation are much greater, because there is an enormous volume of international illicit traffic in them, and their direct connection with the worst forms of crime has been conclusively demonstrated. As Mr. Secretary P. C. Knox says in his Report to the President of the United States, dated February 18th, 1910, cocaine \"has proved to be a creator of criminals and of unusual forms of violence, and has been a potent incentive in driving the primitive classes of the community all over the country to abnormal crimes.\" Hamilton Wright, one of the American delegates to the Shanghai Commission, describes cocaine as \"more appalling in its effects than any other habit-forming drug used in the United States.\" The legislation against cocaine in the United States is new, but it is drastic, and further legislation was under consideration last year, including provisions for \"the registration of every person who imports, produces, manufactures, compounds, distributes, or otherwise handles habit-forming drugs in inter-state or foreign commerce.” The proposed Federal Bill imposing a tax upon and regulating the production, manufacture, and distribution of certain habit-forming drugs (including coca leaves, cocaine, alpha and beta eucaine, etc.) requires the registration of exporters also. Not only is the urgent necessity for the international regulation of cocaine recognised by the Power at whose instance the Hague Conference has been called, but such regulation along with the regulation of morphine at centres of production was expressly made a condition on which the invitation to participate in the Conference was accepted by His Majesty's Government. We now proceed to set out the information about cocaine, which has so far been gathered in India and which justifies the apprehensions which we have expressed regarding its use and its effects in this country.\n\n33. Cocaine is an alkaloid obtained from the leaves of the cuca or coca plant (Erythroxylum coca), a shrub indigenous to South America. It is found in Java, and has also been grown experimentally in the tea districts of Madras, Mysore, and Bengal. Mr. Comber, Chief Superintendent of Excise in Burma, has successfully cultivated it in Lower Burma, where it appears to thrive well. The leaves are extensively used for chewing in South America, where over 80 million persons are estimated to be addicted to the habit. Coca used in its raw state is a stimulant of the nervous system. If taken in moderation it may possibly be beneficial; but it is certainly harmful if taken in excess.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 232, "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "content_text": "# S&S\n\n233\n\nis joy all conic isT ie¶ Mi retta need evan esilol gnodgroll edT \nas bebinjst need asd ed notna) bra znoxynoh ni nitoli .SIEI „[irqA noed even taut Breudor to agney sit to atebeel te. no erid to ond al .aminow SI Jaal ont yaiwb tointaid aux gouf edt ni zaitool qod? net mal s ni erada s and ed ersiw osos i ni ers stotisupbead .aeodanit ati segannu baa \nerid to new ofw lowo nożynoli ni stenosiq ent lo eno \nand tand hetaja Jedini off waY ja eqontanwaq edź betool tant vtraq onT,Tehsei erið saw ed dad♬ bna new s'ksT isч gli elew BIBʊdor to rabaal ont ai nam sind dand noitaurolni svad soilo¥gnox_noll ni bataives in: dud nne all .doinjail mul zout enð ni Brevoor erit Bow trainer # SIVI «I .luw jasi zout zoido vi ent ynisinngro Ja SIVI ‚ylul .:1301 ng .bebnoords en Jud teatra sid tot bewaaİ -rwal (minɔ doo end belastta od srevidor 008 to any a to bred writ m leaniq ens to quers neelo s ebum yant .isH znot znadɔ Ja qoda- unX oT Ja sairaudot vestimoo brad aid or ad SIVI ‚yist .r#VI .admod bus alotaiq ɔidmodus njiw beilqque ei zung sốT .eyallir Jud berutyao yĺznost zaw ed szede osan, ni sretrauphael .ini dui Legioning and to eno aww dat ieч gli doiw resitago↑ .Iiad no Jue tal aiNT .noijuiuveя „bns to iuw yneil yout snido sĩ add to arealmsgto -ynoll mi ydeioo? end to são od bra steaq to ewustea yd bevorg BAY ai all,8OVI,yisvide¶ .dJV no bedained saw si „SIVI,Iiżu̟A mi ynod- Tobcoi naw od „SIVI ..dJOS pracial 10 .sywny reddor to razinayto m \nno iu nda ja so¶ ieX ytwel beqysobia bas ganz zaiqqsublá a to eH.asos. Je binq um 001,5% yenom mocnsı öd‡ „Mosnet of qu bied \n-grumiɔ te¶ ja esilof nodns) and yo no netsí beʊose1 TOVOMON BOW \nto Tebael a si immi sul tent noita molni eværi soilo't ¿noagnoil ent \nagnay Toddox \nno Jasi daugu ni osoşii ni bedserta aaw all .10 oH asila v ago! uaw eli .yostiq vado ynvad) and nå beiteono gated to noloiqawa \nni Jud „asidirantní osɔad ert yd benistdo noijsurtotaż no betsotia \nsild of avond at eil .boɑselat baw sonsbive etiniteb to sonseda edi \nnow ajneupert odw tabasi statiq bra reuno1 8 88 solív¶ anodynol \n(itnowpert eн .Ilso aid sa nam VOI Juoda nari e .0 tex bne nant mað \n\nvisits Macao and is usually accompanied by several armed retainers. He is in Macao at present.\n\nKong Chai, took part in the \"Tai On\" piracy. He is between 30 and 40 years of age, a native of Tai Po Chung Village, Sai Lo, Sun On. \nHe frequents Macao and Kei O.\n\n(sd.) **C. Mol. Messer**, \n**Captain Superintendent of Police**. \n25th. June, 1913.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## 257\n\nE to OIRNOONi of vetted way of soneretet Adiv. \n118 -gnol ni anoitibaos siredquanta adið oð sviðale: \n„EIQI „rodÍNG DEⱭ ni atrameitte?? adiestƐ boa noibni aoW nás di¿w beraquoo gnox- joy myotni os would add ovat 1 guillongi? .T .W noqu doslle vient \n\nmort ai rosy and to boiraq durow add meltkla mi verzió Ilm ni tadt \nboiteq Bina gaiull .Tedotaů to bưu mdt liðini yall to jainniyed sit Jarow gni eú svounitnuo pileoitoang si sonoratresni siwdquanta edit \n\n-ilaooi mit uì exaves va don ni jà Jud seezizah te swod and zniwb \nejnemeisteĉ etiand? no meibal Juel est nå se znodzaak to yứ- \nni ere anoodqwt (w/w yaegnok ni ziet duam si somretrojni Bint \n\n* yam To jainnized ada liðnu redočaŭ to bae salt mort \n* ytinioiv onJ to ydinioir sið ni somerstradni viradquom'a yna mobles si ezent Mori Jatow adi ta galed vilawau Ji,digkiyab gmirub zao* noH -aaso yllstenez ben yaksinkaimið yllaubory „ddyànbim Likt .m.q 0.8 \n\nnoijsoinumoo of noisqyresni Lauton to travome \nJilyob ta yni- \nJesu ni aton edit to dofiq bra rewog and nogu showqeb \n\n## I PRAS OFɑ** \n„Ə: OrioƆ adj oj grateros? \n11 eddewonoli ent \n«Protozool Lainoic adT \nDay 18 per 1913 \nсо 1200 \n120014 \n73 \n10 JAN 14 \n\n| Date | Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | 43448/13 | Icht Beitend Pharmaceutical Society |\n| 16 Jan | To Pullen (asto 11) | 23 Jan 14 2393/14 |\n| | To b. Aques gut | (i) apothecary. asks whether candrant's have been selected. tatter is pressing remo. engged that. 1.0. might be asked 6 second a sergeant of Corporal |\n| 13/1/14 | R4 13/1/14 | RAM |\n| | Ab (2): at the Society if they hart chance I finding any man us mother then saying that if not we propose of by the Rtor. C. |\n\n## Next subsequent Paper\nmo. 2373/14 (apathy) 6.6845% (58,151), W120,867---58./41,000, 11/12. À ¿E.W (83,240). ,25,237-6. 10,000 10/13. M036299", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446389, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "345\n\nCOMMISSION\n\n3- MAR 1913\n\nE\n\nH. M. Prison, Canterbury.\n\nMEMORANDUM.\n\n21600\n\n364\n\nMarch 1913.\n\nWarder H. V. Borneo,\n\nG\n\nIn accordance with instructions contained in memorandum 14480/14 dated 21/2/13, I enclose herewith the Record of Service, Medical History sheet, and medical certificate from the medical officer, together with an application from the above-named for appointment in the Bus Service of Hong Kong.\n\nThis officer, as correspondence will show, began quite badly in this connection. I think he has taken his lesson to heart, and has greatly improved.\n\nWith reference to his qualifications for this appointment, he is 34 years of age; had dealings with Chinamen for 4 years (whilst soldiering) - 2 years at Hongkong and 2 years at Singapore. He tells me he has a fair knowledge of Pidgin-English. The chief thing against him - and that he cannot help - is his diminutiveness. (Height 5'5¼\")\n\nB Knox Good\n\n21600 4\n\n \nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "174\n\n„CHLÐUI YRRJARE MOL DIRELAI AIB YOILLIDAE SIH \n\n-rebrarzo) bus toateveð 1.0.8.C ..8.0 ..0.1,0.0 \n\nutk ban phoxymoḥ to yao£60 ode to Voldemak \n\n„ansa ads to Laxkiba 0027 käs no 20 timb cio quď \n\nesized 10 WITITAT SEMATA SHE \n\nend ni sitodolV to sbi augažuol \n\nཝཱ \n\nلمع \n\nto stedamm casugustet galaved wol sancios adt nokta zab žu100 \n\n,Torrent ining berete sai vì tuo đen và tế bầu 05 đế \n\nTol noijabos:000 a gniewed albivong tot baan ast \n\nTOBOLJIJOT twox #2 y‡žnummos sasugui zat ant to azedme SE \n\nsalvig abokatamoti gan jeno tmzwa na już konfira çİdaug \n\nand neitissa quoy do ków oknom sốt bas been down of Baju \n\nmozi jne teqqs szabad ɣIIư? [I]w boon daim doom of bas Ivab \n\n„Amazioa and to insurer a \n\nTwoX de lerui of regnd ed Iltw monolikta€ Tuor \n\nçons I Inoxã quoŸ sneiðanaIque meddru? yna die kw yonsĽhoxā \n\nadiw bas besolons sueños er al tasqqa kanë erineb yan \n\nsalam doa saab orndon adł do żw użnłoq ym no noid momotak \n\n.yone I is oxā tuox os (KOTİONIALS FOOSBUM M LAW TO .The Lo \n\nsuit of Visati gaihnemano SIMOOR BAt To Joers and ni \n\nTonoLJIJST way yonelisoxX zueť to soltazabiumce aliazzerat \n\ngalwollo? out of neiznetta u 'yona LimaxX tuoŸ Jostih bluow \n\nحمد \n\ndetails which will be necessary to perfect, and to ensure, \n\nthe realization of the objects of the scheme :- \n\n5 \n\nA. It will be necessary for the Government to make \n\nthe necessary road rendering the site of the \n\nproposed reservation accessible from the present \n\npublic highway. \n\nb. \n\nIt will be necessary for the Goverment to erect \n\na Market on or near the site of the proposed \n\nreservation, the provision of which is an \n\nessential feature of the scheme. \n\nc. It will be necessary for the Goverment to train \n\nthe nullahs in the neighbourhood of the proposed \n\nreservation which expert medical advice consider \n\nnecessary to be trained to ensure the health of \n\nthe persons residing in the reservation. \n\nd. It will be necessary for a Government Medical \n\nofficer to visit the site of the proposed reserva-\n\ntion to report on the scheme of drainage proposed \n\ntherefor by Dr.Watson and to approve thereof with \n\nsuch modifications or alterations as to such \n\nofficer may appear desirable. \n\nYour Petitioner would submit for Your Excellency's \n\nconsideration that it is essential to the materialization \n\nof the scheme that all possible steps should be taken to \n\nrender the proposed area fever-proof as it is vital the \n\npersons residing in the reservation should be assured of \n\nimmunity from fever as far as the experience of expert \n\nmedical scientists can suggest means to this end. \n\n6. If the scheme meets with Your Excellency's approval, \n\nit will be necessary for its setting on foot and subsequent \n\ncarrying out that legislative sanction and powers should \n\n-2-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "5. 10\n\n201\n\nJB, NoviWo, Je drelo TabrÜ LONG\n\n+fm:X aswmX\n\nna „idi,redkov qeƐ JOI and no Jind aadade aoi110\n\nLosinjouer Jurnao bne wonal dun neob ací mochetaiberI\n\nyo. o. as: (sta asmaX) an 676dw voi' 10 nooiwali est od\n\n10% TAUTO (@mis tot noidaoil: qa eben ins arelo robo\n\n-1inach or 20 TOKDİBBİ mod y‡nyeⱭ að oð missİ KABLOVIŤ\n\n-dysopa eri dand bne ¡50.8INR to nuja end to doinnill wq**\n\nto Jrenadada edit to sroyqua al .noi...soilgga end bo-\n\nLersi eit to Juabnedmirequë BOJ noxiu \"Lac ¿A bemandi\n\nslonw and sadji.moj woy stołed beouł ong „soitto z0İTE)\n\nLEJUGEBIĘ AIBDI) yana tot anoid silyga mjieul and lo\n\njanci.fidel and of Juvčí edi mort baotus noiesiasABES TOŤ\n\nguda ajab eoitto end ddiw boðab verið dignona nga ‚EIVI\n\naula Delia proljevilqys në stzoqqa omul „njki aut to\n\nJa¶ odyno. end je obm,adicină and digno. # *1*\n\nBẶN HL 80 ot madi ukla\n\n93 od 00IR tu nożnažumuent and rol wah, jwbiaU OWNS\n\nDas Jointsil wwqssinsol and to remolari mol ytuqed\n\n-Binină Libit10 and ma novi, nied sun a'rejjİN:BILSTJ\n\nmi vines Just Bedets obl» moviα .7. • HØR „ToÏÏ‚TOJATJ-\n\ngu mwy zażu. 80% of noiseiluunad jw to broc6% THRĴO QUI\n\nCivismo „dobí bna šivi (vzal si noewind robao yamok\n\n2. To froqque mi „noit oi.qgs sind to earb sit\n\nsylulinis + Deogoong or In noviⱭ „ti dreund ada «'must.X\n\neld Jazno is \"I\" ould box\", „noisroilyęs tabro yonadi 001 end to quers edab solito suit sitiw bedeb,stidio xă Jaol and to norwil neoivol end da obas „ŠIVI (Teďme¿qoƐ TenoİBBİ LOU yanqal and of noieaiwansid end zol so£110 -awit ans ĉe,Sifa to ■ and to Joissaki tuqueinaOH Isioitto eat sa nevis „nied auan s'reJJİLE BİNKİ BRNO Bİ. J LÀ noiteollyqe erit Jud jnox,NON TOJUIJRILLÁMÍA noiteoilecgs and evajo onadi djed nl .æddirnaqęt zaled ni (ojeriawLS SVIJLOSEDoo ni veredam ylub ors martot bezbuted mo sa zei os „Beinwu evijOGY687 TİCKJ\n\nune\n\n1801 19:ga Isnredre tja: è mort\n\n176\n\nshow that they were made or dealt with in any way out of the ordinary course. It should here be mentioned that Muhamed Akbar states that he only asked applicants to split applications for Money Orders when the total amount required to be transmitted was in excess of the amount which, by the Post Office Regulations, can be transmitted on a single Order, and in this case the amount was not of such excess. It should also be noted that Mr. Dixon, when his attention was drawn to the acceptance by Khawas Khan of an application for a Money Order at the Kowloon Branch in the name of the Official Administrator, informed him (Mr. Khawas Khan) that he should not have accepted such an application from an unknown applicant, and requested Mr. Khawas Khan to ascertain, if possible, who had sent it; Mr. Khawas Khan informed your Committee that when the unknown Indian brought the application to the office, he, Mr. Khawas Khan, asked the Indian who had sent the Money Order, and the Indian replied, \"Baboo Alim Khan\", and Mr. Khawas Khan further states that, after having been told by Mr. Dixon to try and ascertain who had transmitted the money, he, Mr. Khawas Khan, went the next morning to Mr. Alim Khan's house and there informed Mr. Alim Khan of what had taken place, but that Mr. Alim Khan denied entirely any knowledge of the matter. Mr. Alim Khan admits that this interview took place, but states now, as he did before to Mr. Khawas Khan, that he knew nothing of what had taken place. The two receipts alleged by Mr. Alim Khan to have been received by him in April from Muhamed Akbar and to have been placed by him in the dossier of the papers of the estate are not forthcoming.\n\n(c). The previous paragraphs give the two different accounts of what took place, and it is necessary, as these accounts are totally conflicting, to weigh very carefully the probabilities of the truth of both. On the\n\none", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447108, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "14:205\n\nand benang d'abau I II .dgvound Tajdan edt beinum I taw nonsen\n\nLane ti ama seiusque et noitanosib q gule ionero yo daromad testam\n\nJÉVÈA TEJJAM Band jan að y‡udostuidas asidetus beaubong đon bad\n\n•skibaaduduo ad ¡Iida\n\ngnied adnjan sia ne elit add 151.8.TI besuaq woy JoinESSTÄ ON\n\ntod.evoli ni adom od tylwiidos keduarit sem marƐA MÌIA „TH :rebro ni «DEO\\IIA 63 Omaid en bewosia yalab odt\n\nec id beneqo yldedory ;rep¿130 head nóư mơit tovush, .SI.BLAS\n\nwous or slit wid ni zakóten mi vsedd tnad) milk or two beɛuaq bas\n\ndiel od testa ¡Iið von modă milk ¿d Knob em sandnut grind (na dach\n\n8\n\nCatento bus woy yd nd iw ở Loeb asar nesuo ragiaq sel mäsoil mi\n\nninow wo、 181 won yas Jonne I woy yo qu mand oɛne soonİİ Kİ\n\nJon on I ¡yan s'aso yilnen I joquusiana onomist, ovaa OF SYED\n\nJud eonsbroquetipo saooi am STROJ BORD sind na lepeg p*k\n\nK30A*\n\nann sind es we wecal Jon ab I tanie gmind yam back doc ovmi I\n\nni vơ, yd fiel need even yan då ¡word dan ob I zoouw yd to bewol\n\n\"ref pada penunat ne belil am nok lanq e toundų ragung adi\n\n898 0ð Bára momxX MÃIA(94) iod-est act nă gurno na oð ynsbroooa a5rebn34891 tiết tinh Đất đã đề ra loại sự mới Lại nhất\n\n•\n\nNO .a\n\n„Ÿ at adore I tand wroda\n\nnoidissq on day box onao a Juoda souskcoqueriso le přátump a od\n\n-bred yu ni si GIGI „Lingh «/29% 20 mazdai ada told? on ha\n\n-wmožni kontaminu na griyne Slovâï boligen „F A JA; and key= blot bai on wond d'nob I :betzuper teymi on sam vol beans nakt -\n\nîîilisä bised a → med Lind barsoqax vo, ti womi t'ma! I .mint mări Bİ STENT .CRen and Jubuh JAILSON TƏBLamer I zmeram sådź TOTO -\n\n'\n\n97803 ¡ƐIVÍ Gysi zadoli boeg od #TOW Lænd griyen sten unduh a bus ...mi od yalab to musid yanA WOULD G♬ Bano sing ni ynindon si\n\nno. Jeoup emið vrid no sencil yrave naa tell on ed viver stent roitiseq on saw eend 11\n\nbing mol dood-est add ni vet ati oc as amoqqa belit Jneumob\n\nIelts nh h th no dosa Yorum efi To alory an\n\nNam Ly Singh's case: I do not suggest you were responsible for any unreasonable delay in this case.\n\nEssed Noorsha: Nor in this case.\n\nChan How Yun: in this case you admit an oversight.\n\nIn Li Ah Shau's case: I cannot say here.\n\nIn Ferdinand Sonksen's case I did take the whole of the fees myself before the case started from the German Consul; it was a special case: I think I handed it to you: the estate was a poor one: it was under $100: I think I bought stamps with part of it and the rest I put in an envelope to be spent when it became due and handed it all over to kir. Alim Khan: the petition was sworn on 20th. December, 1912, and stamps put on 23rd.\n\n**\n\nIn fact here I did exactly what you were doing. I did not regard the Circular of 14th. November,, 1912, as applicable to myself. I took the Circular, I think, from the General Orders: the General Orders refer to myself. The Circular was applicable to me. I gave you the money in Sonksen's case because it was a special case. I saw you before the Circular and told you you must n't take money from anyone. In Sonksen's case you broke the General Orders and the circular on my instructions.\n\nThe giving of the number brings the file to the attention of the Auditor: if they are not numbered the Auditor would not look at them: Cordeiro and How Yin'e case were not numbered.\n\nI never knew the Auditor calls for unnumbered files; the preliminary fees are entered in the fee-book: I did not know whether unnumbered files have been called up or not from the Chief Justice's office. He does a test audit not a general audit.\n\nCordeiro and How Yin's cases would not have been traced by the Auditor: if they had been numbered they might have been traced. I don't know where the Auditor's get their numbers from; whether from the fit fee-book or register of application. You take the numbers consecutively from a book in which petitions for probate or Letters of Administration are entered: the Auditor could take the numbers from this book: the petitions and the probates have different numbers; the probate numbers were not consecutive in the\n\nMAGI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447209, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "208\n\n.G\n\nA\n\nomacioni\n\n. 100\n\n(Piedzau, bra\n\nC\n\n„Ivi radioust undÜI (jnox muż\n\n+\n\n.Isituebitn.00\n\nreply are returned herewith.\n\nTone[[cord woŸ\n\nHis Excellency\n\nj0nolil.ol zattal a'zonaldeorà noy of yiqen mI\n\n+\n\nnowo lajin 1 qul adja olid jmihuqjen „Elvi,zedmoroki „ditiu bateb alena1 a brewrot of twalod fuð svari I poi tutti Aqetyelek sesionit + o ne bi n Mi395. Ja bonang maddimo, solated Indou milt to moi-\n\n-:SI:I,Todavad .ritə\n\nbarski mat rivau netuirmeð aurituli Impol suy\"\n\nJiqugala2 nnələri, Teroi ci a tot ejis aut Su moijmoup eld -Junkhoji meiv to endog ousted a mor? Jest nobligo to era noivað?\n\nIsimion BJ , 10 veword,21 win daal mud tal ei hanini wued-\n\nDIJ JEJ 891,- stiup yeild aidate, anis sza Jadd of enoijoejdo alvianoy pino odd ni yad wraktik nið 20 tasi dérok nie besoqung\n\nJnd don't aid oð svila yllut n8 settis:od QT\"\n\n.\"eno\n\nedin aldianoleb ziba! » no noitelings; i ns even od zatved si di .\"Ilm ta emo everi od Jon nepd\n\n10 VOTONI 4\n\nlie a tu il sort q,ninlied solito yra na samo.. zawo'i and Tu noi- of na betowicaп00 08 niðu rio no oɛla bna diezo I[m.s mort etit Joosung to sidng w me ebiet mort mobitzq, [laus ad eldiezneteb ed I. qilarane, Roll is Runaj ons erit ruj erirse. Fra eitir yd gai- od blume ausių mus dord Intermosar eettimed and mind to reiv við daud bna,¿Izmiojnos azaenkud padifi bus liviɔ yď baigiaub\n\n.*Levor qa tot Corji 2100 sorted food and of bedsindua ed bluons\n\n19iru poddał woy beinaquoson doidw enlų sul\n\n306\n\nI have etc...\n\n(Sd.) F. H. Kelly,\n\nMajor-General,\n\nComanding the Troops in South Chine\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government.\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449439, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 121, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "118\n\n1.\n\nSub-clause 1 of Clause III of the Order-in-Council of the 26th October, 1896, provides as follows:-\n\n„Piel „TeďɗotɔQ r‡TS „gnox_jnoh brêt and to tejjel a'zomelleora wol of ylgst ni a to you besolone eit tizensws of Tonari arið aved I,dradeni berieter yönetia bad I mor'w od farens) perrtoðð. aid yd etunim III cami moqu Juq ed of noitateryrojni mút to moldaeup erit .0201,redotoo n‡ds to lionwo0-ni-18h10 erit to I enus[o-due a'loïsme') yentold? erit suuse I Jarid ennwa ai ɔnelleoră woY to sonerettin erit tadt eidissoq Jon al di nguoiti.\n\nWOIT ni noidare qo-00 to drew yom od hael h[voris au neewted noinigo ai di Jant yonelIeorä woŸ Adiw tuonoo I IIite yomgTMOMO not state to internal sit of moldssup ent veter of elderiaab rajjel zo, bres of ‚exoleredd ,88ogorg I bas seinoloù edj .noidenebianoo aid tot mii od yiyen midd bas .ode,evad I YAM H.N .be • Ow2IONISVO) yone [Leo\". ..8.0 .vIIeX .H .V [stemD-TOLL ,oni dituo2 ni agout? snið sniðnar.no)\n\n2.\n\n(a). Every person in the Colony shall be subject to military law for the purposes of the Army Act.\n\n(b). The Act shall apply to them as if they were persons accompanying the troops on active service beyond the Seas;\n\n(c). They shall, for the purposes of the Army Act, be deemed to be under the command of the General,\n\nI think that the key to the interpretation of this clause is the phrase \"for the purposes of the Army Act\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\nPut shortly, I think that the effect is as follows:- (a). Whatever would be an offence under the Army Act if done by a camp follower would be an offence if done by any person in the Colony.\n\n(b). Whatever powers are given to the General by the Army Act over camp followers are given to him over every person in the Colony.\n\n(c). Apart from such powers given by the Army Act, civilians in the colony are under the command of the General only for the purpose of such sections in the Army Act as section 7(4).\n\nI do not think that the clause makes the whole colony a camp. It may well be that a Commanding Officer has the legal right, without any special statutory authority, to search a camp followers' quarters within the lines, and to search his person when entering, leaving or being within the lines, but I cannot find any similar authority to search a camp followers' house or person outside the lines or barracks, either in the Army Act or elsewhere.\n\n5. On the powers of the Provost Marshal, see page 33 of the Manual of Military Law.\n\nSd.\n\nJ. H. KELP\n\nAttorney General\n\n21.10.1914.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 259, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "AZS\n\n4\n\nIoTeneC-etalvaro) deiting\n\n.BIEI,redodo0 brSS,vline!\n\n.1ia\n\nTomeved and of ymedences erit yo bairro ti na I\n\nort to Juswurievoð ert od aulov to` ad Elvow noitermolni dødd Istened\n\n#tol svad toirm eqide!Ison add to ynie zeiftede abac[el enigchlidq\n\n-Inox woy at redtel ya ni betots eres dobile to selar erd,slim\n\nno haul yerit residedw bra bawdyno need ever siJCI redodo) to yonel Looo to se s ewt,80 to emit ent je birod\n\nota eloneer eearit gritoøgser bevi 067 Edroyer Blit\n\n+\n\n-grivolio? add\n\nIsoo nitiw berutyno nesr¶ allt nl betroger \"Slɛaï oif\" .(I)\n\n.(S)\n\nno riveted de fer: 163-[mano) reisträ yd betroyar \"wastor.\" nedodge? bevitts grivon,sysdawoć te ed od bra redoto\n\non bar el noitaritzah aldiartso ter new sid” „IJA\n\nneed her \"credoof\" um \"padnist\" erit residerim roldazıotni\n\n·\n\nbrSS redoto0 10 event crow Beqillɛ muted of .chanẹ,i Ja\n\nbin desllnd ri alvwlal oniyyMii ot barruuden \"undni®T*\n\n.rdet da wor. Di\n\n•\n\n.(E)\n\nyranquino mi pīrIorol Ja bevirus svad of betroger \"cundood\" .(*)\n\nJo Larened-Ivanot\n\n\"reied\" giderow rucurieð erst did tw\n\n'ytesjal sik morî benindreosa I\n\nder bed Një radi:tajqat beline Noiriw \"niri_na\" erit durit fox_mnɑ\n\n.itòi radoto0 of qu drog dadd de beviris\n\ndolsw \"ebrook\".2.7 erit Lino betrogernu anime1 exert\n\n.amv) Tot yidienetao dalƐ den wá no slinaŭ moti beitse\n\nand mitoequer noitsenotni fatoitto bedcouper I\n\nand otni eren aeitinordul eilt yd eha. ed of saw moldy roldegidaevni ridal Janjua no ofimi grivael sonie \"undnie?\".2.2 end to adrens vom\n\nyabrodeoy cow I .nútSI rododol no uded of mutet ten litru bræ\n\n,poidamotni tadt Intered-romavo srit of VanderseƐ edd yď baariotni\n\nyonel İsort sik\n\no_mon to Terzevod\n\n+\n\n255\n\nvery valuable to the Philippine Government, had been obtained; but that its nature precluded it from being communicated to me.\n\nI have, etc.\n\nsd.\n\nJohn B. Rentiers\n\nActing Consul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 308, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "TO\n\nPRIVATE TO SECRETARY FOR WAR\n\nDIONETOH „HOLIKVOJ „WIÈÏ\n\n-----\n\nTranslation of CODE Telegram\n\nFrom GOVERNOR, SINGAPORE,\n\nTo GOVERNOR,\n\nHONGKONG\n\nDate 4th November, 1914.\n\n304\n\nMy telegram of 15th September following further notice has been issued by Admiralty:-\n\nAll traffic into and out of the River Thames must pass through the Edinburgh Channels or through the Black Deep South of the Knock John and Knob Light-buoys and through the OAZE Deep until further notice. No vessels are to remain under way in the above mentioned Channels inside the Sunk Head Lightbuoy or within a line joining the South Long Sand and East Shingles Buoys between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. Vessels at anchor within these limits must not exhibit any lights between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. All other channels are closed to navigation. Repeat this telegram to Weihaiwei.\n\nYOUNG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449721, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 403, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "Mergelet 100 to notte IRSTT \n\nSTATE NO YATIHOÆ MOTI \n\nDNOXƉKOH SORAYOO \n\nOF \n\n„ÞÍŘI‚zedmevok d‡ff e‡sű \n\nngieroï Bettaαoiɛɛik Tedot50 1±58 to mezzelet wol \n\nedt to golaiseb edt Toi et moideoup Jad‡ sodiemos eol110 \n\nIvanos I .gałbasamoð Tesi110 Iste neð \n\n1914 \n\nMer. \n\n1770 \n\nTAVOORAH \n\n399 \n\nmay \n\nTel \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n43780 \n\nAuse cans to 23 Mar. \n\nTo Michi cage. \n\n22 \n\n48924, \n\nDea Sa \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\nHONG KOPA \n\n45221 \n\nEnemy Firms. \n\nare all being \n\nGrund \n\nLing \n\nPect \n\n45221 \n\nREGE 17 NOV 14, \n\nup by lequations \n\narpio by Gove. no new business is \n\nbeing permitted as no It king trade is entirely internal \n\nDr. Rindey \n\n2. Collins \n\nsi. Geriddes \n\nThe \n\nwound up \n\nNo further \n\nلمستلهمة \n\ndove \n\nfinally; \n\nLevin \n\nto Wiliese (45700). \n\nBut think we should consider \n\nA desirability of issuing public notice \n\nSoom \n\nI should alm think it crashd be Resinalle Vo Know what stays \n\nbeing taken with regard \n\nane \n\nto creditors. \n\nto \n\nNo doubt the firms have creditors here, & there ought to be the to ascertain fromes \n\nStrach \n\n(86,106) Wt.31,086-13. 45,000, 12/18. A &E.W, \n\nWhat the position wer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "# 101\n\n## TAJATE DAINWON\n\n... VIRJETD8Ɛ .Ik ya bejoarib me I need svad voy Jadi voy motni od tvooTalí add ai jebe a as Jnamdnioqqs rot bejos lea add da praise ddiw gnol ynol to soivтs2 Livið amitibnoo end no munns req CSS3 to star req8q badning besolone add ni beitioeqa bateb bra \"aqiɛdebaû gnox anod\" bebeen enoidaluga? yns of Job jove bas Ɛleľ rednejq92 yen doin reqeq Jadd ridiw dne taisnoori Jon Jnemrevoû et yd beweai qú smið oð smit morł .ynolo) eild to \n\n-:9 Twoy Jant bratarabou of era voy .$ eds to Jusantevob: 9dt rabmw ed ([iw Jasa yo Iq bisq ed [[iw adnemurlone quoy Jaid ¡ynofob dadd bas ¡ynolo) sɗd to sbrut adj mort yisloa Iminolo) and of Jos¿due ad lliw Jnemjnionqs end eno i da luge2 eing) I \n\n462 Regulations in force for the time being and the General Orders issued from time to time by the Colonial Government. A copy of the latest edition of the **Colonial Regulations** is enclosed for your information.\n\n3. Regulations 49 to 73 specify the proceedings which are taken in a Colony when it is deemed necessary to suspend an officer with a view to his removal from the service; but you must also understand that you will hold the appointment subject to the pleasure of the Crown, and that the pleasure of the Crown that you should no longer hold it may be signified through the Secretary of State in which case no special formalities are required. Should you desire to resign your appointment you will be required to give three months' notice or to pay to the Government a sum equivalent to three months' salary.\n\n4. You will be provided with a free passage to the Colony on your signing the usual agreement with the **Crown Agents for the Colonies**, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., by which", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "# \n## 278. 13th July\n**Code** (LOW 17) Bioeƒƒ«ch wJO JOAGLUOL'\n\n## 279. 13th \n**Cypher** trao toque o nolaakerog iniiyomp Ort #art 1206\n\n## 280. 16th \n**Code** BIO 27OqCE OF nakan kanoq salinoɛpuf „ode? or sæin his bein\n\nReplying to Secy. of State's telegram of 8th July re Hides. Requesting instructions regarding certain points in the Trading with the Enemy (China, Siam, Persia and Morocco) Proclamation, 1915.\n\nRequesting permission to export Kwongsal antimony ore to Kobe.\n\n## 281. 16th \n**Code** Return of tin exported from Hongkong.\n\n| Date | Description | Quantity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\nPage 167\n## \nvist sei .fas mi chand pantat sartorir að na smart (1200 molanok mert bedrogue nit te must of loper to matura oché valdsmet LagogITE 20 zacht eboon beziðidang Ila tot at Lerno q ovienes of ba£t¿†mo aqbest to anodalni in HID Progam et molanlaroq sužinoujoj Mit ProÇIB að notankering vaktoorpa cebi\" mogts of notanturing saltoospel inox¬not wont bostegia sokkɗ to STEET DA manzo\" od oș of howolia shoog saikian si ting tortona most notewoereg duist4C may 36 20 aelad 8 to Imagkar tot bekas ♬na að notanturių galino : sleds of d æges of .40 [łó brake? .atkasX do mest Bad qvô Cart tul .832 briz bio Progas of melauižanog salinong aft .edu. et så o \n\n**MOÏTHON MOrt** bedreqzo nët to mistOf anta trogna að notauiærroq yaktneupad rand 30 quo of notantorzog vaktuaspað .80% AN .888 在 .885 .ITS .STS きゃら i .TS AIRL .OPS . d .TS .3 :", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 791, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "185\n\nK\n\n.desalom\n\nĮ\n\nCOPY.\n\nEnclosure 6.\n\nArticle II..\n\n782\n\n17\n\nJ\n\n«TO-ISvoj Ineb vi\n\n4091. Koźluedan chet, - Jiw bnet evr.. I plui ovnu quá am juda of beerint, ent had yoımIleorā \"woY >, ins .eu of benoqonq si do inw noÈS BON, SÉU TOV) DETSHOQ suzanele Inoitsivadu slunumqsioni adt\n\nby eat yd cud ninawao to Jluor lib on er hna em bo ruim evad to priland.ng odd monetos I troqar adui Jetrassiq voitelusi.o that nesogli mojayu wen erit sem vilo,Qu.:erst Li 8BPSILLE JA - nɑl to holdɔ) sot noinw eɔivreƐ amột nú s to constBİTS İs\n\n•LUTONO 2: Ball anos 30 ynold) at b... im serceseoq ybeon-\n\nand word low prev yonalleo: TuoŸ så mnimoditzien edo si ɑnol & dive to nextmo drogra Isqioning voleret treverg of bas,m•V undo anox to joinaso..do nomer, „Jeite aus old. uregeibat sempeɗ ci tow-ơng sin... to jail jamm bab, ni joivad) kuzooredni setudinco eis cserted browse on 30 Cum (m7 mną „nal mort wiinup daekį ni gnimoo tins to Jonł sway plea to gnijoo sar to, hmoq like Joud wuried no fos liundee\n\nJan (hubishi - đoài\n\nLa Lens 19 vawa! nes de eoivieƐ mietnuo to utrot ed\n\nmá níq\n\n'panelisorā woy miw eiqiolinq.i menos I\n\n3: toize vid to another edu to sno zad♪ quiees DeibuJR TAJJed\n\nG\n\nine quilisn't as yiingiomang ni drog dradzaqui me na oraNA 4:90tünjang si priliont skrid 11 .exe: brit akart ozeninə\n\nJing they havt atos? Just evad I eoir:eß emoteno to eonatai-e .J10q sit nobobda ilkw BOTS, MO. Culs İnno IIrma si 10\n\nah bad I Licht weiriadni and Ji\n\nเบ\n\nᎾᏞ\n\nmy Imanol to strojrá has atroqul to drebrednitequž es to tntoq duenulkår vila yljonit ova Viteblanco to josapoo\n\n.J10491\n\n....QİJWIDZİN A HIEN - 30 day at 20\n\nTot yuzaileori woy draud I\n\nTova pidama ed trosipa. I\n\nstay at perw\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 Chinese Maritime Customs Documents, shall be detained by the Harbour Authority, until the Master of the Junk or Launch has proceeded to the nearest Chinese 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.\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 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.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456634, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 800, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\ni\n\n...MTjejer chow to noiteisMIT\n\nJeand To yanJ STOKË....\n\ninox,nal,ToLIOVOU.\n\n.ĊIVI„redase DOG UBİS\n\n* \\LOW****\n\n. OT beitsicreali ota yanquðo lið unter „Juða zeummeed\n\n· .YO COPY.\n\nyuneak nowynoll of ea noiz teoq I us adw .00 að lundial of 31 ovky vidindong [Lim yach #mohu ga alum yĺzarışî anis dérolí not yommar mvia coed oven bæjarabou\n\n4 Vi cids blown of oidariseb grav si di „sonedideli eribaal yd\n\n• TOUT bluɑrie woy whoseer) niðże „nilreb ni kan sídlusog bismo soy li sewa 10 .mid ni sorbitno arau yimg.ðû bater\n\n-18v : Jumafedvord Tatva♬ 10% „nior si madideerið darit sonekivO\n\n„niizeń ni zod yooege minder a bowalis ed Jon Jam ad grimlocin- →re? to noisinog naitarekiɛngo otni cant bluɑde woy nożśrut la ndiw Helsi78 10? usenieud wins „niniedes to pdiliartineb bim yneymoo tu Alow Ji beizven ylionit eta Bimbang PTZA\n\nBi zevedraw line Jost add to solton olldug emea sumat of Llew ell Jasic uðnda yiuuenque hipocie solcon mendesa) of ka behloeb tố no belvino „inted poneze ako to arosyga Jemarievod) n'feepri ai mint .cwqob 1-kal snout in mod egt no sažeß bna uwchoak erebral\n\n210Y well,ynnquod sexet bacineet ovali eqUCKEST GRUBɔed efortiaeb ni usinnquɔoo viie so bednext ed a sin saknaśmoo ont ament dand\n\n.00 Brief lo zaivimoqusoo of an #talvoising on even I normall Jud Beijono yu bloci Indigno 'erebred srebirƐ, erased to 2 vezen obers siðill be combine on bra bednjžduovni need sad venskand\n\n.DOTETOSKİL\n\n791\n\nTranslation of Code Telegram.\n\nFrom: ...H.M.Consul-General, Shangjai,\n\nTo: Governor, Hongkong.\n\nDate: 22nd December, 1915.\n\nWill you kindly inform Cheetham of Texas Oil Company that Kay offers him appointment and requests him proceed Shanghai immediately for consultation. I am satisfied as to Bona Fades of transaction and pray you to afford facilities for immediate departure.\n\nFraser.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456673, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 839, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "2181 23.08\n\n€58\n\nedd of 10 oй To Tomi-voð all\n\n.esinois) and rot erudo to yr.ds.o$2 redesceû ritud...8 02.01.i77) Isinofol,ber(9058)\n\n(arer\n\nشدند\n\n:\n\n.redqio ni redueceu d‡Il est to mergejej quaY BileTJANA to deleeenoo0 echt To Istened To: 1970D 8.D пerblião bra nasor Lenzedni ert svieoer of betsgere Ai aciaiopsy art wizngenq to droo ent „YTENOSİTS DIE\n\nrb\n\nai soraneJniam to Jaco erT .08 Tâ si noitatom. 2003 „dnom req 000,12 droď: „siv sted se empe erir Juodo Bejwaang mujor end aniúrdoni troqenet a nerie neo I\n\nevad I\n\n·yledзmixorcos 000,012 To?,abıng his bo elmat anoX gnoli mort as_rado esetr yrles, or bl\n\n,evorqqe voy redder eldiesog an noce as diquentat „omixong djèl adź no dzira NLO STOLOSİTī\n\nYAX\n\n{\n\n:\n\nDRAFT,\n\nTel. 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J. \n\n518", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 635, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "# \nCA. 1916 HONG KONG 3815 TREC 031 3815 REG 25 JAN 16\nPension of W. E. M. Knox.\n24 Jan. Transmits letter from Col. Sey asking for certain particulars in connection with his retirement. Last previous Paper: 35750. Ans'd. 14 Feb. 16. Next subsequent Paper.\n\nSee ift on 30234/10. Mr. McKnox was retired on abolition of office when the Kuis was constituted. Referring to the p.p. in Ther/230/10, there is no record of the date of his withdrawal. It is possible that the D.C.A. may have it on record.\n\nX Find Mr. D.C.A. \nBo't W. Rublish the date of his withdrawal is the 15th Dec. 1874. This is, I think, all you require.\n\n(90092) W. 38800-8. 45,000-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 636, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Pensions 1176\n\n**ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENT FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.**\n\nTELEGRAMS, \"CROWN, LONDON.\" TELEPHONE 7730 VICTORIA.\n\nSir,\n\n632 \nREC \n3815 \n25 JAN 16 \n\n**WHITEHALL GARDENS. LONDON, S.W.** \n24th January 1916 \n12.15.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 20th April 1911, No.34381/10, relative to the pension of Mr. E. M. Knox, formerly of the Colonial Audit Branch, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter which we have received from the Government of Hong Kong requesting us to obtain certain particulars in connection with Mr. Knox's retirement and to enquire what reply should be returned.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \nfor Crown Agents \nThe Under Secretary of State, \n&c. &c. \nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464373, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 637, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL SECRETARY HONG KONG TO CROWN AGENTS\n\nPensione 1175 \nNo.4366/1912 \n\n## Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th December 1915\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWith reference to your letter No.191 P/Pensions 883 of the 13th August 1912, I am directed to request you to be so good as to obtain particulars as to the age and cause of retirement of Mr. E.M.Knox to enable the local records of his service to be completed.\n\nI am etc., \n**(Sgd.) CLAUD SEVERN** \nCol. Secretary \n\nPage 1 \n24 \n633 \n3815 \nREC 25 JAN 16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "page_number": 638, "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]", "content_text": "## MINUTE 634\n\nCA \"Alone. 3875716 18. Robiilor 4/2 t.\n\nMr. \nMr. \nMr. \nMr. \nSir G. Fiddes. \nSir H. Just. \nSir J. Anderson. \nMr. Steel-Maitland. \nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nSenthemen Sz 1491 16 \n\nIn reply to your letter (`1/Pennon's 1175`) of the 24th January, I am directed to state that Mr. E.M. 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A 1117 from, Time XPA 26/1 HONGKONG 89 1 PT 8G\n\nyiul deŸI margelej zwoy od soceroter ds in leinolo) to consuniunoo to meltseup eɗt of ze Лоф 03 umblas immoo gnijdey no neitoubab on ddiw asonswoÏIB yaitu, betapiunoɔ ɑew di yoza wen yaivrea won esilog ndiw bebeauorq ed od Jon asw rejjan jud alel ysk beurtotni etew yIdoorsqqs beated, anosreq dypodtie .IsBogorg to axejjel to tqieser no neaize moijasvý djiw yaivisa dneverq de doiɑ bns new? sciloq owt mort anojɛzimmob beauter bad yedt Jadt zaitirw dotsy dosid\n\nJenjbeeivbe må .eded of brolle Jon blvos yond soivica Aviðɔs no evil aso adnanejueil kos beirremtu quivil os exeoitto eta eredi dant öna yaq yıstilim .OTON ORISTAS MÁ od ebsm ed nIvoda seunscolle ano: to Jnsumiovoj Jeeyane oluow Jud soiloq elania beiTTem to mexblidə bas nemow yaq oj beunijnos gnox eonsvolla noiteluger anoiseirmoo gainistdo soiloq bisger Jon Os I .ncitomorq exoled ybaeris beri yedü djé doJaqeeb woy rebnu zaimos as esiloq znelynof\n\n•rowans ni yiul dias mergsiod ym S8 .01 ye 0.0 OW PEER with = CHAPELRIES LN = With up t ༢༽༽ལྡན་ན་ J 17 July UNHEROIC TRACKHOUND كراهية as to the question of contimance of Colormal alloriane QUEENCAKE CORCOVETAS DEDUCTION ON Samling POLICE SALICAB الم الما ANASTEAM 1916 BUT MATTER PERSONS CONCERNED CHLOROUS GETTING CIMOLE TO it w consulen CONESHAPED MARMOTTONS not to be proceeded whith WAS PORRACEOUS ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY Question PROPOSAL SILVERGOB QUANBRIGHT هد دراما INELEGANCE On receipt of LAPATO OF TWO' .YAK\n\nHowever, a more accurate representation of the original text would be:\n\nPage ??\n\nTHE\n\nExamples, PW-3.45 p.m.\n\nHL 8.55 p.m.\n\nA\n\n1117 from,\n\nTime\n\nXPA 26/1 HONGKONG 89 1 PT 8G\n\n...\n\nTRACKHOUND\n\n17 July UNHEROIC\n\nas to the question of continuance of Colonial allowance\n\nDEDUCTION ON\n\nPOLICE SALARY\n\nANASTEAM\n\n1916\n\nBUT\n\nMATTER\n\nPERSONS CONCERNED\n\nCHLOROUS\n\nGETTING CIMOLE TO\n\nCONESHAPED MARMOTTONS not to be proceeded with\n\nWAS PORRACEOUS ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY\n\nPROPOSAL SILVERGOB QUANBRIGHT\n\nOn receipt of LAPATO\n\nOF TWO\n\nYAK\n\nPlease let me know if you would like me to make any further corrections.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "## \n69\n\nTIAE TO MOITAXAT IT:09077\n\nant ni tiks ie moltexat beeogorg sið eð amoizostɗo eNT\n- are unido to MJESTAJNI\nsunavet fanoltibbs yas dit lw ynol gnok skivorq Jan III SI (I)\n\ns to salty sit ni Qüds amos to esastoni ne sevioval JI (S) egatavs erit Jait But at +1 .til to Vissesɔen NOMMOD\na tart bra dove ea tías ait‡ll tud aemvanco 988NIND and at beau tise ent zol abivorq need Bar Star Latosqe ang is,tud :dell Jisa „Jeib to selɔtrus Iquiɔming sin to Litw xat sit jant batdual ed vibrad nao ti amit sms & bsonedine dowm yönetis et al 98397omì xediwi a ni Jizer 8 91a ylimb \"disso\" ATİXS wel z neve bus gcivil to Jaos ai finom erit Tot IIId-boot Letot adt nedw Tatjan avotisa\n\nc# 6 14 noswjed\n•\nKİRİTAD Bither on\nVC BIR LATSneg nł ynolod edt to ebart and no stostim ajI (8) J namesIgA arij ni sbaz\" al nclaircıq ol .(novy anweet) \"asirodoa? eldoig\" ct amat Latosqa yne tot brs ynoloƆ srið ni saedt to isɗown sideroblemos a el sisat ebotu avottar ni omoh al ebatt troqx9 Leitmatadva yIÐ▼ J Jnatzoqui na ed jaum Jice dotíw at souborg \"barzeesïq\" to 91SW SSİZoðoat siit 11 saof neem on ad blow I .Jasikergat\n\nent NOTO TOAJINT .new band grown to osɔsk of beT ONS I Two to Hovm traVið oft Jasinittum só van stat beoubet\n.asosi sasit of tas♫t guide it dokɗw c† asosiq vino shit ton sze na wend gnowd bna osoak (*)\n.886ATj gaisu-diss Tuo avizh trgim anoë gnoë në noitaxat yncio ads to ars [seb-tías sdt gamme abem zattiupas MOTË vitist at benistɗo eď nao tisa terit zes in stiup sme se ji anol nsswded anide to Jasos erit ancle esitiinsup sgtel neve To Luoiq raq eines Ob to xat » ja wojewo bne an01\nadt tot besoqorq si anoX groß mt moltaxi?\n.9817-XAJ\n.entro ctni belygume anted mort Jise gaijnavsıq to saoqtirg\n&JI\n(6)\n(6)\n\nIts effect would be to promote the smuggling of salt from China into Hong Kong. Before seeking our assistance the Gabelle should enforce its tax of $2.50 per picul at the sources of production within its own territory.\n\nApart from the possibility of their attracting salt-using trades away from Hong Kong, Macao and Kwong Chau Van are almost certain to defeat any measures which Hong Kong may take for the protection of China. It is so with opium. Hong Kong makes strenuous efforts to prevent any opium, even her own \"Government\" opium from reaching China. Meanwhile the Macao Farmer openly boils large quantities of opium \"for export\" to destinations not stated, but none the less obvious and Kwong Chau Wan sells several hundred chests of raw opium annually to a population which probably does not smoke a chest a month. Kwong Chau Wan appears to produce considerable quantities of salt and Macao can draw precising from her and as indicated in the e/paragraph, from China.\n\nFor the credit of British administration Hong Kong will, of course, be bound to administer the salt-law whole-heartedly once it is passed. China, on the other hand will shew no such zeal. The Gabelle will no doubt do its utmost, but other Chinese departments will not. A few months ago a prominent opium-monger was able to defeat our precautions and those of the Chinese Maritime Customs by procuring gunboats belonging to some Chinese department to carry raw opium to Canton. It will be the same with salt. It is in fact notorious that Chinese official craft are constantly smuggling salt. A memorandum on salt-smuggling in the Kongmun District, forwarded to His Excellency the Governor by Sir Richard Dane under the date 28th April 1915 contains the following statement by the Tidesurveyor at Kongmun:-\n\n\"Events and personal observation have proved to me that the extensive salt-smuggling carried on in this district", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490645, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "## TOWY 12 dente au porn dni nonairagua daszy to #redrow Lała \nDAN JANTJË ME SHT \n\nvt to #lvo 12 vớ ni afrig säð wona prt send \n(wxhildo haigaba sram stokchu kh` avớt thenTX \nno; 40 037% 364363 \n\n### SUV mử t÷ \n*UR SPIAN IRÁDIVIDEA VÙ TAG #N98 #E \n:-11 4D pasmico \nJon myado kuna. In de opd nurusetaosą nat \nVI Kİ YAX \n\ncantile to goizetak \n+ \ndhl or ao vai ETHER \ncum 21 blava Indibond weld te kateoricqum ang tahta 105 sẽ \n\n↓ \nwila po kuORE FUTION\" \nKriman viiduq bu ala•¥¥* • mà laitasuns at Ji \nan ftip vb to judam iplespueron ver und Inu Jend Jusnugta nút \ndavid ja muidad, delajo musoppa vis panjpšujam až po si lie org a \nbis suĹew In in a to bezka s vode \n(bom isty lubleibed #02 \nKnob sail ift F CALOOSA OFmt saat Z on mech \n\n### Janual site. In moderadas Emupert sát \nIn the event of all adopted children being registered it should \nbe an offense for an adopted child to be allowed to become a prostitute. \n\nWe recommend that the existing legislation be enforced. \nWe recommend that when convicted of soliciting a short term of \nimprisonment should be imposed, and the alternative of a fine not \ngiven. \n\nThe imposition of a fine usually means that an already infected \nwoman is encouraged to infringe others in order to earn the money to \npay the fine; whereas a short term of imprisonment enables her to \nstart the modern method of treatment which she can continue at the \nHospital clinic. This treatment at least renders her non-infective, \nand less of a danger to the community. \n\nWe beg to submit the recommendations and the report presented by \nthe Commission be sent to the Far East via the National Council for \ntransmission to the Colonial Office. An advance copy is being sent to \nHis Excellency the Governor at his request. We trust that the recom-\nmendations will receive the favourable consideration of His Excellency \nand those concerned. \n\nWe are, \n...stovini ada madr \n£tly fatal 13 was œ SEPTY IN. \nMonetarules one požaŻNEJ \nstead Malið amir@ to aslánd \nadre beta ŽMONA Iminung \n\n...astutita dig \nNĂM (12¢ di ac i tid toits nem ben ʻqxy S2R RAZEM. In 20 \nKid TTİK \n\nYour obedient servants, \n(nd.) Cybil Neville-Rolfe \n(36.) Rupert Hallam. \nCommissioners.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492152, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "82\n\n. J\n\n! \n\n04\n\n+iI\n\nเวลา\n\nV ww\n\nTex\n\nT\n\nJ\n\n• .q\n\nmard k\n\nld\n\n~lturo yich I\n\nROMPO ME brow not know a#od 100ƒ\n\ntere fapt\n\n•\n\n15:05 nes ji kira\n\nH\n\n.mte od dna edade\n\nJ\n\n(3)\n\n57\n\n(VI)\n\nrailings, and 2 or 3 yards from the Wardley Street railings\n\nI could not reach it from outside. I told a ricksha coolie\n\nto climb over. He did so, picked up the revolver and handed it to me. This is the revolver in Court Exhibit D.\n\n.\"oi zawa\n\nJuo\n\n3'1\n\ntoomad te ond\n\nCouborg I\n\n髀\n\n10\n\n.X X OF\n\n(ba)\n\n48,30\n\n(21)\n\np.16)\n\not Jb\n\nE\n\nETY CAT\n\ndire\n\n1\n\nselt at foen 20162 ama2e7 erit\n\nt\n\n-125 C\n\nenters Bituen avli þed! ni abelled eit\n\nW\n\n* atquỢT @vli + SAT A drink? sa end\n\n- Taylover edt ji II\n\ndxe's I\n\n.:\n\nF\n\nAPTPTU I*\n\nto sadjela enet to dore ni elod adī\n\ndove\n\nJas defiud ■ yď babuso need\n\nven bl, no drew midt\n\nI took it into the Bank first. I found it was loaded. I broke it and took out the cartridges.\n\nThere were 4 live\n\nI handed over the revolver and cartridges to Mr. Barlow.\n\nOn February 27th, about 9:30 a.m.\n\nI saw Inspector Grant and pointed out to him the spot where I had seen the revolver.\n\nNo X X.\n\n(ad)\n\nHo Cheuk.\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell, P. M.\n\nCase for the Crown closed.\n\nMr. Brutton does not desire to cross-examine any witness.\n\nDefendant cautioned.\n\nMakes no statement.\n\nMr. Brutton reserves his defence.\n\nDefendant committed for trial to the next Criminal Sessions\n\nof the Supreme Court.\n\nJu 870 3\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell,\n\n.X X OF\n\n.Ilenev A\n\n.E\n\n(ba)\n\nPolice Magistrate,\n\n3. 3. 22.\n\n.A\n\n(b)\n\nCertified true copy\n\nI\n\n#ICO XUCHD oH (er)\n\nBd.\n\nrr duc\n\n.8175 teranefi i gnox\n\n0. Willson\n\nFirst Clerk.\n\nZ. This\n\ngoldt meri\n\nCu mnie\" .. '1\n\nmer to broto 2\n\n3.20 1\n\nXV de il tuo now I\n\nredt mi auw I\n\n.Jeeja\n\ndas erli.C\n\n+\n\nsekor jnu. I milocs edadola 2 yd om bellaque\n\nA\n\nc\n\n1\n\nni xudov seŭ to ebla diTOR\n\ndo no teb÷5\n\n'sal galyf nav\n\nant mort d~~ 3 tiode Tamen dyntä velbıra\n\nHere is the proofread text in HTML format as requested:\n\n57 (VI)\n\nrailings, and 2 or 3 yards from the Wardley Street railings\n\nI could not reach it from outside. I told a ricksha coolie\n\nto climb over. He did so, picked up the revolver and handed it to me. This is the revolver in Court Exhibit D.\n\nI took it into the Bank first. I found it was loaded. I broke it and took out the cartridges.\n\nThere were 4 live and one spent round.\n\nI handed over the revolver and cartridges to Mr. Barlow.\n\nOn February 27th, about 9:30 a.m.\n\nI saw Inspector Grant and pointed out to him the spot where I had seen the revolver.\n\n(ad) Ho Cheuk.\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell, P. M.\n\nCase for the Crown closed.\n\nMr. Brutton does not desire to cross-examine any witness.\n\nDefendant cautioned.\n\nMakes no statement.\n\nMr. Brutton reserves his defence.\n\nDefendant committed for trial to the next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court.\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell, Police Magistrate, 3. 3. 22.\n\n(b) Certified true copy\n\n0. Willson, First Clerk.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501641, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 668, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "659\n\n1.J O.L\n\nALJINUS > VSTIÁS EL\n\n• Exo Tu...* VİToves tom vil» Tsalitò\n\nejojvjo ano di a\n\nELGI DE\n\nUTI NA 20 silleron ərid is\n\n+\n\n→\n\na 01 EITO PTO DVPA\n\n. (4367yong ni ese donGH 12 JANỆ\n\n,nologuɔ100 #da not sonel b 16 meusz\n\nvid in a Ikonumu súð nɔɖw bayrevím chef\n\noru 10 mond vita ne and`s ndi „noltunego oni joq ed ng\n\nValjinovéu. In\n\nvi to go. Ma de vara mu to amen vd meto Jens inter emni pied doma na (38-Iluhou so, web-a dout wɔdT\n\nVILTISH A Lebowzi Bus [19]MOTOOO\"\n\nKULAIDOSO, #ds abinsaw anivii 276.\n\nelemaonos erts qunt\n\nAND N\n\n10\n\n.\n\nw\n\n1011\n\nme mat . to e\n\n41338 JOGU DA A\n\nJe m''''\n\nkwa\n\n‚stiek). Chimoi\n\n2.1.\n\n.f BU OY\n\n103\n\n1...\n\nJA JASAV.\n\nJ\n\n**\n\nVAL TOTAL\n\nJaun. YX\n\n+\n\n20 BJio:\n\nJ\n\nVib sib q\n\nPARA\n\n2\n\nA\n\nNV\n\n\"\n\nי\n\nBEAM VIS DAMI GATA\n\nو لبلدة\n\n4\n\nanwi\n\naj\n\n11 2010)] ~ 50 r\n\nSAW OU\n\n750TG NA KAnox yada urody of ac\n\neasier for the Concession police the commanding officer of H.M.S.\"Cockchafer\", after consultation with myself, posted\n\na guard of two sailors at each of the Bund gates with orders that the gates were not to be opened except under his instructions or my own and the gates were, in fact,\n\nopened once to permit the passage of a gun.\n\nAs soon as I heard that General Chang Tsung-chang\n\nhad himself arrived, I sent him my car with the request that he would be good enough to give orders that troops were not to attempt to enter the Concession, The General sent back a courteous reply and the required orders were given, with the result that no further incidents of this\n\nnature occurred.\n\nI have not yet been able to obtain any definite information as to what took place at Kaotze. There must have been a certain amount of fighting but the resistance offered by the Chinkiang troops appears to have been very feeble. It is not unlikely that the troops who had come from lower down the line, realizing that they were in danger of being outflanked both by road and river, took an early opportunity of getting together all available locomotives and rolling stock and retreated to Tanyang; those that remained were either captured or dispersed through the hills. No resistance was offered by the forts here; I am told that the men had all been bought over a week before the attack took place. During the 17th one shot was fired from the fort on Silver Island at a launch passing down river, and that was all. The main body of the attack did not halt long in Chinkiang but pushed on towards Tanyang; by the evening of the 18th railway communication with Nanking had been re-established and on the 19th with Changchow. There appears to have been fighting at Tantu,\n\nbetween", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502812, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "Page 10\n\n--\n\n.noitiaoq ads bontalque svad I zsddel avoiver yna bns bellatatubaw vlanelsqod won si soitto wit\n\npagetoni við ødsm lliw yjiatevinU sát to nolaneqrə\n\nadt Jadt bba yam I .oldativeni tiada soitto add to\n\nTot ɑwod fenola8000 saam of Jagwo rollsonarD-soi▼ Lanoidgaube ddiw dovot ni zatqsed to saoqing writ\n\n.stedivenle bas ante ni zbeen bus anoijutitani\n\nJasgw at bed roads on won at polisomer-solV ST quot evзul mobles não ad Jadt Frow sviðsrtainimba\n\nJug of noiteosy gael eat guiwb neve ton .gnol vidanozget a no eoitto lazines sát to gaidow act .beriuper at 000,81% to mua Lavans as saitool havon Ils Juḍ,008,13 yɗ betaesarger ridgvor od Tom mint anox znok ni eď bluow bevlovni adnaayaq Isaoitibha sdt .#zsilob\n\nR*\n\n.einadeb drugi deom mo stafutiquoet of Juods to yaituo Istigao a sevľoval yðivosť esanich eft To 000,06% to stutibusque Isumma na yo 000,081,18 sevlovni alsuoqorq qidarelodba beouber edt .000,89 OA, 83 TO 006,45% to srutibasqre Launna Latðini na\n\nSAT .000,003 тo 000,001ą to Jaoo laurine Lant】 a hors odt rol bexluper visthibeamt sonetaisam lamoijibba To 000,SI§ VIIsunna Jaoo [Ilw moitmoubã to tosseloтî\n\nIndiqes a evlovni #gnibliud won pisarsden ødt .005,13\n\n180% fatit sat gnituɑ .000,2&£# to 000,☎8Ɛ,18 16 mua\n\n000,063 to 000,003* to zua a anoidaraqo yatbilud edt to\n\nbas eit gatzub bariuper tawone adf .beriuper ad bluew\n\n.300,STA 10 000,OST# ed biyow snoidsrego suedi to z80% 090.258 samibllud sat to goedqu sút roi rat tot đất bao wal sat to antiosed súd to dramavorquì sát .003,S3 TO blow rettel sint ni betaegque Bustil edt no inentisqel\n\n.008,13. xo 000,81# to stutibasque Lanolðibba na naam\n\nThe Biological Department involves an additional annual expenditure of $20,000 or £2,000, and the improvements are estimated to cost an additional $16,000 or £1,600. Thus to meet its most urgent needs the University requires a capital to be spent on buildings of $1,345,000 or £134,500; it also requires an additional income of Hong Kong $144,000 or £14,400, say roughly £15,000.\n\n16. The debts owed to the University by the various Governments of China - these debts have been accumulating for years and are still growing - have been already brought to the notice of the Boxer Indemnity Advisory Committee by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I attach a letter signed by Mr. S. P. Waterlow in which the view is taken that it seems not unlikely that the Committee will take a favourable view of Sir R. Stubbs' suggestion that these debts should be regarded as a first charge on the Boxer Indemnity Funds. These debts amounted on the 31st April last to Hong Kong dollars $106,780.29 or roughly £10,700.\n\n17. The amount required to settle this debt would bring the capital amount asked for in this letter up to roughly Hong Kong $1,451,780.29 or £145,100. In other words, the claim which we are venturing to press in this letter is for £150,000 capital and an addition to the University's income of £15,000.\n\nI am, dear Lord Willington,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(sd.) C. Clementi.\n\nCHANCELLOR.\n\nUniversity of Hong Kong.\n\n486\n\nPage 10\n\n--\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "257\n\nHARDLEST TEATHSARAS\n\nStaJĖ TO ĮTadstonë ed‡ of anoX gnoH to TonTavoð sdt moTI .etnolo and 101\n\nasei radus‡qaƐ dači bajaⱭ\n\n(asel zeďmetqs& ft&I .m.g 08.& so£170 Lainolo0 bevisosA)\n\n.notnæo bna guide of betasqo♬ .noljaujie nojne) .Jarosā yɗ Tot baxan es etnemgolevab wen to viamava at gniwollo\n\nAONL 16JGFlem ol fue afp gebfemFEL*\n\nsát 1to hates lo need svar atszolq sätt‡8 SɗT (I) woławɑ bra nożnað is nejat noitoa Levan sit yd ayaw19 JAW .Tedasjq92 Nta adi na\n\n(S) enkbral dJSI zedmejqaƐ ot die redmejqs& mor¶ ditiw load boa notnað of agayov Lutassoows obam Tena9JA\n\nByaw dłoď jdalszt\n\n(૩) to florwoo noinsð add to isdmem a si odw ̧0% au&\n\nto nos bra JnomnisvOD owj sban yitnoost end nać tay nvā 189qqa bna bedaliduq need evad asent .notasð da se doseqs\n\nadt atroqque yílt inomnisvoð notasɔ edt tædt eisolbal of\n\namia zisát eszenie bna setikumoð sätïjů notuso end to atoa Lueno✪ gnátok s'y‡zetek BiH jesupst ye is ylyniÈÚTOODA of ston Intoitto ne d301 redmetqsů no besesibba Larensð beTiSost asad med yiqet on doidw of,Jnemnisvoð nodnsð ert bna batzogez yitostros nesd bar of awê reńtedw zatrłupne wond of batiBiw JASMYTevod zacλ anok and Jant zaibbe add to colloq and Jon at to at si Todts::w gistiniteb \"greáinƒ8 motus0\" ad‡ ‡roqqua of Jusmnisvoð notnæƆ dnsasıq Iswoq ati midtiw al sa agamab dove anoX anok no Joiftat of -amino Juodgvozda #tosyod duid178-1‡ne saj qolsvab of bus\n\nno galtit era wodash woled bna svoda esozot matna) (1) .8sflix bns anuş bisit dilw yistankatıpaibni aqida daljira\n\nOn September 10th His Majesty's Acting Consul General, on instructions from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, addressed a note to Canton Government, to which again no reply has been received, requesting that immediate instructions to put an end to these outrages should be telegraphed to the Army Commanders concerned.\n\n(5) Bun Chuan Fang has not yet taken any decisive military action and the military situation is still obscure. It appears however that Sun is in alliance with Wu. The loyalty of the Canton and Swatow Generals to Chiang Kai Shek is suspect and in East River valley\n\nand\n\nin Hainan some risings by troops of Chen Kwing Ming have already taken place.\n\n(6) Our dealings with Canton Government are not directly affected by the incident at Wahnstien. Loss of prestige will however certainly be heavy unless action is taken as suggested by Naval Commander in Chief (see his telegram of the 11th September) with the result that the achievement of an honourable settlement in Kwangtung will be rendered even more difficult.\n\n(7) It appears from a meeting which Brenan recently had with Eugene Chen that Canton Government will not accept our offer of an industrial loan and are not taking the enquiry proposal seriously.\n\n(8) Copy of Brenan's telegram No.41 of 12th September, and a semi-official letter from him have today reached me. These confirm the statement in (7) above and make it clear that the critical military situation is causing Eugene Chen to play for time. This is why the \"further practicable suggestions\" are not put forward at once. A threat that unless we come to terms the boycott would be extended to the Yangtse constituted Chen's only new suggestion at a previous meeting. His letter quoted by Brenan was private and not official and this renders his sincerity open to grave doubt. If we arranged to resume negotiations", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503999, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "2\n\n475\n\n..........I...0..4.0.0.4 roheliil Jovodei,roli. Jf Laria..34 edafpano) iki‡tsƐ op Lartynent\n\n„broj gli\n\nTI-STÁN ON!,solfeonant add vyamĺInox? all te, mo, ic noitrieblanco mi sol biariot tuos,basdazę bowi 2 moiðaduyet ydłambal sexol quid to erodem zavito mist ban 3. to noteangan ber Juanjo lavah odd so2 somcios deflateb -soll add yʊ modúknu deligung à 1200% zool to yžiarovin\n\nsi yðizzerial wild to dźwor; bae nijito sdź no rolleonado To Exod... uze ek „abneri a'qkrabrod wol ni ‚evelled ev c. ait ole se vydiansvink and lo llongoð est base twod Cho, Quoll odd no qilimanë suerido est to zevijainsaenqer Jon cadzi. Las muilset udú vod, el\n\n+\n\n.\n\nJi Don Vol to proloŭ and to ytimuros esantiid sit to olgte, v...elÌ19 sad to adresie stidsvisanoo #zon erit to achys of eutnov si trút alusó aidt so at JI ylleṛmam\n\n1\n\n8.3 Jari. to notiziɔergy, zwo ansıyas of qirlabroi wol taenda mio Jarid sanabilnoo two bar,scob and yttaroviaľ cú aðilang. Imao‡Juouko yus ni exada od yšlenovial súd to Jonuit of abioeb gr. dne.movol a'ydasfail si, dɔtú, mis\n\n.beakooĺtɔvo Jô đơn Ilh ytimeke:I rend sit to tuo\n\nwid J. Jueduo aút de asiaadque of stizab ei **\n\n-vin” ə.3 Jærið beðziani syov:la ydłezovin' aidé to szabowo? 9/1 101 J„d anois paoli troll to molod srið 201 ton say yħla (allesterolu sinh no saw JI „ylbrano siqooq sasaidi 210wi scenkätkort szobrotyun bezoek pákazovkuű orð med alt an. Lesh: 10 sitesinudine dacci edt ynour „matio\n\n.muis met and yonellesz. will quodnad to yosaiT\n\nsil Lynnt tenido la. Liawnii of galwo\n\nLo Lewollot dəlik mil' to moitilado boldda.mus acid bu\n\nLuz barisaym ..... wéien vir art,18. meyowa Jeet,\n\nset-backs. But it has educated students from all over China,\n\nmany of whom are now doing well; and it is perhaps not irrelevant to remind Your Lordship in this connection of what His Excellency, the Chancellor, has already brought to your\n\nnotice, namely that on account of scholars sent to the\n\nUniversity, the Peking Government and other governments of\n\nChina are still in the University's debt to the extent of over\n\none hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars.\n\n4.\n\nAmong the proposals in connection with which His\n\nExcellency, the Chancellor, has approached Your Lordship, is\n\na scheme for establishing in the University of Hong Kong a Faculty of Chinese studies. His Excellency deprecates the\n\ncomparative neglect with which Chinese studies have hitherto\n\nbeen treated in the University, and is emphatic in his view\n\nthat this defect should be made good as soon as possible.\n\nWith this view we are in complete agreement. The scheme for\n\na Chinese Faculty which is now being laid before Your Lordship\n\nwill not only provide facilities for the study of Chinese\n\nclassics by Chinese students, and for the comparative study by\n\nsuch students of the English and Chinese languages, but it\n\nwill also be designed to afford opportunities for Britishers,\n\nboth civil servants and commercial men, to acquire the Chinese\n\nlanguage.\n\n5.\n\nThen the University of Hong Kong was started, stress was laid on the undesirability of sending immature Chinese boys far away from their homes and traditions and sustous of their country, to be educated in Europe and America. The Canton Viceroy quoted above was particularly emphatic regarding this danger. We desire to impress upon Your Lordship and your colleagues that this danger, far from\n\nhaving ceased, is now more acute than ever.\n\n6.\n\nIndiscipline is now too common among students throughout China. From all quarters comes the same complaint\n\nthat students have become a law to themselves, and that\n\n32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "808\n\n310\n\nJean38 zniewol\n\nJET DEŻ\n\n. as\\reer. o\n\n' • midt mont 19‡‡al ad‡ of sonetoter diiv\n\nJneupsadue ona dsvi 100meosⱭ d‡01 ext to JuandraqeⱭ\n\nKAA ne to nodalvotą add oð özayoz dilw sunebaoq@OTTOD\n\n* VISJBIDSƐ .Ik yď bato@Tib na I Алая упої: sa bootl\n\nabrol and #roted blai a: od „pov of Jimenærİ OF VISMA\n\nMelqoo Sulyanqn:odos at VZEMIASTA set to azamolantemO\n\nadd no goox ynoll to Tomtevoð add sort en otaqasà ==\n\nKostta Juniawi vnofo] #xt to somatab (1) Ya Jostdum\n\nRAMEISYO MOTI\n\nnį tedd bontezsba, wi fi S\n\nTad to stebru wait to snija. HITS ANK To motelosb\n\nTo consigo add to molthaup alode adł\n\n-đưộ • yď soniq dari? vit ni benimaxo ed IIiw gnoX anol!\n\n.#soİVI82 setið add to #11ad2 sdt to e9]】mmoŬ\n\njozoleredt (bluow grSMA blow waitismo) sil‡ 11 balj od\n\nRadojagaab a'ifnoma1ð ‚C xið salt smar súð da rebienoo\n\n‚zettei aint ni basolone sta dolite\n\n3.\n\nThe Secretary of State understands that as the proposals for an Air Force are concerned, the view expressed in the joint memorandum as to the effect of the Washington Treaty is open to question,\n\nthat a proposal will shortly be made to the Committee of Imperial Defence that the interested Departments should be invited to a conference with a\n\nview to reaching agreed conclusions as to the interpretation of Article 19 of the Treaty. Circumstances, it would not appear that the proposals could usefully be pursued pending the results of such a conference, and the Secretary of State proposes that an interim reply to this effect should be sent to the\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong.\n\n4.\n\nIn these circumstances,\n\nA copy of this letter and its enclosures is being sent to the other Service Departments, as well\n\nto the Foreign Office and to the Committee of Imperial Defence.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nA. G. Grundle\n\nSECRETARY", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938", "content_text": "## THE NATIONAL BIRTH CONTROL ASSOCIATION \n**(with which is incorporated the Birth Control Investigation Committee)** \n69, ECCLESTON SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.1 \n\nTelephone: VICTORIA 3368 \n\n**Hon. Treasurer:** \nIAN C. BAILLIEU, Esq. \n\n**Secretary:** \nMRS. PYKE. \n\n**Headquarters' Organiser:** \nMISS HOLLAND. \n\n**President:** \nTHE LORD HORDER, K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P. \n\n**Chairman of Executive Committee:** \nTHE LADY Denman, D.B.E. \n\n### BIRTH CONTROL INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE \n**Chairman:** \nSIR HUMPHRY ROLLESTON, Bart., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P. \n\n**Hon. Secretary:** \nC. P. BLACKER, ESQ., M.C., M.D., F.R.C.P. \n\n### Vice-Presidents \n| Name | Title/Honors |\n| --- | --- |\n| C. J. Bond, Esq. | C.M.G., F.R.C.S. |\n| Robert J. G. Boothby, Esq. | M.P. |\n| Aleck W. Bourne, Esq. | F.R.C.S. |\n| Geoffrey Bourne, Esq. | M.D., F.R.C.P. |\n| Professor F. J. Browne | Professor of Obstetric Medicine, University of London |\n| Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders | |\n| Harold Chapple, Esq. | M.Ch., F.R.C.S. |\n| The Earl of Cromer | P.C., G.C.V.O. |\n| Major Leonard Darwin | Sc.D. |\n| Earl De La Warr | P.C. |\n| Sir Mark Grant-Sturgis | K.C.B. |\n| The Rev. Herbert Gray | D.D. |\n| Capt. D. W. Gunston | M.C., M.P. |\n| Miss Gertrude Herzfield | M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. |\n| J. Maynard Keynes, Esq. | M.A., C.B., F.B.A. |\n| Major-General Sir Alfred Knox | K.C.B., C.M.G., M.P. |\n| Cedric Lane-Roberts, Esq. | M.S., F.R.C.S. |\n| The Rev. Gordon Lang | |\n| R. Langdon-Down, Esq. | M.A., M.B., B.Ch. |\n| Professor H. J. Laski | |\n| Professor Lelean | Professor of Public Health, Edinburgh University |\n| The Countess of Limerick | |\n| Professor E. W. MacBride | D.Sc., F.R.S. |\n| C. Killick Millard, Esq. | M.D., D.Sc. |\n| R. Hopkin Morris, Esq. | |\n| Claud Mullins, Esq. | |\n| The Hon. Clive Pearson | |\n| Sir Allan Powell | C.B.E. |\n| Sir James Purves-Stewart | K.C.M.G., M.D. |\n| The Lord Raglan | |\n| The Lady Maureen Stanley | |\n| The Right Hon. Oliver Stanley | P.C., M.C., M.P. |\n| L. A. G. Strong, Esq. | |\n| H. G. Wells, Esq. | |\n| Mrs. Wintringham | J.P. |\n\n3rd June, 1938 \n\nColonial Office, \nDowning Street, \nLondon, S.W.1. \n\nDear Mr. MacDonald, \n\nI enclose a letter of introduction from Lord Horder and shall be very grateful if you will allow me to come and see you in order to discuss a matter which has arisen in connection with the Hong Kong Eugenics League which is a Branch of this Association. I understand that Sir Geoffrey Northcote is already in communication with the Colonial Office in the matter and I am told that Sir Geoffrey would be glad if Dr. Nixon, late President of the Hong Kong Eugenics League and former Rockefeller Fellow of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in the University of Hong Kong, could explain to you one or two points about this matter. \n\nMr. C. D. Forrest of the Hong Kong Civil Service and Dr. Yeo of the Hong Kong Medical Department would like to accompany Dr. Nixon and myself if you are good enough to see us and if you have no objection. I think we need only take up about fifteen minutes of your time and we shall be most grateful if you can spare us this. \n\nYours sincerely, \nKayout Pyke \n**Hon. Secretary**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573745, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944", "content_text": "## \n2. \n8478 \nJ \nIJUOK TKEMMAEVOa \nDMOX OHOH \n.IEL.OM \nBIOI VM \n\nend no chiebral wey zestĒds of Tuonon ed♬ evad I \nJnamqolavad has lostnoë studyï edd no $16798 and 10 Jostdue newî SìveⱭ 112 sjal sdr yd isliqmoɔ zrol gnoH to Jo¶ and Ic to I .oй reqa¶ Lenoies9€ es qtrebrod woy as bebisarol ins [+€Ï\\286\\08.0M ston gattsvoo ■'ytaj97092 Isinol=0 aút 79 bau feel IIIqA NJOƐ TO \n\nIntenna Seom erit bevteɔen aan noitesup at drogen edT ,$ \n26 Den79onos ejasmineyeh Jasıravoj sɗë lie to noijenablanos fxrenet gnox grat and tre exteí)-ni-970kommet end as [Isw Ciut e doba deteqash skåd usbwa sea of I .Sursumo) to redmad) \n\ncatatrodaus istevse sasıð qd Dasttundue ejngunos mity to JaGM9 JBJB \n9mez buente? bluoda I dedo notash ItonwoD erituosxi ym Juc ersstube to yood Ilana a vő keretawi ajnaomos gali8999jui \n\npesgeg på spe Brepob OL Houé gonR• \n.8 \n\nneed bad ajnertoo fas ejkoger end Ile zosta salleen a de feftoer new rf Pompeo evijuɔexi ya va bene blanos tpak Enemmcost of ‚iPI VIND 1308 no bled Stonreb Jagd 10 pokeangang Legbering e'new? Divnd alë to sonséqeɔɔe e'gidebroj \n\ntað ei loeslo &ð Mirode Judy atris to Lozanos adj Jadj regatleet no Beringia le batrdijs:109 (JENT *10% a 10 elkan Brunno Mold„naqol dari sud (newọ bivní trh vnd be beanno DEZ 2 28 ? bag encareq støving So -imad edy al s yabisa Mccartneynt ede nu Jastekant vignoïse naw ItorwoƆ sɗT so la Iloppet 933 .diareq ssons Jawelio es nocë es ezasɗo stáj alomek ñived til not? zenusmageḥ Jighla yatwollo】 sdt beatvbs -dus pranakan ellt dau buoqaar moo Egonsteist Istvee edj jestvba -194057 911v 10 SCI dzerysreq to anotjoss \n\n(S) \n*gsoxa,bodɛsyqua za radialtenɔɔ ed Elunde Jaenz Mit (88 øgsmycreq osa) subjednesarıqsı Irvan ond Jait kesalonga estimer drgeTIS VOD Zanottiche ne ad blueda \n\n.0.7.5 \n(4) \n(5) \n(7) \n\nnot as Trustee but in an advisory capacity generally and especially as representing Admiralty interests. The reason for this recommendation lies in the relatively short periods, averaging two years, served here by the Commodore of the Dockyard, who was considered to be the proper naval officer for this purpose. \n\nIt was emphasized that the Chairman should be a man with wide experience of port management elsewhere. \n\nThe appointment of a Trust on an experimental basis or for an experimental period was regarded as somewhat anomalous and therefore was not advised. \n\nIt was considered preferable that the person appointed to hold subsequently the position of chairman of the Trust should, prior to his actual appointment as such, spend such time as is necessary in the Colony preparing the ground and advising on the organization of and legislation for the Trust. \n\nThe list of matters over which the Trust would have control should not be regarded as exclusive. \n\n**Governor in Council** should be substituted for **Governor**. \n\n(8), (13) and (14) These recommendations would be modified by the decision on (4) above. \n\n(11) \nThe Trust should have the discretionary power to authorize sub-letting. \n\n(15) to (23) Consideration of these recommendations generally should await the creation of the Trust but that Government should not be precluded by this advice from proceeding with such works as might be considered necessary in the meantime. \n\n4. \nOn the first of the above recommendations there was a minority of two official members who considered that the management of the harbour should continue to be vested in a Government department, but I accepted the decided views of the remaining eleven members of the Council. \n\n5. \nI shall be glad to have Your Lordship's approval of the above recommendations in due course. \n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, \n1. hat. Worthern \n**Governor**\n\n\n## \n2. \n8478 \nJ \n... \n\n## The Trust and Harbour Management \n\n(4) \nnot as Trustee but in an advisory capacity generally and especially as representing Admiralty interests. The reason for this recommendation lies in the relatively short periods, averaging two years, served here by the Commodore of the Dockyard, who was considered to be the proper naval officer for this purpose. \n\nIt was emphasized that the Chairman should be a man with wide experience of port management elsewhere. \n\nThe appointment of a Trust on an experimental basis or for an experimental period was regarded as somewhat anomalous and therefore was not advised. \n\nIt was considered preferable that the person appointed to hold subsequently the position of chairman of the Trust should, prior to his actual appointment as such, spend such time as is necessary in the Colony preparing the ground and advising on the organization of and legislation for the Trust. \n\nThe list of matters over which the Trust would have control should not be regarded as exclusive. \n**Governor in Council** should be substituted for **Governor**. \n\n(8), (13) and (14) These recommendations would be modified by the decision on (4) above. \n\n(11) \nThe Trust should have the discretionary power to authorize sub-letting. \n\n(15) to (23) Consideration of these recommendations generally should await the creation of the Trust but that Government should not be precluded by this advice from proceeding with such works as might be considered necessary in the meantime. \n\n### Decision and Conclusion \n\n4. On the first of the above recommendations there was a minority of two official members who considered that the management of the harbour should continue to be vested in a Government department, but I accepted the decided views of the remaining eleven members of the Council. \n\n5. I shall be glad to have Your Lordship's approval of the above recommendations in due course. \n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant, \n1. hat. Worthern \n**Governor**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943", "content_text": "# \n(Y900) \n135 \n\nat me I \n\nWOLL \n\" \nJedy oviy of trip I tent of BATIU?oo asd JI \naasient Mrs. M. (now at Shanghai) noiaasɛɛog \n.H . \nMr. Murdoch o \nR.S. 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Ianoi tantotal ent to evidstasesıge\" on VIIe BBW 919 noinigo sin ni,ħedt vitnese em blot \nSI9dt \n.won bebivory boot sɗt abisg97 es tatsIqmod \n107 10 3891 \n-:gaivo \nR \n1sgenel JO8J2i22A \n(A 897 Dne) Isonipak · Ifanoo (analit A mor1 Davis) wenigal \nantdmet .2.T 28810 .F nguosaA...H \nenommie \n4 \nnoj andol 7.H \n# \nM \n$1 \n*doobruti .\"M\\ \nnaweИ M.O \n1 \n*Tebave.2 \n*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598545, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951", "content_text": "2 \n\n(i) To consider in line with the restrictions on, and prohibition of, the carriage of Dangerous Goods in passenger vessels, what further restrictions on the carriage of such Dangerous Goods may be necessary in vessels engaged in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers.\n\n(j) To consider the degree of danger inherent in the carriage of many local cargoes, such as rattan, smoked rubber sheet, carbon stick (compressed charcoal), raw cotton, gunny bags, glazing paper, local fireworks, etc., and to classify them in accordance with the general scheme.\n\n(k) To consider in the light of the latest experimental findings the suitability of the present location of the Gunpowder Depot, Dangerous Goods Anchorages and other shore installations.\n\n(l) To advise on the consequent revision necessary to Ordinance No. 1 of 1873 and other Ordinances affecting Dangerous or Explosive Goods.\n\n12\n\n3.\n\nList of Members\n\nThe original members of the Committee were as follows:\n\nMr. William James Carrie, M.A., B.Sc. (Chairman)\n\nMr. Neill Garland, I.S.C., B.Sc., M.I.N.A., Marine Department\n\nMr. Donald Gordon Cairns\n\nMr. Joseph Faul Hewitt, Assoc.I.N.A., Fire Brigade\n\nMr. William James Gorman, M.B.E., Government Chemist\n\nMr. Roland Henry John Brooks, Police Force\n\nMr. John Redman, B.Sc.Tech., A.M.C.T., F.R.I.C.\n\nMr. Roy Vincent Francis Turner\n\nMr. Norman Kemp Littlejohn, A.M.I.C.E., Public Works Department\n\nMr. Albert Kung CHAN\n\nMr. Hubert John Collar, C.B.E.\n\nProfessor John Edmund Driver, M.A., Ph.D., M.Sc., F.R.I.C.\n\nMr. Edward Egerton Hudson\n\nMr. William Thomas Knox\n\nMr. Alan Reid\n\nHon. Charles Edward Michael Terry\n\nMr. Reginald Andrew Tickerson\n\nMr. Richard Henry Wild\n\nMr. Singnam CHCY was appointed an additional member on 14th November 1949.\n\n4.\n\nChanges in Membership\n\nDuring the sittings of the Committee Mr. D.B. Sinclair replaced Mr. R.H. Wild, resigned, with effect from 9th January 1950; Mr. J. Moodie was appointed to act during the absence on leave of the Hon. C.E.M. Terry with effect from 10th April 1950 and, at Mr. Terry's request, continued as a member after his return to the Colony;\n\nMr. T.B. Low replaced Mr. D.G. Cairns on 1st May 1950, Mr. E.C. Hubbard replaced Mr. E.E. Hudson on 17th May 1950, Mr. R. Frost replaced Mr. A. Reid on 25th October 1950 and Mr. W. Sprague replaced Mr. N. Garland on 9th December 1950, the original members having resigned on leaving the Colony.\n\n/ 5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598563, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951", "content_text": "36. Publicity\n\nIn paragraph 21 we have referred to the great need of enlightening the public, the merchants who deal in these substances, the warehousemen who store them and the stevedores, lightermen and porters who handle them, regarding some of the dangers which may arise. The Wing On Fire Commission, in paragraph 61 of its Report, referred also to the general ignorance of the Regulations which prevails.\n\nThe subject is vast and complex and it is obviously quite impossible to prepare any short set of Regulations which would be applicable in all cases, but the general principles on which the Regulations are based are simple enough. It is unnecessary to scare people, but it is imperative that they should be taught to take care.\n\nIt is to be hoped that these Regulations will be studied by all concerned in the importation, storage and sale of Dangerous Goods, and that they will instruct their staff, more particularly those who might be unable to understand them direct. The Shipping Sub-Committee suggested illustrations as a means of reaching the uneducated labourer and we have forwarded copies of these pictures, with a suggestion that they might be used as posters. We submit that the Public Relations Officer might be consulted in this matter and some means be devised, whether by pamphlet or by picture, to reach all concerned.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servants,\n\nR. H. J. Brooks\n\nS. Choy\n\nA. K. Chan\n\nH. J. Collar\n\nJ. E. Driver\n\nR. Frost\n\nW. J. Gorman\n\nE. C. Hubbard\n\nJ. P. Hewitt\n\nW. T. Knox\n\nN. K. Littlejohn\n\nJ. Moodie\n\nD. B. Sinclair\n\nT. B. Low\n\n3. Redman\n\nW. Sprague\n\nR. V. F. Turner\n\nR. A. Wickerson\n\nJ. Carrie, Chairman.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir A.W.G.H. Grantham, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor, etc.,\n\nHONG KONG,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-2 Movement of dangerous goods around Hong Kong 1-1-1951 - 30-4-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]