[ { "id": 216783, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nNo. 32. \n\nNo. 32.- \n\nA RETURN of Her Majesty's SHIPS and VESSELS employed on the Coast of China, in 1840, 1841 and 1842. \n\n1 July 1840. \n\nThird Rates \n\nFifth Rates \n\nSixth Rates – \n\nSloops \n\nBrig \n\nTroop Ship \n\nTOTAL \n\n144 Guns - \n\n1,080 Men. \n\n\"\" \n\n多多 \n\nI \n\n\" \n\nI \n\n\"} \n\n3,064 \n\nThird Rates - \n\n1 August 1841. \n\nFifth Rates - \n\nSixth Rates - \n\nSloops - \n\nBrigs \n\nSurveying Vessels \n\nTroop Ship - \n\nThird Rates \n\nFourth Rate \n\nFifth Rates \n\nSixth Rates - \n\nSloops \n\nSteam Vessels \n\nBrigs \n\nSurveying Vessel - \n\nTroop Ships \n\nHospital Ship \n\nTOTAL \n\n1 August 1842. \n\n144 Guns - \n\n1,080 Men. \n\nサウ \n\n\" \n\n3) \n\nJ \n\n\"\" \n\n2,962 \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\nNo. 33. \n\nPRINCIPAL EVENTS in China, from June 1840. \n\n1840. Arrival of Sir Gordon Bremer at Canton \n\nBlockade of River and Port of Canton \n\nArrival of Admiral Elliot from the Cape \n\nDeparture of expedition for Chusan \n\n\"Blonde's\" attack on Amoy \n\nArrival of expedition at Chusan, and capture of Tinghae \n\nArrival of detached squadron, and communications with Ningpo Departure of expedition from Chuzan to the Peiho Arrival off the Peiho \n\nNegotiations end by departure of expedition from Chusan \n\nPlenipotentiaries arrive at Chusan from the Peiho \n\nPlenipotentiaries leave Chusan for Canton River \n\nTruce proclaimed at Ningpo, pending negotiations \n\nPlenipotentiaries arrive at Macao \n\n\"Queen\" steamer fired into off Chuenpee \n\nAdmiral Elliot resigns the command \n\nNegotiations resumed with Keshen \n\n1841. Negotiations interrupted, and forts of Chuenpee and Tycockton taken \n\nNegotiations resumed \n\nConclusion of preliminary arrangement announced \n\nCaptain Elliot's Proclamation on assuming government of Hong-Kong Draft of a treaty agreed upon with Keshen \n\nChusan evacuated \n\nKeshen evades conclusion of treaty, in consequence of which the Bogue forts \n\nare attacked \n\nBritish force moved up to near eastern suburb of Canton \n\nFort in the Macao Passage near Canton taken \n\nTor \n\n144 Guns - \n\n1,240 Men. \n\n1,360 \" \n\n1,835 \n\n\" \n\nLanding at Canton \n\n\"\" \n\nPassage of the \"Nemesis\" through the Inner Waters \n\nTroops in advance of and before Canton captured Agreement for cessation of hostilities \n\nSir Gordon Bremer proceeds to Calcutta for reinforcement \n\nOperations resumed \n\nArticles concluded by Captain Elliot at Canton \n\nReturn of Sir Gordon Bremer \n\nArrival of Sir H. Pottinger and Sir Willian Parker at Macao \n\nོ \n\nཔ \n\n\" \n\nTOTAL \n\n\" \n\n7,069 \n\n\"\" \n\nDeparture of expedition for Amoy \n\nArrival in Amoy Roads \n\nCapture of Amoy \n\nDeparture of expedition from Amoy \n\nChusan re-occupied \n\nN. B. The under-mentioned Honourable Company's Steam Vessels appear to have been employed under the senior officer or Admiral in China in 1841. \n\nSesostris. \n\nQueen. \n\nPhlegethon. \n\nNemesis. \n\nHooghly. Enterprize. Atalanta. Madagascar. \n\nChinhae captured (citadel and fortified heights) \n\nNingpo occupied \n\n1842. Chinhae and Ningpo maintained against night attacks of enemy \n\nAction at Tsekes \n\nChapoo captured \n\nWoosung village and batteries captured \n\nAnd in 1842 in addition to the five first named of the above, the following Steam Vessels; viz.- \n\nAriadne. \n\nMedusa. \n\nAuckland. \n\nTenasserim. \n\nProserpine. \n\nPluto, arrived from England at \n\nHong Kong, 3 August 1842. \n\nAdmiralty, 12 August 1843. \n\n596. \n\nShanghae captured \n\nChin-Kiang-Foo captured \n\nSignature of treaty \n\nJune \n\nJuly \n\n\"J \n\nAugust - 7 September 15 \n\n28 November 15 \n\n>> \n\n\"} \n\nDecember * \n\nJanuary 7 \n\nછુ \n\nM \n\nFebruary 12 \n\nMarch \n\n>> \n\nM \n\n+4 \n\n\" \n\nMay \n\nw \n\nFM7 \n\nJuue \n\nAugust- \n\n\" \n\nSeptember 5 \n\nOctober 1 \n\n\"> \n\n\"\" \n\nMarch \n\n++ 9 \n\nMay June \n\nW \n\nJuly \n\nAugust \n\nNo. 33.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217948, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "CHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nthe well-known character of the Chinese, it is probable that such an effect would be produced to a greater extent by the introduction of the same number of immi- grants of that than of any other nation. \n\nEntertaining these opinions, and deeply anxious for the success of the West India Colonies under a system of freedom, Lord Stanley has directed his unceasing attention to the general removal of restrictions upon the introduction of labour into those colonies; and being well aware of the intensity of the demand, he is the less disposed to complain of the urgency of the remonstrances which have been addressed to him on the part of those directly interested, as well on other occa- sions as at the late interview at which you were present; or to express any sur- prise that the facilities which have been already afforded should be more lightly appreciated than the difficulties which oppose themselves to a further advance in the same direction, \n\nFor practical purposes, as regards the removal of such restrictions, Lord Stanley considers it obviously unnecessary to advert to any except the cases of Africans, of Indians, and of Chinese. \n\nAs regards the first of these, Lord Stanley cannot but regret that persons having at command the means of information which he thinks must be possessed by those who have addressed him, should appear so little impressed with the dif- ficulties which the social system prevalent in all the independent countries on the coast of Africa must oppose to any supply of labourers not in the condition of slaves; or with the consideration that if slaves in their own country, they can only be obtained by purchase from, or agreement with, their Chiefs or Headmen; and that such transactions, if permitted, would necessarily lead, if not to the actual evils of slave trading, at least to no unreasonable jealousy and suspicion on the part of foreign states, against the proceedings of whose subjects, in attempts to obtain negroes, this country has directed, and still directs, the most stringent and forcible \n\nmeasures. \n\nIn opposition to this jealousy, it is necessary that Her Majesty's Government should be able, not only to rely upon the great argument that in landing in a British colony negroes arrive in a place where slavery is impossible, but that they should also be able to state that in those cases in which they do permit their exportation, such precautions have been enforced by them as are sufficient to pre- vent the possibility of abuse in the mode in which they have been obtained. \n\nLord Stanley does not think that the present would be a convenient opportunity for reopening the discussion of the details of the plan which has been recently adopted in pursuance of this object to which, as yet, so short a trial has been allowed. \n\nThe case of emigration from Her Majesty's East India possessions, it is true, stands on different grounds. On this head, however, I am directed by Lord Stanley to repeat that, adverting to the difficulties which arose in connexion with the system whien previously in operation, he considers it absolutely necessary, in the interest of the West Indies themselves, carefully to watch the experiment, now in progress, of emigration to the nearer colony of Mauritius. \n\nThe abuses which have to be guarded against, it will be remembered, are not merely those which may exist on the passage or in the colony, but those com- plained of in India itself. The difficulty of preventing these, under any circum- stances, has been strongly urged by those whose local knowledge gives peculiar weight to their opinions; and the test of experience is wanting to prove that their apprehensions may be removed by increased vigilance and new precautions. \n\nThe case of the Chinese, however, on which you particularly address him, is fortunately free from some of the difficulties which exist in the cases of the other two classes of labourers, especially if their places of embarkation be limited to British possessions not on the coast of China-a limitation which, for other (po- litical) causes, at present at all events, Lord Stanley would deem it necessary to impose. Their intelligence, their willingness to work for wages, and their frugal and industrious habits, as well as their capability of supporting the labour of sugar cultivation, combine to point them out as a valuable class of immigrants; while the very circumstance of their having found their way in search of employment by means of a passage, averaging three weeks, to Singapore and other adjacent set- tlements, would be a guarantee at once of their knowing the nature of the pro posals made to them-a question so much disputed in the case of the Coolies-and probably of their ability to endure the effects of the voyage. \n\nThe main objection applicable to this class of emigrants is their being unaccom- panied by women; and this has been, to Lord Stanley's mind, a very serious \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nobstacle to sanctioning a bounty upon their introduction into the British colonies. \n\nThe same consideration, however, which prevailed with him in the case of Kroomen, viz., that their habits are to leave their country in search of temporary employment, has alone induced him not to consider this objection as insuperable; and I am therefore directed by him to state that he will not refuse to grant, to a limited extent, the permission asked for to introduce them into the West India colonies, according to the scheme which it will be my duty to explain. Before doing so, however, I should observe that, in stating it, I have assumed the altera- tions to have been made in the laws of the different colonies which will be neces- sary to allow it to come into operation; and I may also remark that the state of the law in the Crown Colonies and Legislative Colonies respectively will render necessary a different mode of proceeding in the two cases. \n\nLord Stanley might have been disposed to have made the same provision in the case of Chinese labourers as in that of natives of Africa, had he considered such provisions to be necessary for their protection against fraud, or even as not calculated to create objections and suspicions in their minds. But from the information he has been able to obtain he is led to believe, first, that the Chinese who may be found at the British settlements in the eastern seas, are fully competent to stipulate for what would be most for their own advantage; and also that from their peculiar habits they will not be induced to emigrate at all except under such previous sti- pulations as shall ensure them employment and remuneration according to a certain scale. The only mischief, therefore, against which it appears to Lord Stanley essential to guard is that which was found to operate so prejudicially in the case of the Coolies, namely, the discovery on the part of the labourer after his arrival in the colony that he might have obtained better terms for his labour than those on which he had contracted to give it. \n\nIn order to avoid this evil, there is obviously only one course open, namely, that of permitting the labourer, after his arrival in the colony, to rescind the contract into which he had entered out of it; and this is the course which Lord Stanley proposes to adopt. In doing so, however, it becomes necessary to guard the person at whose expense the labourer may have been introduced against the consequent loss, and on the principle on which immigration at the cost of the colonies has been sanctioned, Lord Stanley considers that such person is clearly entitled to be repaid by the colony in the event of an ablebodied labourer exercising his option on his arrival there of rescinding the contract under which he came. \n\nIn the case of such a labourer rescinding his contract immediately upon his arrival, the arrangement would be a simple one, the person bringing him thereby becoming entitled at once to the full rate of bounty, such rate to be settled in the manner to which I shall have subsequently to advert. \n\nIt is obvious, however, that labourers may be more likely to wish to abandon their contracts after some experience of the colony,than on the first moment of their arrival. Lord Stanley assumes, of course, that whoever brings such labourers will in the contract which he makes with them, engage to give them such a rate of wages only as, compared with the current rates of remuneration for labour in the colony, that in the event of their continuing to work for him for the whole term agreed upon, he will have saved, by the difference, whatever sum may be necessary to cover the expenses of their introduction; and should they have stipulated for a return passage, for the expense of that passage also. Lord Stanley would \n\npropose that the duration of contracts should not exceed five years; and as well in order to admit in the calculation the provision for a back passage, as also with a view to convenience as regards the obligation of the colony, he proposes that any person \n\nhaving imported a Chinese labourer under contract, if such labourer remain in his service for two years and a half, shall be considered to have been repaid the ex- pense of his introduction by the benefits derived by him from the labourer under the contract of service. \n\nIn the case, therefore, of a labourer remaining in the service of the person who brings him for the space of two years and a half, even should he then rescind the contract, Lord Stauley proposes that no bounty should be payable by the colony. \n\nThis, however, still leaves unprovided for the case of a labourer who may not at once on his arrival quit the service of the person who brings him, but may do so before the expiration of two years and a half, this case Lord Stanley proposes to meet by assigning to the person who brought him, instead of the full rate of bounty, \n\n2 L 2 \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nDE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223328, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 290, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "prscendment of the nder relating to the new Broirs which had been directed to be raised by the Governor Krursal, consequent upon the \n\nBik invasion.\n\nMoss quite perpared had the last intelligence bern of a dvern character, to make rorry sacrifice, (srring the from able turn affairs have taken in China) by carishig lorry available man both Ewropean and Apoy, consistent with the inmadiate safety of this island, to India. Eraving the 98th to follow on the Evacuation of Chulan, and drooloing the Military Cace of this colony on the next senior officer, assisted by The mern of War and Marcies now in the Barber and by the Encopran settlers who must have been Emcolled for the further protection of their own pwperty.\n\nSuch a measure would no doubt have sivolord a very serious alternative, but with all the disadvantages attending it, I should not have hesitated to adopt it under the purpure of a still, & grater margency, biz: the danger accruing to our Indian Empire, and I should have looked with confidence to the liberality of the Jurens Government to place The most favorable construction on my motions.\n\nAnd my Conduct.\n\nThat\n\n236\n\nThat trapity howwer has crased to drill; And I count back naturally to the consequence; which the absence of any portion of the troops from this statine would Entail at this mouril- on the public service. In the fist place, altho there is 20rry pinspect of our affairs with The Chinese Government terminating in the most Satisfactory manner, the patification of the recent tiraty concluded with Keying and on which depruds the Wacuation of Chusan, has not and Cannot for storsal werks to come, bi rreriord from the Emperor and while there is a point of any kind to gain, Schould be sony without a coursponding prersity, to shew Any indication of wraknis in this quarter.\n\nThe dusters of this Colony are morroure to Extended from the long sex line Share to guard and the protection Sam caurd upon to afford. to the Kaval Establishments as well as to the Civil Auchinities, that it is imposible to undritake thrm Effectually with a lap face than Share at persent in the Island.\n\nThat force convicts in round numbers of 1200 duty men, of which 650 are Europran of the above total 900 are located in Victoria, And the remainder detached for the purpose. of Guarding the Worth Eastern and Eastern Sidrs\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the instructions to correct OCR output:\n\n1. **Format** — The text is transformed into standard HTML using `` for paragraphs.\n\n2. **Reasonable adding of words and re-ordering**: Some missing or incorrect words were added or corrected for better readability.\n\n3. **Correct spelling errors** — Spelling mistakes were corrected.\n\n4. **Fix spacing issues** — Extra spaces were removed, and missing spaces were added.\n\n5. **Rejoin broken sentences** — Sentences were rejoined where necessary.\n\n6. **Restore paragraph breaks** — The original paragraph breaks were maintained.\n\n7. **Indicate missing words** — Not applicable as no clear indication of missing words was found.\n\n8. **Do not rephrase or rewrite** — The original text's style, tone, and word choice were preserved as much as possible.\n\n9. **Format in HTML** — The text is output in HTML.\n\n10. **No translation of text** — The text was not translated.\n\n11. **Format of File Reference** — Not applicable as there were no file references in the given text.\n\n12. **Page numbering** — Not applicable as \"Page XX\" was not detected.\n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format:\n\nConsideration of the order relating to the new Brigade which had been directed to be raised by the Governor General, consequent upon the \n\nBritish invasion.\n\nI was quite prepared, had the last intelligence been of a different character, to make sorry sacrifice, (seeing the favorable turn affairs have taken in China) by carrying every available man both European and Native, consistent with the immediate safety of this island, to India. Leaving the 98th to follow on the Evacuation of Chusan, and devolving the Military Command of this colony on the next senior officer, assisted by The men of War and Marines now in the Harbor and by the European settlers who must have been Enrolled for the further protection of their own property.\n\nSuch a measure would no doubt have involved a very serious alternative, but with all the disadvantages attending it, I should not have hesitated to adopt it under the pressure of a still & greater emergency, viz: the danger accruing to our Indian Empire, and I should have looked with confidence to the liberality of the British Government to place The most favorable construction on my motions.\n\nAnd my Conduct.\n\nThat\n\n236\n\nThat tranquility however has ceased to exist; And I count back naturally to the consequence; which the absence of any portion of the troops from this station would Entail at this moment- on the public service. In the first place, although there is every prospect of our affairs with The Chinese Government terminating in the most Satisfactory manner, the ratification of the recent treaty concluded with Peking and on which depends the Evacuation of Chusan, has not and Cannot for several weeks to come, be received from the Emperor and while there is a point of any kind to gain, Should be sorry without a corresponding necessity, to shew Any indication of weakness in this quarter.\n\nThe duties of this Colony are moreover Extended from the long sea line Shore to guard and the protection They are called upon to afford. to the Naval Establishments as well as to the Civil Authorities, that it is impossible to undertake them Effectually with a less force than are at present in the Island.\n\nThat force consists in round numbers of 1200 duty men, of which 650 are European of the above total 900 are located in Victoria, And the remainder detached for the purpose. of Guarding the North Eastern and Eastern Sides", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224538, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 444, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "working of \n\nاور سینے میں \n\nconferred the \n\non Mr Martin, - and this \n\na mind \n\nthe \n\nmaintenance \n\nadvance its laudable objects. The \"Central Agricultural Society \"pedition \n\nThe \"Central Agricultural Society \"undation of India and the Colonies. which the landed interest was united for the protection and \n\nIt has proved a bruice of dinare pratification to Mr. Martin encouragement of Agriculture, at a period when it was threatened but his conduct abroad and at home was deemed deserving the gracious with destruction, (1835-36) had its origin mainly in his exertions, expproval of His Sovereign, William IV\", who was pleased to command the for but grass he acted : elatuitously as one of its honorary Secretaries. Cedication of the \"History of the British Colonies\" and the \"Marques He also cooperated at Honorary Secretary with the Soviety for the Wellesley's Dispatches \" . and his presentation at Court : _ and to express Notection of Domectics Industry\" which was imperistended by a Commited ; the Colonial Offere the Royal desire that he should be employed in. of twenty one members of Parliament; where of C. S. Cayley, M. P. was Chairmanghat Department of Government étating that \"This Majesty tick an interest and which had for its leading object the wrim in land, in anufactured and Grade = \n\nof all classes engaged in Mr Martin's welfare?\" Her Most Gacious Majesty Queen Victoria \n\nhas also vouchsafed Her Majesty's benign commendation of Mr. Martin's In order that he might obtain an accurate view of the fjorts for the w. lfare of his Countrys \n\nour Banking Septem, Mr Martin made a tour throughout \n\nOne of the greatest Statesmen who have shed lustit me this or England and Scotland, to the extent of 2.500 miles, during which the visited any other age (the Most Hobbes the Maryness Wellesley) has rearly every public and private Bank in the kingdoms and for suche monstgunch prized boon of his friendship he officiated as Stonotary Secutary to the \"Commercial Bank of Sonsonfrif but unavoidably egotistical detail of public services, may well The Bank of British North America\" was planned, & its preliminay be consluded by anneying Copy of a letter from the Noble Margaus succeedings were organized by Mr Martin, and other Colonial Bunted to the Secretary of State for the Colones, of which att Martin may had their origin in his advice & information . The \"Bank of Asia \" for justly feel proud, as it emanates from \n\nof the most lofty, conducting Exchange operations betwear England. India and Chika, was generous and enlightened character, and pre-eminently distin- flamed in its plan and principles by Mc Martin, and its organization was quithests for an ardent patriotismes, which for more than half \n\nbegun \n\nun and completed by him Eight thousand Shares of the balue of £100 easta century), had been officiently devoted to were subscribed for in a few days, on its first. \n\nof constitutional liberty. To the extension of christian Civilization_ six thousand Shares of equal value une applied for in \n\n\"and to the preservations and permanent prosperity of the whole These observations demonstrate that AoiMtarting labours have British Empire. not been restricted to those of a merely literary characters. He has visited several times, the manufachrring and Commercial districts of the United kingdom; - \n\n:- and since his return from the Colonies he has traversed a large part of the Continent of Europes, including Germany, Switzerland, Belpound France, be, and examined the progress of their trade and mas \n\nanufactures. M: Martin is one of the few surviving Officers of the disastions surcrying and exploring bythedition of N. M. Vessels Levers \n\nYour Lordship's uniform kindness under W. F. W. Owen, on the Coasts of Africa, and on the Shores and Hwns of the obliging attentions induce me to trouble; \n\ne you with u. \n\nyou Castern and Southern Hemispheres and for his services he received the \n\nin the success of which I am deeply intereated, from motives marked commendations of the distinguished Commander of the Squadron. of gratitude and friendship, \n\ntitude and friendship, as well as from a sense of public During the last four years M. Martin has been an action Member duty. Several respectable friends of the present Grosenment, & for Butsh India - from the same sentiments, have already expressed their concur- to procure the adoption of a, permanent - moderate settlement of the land box\" \"rence in my opinion, and have declared on angiely equal to and to promote the social and Christian improvement of one hundred Million of our fellow subjects. He has been deveral times examined \n\nBefore Committer. \n\nOur object is to dec Mr Montgomery Martin ( a gentlemen of Parliament, on financial and tincantile incasures; - and in 1840 kr was with known to \n\nwell known to your Lordships, and so the public) employed in some \"nearly three weeks under a \n\ninterrogation: Commerce & relative Station in which his eminent la lints and extraordinary industry and \n\naunounament in London, and \n\nIndia. \n\nArd \n\n\"Barr. \n\nBarracontor \n\nof the General Court of Proprietors at the Batt Inotea How whole disinterestedly assisted to obtain freedom of Commerce for British India \n\ntrick \n\nthe \n\nMy dear Lord, \n\nIn the \n\nتر موتی کی کی \n\nthe same subject- \n\nKingston House, Heightsbridge, \n\nto \n\n17th November, 1840. \n\nanal \n\nrequest. \n\nPage 438", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "487\n\n47\n\n46\n\n# REPORT ON\n\ndry fish, of salt, and of samshu,— an ardent spirit distilled from rice, millet, or other grains. There was also a considerable entrepôt trade between the northern and southern coasts of China. Now a foreign trade has commenced, which will probably increase to a very large extent if we retain the island. In two articles of British manufacture, the sales at Chusan during the past year amounted to 1,000,000 dollars, viz.:\n\nDollars.\n\nCotton goods to the amount of 750,000\n\nWoollen ditto 250,000\n\n—1,000,000\n\n[We omitted at the treaty of Nankin, to get a free trade between Chusan and other parts of China, at least during our occupation of the island.]\n\nIn July 1843, Captain Cleverly, of the \"William Hughes,\" sold in four days in Chusan harbour, woollen goods to the amount of 85,000 dollars. There was not so much merchandize sold at the Consular ports of Shanghai and Ningpo in nine months, as was sold at Chusan in the earlier months of 1843. The Chinese prefer purchasing goods at Chusan, as there is no monopoly, and as they have no China custom house mark on them; and they are thus more readily saleable at the different ports along the coast, as they can be transmitted into the interior of the country, without being subject to the transit duties which are levied on British manufactures, even after they have paid the custom-house duties at the Consular ports. The possession of Chusan, as a trading emporium, is the more necessary, by reason of the state of four of the Consular ports, which, excepting Shanghai, have not in any degree realized the expectations entertained. There is little British trade at Amoy.\n\n\"In Asia the observance of treaties does not arise from any conviction that they are an obligation binding on both parties, but it springs from sheer necessity; and the moment this powerful law is not in operation, all engagements are null and void. The best guarantee for the maintenance of our treaty, will be the British occupation of Chusan. Its possession by England will render the mandarins more conscientious and willing in executing the behests of their sovereign, and the great monarch more desirous of conciliation, than our fleets and armies stationed at the other extremity of the empire. Chusan will prove the bridle for restraining the wild and ungovernable passions of Mulichangah's party, and for keeping England free from all interference in the political affairs of China. In case of an European war, Chusan would prove a very valuable post for the protection of our shipping, and the expulsion of any enemy from those seas; and without such a station the northern trade, which ere long will be larger than the southern, would be exposed to imminent dangers.\n\n\"We would look upon Chusan as another Malta, not in point of natural strength, but of political importance, for the maintenance and undisturbed enjoyment of a commerce which, after the opening of Japan and Korea, and the access to Mantchouria, will certainly rival the whole of our Mediterranean trade.\n\n\"With a fourth of the money spent on the ungrateful soil of Hong Kong, Chusan would have exhibited a larger and more beautiful city than we shall ever behold on the straggling hills of this colony.\n\n\"If changes occur—if difficulties in the performance of the treaty arise—if China resumes its perfidious conduct—if other foreign powers strive to obtain the mastery in its councils—if the country is agitated, and trade must seek a safe asylum, then the permanent occupation of Chusan will become the most salutary measure that could be adopted for preserving British ascendancy and influence in Eastern Asia.\"—[Dr. Gutzlaff's report, written in November, 1844, two months after mine on Chusan.]\n\n44\n\n# CHUSAN\n\ntrade at Amoy. The \"Erin\" and the \"Mary Anne Webb\" were at Amoy during the present month (August, 1844), and could not sell a bale of cotton goods, or of anything, although there was no stock on hand. At Ningpo, there is no resident British merchant. Goods have been lying at Ningpo for the last six months unsaleable. The Ningpo authorities are ever throwing impediments in the way of trade: they forbid the introduction of foreign goods in native vessels from Chusan. I may mention the following fact: in July, 1844, the \"Cornwall,\" an English vessel of 300 tons, arrived at Ningpo from Singapore, with a cargo of \"Straits' produce,\" and some British manufactures. The \"Cornwall\" was chartered by a Chinaman, who is a merchant residing at Singapore; he was born at Malacca, and his ancestors for three generations have been British subjects. There was a Chinaman from Singapore placed on board as supercargo by the Malacca-Chinese merchant; but the captain of the ship and his crew were English. On the arrival of the \"Cornwall\" at Ningpo, the mandarins resolved on confiscating the ship and cargo, and it was only by the urgent representations of the Consul that she was saved. The \"Cornwall\" then left Ningpo for Shanghai, and was totally lost on one of the banks in the Yang-tze-kiang river, when proceeding thither.\n\nThe general policy of the Chinese Government is obviously directed to the greatest possible concentration of the foreign trade, thus rendering it subject to a more rigid system of supervision, and more available for exactions. The Tartar Government dread the extension of our trade in the northern ports, and would gladly drive it all back to Canton.*\n\n* The following information was collected for Lord Aberdeen by the Chinese Secretary to Government during the past year:-\n\n\"Keshen, a Mantchoo Tartar, who, for a considerable period swayed the Cabinet of Pekin, was considered a great reformer in everything, and was supposed to be the fittest person to curb the Western Barbarians. He augmented vast wealth from bribes, peculations, confiscations, exorbitant interest on capital lent, presents, rewards, speculations in salt trade, proceeds from pawnbroker's shops, &c.\n\nAs a diplomatist Keshen had great tact—had perfect command of his temper —great politeness—always talked the fairest words—protracted discussions—never gave offence—never made any close connection—was ready with small concessions but always avoided granting anything of importance. He realized most fully the sentiment attributed to Talleyrand, that language was bestowed on man for the concealment of his thoughts.\n\n\"When Captain Elliot and our ships appeared off the Peiho river there was not a single obstacle to oppose our capture of Pekin; Keshen was sent to negotiate with Captain Elliot and prepared a pretended letter from the British Minister to the Court of Pekin containing a sufficiency of truth to give a slight colouring to a great mass of falsehood intended to deceive the Emperor. To Captain Elliot he promised, that on due investigation at Canton some indemnification for the opium might perhaps be awarded. When our fleet left the Peiho river there were great rejoicings at Pekin, and an edict was issued by the Emperor declaring that the English barbarians were respectfully obedient and yielding (to this moment the great mass of the people at Canton believe, as they have been told, that the English paid a large sum of money to be permitted to quit the walls of Canton). On Keshen's arrival at Canton he pretended great friendship for Captain Elliot, at the very time when he was planning to surprise that brave, humane, but too confiding officer.\n\nKeshen wrote to the Emperor that the English only wanted an anchorage or careening place at Hong Kong. But as soon as it became apparent that Keshen had failed in his boasted annihilation of the Western Barbarians, there was no...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224634, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "Mr Martin, \n\n533\n\nan interest\n\nand this\n\nG\n\nadvance its landable objects. The \"Central Agricultural Society condition of India and the Colonies. by which the landed interest was united for the protection and\n\nIt has proved a source of sincere, encouragement of Agriculture, at a period when it was threatened that his conduct abroad and at home was deemed deserving the gracious of sincere gratification to Mr Martin with distinction (1835-36) had its origin mainly in his exections, approval of His Sovereign, William IVth, who was pleased to command the for two,\n\nyears he acted gratuitously as one of its honorary Secretaries dedication of the \"History of the British Colonies\" and the \"Marquess He also cooperated ad- \"Honorary Secretary with the Society for the Wellesley's \"Despatches\" - and his presentation at Court; - and to express Rotation of Domestic Industry\" which was superintended by a Committee of twenty one members of Parliament, whereof C. S. Lefevre, M. P. was Chairman that Department of Government stating that \"His Majesty took & and which had for its leading object the union of all classes engaged in\n\nof all classes engaged in M. Martin's welfare.\" Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, in land, manufactured and trade.\n\nhas also vouchsafed Her Majesty's benign In order that he might obtain an accurate view of the efforts for the welfare of his Country: Banking system, Mr. Martin made a tour through England he\n\nand Scotland, to the extent of 2500 miles, during which be went over any other age (the Most Noble the Marquess Wellesley) has conferred the :arly very public and private Bank in the kingdoms and for twelve months much prized boon of his friendship he officiated as Honorary Secretary to the \"Commercial Bank of London brief but unavoidably detail of public services, may well The Bank of British North America\" was planned, & its preliminary proceedings were organized by Mr. Martin; and other Colonial Banks had their origin in his advice & information. The \"Bank of Asia for justly feel proud, as it emanated from a mind of the most lofty, conducting exchange operations between England, India and China, was framed: in its plan and principles by Mr Martin, and its organization inquished for à\n\nbeg\n\nan ardent patriotism, which for more than has and completed by him. Eight thousand Shares of the value of £100 each century, has been efficiently devoted to the maintenance were subscribed for in a few days, on its first announcement, in London, an\n\nannouncement; in London, and of constitutional liberty, to the extension of christian civilization: Six thousand Shares of equal value were applied for in India. and to the preservation and permanent prosperity of the whole\n\nThese observations demonstrate that Mr. Martin's labours have British Empire. not been restricted to those of a merely literary character. He has visited several times, the manufacturing,\n\nand Commercial districts of the United Kingdom; - and since his return from the Colonies he has traversed a large part of the Continent of Europe, including Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, &c., and examined the progress of their trade and manufactures. Mr Martin is one\n\nof the few surviving Officers of the disastrous surveying and exploring Expedition of H. M. Vessels \"Leven\" and \"Barracouta\" employed under W. F. W. Owen, on the Coasts of Africa, and on the Shores and Rivers of Eastern and Southern Hemisphere; and for his services he received the marked commendations of the distinguished Commander of the Squadron.\n\nDuring the last four years Mr Martin has been an active Member of the General Court of Proprietors at the East India House; where he has disinterestedly assisted to obtain freedom of Commerce for British India. Several respectable friends of the present Government, from the same sentiments, have already expressed their concurrence to use their influence, in my opinion, and have declared an\n\non the same subject. Our object is to see Mr Montgomery Martin (known to your Lordship, and to the public) employed in some situation in which his eminent talents and extraordinary industry and\n\nKingston Stouse, Knightsbridge,\n\n17th November, 1840.\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "content_text": "Major General's acceptance of His Excellency's offer, upon the terms mentioned in your letter, \"The Buildings to be taken for a period of two years, renewable at the pleasure of the officer in command of Her Majesty's Troops, at the present annual rental of £333.6.8 (three hundred and thirty-three pounds, six shillings, and eight pence sterling), to be paid into the Colonial Treasury quarterly; all repairs to be at the charge of the Military Department after possession is taken, and to be delivered up in good and weather-proof order.\"\n\nI have to request that the necessary directions may be given to the Surveyor General to place the \"Albany\" in a proper state of repair so that the Buildings may be given over to the Board of Respective Officers with as little delay as possible.\n\nThe Major General, in compliance with His Excellency's suggestion, will cause the Eastern Road by the Mullah to be considered as the Military approach to the Albany, and it shall be placed in a proper state of repair.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) J. Clark Kennedy, Captain,\n\nActing & Assistant Quarter Master General.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nMac... Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227457, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Captain PITMAN recalled, and asked if he could identify the last witness Ching-ke? Answered, I am, and corroborate the greater part of his evidence.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Taken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of WILLIAM LOCKHART, Surgeon, taken on oath, &c., &c.\n\nThe last witness Ching-ke was brought to me [at the Chinese Hospital] from H. M. Childers on the morning of the 16th inst., with an injury to his left foot. Apparently a musket shot had struck him on the first joint of the great toe, breaking the bone and laying open the joint. Sloughing had commenced, and great formation of matter around the wound and behind. I consider it a dangerous wound, and that his life is in danger from it.\n\nWILLIAM LOCKHART, M.R.C.S.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of WILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon of H. M.'s S. Childers, taken on oath, &c., &c. I went on board the Schooner Spec by Commander Pitman's order on the 23d instant. \"I saw three wounded Junkmen, one of them the witness recently examined, Ching-ke, and the other two had only received contusions and the injuries were slight. I asked how the injury had been received? The prisoner present, William Cole, said he thought it was by a grape shot. I heard William Cole say that he had fired into the Junk. I considered it necessary that Ching-ke should be removed for treatment, as the consequences of such wounds are frequently dangerous. I heard the answer of the Admiral interpreted to Captain Pitman, that the Junk in question was a proper Junk, by which I understood not a piratical vessel.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of JOSHUA BERKELEY, Esq., mate on board H. M. S. Childers, taken on oath, &c.\n\nI was sent to board the Schooner Spec this day week (22d June) with orders from Captain Pitman to ask the master what his business was there, and what was the communication he had with the Junk astern of him to which he replied that he had been commissioned by Mr. Davidson to convey some shot down to the Ding and he had captured the Junk the day previous and brought her in to the Ruggeds. I returned with this answer, and was again despatched with orders to the master to be on board H. M.'s S. Childers with his Log and papers within half an hour. The next day I was on board the Junk and saw the marks of several shot holes in her side and one in her stern. She was empty, I only saw some nets and bait on board.\n\nJOSHUA BERKELEY.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nSHANGHAE TO WIT,\n\nThe examination of George Johnson, native of England; Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Jan Nacion, natives of Manila; Levis Sept, native of Antigua; Striano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, natives of Manila; Ephraim Francis, native of England; Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, natives of Manila; Lith-Ayih, native of Chusan; Ching-Lea-Ching, native of Ningpo; Al-Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, natives of Chusan; William Cole, native of England; Yum-Ching-Ming, native of Chusan Taken this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me Rutherford Alcock Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, the said George Johnson, Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Juan Nacion, Levis Sept, Mariano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, E. Francis, Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, Li-Ayih, Ching-Lea-Ching, Ah Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, William Cole, being charged before me the said Consul on the oath of John Charles Pitman, Esquire, Commander of H. B. M. Sloop Childers, for that on the 1st day of June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, being on board a certain vessel or schooner called the Spec in a certain place on the high seas near the sand called the \"Ruggeds\" on the coast of China, did piratically, feloniously, and violently with force and arms, attack, board, and take possession of a certain Junk or vessel, the property of a certain Chinese subject named Kwo-kin, the owner thereof, and did feloniously fire into the said Junk or vessel, whereby the said Kwo-kin the owner together with several of the seamen on board thereof were killed, and did take and carry away certain stores and apparel belonging to the said Junk, and certain Goods and Chattels belonging to the said owner and divers of the seamen on board. And the witnesses against them being examined in their presence, they are now asked by me if they wish to say anything in their own behalf; whereupon they answered they had no defence to make.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of KEW-TSAK-KIN, the day of July, &c.\n\nI was put on board the schooner Spec by a public body of Chinese merchants, and took no pay from the master of the ship. A Junk had been hailed to let down her sails, and not complying, a shot had certainly been fired into her.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions, and the Answers made to the same. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me this day on board the schooner Spec at\n\nPage 363\n\nanchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the 23d day of June, 1848.\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nQuestions asked by Commander J. C. Pitman, of Ching-chong-ke (the Chinese Admiral in charge of 7 junks), on board his vessel.\n\nRugged Islands, the 23d of June, 1848\n\nHas the English schooner Spec any right to be here?-No.\n\nWhether he knew what the English schooner Spec was about there?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know whether the Junk taken by the Spec was a pirate or not?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know what the schooner Spec was about with the Junk?-Did not know.\n\nWhether the Captain of the schooner had brought any of the crew of the junk on board to him, or made any complaint to him relative to the junk?-\n\nWhat became of the crew and cargo of the junk?-Taken on board the Spec, he believed.\n\nIs that English schooner any right to take the junk?—No\n\nDid he know why the Captain of the Spec did not bring the crew of junk on board his vessel?-Did not know.\n\nAfter the 2 Chinamen belonging to the junk and the mate of the Spec had been taken on board the Mandarin's junk, the following Questions were asked.-\n\nWhether the papers of the junk were correct?—They are all proper and correct, and signed by the proper authorities.\n\nIs any complaint to make against the schooner?—No.\n\nWhat cause had the schooner Spec to take that junk, whether it was proper to do so, and if the Chinese Mandarins like it?—The junk's papers are proper, but she had no business to have so many arms on board. The English vessel did wrong to take her; she has a right to carry arms. If the Chinese Admiral likes, the arms shall be returned to the junk—Part of them.\n\nIf he likes, remainder shall be sent to him or thrown overboard?—To be sent to him. Which was done.\n\nCaptain Pitman then told the junkmen that their junk, rice, and part of their arms, would be returned to them, and they would be allowed to go on with their fishing. They said they would return to Chin-hai.\n\nCaptain Pitman told the Chinese Admiral that the English schooner Spec had fired into the junk and wounded 3 men, and that one of the wounded men would be sent to the Shanghae Hospital for medical treatment. He said it was a bad affair, but was much obliged.\n\nAre you now quite satisfied that the junk is not a pirate? Yes, she is a fishing Junk of Chin-hae.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions and the Answers made to same, &c. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me, this day, on board the Chinese Admiral's Junk at anchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\n23d day of June, 1848.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the\n\nPage 364\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER SPEC.\n\nRedusduz, 1 June\n\nA. M. weighed, saw a junk to the southward—the pilot wished us to see what she was\n\nand took her, towed her back to the Ruggeds and anchored. 9. A. M., came up with her; she proved a pirate, boarded her. At 6 P. M. took 18 men and one boy, confined them on board.\n\nThursday, 22d June\n\nA. M. hoisted out the schooner, and put two boats out, one of which got adrift and was lost; 6 P. M. went on board the junk, brought her nearer the\n\nwas lying 5 miles to leeward of us last night. Took out almost every portable article.\n\nA. M. Brig Childers anchored to the southward.\n\nSt. p. 52. s. hove up the junk's anchor and took her closer in-shore. The Commander of H. M.'s Brig Childers came on board to see the papers—not finding them correct,* ordered us to Shanghae with the junk.\n\nFriday, 23 June.\n\nAll our prisoners on board the junk and let go except the man wounded in the toe, who was taken on board H. M. S. Childers.\n\nThis appears to be an expression of regret. It had been originally\n\nand (Indignant), having been imbecile with the loss of masters being scored out.. E. M.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nThursday, 22d June, 1848.\n\n\"A. M. 6, observed the English schooner Spec standing for the Eastern anchorage under the south Ruggeds (Falls.) with a Chinese junk in company with her; apparently discharging de-\n\nbris and other things into the water; 11.50, observed the schooner Spec alongside the junk,\n\nG. I. G.\n\nFriday, 23d of June, 1848. A. M. \"The schooner Spec of Hongkong having been mustered, her Articles and Log were found not to be correct. the master's and several of the crew's names not being registered the junk which she had taken possession of was liberated by order of Commander Pitman. took one of the wounded Chinese\n\non board.\n\nP. Chinese Admiral visited the ship. Saluted him with 3 guns. Protested against the schooner Spec of Hongkong for having taken the (alleged) Chinese Junk, killing Five men, and wounding Four.\"\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE BOARDING BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nDate, 3d June, 1848—Name of Vessel, \"Spec.\"—Master, Wm. Cole—Owner, Davidson of Ningpo—Where from, Ningpo—Bound, Saddle Island, one of the Ports of\n\nTrade—Belonging, Hongkong—No. of Days out, 3.—Registered Tonnage,\n\n1.—7. 10—Guns, 9—Jungting, No Cargo—No passengers\n\nNation, English—How rigged, Schooner—Marks, The master, mate, and three men, not on the articles; one English seaman on Register Ticket; no registry of arms, and has on board 9 guns, 28 muskets, 5 Pistols, 10 cutlasses, 4 pikes, and 5 spears; 9 Chinamen, and 1 pilot not on manifest\n\n(True Copy,) J. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nLIST OF JUNK'S ARMS.\n\nThis is to certify that Ting-ke, the wounded Chinese brought to the Chinese Hospital from H. M. S. Childers, is still under my care. There is less inflammation of the foot then there was, the progress of the Sloughing has ceased, and several small portions of bone have been taken away from the wound; but he could not go to Hongkong, without great danger to his life.\n\nWM. LOCKHART, Surgeon.\n\nShanghae, July 4, 1848.\n\nQuestions asked by Commander Pitman, of the master and crew of a Chinese Fishing-junk on board the Spec, of Hongkong, in the presence of Mr. Cole the master, the mate, and crew of the Spec.\n\nRugged Islands, the 2d June, 1848\n\nFrom whence did the junk come?—From Chebac.\n\nWhere are your papers?—We produced them.\n\nHow came he to have so many arms on board?—To protect himself from the pirates outside.\n\nWhat became of all the things belonging to the junk?—Rice, arms, and some small boxes taken on board the Spec.\n\nWhether any person belonging to the Spec had taken anything from them?—Only the rice, arms, and small boxes.\n\nHave any of them been beaten on board the Spec?—No, except wounding them by firing at them.\n\nHad they had plenty to eat on board the Spec?—Yes.\n\nDid the Spec fire shot at the junk?—Yes, and killed 5 and wounded 3 men.\n\nHow many men lost?—The 5 killed, one of their heads was blown off.\n\nHow many men in the junk when she left port?—24—19 were on board the Spec.\n\nHas he any complaint to make as to the treatment received from the Spec?—No, only they were innocent of the charge of being pirates.\n\nWhere was he when the Spec took him?—Off the Ruggeds at the fishing station.\n\nCaptain Pitman told them that he would take 2 or 3 of them on board the Mandarin junk to be examined, and if they were found not to be pirates they should be allowed to go away.\n\nThe Pilot of the Spec was asked.—\n\nHow he knew that these men were pirates?—Because they fought the fishing boats.\n\nThe Master of the Spec was asked,—\n\nWho sent the Pilot on board?—The Chinese merchants at Ningpo, and hired the vessel.\n\nDid the junk attack or molest you?—No.\n\nThe following is a list of the arms I saw on board the\n\nJunk.\n\n5 Gingalls\n\n5 Tahious\n\nMatchlocks\n\n10 Pikes\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nBritish Consulate Office, Shanghae, 31 July, 1848.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to return the Log Book and Papers of the Schooner Spec detained by you on the 23d ultimo, for acts of Piracy and breach of existing Navigation Laws, as set forth in the evidence taken before me on the 29th ultimo, on the charge preferred by you against the master and crew of that vessel for Piracy and Murder committed on the high seas. You will be good enough to hold these Documents available for production in evidence at any Trial that may take place in the Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\nI have further to request that on the arrival of the Prisoners at Hongkong, the officer in Charge will report the same at the Superintendency, deliver the enclosed Despatch, and act in reference to the disposal of the Prisoners as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary shall please to direct.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, for Consul.\n\n(True Copy, FARD. HOWARD)\n\nTo Commander J. C. Pitman, R.N., H. M. S. Childers.\n\nBy J. C. PITMAN, Esquire.\n\nYou are to allow no communication with the Prisoners except in writing through you. You will be furnished with a list of the master and crew, and all the necessary papers.\n\non reporting yourself and the number of Prisoners at the Superintendency's office there, where you will deliver the enclosed Despatches for His Excellency the Governor.\n\nGiven under my hand on board the Childers at Woosung, the 3d July, 1848\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander,\n\nTo Lieut. G. T. Graham, of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nBefore C. B. HALLER, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and\n\nTUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\na Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty,\n\nBRISAT\n\n1st Prisoner, WILLIAM COLE, of Pembrokeshire, master of the Schooner Spec,\n\n2d Prisoner, GEORGE JOHNSON, of London, mate of Schooner Spec\n\n3d Prisoner, EPHRAIM FRANCIS, of Maldon, in the county of Essex, gunner of the Schooner Spec\n\n4th Prisoner, No. 1 JOAN IGNACIO, of Staunbogan in the Phillipine Islands, seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n5th Prisoner, MARIANO AGOSTIN, of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n6th Prisoner, LORENÇO SANTOS, of Calibo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n7th Prisoner, MARIANO ALBERTO, of Iligan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n8th Prisoner, MARIANO DE LOS SANTOS, native of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n9th Prisoner, LUCAS MANOEL, native of Bigan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n10th Prisoner, ERO JOSER, native of Antigue in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n11th Prisoner, GABRIEL CALISTRO, of Santa Luzia in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n12th Prisoner, No. 2 JOAN IGNACIO, 30 years of age, of Soorgegas in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n[Juan Ignacio the first, named above, describes himself as 26 years of age.]\n\n13th Prisoner, BUENAVENTURA MARIANO, of Sambaangar in the Philippine Islands, Seaman of the schooner Spec.\n\n14th Prisoner, KWOK-AN-VEE, 14 years of age, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n15th Prisoner, LE-AN-VOOK, of Chusan, cook.\n\n16th Prisoner, WONG-KAT, of Chusan, servant to a Seaman.\n\n17th Prisoner, YUM-CHAONG-MING, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n18th Prisoner, YOW-CHAY-CHING, of Ningpo, seaman.\n\n1st Witness for the prosecution, JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, ESQUIRE.\n\nOn the 22d June last I was on board and in command of Her Majesty's Ship Childers off the Ragged Islands on the Coast of China, in Latitude about 30 North; do not recollect the Longitude. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, the Childers being then about\n\nPage 365\n\nfive miles from the shore, I saw a schooner and a Chinese junk was in company with her; looking with the glass I judged the junk to be almost a quarter of a mile from her, but it was impossible to judge correctly at that distance; the junk was standing into a bay, in the same way as the Spec (afterwards found the schooner to be) The junk and the schooner between 8 and 9 that morning anchored in a bay there close to each other; in the bay were three mandarin junks and some fishing-boats. It was calm, and we were obliged to anchor at A. M. between two and three miles of the schooner. During the forenoon we observed the schooner and junk apparently alongside of each other. I saw that some things were being discharged from the junk into the schooner, and refuse, floated past the Childers; from the direction in which they floated I supposed they had been thrown over from the junk; the tide flowed in a right line between the junk and the Childers. At 4 P. M. that day I weighed and made the Childers down to the schooner. I anchored about half a cable from her, and found the junk about half a cable's length nearly astern of her. I found the schooner to be the Spec. In consequence of a message sent by me on board the Spec at 5.30 P. M. that day, prisoner Cole came on board the Childers, bringing a Log-book and some Ship's Articles (witness produces them) which he affirmed to be the Log-book and Articles of the Spec. He said that he was acting as master of the Spec for another person who was absent at Ningpo. I asked him what he was doing there and what he was doing with the junk; he said he had captured her. I asked him if he had had any communication with the Mandarins, and what he had done with the people belonging to the junk; he said No to the first question, and to the second that the people were on board the Spec. I then asked him why he had not taken these men to the Mandarins, or brought them to me, as I had been in sight of him all day; he said he did not know. It was getting late and I told him that I should examine his vessel in the morning. He said in reply to any questions that he had not put in for stress of weather: that he was from Ningpo, and did not know any place in particular to which he was bound; that the junk had not fired at him or molested him, but that the pilot had told him that she was a pirate. I asked him why he had hailed her. He did not reply to this, before nine o'clock next morning I went on board the junk and examined her; I found that everything had been taken out of her excepting some nets and some small tubs of fish for bait. There were several shot holes in her hull that might have been caused by sound shot from a three or six-pounder gun; then I went to the Spec and mustered the Spec's crew. I found the articles were incorrect. Prisoner Cole said that the Chinese crew of the junk were in the fore hold of the Spec. I saw them brought on deck from the fore hold; their hands were tied together; seven of them had wounds about them; one of them was so severely wounded that I sent for the medical officer to examine him. I asked Cole how these wounds had been received, he said by shot from the Spec. I asked Cole if he had papers of the junk, he said. No; I then asked for the head man of the junk. One of the Chinamen came forward and produced some papers that had been sewn up in his clothing, and which by the interpretation of a Chinese from the Childers were pronounced to be the junk's papers. I conveyed to the\n\nPage 366\n\nhanded them over to the Chinese Mandarins. When subsequently questioned Cole about it, Cole said that the wound was caused by a grape shot from the Spec; and prisoner Ephraim Francis added that he thought it must have been caused by a grape shot. I subsequently released the crew of the junk, excepting the man who was badly wounded, and who was sent on board the Childers to be under medical care. I went to the Mandarins, and the crew of the junk (that is two of them) were examined before them. The Mandarins, as the interpreter explained to me, wished the crew of the junk to be released, as their papers were good. By their request I also handed over to them half the arms of the junk, handing the others to the junk's crew. The junk was a fishing junk of the ordinary class fishing thereabouts,\n\nThe quantity of arms belonging to the junk was not unusually large; the crew said she had them to protect herself against pirates. I found in a list of the arms belonging to the junk as detailed to me by Cole. Between 4 and 5 P. M. on the 22d June last I saw two Chinese boats alongside the junk; shortly afterwards as we\n\nJ. C. PITMAN,\n\nCommander of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nare hereby directed to repair on board the schooner Spec of Hongkong and take charge of her, as well as the master and crew, who are prisoners under the charge of Piracy on the High Seas, &c., and you will use the utmost\n\nvigilance that none escape whilst under your custody. You will proceed with all expedition to Hongkong; on your arrival there you will report yourself to the Senior Naval Officer, from whom you will receive further instructions.\n\nFor your better guidance, I refer you to Chap 8 of the Queen's Regulations, Page 82, and to Art. 14 of the Admiralty Instructions, Pages 6 to 14\n\n146", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228137, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "434\n\nBoard\n\nof\n\nTrade\n\nELE\n\n20\n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION\n\norganized by Mr. Martin; and other colonial banks had their origin in his advice and information. The \"Bank of Asia,\" for conducting exchange operations between England, India and China, was framed in its plan and principles by Mr. Martin, and its organization was begun and completed by him; 8,000 shares, of the value of 100l. each, were subscribed for in a few days on its first announcement in London, and 6,000 shares of equal value were applied for in India.\n\nThese observations demonstrate that Mr. Martin's labours have not been restricted to those of a merely literary character. He has visited several times the manufacturing and commercial districts of the United Kingdom; and since his return from the colonies he has traversed a large part of the continent of Europe, including Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France, &c., and examined the progress of their trade and manufactures. Mr. Martin is one of the few surviving officers of the disastrous surveying and exploring expedition of Her Majesty's vessels \"Levin\" and \"Barracouta,\" employed under W. F. W. Owen on the coasts of Africa, and on the shores and rivers of the Eastern and Southern Hemisphere, and for his services he received the marked commendations of the distinguished Commander of the squadron.\n\nDuring the last four years, Mr. Martin has been an active member of the General Court of Proprietors at the East India House, where he has disinterestedly assisted to obtain freedom of commerce for British India; to procure the adoption of a permanent moderate settlement of the land-tax, and to promote the social and Christian improvement of 100,000,000 of our fellow subjects. He has been several times examined before Committees of Parliament on financial and mercantile measures; and in 1840 he was nearly three weeks under a strict interrogation on the commerce and relative condition of India and the Colonies.\n\nIt has proved a source of sincere gratification to Mr. Martin, that his conduct abroad and at home was deemed deserving the gracious approval of his Sovereign William 4th, who was pleased to command the dedication of the \"History of the British Colonies,\" and the \"Marquess Wellesley's Despatches,\" and his presentation at Court; and to express to the Colonial Office the Royal desire that he should be employed in that department of Government, stating that \"His Majesty took an interest in Mr. Martin's welfare.\"\n\nHer most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria has also vouchsafed Her Majesty's benign commendation of Mr. Martin's efforts for the welfare of his country.\n\nOne of the greatest statesmen who have shed lustre on this or any other age (the most Noble the Marquess Wellesley) has conferred the much prized boon of his friendship on Mr. Martin; and this brief but unavoidably egotistical detail of public services may well be concluded by annexing a copy of a letter from the noble Marquess to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, of which Mr. Martin may justly feel proud, as it emanates from a mind of the most lofty, generous and enlightened character, and pre-eminently distinguished for an ardent patriotism, which, for more than half a century, has been efficiently devoted to the maintenance of constitutional liberty—to the extension of Christian civilization—and to the preservation and permanent prosperity of the whole British empire.\n\nMy dear Lord,\n\nKingston House, Knightsbridge, 17 November 1840.\n\nYOUR Lordship's uniform kindness and obliging attentions induce me to trouble you with a request, in the success of which I am deeply interested, from motives of gratitude and friendship, as well as from a sense of public duty.\n\nSeveral respectable friends of the present Government, from the same sentiments, have already expressed their concurrence in my opinion, and have declared an anxiety equal to mine on the same subject.\n\nOur object is to see Mr. Montgomery Martin (a gentleman well known to your Lordship and to the public) employed in some station in which his eminent talents and extraordinary industry and diligence, and extensive information, might be rendered useful to the empire.\n\nMy friendship for Mr. Martin is founded on no light basis. I entrusted him with the publication of the documents connected with my administration of the British empire in India; a work which he has completed to my entire satisfaction.\n\nThis work necessarily involved the most confidential communication and intercourse, by which I am enabled, with the most perfect certainty, to pledge my honour to the integrity, ability, honest zeal and indefatigable spirit of industry by which this worthy gentleman has obtained so high an eminence in public estimation.\n\nMr. Martin has made the affairs of the British colonies and of India the more especial objects of his laborious studies; but he is also better informed on the interesting subject of Ireland (more particularly on the operation and result of her Legislative Union with Great Britain), than any person I have ever conversed with. Generally his knowledge of statistics is most extensive and most practically useful.\n\nMy gratitude towards this gentleman renders me most anxious for his welfare; but I would not recommend him to your Lordship, if I were not satisfied that his active employment in the public service would be beneficial to the empire and honourable to himself and to your Lordship.\n\nThe Right hon. Lord John Russell, &c. &c. &c.\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI have, &c. (signed)\n\nWellesley.\n\nNo. 17.—\n\nOF MR. M. MARTIN, TREASURER OF HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 17.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning street, 7 March 1846.\n\n21\n\nNo 17.\n\nMartin, Esq.\n\nI AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyttelton to the letter which you addressed to his private secretary on the 2d instant, enclosing an abstract of your proceedings in China, and suggesting the appointment of a committee of three gentlemen, to examine into and report upon those proceedings.\n\nMr. Gladstone desires me to inform you in answer, that he cannot devolve on the gentlemen you have mentioned, or on any other persons, the office of instituting the inquiries which you have suggested; I am to add, that after a perusal of your letter, and the documents which accompany it, Mr. Gladstone can anticipate no advantage from prolonging a discussion on a subject of which he entertains views so widely different from your own.\n\nSir,\n\nI am, &c. (signed)\n\nLyttelton.\n\n— No. 18.\n\nCopy of a LETTER from R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.\n\n29, Bloomsbury-square, 31 March 1846.\n\nI HAVE had the honour of laying before you a printed statement of my proceedings in China. I have now been nearly five months in England, and I respectfully submit that I have shown I did my duty as a faithful servant of the Crown, and therefore do not deserve the treatment I have experienced, unless Her Majesty's Government disbelieve my statements, or are unwilling to amend those proceedings, which I have I think demonstrated are errors of primary importance.\n\nUnder these circumstances I beg to inquire, whether you will grant me a personal interview, to enable me to substantiate my statements; or,\n\n2dly, Whether you will permit an inquiry into my conduct while in China; or,\n\n3dly, Whether you will offer no opposition to my friends in the legislature obtaining an inquiry before Parliament into my statements.\n\n— No. 19.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed)\n\nR. M. Martin.\n\nCOPY of a LETTER from Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning-street, 6 April 1846.\n\nNo. 19.\n\n6 April 1846.\n\nI AM directed by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, in which you inquire; 1st, Whether he would grant you a personal interview to enable you to substantiate the statement which you have already submitted of your proceedings in China; 2d, Whether any inquiry into your conduct while in China will be permitted; and 3d, Whether Mr. Gladstone would offer any opposition to a Parliamentary inquiry into your statements.\n\nMr. Gladstone desires me to inform you in answer, that he is not at present aware that there is any question depending between Her Majesty's Government and yourself, which could be made the subject of discussion at a private interview, or an inquiry in or out of Parliament. He apprehends, that having resigned your office at Hong Kong, and your resignation having been accepted, you no longer stand in any official relation to the Government; and Her Majesty's Government do not deem it convenient to enter into any discussion with you on the questions of Chinese policy, to which your several communications to them relate.\n\nI am,\n\n&c.\n\n743-\n\nc3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231982, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "In\n\nThis result, Captain Ramsay informed me, had been attained in the following simple manner. All the land attached to the two villages with which the tea farms are connected, is exempted from the revenue tax, a sum amounting only to Rs. 52 per annum. In lieu of this, the assamees (cultivators) of both villages assist with manure, and at the transplanting season, as well as ploughing and preparing fresh land. In addition to this, one chowdree and four prisoners are constantly employed upon the plantations. The chief reason for the success of these plantations, next to that of the land being well suited for tea cultivation, may, no doubt, be traced to a good system of management: that is, the young plants have been carefully transplanted at the proper season of the year, when the air was charged with moisture, and they have not been destroyed by excessive irrigation afterwards. The other zemindaree plantation at Lohba might have been now in full bearing had the same system been followed.\n\nFrom the description thus given, it will be observed that I consider the Kutoor plantations in a most flourishing condition. And I have no doubt they will continue to flourish, and soon convince the zemindars of the value of tea-cultivation, providing three things intimately connected with the success of the crop are strongly impressed upon their minds: viz., the unsuitableness of low wet lands for tea-cultivation; the folly of irrigating tea as they would do rice; and the impropriety of commencing the plucking before the plants are strong and of considerable size. It is difficult in a Report to give an idea of the proper time to begin plucking, but I have explained my views upon the subject fully to Dr. Jameson and to Captain Ramsay. I am happy to add that amongst these hills there are no foolish prejudices in the minds of the natives against the cultivation of tea. About the time of my visit, a zemindar came and begged two thousand plants to enable him to commence tea-growing on his own account.\n\nIt is of great importance that the authorities of a district and persons of influence should show an interest in a subject of this kind. At present, the natives do not know its value, but they are as docile as children, and will enter willingly upon tea-cultivation providing the \"sahib\" shows that he is interested in it. In a few years, the profits received will be a sufficient inducement.\n\nIn concluding this part of my Report, I beg to suggest the propriety of obtaining some of the best varieties of the tea-plant which have been introduced lately into the Government plantations from China. Dr. Jameson could no doubt spare a few; but they ought to be given to those zemindars only who have succeeded with the original variety.\n\nHaving described in detail the various Government plantations, and also those of the zemindars which came under my notice in the Himalayas, I shall now make some general remarks upon the cultivation of tea in India, and offer some suggestions for its improvement.\n\n# GENERAL REMARKS\n\n1. On Land and Cultivation. From the observations already made upon the various tea-farms which I have visited in the Himalayas, it will be seen that I do not approve of low flat lands being selected for the cultivation of the tea-shrub. In China, which at present must be regarded as the model tea country, the plantations are never made in such situations, or they are so rare as not to have come under my notice. In that country, they are usually formed on the lower slopes of the hills, that is, in such situations as those at Guddowli, Hawulbaugh, Almorah, Kutoor, &c., in the Himalayas. It is true that in the fine green tea country of Hwuy-chow, in China, near the town of Tun-che, many hundred acres of flattish land are under tea-cultivation. But this land is close to the hills, which jut out into it in all directions, and it is intersected by a river whose banks are usually from 15 to 20 feet above the level of the stream itself, not unlike those of the Ganges below Benares. In fact, it has all the advantages of hilly land such as the tea-plant delights in. In extending the Himalaya plantation, this important fact ought to be kept in view.\n\nThere is no scarcity of such land in these mountains, more particularly in Eastern Gurhwal and Kumaon. It abounds in the districts of Paorie, Kunour, Lobba, Almorah, Kutoor, and Bheem-tal; and I was informed by Mr. Batten that there are large tracts about Gungoli and various other places, equally suitable. Much of this land is out of cultivation, as I have already stated, while the cultivated portions yield on an average only two or three annas per acre of revenue.\n\nSuch lands are of less value to the zemindars than low rice-land, where they can command a good supply of water for irrigation. But I must not be understood to recommend poor worn-out hill lands for tea-cultivation,—land on which nothing else will grow. Nothing is further from my meaning. Tea, in order to be profitable, requires a good sound soil,—a light loam, well mixed with sand and vegetable matter, moderately moist, and yet not stagnant or sour. Such a soil, for example, as on these hill-sides produces good crops of mandua, wheat, or millet, is well adapted for tea. It is such lands which I have alluded to as abounding in the Himalayas, and which are at present of so little value, either to the Government or to the natives themselves.\n\nThe system of Irrigation applied to tea in India is never practised in China. I did not observe it practised in any of the\n\nPage 180", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231983, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "great tea countries which I visited. On asking the Chinese manufacturers whom I brought round, and who had been born and brought up in these districts, whether they had seen such a practice, they all replied, \"no, that is the way we grow rice; we never irrigate tea.\" Indeed I have no hesitation in saying that, in nine cases out of ten, the effects of irrigation are most injurious. When tea will not grow without irrigation, it is a sure sign that the land employed is not suitable for such a crop. It is no doubt an excellent thing to have a command of water in case of a long drought, when its agency might be useful in saving a crop which would otherwise fail; but irrigation ought to be used only in such emergent cases.\n\nI have already observed that good tea-land is naturally moist, although not stagnant; and we must bear in mind that the tea-shrub is not a water plant, but is found in a wild state on the sides of hills. In confirmation of these views, it is only necessary to observe further, that all the best Himalayan plantations are those to which irrigation has been most sparingly applied.\n\nIn cultivating the tea-shrub much injury is often done to a plantation by plucking leaves from very young plants. In China young plants are never touched until the third or fourth year after they have been planted. If growing under favourable circumstances, they will yield a good crop after that time. All that ought to be done, in the way of plucking or pruning before that time, should be done with a view to form the plants, and make them bushy, if they do not grow so naturally. If plucking is commenced too early and continued, the energies of the plants are weakened, they are long in attaining any size, and consequently there is a great loss of produce in a given number of years. To make this more plain, I will suppose a bush that has been properly treated, to be eight years of age. It may then be yielding from two to three pounds of tea per annum, while another of the same age, but not a quarter of the size, from over-plucking, is not giving more than as many ounces.\n\nThe same remarks apply also to plants which become unhealthy from any cause; leaves ought never to be taken from such plants; the gatherers should have strict orders to pass them over until they get again into a good state of health.\n\n2. On Climate. I have already stated that Eastern Gurhwal and Kumaon appear to me to be the most suitable for the cultivation of the tea-plant in this part of the Himalayas. My remarks upon climate will therefore refer to this part of the country.\n\nFrom a table of temperature, kept at Hawulbaugh from November 28, 1850, to July 13, 1851, obligingly furnished me by Dr. Jameson, I observe that the climate here is extremely mild. During the winter months, the thermometer (Fahr.) at sunrise was never lower than 44°, and only on two occasions so low, namely, on the 15th and 16th of February, 1851. Once it stood so high as 66° on the morning of February the 4th, but this is full ten degrees higher than usual. The minimum in February must, however, be several degrees lower than is shown by this table, for ice and snow are not unfrequent; indeed, opposite the 16th of February in the column of remarks, I find written down a very frosty morning. This discrepancy no doubt arises either from a bad thermometer being used, or from its being placed in a sheltered verandah. We may therefore safely mark the minimum as 32°, instead of 44°.\n\nThe month of June appears to be the hottest in the year. I observe the thermometer on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of that month I stood at 92° at 3 P.M.; and this was the highest degree marked during the year. The lowest, at this hour, during the month was 76°; but the general range in the 3 P.M. column of the table is from 80° to 90°.\n\nThe wet and dry seasons are not so decided in the hills as they are in the plains. In January 1851, it rained on five days and ten nights, and the total quantity of rain which fell, as indicated by the rain-guage, during this month was 5.25 inches; in February 3.84 fell; in March 2.11; in April 2.24; in May none; and in June 6.13. In June there are generally some days of heavy rain, called by the natives Chota Bursaut, or small rains, after this there is an interval of some days of dry weather before the regular \"rainy season\" commences. This season comes on in July and continues until September. October and November are said to be beautiful months, with a clear atmosphere and cloudless sky. After this fogs are frequent in all the valleys until spring.\n\nIn comparing the climate of these provinces with that of China, although we find some important difference, yet upon the whole there is a great similarity. My comparisons apply, of course, to the best tea districts only, for although the tea-shrub is found cultivated from Canton in the south, to Tan-chow-poo in Shan-tung, yet the provinces of Fokein, Kiansee and the southern parts of Kiangnan, yield nearly all the finest teas of commerce.\n\nThe town of Tsong-gan, one of the great black tea towns near the far-famed Woo-e-shan, is situated in latitude 27° 47′ north. Here the thermometer in the hottest months, namely, in July and August, rarely rises above 100°, and ranges from 92° to 100° as maximum; while in the coldest months, December and January, it sinks to the freezing point and sometimes a few degrees lower. We have thus a close resemblance in temperature between Woo-e-shan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "For the defences of the place I have had one 32 Pounder, placed on board the \"Hercules\" with a Detachment of ... and when she is moved so as to command the Eastern Entrance into the Harbour, and she is defended by the Guns three 32 Pounders placed on Pettitt's Island where there is a Guard to protect the Guns and Ammunition.\n\nThen there is the Wellington Battery mounting 8-32 Pounder Guns part of which face the East and the others Command the Anchorage. There is also the Murray Battery 6-24 Pounders placed some 10 feet above the sea, part of the Guns from which command the Town, and the others the Anchorage. I have had three 10 Inch Mortars put into this Battery, the shells from which can be thrown in any direction as required.\n\nTo the West I have caused a Battery to be constructed, Heung-toe-san in which are placed 2-8 In. Iron Howitzers, above this battery another Battery to the East of it, has been constructed on which ... 3 ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "there \n\n10.a \n\nsufficiency \n\nStores here and more \n\nis \n\nof the \n\nZ10 \n\nin the \n\nGun reserve expected from England. \n\nI have to. \n\n(Signed) S.H. Griffin, St. Col. Rcl Arty. \n\nCommanding Forces. I beg further \n\n--- \n\nRSSbeg \n\n32 Pdr?: \n\narc \n\nto be placed, and \n\nwhich would have been \n\ndone, but from the \n\ntempestuous state \n\nof weather during \n\nthe whole \n\nof the last week, however \n\nI expect the 10 6. \n\n106 guns \n\nwith \n\nproper proportion of \n\nammunition, will be \n\ncompleted by ... These Five Guns \n\nCommand \n\nthe Eastern entrance and \n\nwould make it \n\nhighly \n\ndangerous for any Enemy ships or any piratical attempt being made. Both bey \n\nto am \n\nregard \n\nEegar... \n\ntion and Stores \n\nther to state- \n\nthat out of the 550 men \n\n...arrow \n\n...night. \n\nthere \n\nin \n\na re \n\nalways about 50 \n\nHospital \n\n(True Copy) \n\nOffe : Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "Narrowly—\n\nLyemoon passage—the eastern entrance to the Harbour—and flanking batteries upon Green Island, Stone Cutters Island and Kowloon—which command the approaches by the west—would have been sufficient to carry the policy laid down by Lord Panmure and been more in unison with the ordinary strength of the auxiliary Garrison.\n\nHowever, this is a question which can only be determined by competent professional authorities at Home. But what I would beg leave most earnestly to urge in reference to the Surveyor General's letter is that the nature and extent of the Batteries to be erected, should forthwith be definitely settled, so that the development of the Colony may not be needlessly obstructed by the reservation of ground for defensive purposes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 551, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "529 \n\nFite aps the western half of the proposed improvements during \"N. E. Monsoon\" that the exhalations of the new turned soil should be driven directly seaward -- and not spread over the peninsula - and \"Nice versi for the Castern half. Reason and remedy simple.\n\nWith reference to the general Sanomazy the P. M. Os observations, I would only remark that I propose for adoption the same rules as I would propose for Militones Papucially the filling in from the sea \"low water\" in and reclaiming - when once up to the limits of \"low water mark\". As long as the filling in is totally submerged \"biz\" (\"under low water mark\") I do not anticipate evil Consequenaw. It is only when the sun is able to act on the wet soil (and form Malaria in consequence) that I consider these extra precautions absolutely necessary.\n\nWith reference to the P. M. Os somewhat progressive remarks relative to the non-adoption of \"Iron Barracks\" with a system of proper ventilation and interior Casing, I understand that such buildings have been already and successfully tried in W. Indies, India, Burmah, and Australia, and I consider they would answer here admirably. \n\nA short time after I arrived in this Command and witnessed the ravages of the white ants, I spoke to Major General...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "Mr Mercer\n\nTonghong 8: Jang. 1804.\n\nto\n\nThe Duke\n\nof\n\nNewenstle.\n\nNo 2. Inclosure.\n\nRevived\n\nForwarding Circular Prospectus issued by the\n\nCity Hall Committee\n\n22\n\nCIRCULAR.\n\nThe Provisional Committee for promoting the erection of a City Hall in Hongkong desire to report the progress that has been made, up to the close of the present year, in furthering the object for which they are associated.\n\nThe principal difficulty connected with this undertaking has been to procure a site that should be at once suitable for the purpose, and in the gift of Government; it being obvious that the present high value of Land within the limits of the City made it impossible that any sum of money, which the Committee could expect to command, would prove quite sufficient if ground had to be purchased.\n\nAn application for a site at the Western Corner of the Parade Ground, immediately under Messrs. A. Heard & Co.'s Office, was promptly and liberally conceded, but, before any formal grant of the Land had been made, it was fortunately discovered that difficulties, previously thought insuperable, to the occupation of the piece of ground now partially occupied by the Harbour Master's Office, were susceptible of removal; and the Committee have the satisfaction of stating that a recommendation for a grant of that site (undoubtedly the most eligible for the purposes of a City Hall in the whole Colony) has, with the approval of the Military Authorities, been forwarded by the local Government to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and that the position of the Drinking Fountain (presented to the City by Mr. John Dent, and now in course of erection) has been determined with special reference to the dimensions and situation of the proposed Building.\n\nThe space which, it is confidently hoped, will be thus placed at the disposal of the Committee will enable them to embrace in their scheme the following accommodation:\n\nI. A Public Hall, to be called the St. Andrew's Hall, in acknowledgment of a sum of Five thousand Dollars, which has been voted to the undertaking from the surplus Funds of the late St. Andrew's School. This room will be available for Public Meetings, Public Dinners, Balls, Concerts and other public purposes.\n\nII. A Supper Room adjoining the Hall, and which, together with the Hall, can be used, when not specially required for other purposes, as an Exchange.\n\nIII. A room for the Chamber of Commerce, where files of Newspapers, Prices Current, Books of Commercial reference and Telegrams will be open to the use of Subscribers to that Institution.\n\nIV. A Public Library for the objects stated by the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society in their printed Circular of the 1st May last.\n\nV. A permanent Theatre, which will encourage visits to Hongkong by musical and histrionic artists from other parts of the East, and will obviate the necessarily heavy and unsatisfactory outlay which the frequent erection of temporary Theatres has hitherto entailed.\n\nThe remainder of the space will be absorbed by the Harbour Master's Office, which will be removed from its present position to one appropriated for it in the North Eastern angle of the intended building, in accordance with the proposal submitted by the Committee to Government for permission to use the site which that office at present partially occupies.\n\nFinished plans have not yet been prepared, and it is proposed that, at the proper time, they should be thrown open to competition, but the Committee have satisfied themselves that the space they have applied for will be ample for carrying out the various objects enumerated above on a scale which will render the intended edifice an ornament to the City, a convenience to the public, and in every way worthy of a Colony whose rapid growth and progress are the surest proofs of its wealth, enterprise and prosperity.\n\nThe urgency of the want that exists for a Public Building of this nature need scarcely be dilated on. Without diverting the Club House from its legitimate uses, at a great sacrifice of the convenience of its members, there is not in the length and breadth of the City a suitable room which can be commanded for any object of general or social interest. The difficulties that attended the Inauguration Dinner of the Volunteers, the abandonment last winter of a Masonic Ball for want of a room to hold it in, and the disadvantages to which the professional Artists at present here are exposed, are a few instances amongst very many of the inconvenience occasioned by the want of a City Hall, a want, the Committee believe, which is not shared by any other foreign Community of equal importance East of the Cape, a want which has been recently supplied at Singapore and which they trust will not be allowed much longer to serve as an indication of an absence of public spirit in Hongkong.\n\nThe preservation of the valuable collections of Books in the care of the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society, and which are threatened with decay for want of a proper place of deposit, is an object which especially commends itself as a matter of public import in a region so remote from the great centres of civilization, and where the want of standard works of reference and solid instruction makes itself continually felt.\n\nIn reference to the important question of Funds, the Committee are glad to be able to announce that they have actually in hand a sum of upwards of Fifteen Thousand Dollars, which is expected to be increased to upwards of Twenty Thousand Dollars by a Donation from the Chamber of Commerce. This amount, which has been collected from various sources without any appeal having yet been made to the Community generally, falls, however, obviously short of what will be required for the purposes contemplated, and the Committee trust that further contributions will be liberally and spontaneously tendered in support of the undertaking. Old residents, in retiring from the Colony may perhaps adopt the example of some who have preceded them and evince their interest in its progress and in the well-being of their successors by a contribution to the Fund. The payment of interest on the Canton claims also affords an opportunity for Donations of sums of no great importance individually, but which in the aggregate would materially assist the common object.\n\nThe Provisional Committee in concluding their present report, have thankfully to acknowledge the receipt of various amounts from Mr. John Dent, Mr. C. F. Still, Mr. Edward Webb, the late Mr. Angus Fletcher, the Choral Society of Hongkong, and the Trustees of the St. Andrew's School. Further Subscriptions will be received by either of the Trustees, Messrs. TURING, NOBLE and OWEN.\n\nA. TURING.\n\nH. NOBLE.\n\nR. C. R. OWEN.\n\nC. W. MURRAY,\n\nW. H. RENNIE.\n\nE. H. POLLARD.\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1863.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260823, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "EXTRACT from General Orders by the Hon. Major-General D'Aguilar, Č.B.\n\nHead Quarters, H.M. steam-frigate \"Vulture,\"\n\noff Whampoa, April 2, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of his Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, &c., the Major-General Commanding gladly avails himself of the services of the Honourable Major Caine, and appoints him Commandant of Hong Kong, during the absence of the Major-General, and the main body of the troops on service at Canton.\n\nBy order, J. BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General.\n\nIt will be seen by one of the documents furnished by one of our Chinese correspondents at Canton, that the population there anticipated that Hong Kong would be \"attacked and plundered\" during the absence of the fleet and the main body of the forces. The opportunity was tempting, and rumours reached Canton that it had actually been taken advantage of. Supposing them to have originated with the Chinese themselves, we were inclined to lend them an incredulous ear; but since our return, we learn that an organized attack for the purpose was really apprehended by Triads and pirates by water and land. We have no means of ascertaining whether the reports were well founded, but have endeavoured to inform ourselves of their import.\n\nIt was said that several thousands of lawless ruffians were to fall upon the town, fire the houses at several points, so as to distract attention, when the Treasury, the Bank, Spring Gardens, and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.'s premises were to be attacked simultaneously. It was further stated that the Triads of this quarter had called upon the brethren in the adjoining districts; and many of the more peaceably disposed Chinese residents were alarmed that some danger was impending.\n\nAt Heong-Kong, south of this island, an assemblage of Triads took place; and information having been received to that effect, a body of police, under Mr. Caldwell, was dispatched, and succeeded in apprehending five persons as they were returning from the meeting, who have since, however, been discharged, on finding security for good behaviour.\n\nPage 17\n\nWe have little doubt that the reports were greatly exaggerated, and that many of them may have been utterly unfounded; but Major Caine, by making every disposition in his power, and carrying them out with the most commendable activity, seems to have effectually frustrated any hostile intentions; and, charged as he was with the civil and military government during the absence of his Excellency and the Major-General, he contrived, with the small force under his command, not only to prevent any combined attack, but to overawe the common depredators, the number of offences being unusually small during the week. Having been absent at Canton, we must depend upon the information of others as to the arrangements made at Hong Kong, but we believe the following to be a pretty correct account. A central military post of thirty men was established at Keying House, with instructions how to act in case of alarm. At Mr. Edgar's house a corporal and six men were placed to keep up communication with the naval stores and the western police station, and a similar force was posted at the Seaman's Hospital to watch the Gap, and keep clear the communication with the Eastern Stations.\n\nAt Spring Gardens there was another corporal's guard, and the men in the barracks were held to turn out at a moment's notice. Besides these military precautions, it would appear that the police arrangements were equally efficient, the force being scattered all over the town to prevent any assemblage of Chinese, and watch such suspicious persons as might be seen lurking about; a reserve was held in readiness at the Central Station; the guards at the jail and Government offices were reinforced, patrols ranging from West Point to Sookunpoo, were sent out at uncertain periods; the Government gun-boat, well armed, rowed guards all night, visiting the \"Minden\" and \"Alligator\" at intervals; and effective signals were arranged for giving the alarm, either by day or night. The military patrols were placed under the military direction of Captain Burton, whose activity is highly spoken of, and the acting Governor, we humbly think unnecessarily, in person repeatedly inspected the arrangements, both in the harbour and on shore. It was quite proper that he should see that the arrangements were made; but unless especially summoned, they might very well have been left—those on shore to the military and police officers, and those in the harbour to the marine magistrates: by all of whom the duties, so far as we can learn, were most efficiently performed. As a further precaution, the Chinese inhabitants were prohibited from stirring out between the hours of ten at night and four in the morning, and those of them who possessed arms were directed to lodge them in the police office, to be returned on the arrival of the troops from Canton.\n\nPage 48", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "18 \n\nresult was that a great number of large and small guns, muskets, pistols, swords, and spears were thus secured, but It is, of course, have since been given back to the owners. difficult to say whether any attack on Hong Kong was seriously designed; but it is well to know that if it had been attempted, the preparations were such that it must almost certainly have failed. It is said that but for the early return of the troops from Canton, the efficiency of the acting Governor's plans might have been put to the test; in which case a committee of safety was to have been appointed, the inhabitants enrolled and told off in divisions; the women and children, with the treasure, placed in the 18th Barracks, guarded by the troops off duty (about 200 men), with guns, howitzers, and ammunition; guns from the Ordnance and men from the merchant shipping would have been placed on board the \"Minden\" and \"Alligator,\" and both vessels removed from their present anchorage, and moored, the one off the naval stores, and the other at Kellett's Island.\n\n\"Sir,\n\n(A true extract.)\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, May 3, 1847.\n\nI have the honour to acquaint you that the Major-General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your military report, of the 9th ultimo, to his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgments of the services rendered by you, whilst in temporary command of this garrison during the recent operations at Canton.'\n\nI have the honour, &c. (Signed) JOHN BRUCE, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant-General.\n\nHon. Major Caine, Colonial Secretary, Victoria.\n\nEXTRACT of Despatch 41 of April 19, 1847, from Governor Sir John Davis to the Earl Grey.\n\n\"The Major-General's report will put your Lordship in possession of the military details of our short expedition of seven days, and I have only to add that the able dispositions of Major Caine, who was Acting Governor and Commandant in my absence, ensured the safety and tranquillity of the colony.\"\n\nTrue copies.\n\n19 \n\nCOPY of a PETITION from the Chinese Inhabitants of Hong Kong, to the Governor, Sir John Davis, Bart.-July, 1845.\n\n\"A respectful petition from all the shopkeepers and inhabitants of the colony of Hong Kong, who supplicate that a good ruler may be retained by the Government, and beg that this favour be granted.\n\nThe benevolent government of his Honour Major Caine has existed since the opening of this port, and widely extended to the mercantile classes, so that they enjoyed their property. He has shown favours and inspired awe, and the robbers have found him like a thunderbolt, while his soothing influence and conciliatory conduct have brought back the days of \"lang\" and \"Zu\" (“Zu,\" or of \"Zuon\" and \"Thuu\" the two great patriarchs of the Chinese nation). He looked upon the people in no other light than his children. civil and military capacity he has, by his transforming influences, brought on a regeneration. We now hear that his Honour Major Caine will very soon be honourably promoted, and we shall then have none to whom to look up for assistance. We, your subjects, therefore now appear before you, with the utmost sincerity and truthfulness, to make known the previous favours enjoyed, humbly hoping that the high authorities may condescend to regard our foolish wishes, and permit him to retain his control, that we may for ever praise his lenient rule. We thus, creeping in our blindness, represent this, leaving it to you to determine whether our request is proper. With this petition we repair before his Excellency Governor Davis, beseeching the favour that it may be granted.\n\nYaheze year, 6th month, or July, 1845.”\n\nTrue translation. (Signed) CHAS. GUTZLAFF,\n\nChinese Secretary.\n\nFrom all the Wards of Hong Kong and Chinese Inhabitants, bearing 115 Seals of Shops and Firms.\n\n2nd PETITION.\n\nHong Kong, July 1845. \"The duly prepared petition of the shopkeepers and other inhabitants of the wards of \"Shengwan,\" \"Chingwan,\" and \"Hea Wan\" (three Eastern Districts)---\n\nBeseeching for a continuation of virtuous administration of the laws, and that the office of chief magistrate be occupied as heretofore, which they pray may be graciously granted.\n\nWhereas your petitioners, since the establishment of this settlement, have gratefully enjoyed the extensive diffusion of \n\nPage 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260846, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "62\n\nnot only the principal but the only executive officer in this colony, which at the time of its first establishment was the resort of a most indifferent population, composed of all Eastern nations, and the order and security of the colony was without doubt due to his acquaintance with Asiatics, his perfect knowledge of the Hindustani language, and the personal activity which had procured him honourable notice in his own profession. It is but just to add, that had he followed the fortunes of his regiment, he would have been necessarily promoted some years ago; but so necessary did Captain Elliot consider his presence at Hong Kong, that he refused to yield to his very natural request to be at the head of his company in the operations against Canton.”\n\n3.\n\nIt is at the same time due to Major Caine to state that, although he has been suffering for many years from a complaint of a most painful nature, and although his eyesight and hearing are affected in no slight degree, I have not found his ailments to interfere with the satisfactory discharge of his duty, nor has his desire to resign proceeded from any suggestion of mine.\"\n\nTrue extract.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n16.\n\nEXTRACT from despatch, \"Military,\" No. 2, of 11th October, 1854, from Sir George Grey to Governor Sir John Bowring,\n\n\"I have received Mr. Caine's despatches, Nos. 21 and 31, of the 5th and 21st June, and No. 36 of the 5th July, with their inclosures, and I have to express my approval of the measures, as therein reported, which, in concert with the officers in command of the naval and military forces on the station, Mr. Caine had taken, for the protection of Hong Kong\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle is in communication with the Board of Ordnance respecting the proposed purchase, with a view to its permanent occupation as a military post, of the property described as 'Edger's Bungalow,' whereon a battery has been erected, and, in the meanwhile, the Lords Commissioners have been recommended to sanction, as a charge against the Imperial Treasury, the rent (600 dollars for six months), agreed to be paid for the temporary use of the premises in question.\"\n\nTrue extract.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 43, copy.\n\n63\n\n17.\n\nDowning Street, Oct. 1, 1858.\n\nSir,\n\nI have to request that you will acquaint Lieutenant-Colonel Caine that I have received a letter addressed by him to Lord Stanley, dated 19th July last, soliciting a favourable consideration of his services.\n\nYou will inform Colonel Caine that I am aware of the value of the services rendered by him during the long and continuous period of his connection with the Government of Hong Kong, and that these will not fail to receive due weight in the event of any arrangement being adopted which would involve his removal from the office which he holds in that colony.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) E. B. LYTTON.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nCopy.\n\nSir,\n\nTrue copy. W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n18.\n\nHorse Guards, May 18, 1857.\n\nWith reference to previous correspondence on the subject of your desire to realize the value of your commission, I am directed by the General Commanding-in-Chief to acquaint you that an instance having recently arisen, in which the Secretary of State for War allowed an officer, not in the receipt of his half-pay, to sell out of the service, His Royal Highness was induced to refer your case to Lord Panmure, who thereupon has consented to your being brought to full-pay to a clear vacancy, for the purpose of retiring from the service by the sale of a company, but his Lordship cannot sanction your receiving the price of a Majority, as you have never served as a Major.\n\nIn the event of your being disposed to accept these terms, you will be good enough to inform me, and His Royal Highness desires me to request that in that case you will forward to me monthly a military medical certificate as to the state of your health.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) C. YORKE\n\nBrevet Lieut.-Col. Caine, Unattached.\n\nJA\n\nTrue copy W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n71\n\nF", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265265, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "content_text": "## \n37 \n183 \nbe expected to be deposited in the Mint, when that Establishment shall have commenced operations.\n\n2. \nI cannot but be aware that much apprehension exists as to the security of such property at the Mint, if there be not a strong guard there - and it is quite possible to fancy an attack suddenly made on it at night by some thirty or forty piratical craft filled with armed men to whom the prospect of carrying off a Million Dollars might prove an irresistible temptation.\n\n4. \nI believe the chances of a guard furnished by a British European Regiment can command public confidence entirely.\n\n3. \nThe Mint is situated at the Eastern extremity of the town on land reclaimed during the last year from the Sea. Its site projects... would be against such an attack being successful - but the question is not altogether relative probabilities of success or failure. It involves also the general public feeling on the subject, because unless the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265518, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "content_text": "# CDs Hong Kong.\n\n## 26.\n\n28th April 1866.\n\n## 47\n\n1\n\n**Governor**\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell.\n\n**To**\nThe Right Honorable\nEdward Cardwell, M.P.\n\n## Military Cantonments.\n\nSouth Boundary of | Desirable that it should be fixed- Suggestion as to - \n| ------------- | \n\"Plan forwarded. | \n\n## In 59061/160\n433\nComm. R. Engineer's Offices | Victoria Hong Kong\n| 15th September 1853\n\nThe Commanding Royal Engineer in China presents his Compliments to the respective officers of Ordnance and begs to lay before them for approval, the result of his Conferences with His Excellency Sir George Bonham this date with reference to the arrangement of the limits of the Cantonment at Hong Kong. The Boundaries as laid down in His Excellency's letter with which the Commanding Royal Engineer fully concurs will be best understood by the plan he has the honor to submit, which, with the subsequent description he trusts will be deemed sufficient both to secure the rights of the Ordnance Department and the probable requirements of the Service.\n\nCommencing at the extreme East of the Cantonment at a point marked \"A\" being the junction of a small stream with the Queen's Road; the Stream forms the eastern limit of the Cantonment to its source, from its source a line drawn due South until it meets the Contour of 500 feet above the high water Mark as defined in Captain Collinson's Map. Completes its Eastern limits. The Southern limit follows the Contour of 500 feet above high water mark until it cuts the Westernmost branch of the Streams which falls into the Mullah at the Murray Barracks\" from the intersection of this branch the stream becomes the western limit continuing to or point marked \"B\", which is the intersection of the Stream with a line drawn in continuation of the line of the Western Wall of the Barrack enclosure to the point \"C\", which is the intersection of the ramp of the road forming... \n\n## Enclosures\n2 Enclosed.\n\nSin T. Roses.\n\nAlthough...\n\nCommand & \nAlosures \nWhen \nAffair with \nthe \nWar \ninformed \nwhether \nLessl \nrefpeert...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269610, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "228\n\nBeacons.\n\nI would recommend erecting a Beacon on the eastern rock and another on the outer edge of the reef which extends from the point between the Sywan bays. I would also advise placing beacons on the rock off Chung Chow and the sunken reef off the north west extreme of the Lamma island.\n\nBuoys.\n\nI do not think that any buoys are necessary to ensure safe navigation, but it might be found desirable to place buoys on the edge of the Mollett bank.\n\n(Signed) I. B. Reed\n\nMaster in Command of H.M.S. Rifleman\n\nand in charge of China Survey\n\nSea\n\n(The Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270055, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6]", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6]", "content_text": "Source time: Evermore list Richard Graves MacDonnell Despatch series 27 June 1867.\n\nNo. 96.\n\n# GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n266\n\nThe following Rules and Regulations, made by the Governor in Council, under Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd June, 1867.\n\nHENRY JOHN BALL, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n## RULES AND REGULATIONS\n\nMade by the Governor in Council this 21st Day of June, 1867, for the effectual carrying out Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, the same being an Ordinance for the maintenance of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony.\n\nI. The removal of Night Soil from Public Privies shall be solely under the charge of a Government Contractor.\n\nII. All Carriers of Night Soil shall use buckets of uniform color and size with close fitting covers, according to a pattern deposited at the Office of the Surveyor General, and the Carriers of the Government Contractor shall bear a distinguishing badge.\n\nIII. No Depôts for manure shall be allowed unless licensed by the Surveyor General, with approval of the Governor.\n\nIV. No Boats other than those belonging to the Government Contractor shall be used for carriage of Night Soil, and all such Boats shall be of the size of No. 2 Cargo Boats, and such Boats shall be completely decked over, and only allowed to moor at the following Wharves:\n\n 1Sayingpoon Nullah\n 2Eastern Street\n 3Queen's Street\n 4Cleverly Street\n 5Gilman's Street\n 6Pottinger Street\n 7Ice House Street\n 8Eastern Market\n 9Wanchai\n 10Jardine's Bazar\n\nV. The Night Soil Carriers shall not be allowed to convey Night Soil along any Public Road after 7 A.M. in Summer and 8 A.M. in Winter.\n\nVI. Public Dust-Bins shall be erected at the undermentioned places:\n\n 1High Street West\n 2Fan-Mo Street\n 3No. 2 Reservoir\n 4Bridges Street\n 5No. 9 Police Station\n 6The Mosque\n 7Gleanealy Bridge\n 8The Albany\n 9Garden Road\n 10Ice House Street\n\nVII. Public Floating Dust Bins shall be stationed between the Hours of 5 A.M. and 7 A.M., at the following wharves:\n\n 1Saivingpoon Nullah\n 2Eastern Street\n 3Queen's Street\n 4Cleverly Street\n 5Gilman's Street\n 6Pottinger Street\n 7Ice House Street\n 8Eastern Market\n 9Wanchi\n 10Jardine's Bazaar\n\nVIII. No one shall deposit any rubbish or noxious matter in any other places than those set apart for the purpose.\n\nIX. Any breach of the above Regulations may be punished by Fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any period not exceeding Three Months.\n\nX. Nothing contained in these Regulations shall apply to Contractors employed by Her Majesty's Military or Naval Authorities.\n\nXI. These Rules and Regulations shall come into operation contemporaneously with the Ordinance under which they are framed.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.\n\nApproved in Council,\n\nRICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor.\n\nDEX.\n\nPage 270\nPage 271", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273819, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nHis Excellency **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL** is pleased to direct that, until further notice, the only Anchorage in the waters of Hongkong for Foreign Vessels of War, and Foreign Cruisers of every description and Nationality, shall be within the following Boundaries:\n\n### Western Boundary\nA line running from the Government Wharf to the \"Melville,\" Hospital Ship.\n\n### Northern Boundary\nA line running from the \"Melville\" Eastward till it meets the Eastern Boundary.\n\n### Eastern Boundary\nA line running from St. Francis' Hospital towards Kowloon Point till it meets the Northern Boundary.\n\nThe above Regulation does not refer to Vessels driven by stress of weather, or any exceptional circumstances to take up other temporary anchorages.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th January, 1868.\n\n**CECIL C. SMITH**, Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "page_number": 485, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "Mr. Hammond to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office,\n\nForeign Office, October 23, 1868.\n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a despatch from Mr. Bonar, at Vienna, reporting that the Naval Expedition to \"Eastern Asia,\" projected by the Austrian Government, has started from Trieste.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. HAMMOND.\n\nThe\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c., Colonial Office.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nMr. Bonar to Lord Stanley.\n\nVienna, October 20, 1868.\n\nTHE Naval Expedition \"to Eastern Asia,\" so long contemplated by the Austrian Government, has at length weighed anchor, and the ships composing it left the port of Trieste on the 18th instant. Questions raised by Hungary relative to the flag have been one of the causes of its delay.\n\nThe object of the expedition, as your Lordship is already aware, is a politico-commercial one, for the purpose of establishing relations with various States in those parts, inquiring into the best means of extending the commerce of Austria with their ports, instituting Consulates and concluding Treaties of Commerce where advisable.\n\nThe mission is divided into three sections:\n\n1. The scientific and commercial, at whose head is placed Dr. Scherzer, of the Department of Commerce at Vienna, a gentleman of very high repute, and who already accompanied the Austrian frigate \"Novara\" in its scientific voyage round the world some years back.\n\n2. The diplomatic, under the direction of Baron Herbert.\n\n3. A section, rejoicing in a profound German denomination, \"Evidenz-haltung,\" not only incapable of being translated, but also wholly unintelligible, which will be specially charged with the drawing up of Treaties, and the various formalities attaching to the establishment of the Consulates which may be determined upon.\n\nRepresentatives also of the agricultural interests and of all the principal branches of industry in Austria, appointed by the various Chambers of Commerce, five for Austria, and three for Hungary, will form part of the expedition as special agents and reporters for those interests.\n\nThe expedition is composed of two steam vessels, the frigate \"Donau,\" and the corvette \"Friedrich,\" under the chief command of the Vice-Admiral Petz, who is at the same time invested with the title and functions of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.\n\nThe route to be taken will be via the principal stations of Gibraltar, the Cape of Good Hope, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai (a commercial treaty with China being especially in view), thence to Japan, and to return by San Francisco and Central America, and the whole coast of South America.\n\nThe duration of the expedition, it is expected, will be two years. The expenses of the first year are estimated at present at sixty thousand pounds sterling.\n\nAlthough the mission has principally a commercial character, it is charged also to pursue scientific objects as much as possible.\n\nI have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of the instructions furnished to each of the \"technical\" members of the expedition, for which I am indebted to the obligingness of Dr. Scherzer. The branches of industry especially represented are Metallurgy, Textile Fabrics, Hardwares, Raw Products, and Agricultural interests.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. G. BONAR.\n\nLord Stanley,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nPage 13\n\n...\n\n477", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "62\n\nIV. CEYLON.\n8\nCORRESPONDENCE WITH THE COLONIAL DEPARTMENT\nthan once in five or six years; and, in the increased number of colonial Bishops, need not be exacted of the Bishop of this diocese alone.\n\n3. Pecuniary difficulties have been raised; but into such considerations I forbear to enter, farther than to state explicitly to your Lordship that it neither was, nor is, my wish to put either colony to any expense. From the Mauritian Government I should expect only such facilities in passage, &c. as in their own vessels they are able, and I doubt not, willing to provide for me; and the proffered hospitality of the Governor himself renders every further consideration unnecessary. Of this colony no single additional expenditure is required to effect all that can be wished.\n\nFurther into the question, my Lord, I feel that it would be superfluous and unbecoming in me to enter. Thus much was due to myself, although I cannot but regret that circumstances have made it so.\n\nMy application to your Lordship is simply for permission to be absent from my diocese so long, and no longer, than may be necessary for the specified purpose. I have no personal wish in the matter, and am quite content to leave it altogether in your Lordship's hands. Invited, as a Bishop, to pay a brief visit for episcopal purposes only, to a neighbouring colony, which during the many years that it has been an appendage of the British Crown has never been so visited, to do that which no one but a Bishop can do, and for which no other Bishop has the same facilities that I have, it was not for me to stand aloof, or to refuse.\n\nIf forbidden I shall be content, my part is done, and that willingly. I am ready to go if permitted. It remains with your Lordship alone to decide.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nThe Right Honourable Earl Grey,\n\n(signed)\n\nJ. Colombo.\n\nON COLONIAL CHURCH LEGISLATION, &c.\n9\nIf he felt such disapprobation as he now expresses, it was in his power, either by letter or in an interview, which the Bishop can at all times command, to have apprized me of his objections. It is not my office, occupied as I am with many and weighty matters, to seek the Bishop, but his to come to me, and lay before me his objections to any proposed exercise of patronage, and to tender me his advice on the subject under consideration. Knowing his Lordship's opinion as I do regarding the Clergymen affected by this plan, opinions strongly expressed to me both by letter and in conversation, it was impossible that I could anticipate any difference of opinion on the Bishop's part in filling up the vacancy which will take place in the event of your Lordship sanctioning the plan proposed for the retirement of the Archdeacon of Colombo from the Chaplaincy of St. Peter's Church.\n\n3d. It is to the financial part of the proposed plan that the Bishop so particularly objects, a part more especially under the province of the civil authorities, and which I have already gone into in detail in my despatch No. 182 of the 12th ultimo.\n\nI have, &c. (signed)\n\nTorrington.\n\nIV. CEYLON.\nEncl. in No. 5.\n\n1\nNo. 4.\nEarl Grey to Governor Viscount Torrington.\n\n9 April 1849.\n\nPage 6.\n\nNo. 5.\nGovernor Viscount Torrington to Earl Grey.\n\n12 January 1850.\n\n* Page 3.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n(No. 378.)\n\nNo. 4.\nCopy of a DESPATCH from Earl Grey to Governor the Viscount Torrington.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nDowning-street, 9 April 1849.\n\nI HAVE received your Lordship's despatch of the 13th of February last, No. 26,* forwarding an application from the Bishop of Colombo for permission to be absent from his diocese, for a sufficient period to enable him to visit the Mauritius, for the purpose of performing certain episcopal functions in that island.\n\nUnder the circumstances represented by the Bishop, I authorize you to grant to his Lordship leave of absence for a period of three months, on full salary, for the purpose of the proposed visit to Mauritius, but I concur at the same time in your suggestion, that if it should be considered expedient hereafter to make an arrangement for periodical visits by the Bishop of Colombo to Mauritius, it will be necessary that means should be found of relieving the colonial funds of Ceylon from a portion of his Lordship's salary.\n\n(No. 16.)\n\nNo. 5.\nCopy of a DESPATCH from Governor the Viscount Torrington to Earl Grey.\n\nQueen's House, Colombo, 12 January 1850.\n\n(Received, 25 February 1850.)\n\n(Answered, 28 February 1850, No. 509, page 11.)\n\nMy Lords,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit a letter addressed to your Lordship by the Bishop of Colombo.\n\nIn forwarding this document, I have only to solicit your Lordship's attention to the three following points, which embrace in reality all that is important in the letter of the Bishop of Colombo. 1st. It is gratifying to observe, that to the different clergymen affected by the arrangement I had the honour of proposing for your Lordship's sanction in my despatch No. 182,* of the 12th ultimo, the Lord Bishop of Colombo makes not the slightest objection, a most convincing proof indeed that so far as that part of the arrangement falls under his Lordship's cognizance, i. e. the fitness or otherwise of these Clergymen for the posts recommended, I have formed a correct judgment.\n\n2d. The Bishop complains of not having been consulted by me. Here I would observe, that before any plan was decided upon, the Bishop was fully informed by one of these Clergymen then residing with him, of the contemplated arrangements.\n\nEnclosures in No. 5.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nColombo, Ceylon, 27 December 1849.\n\nA LETTER was addressed to me by his Excellency the Governor on the 19th instant, communicating, for the first time, that a recommendation had already been forwarded to your Lordship, by the preceding mail, proposing certain arrangements, which were to affect not less than four of the chaplaincies of this diocese, and the clergymen officiating in them.\n\nTo the circumstances and character of this proposal, I feel so many and such strong objections, that I cannot withhold the expression of them from your Lordship, or forbear the earnest request, that although, as Bishop of the diocese, I have not been consulted, your deliberate consideration may be given to the whole bearing and tendency of the proposal, fraught as it is with evil to the Church in this colony, before it receives your final sanction.\n\nI would, however, premise, that to the different clergymen affected by it, I make no objection. In this respect, I am thankful to assure your Lordship that my diocese is free from censure. My real objection applies to the proposal itself, rather than the persons affected by it; and to the principle involved, not less than the precedent which it will establish, and with the apparent sanction of the Bishop, should it be allowed to pass without remonstrance on my part.\n\nThe principal feature in the proposed arrangements (on which all the rest seem to depend) is the reduction of the chaplaincy of Trincomalie from £700 per annum to £500, to increase the retiring pension of the Archdeacon of Colombo.\n\nTo this proposal, my Lord, I cannot but strongly object: 1. Because it is a diversion of the fund granted for the spiritual provision of the diocese from its legitimate purpose, only for the advantage of an individual.\n\n2. Because within the same province an additional clergyman is much required. Batticaloa is a growing and prosperous settlement. It is the seat of an Assistant Government Agency, and of a District Judgeship. European planters are settled all around, and a new church is about to be erected without any pecuniary aid from the Colonial Government. Application has been made to me again and again for a resident clergyman, which I have as often been obliged to refuse, from want only of available funds for his maintenance.\n\nThe station is now visited only twice in the year by the chaplain of Trincomalie, the very chaplaincy which it is proposed to reduce to £500 and to alienate the remainder.\n\nI would respectfully submit, therefore, to your Lordship, that if £200 can be spared from the chaplaincy of Trincomalie, it ought to be applied for the establishment of an Assistant Chaplain at Batticaloa. Such an appropriation would constitute a great boon to the inhabitants of the whole of that district, and be a just apportionment of the fund assigned by the Colonial Government for the spiritual provision of the eastern province,—£700 per annum.\n\nChaplain at Trincomalie\n£500\n\nAssistant Chaplain at Batticaloa\n£200\n\nThis was lately done in the central province, where the subdivision at present exists.\n\n3. Because the archdeaconry is not now a stipendiary, but an honorary office. It was so created under the letters patent of the Episcopate; it was so accepted by the present incumbent. The office, therefore, constitutes no claim, beyond the merits of the individual, whom the Government have it in their power to reward, if they think fit, from other sources.\n\n4. Because the Pension List for the clergy is fixed at an unvarying scale, to which they all contribute in equal proportion, and from which they all expect to receive equal advantage on their retirement. No personal considerations are allowed to interfere indirectly with this in the Civil departments of the service, nor ought they in the Ecclesiastical.\n\n5. Because...\n\nPage 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "## XX-AMOUNT of FEES received under Ordinance No. 10 of 1860 in the Harbor Master's Department\n\n336\n\nduring the Year 1860.\n\n| MATTER OR DUTY IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE FEE IS TAKEN. | No. | AMOUNT OF FEE. DOLLARS. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Granting an Imperial Register, | 19 | 190 | 1 |\n| Provisional or Copy Register, | 2 | 5 | 10 |\n| Recording Sale of Ship, | 14 | 5 | 70 |\n| Certificate of Sale, Empowering to sell, | 8 | | 40 |\n| Recording Mortgage of Ship, | | 50 | |\n| Discharge, | | | 40 |\n| Declaration of Ownership, | 12 | | |\n| Indorsement, Change of Master, | | | |\n| Certifying Desertions, | | 168 | 168 |\n| Alteration in Agreement, | 6 | | |\n| TOTAL, | | 613 | |\n\n## No. 30.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\n\nThe following Annual Report of the Honorable the Registrar General for the Year 1869, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1870.\n\n## No. 25.\n\n6. for\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, &c.**\n\n## XXL-RETURN of MARINE CASES tried at the Marine Magistrate's Office during the Year 1869.\n\n| CASES | HOW DISPOSED OF. | No. of Cases. | No. of Defendants. | Punished. | Ordered to Return to duty. | Fined. | Dismissed, | Ordered to be Discharged from Ship. | Reprimanded. | Acquitted. | Amount of Fines. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Desertion, | | 230 | 522 | 200 | 76 | 75 | 47 | 7 | 15 | 6 | $382.00 |\n| Refusal of Duty, | | 101 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Assault, | | 21 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct, | | 30 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Insubordination, | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Insolence and Abusive Language, | | 14 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Embezzlement of Cargo and Ships' Stores, | | 5 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Mutinous Conduct, | | 5 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Absenting from Ship without Leave, | | 8 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Stealing, | | 6 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Wounding, | | 1 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Harboring Deserters, | | 3 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Breach of Harbor Regulations, | | 3 | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Harbor and Consts Ordinance, | 19 | 239 | | | | | | | | |\n| | Ordinance No. 12 of 1868, | 77 | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Section 258, of the \"Merchant Shipping Act\", | ... | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Total, | | | | | | | | | | |\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Marine Magistrate, &c.**\n\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary**\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 8th March, 1870.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith the Blue Book Returns for last year which are connected with this Department.\n\nOwing to my having so lately resumed the duties of my post, I am unable to furnish a general Report of the doings of the past year, and will, therefore, only refer to one or two subjects, connected with the Chinese Community, which are matters of interest and worthy of note.\n\nPerhaps the most important point to which I should call attention is the manifest desire shown by the more substantial and intelligent members of the Native Community to take a part in public matters and to render some assistance to the Government in Chinese affairs.\n\nThis feeling took an active form, when in 1867, the inhabitants of the several Districts of this City, acting on the provisions of certain Sections in the Registration Ordinance, recommended a body of men as District Watchmen to be paid for by themselves, whose duties should be connected with the Chinese portion of the City.\n\nThese men have done good service during the past year and continue to render valuable assistance in preventing and detecting crime.\n\nAgain, regard for the wants of the destitute sick led the Chinese Compradores, Merchants and others to consider the feasibility of building and supporting a Hospital. This matter has been under consideration and discussion for about three years, out of which has been matured a scheme likely to meet adequately the charitable object in view.\n\nThe subscription lists show that the collections have already reached Forty-seven thousand Dollars. By Government, a site, near Possession Point, has been granted, and on this the Buildings, calculated to hold about 140 patients, will be erected. In addition, however, a donation of $15,000 from the Special Fund has been devoted towards the expenses of the undertaking.\n\nThat the institution will be well conducted, and be a great boon to those for whom it is intended, there is every prospect.\n\nThree Doctors of good repute will be engaged, on one of whom will specially devolve the task of vaccinating all those brought for that purpose to the Hospital. There is at present a Native Doctor who, on four stated days in each month, attends for this purpose at the neighbouring building, and he reports having been successful in 275 cases since the 14th December last. The system adopted is that which is in vogue in Western countries, while to ensure, as far as possible, that the patient be brought back to the vaccinator after the expiration of seven days, the fee of twenty cents is promised to be returned, and this inducement has in almost every case had the desired effect.\n\nThe Fire Brigade still meets with the hearty co-operation of the Chinese, who have now on foot the establishing of a Salvage Corps to work with the Brigade.\n\nTo refer to the trade of the Native population, of course, as usual, it is impossible to forward accurate returns, and the Department has to depend for information on the statements of different leading firms. But one and all concur in the fact that a great depression still continues, and in some instances, as Cotton, is very marked. It is stated that in respect of this article, only 110,000 bales have been exported in place of 200,000 in the previous year, while of Rice, there has passed through Hongkong only the small amount of 335,000 peculs. The abundant harvest, however, of 1868 will account in a great measure for the falling off in so important an article of trade.\n\nIn Sugar, it is estimated that the Native trade did not exceed 150,000 bags, thus showing a considerable decrease compared with previous years.\n\nThat sold from the Refinery at East Point is not, I learn, much consumed by the Chinese here, as it is dearer than the other Sugar, and does not possess, in their opinion, the same amount of sweetness.\n\nIt may be interesting to note that of live stock (the majority of which comes from Tam-Shui, in a neighbouring District) about 39,600 Pigs, 9,000 Bullocks, and 3,240 Sheep have been slaughtered in the Eastern and Western Slaughter Houses for the use of the Community and shipping.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "content_text": "282 \n\n# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1866.\n\n## HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. [No. 1.]\n\n### CHINA AND JAPAN STATION. SCARBOROUGH SHOAL; CHINA SEA.\n\nBearings are Magnetic. Variation 1° E, in 1866.\n\nIt having been reported that the Scarborough Shoal was placed 14 miles in error on the Admiralty Charts, Edward Wilds, Esq., commanding H.M. Surveying Vessel Swallow, was ordered to determine its position, and the following notice is the result of that officer's survey.\n\nThe Scarborough Shoal is a dangerous coral reef rising out of deep water, and it affords, and that only in calm weather, a single precarious anchorage off the entrance to its lagoon at the south-eastern extremity of the reef.\n\nIt consists of a narrow belt of coral, nearly level with the water's edge, enclosing a lagoon of clear blue water. On the belt are scattered several rocks 3 to 10 feet above water, visible about 5 miles. In shape, the reef is a right-angled triangle with the corners rounded off, the three sides lying S.E. 7 miles, S.E. by E. 10 miles, and E. by N. 8 miles. The opening to the lagoon, about two cables in width, has a depth of 4 fathoms over coral bottom, but just within, it shallows.\n\nThe current was found (March) running strong to the westward. In April 1863, it was found very doubtful in direction in the proximity of the shoal. It is H.W. full and change about 8 P.M. with a rise of 5 feet.\n\nThe positions of the reef are as follow: The South side and North point are in lat. 15° 7′ and 15° 12′ N. respectively, and the West side and East point are in 117° 44′ and 117° 52′ E. longitude.\n\n**BY ORDER OF VICE-ADMIRAL G. ST. VINCENT KING, C.B., COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,**\n\nHongkong, April 16th, 1866.\n\n## No. 86. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nChas. Bullock, Commander of H.M.S. \"Serpent.\"\n\nHis Excellency Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., has appointed the Honorable W. H. RENNIE to act as Colonial Secretary, during the temporary absence on leave of the Honorable W. T. MERCER.\n\n**By Order,**\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 31st May, 1866.\n\n## No. 64. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nW. H. RENNIE, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nBy direction of His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., Governor, by and with the Advice of the Executive Council, and in continuation of Government Notification No. 59 of 20th Ultimo, the following Rules for the receipt of Silver Bullion into the Mint of Hongkong are published for general information.\n\n1. Tenders of Silver Bullion will be received at the Mint between the hours of eleven and three daily, Sundays and Holidays excepted, provided they are made in duplicate on a printed form, copies of which will be supplied on application at the Mint.\n\n2. Tenders of parcels of Silver Bullion weighing less than 5,000 oz. will be declined.\n\n3. All Bullion found on Assay to be unfit for coinage will be returned to the importer, who must pay an Assay fee of $1 for each Assay.\n\n4. Parcels of dollars, or other small pieces of silver intended to be tendered for coinage may be pre-melted in the Mint before being received or assayed. Should the Bullion prove unadapted for coinage, it will be returned to the importer, who must pay, in standard silver, the pre-melting fee which will be calculated on the gross weight, unless the parties tendering prefer defraying the cost necessary to raise it to Standard. Such cost to be estimated by the Master of the Mint.\n\n5. When the Bullion shall have been assayed by the Mint Assayer, the amount of the standard value will be communicated to the importer. On receipt of the importer's acceptance of the Mint Assay Report, notice will be given to him of the date on which the new dollars due to him will be ready for delivery.\n\n6. The seignorage on Silver Bullion coined into dollars will be (when charged) two per cent.\n\n7. The pre-melting charge will be * per cent.\n\n8. Bullion brought to the Mint to be pre-melted will be considered to be in the custody and at the risk of the importer, to whom every facility will be given for securing and storing until it shall have been melted and afterwards weighed at the Mint scale.\n\n9. Consignments of New Coin will be issued to importers in the order in which their parcels of Bullion entered the Mint preceded or accompanied by the tender prescribed in the first rule.\n\n**By Order,**\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd May, 1866.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n## VICTORIA GAOL,\n\nTo His Excellency, General Whitfeild, C.B., The GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.\n\nThe Humble Petition of Edward Ayx, now a Prisoner in Victoria Gaol.\n\n17082)\n\n215\n\nSHOWETH. That your petitioner is undergoing the sentence of three months imprisonment with hard labor for felony, convicted by J. Russell, Esq., on the 21st March 1871. That your humble Petitioner having served in the Army for the period of many years, six months, and three days, having been engaged in the Campaigns of Poonjaub in 1848-9, Burmah in 1852-3, and 1858 - Also through the Sidians mutiny and was one of the Defenders of the Residency of Lucknow under the Command of Sir Henry Havelock (for which he received the Victoria Cross) by the recommendation of the said Sir Henry Havelock himself - also served through the Bhootan Expedition in 1864-1865 under the Command of General Mulcaster, and that during the whole period of my Service, I was never a prisoner in Gaol, nor even brought up for any offence whatever, and that I left the Army with the rank of Sergeant at my own request - Hoping and most humbly imploring my character's much reference thereto for your favorable consideration. I do assure your Excellency that after all my previous good conduct in the Army, I did not come to this Station and joined the Police for the purpose of making myself a thief, and I very humbly beg that your Excellency will mercifully take my case under your merciful consideration and remit the remaining portion of my sentence.\n\nAnd your Petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.\n\n(Signed) Edward Ayx.\n\nApril 27, 18...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nIs not a great deal of the work in Siam caused by the doctrine of extra-territorial jurisdiction applying to the inhabitants of British Burmah? Yes, and to British India; I would not separate British Burmah exclusively.\n\nThere is a difficulty in following criminals from British Burmah, is there not, to Siam; do not cases occasionally occur of the escape of criminals into Siam?--I have not heard of any particular case of that kind.\n\nDo you think that work of that kind could be decreased; it has been stated here that there has been a somewhat extravagant interpretation of this doctrine in the case of the inhabitants of British Burmah?--Well, it would be a very great comfort if the work of looking after these men could be taken away from the consul altogether, because it is a terrible responsibility having to give an opinion about cases which happen hundreds of miles away from you, and of which you cannot get any very satisfactory evidence. I do not see how we are to avoid doing it with our Treaty.\n\nThe officers of the consulate are occasionally sent great distances up country, are they not, in these cases?--No, they were not in my time; I have never known of an officer being sent beyond 60 miles about a case.\n\nBut the labour involved in these cases to the consulate is very considerable?--Very considerable, and the anxiety still greater.\n\nDo you know whether it was the custom of other Powers for their consuls to act as agents there?--In some cases the consuls were merchant consuls, trading consuls, and in that case they might of course be agents for anything; the Lloyd's agent in Siam was a merchant.\n\nViscount ENFIELD: Is the cost of living in Siam very great?--It is great as compared with England, because there are certain luxuries which a man must have in a climate of that sort; I mean to say that whereas a young man in England can live very well for £150, out in Siam it is impossible for a student interpreter to live decently on the pay that is given to him.\n\nMR. HARPER in his evidence before the Committee said that H.M. Consuls often acted as agent for Lloyd's, and that the commissions paid on wrecks were at times valuable, he might instance the case £3,000 paid on one ship at Batavia.\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED).\n\nThe second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders was held on the 13th inst.; Mr. JOHN PENDER, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. T. Fuller) read the notice convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting, which were then confirmed; the report of the directors, given in our last issue, was taken as read.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nThe CHAIRMAN stated that since the opening of the line it had worked in every way satisfactorily; there had been one or two interruptions, but of a slight character. In regard to one which occurred at Saigon in shallow water, they had the satisfaction, in repairing the cable, that it was as perfect as on the day it had been laid down.\n\nIt was also a matter for congratulation to perceive that, even taking into account the low rate of charges that had rated for a considerable period of the company's operations, the result had been about as good as that attained by any submarine line during the first year of its working. It was proposed to pay the shareholders a dividend of 8 per cent. for the whole year.\n\nThe directors entered into arrangements with the Great Northern, by which that company was to receive interest at 5 per cent. on the capital, and the cable to be repaired by them; that all above that sum was to be equally divided; and, although the traffic had been interrupted, the amount received last year from that source was £4,752.\n\nHe thought that at some future time it would be necessary to call upon the shareholders to find the money to lay another cable in conjunction with the Great Northern, as the present cable seemed to be not quite so good as that company had expected it to be. He also believed that an alternate line was necessary to give the public the accommodation they required, and at the same time to secure themselves a fair return.\n\nThis company had put up its tariff to £6, whilst the Great Northern Company were working at £4 10s., but he thought that they were getting as full a share of the traffic as those who went to the expense of telegraphing their messages by both routes.\n\nMr. Forde, a shareholder, said he regretted that the Board had any idea of laying a cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai in conjunction with the Great Northern Company. Such a step would be much in the interests of that company, but against theirs. He must very earnestly urge on the directors the policy of amalgamating with the other companies; a low tariff was only to be obtained by amalgamation. The working expenses of this company—£16,000 on earnings of £85,000—were enormous, and the salaries paid were too high.\n\nMr. HOLMES agreed with Mr. Forde as to the Shanghai line, and he considered the £1,838 for the Agnes repairing ship was excessive, and a contract should be made for the repairs.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN, in reply to these remarks, said that the laying of the cable to Shanghai was merely foreshadowed, but if done, it must be in conjunction with the Great Northern in good faith, according to the bargain made. The policy of amalgamation was quite approved by the Board; but those things required time, and could not be carried out so speedily as Mr. Forde seemed to think.\n\nWith regard to the expenses, he read a statement of salaries, &c., at each port, and explained that the expenses of living were so high at the stations that the salaries of proper officers must be in proportion. The expense for repairs and maintaining cable would be reduced.\n\nThe directors had no objection to half-yearly meetings. The report was then put and carried, as also the re-election of the Baron d'Erlangen as a director, and two auditors. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.\n\nTHE JAPANESE AT MESSRS. ALLAN, RANSOME AND CO.'S.\n\nYesterday the Minister for Agriculture, with members of his suite, together with American and English employers of labour, visited the works of Messrs. Allan, Ransome, and Co., in King's-road, Chelsea, to view some newly-invented labour-saving machinery of remarkable construction and power.\n\nThe strikes of workmen in the building trades, the increased cost of production in the carpentry and joinery branches of those trades, and the difficulties caused to employers by the restrictions of Trades Unions, have each had their share in directing the attention of engineers to find the means of meeting the pressure caused by the contracted amount of available skilled labour; and the machines exhibited yesterday were in every way so perfect that it is not easy to see how hand labour will hold its own.\n\nThe first machine inspected was a portable saw frame. Any one who has seen the old saw-pits, where the \"top sawyer\" and the \"bottom sawyer\" laboured from morning to night and day after day in cutting a log into planks, would be greatly astonished to see this comparatively small machine, attended only by one man, cut up the body of a large oak into fourteen planks at once, it having twelve saws, which cut through the whole bulk of wood in something less than half an hour.\n\nA mortising machine, the invention of Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia, was set to work, and accurately and cleanly cut in a few moments mortises which would have taken a workman hours.\n\nA moulding machine, for cutting mouldings, did in a minute thirty-five feet of work, which would have taken a skilled workman many hours, and this work could apparently be done by a boy.\n\nIn what was called a \"general joining machine\" there was apparently no limit to the work to be done, the one machine cutting mortises, shaping blocks, planking, carving out banisters, and turning in a few minutes a plain block of wood into a perfectly carved piece of work.\n\nAnother machine, exceedingly small and unpretentious, was shown to be capable of planing any sort of work, oval or flat, and at the same time a revolving chisel cut mortises with celerity and accuracy.\n\nA very fine piece of machinery is one which cuts raised or recessed panels, in other words, which can cut the sunk or raised ornamental work in wood now so highly prized and so dearly paid for, as the best and most skilled.\n\nBy another machine, an American invention, but improved by the Messrs. Ransome, a door can be finished—that is, cleanly sand-papered on both sides—in three minutes.\n\nThe planing and trying-up of work, or what would be properly called the trueing \"up, by which is meant the nice work of making blocks of wood exactly like one another, in order to hand labour, is, by one of Ransome's machines, done at once and perfectly in a few minutes, all the blocks, of whatever size, being placed together and turned out as like as peas, and mathematically correct in every respect.\n\nA band saw machine, by which both fine and rough work was cut in all sorts of shapes, and a saw cutting machine, with F. Ransome's patent stone, were among the other works shown.\n\nWith one or two of these machines an employer with a man and a boy as staff, could turn out as much work as twenty or thirty men, and never be troubled about the nine hours, eight hours, or any other movement.\n\nThe remarkable fact about these machines is that they are not limited to the pattern, shape, or character of wood, for the knives are changed in a few minutes, and whatever the class of work required, it can be done at once.\n\nThe inspection lasted for several hours, and all the visitors expressed themselves delighted with these new machines, some of which are to go to the Vienna Exhibition.\n\nNAVAL AND MILITARY.\n\nThe screw steamer Scotland, Captain James, sailed from Queenstown on the 12th inst. for Singapore and Hong Kong, via the Suez Canal.\n\nThe following are the details of the officers and men who proceed in the Scotland to strengthen the garrisons in the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong:-To Singapore, Captain Battye, Lieutenant Armstrong, and 79 men of the 10th regiment and 10 men of the Royal Artillery.\n\nTo Hong Kong, Captain Stone, with 294 men and 19 women and children of the 80th Regiment; an armourer sergeant, a sergeant, and 10 men of the Royal Artillery: and 3 men of the Royal Engineers.\n\nMajor Watson, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Captain Hewson, 73rd Foot, and Lieutenant Chevera, of the 73rd Foot, proceed to Hong Kong on duty with the draft of the 80th Regiment, and will afterwards return to Ceylon.\n\nThe medical officer in charge of the troops is Staff Surgeon O'Halloran, who will, after their arrival at their respective stations, proceed to Penang.\n\nThe Mosquito, composite gunboat, 400 tons, and 360-horse power, which was commissioned at Devonport on the 30th ult., for service on the China station, by Lieutenant-Commander William Henry Bond, was moved into Plymouth Sound on the 9th inst., has made the customary trial of her engines, and has embarked her supply of ammunition preparatory to sailing.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel Joseph H. F. H. Hudson, Grenadier Guards, is to be confirmed in his appointment of military secretary to General Henry Renny, in command of the forces in Ceylon.\n\nMONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.\n\nThe suspension of Messrs. Bowles Bros. and Co., noticed in our last issue, has caused the stoppage of the \"Joint National Agency,\" a company formed for general financial and agency purposes in connection with the Japanese now in Europe, amongst whom we are sorry to say are the agents of the Japanese Government, who have lodged Government funds in the hands of the Company.\n\nJudging from the following circular, it seems that the company is utterly crushed, and will be dissolved.\n\n446, Strand, London, 9th November, 1872.\n\nSIR.—With the greatest regret, and by order of the Board of Directors, I have to inform you that in consequence of the sudden and unexpected suspension of payment of one of the bankers of this company, the firm of Messrs. Bowles Brothers and Co., this company has also found it necessary to suspend payment.\n\nIn order at once to secure the assets of the company its immediate winding up has been determined upon, and with this view an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders will be held here at two o'clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday week, the 19th inst., when a resolution will be submitted to the effect that it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that it cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.\n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nWALTER H. FARRA, Secretary.\n\nFollowing closely on the failure of Joshua, of Singapore, we have telegrams announcing the stoppage of Chang \"Tee, Watseng and Co., and Absoon and Co., both Chinese firms of importance in the Straits and Saigon trade, with heavy liabilities to European firms.\n\nThe mail also brings advices of the failure and arrest for fraud of A. Velge, a commission merchant at Singapore, by which the banks will also lose.\n\nMessrs. Joshua Brothers and Co., of Great Winchester-street, desire it to be stated that their firms, together with the firms of Joshua Brothers, Melbourne, and Joshua Brothers, Mauritius, are in no way related to or connected with the firm of Joshua Brothers, of Singapore, whose suspension has been announced.\n\nCorrespondence from Shanghai by the last two mails has been very gloomy, and failures are expected before the end of the year, notwithstanding the assistance given here to the Silk market by a combination.\n\nBar Silver has again declined, and the nearest quotation we can give is 59d. per oz., at which rate some small parcels have been sold; the market is weak, and a further slight reduction may be looked for.\n\nThe Bank of Holland has decided to buy no more silver at any price. It has hitherto bought silver at 1.104.65 per Dutch pound, and has not varied the price for years.\n\nBANK AND MISCELLANEOUS SHARES.\n\nTELEGRAPH COMPANIES.\n\n£10\n\nChartered Bank Ind., Aust., and China\n\nAll\n\n59 to 54\n\n13 to 15\n\nAll\n\n23 to 25\n\n10\n\n1 to 15\n\n58 to 60\n\nAll\n\nJOINT STOCK BANKS.\n\n£10\n\nAgra Bank\n\n25\n\nBank of Egypt\n\n20\n\n45\n\nChartered Merc. of India and China\n\n20\n\nCity Bank\n\n+14\n\n1.\n\n100\n\nColonial Bank\n\n500fr.\n\nComptoir D'Escompte of Paris...\n\n2291\n\n100\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank\n\n[Imperial Bank\n\n20\n\n28 to 29\n\n50\n\nLondon and County\n\n20\n\n69 to 58\n\n50\n\nLondon Joint Stock\n\n15\n\n48 to 47\n\n100\n\nLondon and Westminster\n\n20\n\n67 to 62\n\nOriental Bank Corporation\n\nAll\n\n$1 to 42\n\n50\n\nUnion of London...\n\n43 to 44\n\n10\n\nBritish Indian Extension\n\nAll\n\n34 to 144\n\n13\n\nBritish Australian...\n\nAn\n\nA to 99\n\n30\n\nChina Submarine.\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nEastern Telegraph Company\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nGreat Northern\n\nAll\n\n10 to 114\n\n25\n\nIndo-European\n\nAll\n\n14 to 30\n\n30\n\nMediterranean Extension\n\nAll\n\n£ to 7\n\n12\n\nTelegraph Construction Company\n\n£24 to 23\n\n60\n\nIndiarubr.,Gutta Percha &Tel. WorksCo.\n\n45\n\n391 to 301\n\nMISCELLANEOUS\n\n20\n\nBritish India Tea Company\n\nAll\n\n4 to 5\n\nBrit. and Foreign Marine Insurance Co.,\n\n1\n\n6 to\n\n6\n\n20\n\nCeylon Company\n\n***\n\n**\n\nAll\n\n15 to 17\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\n10\n\nLo\n\ndis.\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\nར\n\n4 to\n\n3 dis\n\n50\n\n2 to\n\nI dis.\n\n5\n\nAll\n\nto\n\n53\n\n10\n\nGeneral Credit and Discount Companyj\n\n73\n\nTo\n\n15 pm.\n\n10\n\nHong Kong Gas Company\n\n414\n\n10\n\nInternational Finance Society...\n\n5\n\n1 to dis.\n\n98\n\nJapan Loan, 9 per cent...\n\nAll\n\n110 to 112\n\n$4\n\nLondon and Prov. Marine Insurance Co.\n\n2\n\n24 to 21 pa1.\n\n26\n\nNational Discount Company...\n\n5\n\n121\n\n122\n\n25\n\n50nfr.\n\nOcean Marine Insurance Company\n\nMessageries Maritime of France\n\n5\n\n13 to 14 pm.\n\nAli\n\n50\n\n50\n\n100\n\n21)\n\nP. and O. Steaming Company\n\n170.\n\n1867...\n\n20.\n\nRoyal Mail Steam Company\n\nRealia Marine Insorance Company\n\nAll\n\n51 10\n\n68\n\n10\n\ndis. to par\n\n60\n\n93 to B5\n\nJ\n\n1 to I dis.\n\n4021.\n\nSuez Canal Company\n\n*\n\n20\n\n20\n\nThames and Mersey Marine Lasur. Co.\n\nUniversal Marine Insurance Company!\n\n5 to\n\nFLE\n\nColonial Company\n\nCredit Foncier of England\n\nARTICLES OF IMPORT.\n\nTEA.\n\n1,530\n\n1.360\n\n5pm.\n\n4 to jum\n\nMessrs. Shepard, Harrison, and Rehden's Circular says--\n\nDuring the past few days buying, except at auction without reserve (sales of China or Indian growth taking place daily), has been all but suspended, owing to the disturbance in the money market and the advance in the Bank rate, which is now 7 per cent.; arrivals have also been on an exceedingly large scale; buyers therefore act with extreme caution.\n\nAdvices from China, as to ultimate total shipments, state, \"all will depend on prices paid for common Congou;\" as regards this market, there is no encouragement to ship such here; demand has been \"off\" this class for some time, and late imports of what may be fairly classed as \"good common\" are not saleable over 9d.\n\nThe export trade to all quarters has been inactive.\n\nThe public sales of China have comprised 16,117 packages, of which week amount to 8,211,346 lbs., against 3,161,038 lbs. last year.\n\n14,449 packages have been sold without reserve.\n\nThe deliveries for the sales have been...\n\nBlack-Red leaf: No change as to prices for siftings and leafy; good flavoury kinds at 1s. to 1s 1d. have been scarce, but a better selection is offering from ships now discharging; Souchong and Kaisow kinds at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 5d. offer good value; medium to fine at 1s. 6d. to 2s. are hard of sale; finest sells in small lots at 2s. 1d. to 2s. 6d. per lb.\n\nPakling kinds: No demand.\n\nTayshau leaf: Fall supplies are in course of landing; a few sales at 10d. to 1s, for good common and fair.\n\nBlack leaf: In low and ordinary common there have been occasional small sales at 6d. to 7½d.; fair to good common we quote at 8d. to 10d. per lb., and difficult of sale; preferable kinds 1s. 7d, we make rather lower; fine and finest 1s. 8d. to 2s. 2d., limited at 1s. to 1s. 2d. are scarce; medium to good medium at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. are...\n\nSouchong: Few transactions at no alteration in value.\n\nScented Tea, Canton kinds--Caper: There has been fair trade doing, as late good common to fair 10d. to 1s., good to medium 1s. 1d. to 1s. 4d, fine imports are of desirable quality, many parcels being strong scented; 1s. 5d. to 1s. 8d., finest 1s. 9d. to 2s. per lb.\n\nScented Orange Pekoe: Limited supplies, but sufficient for present wants, Foochow growth being in full supply, and selling at a moderate scale of prices.\n\nGreen Large sales by auction without reserve; the imports, ex Glenroy and Ajax, over 800,000 lbs., offering a varied selection, chiefly of Peling Suey leaf, which has sold at an average 1d. per lb. decline, No. 1 Gunpowder selling down to 2s. 11d., other grades in proportion.\n\nSlogane and Fychow leaf, with the comparatively small supply, has been selling at extreme rates.\n\nCanton and Japan kinds: No change.\n\nSILK.\n\nMessrs. Kilburn, Kershaw, and Co. report as follows:--\n\nThe slight improvement in demand which had shown itself recently has been checked by the movements of the money market, and buyers generally seen disposed to wait; there is no change in quotations.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "Land Board\n\nMiscu\n\nOB\n\nmost\n\nde was He\n\nfor long not only the principal but the only Executive Officer in this colony, which at the time of its first Establishment was the resort of a mixed population, composed of all Eastern nations, and the order and security of the Colony was without doubt due to his acquaintance with Asiatics, his perfect knowledge of the Hindustani Language and the personal activity which had procured his honorable notice in his own profession. It is but just to add, that had he followed the fortunes of his Regiment, he would have been necessarily promoted some years ago;\n\nBut so necessary did Captain Elliott consider his presence at Hongkong that he refused his natural request to be at the head of his company in the operations against Canton.\n\nTrue extract\n\n2. T. Mercer,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nExtract of despatch 41 of April 19th, 1847, from Governor Sir John Davis to the Earl Grey.\n\n\"The Major General's report will put your Lordships in possession of the Military details of our short Expedition of seven days and I have only to add that the able dispositions of Major Caine, who was acting Governor and Commandant in my absence, Ensured the safety and tranquility of the Colony.\n\nAssistant Adjutant General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, May 3-4, 1847\n\n162\n\nI have the honor to acquaint you that the Major General Commanding has had much pleasure in forwarding your Military report, of the 9th ultimo, to His Grace the Commander-in-Chief, and that in so doing he did not fail to express his acknowledgements of the services rendered by you, whilst in temporary command of this garrison, during the recent operations at Canton.\n\nI have the honor, &c., (Signed) John Bruce, Captain,\n\nAssistant Adjutant General.\n\nTo Major Caine,\n\nColonial Secretary, Victoria.\n\nIn December, 1857, Major Caine was permitted by Major General Sir Charles Straubenzee, K.C.B. Commanding H.M. Forces in China, to accompany him at the assault and capture of Canton, and in the General's despatch he was pleased thus to express himself to Lord Panmure, then Secretary for War:\n\nExtract\n\n\"I take this opportunity of thanking...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "page_number": 268, "title": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "content_text": "but no indentures whatever, with perfect liberty to the Immigrants to go back at their own expense at any time. He is sanguine that this would answer. Mr614 16.1/4 I do not suppose that there would be vagrancy. General continuing the argument although in Wish. If Coolie emigration contract cannot be ended under certain circumstances, it will have both advantages and will be abolished in British ships and & British Possessions. But I think the proposal we are making gives reason to hope that we may reduce the abuse to an insignificant number compared with the advantages to the Emigrant.\n\nAlthough it may be the law in the United States that a man who has entered into a contract can get out of it whenever he dislikes the terms, such law is practically superseded by the Chinese Societies' Organisation through which the \"free\" migration can be made subject to compulsion before the country is reached, and can be first indentured to Coolies whose indenture can be enforced by law. The Colonies compare more favourably with the United States in regard to the Condition of the Chinese insubordination. It is I believe a lawless & immoral place in the world. Hear the Chinese trader in San Francisco.\n\nAnd although American vessels excluded from the Coolie trade have been informed from Hong Kong that it is in American vessels that the so-called free emigration to Singapore and other Eastern places (which is in many cases pure kidnapping) is carried on more cruelly & overcrowding than on Portuguese or other vessels. It might be well to remind the British of this point & claim his assistance in putting down the abuses committed under the name of free emigration.\n\nP.S. as to Melongden's application for Clandestine Emigration mentioned earlier, I think the practical difficulty would be found to be that they will not work for low wages unless indentured - I will command wages approaching to those paid to Whites rather than Coolies.\n\nIf we remind the Fiscal as Mr Herbert suggests we must be prepared with evidence beyond the assertions ex parte small - when the appeal against the latter's decision is decided, it is probable that some action may have to be taken subsequent to or rather was occasioned by Public outcry, if the atrocities of the system continue. Perhaps it would hardly be worth while to initiate Mr. Food & the outgoing Governor as well to report a conversation in some secret caucus to initiate action which may put down the great complaint yearly. 3/4773", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297333, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "X \n\nfor 40155. Nov 16. \n\n13375 \n\nSin. J. 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Awhich \n\nand prepared \n\nto save \n\nthat \n\nfew days ago \n\nI send also HK Des 150 a com \n\nen the letter to the I \n\naccompanied \n\nshould \n\n422 \n\nCons of the Printed Correspondence Copy \n\ntimes before Parlament (both Houses) Command \n\nCd. 1189 April 75 Eastern No 13.) £ 22 \n\nC \n\nS. as to the date which has to be filled up in \n\nthe Papers on \n\n12 please procure \n\ne \n\nMe \n\nKhrum tsif & sdate insertit, per \n\n12388/7426044 75 \n\nen R \n\n: \n\nu", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298512, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "28\n\n2\n\n434\n\nand the Grain Commissioner who never appeared on the stage and to learn moreover that the Sheung was not the Hopwan's mansion but Pang Juck's family house in the Eastern Suburbs.\n\nSince then the Hopwan has left for Peking and Pang Juck who failed \"to bring the Hongkong merchants to reason\" has been transferred to another command where, for his sake, it is to be hoped he may find his fellow countrymen more open to conviction and less \"cunning of flace\".\n\n21. Inclosure No. 12 is a further statement by two Chinese Merchants partly written and partly viva voce,\n\nLevelenme No!!\n\nshewing (1) the duty payable at Macao on white and brown sugar imported from Hainan (2) the meaning of the expression \"Tuk Chui Sai\" (3) the duties payable on certain commodities at the Fa Yu Chan station shipped from Hongkong to a northern port.\n\n(6)° The cause of the Viceroy's recent proclamation excusing passenger boats from search and (7) shewing how a manuscript digest of the Hopwan's local tariff was obtained.\n\n21. When His Excellency asked for a copy of the native tariff various answers were given.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "10\n\nelapsed between Dupuis' return from his first expedition to Yunnan and his expulsion, finding salt was in great request there, and that a picul costing 1 dollar at Hanoi was sold for 7 dollars in Yünnan, he sent several cargoes up the Song Koi without hindrance from the Hanoi Government; and when Garnier captured the citadel, he had sixteen boats loaded with salt, which had to be abandoned at the evacuation.\n\nI will now proceed to the second phase of this remarkable history. Lieutenant François Garnier was a naval officer of great ability and merit; he had accompanied Captain de la Lagrée in his expedition up the Meikong River to explore a new route to the southern provinces of China and Thibet: and when that officer died he succeeded to the command of the party, and brought it safely through China to Hankow, and was preparing to prosecute his researches in Thibet when he was sent for by Admiral Dupré to take charge of an expedition to Tonquin.\n\n<<\n\nWhatever were Admiral Dupré's intentions in sending Garnier with an armed escort to Tonquin, certainly the Annamite Government considered it was for the purpose of removing Dupuis in accordance with their request. All, however, known about it was \"that it was sent to restore order\" but whether Dupuis was to be expelled or the Annamites supported, no one knew, but the title given him was Commandant-en-chef des forces de terre et de mer des côtes de Tongking, Envoi Extraordinaire de la Cochin-Chine.\" On the 10th of October the Annamite Envoys and Garnier and his party embarked in the \"D'Estrées,\" French man-of-war, towing a small gun-boat, the \"Arc.\" Calling at Tuson, two mandarins were sent from Huo to introduce Garnier to the Tonquinese authorities. The \"D'Estrées\" arrived at the Cua-cam River on the 24th of October, where Garnier obtained two junks, and left with his staff for Hanoi, which he reached on the 5th of November.\n\nA week before, another man-of-war, the 'Decrès, had been dispatched from Saigon, towing a gun-vessel, the \"Espingole.\" The \"Decrès \" arrived in the Cua-cam on the 7th of November, and the \"Espingole\" left at once for Hanoi with a crew of twenty-eight men, a medical attendant, Dr. Harmand, and a hydrographer, M. Bouillet, under command of an ensign, M. Baluy.\n\nM. Dupuis and his Chinese received Lieutenant Garnier, on landing at Hanoi, with military honours, and he at once penetrated into the citadel through one of the gates, and obliged the sentries to show him the house of Nguyen Tri-phuong, an old man with the title of Marshal or Commander-in-chief at Hanoi, and who had previously fought the French at Kihoa, and to whom he announced himself as the \"French Governor.\" Concealing his anger, Tri-phuong offered Garnier quarters in the native city, which he refused; but, frustrated in obtaining a house in the citadel, he accepted the building outside called the Examination Hall, and at present the French Consulate. As soon as he had left the city the gates were closed, and the officers who allowed him to enter were severely punished.\n\nGarnier at once began to negotiate. He said he had come at the request of Tuduc's Ministers; he had with him two mandarins sent by the Court of Hué, and had even been told he should meet at Hanoi a Minister Plenipotentiary, with whom he could treat. The Minister had arrived, but Nguyen Tri-phuong entirely ignored him, saying that Garnier had been sent not to make a Commercial Treaty, but to expel Dupuis.\n\nOn the day of his arrival Garnier issued a Proclamation. He said he was sent by France at the request of the Annamites, who had been asking at Saigon for help, and his mission was to destroy the pirates who attack vessels on the coast, and to facilitate commerce with Tonquin.\n\nIn the meantime, the \"Arc\" having been lost on the voyage to Tonquin, Admiral Dupré dispatched the gun-boat \"Scorpion\" to replace her.\n\nOn the 10th November M. Dupuis' steamer, the \"Manghao,\" brought a letter from Garnier to the captain of the \"D'Estrées,\" requesting reinforcements; and the following day the \"Scorpion,\" followed by the \"Manghao,\" proceeded up the river, the latter carrying a medical man, Dr. Dubut, and sixty men and three officers.\n\nThus the whole of the French forces at Hanoi on the 14th of November, 1873, not including Dupuis, were :\n\nThe \"Espingole,\" Messrs. Baluy, Harmand, and Bouillet, with 28 men. The \"Scorpion,\" Messrs. Garnier, Esmez, and Bouxin, with 50 men.\n\nThe detachment from the \"Decrès,\" Messrs. Bain, Hautefeuille, Perrin, and Dubut, with 60 men.\n\nThe 30 marines of M. de Trentenien.\n\nDr. Chedan and M. Lasserre, private secretary to Garnier. Altogether, 180 men.\n\n11\n\nOn the 19th of November, Garnier published a second Proclamation, making known the conditions of the intended Treaty of Commerce under French protection. Information had reached him that the Annamites were preparing to attack him, and he thought it would be better to strike the first blow himself; and, as the time he had given Nguyen Tri-phuong to communicate with the Court of Hué had expired, he resolved to attack the citadel the following day.\n\nAt daybreak on the 20th of November, the attack was made. A first column composed of 30 sailors with a gun, headed by M. Bain de la Coquerie, marched toward the south-western gate at 6 o'clock. A quarter of an hour later, Garnier himself left the Examination Hall for the south-eastern gate, with 3 guns, 40 sailors, and 30 marines.\n\nThe great\n\nThe Annamites, taken unawares, offered scarcely any resistance. difficulty in entering the citadel was to break open the gates made of hard wood, and it was necessary to bring the guns close to and fire at a distance of a few feet,\n\nWhile the southern gates were being stormed, the shells of the \"Espingole\" and the \"Scorpion were falling near the western gate, and, by frightening away the defenders of the place, contributed to the success of the day. M. Dupuis himself, though Garnier had declined his offer of service, was taking a share in the fight, and his soldiers, having managed to scale the Eastern Gate, entered the citadel first, and dispersed for pillage. Garnier, however, gave strict orders to stop all disorder, and by 7 o'clock, the citadel being entirely in his hands, he sent back all the troops to the Examination Hall, except the marines.\n\nSome 200 natives had been killed or wounded, while on the side of the French there was not a single casualty to report. A great number of officials were made prisoners, including the Envoy from the Court of Hué, who had been ignored by the Marshal, the Governor of Hanoi, the two sons of Phan Tanh-gian, who signed the Treaty of 1862 on behalf of Annam, and Nguyen Tri-phuong himself. The Marshal was found concealed in a house where he had taken refuge after receiving a wound in the thigh from a splinter of a shell, and from which he subsequently died.\n\nOn the same day Garnier reported to Saigon the capture of the citadel, and asked for reinforcements, and issued a Proclamation to calm the minds of the people.\n\nIt would occupy too much space to detail the subsequent proceedings of Garnier, and it will be sufficient to say he sent M. Balny with 15 marines to Towli, a town on the branch of the Song Koi above Hanoi to direct the authorities to submit; and, as he passed Hungyen, the Mandarins came out and offered their submission. After passing Fowli, Balny went to Haidzong, an important citadel in the Thai-dinh River, which he carried by a coup de main on the 4th of December.\n\nOn the 1st December Garnier sent a steam-launch under command of M. Haute-feuille, with instructions to M. Balny, and to require the submission of the Governor of Nam-dinh and Minh-binh, the latter of which he attacked with seven men, and captured it, taking the Tedoc or General prisoner. Garnier himself left Hanoi on the 4th December in the \"Scorpion,\" with M. Esnez and about 70 men, in addition to the crew for Nam-dinh, capturing a fort that opened fire upon him en route, and the town itself on the 10th of December, and he issued a fourth Proclamation to pacify the people. Thus, within a period of a month, Hanoi, the capital, Hungyen, Haidzong, Nam-dinh, and Han-dinh, all important cities commanding the delta of the Song Koi or Red River, had been captured.\n\nBut, after this, came the reverse. With a handful of men he had overrun the neighbouring country, but it required more than a handful to hold it. Constant attacks were made on the several positions thus occupied, and great difficulty was experienced in repulsing them. A rumour, too, which proved true, was about that Annamite troops were coming from the southern provinces. Tuduc, the King of Annam, was greatly incensed at the loss of Hanoi, and gave orders to the Viceroy of the Province of Nguyen to march against the French, and he himself sent every available soldier from Hué. These orders were partly executed when he changed his mind, and wrote to Saigon, giving his Envoys full powers to sign a Treaty of Commerce, and sent two Envoys to Garnier with full powers, and M. Sohier as Interpreter.\n\nGarnier, in occupying the forts situated on the delta of the Song Koi, had evidently in view the keeping open his communication with the sea, but he had not secured his rear by the capture of the military city of Soutay, some thirty miles west of Hanoi, where resided the Tong Thong, Hoang Ke-vien by name. This officer had increased his army by troops recalled from the north, where they were fighting the so-called rebels, but in truth the Black and Yellow Flag Chinese factions on the frontier, who were at war with each other.\n\n231", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299398, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "12\n\nI mentioned previously that the borders of Tonquin have for a long time been in a very disturbed state, being in possession of two clans of Chinese, distinguished as the Black and Yellow Flags. Now, while Garnier was over-running Tonquin, the Hwang Ki, or Yellow Flags, defeated the Hei Ki, or Black Flags, and obliged part of them to escape to Laoki, and part to descend the Song Koi and take refuge in Tonquin, and these fugitive Black Flags were enlisted by Hoang Ki-vien to fight the French.\n\nOn the 19th of December, the day after the arrival of Garnier at Nam-dinh, 300 or 400 of these Black Flags had joined the Annamites, but there was a rumour in Hanoi they numbered no less than 900, with 2,000 scaling ladders.\n\nGarnier, having decided upon action, immediately arranged for an attack upon Hoang Ki-vien. Dupuis, with his steamer, the \"Manghao,\" was to go up the river to prevent the descent of any troops. The \"Espingole,\" commanded by Balny, was to go a little below Soutay to fire upon the Annamites if they retreated to that fortress, whilst Garnier himself was to attack the Black Flags in front, but Balny being ill the attack was deferred to Sunday, the 21st December, but the day before- the 20th-Tuduc's two Ambassadors arrived. They were received in the citadel with honours, had full powers, and were willing to grant all that was asked, and a Treaty would soon be signed, and war was over. But Garnier was only being lulled into security, for it was reported that the Ambassadors had remained several days in the neighbourhood of Hanoi, and had several interviews with Hoang Ki-vien.\n\nThe citadel of Hanoi is surrounded by a narrow path about 600 or 700 feet from the walls known as the city enceinte. Into this path, almost opposite the West Gate, runs a small road which leads to Phu Hoai, and crosses a thicket at a distance of about 1,800 yards from its beginning. About three miles further another road traverses the Phu Hoai road, also an offshoot of the enceinte, on this road there is a grove of bamboos enclosing some cottages, and this was the spot attacked by Garnier himself, and where he was killed.\n\nOn Sunday, the 21st December, 1873, after having divine service at 8 o'clock, the officers were talking of the cessation of the war and the early settlement of affairs, and Garnier had gone to see the Ambassadors, when at 10 o'clock the interpreters came in great haste to announce that Hoang Ki-vien's troops (Annamites and Black Flags) were attacking the citadel. When Garnier was informed of the attack, M. Perrin went with two men to the western bastions, whence he saw a large body of Annamites and Chinese who, under shelter of houses and bamboo groves, were firing at the gate from a distance of 600 feet; Garnier, who thinking the attack was from several sides, had ordered M. Bain to go with some men to the north, arrived some time after with a dozen men at the same spot and sent M. Perrin for a gun.\n\nTen minutes later the gun was placed on the south-western gate, and M. Perrin in charge of it received orders to fire upon the enemy, while Garnier himself went to prepare a sortie.\n\nThe Commander of the \"Espingole,\" M. Balny, who, at the time of the alarm, was with his brother officers in the citadel, had rushed to his vessel to obtain reinforcements, and soon after he was seen with his small party of twelve men following the southern wall and passing the ditch of the fort.\n\nBefore the well-directed fire from the south-western gate, the Annamites had gradually fallen back to the high path or enceinte, and these dividing themselves into two lines, some continued to fire in retreating on the Phu Hoai road; while others turning to the right took the city road.\n\nBalny began at once to pursue the enemy, while the shells of the fort passing over his troops were scattering the Annamites with great havoc. During the same time Garnier had organized his party and sallied out from the south-eastern gate with eighteen men and a gun. Balny pursued the enemy to a small grove on the Phu Hoai road, some 2,500 feet from the citadel, and was there lost sight of from a depression of the road. The fire of the south-western gun was then directed to the first wood, situated on the road which leads from the city path to the Phu Hoai road, describing a sort of semi-circle.\n\nTowards that spot Garnier was proceeding, he was marching at the head of his men in a careless and excited manner. Before reaching the city path he left behind him the gun with two men and the master-at-arms of the \"Decrès,\" a great mistake, since the gun was rendered useless while Garnier's men were in front of it. The gun of the south-western gate was firing all the time on the circular road, and had Garnier used his own gun the place would have been entirely cleared of the enemy, but his march onward again prevented the citadel gun from continuing to fire. The men also were permitted to stray among the bushes and behind the houses in search of the Annamites, and, as the event proved, this mistake was fatal to the Commander himself. Garnier could be seen leading the skirmish with his men armed with bayonets. When Garnier neared the wood, he divided his troop into two bands, one headed by himself and the other under the command of a Sergeant of Marines; each column was to follow one side of the wood and both were to meet again at the end of it.\n\n13\n\nThe Sergeant of Marines kept his men closely together; they were walking slowly and carefully, and when they arrived at the limit of the wood only one had been wounded, but Garnier was not there. The Sergeant then came back by the way his Chief was to have followed, and at a short distance he found two headless bodies, one of them being his Commander. It appears that Garnier's foot having caught in a hole, he fell to the ground, and, before his men could join him, was surrounded by Chinese from behind the trees and speared, and his head severed from his body and taken as a trophy of victory. Sergeant Dagome, shot near Garnier, was mutilated in the same manner, and had one hand cut off. M. Balny with his party were still ahead, running after the Annamites on the Phu Hoai road, as far as a temple built at the junction of that path and the circular road, about three miles from the citadel. Here he met some thirty or forty Chinese who, far from retreating, came boldly on. Balny fired the six shots of his revolver and drew his sword, but was seen to fall backwards, while a shot killed his quarter-master at his side, named Lorre. The rest of the party took refuge behind the temple, and the Chinese having retired, Dr. Chedan led his companions, two of them wounded, back to the citadel, picking up on the way the body of Bonifay, also headless.\n\nBy 2 o'clock every one had returned to the fort, with the loss of Garnier, Balny, Dagome, Lorre, and Bonifay. Six others had been wounded, including the head gunner of the south-western battery.\n\nIt would make this despatch too long to go into details of the circumstances following this event, so I will merely state that Garnier, Dagome, and Bonifay, were buried with military honours behind the Hall of Ceremonies, on the 23rd of December, but it was not until the 4th of January, 1874, that the bodies of Bonifay and Lorre were sent by the Annamites; on the 6th of that month the five heads, after being carried in triumph through all the cities of Tonquin, were restored.\n\nAfter the capture of Hanoi Garnier sent the \"Decrès\" to Saigon with the prisoners, and asked for reinforcements. Admiral Dupré, embarrassed at the news, despatched, on the 7th December, M. Philastre, Senior Inspecteur des Affaires Indigènes, with one of the two Annamite Ambassadors, then residing at Saigon, to Hué to apologize for the capture of the citadel, and to obtain a Treaty of Commerce. At the same time the \"Decrès\" was receiving the reinforcements asked for by Garnier, and the news of her arrival in the Cua-cam reached Hanoi on the evening of the day of Garnier's death, the men being brought on to the citadel by the \"Scorpion.\"\n\nIt would occupy too much space to follow the events which led up to the surrender of the citadel of Hanoi, and the towns held by the handful of French after being captured by Garnier. M. Philastre on his arrival reversed all that Garnier had done, surrendered to the Annamites all the occupied places, and concluded a Convention, a copy of which I annex. Finally, a Treaty was concluded at Saigon, on the 15th March, 1874, between the President of the French Republic and the King of Annam, supplemented afterwards by a Commercial Treaty, dated 31st August, 1874, and with these conclude an episode which may be termed a romance.\n\nI have borrowed largely from M. Henri Cordier's pamphlet called \"A Narrative of Recent Events in Tonquin,\" for when at Hanoi I found it confirmed in every particular, and I doubt if I could have given so graphic a sketch of M. Garnier and Mr. Dupuis proceedings as I found in that pamphlet. I had described to me on the spot the citadel and the points of attack, and I stood on the small plot of ground at the rear of the Hall of Ceremonies where Garnier and his four comrades were buried, and I lived, during my stay, in the Examination Hall, which he first occupied. That he was a man of great dash, courage and ability, is evident; whether, however, he was justified in the course he took or acted upon his own responsibility, it is impossible to say; the result, however, I venture to think, has not been either politically or commercially a success to the French.\n\nOf M. Dupuis little remains to be said. The Saigon Government seized his vessels and he was ruined. His people, 136 in number, were supported for a few months by the Saigon Government, at a cost of 600 dollars a-month, and then dispersed. His debts amounted to a large sum, some say 100,000 dollars, which he had proposed to liquidate by his trade up the Songkoi to Yunnan. I heard, however, when at Haiphong,\n\n[608]\n\nE\n\n232", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "365\n\n328\n\nNo. 151.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1875.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nBEACONS INNER ROUTE AND TORRES STRAITS.\n\nThe following is a list of the Beacons erected in Torres Straits and the Inner Route thereto. Those which are Red and Triangular are to be left on a vessel's Starboard hand, when bound southwards; and those which are Black and Square, on her Port hand.\n\n \n Red and Triangular.\n Black and Square.\n \n \n Hope Islands.\n a Reef, north-west end\n \n \n b Reef, west end.\n e Reef, north end.\n \n \n e Reef, west side.\n d Reef, centre.\n \n \n Point Lookout.\n Sand-bank dry, with rocks E.S.E 2 miles from Point Lookout.\n \n \n Cole Islands and Howich Groups.\n s Reef, west side.\n \n \n Princess Charlotte's Bay to Fair Cape.\n r Reef.\n \n \n d Reef, east end.\n e Reef, centre.\n \n \n f Reef, centre.\n Heath Rocks, centre.\n \n \n Chilcott Rocks, centre.\n e South-west end.\n \n \n g South-west end,\n i West side.\n \n \n m West side.\n No. VI. Reef, west side.\n \n \n No. VII. Islet, west side.\n Reef in 13° 18' 30\" S. lat., west side.\n \n \n tt Reef, west side.\n v Reef, south-west end.\n \n \n v Reef, centre.\n e Reef, north-west end.\n \n \n Middle Reef, south end.\n Eust elbow of Eastern Reef.\n \n \n Piper Islands.\n h Reef, south end.\n \n \n k Reef, islet north-west end.\n Cape Grenville to Port Albany,\n \n \n V Reef, north-west end.\n X Reef, north-west end. Z Reef, west end.\n \n \n Prince of Wales' Channel.\n Ipili Reef, centre.\n \n \n North-west Reef, Hammond Rock bearing S.W.\n Ince Point, E. by S. 4 S.\n \n\nThe beacon on the south-east end of the Piper Island Reef has been cut down by the natives.\n\nUpon the eastern end of a. Reef, to the westward of the Flinders Group, is a second and smaller beacon to the northward of the main beacon, which will assist in distinguishing the reef.\n\nThe beacon originally erected on in. Reef near Young Island, having been placed on sandy bottom, has been washed down. When re-erected, it will be placed on Young Island.\n\nDepartment of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 23rd June, 1875.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nG. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,\n\nPortmaster.\n\nSHOAL OFF MONKHOUSE POINT, INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS,\n\nOn the edge of the 3 fathom line off Monkhouse Point, as shown on the chart, a Shoal Patch exists, with not more than 9 feet upon it at ordinary low water springs. The Pilot at the Endeavour River places it in the following position, viz. 1—\n\nMount Cook (Summit), W. by S. 4 S.\n\nGrassy Hill (Lookout House), N. W. by W. ¼ W.\n\nRocky Islet, S. E. by S. ½ S. southerly,\n\nThe water for some distance in-shore is from 3 to 6 feet deeper than on the shoal, and to the eastward, the bank extends from it about 1 cable, carrying from 15 to 18 feet of water, which then deepens to 4, 6, and 7 fathoms as shown on the chart. Vessels will be clear of this danger and of the edge of the bank, while keeping Rocky Islet open of Walker Point, and of the rocky point to the southward.\n\nG. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,\n\nPortmaster.\n\nDepartment of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 11th June, 1876.\n\nCould ensAQ\n\nfrom this measure, and\n\nI believe I may say\n\nthat the\n\narrangement\n\nby which the Administration has hitherto devolved on the General Officer in Command, holding as he did a recognized and independent position, has not been unsatisfactory to the Colony.\n\nI may remark, that at Singapore, a Station included in this Command, the Senior Military Officer succeeds in the absence of the Governor.\n\nIf however, it is thought inexpedient that the General Officer Commanding should receive the Commission, I beg to submit again that he should also cease to be a member of the Council.\n\nThey disclaim, as far as possible, personal bias in these remarks,\n\nbut", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302606, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# 14118-\n\n123 \n\nto the Commander for \na \nGunboat to support the Police. But from what I then saw, and from my subsequent observation at Macau, I found the \nLegislative Council that steam Launches or Police purpose afloat \nto me to be a necessity in this Colony. I made a similar report to Earl \nCarnarvon, and, having your approval on the purchase of Police Launches, I \nshall take the responsibility of hiring two as a \ntemporary measure. \n\nTemporary, I have the honour to be, \n\nHouse Sir, \nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant, \n\n## No. 68. \n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\nThe following Annual Report from the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, for the \nyear 1878, \nis published for general information. \n\nBy Command, \nJ. M. PRICE, Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th April, 1878. \n\n### [No. 31.] \nCENTRAL POLICE BARRACKS, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 15th February, 1878. \n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward the Criminal Statistics and other Annual Returns of this Department for 1877, for transmission to His Excellency the Governor. \n\n2. Compared with the previous year, there has been an increase of 481 cases in Serious Offences, 361 cases in Minor Offences, and 842 cases or 12.86 per cent, in the total number of Offences coming under the notice of the Police. \n\n3. There is little doubt that the famine and floods on the mainland and the unusually high price of rice throughout the year have caused much of the crime against property to which the increase in Serious Offences is chiefly due. Turning to Table C, it will be found that while Robbery with Violence, Burglary, and Larceny in a Dwelling House at Night have decreased, Unlawful Possession and Larceny show an increase of 446 on the number of cases reported during the previous year; many of these Larcenies relate to property of very small value, and of all the cases in which the amount has been given 35 per cent are thefts of articles valued at less than $5. \n\n4. Of the five cases of Murder, two arose out of piratical attacks on villages. The first of these occurred about midnight on the 2nd May, when 20 armed men attacked a Chandler's Shop in the village of Ap-Li-Chau; CHING-HUN-TAI, one of the inmates of the shop, received a gunshot wound which subsequently caused his death. The pirates carried off property valued at $84, together with one of their comrades who had been shot by the Indian Constable on duty. The night being dark, their boat was out of sight before the Inspector could cross the bay with assistance from the Aberdeen Police Station. The second occurred on the night of the 15th October, when a band of robbers, who had landed from a boat on the eastern shore of Tsim-Sha-Tsui, broke into and plundered the house of a boat-builder in the village of Mong-Kok-Tsui; Kwok-SING-KIT, one of the shop coolies, died two days afterwards of a wound received during the attack. \n\n5. I believe the increase in Kidnapping to be only apparent, the total for the past year having been swelled by an unusually large number of suspicious cases brought to trial by the Police, which, upon investigation at the Magistracy, proved to be unfounded. \n\n6. Verdicts of Felo de Se were returned at no less than thirteen Coroner's Inquests during the \nyear. \n\n7. Judging from the reports of native traders, I fear that Piracy is steadily increasing. \n\n8. As regards Minor Offences, it will be seen that the increase is caused by an advance of nearly ... per cent in the number of Nuisance cases, and by the large number of Chinese arrested for being out at night without a pass, for assault, and for public gambling. The latter offence, which for reasons explained in my special Report of 6th December, 1877, (`C.3.0. No. 2,530`), had rapidly increased during the months of May and June, has now been reduced within narrow limits. \n\n9. The daily average number of prisoners in Gaol during the year was 395 compared with 433, the average number during 1876. \n\n## POLICE \n1. The conduct of both officers and men has been exceptionally good, and it is satisfactory to find from Table D that in the entire force only 22 were dismissed for misconduct during the year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nThe following Annual Report from the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, for the year 1877, is published for general information.\n\n## Report by the Captain Superintendent of Police of the armed attack made on House No 52 Wing Lok Street\n\nBy Command, \n**J. M. PRICE**, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th April, 1878.\n\n### CENTRAL POLICE BARRACKS, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 15th February, 1878.\n\nSIR--I have the honour to forward the Criminal Statistics and other Annual Returns of this Department for 1877, for transmission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n2. Compared with the previous year, there has been an increase of 481 cases in Serious Offences, 361 cases in Minor Offences, and 842 cases or 12.86 per cent, in the total number of Offences coming under the notice of the Police.\n\n3. There is little doubt that the famine and floods on the mainland and the unusually high price of rice throughout the year have caused much of the crime against property to which the increase in Serious Offences is chiefly due. Turning to Table C, it will be found that while Robbery with Violence, Burglary, and Larceny in a Dwelling House at Night have decreased, Unlawful Possession and Larceny show an increase of 446 on the number of cases reported during the previous year; many of these Larcenies relate to property of very small value, and of all the cases in which the amount has been given 35 per cent are thefts of articles valued at less than $5.\n\n4. Of the five cases of Murder, two arose out of piratical attacks on villages. The first of these occurred about midnight on the 2nd May, when 20 armed men attacked a Chandler's Shop in the village of Ap-Li-Chau; CHING-HUN-TAI, one of the inmates of the shop, received a gunshot wound which subsequently caused his death. The pirates carried off property valued at $84, together with one of their comrades who had been shot by the Indian Constable on duty. The night being dark, their boat was out of sight before the Inspector could cross the bay with assistance from the Aberdeen Police Station. The second occurred on the night of the 15th October, when a band of robbers, who had landed from a boat on the eastern shore of Tsim-Sha-Tsui, broke into and plundered the house of a boat-builder in the village of Mong-Kok-Tsui; Kwok-SING-KIT, one of the shop coolies, died two days afterwards of a wound received during the attack.\n\n5. I believe the increase in Kidnapping to be only apparent, the total for the past year having been swelled by an unusually large number of suspicious cases brought to trial by the Police, which, upon investigation at the Magistracy, proved to be unfounded.\n\n6. Verdicts of Felo de Se were returned at no less than thirteen Coroner's Inquests during the year.\n\n7. Judging from the reports of native traders, I fear that Piracy is steadily increasing.\n\n8. As regards Minor Offences, it will be seen that the increase is caused by an advance of nearly ... per cent in the number of Nuisance cases, and by the large number of Chinese arrested for being out at night without a pass, for assault, and for public gambling. The latter offence, which for reasons explained in my special Report of 6th December, 1877, (`C.S.O. No.2530`), had rapidly increased during the months of May and June, has now been reduced within narrow limits.\n\n9. The daily average number of prisoners in Gaol during the year was 395 compared with 433 average number during 1876.\n\n## POLICE\n\n1. The conduct of both officers and men has been exceptionally good, and it is satisfactory to find from Table D that in the entire force only 22 were dismissed for misconduct during the year.\n\nPage 180 \nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "C. O.\n\n252\n\nin \"Hongkong\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMyreffumency.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 8TH, 1881.\n\nGUNNERY AND STEAM TRIAL OF H.M.S.WIVERN\"\n\nBY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.] The Wivern, 4, ironclad turret ship, in charge of Commander John G. Jones, was taken outside for a gunnery and steam trial on Thursday morning. Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy went out to witness the target practice, and His Excellency was accompanied by Admiral Coste, C.B., Commodore Smith, Captain Cleveland, Flag-Lieut. W. H. Maitland-Dougall, and Captain Barton, A.D.C. to the Major-General Commanding; and a number of gunnery officers from the fleet now in harbour. Mr. R. H. Sleeman, Inspector of Machinery; and Mr. George Fitzgerald, Chief Engineer of the Iron Duke, were also present, but the engines of the Wivern were in charge of Mr. L. M. Gresw, Chief Engineer of the ship.\n\nIf there is one thing more than another which your \"Commissioner\" regards with a fixed and inveterate antipathy, it is getting up in the middle of the night. Under the impression that there was some connexion between ships and tide, and remembering the copy-book text which averred that the latter \"waits for no man,” I gave orders to be called at six a.m., and was punctually roused out at that ghostly hour. There were few things stirring but the cooks and beasts; two dissipated-looking sparrows had apparently been making a night of it somewhere, and eventually found their way into my verandah, and an asthmatical coolie was dragging his weary limbs down the road as if nine men held him and one drove him; and notwithstanding that my faithful domestic had administered a skilfully compounded \"eye-opener,\" that operation had to be repeated before I could fully appreciate the situation. Somebody, somewhere, has written, \"Night is the time for rest,\" evidently knowing nothing about getting up in the middle of it to go on a steam trial. However, preliminary difficulties surmounted, I got to Peddar's Wharf, and soon after ran the gig alongside the gangway of the ironclad which was about to go on the cruise referred to above.\n\nI almost feel that the Wivern is an old acquaintance, as I used to pass her daily in going from Liverpool to the Cheshire shore at the time she and her sister ship—now the Scorpion, at Bermuda—were lying together in the Sloyne, in the custody, if I remember rightly, of Captain \"Jacky\" Paynter, of the Revenge. These two vessels, popularly known through a clever cartoon in Punch of that period (1863), as \"the Laird's rams,\" were no doubt built for the Confederates, although it was stated they were intended for some Eastern, not Western, navy; their names, too, tended to confirm a belief in their Eastern destination, as they had been christened El Tousson and El Monacir. Soon after their construction in Laird's yard, at Birkenhead, and just before they were ready for sea, strong representations were made by the Government of the United States, which resulted in the vessels' detention in the Mersey by the British authorities, and after lying there some considerable time they were eventually purchased by our Government.\n\nThe invention of the cupola or turret principle, as applied to war ships, is credited to the late Captain Cowper Coles, who made known the merits of this form of vessel in 1855; but it was not until 1861 that the Admiralty could be prevailed upon to regard the system in a favourable light. In the following year, however, the turret was adopted by Ericsson when he built the Monitor for the United States Government during the Civil War, and she gave a good account of herself in the memorable action with the Merrimac, just after the latter vessel had succeeded in effecting the destruction of the Cumberland and Congress.\n\nAlthough seventeen years old, the Wivern is in an excellent state of preservation, nothing about her presenting that perishing appearance noticed in some ships even though they may have seen but little service. This will probably be accounted for by reason that she was originally well built, both in respect to the work and materials put into her, and that she has been well kept; added to which £30,000 was spent upon her not long since in giving her new boilers and decks, having forecastle and poop built, cabins fitted, and bilge keels placed upon her. Although, of course, the Wivern is a long way behind the terrific engines of destruction of more recent times, she is a fine addition to the China command, and properly manned should be a real protection to this harbour and Colony. She presents the least possible target, answers her helm most readily, has no top-hamper, possesses many water-tight compartments, and not a man need be exposed in working her big guns in action, as she has steering gear below and a bullet-proof tower for the officer directing the movements of the vessel. With all those immense advantages, it must be apparent that in the duello there is no craft of any nationality in the Far East that would have any chance with her. In addition to her fighting power, she is formidable as a ram, as she has four or five feet of spur; and on a recent occasion when I saw her in dry dock, I was surprised to find that she was rather a pretty model below the water-line. The Wivern is 220 feet long, with a beam of 41 feet, and in commission has a complement of 150 men; and, with stores, provisions, and ammunition on board, to fighting trim she has a mean draught of 17 feet.\n\nSoon after His Excellency the Governor arrived on board, the ship's head was laid to westward and she proceeded under easy steam down the harbour and out through the Sulphur Channel; and on arriving off the south-east point of Lamma Island the steam trial commenced. The working of her machinery was highly satisfactory, and going down with the wind eleven knots were got out of her with 69 revolutions; after being brought head to wind and going back over the same course, a similar result was obtained; and later, with 70 revolutions, a slight improvement upon eleven knots was made.\n\nThe Wivern's armament consists of four 12-ton guns, Woolwich pattern, two in each turret; four Nordenfeldt guns, two on the forecastle and two on the poop; a Gatling gun, mounted on a carriage fit for shore fighting, but the gun can be readily detached and hoisted into a cutter for boat service; there is also a 9-pounder for the latter kind of work. In addition to this she carries the formidable Whitehead fish torpedoes, containing a charge of 33lbs. of gun-cotton, and spar torpedoes with 35lbs. of the same explosive. The projectiles for the 12-ton guns are of several kinds—empty common shell, weighing 237lbs.; Palliser chilled shot, of 250lbs., and Palliser chilled shell, of the same weight, but containing a bursting charge which explodes immediately it has contact with the object, besides these are case-shot and shrapnel. A full charge of powder is 30lbs. rifle large grain, and a battering charge 50lbs. pebble. The mechanical appliances adopted in loading and working these guns are such as to enable the gunners to fire with great rapidity, and the result is that a tremendous weight of metal can be poured into an enemy's ship in an incredibly short space of time. But of modern weapons, probably less is generally known about the Nordenfeldt gun than any other. The first ship in the British navy which received a Nordenfeldt gun was the Comus, now in Hongkong Harbour, followed by the Northampton, 12, double-screw armour-plated ship, and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "## C. O. 6570 59 RECR\n\nby Major Palmer\n\nand vote him \"One thousand dollars for the work already performed by him. \"The committee, however, recommend that no further outlay be incurred on part of the Observatory until the scheme is definitely sanctioned from home.\"\n\nTrue Extract.\n\nArathoon Seth, Clerk of Councils.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. 80, APR(92)\n\n### HONGKONG\n\n#### PROPOSED OBSERVATORY\n\nThe following is published for general information.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th February, 1882.\n\n### MAJOR PALMER TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR\n\nM. S. TONNOCITY, Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nHONGKONG, 24th February, 1882.\n\nMY DEAR GOVERNOR,-Having devoted my spare evenings during the last two months to a little scientific work which will be of use to the Colony-namely, a precise determination of the latitude of Mount Elgin-I have much pleasure in sending Your Excellency the accompanying short account of my work and its results, as you will doubtless be glad to place such information on record, for future reference, and as an appendix to my Report of last year.\n\nI am, Dear Sir,\n\nYours very faithfully,\n\nHis Excellency, Governor Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.\n\nH. SPENCER PALMER.\n\n### ON A DETERMINATION OF LATITUDE AT MOUNT ELGIN, IN THE KAU-LUNG PENINSULA\n\nBY MAJOR H. SPENCER PALMER, R.E., F.R.A.S.\n\nIn the scheme for the proposed Hongkong Physical Observatory which I drew up last year for the information of His Excellency the Governor, it was explained that astronomical observations in this island would pretty certainly be vitiated by deflection of the spirit-levels caused by the neighbouring hill masses; and this was adduced as one reason for favouring a site at Kau-lung, where the conditions--at least above ground-give no cause for apprehending sensible errors of that kind.\n\nFor various reasons, Lieutenant-Commander GREEN, of the United States' surveying-ship \"Palos,\" whose scientific mission I described in the same paper, was obliged, on his arrival here in September last, to establish his own observing station on this shore. But he was fully alive to the weight of the objection explained above; and subsequently, when we were speaking together on the matter, he was good enough to offer to lend me one of his instruments for a month or two, in order that I might myself make a separate determination of latitude on Mount Elgin. With this obliging offer I gladly closed, feeling as I do the importance of having the latitude of the proposed Observatory site established with the highest accuracy possible, and under conditions free from the uncertainty which must affect any determination on this side of the harbour; while the fact that, relying on Lieutenant-Commander GREEN's expected visit, I had omitted from the Observatory scheme provision for a latitude instrument left no room for doubt as to the wisdom of accepting his offer and devoting some time and trouble to a determination which should be precise and final.\n\nThe operations and results are described in the following notes and tables.\n\n#### Observing Station\n\nThe observing station is near the western edge of the eastern of the two eminences which are together called Mount Elgin-the same on which it is proposed to erect the main building of the future Observatory. It is marked by a small pier, erected for the support of the instrument.\n\n#### Instrument\n\nThe instrument used was a portable transit-instrument, adapted for use also as a zenith-telescope. It was made in America, by Messrs. ALVAN CLARK & SONS, for the United States' Transit of Venus Commission, 1874, and it is numbered `1505`. This instrument is of the Diagonal form, which I believe originated in Russia, and in which the rays of light, instead of passing straight from the object to the eye end of the telescope, are bent at right angles by a prism fixed at the junction of the tube and axis, and so pass out at one of the pivots. The great advantage of this form of construction is that the observer occupies the same position no matter what be the zenith-distance of the star under observation. Its disadvantages, which are few, apply more to its use as a transit-instrument than as a zenith-telescope. Other advantages of this instrument are its easily manageable reversing apparatus and its remarkable stability under reversal.\n\nThe telescope has an object-glass of 2.5 inches aperture, and a focal length of about 30 inches; stars down to the seventh and the eye-piece commonly used magnifies about 50 diameters.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## The Importance of Fortifying Singapore\n\nTo these countries may be added Australia, the trade with which is increasing; and, as the Torres Straits route becomes better known, the passing traffic will doubtless be much augmented.\n\nThe number of square-rigged vessels which arrived at the Port of Singapore in 1874, amounted to 1773, and comprised 1,104,277 tons, of which 1027 vessels, of 942,740 tons, were British. Of those 1773 vessels, 994 were steamers, and comprised 863,265 tons.\n\nThe value of the Imports for the year 1874 amounted to nearly £10,000,000 sterling, and the Exports to nearly £9,000,000 sterling.\n\nWhen first occupied by Sir Stamford Raffles, 57 years ago, the island was inhabited by a few hundred Malay fishermen only; but at the time of the last census in 1871 the population had risen to about 100,000.*\n\nThe British trade passing through the Straits of Malacca, and the large commercial interests in the British Settlements of the Straits, must be protected in case of war by the Navy.\n\nBut ships of war cannot now keep the sea for long without going into harbour to coal, refit, and obtain supplies. Vessels cruising in the Straits of Malacca, or lower part of the China Sea, must resort for these purposes to Singapore, there being no other Naval Station nearer than Hongkong and Trincomalee, distant respectively 1430 and 1490 miles.\n\nIn a memorandum dated the 7th January, 1875, (copy enclosed) when serving in the War Office, I stated reasons why it is of the utmost importance that those harbours in our foreign **possessions, which would, in time of war, be the bases of operations for the Navy, should be \"fortified more or less strongly, in proportion to their importance, and the character of the attack to which they are liable.\" In that memorandum, it was pointed out, that, unless the Naval Stations were thus fortified, our ships-of-war would either have to guard them, and thus leave our commerce at the mercy of the enemy, or else the harbours would be exposed to the attack of an enemy's cruizers which would destroy the coal not required for its own use and burn the naval establishments. Our ships, thus deprived of their coal supply, and of their means of repairing and refitting, would be unable to perform any duty or enterprise, so that by the capture of a coaling depôt an enemy might render powerless the whole of the vessels of war on the station.\n\nAs regards Singapore, although there is no great naval establishment there, the mercantile docks in the harbour are available for, and are made use of by, our ships of war, and it is essential, for naval purposes, that these should be efficiently protected.\n\n* There is much difficulty in obtaining an accurate census of the Chinese population. It is believed that the total number far exceeds that stated in text.\n\n### Necessity of the Coaling Station of Singapore being properly fortified\n\n### Strategical importance of Singapore\n\nThe capture and destruction of these establishments would be fatal, moreover, to imperial commercial interests. In the year 1871, 125,862 tons of coal were imported into Singapore, and the average quantity on hand is about 93,000 tons. Nearly a thousand steamers call at Singapore every year, the greater number of which require to take in a fresh supply of coal, before proceeding on their voyage. Not only, therefore, would these necessary supplies of coal be wanting, but, the Navy being rendered powerless to chase and capture the cruizers which any enemy, not necessarily an important maritime power, would be certain to put to sea, our mercantile marine in the adjacent waters would be much harassed, and might even be annihilated.\n\nIn addition to the consideration that Singapore is one of our chain of coaling stations, dividing the distance between those of Hongkong and Ceylon, it also occupies a most important strategic position with respect to the command of the waters of the Eastern Archipelago.\n\nAs previously mentioned, the whole of the trade through the Straits of Malacca passes by Singapore, and upon referring to the Chart Plan (1) it will be seen that the width of Singapore Straits, from the island of St. John's to the opposite islands belonging to the Dutch, viz: Little Sambo and Pulo Blakan Padang, varies from 6,000 to 7,000 yards. If a work, therefore, were constructed on St. John's and armed with sufficiently powerful artillery, it would, in conjunction with a suitable vessel of war, close the Straits of Malacca against any non-armoured vessels. An enemy's commercial traffic through the Straits of Malacca would thus be effectually stopped. Moreover, a squadron operating from Singapore could close the Straits of Sunda and an enemy's trade could thus be practically cut off from Eastern Asia.\n\nI submit that it is of the utmost importance that Singapore should be secured by permanent defences against such attack as might be made upon it by a hostile cruizer or small squadron of vessels. The harbour would thus be made a secure base of operations for the fleet, and the centre of the commercial operations of Great Britain in the Eastern Archipelago would be protected.\n\nOn the other hand, unprotected as Singapore is at present, and prominently situated as it is on the world's high road, it would most certainly attract the attention of an enemy, especially if that enemy be an important maritime power; for, by its occupation, the important trade which we now carry on with China and the Eastern Archipelago, would be practically paralyzed.\n\nPage 526", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 532, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "# 527 \n## Topographical Description of Singapore.\n\nThe island of Singapore presents very few marked elevations. Its surface consists for the most part of small rounded hills averaging about 100 feet in height, the valleys between which are only a few feet above the sea level. Bukit Timah, the highest point, has an elevation of about 530 feet.\n\n## Town.\nThe town of Singapore is situated on a flat alluvial plain, which stretches along the shore of an open bay on the south-eastern part of the island. This bay, which is about 3.4 miles in width, from Tanjong Karong on the east to Tanjong Paggar on the west, receives the waters of two small streams, the Singapore river and the Kallang river, the latter of which unites at its mouth with two smaller rivers, the Rochore and the Gaylang, whilst the former runs through the centre of the town and divides it into two distinct portions.--(`Plan II`). That portion on the southern side is the chief commercial quarter, and is provided with ample quays and wharves for the landing and shipment of merchandize. A quay, about 600 yards in length, stretches from the mouth along the right bank of the river, which, for a distance of over a quarter of a mile, here assumes the form of an elliptical basin about 150 yards in maximum width. This basin, which cannot be seen from the bay, on account of a projecting spit of land on the southern side of the entrance to the river, is generally covered by hundreds of native small craft engaged in transhipping goods between vessels in the roadstead and the warehouses which cover a large area in this quarter of the town.\n\n## \nOn the left bank of the Singapore river are situated the Public Buildings, whilst to the eastward, as far as the Kallang river, stretches a native town, called Campong Glam, which is the oldest portion of Singapore. From Tanjong Rhoo, a narrow spit on the south side of the entrance to the Kallang river, the coast to Tanjong Katong, (a distance of about 4,000 yards) and for some miles beyond, is flat, and the country behind presents no particular elevation.\n\nAlong the western shore of the bay, to the southward of the town, and from thence to Tanjong Paggar, are several hills; the principal of which, Mount Palmer, is about 110 feet above the sea. \n\nA sandy spit lies to the south of Tanjong Paggar, for a distance of about 600 yards, and from its southern extremity to Tanjong Katong runs the 3 fathom line.(`Plan II`). Immediately outside this line, and at a distance of about a mile from the shore, are the Singapore Roads, in which vessels of the heaviest burden can lie in perfect safety, in a depth of water varying from 7 to 12 fathoms. Parallel to the Roads, and at a distance of about 2 miles from the town, is a shoal, some 3,000 yards in length and 450 in breadth.\n\n## \nTo the westward of the town are several hills, for the most part occupied by houses of the European portion of the population. The most prominent of these on the northern side of the Singapore river is the site of Fort Canning, which is 150 feet above the sea, and about half a mile distant from the shore. Pearls Hill, on the southern side of the river, and about the same height as Fort Canning Hill, is occupied by the Military Store Establishment. The Sepoy Lines, formerly the quarters of a Native Regiment, and now partly appropriated as a General Hospital, are on the southern side of Pearls Hill. About three miles from the town to the westward are the Tanglin Barracks, containing accommodation for one European Regiment.\n\n## \nAt the southern extremity of Singapore Island is a range of hills called Mount Faber, ranging N.W. and S.E., and about a mile in length. The most easterly point of this range is about 2,500 yards from Mount Palmer, and the highest point of Mount Faber is 357 feet above the sea. Between this and Port Canning, the country is low and undulating, and is well commanded from these two points.\n\nOff the southern extremity of the island of Singapore lies Blakan Mati, a triangular shaped island, 2.4 miles in length and 1 mile in average breadth, and the south-eastern and south-western sides of which are in prolongation of the adjacent shores of the main island. The highest point on Blakan Mati is Mount Serapong, near the eastern end of the island, and about 300 feet above the sea level. Between Blakan Mati and Singapore island, runs a channel, of a minimum depth of 6 fathoms, known as the New Harbour, along the northern shore of which are a succession of wharves, docks, coaling dépôts, and fitting establishments. From Mount Serapong, a fine command is obtained over the Roadstead, the harbour and establishments therein, as well as upon the approaches thereto. The eastern entrance to the New Harbour between Blakan Mati and Tanjong Paggar is about a mile in width, the breadth of the channel being about 600 yards. Immediately inside the entrance are the Tanjong Paggar Works, consisting of a wharf, capable of berthing a dozen vessels at a time, out of the action of the tide, and having sufficient water alongside for the heaviest ships; a dock, 450 feet in length, and 65 in breadth at the entrance; a large machine shop, having the appliances necessary for effecting the heaviest repairs to steamers and iron vessels; extensive coal sheds, capable of containing 30,000 tons; and commodious warehouses.\n\nNear the eastern entrance also, between Mount Serapong and Mount Faber, lies Pulo Braui, an irregular shaped island, the highest point of which is about 170 feet in height. On the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## Existing Harbour Facilities\n\nOn the northern side of this island are the Naval Coal Stores, and on the southern side is a small dock. Opposite Pulo Brani and at the foot of the Mount Faber range, are the wharves of the Borneo Company, Jardine's Company, and the Peninsula and Oriental Company. The total length of these wharves is about 600 yards. Still further to the westward, and near the western entrance to the New Harbour, which is only about 300 yards wide, are the wharves, docks, fitting shops, and coal sheds of the New Harbour Dock Company. Here are two docks, 415 feet and 459 feet long respectively, whilst the wharves will accommodate five or six vessels. These wharves, docks, and machine shops are now constantly under use by Dutch ships of war, which are sent here from Acheen to repair and refit, and may of course also be used by vessels of the Royal Navy. Their situation is most advantageous, for it will be seen that the New Harbour is covered on the sea side by the Blakan Mati and on the land side by Mount Faber with its adjacent hills; the entrance from the westward is narrow, whilst the Outer Shoal and Pulo Brani partially close the eastern entrance to vessels of heavy tonnage. The harbour thus assumes the form of a long arrow-shaped navigable basin which, with but little difficulty, could be closed against hostile vessels.\n\n## Existing Defences\n\nThe existing works of Singapore are weak and insignificant. Built many years ago, they were only intended to meet local requirements, and were constructed without reference to the importance of the place as an Imperial Naval Station. They are five in number, viz--Fort Canning, crowning the hill at the back of the town; Fort Fullerton, situated on the low projecting spit at the entrance of the Singapore river; Mount Palmer Battery, constructed on the steep sea-face of the hill of the same name; Mount Faber Battery, situated on the south-eastern extremity of that ridge, at a height of 132 feet; and a battery for two 13-inch Mortars near the site of the flag-staff (Point 1) at a distance of about 900 yards from the last-named work, and at a height of about 300 feet above the level of the sea. The position of these defences is shown on `Plan (D)`.\n\n### Fort Canning\n\nFort Canning is a long, narrow, straggling work, 450 yards in length by 80 yards in mean width, its trace approximately following the top contour of the hill on which it is built. It is unprovided with flank defence; the parapets are weak and badly proportioned; the ditch is shallow and insignificant; the scarp and counter-scarp are for the most part unrevetted; the glacis are only partially swept by musketry fire from the parapet; the magazines are not bomb-proof and are much exposed; and there is, moreover, little or no bombproof cover for the garrison.\n\nThe armament in its present condition is practically unserviceable. Most of the S.B. guns with which it is armed require re-venting, and the wooden carriages and platforms, upon which they are mounted, have all suffered from exposure to climate.\n\nAt the southern end of the Fort is an outwork called the South or Seaward Battery. The terreplein of this battery is at a somewhat lower level than that of the main work, and its gorge is closed by the main parapet. It is armed with seven 68-pdrs. S.B. guns of 95 cwt.--only one of which is at present serviceable. Five of these guns, however, are repairable. The main work is armed with eight 8-inch S.B. guns of 65 cwt. mounted at intervals at the salients, together with three 13-inch M.S. mortars of 36 cwt. on its south-eastern face. In the centre of the terreplein stand a Barrack and Offices, originally built to accommodate two garrison batteries of Royal Artillery. They are now occupied by the headquarters of one battery of Royal Artillery and by a company of Infantry.\n\nFort Canning is too retired to be of service for the defence of the roadstead, even if the work were remodelled to receive a heavy armament of long range. A fire from this work, moreover, would not only be ineffective in itself, but would draw an enemy's fire on the town. The fort, however, occupies a position from whence Singapore is well commanded on all sides, and, in case of an insurrection of the coloured population, it would be a valuable place of refuge for the Europeans of the settlement, whilst its fire would overawe the town and prevent the insurgents from maintaining possession thereof. If properly armed, its western faces would command the valley which extends towards Mount Faber, and with a work, to which I shall hereafter refer, on this point, the intervening country would be swept, and an enemy prevented from advancing on the land side to attack the establishments in the New Harbour.\n\nFort Canning should, therefore, be maintained, not as a work to aid in the defence of Singapore to seaward, but to combine with a work on Mount Faber, and an intermediate field redoubt, in sweeping the valley between itself and Mount Faber; also to command the chief quarters of the town. It should, therefore, undergo such alteration and receive such armament as would secure these objects. I would recommend that four rifled guns of small calibre--say 64-pdrs. Palliser converted M.L.R. guns--should be mounted on the western faces; that the 8-inch S.B. guns, which form part of the existing armament, should be re-vented and re-distributed in the most convenient manner to command the town; that the glacis should be cleared and levelled, and the profile of the work so altered that the musketry fire from the parapet should sweep the ground in front; that a palisade be constructed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## \n8\n\nalong the centre of the bottom of the ditch, and that flank defence be provided therein. I would also recommend that the southern part of this work should be cut off from the long straggling main work by a flanked ditch and wall. This interior retrenchment would not only serve as a redoubt for the whole work, from which an artillery fire could still be maintained on the town, but would provide for the probable contingency of its having to be defended by a small garrison only.\n\n## Fort Fullerton\n\nFort Fullerton, a weak battery à fleur d'eau, has been partially dismantled to make way for the Government Post Office, but it still has an armament of nine 68-pdrs, of 95 cwt., six of which are mounted. Eight of these guns, however, require re-venting and one is unserviceable. This work was formerly intended to assist in the defence of the roadstead, but its retired position and want of command render it very unsuitable for this object. Like Fort Canning, moreover, a fire from this work would draw the enemy's fire on the town. Fort Fullerton would, however, owing to its position, be a useful post in case of a rising of the native population, and I would recommend that it should be retained with reference to this contingency. With this view, the guns mounted on the sea-face should be removed, the embrasures filled up, and the parapet provided with a banquette. The gorge of the work should also be closed by a loopholed wall, in connection with the Post Office.\n\n## Painter Battery\n\nThis battery is constructed in the shape of an elongated horse-shoe, 100 feet in length by 10 feet in mean width, and is armed with five 56-pdrs., S. B. guns of 98 cwt., three of which only are now in position and these require re-venting; the remaining two are dismounted and unserviceable. There is no bombproof accommodation, and its magazine, which is situated in the gorge of the work close to the guns, is weak and much exposed. This battery occupies a commanding position, however, and was constructed with a view of bringing a cross fire to bear on the roadstead in connection with Forts Canning and Fullerton. Owing to its small extent, the guns are placed very close together, and but one 4-foot traverse is provided. This circumstance, taken in connection with its position on a narrow ledge on the face of the cliff, would always have rendered the service of the guns dangerous. The site is quite unsuited for the requirements of modern warfare, and I recommend that the armament should be removed, and the battery entirely dismantled. The summit of the hill, upon the slope of which it stands, presents, however, a very advantageous and commanding site for a work to aid in the defence of the roadstead and the New Harbour. I shall refer to this point hereafter.\n\n## Mount Faber Battery\n\nThis battery was constructed for two 56-pdrs., S. B. guns of 95 cwt., and designed to bear upon the eastern and western entrances of the New Harbour, which are distant 2,300 yards and 2,400 yards respectively, as well as to play upon any vessel that had succeeded in entering the harbour, in which the navigation is somewhat difficult. The armament of this work has, however, been removed and the work itself has not been kept in repair.\n\n## Mount Faber Mortar Battery\n\nThe two 13-inch mortars are still in position, but the work itself can scarcely be said to exist. The mortars were intended to play upon the deck of any vessel that may have entered the New Harbour, but it need scarcely be added that so small an amount of vertical fire would scarcely afford such protection.\n\n## \n9\n\nIt will be seen that the existing defences scarcely provide in any degree for the protection of New Harbour, and that there is nothing to prevent a hostile cruizer from entering, and destroying the shipping, wharves, docks, and establishments therein.\n\nI will now consider what defences are necessary to afford the required protection.\n\n## Proposed defences\n\nDistant as Singapore is from any great foreign naval centre of operations, from whence a possibly hostile maritime power could despatch an expedition in any great force, it is only necessary to defend it against the attack of a squadron which might consist of three or four vessels, one or two of which would probably be ironclad. If it were considered necessary to provide for defence against non-armourclad vessels only, of course a large saving would be effected in the cost of armaments. It is, however, to be observed that France and Holland each have, at the present time, at least one ironclad in the Eastern Seas. A few months ago, there were three ironclad vessels, two French and one Dutch, in Harbour here.\n\n## General plan of defence\n\nIn order to provide effectively for the protection of New Harbour, I would propose to place two works on the island of Blakan Mati--one on Mount Serpong, the other on Mount Siloso; also a new battery on Mount Palmer. I further propose to occupy Mount Faber for defence on the land side. The positions of these works are shown on `plan I` herewith.\n\n## Work on Mount Serpong\n\nThe work on Mount Serapong would bring a fire to bear seaward upon the wide zone which extends from the western entrance of the New Harbour to Tanjong Paggar spit; flank the front of Blakan Mati and of the proposed work on Mount Siloso; command the New Harbour from end to end, and, though at long range, the Singapore Straits to the southward. In conjunction with the work on Mount Palmer, it would also maintain a cross-fire on the channels leading into the New Harbour from the Eastward. Its commanding situation, on the cul-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319980, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## Defence of New Harbour and Roadstead\n\nThe defence of the New Harbour and roadstead is a critical aspect of the overall defence strategy. The terminating point of Blakan Mati, from which an all-round fire can be brought to bear, will render it the key of the defences, whilst the decks of vessels which may attempt to force an entrance into the New Harbour, or which might have succeeded in doing so, will be exposed to its plunging fire. I recommend that this fort should be the largest of the new works of defence, and that it should be constructed to receive ten H-inch M.L.R. guns, distributed in the most convenient manner round a knoll which crowns the summit of the hill, and which will perform the office of a large traverse to protect the guns in any face from the effects of reverse fire.\n\nThe western entrance of the Harbour will be closed by the work on Mount Siloso. From this point, a fire can be brought to bear upon any vessel attempting to enter the Harbour from the westward, or upon any vessel that might have succeeded in effecting an entrance into the Harbour. A flanking fire would also be brought to bear along the front of Blakan Mati, and along that of the south-western coast of the island of Singapore.\n\nIt has been suggested that as Mount Imbeal, the next hill to the eastward of Mount Siloso, has a command of some 30 feet over Mount Siloso, that this point should be occupied in preference. Mount Siloso, from its height, would, however, intercept the fire from a work on Mount Imbeal to a distance of about 3,000 yards from Mount Siloso. The occupation of Mount Imbeal, instead of Mount Siloso, would, therefore, entail the construction of a work on the island of Singapore, on the northern side of, and at a little distance from, the western entrance, in order to command the space which would otherwise be undefended. The construction of a work on Mount Imbeal would thus entail an increased expense for forts and armaments, the employment of additional troops, and further splitting up of the garrison. As to the question of command, the battery on Mount Siloso could be perfectly defiladed, if necessary, from Mount Imbeal, supposing an enemy were able to take possession of this point, an operation which, under the circumstances of the case, would be quite impracticable.\n\nI recommend that the work on Mount Siloso should be an open battery constructed for six 11-inch M.L.R. guns.\n\n### Work on Mount Palmer\n\nThe work on Mount Palmer should be placed on the summit of the hill, 110 feet above sea level. I recommend that it should be constructed for four 11-inch M.L.R. guns. Its gorge should be prepared to receive two or three pieces of small calibre to flank the northern slopes of the Mount Faber and to enfilade the valley stretching in front of that range.\n\nThis fort will co-operate with that on Mount Serapong in defending the eastern entrance into the New Harbour. It will also command that part of the harbour between its eastern entrance and the Borneo Company's wharves. Its fire will also sweep the roadstead and the adjacent shore of Singapore to Tanjong Katong.\n\n### Defence of Roadstead, &c.\n\nBy the construction of the three works on Mounts Serapong, Siloso, and Palmer, the coaling depots, wharves, and establishments in the New Harbour would be protected from attack from seaward. Protection should, however, also be afforded from attack by a body of men which might land at some point on the Island of Singapore, and march upon the harbour, with the object of burning the coals and stores and destroying the wharves, &c.\n\nWith this view, I would place two redoubts on Mount Faber range, designed so that their fire would command the country in their front, as well as the roads of approach to New Harbour. One of these redoubts should be placed on the north-western extremity of the range, at a height of 357 feet above the level of the sea; the other on the south-eastern spur above the site of the present Mount Faber Battery, at a height of about 270 feet. These two works, in conjunction with the guns on the south-western front of Fort Canning (which is about 4,000 yards distant), and with those in the gorge of the battery to be constructed on Mount Palmer (which is about 2,000 yards distant), would command the approaches by which access to New Harbour could be obtained by an enemy, who had landed for the purpose of attacking the ships and establishments therein.\n\nThe works which I have proposed would complete the project of the defence of the New Harbour, with its coal depôts, &c.\n\nThis project, however, would not provide for the protection of a large portion of the shipping which lies in the roadstead. The guns on Mount Serapong and the battery on Mount Palmer would command a considerable portion of the roadstead, but there would be nothing to prevent a hostile vessel from taking up a position in the north-eastern part of the anchorage, and, with her guns, setting fire to or sinking all the shipping in the roads. I, therefore, propose that a battery, armed with five 11-inch M.L.R. guns, should be constructed near Tanjong Katong to prevent the approach of such hostile vessel in this direction.\n\n### Clear Atmosphere\n\nIn considering the degree of defence that would be afforded by the artillery fire from the works, it should be observed that, in the clear atmosphere of this climate, the distances appear to be much shorter, and the chances of hitting a vessel at long range are much greater than in the hazy atmosphere of England.\n\nAs regards the defence of the roadstead, it should further be observed that the zone to be commanded by artillery fire only would be diminished by the presence of a shoal, about 2,500 yards in length, situated at a distance of some 2,000 yards in advance of the centre of the line...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319983, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## (2)\n\nSeveral alterations will be necessary in order to protect the battery against a fire from the southward and also from Mount Serapong.\n\n## 7.\nAs a musketry fire from Mount Serapong might make it difficult to work the present No. 6 gun, a rifled howitzer should be placed so as to command the redoubt on the mount. A mortar to be used until a rifled howitzer could be supplied.\n\nBy these changes, three armour-piercing guns and one 64-pounder would be brought to bear over the South part of Blakang Mati Island, whilst at the same time two armour-piercing guns and two 7-inch guns would direct their fire over the eastern approaches to the New Harbour.\n\nThe approaches to Mount Serapong, available for a force which had landed near Blakang Mati South would be commanded by two guns from Blakang Mati East, but the redoubt on the mount should be strengthened.\n\n## 9.\nThe term \"armour-piercing gun\" is used to denote a gun that will pierce 8 inches of armour at a distance of 3,000 yards.\n\n## 10.\nThe following table will show the proposed increase of guns, &c., in Blakang Mati East.\n\n| | 64-pounder | 7-inch | Armour piercing | Rifled Howitzer |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| At present | 2 | | | |\n| Proposed | | 1 | | 1 |\n\nSingapore, 28th December, 1880.\n\nTo Lieut.-Colonel H. Parnell, C.B., \nCommandant,\n\nC. JOHNSTONE, Commander, \nH.M.S. Egeria.\n\nGEORGE G. HANNEN, Major, R.A. \nE. F. RHODES, Lieutenant, Commanding R.E. \nPresident of the Singapore Defence Committee.\n\n## Battery Blakang Mati South\n\n14. The scheme proposed to remove the dead angle off Tembu Silegar without the construction of a fresh battery at Blakang Mati South, is as much as the existing batteries will admit of, but I cannot appreciate it as a satisfactory substitute, and looking to the opinion expressed by the authors in paragraph 5 of their Report, I still urge the construction of this new work (armed with the 7-ton guns from Tanjong Katong and with an armour-piercing gun) for the following reasons:\n\n(a) That the command of Fort Siloso and its distance are too great for any strengthening of its artillery to be of much effect (vide paragraph 12 ante).\n\n(b) That leaving the 64-pounder out of account as its effective range is too short, we have still only three guns bearing on the zone of attack; that one of these, No. 6, cannot fire when the enemy, as he probably will do (vide paragraph 7...), lies to the East of a line to Middle Island, so that two guns only can be depended on; and that these guns fire at a long range and from an elevation which will cause the projectiles to have a rapid angle of descent.\n\n(c) That the enemy can lie under Blakang Mati South or under Pulo Sikookur without being seen from Blakang Mati East, which could be then bombarded by high angle fire.\n\n(d) That granting the disadvantageous nature of Blakang Mati for landing, and the subsequent difficulties which a landed force would experience, that it would be a great thing to be in a position to prevent such landing by guns bearing on a strip which is now undefended and defiladed by the sea cliffs.\n\n(e) That the position itself is a good one for a battery; that it will close the gap between Forts Siloso and Blakang Mati East; and that consequently all the advantages which collateral works and concentrated fire carry with them will be gained thereby.\n\n(f) That the position is no more isolated than Tanjong Katong, or even Blakang Mati East itself, and that being but 1,000 yards distant from the latter battery can be supported by light guns mounted on the right flank thereof.\n\n(g) That the expense involved, say as a maximum £1,800 per gun, or £7,200, is little if at all more than that necessary to carry out the various alterations proposed to meet with the same object, which object, however, would be only partially obtained, and that in a less efficient manner.\n\nH. E. McCALLUM, Captain, R.E. \n15th January, 1881.\n\nPage 346", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "impossible to undertake operations against it except during the \nSummer months.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \n**5.M.Bowen**\n\n## Enclosure \n### THE FIGHTING AT KEELUNG\n\nThe Shanghai Courier publishes the following particulars of the fighting between the French and Chinese at Keelung received from the German steamer Welle:\n\nThe Welle left Shanghai on the 25th July with guns and munitions of war from the Kiang-nan Arsenal for the fortifications of Formosa, and on the 2nd inst, she arrived at Keelung, having called at Tamsui. Soon after anchoring in Keelung harbour, the commander of the French corvette Villars came on board the Welle and asked the captain if he had any news. The captain gave him all the news he had, and the commander of the Villars then went on shore. Three or four hours afterwards one of the officers from the Villars called upon the Captain of the Welle, and delivered to him the following letter:\n\nTo Captain of German ship Welle.\n\n**KEELUNG, 2nd August, 1884.**\n\nM. LE CAPITAIN,--I have the honour to inform you that the convention entered into between France and China, until the expiration of the time fixed by the ultimatum shall have expired, reposes principally on the maintenance of the statu quo, that is to say, that everything remains as it is. Your cargo consists of objects that are above all things considered as contraband of war, torpedoes and fire-arms destined for the forts of Keelung. At the moment I had ... now expected, arrived at: in any other case I had to find myself compelled to absolutely oppose the debarkation. I have no doubt but that you will not voluntarily undertake the responsibility of disturbing the peace existing at the moment, and that this affair may be arranged amicably between us is my most earnest desire.\n\nI am about to advise the general commanding the Chinese troops that it is by my set that you find yourself unable to execute your contract.\n\nAccept, M. le Capitain, the assurances of my most distinguished consideration.\n\n(Signed) Captain de vaisseau, \nCommanding the Villars, \n**VIVIELLE.**\n\nThe captain of the Welle went and had an interview with the commander of the Villars, and they afterwards met the same evening at the Custom House, and the question of the discharge of the cargo was discussed with the Chinese authorities, and it is said to have been arranged that the cargo should not be discharged. The Commander of the Villars was satisfied, but the Chinese authorities were not. A change soon came over the aspect of affairs, as will be seen from the following letter:\n\nThe Commandant of the Villars to the Captain of the German vessel Welle.\n\nM. LE CAPITAIN,--I have the honour to inform you that in spite of the resolutions mutually entered upon by the Chinese mandarins and myself at the conference held yesterday at which you were present, the mandarin Son has intimated to me that it has been decided to discharge from your ship the cannons and munitions of war of which you were the bearer to Keelung. It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge the correctness of the attitude you have maintained, and I have full confidence in your word of honour that nothing shall be discharged from your ship until the question now pending between China and France shall be settled, and on my side you have seen how desirous I am to use persuasion only rather than have recourse to more coercive measures which might complicate the situation.\n\nYou are of course conversant with the duties of Neutrals whose commerce is absolutely free as regards belligerents except in cases where contraband of war is carried, which is your case. It appears therefore to me desirable for us to arrive at a friendly understanding in case the Chinese should endeavour by forcible means to disembark, in spite of you, the guns and munitions which you brought to them.\n\nYou are covered by the Law of Nations and the conventions entered into by the European Powers, to guarantee you against the enforcement of the mandarin's orders. Such a delivery could alone authorise or warrant compulsory delivery. I hold myself at your disposal to maintain by force, if necessary, your rights of command: at your first requisition I will come to your assistance.\n\nPerhaps it might be preferable in order to calm the excitement existing at the moment that you should put to sea, but in any case I would willingly take charge, under formal receipt made out to your order, of all your apparatus for discharging, without which the Chinese could not proceed to disembark their munitions.\n\nI would also point out to you that if war was declared your flag would not cover your cargo, but that the same would constitute a lawful prize.\n\nI have placed before you all the eventualities that can occur, animated as I am by the most conciliatory intentions; and if it should happen, which I can scarcely believe, that you are unable to maintain your position as master of the vessel, come on board the Villars with all your staff and such material as you choose to bring, and you will find a most sympathetic reception, while as to your vessel I will take such steps as will prevent it remaining long in the hands of the Chinese.\n\n(Signed) Captain de vaisseau, \nCommanding the Villars, \n**VIVIELLE.**\n\nThe two letters given above were written in French, and we have translated them for the benefit of our readers.\n\nThere were further negotiations between the commander of the Villars and the Chinese Mandarins, and it was understood that the latter sent to Tamsui for advice, and the answer was that the Welle was to go to that port to discharge her guns and munitions of war. This decision was communicated to the captain of the Welle by the Chinese, and he accordingly proceeded to Tamsui. A difficulty was thus averted. In case the matter had not been arranged in this way the commander of the Villars had expressed his willingness to the captain of the Welle to take all responsibility for the non-delivery of the cargo, the safety of the steamer, &c., upon himself, and we believe he even went so far as to put this into writing, the arrangement come to being that the Welle was to steam out beyond the harbour limits and there await the orders of the commander of the Villars, who was scrupulously polite in his dealings with the captain of the Welle, and calm but determined in his negotiations with the Chinese Mandarins. He told the captain of the Welle that he did not wish to have the least trouble with the German authorities, and was most courteous to him, fulsomely thanking him for his readiness to comply with his wishes. The captain of the Welle could scarcely do otherwise, seeing that the commander of the Villars accepted the responsibility of the occasion.\n\nOn the voyage to Tamsui, the Welle met the German schooner Johann Carl, Captain Schwartz, bound into Keelung; and the French ironclad La Galissonnière, Rear Admiral Lespes, and the gun-vessel Lutin arrived at Keelung the same day as the Welle left. At Tamsui the Welle discharged her guns and munitions of war into a Chinese transport and cargo lighters.\n\nOn the 4th instant Rear Admiral Lespes gave notice to the Chinese Mandarins and Military Commanders that unless the forts were surrendered to him by eight o'clock the next morning he should take them by force. It was known at an early hour on the 5th that the Chinese had decided not to surrender the forts and the majority of the foreign residents—seven, we believe—accepted an offer of Captain Schwartz, of the Johann Carl, to take them on board. There were two ladies, Mrs. Bentley and Mrs. Jack, and five gentlemen, including Mr. Bentley, Mr. Jack, Mr. Grant, and two Customs' employés. Subsequently they were transferred to a steam launch which started with them for Tamsui, but about midway they met H.B.M.'s gunboat Cockchafer, which took them on to their destination.\n\n### THE BOMBARDMENT\n\nThere was no surrender by the Chinese and the bombardment commenced shortly after 8 a.m. on the 5th. Keelung harbour is a bay formed like an amphitheatre; it is entered through a strait with headlands on either side, capital places for forts, but there were none there on this occasion, and the country round is mountainous. There were four forts, all at the head of the bay, two on promontories on the east side, and two on promontories on the west side. The forts on the east side had Krupp guns, one five and the other three, and those on the west side had guns made in China, three each. The Galissonnière was stationed a little further up the harbour than the landmark known as the West Cliff and immediately in front of the five-gun fort, while the Villars and Lutin were anchored further in, almost between the west and east forts, but the guns in the east fort could not be laid on them, and those two vessels blazed away at the forts without receiving a shot in return. A red flag was run up on board the Galissonnière, and the challenge was returned by a red flag being hoisted at the five-gun fort. The three French vessels commenced the bombardment by firing almost simultaneously, and the fire was immediately returned by the two forts on the east side, the forts on the west being silent. Three rounds only were fired from the two eastern forts. One of the gunners in the five-gun fort made excellent practice, his three shots striking the Galissonnière within a few feet of each other, just above the water line, and the balls are said to have penetrated.\n\nPage 201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "## The Rt Hon:\n\nThe Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company, Limited,\n66, Old Broad Street, London, EC2\n\nMay 25, 16\n\n**16 MAY 499 1.**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to inform your Lordship that a contract has been concluded between the Portuguese Government and the above Company for connecting Hongkong with Macao by submarine cable, and to apply for permission from Her Majesty's Government for landing the cable at Hong Kong.\n\nThe Company's ship, under the command of Mr. Edward Osborn, is expected to leave Singapore with the cable in ...\n\nThe Earl Derby K.G.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 656, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "# THE PROGRESS OF HONGKONG\n\nAfter five months' stay in Tonquin, one is inclined to estimate somewhat too enthusiastically the merits of Hongkong. Nevertheless, there is perhaps no one of our colonies which exhibits to the same extent British aptitude for colonization and the national organizing talent. When, 41 years ago, Admiral Dowell, now in command of the China Squadron, landed as a midshipman to hoist the British flag on Hongkong Island, he found it a simple barren waste, scantily covered with scrubby grass struggling for existence among the outcrops of rock. There were a few fishermen's huts on the southern shores, just as there are similar shanties on the host of similar islands which lie all along the Kwang-tung coast all the way westward to the point of land which runs down to Hainan, but otherwise the place looked hopeless as a spot for a colony as could well be imagined.\n\nHis Excellency gave instructions that in cases of complaint by Hongkong junks of seizures, either in the waters of the colony or outside, inquiry should in the first instance be made whether the junk had properly reported under Ordinance 6 of 1860 - an ordinance which was passed for putting down piracy, rampant at that time, the harbour itself being quite a rendezvous for piratical craft, so much so that three foreign vessels were actually followed out of the harbour by these boats and attacked outside. If the junk had been guilty of any infringement for not reporting or a clear breach of the Ordinance, the master was to be charged and forfeiture of junk and cargo took place. This was all very well, and no doubt efficacious so long as piracy was in question, but it was a very violent measure to adopt for the sake of checking smuggling. Naturally, the Governor was soon able to report to the Colonial Office that complaints had ceased. The Chinese Revenue Customs would have been very hard to please if this had not satisfied them. The Secretary of State sanctioned the employment of this Ordinance for the suppression of smuggling, although the pains and penalties of forfeiture were intended only to attach to breaches of our regulations where piracy was in contemplation.\n\nThe Colonial Office could hardly have been sufficiently acquainted with the object of the legislation of 1860, or the employment of such law for such a purpose could hardly have been sanctioned. The consequence of this was that it actually paid the Hongkong trader to send his goods first by steamer to Macao and thence in junks, instead of shipping them direct from Hongkong. Further, the Chinese sent to Hongkong were made to pay duties together arbitrary and uncertain in amount. There is no means of saying whether they were actually in excess of justice or not, for no tariff was published, and the rules were carried out at the sweet will of each individual revenue officer. Traders who had left one province and paid all dues were again made to pay for entrance into Hongkong, precisely as if it were a part of China.\n\nSir George Bowen, however, immediately set himself to the arrangement of the question. He had the matter fully aired before the present British Minister in Pekin, and there are good hopes that an equitable settlement will be arrived at in due time.\n\nOne even more important matter is the subject of public health. Hongkong, with its narrow streets, and the terrible overcrowding of these narrow streets, has long stood in danger of the outbreak of some violent epidemic. Every year sees a great increase in the population, but there is not a corresponding increase in the house accommodation. Overcrowding in its worst form has been the result, and overcrowding of Chinese is infinitely more disagreeable and dangerous than the overcrowding of other people.\n\nThe difficulty, however, is not merely in the want of houses, but in the want of suitable reclamations from the steep hills. Some alteration is also to be made in the system under which Crown leaseholds are now held. Under the old leases, there is no clause forcing the public to build neat houses for the officials and offices. Consequently, there are not a few areas both in the neighbourhood of the city and within its limits which still remain vacant.\n\nFor the future, purchasers of Crown allotments will not be allowed to hold their lease until they have complied with the conditions of sale, and these conditions are to be specified in the construction of houses. Squatters, tenants at will, in the different villages on the island, are to be allowed to take small and inexpensive leaseholds for a period of 75 years. This is in supersession of the old rule, by terms of which they might be turned out at a month's notice.\n\nThere is good ground for hope that this will tend to relieve the present overcrowded quarters of the city. The furtherance of the same works in furtherance of the same idea, the old licensed quarter is to be done away with, while systematic dredging of the harbour and reclamation of unsavoury tidal lands is to be begun. The Taitam waterworks, though terribly expensive and likely to necessitate a loan, must in any event have been constructed sooner or later. Equally expensive will be the connexion of the eastern and western portions of the city by means of a marine embankment. The break in the sea-frontage is very inconvenient and must be done away with. Sir George Bowen also meditates the construction of a permanent lazarette on Stonecutter's Island, the quarantine station.\n\nIt will thus be seen that Sir George Bowen is active in measures for the good of the colony. But that which Hongkong most wants he is unable to undertake without the action of the Imperial Government. It is no exaggeration to say that the town is without fortifications of any kind. Those which exist are so useless that it would be better if they were not there at all, for they only serve as excuses for parsimonious Colonial Secretaries to refuse a grant for the defences of the place.\n\nThe most important of these from the mercantile point of view is the so-called Blockade of Hongkong. The question is naturally a most difficult one, but it has been altogether unduly aggravated by the late Governor's pro-Chinese measures. As it is, smuggling is an ordinary branch of trade, and it is an unlucky speculation that is all, but ill-luck on one or several occasions is no reason why the traffic should be given up.\n\nIn view of the peculiar position of Hongkong, it may be found advisable to pass an enactment forbidding attempts at carrying off contraband goods to China, but till then, no attempts should be made to protect the revenue of a neighbouring state by straining ordinances which were made for an altogether different purpose. This is what Sir John Pope Hennessy did when he first came to the colony and had to decide on a smuggling case which had occurred in the time of Sir Arthur Kennedy, his predecessor.\n\nWhile Hongkong is thus flourishing, Canton is in a very perturbed state. Canton is the place which has lost most by French doings in Tonquin. The great majority of the Chinamen and host of the merchants in Tonquin were from the South China capital. The trade on the West River has been seriously affected.\n\n## Page 363\n\nMeanwhile, we spend £70,000 a year on salutes in Hongkong harbour, and that is all the present fortifications are good for. If an arrangement was made to reduce the absurd number of salute guns, Hongkong would be a much pleasanter place to live in, and if the money saved were spent on fortifications, it would be much safer. At present, not only is Victoria open to attacks from the sea, but if the Chinese were to pull up a few ordinary old guns to the top of the heights on the mainland, they could pound the town to atoms at their leisure.\n\nWe are very proud of our commercial and organizing genius. It would be well if we took measures to protect what we have organized. Hongkong offers particularly good opportunities for smuggling operations. It is hardly necessary to say that smuggling from the port is not illegal, but it is well that we should protect ourselves against it. In a precisely similar way, any fisherman or coasting junk captain will turn amateur pirate if he sees an opening. He may have been most peaceful and mildest mannered for years, but he is not going to let a chance slip, and he cuts throats with ability and scuttles and destroys with the minimum of danger to himself.\n\nThe fortification of Hongkong is a matter of great urgency, especially now that France has established herself so extensively in the Indo-Chinese territories. It is more imperative than ever that we should render Hongkong safe, at any rate, from the attacks of an ironclad of France. The fortification of Singapore has long been a crying need, and under present circumstances, that of Hongkong is at the very least as urgent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Quarantine Regulations\n\n323\n\nEvery vessel shall immediately on entering the waters of the Colony hoist the Quarantine Flag, and shall keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until released therefrom by express written order of the Health Officer; who shall, in every case, board and examine all the passengers and crew of such vessel. The Quarantine Flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter Q in International Code of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.\n\nNo such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 am, or after 7 P.M.\n\n## Quarantine Ground and Procedures\n\n4. Every vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the Quarantine Ground, and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from quarantine by order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the Quarantine Ground from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship, and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Ground immediately such stress of weather has subsided. Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel, the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be in quarantine, and subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.\n\n5. The Quarantine Ground shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Ground as and when required by the Harbour Master:\n| Boundary | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Western Boundary | A line drawn from the West side of Stone Cutters' Island to West side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as Harbour boundary). |\n| Southern Boundary | That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kaulung bearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the Eastern Boundary, and terminating where it meets the Western boundary. |\n| Eastern Boundary | A South line drawn from a white mark on South side of Stone Cutters Island until it reaches the Southern boundary. |\n| Northern Boundary | Five fathom line of soundings. |\n\nThe place hereafter described is hereby set apart to be a Quarantine Station, namely: That part of the West end of Stone Cutters' Island which lies West of a line to be determined by the Health Officer, and to be indicated by a line of Yellow Flags to be fixed by the Health Officer from shore to shore.\n\n## Duties of Vessel Masters and Health Officer\n\n6. The master or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health Officer or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer or Boarding Officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.\n\n7. The Health Officer may order the removal of such persons as he thinks fit from any vessel in quarantine to the Quarantine Station, and the master of any vessel from which such persons are ordered to be removed shall conduct their removal according to the orders of the Health Officer.\n\n8. No vessel in quarantine shall be released from quarantine except by the express written order of the Health Officer, nor until such precautions, by way of burning clothing or fumigating or otherwise, as may be ordered by the Health Officer, have been carried out. If the vessel arrives from a port or place where any infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of its departure, or if there has been any case of any such disease on board the vessel, or any death therefrom, the vessel shall not be released from quarantine until 5 clear days have elapsed since the date of the vessel's departure from such port or place, or since any person was suffering from or died from any such disease on board such vessel, as the case may be.\n\n9. Any vessel having had, during the course of her voyage, any case of any infectious or contagious disease on board, shall be placed in quarantine immediately on entering the waters of the Colony and she will not be released therefrom until fumigated and disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.\n\n10. If any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case of contagious disease on board, or is a vessel which in the opinion of the Health Officer ought according to these regulations to be in quarantine, the Health Officer may order such vessel into quarantine, and the master or person in charge of such vessel shall thereupon hoist the Quarantine Flag upon such vessel and remove the vessel to the Quarantine Ground, and all the regulations applicable in relation to vessels in quarantine shall apply to such vessel.\n\n## Handling Deaths and Restrictions\n\n11. In case of a death happening on board any vessel in quarantine, or ordered into quarantine, or in a Quarantine Station, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by the Health Officer; and the Master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.\n\n12. When any quarantined vessel is in the waters of the Colony, no person shall leave the vessel or hold communication from the vessel with the shore, or with any other vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the vessel, until the express written permission of the Health Office has been communicated to the master or other person having the control of the vessel, and such precautions as the Health Officer may require have been observed.\n\n13. When any vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the Health Officer or persons in his charge shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or hold any communication with any person on board of it, or receive or take any person or thing whatever directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any person on board of it, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n14. No person placed in the Quarantine Station shall leave the same, or hold communication with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the Quarantine Station, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n15. No person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed by him, shall enter the Quarantine Station or approach within 30 yards of the boundaries thereof, or hold communication with the Quarantine Station, or with any person in it, or receive or take anything whatever directly or indirectly from the Station, or from any person in it without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n## Enforcement\n\n16. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may order any person leaving or coming from any vessel that is in quarantine or from a Quarantine Station, or taking or sending any person or thing whatever from any such vessel or Quarantine Station to remain in or return to, and to return such persons or things to such vessel or Quarantine Station, and may by such necessary force as the case requires compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same.\n\n## Exceptions and Penalties\n\n17. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships of War, or with their freedom to proceed to sea whenever the Officer in command may deem such course requisite.\n\n18. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.\n\nCouncil Chamber, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1885.\n\n**ARATHOON SETH**\nClerk of Councils", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329224, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "# \nOffice. \nDate. \nSubject. \n\nOffice Individual. \nor \nDak. \nSubject. \n\n## Admiralty\n9 Apr. Direct Telegraphic Communication with King of War Office.\n8 May Land in front of Battery at Belcher's Point.\n\n## \n20 \n# \ndo. \n27 \n# \nRequest of Hongkong for torpedo boats.\n\n## \ndo. \ndr. \n7 \n28 Sept. Retired pay of Command: Rumsey while at Harb: Master \n\n## Dec.\nCost of Colonial Observatory.\n\n## \nbown agents.\n11 Feb. Control & Consulting Engineer Over Tytam Water Works.\n3 Mar. Public Works Loan of £200,000.\n17 June. Manufacture of coins called \"Cash\" \n19 Sept. Colonial Defences.\ndo. \ndo. \nDo \nAcquisition of land for Military purposes \n\n## Eastern Extension Tel.\n27 Mar. Telegraphic communication between Singapore & Hong Kong \ndo \ndo. \n130 \n} \nDo Do \nLand: Chamber of 11 Apr. Defences of Hong Kong & Singapore.\n\n## \nfoumera Central Tel. Off.\n13 \n\"Times.\" \n27 Aug. Tytam Water Works- Obans of Consulting Engineer G.P.O.\nProgress & cost of Tytam Water Works.\n7 Sept Estimate for Tytam Water Works.\n\n## \ndo. \ndo. \n24 Apr. Vouchers respecting their accounts.\ndo. \ndo. \nds. \n29 \ndo. \nds. \n& \nBd. & Trade.\ndo. \n123 \ndo. \n12 Nov. Cost of Boring tunnel for Tytam Water Works.\n\n## \n15 Jan. Suspension of Masters' Certificates.\nExplosion of boiler of the \"Yat Sai.\"\n15 Sept. Quarantine Regulations.\n\n## Treasury\n5 Feb. Value of the Dollar & Rupee, 1885-6.\ndo. \ndo. \ndo \ndo. \n11 Mar. Ordinance to facilitate business of Savings Bank \n25 Apr. Direct cable, Singapore to Hongkong.\n22 Aug. Appeal of Major Gordon to draw retired pay.\n3 Sept. \n\n## War Office\n21 Feb. Proposed alteration of the Kowloon Frontier.\n13 Mar. Defence Works.\ndo. \n6 Apr. \ndo. \ndo. \n15 \ndo. \n27 \n# \nDo \nDirect Cable between Hongkong & Singapore.\nIncrease of the Garrison.\nSingapore. Saijon table.\n26 May. Defences of Hongkong.\n7 Early Ordinances 12 of 1884 & 11 of 1885.\n\n## Eastern Ext: Tel:\n9 \nG.R.O. \nL.G.B. \n# \nHongkong - Singapore Cable.\nContribution \n\n## \n15 Sept. Surcharge against H.M. P.O. for arrears of Mail Service \n11 Nov. Sanitary Measures in case of Cholera epidemic.\n\n## Coats, J.F.P.\n21 Apr. Their Trade Marks.\n\n## Gordon G.C.M.G.\n19 Feb. Appt as Supt. of Victoria Gaol.\n\n## Hennessy, Sir J.P.\n23 June Proceedings of Russian Corvette \"Ryabnik\" ... Medal but Clay Awards two or personal ...\n\n## Morrison, J \n30 Oct. Passages for his step-sons", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 423, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Lives 26 May 85\n\n## ENGLISH POLICY AND NATIONAL DEFENCE.\n\n**(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)**\n\nHONGKONG, March 25. I recent letter I had occasion to sketch for you the conduct of our foreign affairs in the far East, and I then showed how deep is the apathy and indifference and ignorance of our statesmen regarding the Eastern world, how this found representation in the platform of detachment or dis-connexion, and how the doctrine was preached and the belief bred by this school of the millennium that we could thus surely avoid misunderstanding, collision, and war.\n\nThe belief has had several shocks of late, the rudest being the move made by Russia on Afghanistan. There may therefore be a chance of appealing once more to the people, with some hope of attracting the attention of the public to some purpose.\n\nA small proportion of our statesmen honestly believe, or delude themselves into believing, this most convenient and comfortable doctrine, but there are others, and these the large majority, who do not believe it at all. But they find it easy to smother their consciences and are silent when they should be straining every energy, using every talent which Nature has given them, to reveal the true facts of the case and instruct the nation. Both these classes of politicians, however, thoroughly agree in one common line of action - not to ask the voter for money for the purpose of defence. Demands for increased expenditure, no matter how needful, would damage the place-seeking party and Ministry.\n\nThe few isolated statesmen who, knowing the truth, dare to hold the safety of the country and its interests dearer than political place and power, and dare to do their duty - how few they are! - have, as has elsewhere been ably pointed out, three classes of the public arrayed against them - (1) the indifferent and fearless, who care and fear nothing because ignorant; (2) the peace-at-any-price class, who belong heart and soul to the \"detachment platform\", who will have no preparations, no defence, because it is settled by them that we are never to be at war; (3) the ultra-economists, the school of penny-wise pound-foolish men, who abhor anything in the shape of expenditure, especially for defence.\n\nThe nation is profoundly ignorant of the supreme importance to Great Britain of that portion outside the mother country forming Greater Britain, and especially that part of it forming our Eastern Empire. Yet it cannot be gainsaid that upon the political supremacy of England in the East, upon the possession and defence of India and our Eastern possessions, depends the continuance of her commercial prosperity and, as a sequitur, the ability to support the dense population of England. It is not necessary here again to recapitulate what has been so often advanced on the subject, as demonstrating beyond doubt the commercial value of India and the Eastern possessions in contributing to the enormous volume of home and intercolonial traffic now possessed by England and her colonies. To willingly lose these English possessions, or part of them, there is happily now no longer any desire, and there is less indifference than there was a short time ago. To lose them would not only involve the loss of an invaluable position for commerce and the loss of an enormous volume of trade, but would also hand them over to rivals, who are not at all averse to undertake the responsibilities, and thus reap the advantages to be gained therefrom. In one word, it would mean the loss of the commercial supremacy of England and the rapid disintegration of the Empire.\n\nIf national defence is, then, so important, why is it that our defences all round have become relatively so terribly weak? The fault lies with the nation, as well as with the Houses and Government which serve it.\n\nThe criminal apathy and indifference of our statesmen as to this question of defence, one of national insurance, is the reflex of the temper of the House, as the House is supposed to represent that of the country. But surely a House of Commons professing to safely guard the real interests of Britain, and the statesmen forming the Government, should make it their business to break down this terrible barrier of apathy and clear the way to an appreciation of the real condition of affairs. Surely, instead of pandering to the popular taste of drastic domestic legislation and busying themselves with party contests to the exclusion of foreign and colonial affairs and Imperial defence - surely they have other and higher duties imposed upon them. Is it not their duty to instruct and educate the people, and tell the truth at any cost, even at the cost of party votes? How many such statesmen are there? They can be counted on the fingers of one hand.\n\nIn recently reviewing the foreign policy both in India and the further East I had occasion to point out how in energy and intelligence, in study and appreciation of Eastern problems and neighbouring countries, we have fallen far behind our old level, and behind that of our Western rivals. The policy of the Imperial Government has been persistently to show no real appreciation of the value of India and other Eastern dependencies or develop them, and much that is done - for instance, railway extension in India - is accomplished only under the pressure of public opinion excited by the agitation of some vigorous community. The country then, being ignorant and indifferent, will remain so until ruin comes, unless a revolution is brought about by education of the country - education surely needed in matters not only political but industrial and commercial. Unless reform comes in this quarter, and more radical than any that has been or can be applied to the franchise or land, England must lose her possessions and colonies, as through want of education and earnestness of purpose she is fast losing in the industrial race, especially in competition with the Germans. Our system of education is largely to blame for this. We have no means of education in our country such as the German of to-day understands the word - education which fits him so well for the struggle of life. The individual members of the State are so wrapped up in their own concerns, so engrossed in the sordid search for wealth, so enervated by affluence and luxury, that they have no time to pay attention to such questions as the defence of the country and its commerce. The Government should do that they say. But the Government, knowing the indifference of the people, do not trouble themselves about it. Thus we live on from day to day in a fool's paradise from which we are certain to be rudely awakened, and that very shortly, while we find ourselves in Europe surrounded by nations all armed to the teeth, and the tension so great that it cannot possibly last long; alienated in Europe; committed by common interest in Turkey, \"the sick man;\" in India menaced by Russia, now ready to make one more move towards India, which she would command from Afghanistan that country once occupied; in Egypt involved by unforeseen circumstances accentuated by the policy of indecision, whose motto is \"too late,\" and by the absence of military preparation; in the far East estranged from our Eastern neighbours by the abject and impossible policy of no responsibility; worst of all, the loyalty of the colonies is put needlessly to the test.\n\nYet, in spite of such a state of affairs, our statesmen, with only two exceptions, Mr. Goschen and Mr. Forster, so far as one can judge out here from an examination of the English Press, find nothing better to talk about than domestic and parochial questions. That there will not be wanting self-sufficient statesmen who will be found ready to pooh-pooh any indictment which can now be made, as they have done in the past with such perfect success, I am well aware. We know all the arguments to be used. War is improbable or (if it can possibly be maintained at the time) impossible. They explain to their own satisfaction - and it tickles the ear of the public - that no Power would be mad enough to face the resources of England. To attack England will ruin any single Power or combination of Powers they say. But if in the process they break the power of England, what satisfaction is it to us to know that the process was costly to them? Defences can be arranged when the time comes, for we shall make a prolonged resistance; we have never been prepared, &c. No theory could be more mischievous. Defences cannot be arranged \"at the time.\" Listen to what has been said by Lord Overstone, one of the greatest of civil, financial, and commercial authorities: \"Our riches, the composition and nature of our social and monetary system, the limited extent of our country, the necessity for internal order, and confidence for the maintenance of our manufactur... \n\nPage 422", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 300, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "# 憲示第七十七號 \n**署輔政使司史 憲札轉奉**\n\n爲曉事照得現奉 **議政二局經歴 定例督憲會** 一千八百八十三年七月二十日 督部堂憲驗將扣留船隻增纂之章程群示於下爲此恃示 \n\n定例局將一千八百七十九年商船則例釐正名爲一千八百八十三年釐政則例 將 **督憲會同 定例局議定** 各歎開列於下之款代之一千八百七十九年第八條則例之第二十五欸現在删去用下開此面方留覊船船隻所並在此等地方覊留由遵守此例之船到諸人等權宜與各人所應遏止人犯法及拿解匪犯或拿後脫迷仍續獲此等章程及將違犯之人拿解倘被拿復臉後仍續將其人覊留此緝捕實及其所委派辦理此等扣留船隻例之員弁許其遏止人違犯十二个月有無苦工不等巡理府准可任意銀外另行定斮監禁總凡犯此等章程之人經巡理府審訊後缺不逾二千圓或監禁不過便在本港海面將和留船隻之事辦理有成及分設合宜地方爲相留 **督憲會同 定例局准可** 隨時設立章程或將已立之章程删改增添以之權一律止拿此巡人解許另其行圓脫其遏定逃人止罰仍覊人留違禁獲此犯總過得例經行各事一千八百八十二年第十六條則例現己删惟此等删改不得有初三日示一千八百八十六年\n\n## **督憲會同 將 定例局案照** 一千八百八十三年第九條則例之第一款所議定之章程示於下 \n定例局案照一千八百八十三年第九條第一則例所定之章程開毕或地方刋示憲報内者督憲卽會撻定例局將該處如此情形聲明並由聲明之日起將該洲國兵船與各類商船之總稱及稱其雄或地方有能傳染病症盛行查船醫官并内稱船隻者卽火船帆船渡船頭猛船英國及二此等章程内稱查船醫官者卽該埠之香船醫官或別委員弁或帮助有之雙惠路能旗該地傳文看作則係船有於之後不得入本港海口懸於船之最前最高桅頂之處此等船隻於早六點鐘之前夜七點鐘須用黄色並按照各國通行旗號條例書之Q字部造成此旗卽將其醫官特照始准釋放該醫官可隨時登船查看該船水手搭客報病旗須高懸報病旗一面此旗不准放下該船郎作爲羈禁候至奉有香船方而來自離該地方之日起計未足三日者則該船一到本港海口卽船上已有患能傳染之症或該船上有搭客係由有能傳染病症之地船到港之路程又未足三日或於到港時而有或於所行路程三日內三凡有船隻由各地方來港而該地方於船開行時已有能傳染症流行國該容不例准息乃離風該可此勢處相界旣凡仍定因凡卽必作爲被留之船并須遵守扣留船隻條例乃可船隻界內雖於遭風時防有危險其船暫准離此界仍凡遇有事故亦之船不得與岸上船來往及互通消息風勢既定卽須駛回扣留遭風外未奉有查船醫官之命不得擅離該處凡因遭風而離禁地四凡船隻有可疑其有能傳染人之症者須駛赴扣留船隻界内停泊除風或查地除\n\n## 扣留船隻界限 \n| 界限 | 描述 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Southern Boundary | That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kaulung bearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the Eastern Boundary, and terminating where it meets the Western boundary. |\n| Eastern Boundary.-- | A South line drawn from a white mark on South side of Stone Cutters' Island until it reaches the Southern boundary. |\n| Northern Boundary.-- | Five fathom line of soundings. |\n\nThe place hereafter described, as follows, is hereby set apart to be a Quarantine Station, namely:--- \nThat part of the West end of Stone Cutters' Island which is bounded and contained between two lines of yellow stone posts extending from shore to shore.\n\n## 檢疫章程 \n6. The master or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health Officer or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer or Boarding Officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.\n\n7. The Health Officer may order the removal of such persons as he thinks fit from any vessel in quarantine to the Quarantine Station, and the master of any vessel from which such persons are ordered to be removed shall conduct their removal according to the orders of the Health Officer.\n\n8. No vessel in quarantine shall be released from quarantine except by the express written order of the Health Officer, nor until such precautions, by way of burning clothing, or fumigating, or otherwise, as may be ordered by the Health Officer, have been carried out. \nIf the vessel arrives from a port or place where Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea prevailed at the time of its departure, or if there has been any case of any such disease on board the vessel, or any death therefrom, the vessel shall not be released from quarantine until 3 clear days have elapsed since the date of the vessel's departure from such port or place, or since any person was suffering from or died from any such disease on board such vessel, as the case may be.\n\n9. If any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case of any infectious or contagious disease on board, or is a vessel which in the opinion of the Health Officer ought according to these regulations to be in quarantine, the Health Officer may order such vessel into quarantine, and the master or person in charge of such vessel shall thereupon hoist the Quarantine Flag upon such vessel and remove the vessel to the Quarantine Ground, and all the regulations applicable in relation to vessels in quarantine shall apply to such vessel.\n\n10. In case of a death happening on board any vessel in quarantine, or ordered into quarantine, or in Quarantine Station, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by the Health Officer; and the Master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.\n\n11. When any quarantined vessel is in the waters of the Colony, no person shall leave the vessel, or hold communication from the vessel with the shore, or with any other vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the vessel, until the express written permission of the Health Officer has been communicated to the master or other person having the control of the vessel, and such precautions as the Health Officer may require have been observed.\n\n19. When any vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the Health Officer or persons in his boat shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or hold any communication with such vessel, or with any person on board of it, or receive or take any person or thing whatever directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any person on board of it, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n13. No person placed in the Quarantine Station shall leave the same, or hold communication with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the Quarantine Station without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n14. No person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed by him, shall enter the Quarantine Station or approach within 30 yards of the boundaries thereof, or hold communication with the Quarantine Station or with any person in it, or receive or take anything whatever directly or indirectly from the Station, or from any person in it without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n15. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may order any person leaving or coming from any vessel that is in quarantine or from a Quarantine Station, or taking or sending any person or thing whatever from any such vessel or Quarantine Station to remain in or return to, and to return such persons or things to such vessel or Quarantine Station, and may by such necessary force as the case requires compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same.\n\n16. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships of War, or with their freedom to proceed to sea whenever the Officer in command may deem such course requisite.\n\n17. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.\n\n**Council Chamber, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1886.** \n**ARATHOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils.**\n\nPage 300\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330440, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Quarantine Regulations\n\n298\n\nshall immediately on entering the waters of the Colony fly the Quarantine Flag, and shall keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until released therefrom by express written order of the Health Officer; who shall, in every case, board and examine all the passengers and crew of such vessel.\n\nThe Quarantine Flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter Q in International Code of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.\n\nNo such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 A.M. or after 7 P.M.\n\n## Regulation 4\nEvery vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the Quarantine Ground, and shall not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from quarantine by order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the Quarantine Ground from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship, and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Ground immediately such stress of weather has subsided. Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel, the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be in quarantine, and subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.\n\n## Regulation 5\nThe Quarantine Ground shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Ground as and when required by the Harbour Master:\n\n| Boundary | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Western Boundary | A line drawn from the West side of Stone Cutters Island to West side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as Harbour boundary). |\n| Southern Boundary | That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kaulung bearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the Eastern Boundary, and terminating where it meets the Western boundary. |\n| Eastern Boundary | A South line drawn from a white mark on South side of Stone Cutters Island until it reaches the Southern boundary. |\n| Northern Boundary | Five fathom line of soundings. |\n\nThe place hereafter described, as follows, is hereby set apart to be a Quarantine Station, namely:\nThat part of the West end of Stone Cutters Island which lies West of a line to be determined by the Health Officer, and to be indicated by a line of Yellow Flags to be fixed by the Health Officer from shore to shore.\n\n## Regulation 6\nThe master or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health Officer or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer or Boarding Officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.\n\n## Regulation 7\nThe Health Officer may order the removal of such persons as he thinks fit from any vessel in quarantine to the Quarantine Station, and the master of any vessel from which such persons are ordered to be removed shall conduct their removal according to the orders of the Health Officer.\n\n## Regulation 8\nNo vessel in quarantine shall be released from quarantine except by the express written order of the Health Officer, for until such precautions, by way of burning clothing or fumigating or otherwise, as may be ordered by the Health Officer, have been carried out.\n\nIf the vessel arrives from a port or place where any infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of its departure, or if there has been any case of any such disease on board the vessel, or any death therefrom, the vessel shall not be released from quarantine until 5 clear days have elapsed since the date of the vessel's departure from such port or place, or since any person was suffering from or died from any such disease on board such vessel, as the case may be.\n\n## Regulation 9\nAny vessel having had, during the course of her voyage, any case of any infectious or contagious disease on board, shall be placed in quarantine immediately on entering the waters of the Colony, and she will not be released therefrom until fumigated and disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.\n\n## Regulation 10\nIf any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case of any infectious or contagious disease on board, or is a vessel which in the opinion of the Health Officer ought according to these regulations to be in quarantine, the Health Officer may order such vessel into quarantine, and the master or person in charge of such vessel shall thereupon hoist the Quarantine Flag upon such vessel and remove the vessel to the Quarantine Ground, and all the regulations applicable in relation to vessels in quarantine shall apply to such vessel.\n\n## Regulation 11\nIn case of a death happening on board any vessel in quarantine, or ordered into quarantine, or in a Quarantine Station, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by the Health Officer; and the Master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.\n\n## Regulation 12\nWhen any quarantined vessel is in the waters of the Colony, no person shall leave the vessel or hold communication from the vessel with the shore, or with any other vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the vessel, until the express written permission of the Health Officer has been communicated to the master or other person having the control of the vessel, and such precautions as the Health Officer may require have been observed.\n\n## Regulation 13\nWhen any vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the Health Officer or persons in his boat shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or hold any communication with such vessel, or with any person on board of it, or receive or take any person or thing whatever directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any person on board of it, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n## Regulation 14\nNo person placed in the Quarantine Station shall leave the same, or hold communication with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the Quarantine Station, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n## Regulation 15\nNo person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed by him, shall enter the Quarantine Station or approach within 30 yards of the boundaries thereof, or hold communication with the Quarantine Station, or with any person in it, or receive or take anything whatever directly or indirectly from the Station, or from any person in it without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n## Regulation 16\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may order any person leaving or coming from any vessel that is in quarantine or from a Quarantine Station, or taking or sending any person or thing whatever from any such vessel or Quarantine Station to remain in or return to, and to return such persons or things to such vessel or Quarantine Station, and may by such necessary force as the case requires compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same.\n\n## Regulation 17\nThe above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships of War, or with their freedom to proceed to sea whenever the Officer in command may deem such course requisite.\n\n## Regulation 18\nWhere any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.\n\nCouncil Chamber, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1885.\n\n**ARATHOON SETH**, Clerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332060, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "funds.\n\nThere is no doubt that if the whole waterfront were scoured off the Crown Government the scheme would pay more than it's cost.\n\nYong dow 11 betsbu 1886\n\n(3) Mr. A. Marsh\n\nA 41\n\nFirst Portion of Correspondence respecting the proposed junction of the Eastern and Western Praya*. Presented to the Legislative Council by command of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nC.O. 22594 RECR SGO 14 DEC 76 (1.)\n\nGovernor Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., to the Earl of Derby.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 25th August, 1883.\n\nSecretary of State No. 123 of June 27th. 1883.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nIn continuation of my previous despatches respecting the sanitary works recommended by Mr. CHADWICK, I would observe that the records of the Colonial Office will show that there has at different periods been much official correspondence respecting the junction of the Eastern and Western Praya* (or quays) of this city, by a marine embankment or roadway. In fact, the two main portions of the city are now separated from each other in a most inconvenient manner by the interposition of the Naval and Military buildings; and it has long been considered of great importance to re-unite them by an embankment in front of those buildings.\n\n2. It appears by a letter from the Colonial Office to the War Office of June 29th, 1877, that, at that period, the War and Colonial Departments had concurred as to the importance of this work, and that it was desired that 'some agreement might be arrived at by which the work should be carried out conjointly by the three Departments,\" (that is, by the War Office, the Colonial Office, and the Admiralty).\n\n3. Nothing practical however, has hitherto been done. This question has now been revived by Mr. CHADWICK (the Engineer sent out from England to report on the sanitary condition of Hongkong), who strongly recommends the execution of this work on sanitary grounds. He reports (page 57) as follows:- \"The foreshore in front of the War Department's property is flat and a considerable area is uncovered at low water. Owing to the numerous indentations of the shore line, and the set of tidal currents, a good deal of filth accumulates here from all parts of the harbour and not merely from the adjacent property...\n\nThe mouths of the Murray Barracks and Victoria Barrack Nullahs† are somewhat obstructed by sand, and there is a tendency to the formation of stagnant pools at their mouths. The only effective remedy for this state of things, would be to reclaim the foreshore\n\n* Praya is a Portuguese word, signifying the Beach, and was adopted by the first settlers at Hongkong because the Marine Parade at Macao is so called.\n\n† Gullies or Ravines.\n\nS Bury.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332104, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "the project. They contended that it was absolutely necessary they should be provided with an inland dock or basin inside the proposed new embankment for the purpose of enabling them to meet the exigencies of the naval service in respect of the refitting and revictualling of Her Majesty's ships. Moreover the Admiralty stipulated, as one of the conditions of their acquiescence in the project, that the proposed new marine roadway should be carried up on an ascending gradient from the Murray Pier, so that by the time it reached the Naval Yard frontage it should have attained a sufficient height to admit of a bridge over the entrance to their dock or basin which would enable them to preserve their communication with the sea while the roadway was carried overhead. In addition to that the Military Authorities in conjunction with the Admiralty insisted on the embankment being pushed further out into the harbour, into deeper water, thus involving the cost of laying deep foundations. It may readily be understood that such very heavy additions as these to the original simple scheme could not but increase the estimate of cost very largely and these additions will give hon. members a clue to the larger figure of £71,000 set forth in the Address.\n\nWhile on the subject of the proposed Praya extension I may, perhaps, be permitted incidentally to remark that for the first time in the history of this question we have a General in command of the China Station who, holding liberal views on the matter, is animated by an earnest desire to gratify the aspiration of the colony as to uniting the eastern and western portions of the town by means of this embankment. And even if the Government should be unable at the moment, owing to financial considerations, to give effect to the scheme, it will have been a highly desirable thing to avail ourselves of the present favourable attitude of the Military Department, and to procure its acceptance of the scheme in such a manner as to render it unlikely that it can be afterwards altered or extended, or the cost still further increased.\n\nThe hon. member opposite has expressed the opinion that if the Colonial Government had been seriously desirous of having this scheme carried out they would unquestionably have been able to carry it out. I am not aware that any want of such desire can be attributed to the Colonial Authorities. The delays that have arisen are mainly owing to the objection of the Naval Department to being cut off from the sea frontage by an intervening public roadway. It is also entirely owing to the favourable view which General Cameron takes of the project that the Government now for the first time sees some prospect of carrying out the improvement within a measurable distance of time.\n\nAs to the remarks which fell from the hon. member opposite with reference to Sanitary Works, the hon. member may be aware, or he may not be aware, that the Government of the colony has been for the last three and a half years assiduously engaged in constructing the main sewerage of this town upon modern sanitary principles. From the returns which I hold in my hand I find that during the last three and a half years in the Western District of Victoria 2,450 yards of main sewers have been constructed, in the Central District 1,900 yards, and in the eastern district 3,100 yards, making in all 7,450 yards of new main sewers, or roughly speaking, about four and a half miles. Besides this many other works of improvement in connection with main sewerage have also been carried out, and these improvements have been pushed forward for the last three and a half years and are still being unremittingly pushed forward from day to day as part and parcel of the comprehensive scheme for the main drainage of the city adopted four years ago.\n\nThe main drainage works of Victoria, however, are something like Rome, they are not to be built in a day. At all events the statistics I have quoted to the Council will show that considerable progress has been made in the main drainage works. Having said this much on the subject of the main drainage of the town, I come to the cognate subject of house drainage, and here I am able to agree with any hon. member at this table who may lift his voice against the actual condition of things. House drains are to the main sewers what the veins are to the arteries in a man's body. The Government have been engaged in restoring the arteries to proper working order, and it devolves upon the owners of house property to do the same for the veins, that is for their house drains.\n\nThose private house drains which are the cause of all our present evils are built at the expense of private owners of property, and it should devolve upon house proprietors to imitate in respect of their private house drains the action of the Government in respect of the reconstruction of main sewers. But as this is not being done things are in the state referred to by the Hon. member opposite. What is the remedy for this state of things? Legislation, unquestionably. Legislation that will make it compulsory upon the householder to re-construct his house drains as the Government has reconstructed the main sewers of the town.\n\nAnd with reference to the subject of this legislation, I noticed a passage in his Excellency's Address which says that an Ordinance in this connection was prepared by myself a year ago. With due deference to his Excellency's statement, I have to point out that that passage in the Address would have been more correct if it had stated two years ago, it being, I think, in 1884 that the draft of the Ordinance was first submitted for consideration. The Bill as then drafted bristled with difficulties and perplexities, and it had the misfortune to meet with some opposition from Hon. Members of the Council, as well as from other high authorities whose opinions are entitled to the highest respect.\n\nIt brought most forcibly home to one's mind the fact that the course of sanitary legislation was something like that of true love, and that it did not always run smooth. The Public Health Ordinance was therefore withdrawn, and, I think, judiciously withdrawn, with the object of recasting it into two separate measures to be introduced this session. At the first meeting of the re-constituted and enlarged Sanitary Board the draft Bill was brought forward and placed before new members, and from that time to the present has continued to receive from them that earnest attention and consideration which it so preeminently demands.\n\nAs the Bill will be laid upon this table before long it would, perhaps, be premature for me to enter into the question at greater length now; but I cannot help expressing a conviction, which I am sure the hon. member opposite will share, that that Bill will be found an effectual remedy for all the evils and complaints which he depicts, and therefore I trust it will not be long before it takes its place in the Statute Book.\n\nI ought perhaps to add that the Sanitary Board has been animated throughout its deliberations as to this important legislation by the sole desire, as far as the exigencies of the public health will admit, to consult on the one hand the welfare and interests of the masses who are compelled to inhabit the houses of Hongkong, and on the other the interests of the landlords. All landlords, I am sorry to say, who build such houses for personal profit without due regard to drainage, to proper lighting, or adequate ventilation. I repeat I think the evils which the hon. member has depicted in such glowing language will all be found to come within the grasp of the new Ordinance.\n\nOur aim therefore should be to expedite that Ordinance, and place it upon the Statute Book with all possible speed, for in that Act lies the only remedy for the evils which my hon. friend has referred to. The hon. member has made some remarks in what I may term very warmly expressed language about the Central Market. I may state that the management of the Central Market is not in my hands.\n\nHon. A. P. MACEWEN—I never said it was.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—That is so. But as the Government fully intended last year to rebuild the Market, it may be understood why Sanitary reforms may not have been instituted there. The only impediment to the erection of a new market has been the financial impediment. Rather than waste time in discussing matters of the past, and that now no longer exist, I think we should be wiser to go to work in earnest, make an assault upon the old pile, and knock it down during the next year, as soon as this may be feasible consistently with the finding of suitable temporary accommodation for the Market people.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Sir, I wish to add a few remarks to what has been said on the motion for the adoption of the reply to the Address. With respect to finance, I think my hon. friend opposite (Mr. MacEwen) said he was disappointed. I don't think we can join in that feeling, as from a statement before me I find the revenue has ever since 1876 steadily and regularly and year by year risen from $870,000, which it was in that year, to the $1,300,000 which we expect to receive this year.\n\nWith respect to a large development of public works and a large expenditure by means of a loan my hon. friend has expressed his disappointment no such programme figures in the Address. I don't think we could expect his Excellency the Administrator to trammel the hands of the future Governor by launching out into these great works. Everything cannot be done at once.\n\n85\n\n- Government\n\nwury", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nthe Brigade last year during the\n\n\"absence on leave of Mr. Wodehouse.\n\nMr Brewer has given\n\ngreat\n\nsatisfaction both to the Government\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n237\n\n9\n\nNor $7.\n\nRECR\n\nREPORT OF THE ACTING SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE BRIGADE FOR 1886.\n\n6 587\n\nGE 4 APR\n\nPresented to the Legislative Council, by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nthe able and\n\nSIR,\n\non the 28th January, 1887.\n\nFIRE BRIGADE DEPARTMENT, 7th January, 1887.\n\nand the Public\n\nenergetic\n\nhas\n\nmanner\n\nin which he\n\nmanaged the Brigade during the time that he has\n\nbeen in charge.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSin\n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMMarch\n\nI have the honour to submit the following report of the Government Fire Brigade for the year ending 31st December, 1886.\n\nDuring the year the Fire Brigade has performed important work which, as regards efficiency, is creditable, though not by any means perfect.\n\nThe rapid growth of the Colony demanding additional facilities for extinguishing fires, I recommended the Government early last year to purchase two additional Steam Engines which I proposed to station in the eastern and western districts to be on the spot in case of fire occurring in either locality. The Government sanctioned the purchase of one engine which is on its way from England, and a Steam Fire Pump has been fitted to the Steam-launch Stanley, which, if placed at the disposal of the Brigade, will bring up the strength of the available Fire Engines to the following:-\n\nNo. 1 Merryweather,\n\nFloating Steamer.\n\nNo. 2\n\nDo.\n\n....Land\n\ndo.\n\nNo. 3 Shand Mason & Co.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nNo. 4\n\nNo. 5\n\nDo.\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nexpected from England.\n\nNo. 6 Deane's (floating)\n\n....fitted in steam-launch Stanley.\n\nManuals-9 in number stationed in different parts of the Colony.\n\nNo. 2 Engine has been 16 years in service, and is now fitted with new steam cylinders and valve casing which will render the engine serviceable for some years.\n\nThe Government offices and other important centres have been supplied with hose and stand pipes.\n\nWith regard to fire alarms, a new bell has been supplied to the clock tower, and the bell of No. 5 Station has been raised so that its sound can be heard at a greater distance. These, however, are anything but perfect as fire alarms, as considerable time must of necessity elapse between the outbreak of a fire and communication to the station. This has been proved several times by the advanced state which the conflagration had reached on the arrival of the first engine.\n\nThe whole of the hose for the steam engines has been fitted with couplings on the Metropolitan Fire Brigade pattern which greatly facilitates connecting the lengths of hose.\n\nThe engines have been periodically overhauled, and carefully examined and tested, and are all in first-rate order, though I should recommend a new Fire-box for No. 3 Engine during the current year. Weekly drills have been held for instruction of Drivers and Firemen in their respective duties, when steam has been raised on each engine in turn. The system of fines sanctioned by His Excellency has proved successful in the increased attendance at weekly parades, and a greater attention to cleanliness and dress. The whole of the Chinese firemen have been supplied with belts and hose-wrenches, and have been instructed in elementary fire drill.\n\nConsiderable difficulty frequently arises at low water spring tides in obtaining water at various parts of the Praya, when the floating engine proves invaluable. The dredging operations, when completed on the fore-shore, will remove what has at times been a great difficulty.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "## All these missionaries are Frenchmen, and more French than missionary, having, to a man, the views of Bishop Penginier, of Tonquin. There are somewhere about 150,000 Chinese converts.\n\nNow that the Chinese are awake to the danger that threatened them from the intrigues of the French priests, there is no reason, I believe, to apprehend any harm to British interests from their efforts, especially while there is such a bad understanding between the French officials and the priests. The converts are a scattered body, who would be promptly massacred, as they were the other day in Annam, if they tried to assist the French. On the contrary, by breaking up the population and introducing, to some extent, foreign knowledge and ideas, they prepare the ground for the pioneers of British commerce.\n\nWith regard to the military aspect of the Tonquin question, the reverses suffered by the French have done grave damage to French influence in South-west China, and, in a lesser degree, to the prestige of the other Occidental Powers. The recent disturbances at Ch'ung-king and in Kuei-chou were, without doubt, due in part to this cause; the leaders in these riots were military students, up from the country for examination, stuffed with a hundred lying tales of Chinese successes against the French—tales which would not, however, have gone down had there not been real successes to base them on. From what I saw and heard on the Tonquin border, I believe that the talk about a Chinese military revival is a darkening of counsel—words without knowledge. Chinese are no more able to stand up before European troops, properly led, than they were in 1842 or 1860. The only difference is, that they are now sometimes well armed. I heard an account of the Lung-chou engagement from two braves, engaged there, who journeyed two days with me on the way to their homes in Kuei-chou. The French marched into the midst of a body of 50,000 men, armed with repeating rifles and abundant ammunition (in spite of Chang Chih-tung's statement to the contrary in his Memorial). They said: \"We were ordered to fire all day and all night; the French said it was not fair, as they had no time to sleep or eat.\" The lesson to be learnt from the Tonquin war is to strike quickly if it is necessary to strike at all. The Chinese can make good plans, and carry them out with much determination, but they are never ready, and require a comparatively long time to consult and prepare. No time should be given then.\n\n## Burmah\n\nThe Yünnan officials treated me with marked politeness, and the mediation of Sir R. Hart was frequently mentioned in flattering terms; nevertheless, there was much uneasiness about Burmah: all inquired what we were going to do there, and preparations were made for defence on the Burmese frontier, General Ting, with 5,000 men, being sent from Kai-hua Fu to Têng-yueh in January 1886, and T'ang Taotai being sent from Yunnan Fu in February to superintend the defence of the border. This meant, no doubt, intriguing against the semi-independent tribes south of Têng-yueh to secure their hostility to England. At Ssu-mao, where I stayed eleven days and became intimate with the officials, steps were being taken to put the frontier into a state of defence; besides the right wing of the P'u-êrh Brigade, which should number about 500 men, and which has its permanent quarters at Ssu-mao, an auxiliary force was being enlisted for the defence of this part of the frontier, the officer in command of which, with 200 men, arrived from the Tonquin border a few days before I did. The Magistrate, who was a protégé and a fellow-provincial of the Governor-General Ts'ên, told me that he had recently received instructions to repair the wall of the town and to have a Map of the neighbourhood constructed; he said that the reason for strengthening the garrison was the confusion that reigned in the Ch'ê-li territory.\n\nThe Chinese Government wields little real power south of Ssu-mao, and contents itself with keeping up the prestige of its authority by an occasional act of treacherous violence. Thus in 1884 Ma Chung, the General at Pu-erh, engaged a Mahommedan, also named Ma, to assassinate the Ch'ê-li Prince (called Chiu-lung Wang by the Burmese). The man sent was a friend of the Wang—more, they had exchanged tieh-tzu, i.e., were sworn brothers—or he would not have obtained admittance, the Wang being extremely wary. He was to receive 1,000 taels and a place for his pains, but he caught malarial fever on the Mekong, and only returned to die, as he deserved. In the same year the Shan Chieftain of Liu-k'un was invited to dinner at Ssŭ-mao by the same officer to discuss local affairs, and taken straight out to the market-place and beheaded. I was told in Ssu-mao by several merchants that these acts had greatly disgusted the Shans, and had consequently damaged trade at Ssu-mao.\n\nInquiries along the route showed that the Shan family is a very widely divided one. From Ssu-mao, along the Tonquin border, Shans, under various names, occupy everywhere the lower lands. The whole population of Northern Kwang-si is Shan, and they stretch in large communities, e.g., Shui-chia, Chung-chia, &c., as far north as Kuei-yang Fu, the capital of Kuei-chou. The country between Ava and Ssŭ-mao is probably the home of this race, migration having been apparently from the south; the Shans in Kuei-chou migrated there from Kwang-si in the beginning of the 18th century only. They are indefatigable nature-worshippers in China, and generous supporters of Buddhism and Burmese priests in the Shan States, so that there should be a likely field for English missionaries among them on both sides of the border.\n\nThe Chinese frontier will be found figured in the last edition (1836) of the \"Topography of the Yunnan Province\", and perhaps a frontier running through the passes there named would be all that Her Majesty's Government would claim. But the Topography mentions a number of small clans or places south of this line to which garrisons are said once to have been sent by China, &c. The Topography would have therefore to be carefully studied before it could be suggested as a basis of arrangement.\n\nWith regard to the opening up of commercial relations between Burmah and Yünnan, I have shown in my Report that even at present Burmese cotton comes as far east as Yunnan Fu, and that in spite of bad roads, Western Yunnan will certainly be supplied with foreign goods from Burmah when the route is open.\n\nWestern Yunnan is much richer than the eastern part of the province bordering on Tonquin, and is being filled up more quickly, and by a more vigorous race (Ssu-chuanese), and a very profitable trade will no doubt spring up; but the idea of a route through Yunnan competing with the lower Yang-tzŭ ports is chimerical, to use a mild term. How far the area supplied from Burmah may encroach on the areas that now are, or ought to be, supplied from Canton, Tonquin, and Sui Fu (above Chungking on the Yang-tzŭ), depends on the success of our diplomacy, and on the skill with which our interests may be pushed with the Yünnan Government.\n\nWith regard to the regulation of the frontier trade, there should be the least possible restriction as to what persons or what goods cross the frontier, and in what manner they do so. Perhaps it will be found advisable to promise with regard to smuggling, for it is a wholesome check on greedy Customs officials, and is favoured by the ground and the traditions of the people.\n\nI would beg to suggest that the future of agriculture and manufactures in Burmah should not be forgotten. The nature of the ground—Yunnan being an elevated plateau 4,000 to 8,000 feet above the sea, and Burmah a broken plain with an altitude for the most part of a few hundred feet only—involves a great difference of climate and production. Yünnan will not grow cotton, tobacco, or tea, for instance, necessities to Chinese, in the production of which there may be a great future for planters in Burmah. Tobacco comes at present from Ssu-chuan and the Kwang provinces, and tea from the Shan States outside Ssu-mao, but the supply of the latter is insufficient even at present, and the people in South Yünnan drink all sorts of decoctions in its stead. Salt is produced in many parts of Yunnan, but the supply is insufficient, and there should be an increasing import from Bhamo as the western parts of the province fill up.\n\nThe Report of a six months' journey in Yünnan and Kuei-chou would be incomplete without some mention of the Governor-General, Ts'ên Yü-ying, who has long been, and no doubt will remain, the right arm of the Chinese Government in these parts. He is a Shan of the Pu-man family, born at Hsi-liu Hsien in Northern Kwang-si, where the borders of Yünnan, Kuei-chou, and Kwang-si meet. He has been engaged in fighting all his life, having had to fly from home when a youth because of a clan quarrel about which he was wanted, and having fought through the twenty years of Mahommedan and Miao-tzŭ rebellion. He is superstitious and cruel, bloodthirsty many say, but a strong ruler, and, for an Oriental, thorough in all that he does. There is no man in China who is so feared by officials and people under him, and his presence is the best security for the peace of that province. He is supposed to hate foreigners, and is generally accredited with the murder of Margary and the ...\n\nPage 330 \nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "content_text": "# \nHead-quarter House has been freely exercised, but in an unostentatious manner characteristic of the frank, bluff soldier, while Mrs. Sargent has presided over the numerous pleasant gatherings there with a charm and grace which have won the suffrages of all hearts. The friendly feeling and general sympathy they have won have called forth the expression of cordial respect and the sincere utterance of the good wishes contained in the address which will be presented to the General this afternoon.\n\nAt the moment when General Sargent is leaving the colony, a brief review of his long and honourable career, compiled from the Army List, may not be uninteresting to his numerous friends and well-wishers. Lieut.-General John Neptune Sargent, C.B., was born on the 18th June, 1826, and received his commission as ensign in the 95th Regiment on the 19th January, 1844. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on the 11th September, 1846, served with his Regiment in China, and obtained his company on the 18th November, 1853. He accompanied the 95th Regiment on the Eastern Expedition of 1854, and was recommended for the Turkish medal for the Danubian campaign by General Beatson, to whom he volunteered his services while on leave to assist in searching for boats to cross the river and attack the Russians. Captain Sargent served in the Crimean campaign in 1854-55, and took part in the Battle of Alma, where he was wounded. For his conduct in this action he was specially mentioned in the Commanding Officer's official report for \"determined bravery while leading the attack of the right wing\" of his Regiment up the heights of Alma. He was also engaged in the repulse of the powerful sortie on the 26th October. In the Battle of Inkerman he signally distinguished himself. In this famous battle he succeeded to the command of his Regiment and brought it out of action, and at a crisis when every rifle was of vital importance he used one with remarkable effect, especially when cut off from the British position by the Russian Column that occupied the ground whence the 95th Regiment had charged.\n\n## \nHe was engaged in the siege and was present at the fall of Sebastopol, on which occasion he was wounded. He was most strongly recommended for promotion for his services at Inkerman as a \"most zealous, meritorious, and brave officer,\" and as a result received the rank of brevet-major, while he was also awarded the Medal with three clasps, 5th Class of the Medjidie, the Turkish medal, and was created a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He joined The Buffs on the 25th August, 1857, and was gazetted lieut.-colonel on the 29th July, 1859.\n\nHe served with The Buffs in the campaign of 1860 in China, including the action of Sinho, in which he commanded the advanced guard, and the taking of Tonghoo. He was placed in permanent command of the outpost towards the Taku Forts, and was twice mentioned in despatches. Subsequently, he was appointed Commandant of the Taku Forts and Allied Commissioner. For his conduct in the China war, he was commended by Sir Robert Napier for \"good judgment, determination, and high military qualities,\" and was recommended to the Commander-in-chief by Sir Hope Grant in the following terms:-\" I would most strongly recommend this officer to the favourable consideration of His Royal Highness. He was one of the most active and useful officers in the field, who was in a position of great responsibility, and who performed his duties to my entire satisfaction.\" The reward of these services was a medal with clasps and the Companionship of the Most Distinguished Order of the Bath. He was made brevet-colonel on the 29th July, 1864, and promoted to the rank of major-general on the 11th January, 1877. General Sargent was appointed to the command of the Troops in China and the Straits Settlements in February, 1882, arrived in Hongkong on the 31st March following, and he was gazetted lieut.-general on the 18th October, 1884. This is a lengthy and brilliant record, and its subject would be a fitting recipient of the order of knighthood at the hands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, to whom he has been so loyal and zealous a servant.\n\nPage 240", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-236 - Others - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "content_text": "## General Sargent's Military Career\n\nOne attached), and 12 wounded, and 45 Non-Commissioned officers and men killed, and 128 wounded, and the Battle of Inkerman left Sargent one of the only six officers remaining with the remnant of the Regiment.\n\nThe British loss in killed and wounded at the Battle of Inkerman was 2,357, out of our 7,464 who fought in that field.\n\nGeneral Sargent has, throughout his military career, been conspicuously persevering in his efforts to get to the front when active service offered and duty called. As junior Captain in the 95th, when the Regiment was leaving England for the Eastern Expedition, he was detailed to remain behind with the depot, but this little accorded with the restless spirit of the ambitious soldier, who persevered in his longing desire to accompany his Regiment until he attained his wishes. At Scutari too, when, as junior Captain, he was ordered to remain behind with a Company, his determined efforts to push on for more active work in the Crimea again proved successful. Once more, at Malta, where he was stationed as junior Major of the 2nd Battalion of the Buffs, elated at the prospect of being employed on active service, he purchased his Lieut.-Colonelcy in the 1st Battalion of the Regiment, then in India, at a considerable pecuniary sacrifice, in excess of the regulation, to be in time to join the Expeditionary Force then preparing to proceed to China to retrieve our shaken prestige occasioned by the unfortunate repulse experienced at the Taku Forts.\n\nHe was proud of the high opinion entertained of him by such distinguished soldiers as Sir Hope Grant, Napier of Magdalla, Lord Airey, and others. Lord Napier made honourable mention of him in the following terms :--\n\n\"Colonel Sargent came under my observation in the performance of camp duties, in the command of an important outpost in the attack of Taku. The judgment and ability with which he performed these duties gave me a very high opinion of him as an officer, and I should select him for any important duty or command with the fullest confidence that he would execute it with good judgment and determination. It will give me great pleasure to hear of his having further opportunity of exercising his high military qualities.\"\n\nThe highly complimentary terms with which the same distinguished officer brought General Sargent prominently to the notice of His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, through Lord Airey, then Adjutant-General to the Forces, evinced unmistakably the high opinion entertained of him as an able officer, by those with whom he had served before the enemy, and who had thus formed the strongest regard and friendship for him. A still more gratifying proof of the late Lord Airey's regard for General Sargent is shown by a handsome memorial legacy he bequeathed to him, the inscription on which bears testimony to the esteem he entertained for him as a sincere friend and brother soldier.\n\nG. D. S. Kirshaw, Printer, Worthing.\n\n## Unrelated Text Fragment\n\nH.M.H. ... \n... having sufficient authority, \n... line to recover \n... to publish it, he might \n... that it would be my \n... abslani \nPrivate \n... bus 7.87 \nGeneral Sargent has \n... sent to Su Af Holland \nWydane Thampra \nCopy of his letter of \n... how he could \n... from doing 10 \nShards \nZemani i \n... the army after- \n... establishing such a \n... a letter \n... Copy happy my guy \n... on the subject of \n... that he may \n... permission \n... his request \n... y m \n... print his comesprimer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-236 - Others - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "page_number": 282, "title": "CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure\n\nby this course, which has the advantage of showing deference to what may be presumed to be the taxpayer's views.\n\n3. I enclose, also, the \"Plan\" which Mr Cooper has prepared in connexion with the scheme. It is sent separately by Parcel Post.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient\nHumble Servant,\n\nque dewaux\n\nSIR,\n\nHONGKONG.\n20\n\nNo. 88.\nC. O.\n25851\n\n**REPORT ON THE SEPARATE SYSTEM OF MAIN-DRAINAGE.**\n\n**Presented to the Legislative Council, by Command of His Excellency the Governor.**\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,\nHONGKONG, 24th August, 1888.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed preliminary Report of Mr. F. A. COOPER, on the Separate System of main drainage for the city of Victoria and to recommend his propositions to the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n2. The adoption of the Separate System will be in harmony with the drainage provisions of the new Public Health Ordinance.\n\n3. The main features of the Project are four, viz.:\n\n| (i) | The dissociation of the sewage of houses from storm-waters. |\n| --- | --- |\n| (ii) | The rapid conveyance of the town-sewage to the sea and its innocuous disposal in the tidal current by means of separate glazed stoneware drain-pipes of a bore comparatively small because of the elimination of storm-waters. |\n| (iii) | The admission of a limited proportion of rain-fall into these proposed foul water drains; and |\n| (iv) | The escape of storm-waters and sub-soil drainage into the sea as heretofore through the present main drains of the city which remain undisturbed. |\n\n4. The dissociation of house-sewage from storm-waters will so greatly reduce the volume of foul water to be dealt with, and will make that volume so manageable as to enable small diameters to be used for the principal arteries, and due to this circumstance the project will be feasible at an outlay that is moderate compared with the relative expense that would attend the construction of the same length of main sewers under the Combined System which requires - in consequence of our heavy rain-falls - that all channels be of an unduly large and costly size. The estimated cost of the four proposed new foul water mains comprised in this scheme, together with their branches and all contingent works amounts to $230,000, but as the eastern district of Victoria is found to be nearly on a dead level and as it is found impossible to give the proposed eastern main a gradient or inclination sufficient to induce a self-cleansing velocity, it will be necessary eventually to dispose of the ...\n\nThe Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n278", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "content_text": "# THE CHINESE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.\n\n## PETITION FOR A GOVERNMENT GRANT.\n\nThe following report by Hon. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Registrar-General, on a petition from the Pó Lóung Kak, or Society for the Protection of Women and Children, was laid before the Legislative Council by command of His Excellency the Governor, at its last meeting :-\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Hongkong, 1st February, 1892,\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith, for submission to His Excellency the Governor, the translation of a petition from the Chinese Society for the Protection of Women and Children, commonly known as the Pó Lóung Kuk, praying that the Government will be pleased to devise some means of making a grant to the Society, which will enable it to meet its expenditure, and to place the Institution on a firm and lasting basis.\n\n## HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY.\n\n2. In order to facilitate the consideration of the request made by the Petitioners, a short sketch of the origin of the Society may be found useful.\n\n3. In the year 1878, public attention was drawn to the question of traffic in human beings and the evil practice of kidnapping by the late Sir John Smale, who was at that time filling the office of Chief Justice. The discussion, to which his utterances from the bench gave rise, created much interest among the Chinese community, which led to a numerously-signed memorial being presented by the Chinese residents to the Governor, Sir J. Pope Hennessy, praying for permission to form an association for suppressing kidnapping and kindred offences. This memorial was forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and in reply, the Earl of Kimberley stated that the memorialists should be allowed to form an association of whatever kind they desired, and that, in order to obtain official recognition, its rules and organisation should be made known and approved by the Colonial Government. Before the receipt of these instructions, a society entitled the Pó Leung Kuk had already been constituted informally and was reported to have rendered much practical aid to the Government. The Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Snowden, stated that he found the society of great help in the detection of kidnappers, and the Governor expressed his conviction that its operations and influence would do more than anything else to put an end to whatever was really bad in the native customs to which Sir John Smale had drawn so much attention. The rules of the society were drawn up, and it was proposed that an Ordinance giving them legislative force should be introduced. The Secretary of State did not consider legislation necessary and suggested that if the society required corporate powers, the Association could be formed under the Companies Ordinance, and formal approval could be given to its rules and organisation by the Local Government. Incorporation of the Society at that time was found impracticable, and it was agreed that publication of the rules as amended would meet all practical purposes.\n\nThese rules were approved by the Secretary of State. The names of the first officially recognised Committee of the Society appeared in the Gazette of the 12th August, 1882, since which date a Committee has been elected annually and recognised by the Government.\n\n## THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY.\n\n4. Having briefly traced the origin of the Society, I think it will not be out of place to describe the work which it performs.\n\n5. The work of the Society is performed by a Committee of eight (8) persons. The present Committee is made up of the following gentlemen, who are well-known members of the Chinese community, the mention of whose names is quite a sufficient guarantee for their respectability :- \n| Name | Position | Association/Firm |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Wai Ting-pan | President and Treasurer | Wai Tun Shin Tong, Compradore, Eastern Extension Telegraph Company |\n| Lau Tsó-in | Vice-President | Tai Fung Shun, Nám Pak Hong |\n| Ch'an Wai-hi | Member | Tai Cheung, Piece Goods Firm |\n| Sham U-fai | Member | Tai Shing, Foreign Goods Firm |\n| Ng U-ü | Member | Ts'eung Ki, Nám Pak Hong |\n| Tong Ping-lum | Member | Kwong Ch'enig Long, Californian Goods Firm |\n| Wong Kai-ming | Member | Sui Ch'eung Wing, Nám Pak Hong |\n| T'am Kwok-ying | Member | Sun Shing, Contractor's Firm |\n\nThis Committee, acting on behalf of the Society, co-operates with this department in detecting cases of kidnapping and kindred practices, and in bringing to justice the offenders in such cases; it provides a temporary home for men, women, and girls who have been inveigled into the Colony under false pretences for the purposes of emigration, for women and girls brought into the Colony for improper purposes, but who are found to be unwilling to enter on or who wish to abandon a life of shame; for children who are being brought up in vicious surroundings by persons who have no legal claim to them; for destitute women and girls found by the Police or sent back from places outside Hongkong, such as the Straits and San Francisco.\n\nBut the work of the Society does not only consist in aiding in the detection and bringing to justice of kidnappers and in the prevention of the traffic in human beings and in affording food, clothing, and shelter for rescued women and children and destitutes. It also co-operates with this department by correspondence and other means in making inquiries with a view to discovering the relations of those entrusted to the care of the Society, and finding out other particulars regarding them. For this portion of their duties, the Committee are specially qualified, for they are either personally acquainted with the locality in China where inquiry has to be made or have reliable friends to whom they can entrust the work of investigation, or can refer the matter to one of the many charitable institutions which exist in China, and which have always been ready to help in such inquiries. Indeed, it is difficult to see how this work of investigation could be carried on, except through the instrumentality of a body of Chinese gentlemen such as the Pó Leung Kuk. If inquiry leads to the discovery of the relatives of those rescued, due precautions are always taken by this office, if necessary after consultation with the Committee of the Pó Leung Kuk, to secure that the interests of the woman or girl handed over are properly safeguarded.\n\nIt is not, however, always possible to repatriate all the women and girls who are rescued and who find a temporary home in the Pó Leung Kuk, either owing to their having no relatives or friends or to other reasons. Consequently, other arrangements have to be made, if practicable, for having them respectably and comfortably settled in life. These are, as a rule, of two kinds, though in some cases young girls are sent direct to the Victoria Home and hope to the West Point Reformatory, where they are well cared for and educated. The women are married, and the young girls are adopted. And here again, the usefulness of the Society is manifest, for without its aid, this department would find it almost impossible to carry out this portion of its work, and the Government might find itself permanently burdened with the expenditure.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "Page 384\n\nGeneral Grimm had a distinguished career.\n\nHe first formed the Amoon Police on\n\nC. O.\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED.\n\nLONDON STATIONS;\n\nBRANCH STATIONS:\n\nLEADENHALL STREET, E.C.\n\n3, GREAT TOWER STREET, E.C. 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W., and 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C.\n\nCHIEF STATION:\n\n11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\nHe was listed and was known as Stinson Hudson. He served in the Ashantee and Afghan wars, and was appointed by his Excellency to command the Turkish Regiment in Cyprus known as the \"Pioneers\" — a corps which was the subject of fierce attack in the House of Commons in 1879.\n\nWhen his Government came into office in 1880, he was made Head of the Military Police, but in 1884 he quarrelled with the Chief (or some prominent person).\n\nA telegram! Received at ...\n\nTo ...\n\nSENT. Request with ...\n\nNo Legality respecting this Telegram as it is attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\nCONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT.—The Telegraph Companies and Administrations through whose hands this message has passed will not be responsible in any case for any damage, loss, or injury caused by any delay in the transmission, or for the NON-TRANSMISSION, MIS-DELIVERY, or NON-DELIVERY of, or for any error in the transmission of any message, whatever cause arising.\n\nAny complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company. REPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED “VIA EASTERN.”\n\nWaterlow & Sons, Law Printers, London Wall, London.\n\nPage 384\n\n \nhas been adjusted to \n\nbe removed and merged with the first line. The text has been reformatted according to the rules, with corrections made for spelling, spacing, and punctuation. The original page numbering has been preserved. The text from the telegram has been reordered and formatted for clarity.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n216A\n\nK\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION--No. 379.\n\nThe following preliminary report received from the Director of Public Works is published.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th October, 1893.\n\nNo. 1,077.\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS OFFICE, HONGKONG, 16th October, 1893.\n\nS.--I have the honour, after visiting the Gap Rock in company with Captain RUMSEY, R.N., the Harbour Master, on the 11th instant, to report that from the information obtained from the light-keepers and from personal inspection it appears that during the gale that passed over the Rock on the 1st and 2nd instant the works in connection with the Lighthouse were damaged in the following particulars, viz.\n\nFour panels of lantern glazing (an inch thick) on the east side were broken, mean height above sea level 140 feet.\n\nThree centre lenses of dioptric apparatus broken and one damaged,\n\nOne upper panel of prisms broken and others slightly damaged.\n\nThree bottom panels of prisms slightly damaged and Burner bent.\n\nSix brackets carrying gallery round lantern and 3 gallery plates and portion of hand rail broken. Lower portion of lightning conductor carried away.\n\nOne panel in door of service room situated in tower below light room was broken to allow the water which entered the Tower through the damaged lantern to escape.\n\nThe eastern window of oil room in tower 106 feet above mean sea level was knocked in, this window was secured to masonry by four screw bolts screwed into cast iron sockets built into masonry. Two small windows on staircase gangway from lower building to Tower and Lightkeeper's Quarters broken, level above mean sea level 100 feet.\n\nOn the upper floor of the lower building 95 feet above mean sea level windows in bathroom and Chinese quarters facing north and east respectively broken.\n\nOn ground floor of lower building level 84 feet above mean sea level window of Telegraph Office facing east and entrance door facing north broken, the typhoon bar of the latter, dimensions 3′.0\" × 3 × 24\", being broken in two at centre.\n\nBoiler house door 75 feet above mean sea level broken.\n\nThe railing along the eastern side of the embankment leading from Tower to landing was bent level with the ground. The railing along the path down the western side of the Rock and the derrick used for landing situated a few feet above mean sea level were carried away.\n\nThe old water tank situated near the north end of the embankment which had been converted into a hen house was carried away.\n\nThe door of the pump house and some thirty feet of piping situated on the west side of the Rock a few feet above mean sea level were carried away.\n\nWith the exception of the old water tank which had been converted into a hen house and five of the coping stones and masonry chimney of the lower building, the masonry work has not apparently suffered.\n\nThe internal fittings, and crockery in the Lightkeepers' Quarters suffered to some extent owing to the water which found its way into the buildings through the broken lantern, windows and door.\n\nThe short length of land wire in connection with the telegraph was displaced.\n\nThe salt water carried on to the roofs found its way by means of the down pipes into the fresh water tank.\n\nTEMPORARY ARRANGEMENTS,\n\n2. The Harbour Master informs me that the Lightkeepers fitted storm glasses in the lantern and The windows exhibited two lighted oil lamps in the Tower on the night of the 3rd, which are still in use.\n\nin the Chinese Quarters and telegraph room have been boarded up and the telegraph land line repaired.\n\n3. I regret that I have no evidence to enable me to state definitely the immediate cause of the lantern glazing giving way which led to the damage of the dioptric apparatus.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Honourable\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nFRANCIS A. COOPER,\n\nDirector of Public Works.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "Page 201\n\n20th Jan 1894 With six spare copies.\n\n4.1894\n\nfor Your Lordship's information the enclosed copy of an Order made by \"The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance 1891\" in the sense desired.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nW. Robinson\n\nEnclosure\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. — No. 17.\n\nC.O.\n\n3337\n\nRec'd 23 FEB 94\n\nThe following Order made by the Governor in Council under The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1891, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th January, 1894.\n\nORDER\n\nG. T. M. O'Brien, Colonial Secretary.\n\nMade by the Governor in Council under Section 33, Sub-section (8), of \"The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1891,\" this 15th day of January, 1894.\n\nNo light dues shall be payable by the owner or master of any ship which enters the waters of this Colony in cases where such ship shall be used solely for the purposes of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited, in connection with the laying, repairing, or working of the new sub-marine Telegraph Cable between Singapore, Labuan and Hongkong.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG.\n\nARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.\n\nPage 259", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Admiralty Jurisdiction\n\n### (3) In an Action for Salvage\n\n**PETITION**\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. [Title of Action.] \nWrit issued \n18 \n\n1. The sum of $... has been paid by the owners of the ship, &c. [state name of ship or other property salved] to the Defendants, as owners of the ship [state name of salving ship], and has been accepted by them in satisfaction of their claim for salvage, but the said Defendants have not paid and refuse to pay any part of that sum to the Plaintiffs for their share in the said salvage services.\n\nThe Plaintiff's claim →\n1. An equitable share of the said sum of $... to be apportioned among them as the Court shall think fit and the costs of this action,\n2. Such other relief as the nature of the case may require.\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18... \n(Signed) A.B., &c., Plaintiffs.\n\n### (4) In an Action for Master's Wages and Disbursements\n\n#### a. The Princess\n\n**PETITION**\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. [Title of Action.] \nWrit issued \n18... \n\n1. The Plaintiff, on the 10th day of February, 1877, was appointed by the owner of the British barque \"Princess\" proceeded against in this action, master of the said barque, and it was agreed between the Plaintiff and the said owner that the wages of the Plaintiff as master should be $100 per month.\n\n2. The Plaintiff acted as master of the said barque from the said 10th day of February until the 25th day of October, 1877, and there is now due to him for his wages as master during that time the sum of $850.\n\n3. The Plaintiff as master of the said barque expended various sums of money for necessary disbursements on account of the said barque; and there is now due to him in respect of the same a balance of $350.\n\nThe Plaintiff claims →\n1. A decree pronouncing the said sums, amounting in the whole to $1,200 to be due to him for wages and disbursements, and directing the said vessel to be sold and the amount due to him to be paid to him out of the proceeds.\n2. Such further and other relief as the nature of the case may require.\n\nDated the ... day of ... 18... \n(Signed) C.D., Plaintiff.\n\n#### b. The “Northumbria”\n\n**PETITION**\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Admiralty Jurisdiction. [Title of Action.] \nWrit issued \n18... \n\n1. In or about the month of July 1873 the Plaintiff was engaged by the owners of the British ship \"Northumbria\" to serve on board her as her master, at wages after the rate of $130 per month, and he entered into the service of the said ship as her master accordingly, and thenceforward served on board her in that capacity and at that rate of wages until he was discharged as hereinafter stated.\n\n2. When the Plaintiff so entered into the service of the said ship she was lying at the port of North Shields in the county of Northumberland, and she thence sailed to Point de Galle, and thence to divers other ports abroad, and returned home to Cardiff, where she arrived on the 1st day of October, 1875.\n\n3. The \"Northumbria,\" after having received divers repairs at Cardiff, left that port on the 5th day of November, 1875, under command of the Plaintiff on a voyage, which is thus described in the ship's articles signed by the Plaintiff and her crew before commencing the same, viz., \"A voyage from Cardiff to Bahia or Pernambuco, and any ports or places in the Brazils, or North or South America, United States of America, Indian, Pacific, or Atlantic Oceans, China or Eastern Seas, Cape Colonies, West Indies, or ...\"\n\nPage 124 \nPage 28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360010, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Supreme Court \n### Vice Admiralty Court\n\n#### (4) In an Action for master's wages and disbursements\n\n##### a. (\"The Princess.\")\n\n**PETITION**\n\n[Title of Action.] \nWrit issued 18 Ko - \n\n1. The Plaintiff, on the 10th day of February 1877, was appointed by the owner of the British barque \"Princess,\" proceeded against in this action, master of the said barque, and it was agreed between the Plaintiff and the said owner that the wages of the Plaintiff as master should be $10 per month.\n\n2. The Plaintiff acted as master of the said barque from the said 10th day of February until the 25th day of October 1877, and there is now due to him for his wages as master during that time the sum of $850.\n\n3. The Plaintiff as master of the said barque expended various sums of money for necessary disbursements on account of the said barque; and there is now due to him in respect of the same a balance of $350.\n\nThe Plaintiff claims-\n\n1. A decree pronouncing the said sums, amounting in the whole to $1200, to be due to him for wages and disbursements, and directing the said vessel to be sold and the amount due to him to be paid to him out of the proceeds.\n\n2. Such further and other relief as the nature of the case may require.\n\nDated the * day of 18 \n(Signed) A.B., Plaintiff.\n\n##### b. (\"The Northumbria.\")\n\n**PETITION**\n\n[Title of Action.] \nWrit issued 18 - \n\n1. In or about the month of July 1873 the Plaintiff was engaged by the owners of the British ship \"Northumbria\" to serve on board her as her master, at wages after the rate of $130 per month, and he entered into the service of the said ship as her master accordingly, and thenceforward served on board her in that capacity and at that rate of wages until he was discharged as herein-after stated.\n\n2. When the Plaintiff so entered into the service of the said ship she was lying at the port of North Shields in the county of Northumberland, and she thence sailed to Point de Galle, and thence to divers other ports abroad, and returned home to Cardiff, where she arrived on the 1st day of October 1875.\n\n3. The \"Northumbria,\" after having received divers repairs at Cardiff, left that port on the 5th day of November 1875 under command of the Plaintiff on a voyage, which is thus described in the ship's articles signed by the Plaintiff and her crew before commencing the same; viz., A voyage from Cardiff to Bahia or Pernambuco, and any ports or places in the Brazils, or North or South America, United States of America, Indian, Pacific, or Atlantic Oceans, China or Eastern Seas, Cape Colonies, West Indies, or Continent of Europe, including the Mediterranean Sea or Seas adjacent, to and fro if required for any period not exceeding three years, but finally to a port of discharge in the United Kingdom or Continent of Europe.\n\n4. The \"Northumbria,\" after so leaving Cardiff, met with bad weather and suffered damage, and was compelled to put back to Falmouth for repairs before again proceeding on her voyage.\n\n5. The Plaintiff was ready and willing to continue in the service of the \"Northumbria,\" and to perform his duty as her master on and during the said voyage, but the Defendants, the owners of the \"Northumbria,\" wrongfully and without reasonable cause discharged the Plaintiff on the 23rd day of November from his employment as master, and appointed another person as master of the \"Northumbria\" on the said voyage in the place of the Plaintiff, and thereby heavy damage and loss have been sustained by the Plaintiff.\n\n6. The Plaintiff, whilst he acted as master of the \"Northumbria,\" earned his wages at the rate aforesaid; and he also, as such master, made divers disbursements on account of the \"Northumbria\"; and there was due and owing to the Plaintiff in respect of such his wages and disbursements at the time of his discharge a balance of £1080T, which sum the Defendants without sufficient cause have neglected and refused to pay to the Plaintiff.\n\nThe Plaintiff claims-\n\n1. Payment of the sum of £108. 12s. 9d., the balance due to the Plaintiff for his wages and disbursements, with interest thereon.\n2. Ten days' double pay, according to the provisions of section 137 of \"The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.\"\n3. Damages in respect of his wrongful discharge by the Defendants.\n\nThe condemnation of the Defendants and their bail in the amounts claimed by or found due to the Plaintiff. \nTo have an account taken [with the assistance of merchants] of the amount due to the Plaintiff in respect of his said wages and disbursements, and for damages in respect of such wrongful discharge.\n\nPage 204 \nPage 49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360672, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "## Unveiling Ceremony of Queen Victoria's Statue\n\nThe City Hall, and other buildings on the Praya were crowded with spectators, while great masses of spectators were seen outside the enclosure right back to Queen's Road. It is computed that fully fifteen thousand spectators witnessed the unveiling ceremony. The military, to the number of considerably over two thousand, were placed in position to receive His Excellency, the colours of the Hong Kong Regiment being placed at the entrance to the passage down the ranks at Wardley Street.\n\nAs far as the contour of the ground would allow, the troops were drawn up in line formation (open order), commencing on the right with the Royal Navy; then followed the Royal Marines, Royal Artillery, Hong Kong Artillery (Asiatic Companies), Royal Engineers, including Chinese Company, Hong Kong Regiment, and the Rifle Brigade. The Field Battery of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps and a Battery of Asiatic Artillery were accommodated on the Cricket Ground, and the Hong Kong Maxim Gun Company and the Maxim guns of the Rifle Brigade and the Hong Kong Regiment were drawn up near the Praya Reclamation Office.\n\nRepresentatives from every Regiment in the Colony were arranged with very pretty effect at the base of the statue.\n\nA few minutes before 6.30 the blast of a bugle announced the arrival of H.E. the Governor. The Governor, accompanied by Captain Sterling, A.D.C., and his native Aide-de-camp,—preceded by Captain A.P. Weiman, A.S.C., who acted as orderly officer—walked through the ranks, the whole of the troops shouldering arms. The troops were in command of Colonel Anstey, Commanding Royal Engineers, in the absence of Major-General Black. When His Excellency reached the Grand Stand, the Royal Standard was unfurled on the flag post at the Grand Stand. His Excellency was received by the Hon. C.P. Chater, as Chairman of the Jubilee Committee, and was escorted to the platform in front of the statue by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary (Hon. Secretary to the Committee), Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hoa, T.H. Whitehead, Hon. E.R. Belilios, Commodore Boyes, R.N., Mr. F.R. Waymouth, R.N., Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. A.P. MacEwen, Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C., Mr. H.N. Mody, &c., &c. Upon arrival at the platform, Mr. Chater called upon His Excellency to unveil the statue, the spectators on the Grand Stand standing with uncovered heads whilst the speeches, unfortunately inaudible beyond a small circle, were being delivered.\n\nThe Hon. C.P. Chater said: Your Excellency: As Chairman of the Jubilee Committee, and on behalf of the Community of the Colony, I have the great honour of asking you to meet us to-day for the purpose of unveiling the Statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. I need not enlarge upon the interest, the fervent and loyal interest, which the residents of this Island take in this ceremonial. I need not state that we are met together to discharge a most unusual and exceptional function. I need hardly remind you, sir, that the event which has given birth to these proceedings is one which, only a few years ago, stirred to the depths the hearts of the British race in every quarter of the world, for was not that great the Jubilee of Our Most Gracious Sovereign? If any proof were needed of the feeling which dominates us at this moment, I would ask you to look at this concourse of Her Majesty's subjects, gathered here to offer their loyal and respectful homage to the Throne. I would ask you to look at the Representatives of the other Powers, who, with fellow-subjects of theirs, who are resident here, have come to do honour to this auspicious event.\n\nYour Excellency, as we all know, Her Majesty's Jubilee occurred in the year 1887, and it will perhaps be not unfitting if I mention the reason why this Statue has not been erected before. It was not because Hong Kong was one whit behind other British Colonies in wishing to prove its dutiful regard for Her who reigns over us; it was not because we did not desire to have in our midst a Memento of the Ruler to whom we owe allegiance. No, Sir. It was because we recognised that such a Statue as this should be placed in an appropriate and conspicuous spot, a spot worthy, if that could be so, by its very position to do honour to the occasion, and until this great work, this reclamation on which we are now standing, was practically finished, we had no such place to offer. Under your Government, this portion of the reclamation has now been happily accomplished, and here in this commanding position, in the best part of this City, named after our Queen, we feel that our Statue could find, in all this Island, no more ennobling site.\n\nSir, with the exception of Newfoundland, which was occupied about 1500, it was not until the early part of the 17th century that Great Britain first began to colonise in earnest. Thenceforward, however, down to the present time, Colony after Colony was acquired, changed by the test existing to-day, her earlier acquisitions were, in the nature of things, comparatively unimportant; but England's Colonies have strengthened with England's strength, and grown with her commercial prosperity and power, until, one Possession after another emerging from its incipient doubts and difficulties, they have gained their present status, and culminated in forging the magnificent chain, which, starting from the Mother Country, now girdles the earth with British soil. Of this chain Hong Kong forms one of the links, a strong and a lasting one, we may be permitted to hope, and to those assembled here, and to you, Sir, as their Governor, it cannot but be interesting to remember that, after Her Majesty's accession to the Throne, this was the first Colony that Great Britain acquired.\n\nYour Excellency, it is not possible to predict from the shadows which the future is casting before what Hong Kong will yet develop into. It is not possible to surmise with any accuracy the part which will ultimately be allotted to her to play in the international theatre of the world. These questions lie in the womb of the future, and the future alone can answer them; but that she is destined to be always an important factor in both Imperial and local concerns, I for one have no doubt whatever. Such is her natural position, lying, as she does, on the fringe of the adjacent Empire; such is her mercantile value, being, as she is, the Eastern gate through which must pass the commerce of the West, that it is hardly too much to believe that she must of necessity always constitute an element to be carefully and fully weighed.\n\nGreat and important movements have lately taken place in the Far East, possibly greater and more important changes yet are even now in contemplation which will enforce the gravest attention of Diplomacy, and Her Majesty's Government, in its decision upon those events, in its determination of the path to pursue, can hardly omit Hong Kong from its serious consideration. In saying this, I do not forget that her place in the Colonies of the Crown, if won in some part by her own vigour, is largely due to her standing in line with those other Colonies which together constitute the Brotherhood known to-day as Greater Britain.\n\nSir, in the evolution of time, generation will succeed generation in Hong Kong, new firms will arise, new projects will be formed; new personalities will seek to advance the Colony's influence and promote her enterprise, long after names, familiar enough now, have vanished into ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365998, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Enclosure\n## No. 98\n### HONGKONG\n#### P 29 -98 327\n\n# REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE OBSERVATORY FOR 1897\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n## HONGKONG OBSERVATORY, 15th January, 1898.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to submit my annual report for 1897 to His Excellency the Governor. My thirteenth volume of “Observations and Researches\" was published at the end of last year. My fourteenth volume is now ready. It contains the third edition of \"The Law of Storms in the Far East,\" which was finished in 1896. The typhoons about which little was known in 1883, when the Observatory was built, have since been so thoroughly investigated that they are now among the best understood atmospheric disturbances in the world, and it is almost certain that any amount of further investigation based on observations made here or on board vessels at sea would add nothing whatever to our knowledge. For further contributions to this branch of science, we must now look to experiments made in physical laboratories in Europe and America and to analytical investigations based upon such experiments.\n\n2. During my absence on leave during the summer and autumn, Mr. F. G. Figg acted for me. I found everything in good order on my return. Mr. Figg has investigated the typhoons of 1897, but has not met with any new facts. Although some of the typhoon-paths that occurred in 1897 are rare, they had occurred before. Early last year, the Manager of the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company requested me to arrange a code for transmitting meteorological observations and information about typhoons. In submitting a code, as desired, I explained that the circumstances obtaining out here were such as to preclude any advantage being obtained from any code as far as the transmission of the observations was concerned. Later, during the autumn, the Manager adopted my views and arranged with Mr. Figg's assistance a code for transmitting storm-warnings only. This code has been published by Mr. Figg by order of the Government, and has been adopted by the Telegraph Company.\n\n3. The comparison of the weather forecasts, issued daily about 11 a.m., with the weather subsequently experienced has been conducted on the same system as last year (Comp. Annual Report *1896* § 5). We have:\n| Category | Percentage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Success | 65% |\n| Partial success | 31% |\n| Partial failure | 3% |\n| Total failure | 1% |\n\nFollowing the method used in meteorological offices and taking the sum of total and partial success as a measure of success, and the sum of total and partial failure as a measure of failure, we finally have that: 90% of the weather forecasts were successful.\n\n4. At the beginning of February, 1897, the storm-signals, invented by Admiral FitzRoy in 1861, were introduced in Hongkong, and the typhoon-gun was fired when the drum was hoisted. On the 4th September at 9 p.m., the North Cone was hoisted. It was blowing N by E 5 at the time. The maximum wind force (11) was reported from Gap Rock on the 17th at 6 p.m. On the 18th at 5:80 a.m., the Cone was lowered. On the 5th October at 11:15 a.m., the North Cone was hoisted. It was blowing 4 at the time. The maximum wind force (7) was reported from Gap Rock at 11 p.m. on the same day. On the 6th at 2:25 p.m., the Cone was lowered. On the 17th November at 11 a.m., the North Cone was hoisted. It was blowing NNE 2 at the time. The maximum wind force (8) was reported from Gap Rock at 2 p.m. on the same day. On the 18th at 6 a.m., the Cone was lowered. The Drum was added to Cone and the gun fired on the 17th September at 2:30 p.m. At 5 p.m. on the same day, the anemograph at the Observatory registered 56 miles.\n\n5. In spite of the great advantages accruing from the adoption of the system of storm-signals in use in England and other countries, it has been decided to revert to the system in use here from 1884 to 1896 inclusive. This has been decided on the suggestion of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, who stated:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Quarantine Regulations\n\n4. The Quarantine Anchorage shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Anchorage as and when required by the Harbour Master:\n\n- Western Boundary.-A line drawn from the West side of Stone Cutters' Island to the West side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as Harbour boundary).\n- Southern Boundary.-That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kauling bearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the Eastern Boundary, and terminating where it meets the Western boundary.\n- Eastern Boundary.-A South line drawn from a white mark on South side of Stone Cutters' Island until it reaches the Southern boundary.\n- Northern Boundary.-Five fathom line of soundings.\n\n5. The master or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health Officer or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer or Boarding Officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.\n\n6. When any vessel is in quarantine--\n(a) If, in the opinion of the Health Officer, any persons on board are suffering from any infectious or contagious disease they shall be removed to the Hospital ship Hygeia or be otherwise disposed of under his directions.\n(b) Where, in the opinion of the Health Officer, there are any cases he suspects to be cases of infectious or contagious disease on board, the persons suspected shall be detained on board, or otherwise disposed of, under observation, for a period not exceeding 48 hours from the time that the Health Officer completes his examination of the passengers and crew.\n(c) When the examination of the passengers and crew by the Health Officer has been completed, all who appear to him to be free from any infectious or contagious disease may be allowed to land at once.\n\n7. After the passengers and crew have been dealt with as in section 6 the vessel may be released from quarantine by the express written order of the Health Officer, after such precautions by way of burning clothing and fumigating or otherwise, as he may direct, have been carried out.\n\n8. If any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case of an infectious or contagious disease on board, or is a vessel which in the opinion of the Health Officer ought according to these regulations to be in quarantine, the Health Officer may order such vessel into quarantine, and the master or person in charge of such vessel shall thereupon hoist the Quarantine Flag upon such vessel and remove the vessel to the Quarantine Anchorage, and all the regulations applicable in relation to vessels in quarantine shall apply to such vessel.\n\n9. In case of a death happening on board any vessel in quarantine, or ordered into quarantine, or on board the Hygeia, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by the Health Officer; and the Master of the vessel shall carry out such orders as the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.\n\n10. When any quarantined vessel is in the waters of the Colony, no person shall leave the vessel, or hold communication from the vessel with the shore, or with any other vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the vessel, until the express written permission of the Health Officer has been communicated to the master or other person having the control of the vessel, and such precautions as the Health Officer may require have been observed.\n\n11. When any vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the Health Officer or persons in his boat shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or hold any communication with such vessel or with any person on board of it, or receive, or take any person or thing whatever directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any person on board of it, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.\n\n12. ... person placed on board the Hygeia shall leave the same without first receiving the express written permission of the Health Officer, or Medical Officer in charge and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require. No person other than the Health Officer, or Medical Officer in charge, or persons deputed by them, shall go on board or approach within 30 yards thereof, or hold on with the Hygeia or with any person in it, or receive or take anything directly or indirectly from the Hygeia or from any person in it without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, or Medical Officer in charge and observing such precautions as such Officer may require.\n\n14. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he may appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may order any person leaving or coming from any vessel that is in quarantine or from the Hygeia, or taking or sending any person or thing whatever from any such vessel, to remain in or return to and to return such persons or things to their vessel or the Hygeia and may by such necessary force as the case requires compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same.\n\n15. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships-of-War, or with their freedom to proceed to sea, whenever the Officer in command may deem such course requisite.\n\n16. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is committed, all the persons existing in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach shall be severally and jointly answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same. Any costs charged or incurred by the Government for the medical attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's articles or not, who is removed to the Hygeia or any other hospital or place under sub-sections (a) or (b) of this Regulation shall be paid to the Government by the agent of the vessel from which such person is removed whether such vessel continues in quarantine or not.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, \nHONGKONG.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "The French fleet now some 48 hours in the Bar d'Along might suddenly appear on the south shore of the island and disembark 5,000 or 6,000 men to rush Hongkong by a _coup de main_ - asserted that the Jamison Thez The Fort was too small to man at the Eastern & Western Entrances to the harbour and at the same time to defend the southern shores of the island They also spoke of the insufficiency of the food supply and being undefended by fortifications\n\nI confined myself in reply to stating - \n(1) It would be very inexpedient for me to discuss with them the scheme for the defence of Hongkong. \n(2) I brought forward that no such hostile fleet with transports carrying troops could be organised or could sail from neighbouring ports without some information of its preparation being telegraphed to us. \n(3) that as long as our navy had the command of these waters in being and our fleet was not temporarily absent, no hostile navy could undertake such a considerable expedition and landing in force in these waters. For at any moment, our fleet might return \n(4) In short, I pointed out that Captain Mahan, on whose book the spokesman had lectured, demonstrated that until our fleet was worsted, no nation could wrest from us our coaling station - Hongkong. In my opinion, all that could happen while our China Fleet was in being was that a raid undertaken by a few fast cruisers was possible, to harass and destroy.\n\nPage 269\nPage 270\nPage 271", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368353, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nYesterday a meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber at the Government Offices, there being present:\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the **ACTING GOVERNOR**, Major-General BLACK, C. B. (Officer Commanding the Troops).\n\nHon. T. SERCOMBE SMITH (Acting Colonial Secretary).\n\nHon. R. MURRAY RUMSEY (Harbour Master).\n\nHon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Captain Superintendent of Police).\n\nHon. A. M. THOMSON (Acting Colonial Treasurer).\n\nHon. R. D. ORMSBY (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.\n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai.\n\nHon. E. R. BELILIOS.\n\nHon. J. J. BELL-IRVING.\n\nHon. WE A. YUK.\n\nMr. J. G. T. BUCKLE (Clerk of Councils).\n\nThis being the Acting Governor's last appearance at the Council meeting, a number of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the outside public attended.\n\n## THE ACTING-GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL\n\nHis Excellency MAJOR GENERAL BLACK, before the commencement of the ordinary business, said: -- All business firms, whether large or small, take stock once a year, and call a momentary halt to see how they stand before girding up their loins for the work of the coming year. Governments, which are but large business firms working for the public weal, in the same way review each year their position, and not only put forward their balance sheet but indicate with modest satisfaction schemes which have run smoothly and well, and gloss over those which, however well laid, though they may have gone agley. I take, then, no unusual course in asking you to listen while I briefly touch upon some of the events which have made the ten months I have had the honour to hold the reins more eventful than many like periods of your past history.\n\nAlthough less severe than in 1894, the Plague has this year claimed 1,163 victims out of 1,320 stricken. Wisely abandoning the too stringent application of Western methods, the Government erected suitable hospital buildings at Kennedytown, placed them in charge of the Tungwa Hospital, and induced the Chinese to carry their sick to that benevolent institution. While deeply deploring the loss by this dread visitation, I am glad to congratulate the medical profession, and the other Government officials whose duty connected them with the suppression of the plague, for the strenuous and unselfish efforts with which they carried out their humane duties. Three of the sisters caught the infection at the post of duty, of whom two died, giving up their lives as nobly as men who die on the field amid the din and excitement of battle. (Applause.)\n\nThe outbreak of war between Spain and America --- two countries in friendly relations with England --- threw on this Government the onerous task of maintaining the laws of neutrality. A little island stored with good coal, and all the munitions of war in great abundance lying off a coast indented with harbours, is naturally a convenient spot where belligerents might replenish their stores of coal and food, and it is a source of satisfaction to this Government that, thanks to the energy and tact with which the officials carried out their duties, the laws of neutrality were strictly enforced, and yet the end of the war found us on as friendly terms with either belligerent as at the beginning. The changes that this war may bring may deeply affect this colony, but they still lie in the future and are not yet within our ken.\n\nA social incident not without its bearing on a great national movement was the arrival in Hongkong of a German Prince charged for the first time with high command in Eastern waters. The Prince of Prussia would have found a welcome for his own sake. Courteous, kind, and capable, yet every inch a Prince, he was welcomed by the whole community of Hongkong, and the English inhabitants did not forget in their welcome that he and his wife are grandchildren of our beloved Queen. (Applause.)\n\nHongkong has long felt the anomaly of its position, with the northern side of its magnificent harbour actually belonging to another power, its forts at the eastern entrance commanded at short rifle range by the Devil's Peak, and the end of its mine fields almost touching the Chinese soil, the Bay of Kowloon within the precincts of its harbour but outside its jurisdiction. In June last, a Convention was signed by which our boundary line is pushed some 13 miles to the north, thus sweeping away these anomalies, giving Hongkong room to expand, and more than all presenting the passing into other hands of the roads of Lantau, and the spacious harbour of Mirs Bay. (Applause.)\n\nMuch interest is naturally felt in Hongkong as to the position of the stations of the Maritime Customs. It seems to me only just and necessary that these should recede with the new boundary --- (Applause) --- for it would be an abdication of sovereignty if a foreign power were allowed to exercise control within British waters. At the same time, I recognise that it is right that we should aid the friendly Government of China in her task of protecting her revenue, made so difficult by the indented nature of the coast line, and to this end, I have suggested that opium should be stored in Government Godowns, and only issued on Government permit.\n\nIn legislation, much useful but unobtrusive work has been done. I may instance --- The Trade Marks Ordinance. The Liquor Licences Ordinance. The Bank Note Ordinance. The increased issue of Bank notes has, from causes well known to you all, been long demanded, and the enlarged circulation is proving a great boon.\n\nThe Queen's Recreation Ground Ordinance is the last in which I have taken a great interest, and I have some right to look upon it as a bantling of my own. The recurrence of the plague has forced on every thinking man the need of letting light and air into the blocks of Chinese houses, which, full of human beings in many cases, literally stand back to back in the City of Victoria, containing rooms into which the sun never enters, and where the fetid air has no motion. Doctors and physic, good though they be by themselves, are powerless to cure, while sun and air are a sure preventive; and great as the task may be of bringing these natural agents into this reeking mass of humanity, their admission must be secured by law. A bill is now before you which I admit does not go far enough, but it will at least be the beginning of a great reform.\n\nMany complaints have been made as to the shortcomings of the Post Office; a great deal of the confusion comes from retrenchment having been carried too far, and from the business having outgrown the building. I have submitted recommendations to the Secretary of State which will, I trust, produce great improvement in the department, in whose well-being every individual is concerned.\n\nNearly allied to the Queen's Recreation Ground is the reservation of the rocky bluff on which stands the boulders called Sung Wang Toi or the \"Watch Towers of the Sung\", which, as far as I can gather, is the only historical monument which links modern history with the old-world time. To make its reservation more certain, I applied to the Secretary of State for leave to bring in a bill to this end, and his permission is now on the sea. I regret that I will not have the pleasure of giving assent to it.\n\nA survey has been made of the Jubilee Road round the Island; it has been traced with gradients easy and offers, in the section between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay, an important sanitary reform, for part of the scheme is to fill up and turf over the festering inlet to which the leading medical men of the colony point as the source of the malaria which has so long marred the health of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood of Magazine Gap.\n\nI have nothing but the good of the community at heart, and I emphatically state that if you believe medical testimony, it...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 76, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \nAt present the Chinese Government wish the matter to be settled. \nSee the underlined paragraphs. We should refer to them and preserve the way that the boundaries will eventually be fixed as marked on the map by Mr. ... with the C.D.C. \nThe C.D.C. asked for the \"sphere of influence.\" \nI do not understand what is meant by this term.\n\n### Boundaries as Described by Sir J. Macdonald\nOn the West and on the South, we have got more than the C.D.C. wished to be included within their sphere of influence; \nbut on the East, we do not get the eastern waters of Mirs Bay (as desired by the C.D.C.); \nand on the North, we do not get the Northern parts of Mirs Bay or Deep Bay, and the north land boundary from Starling Inlet to Deep Bay.\n\nThe boundary, which is however to be fixed after surveys, practically agrees with the C.D.C. line; \nbut we cannot tell how this nor the two Bagge line will run, whether the Sha Kok Peninsula will be included, which is I suppose required to command Deep Bay, & is marked within the limits required by C.D.C.\n\nIt is perhaps a pity that the F.O. seems not to have telegraphed to Sir J. Macdonald the C.D.C. recommendations, anything that the Northern Boundary include the whole of the waters of Deep Bay & Mirs Bay. \nAs regards the north limit, he seems to have had before him only the Desp. Plan B Nov. 1894 [Secret] plan therein.\n\nThe F.O. has already telegraphed approval of the arrangements to this effect.\n\n### Reference to Map\nI have pencilled on a large map herewith what Kerr considered the Southern boundary as described by Sir J. Macdonald.\n\nRef. `P & L(X)-865-2000-12-07` \n`ACR-23` \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present but `Desp. Plan B Nov. 1894` is mentioned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## \ncrests), with Nordenfelts, Gardiners and his own won, all of whom were familiar by Maxims, here and there, especially below the experience of many a field day with Rifle pits. Every gully and nullah in the sand hills, where the Hacienda had stood, were sunk where the soil permitted. If we had had a week, we would have made the place impregnable, but though we had been in possession 50 years, like the foolish virgins we slept, till it was too late; still, even at the eleventh hour, we did our best to provide a fitting welcome. The French, now that all chance of surprise had passed, and taught by the rough experience of the Russians, were evidently going to play the game by rule.\n\n## \nand 100 of the Home Guard (English and Portuguese), choosing those whose snipe (and tiger) shooting excursions had often taken them over this very ground--he divided them into three mixed parties, under respectively Capt. Rerger, and Lieutenants Bowcroft and Banderson, with a Native and a House Guard officer each, and despatched them to heat up the French. Banderson was given 20 minutes' start of the others, leaving at 9.40-going to the N. W. with orders to go as far round the enemy's right as possible without alarming the outposts. Rerger and Bowcroft went off at 10-all the officers having compared their watches-Rerger for the French centre and Bowcroft for their left. At 11.15 p.m., having approached the camp as closely as possible, Rorger and Boweroft were to fire on them, and whilst the enemy were reassembling to repel the supposed attack on their left and front, Banderson was to attack their right. Hung Hom North and Kowloon West were to drop shell wherever the enemy burnt lights or fired rockets by.\n\nThe sight of Yaumati burning, the frequent explosions as the Docks were destroyed, and what they learned from the aliens in the Powan, demonstrated that the resistance to be still overcome was not likely to be feeble or wavering. The Lion's whelps were savagely at bay. No attempt was made at any time to force a pass into the Harbour-perhaps the naval force was too slender,-the fact remains the front door, fortified with such care, was never knocked at, whilst all the time the proverbial scullery window at the back was left open for the burglar to enter in assembling.\n\n## \nBefore 5p.m. the French, under General Renard, in Mirs Bay, had landed 2,000 men, and were joined by the 300 Russians guarding the line to Tolo Harbour, as well as the detachment from Capsuimoon. By six our scouts, after exchanging shots with the French skirmishers, scampered down the hills and back to our lines. A few shell were fired from Hung Hom North at the crest of the hill, but in the dark the fire was doubtless wasted and soon discontinued. The enemy were close down to the frontier, and bivouacked for the night by 9 p.m. amongst the sand hills north of our territory.\n\nTristful, however, had no mind that they should have a quiet night's rest to recover from their sea sickness. Selecting fifty of the Home Guard (English and Portuguese), he...\n\n## \n...desultory fire from the gullies been kept up, but no more rushes being made. He still had some 300 men, having commenced the action with 400 (Pathans and Home Guards). The enemy's loss, however, as could be seen, had been six or seven times as great. Half his field guns were blown to pieces and the rest had to be withdrawn to avoid a similar fate. Our people were in excellent spirits, they could see the fruits of their labour. On the island, on the other hand, the tide of battle seemed to be louder, rolling higher and nearer.\n\n## \nTowards daylight the enemy were reported on the move, and our pickets were driven in. By 5, when it was fairly light, the assault was delivered in real earnest, the storming party coming on with great gallantry to the attack of the hill, the key of Tristful's position. A very large number of guns were also brought into action by the French. The enemy suffered severely, especially from the fire of the Hung Hom guns, both large and small, again batteries, numbers of their guns being destroyed by the heavy 10\" shell.\n\nHad it not been for the broken nature of the ground they would not have had a field piece in action by 7 a.m. Time after time they swept up bravely, only to be mowed down and torn to pieces, by musketry, the quick-firers from Tristful's hill and the flanking fire from the forts. Red breeches climbing up the sea front whilst the men were busy firing N. W. on the storming party attacking Tristful, rushed the forts and exterminated the Garrison.\n\nTristful's position was untenable, with overwhelming odds in front; the Hung Hom forts along the open shore would have been suicidal insanity. The Hung Hom guns were raking his lines from East to West, smashing his quick-firers and killing his men. Rerger, his second in command, was already dead; the Subadar-Major (Firoz Khan), and four native officers had been killed; the hill had to be abandoned. Tristful retreated Westwards in squares. Once off the hill they were sheltered from the awful fire of the Hung Hom guns, and then began a duel over their heads.\n\nIn Kowloon West they had seen how things had gone--the evacuation of the hill and the cause of it--and at once turned their fire on the Eastern forts, who very readily returned it. Tristful had stationed 25 of the Home Guard in the Hung Hom forts and 25 at Kowloon West, to assist and cover the Gunners.\n\n## \nFor nearly three-quarters of an hour the assault on Tristful's position had slackened... \n\nPage 28 \nPage 29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## 32-\n\nDeep Water Bay. As usual they were left behind, would fire the trains and join very strong in artillery, here, however, his (Tanghorne's) men as they retreated. For once we had the advantage, our 40-pounders on the Tytam Road breastworks had taken their stations on the hills at midnight.\n\nThe enemy pressed to the and hill from Quarry Bay Gap to Poktolum assault with great vigour suffering heavily, was belching forth fire and smoke like so many angry volcanos, still the assault crept upwards, ever closer-nearer. Our vant-our position was practically impregnable. Ourloss by musketry fire from the hills above was comparatively trifling. Soon after 10, however, the enemy managed to get two 9-pounders up the hills, and then the situation changed. In half an hour we lost five and thirty men killed, two Maxims were disabled, and the walls were breached in several places. Our men had made some very pretty practice, and more than one French artilleryman had been knocked over at 900 and 1,000 yards on the crest of the hill. After Smith had signalled in answer to Tanghorne's orders that he had fired the mines, and he and the corporal had been seen to leave the forts, our people left the redoubt with the remaining Maxims in rear covering the retreat.\n\nThe forts blew up with tremendous explosions, breaking the chains and sinking some of the ships that had barred the pass. Smith and Brackenbury fired Shaukiwan as they came through to join Tanghorne, who also burnt Quarry Bay as he fought his way back, losing heavily. Tanghorne, with one Maxim, made his last stand at Tsatszemui Police Station, where they were finally all slain. Previous to this, however, he had sent Marshall and half-a-dozen men ahead to fire the Langkat oil depot at Whitfield.\n\nFurney had withdrawn his men East, and mined the galleries and arranged with Tanghorne that if the redoubt had to be evacuated, Sergt. Smith and Corporal Brackenbury, whom he had put in command, would fire the Magazine in a few minutes, after which they continued firing at the North Point Road whenever bodies of the enemy appeared, materially retarding the final storming of Tsatszemui Station.\n\n## 33 -\n\nIt becomes impossible to give any connected account of the battle or series of separate combats. Yardhill held his own bravely till he was killed shortly after noon—his position being by that time completely surrounded, every ridge and spur the enemy swarmed with, it must be admitted, the most reckless gallantry. The attack from below was successful, as it so often is when the assailants are prepared for an unlimited expenditure of life to attain their object, despair. There was no attempt made by the enemy to descend to the town, they realized that the stubborn foe on the heights had to be exterminated.\n\nThe enemy next crossed the line having been broken between Quarry Bay Gap and at Middle Gap. Up the hills in the saddle behind High West, and circled down in rear of Rordon's position—not, however, without heavy loss from the fire of Belcher's and Victoria Batteries. Soon every point of the hills was circled with fire, where our men were dying, fighting hopelessly but unflinchingly with the sullen ferocity of ... and we claimed the sacrifice to the uttermost tittle and fraction. General Morblon waxed very rueful afterwards when he saw the gaps in the European garrison of Indo China,--there were more gaps than garrison, and he had only gotten in exchange a mountain deluged with blood and a blazing town.\n\nThe attack crept up by more weight of numbers; where one of the enemy dropped, hydra-headed a score sprang up; where one of ours fell (some husband, father or brother who forty-eight hours before had been at a desk) there was none to fill the breach. What we lacked in numbers we made up in desperation and sullen fury.\n\nSome curious instances of the Berserk fury, or running amok as they call it in the Straits, occurred. Quiet, kindly men suddenly appeared to go mad, or were tired of waiting for death, jumped the parapets and dashed in amongst the men, roaring (possibly some old ancestor who had taken possession of them shouting his battle cry), escaping a heavy fire, and were not cut down till after doing great execution.\n\nThe men continued firing on any bodies of the enemy that were visible descending to the town. The coal and kerosine godowns at the eastern end of the town were blazing, as were also the Godowns at West Point. About 5 p.m. the men-of-war came through Lyeemoon, but were met off North Point by such a fire from the Stonecutters batteries that they were glad to retreat—the Descartes having to be beached in Shaukiwan to prevent her sinking in deep water. By sunset the blazing town was in the hands of the enemy, about 11 General White had been taken down mortally wounded and the supreme command had devolved on Yardhill. Although firing was still going on here and there on the hills, yet was the colony not...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "23608 \n\n72 \n\n**settled: The Convention settles** \nto Contemplate the fixing of the Boundaries in just instances. \n\nMeredith to [illegible] \n\n25 Nov 1895 \n\nSir, \n\n**PRINTED** \n**No.** \n**FOR USE OF** \n**EASTERN** \n66 \n**COLONIAL OFFICE** \n8 October 1898 \n\nI have the honour to state, \nthat, in accordance with the instructions contained in letters \ndated the 22nd June last, I have visited the mainland and \nislands adjacent to Hong Kong, which China has agreed to lease to Great Britain. \n\n2\\. The naval authorities \nreadily placed at my disposal H.M.S. *Plover*, under the \ncommand of Commander De \nHorsey, the officers and crew \nof which rendered great \nassistance \n\nThe Rt. Hon: \nJoseph Chamberlain, \nHis Principal Secretary of State \nfor the Colonies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370128, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## 206 \n\n12 \n\nThe magistrate is aided in his duties by secretaries or shihye, who are placed in charge of the departments dealing with crime, revenue, and official correspondence, and by a staff of police or runners, whose duties are referred to more in detail under the head of police. \n\nThe magistrate may inflict corporal punishment, and possesses the power of imprisonment, but is not empowered to sentence prisoners to death. \n\n## MILITARY OFFICERS \n\nIn addition to the civil officers, there are several military officers in the district. The highest of these is the Taipang Hip or colonel commanding at Taip'ang, a town to the north-east of Mirs Bay. This officer has also quarters at Kowloon, and for this reason is commonly known as the Kowloon Mandarin. He is under the control of the General or of the Kwongtung province, and has under his command several officers and some troops. \n\nMap VII shows where the various officials are stationed. It will be observed from this map that, as a rule, the petty military officers, who control the islands, do not reside on them, but have their headquarters at Taip'ang, on the mainland. \n\n## PRISONS \n\nThere is one main prison, situated at Namt'au, and under the control of an officer entitled Tien Shih. The prison is built to accommodate 120 persons, but is seldom occupied by more than 30 or 40. In addition to the prison, there are six lock-ups, one for each of the four Tung or Divisions into which the district is divided, and two under the control of the deputy magistrates, for detaining persons pending trial. \n\n## POLICE \n\nThere are two classes of police in the district. One class, called ch'ai or runners, is stationed in the district city under the control of the magistrate. They are about 60 in number and are sent, as occasion requires, throughout the district for a variety of purposes, including the making of arrests, the collecting of the land tax, and acting generally as the eyes and ears of the magistrate. They receive no pay from Government, but manage to earn a fair livelihood by illicit squeezes. \n\nIn addition to this class of police, there are, in each village throughout the district, at least two kang fu or village constables, who are appointed by the village, and paid out of contributions made by the villagers according to the extent of their holdings in land. Large villages have five or six constables, the head constable being styled `p`. Their duty is to keep watch, especially at night. They have the power of arrest, which is deputed to them by the gentry and elders of the village. \n\n## LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE VILLAGES \n\nIf a person is arrested by a village constable, he is taken before the gentry and elders of the village, who assemble in a place specially appointed for the purpose. The gentry and elders, who are the representatives of the clans inhabiting the villages, are selected by the inhabitants to deal with cases in the village council. \n\nThe usual cases are those of theft, disputes about land, domestic squabbles, and cases of debt. Most of these cases are summarily dealt with by the village council, and, as a rule, the decision of that council is accepted as final. But if either of the parties to a case is dissatisfied, he can appeal to a council of the Tung, or to a general council made up of representatives of the different Tung. A reference to Map VI will show how the newly leased territory is divided into Tung or Divisions. Each council of a Tung contains representatives of the villages which make up the Tung. In addition to a council of a Tung, there is a general council for the whole of the Tung Lo or Eastern Section, which is practically that portion of the district of Sanon contained in the map attached to the Convention (Map I). This general council is styled the Tung Ping Kuk or Council of Peace for the Eastern Section. It has its council chamber at the market town of Sham Chun, which is regarded as the centre of the Eastern Section. \n\nIf the decision of the council of the Tung or of the General Council is not regarded as satisfactory, an appeal lies to the magistrate of the district. \n\n13 \n\n## THE PROPOSED FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF THE NEWLY LEASED TERRITORY \n\nI am of opinion that, in the future government of the newly leased area, the organization at present in existence should be, as far as possible, utilised. In order to effect this, I recommend that the head of the Administration should be a Resident Commissioner, subordinate to the Governor of Hong Kong, but in all other respects independent. His headquarters should be in the neighbourhood of Taipohui, which seems the most central position, where all the Government Offices and prison should be established. He should be assisted by an Executive Council, consisting of himself, the Treasurer, the Head of the Police, and by an Advisory Council, made up of himself and native representatives, one selected from each Tung or Division. The native representatives should be granted some title, as is done in Ceylon, in order to make them regard the position of member of the Advisory Council as one to be coveted. In addition to a Resident Commissioner, who will, of course, require a Secretary, the following staff will be necessary: \n\n- A Treasurer. He should collect taxes, fees, and all other items of revenue, and pay all salaries and other items of expenditure. In the department of the Treasurer should be a Land Officer, to whom should be entrusted the important duty of having all claims to land properly surveyed and registered, and leases duly issued. The work of this Officer will, for some time to come, be very heavy. Land is held in small allotments, and in many cases, the amount of land mentioned in the lease is not in agreement with the actual holding, and a good deal of land is held without any proper title. I think it would be well to appoint as Land Officer someone who has had practical experience of surveying, and to place under him native surveyors, such as can, I am informed, be obtained from Ceylon. The cost of this staff may be somewhat excessive to begin with, but it is of great importance that the question of titles to land should be settled as soon as possible. I am of opinion that at least eight (8) native surveyors will be necessary. It is unnecessary to point out that the sooner the titles to land are definitely settled, the easier it will be to collect the land tax. Indeed, until such titles are decided, it is impossible to know exactly what land is really available for Crown land. \n\n- The chief work of the Public Works Department will be to erect buildings and to construct roads and piers. A staff consisting of one assistant engineer, a draughtsman, two clerks, and a few overseers would suffice at first. The officers of this Department should, I think, be under the supervision of the Director of Public Works of Hong Kong, so that the new territory may have the benefit of the experience and advice of that officer. I may mention that the present Director of Public Works, Mr. Ormsby, is of opinion that the supervision of the public works in the new territory can, without difficulty, be arranged from Hong Kong. \n\n## POLICE \n\nA European should be appointed as head of the police, and should have under him a Chief Inspector, 4 European Sergeants, and an Indian Sergeant, to act as Jemadar of the Indian Police. A force of at least 30 Chinese and 20 Indians should be enrolled and stationed at headquarters or other convenient places, from whence they could patrol the territory in different directions, in order to maintain peace and good order, and to protect the lives and property of the inhabitants. This force should be properly drilled and partially mounted. A detective force of 15 men will also be required. The existing system of village constables should be maintained, the T, or head constable, being held responsible to the Watch Committee of the village for the good order of the village. The number of these village constables in the Tung Lo, or Eastern section, must be over 1,000. Their pay, which is at present defrayed by the villages, is very small, and will, no doubt, have to be increased in order to secure efficiency. It is hoped that this large force may be gradually improved and converted into a well-disciplined force of military police. To begin with, however, it will be necessary to take them as they are, and make the best possible use of their services. \n\nThe village council should, for purposes of police, act as a watch committee, and control the village constables, the T being in the first instance responsible to them. \n\nWith regard to the policing of the islands, an Indian and 3 native Chinese should be stationed on the island of Cheung Chau, and the same number of men at Tai-O, in the island of Lantao. These police should be under the immediate supervision of a superior officer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "I fear that it will be necessary to get advances from the Sting Com & Shanghai Bank as I am informed,\n\nForm\n\nBank's Name.\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED. FEB 18 MAY 99 LONDON\n\nSTATIONS:\n\nCHIEF STATION: 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\n156\n\nBRANCH STATIONS:\n\nNo.\n\n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. 3, GREAT TOWER STREET, E.C. 57, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C.\n\nAnd 449,\n\nMARK\n\nNo.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at\n\n4to\n\nIN CO., LD,\n\nfor I do not see where we are to get money from the few terrifying folks at\n\nhand\n\nMINSTER ringrum.\n\nPARLIAMENT\n\n180\n\nTo Chabelin\n\nAddress\n\nPropose to appoint A A\n\nKami additional territory\n\nvery good\n\nson, and work must be done and barracks built at once. I put the Prince Henry d (can do that under Macalister) Prince Harry wrote to me that he is greatly delighted at putting the Command in China. He was afraid they could not appoint him as he feared that he might be too exposed!\n\nCopy Thathoratincnti\n\nSincerely yours\n\nStein as shake\n\n74\n\n206a, WINCHESTER HOUSE, E.C. 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W. Foreign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. STRAND, W.C.\n\n15\n\n189\n\nTime\n\nvid “Eastern,”\n\nmagistrate\n\ndistrict Ministry\n\n72\n\nmust be\n\nMan\n\nwould suggest\n\nm.\n\nreplaced immediately by\n\nthird\n\nretro-spect inspection\n\nJamana think two\n\nwill have\n\nlocal assistance for\n\naden-pustiation.\n\ngreat influence\n\nhas developed\n\nTherefore\n\nadditional territory\n\nand\n\nin advantageous Bulmer American\n\nYour Hausken\n\nfuture\n\nT.C.H.\n\n4. 20 Aug\n\n18/5\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Paper.\n\nCONDITIONS UPON WHICH THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED.-The Telegraph Companies and Administrations through whose hands this\n\nhas passed, will not be responsible in any case for anything done, or omitted to be done, beyond the limits of their Stations or Telegraphs; * MISTAKES OR DELAYS in the transmission or delivery of, nor for the NON-TRANSMISSION, MIS-DELIVERY or NON-DELIVERY of\n\n, from whatever cause arising. Any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company.\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED “VIA EASTERN.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n523\n\nSECRET.\n\nNo. 208 M,\n\nLomas is prepared to command in part 9 his despatch, assuming the trustees are the subscribers consider that they bound by resolution 3 A do not see Hica's lady way to adopt Mr Ormsby's suggestion which on other grounds have seemed preferable, to regin at the Shank won and CRE 24 a & mee\n\nPrinted for the use of the Colonial Office. January 10, 1900.\n\n# HONG KONG.\n\n## Proposed Coast Road.\n\n### Memorandum by the Colonial Defence Committee.\n\nC.O. No.29823\n\nTHE Colonial Office have referred to the Colonial Defence Committee a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, dated the 27th September, 1899, forwarding correspondence on the subject of a road round the island on which it has been proposed to expend part of the funds subscribed for a Memorial of Her Majesty's Jubilee in 1897.\n\nThe Governor's despatch and three of the inclosures, viz.: a letter from Major-General Black, dated the 2nd December, 1898, and Minutes by Major-General Gascoigne, dated the 17th January and 22nd September, 1899, are printed as an Appendix to this Memorandum.\n\n2. The question referred to the Committee is whether that part of an 18-foot road round the island, which the Jubilee Committee desire to make and for which they claim that subscriptions were given, is objectionable from a military point of view. The part of the road in question follows the coast line from Kennedy Town near Belcher's round Mount Davis and round the head of Sandy, Taihowan, and Waterfall Bays to the Head of Kellet Bay.\n\n3. Major-General Black considered that whereas at present, owing to the steep and rugged nature of the slopes of Mount Davis between Sandy Bay and Kennedy Town, no formed body of men could move along the coast between these places at night, the construction of the proposed road would make such movement possible and give an enemy an easier method of access to the town of Victoria. Major-General Gascoigne supported this view, but said in his second Minute on the subject that if the road would satisfy a great and pressing need for the Colony generally, he would not consider the military objections to be so imperative as to necessitate his urgent protest against it.\n\nOther arguments have been advanced in favour of the road round the island being commenced by the construction of its eastern section, but these need not be considered as they are not based on military considerations, and as the Governor reports that, apart from military considerations, he sees no reason why the road should not be first made in accordance with the Resolution of the Jubilee Committee, especially as the Government is bound to continue the road (though not within any specified time) until its completion round the island.\n\n4. The proposed western part of the new road lies mainly in No. II Section of the Defence. For the mobile defence of this section the Defence Scheme provides 120 infantry and 40 artillery, manning 2--7-pr. R.M.L, and 3--3-pc. Q.F. guns, whose duties are to oppose in the first instance an attempted landing of troops in\n\n[1048]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374356, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "RESTRICTED FOR USE IN INTELLIGENCE BRANCH, EASTERN COMMAND\n\nC.O. 426 DOMESTIC. 15673\n\nRECEIVED? 19 JUN 75 Individual.\n\nNo. 15673 (Subject.) New Territory Disturbances\n\nKendo copy despatch for Pekin re negotiations ConBrain &\n\n*1000-12-23\n\nIt was\n\nC.P.L. 29 2076.\n\n& made four print at once", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 37, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "17915\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nWar Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.,\n\nand the following number quoted\n\n083/3568\n\n13 6 2 2\n\n17915\n\nRECO\n\nWar Office REG! JUL 99\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\n10.\n\nJuly, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTED\n\nFOR\n\nEASTERN COLONIAL\n\nUSE\n\nOFFICE\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War\n\nto acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th\n\nultimo, bringing to notice the services rendered by the\n\ntroops under the command of Major General Gascoigne, C.M.G.,\n\nin connection with the taking over of the New Territory\n\nrecently annexed to the Colony of Hong Kong, and in\n\nreply I am to acquaint you that the Commander in Chief\n\nhas perused this favourable report with much satisfaction\n\nand has caused it to be duly recorded.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nA. H. H. (likely \"Atheerk\" is incorrect and should be a name like \"A. H. H.\")\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, S.W.\n\n* No 13622\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested:\n\n17915\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nWar Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.,\n\nand the following number quoted\n\n083/3568\n\n13 6 2 2\n\n17915\n\nRECO\n\nWar Office REG! JUL 99\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\n10.\n\nJuly, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTED FOR EASTERN COLONIAL USE OFFICE\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, bringing to notice the services rendered by the troops under the command of Major General Gascoigne, C.M.G., in connection with the taking over of the New Territory recently annexed to the Colony of Hong Kong, and in reply I am to acquaint you that the Commander in Chief has perused this favourable report with much satisfaction and has caused it to be duly recorded.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nAtheerk\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office, S.W.\n\n* No 13622\n\nRevised to fit the exact format and rules:\n17915\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to The Under Secretary of State, War Office, London, S.W., and the following number quoted 083/3568\n\n13 6 2 2\n\n17915\n\nRECO\n\nWar Office REG! JUL 99\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\n10. July, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTED FOR EASTERN COLONIAL USE OFFICE\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, bringing to notice the services rendered by the troops under the command of Major General Gascoigne, C.M.G., in connection with the taking over of the New Territory recently annexed to the Colony of Hong Kong, and in reply I am to acquaint you that the Commander in Chief has perused this favourable report with much satisfaction and has caused it to be duly recorded.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, A. H. H.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\n* No 13622\n\nLet's correct and simplify to the exact output format:\n17915\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to The Under Secretary of State, War Office, London, S.W., and the following number quoted 083/3568\n\n13 6 2 2\n\n17915\n\nRECO\nWar Office REG! JUL 99\nLondon, S.W.\n10. July, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTED FOR EASTERN COLONIAL USE OFFICE\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, bringing to notice the services rendered by the troops under the command of Major General Gascoigne, C.M.G., in connection with the taking over of the New Territory recently annexed to the Colony of Hong Kong, and in reply I am to acquaint you that the Commander in Chief has perused this favourable report with much satisfaction and has caused it to be duly recorded.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Atheerk\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\n* No 13622\n\nThe final version:\n17915\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to The Under Secretary of State, War Office, London, S.W., and the following number quoted 083/3568\n\n13 6 2 2\n\n17915\n\nRECO\nWar Office REG! JUL 99\nLondon, S.W.\n10. July, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTED FOR EASTERN COLONIAL USE OFFICE\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ultimo, bringing to notice the services rendered by the troops under the command of Major General Gascoigne, C.M.G., in connection with the taking over of the New Territory recently annexed to the Colony of Hong Kong, and in reply I am to acquaint you that the Commander in Chief has perused this favourable report with much satisfaction and has caused it to be duly recorded.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Atheerk\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\n* No 13622", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381136, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 664, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "To the \n\nRight Honourable \n\n659 \n\nO \n\n16 \n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., \n\nPRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES. \n\nRESPECTFULLY SHEWETH \n\nTHE HUMBLE PETITION of the Undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Professional Men, Traders, Artisans, and others, inhabitants of the Crown Colony of Hongkong. \n\n1.---The Colony of Hongkong, comprising the island of that name, and the recently acquired New Territory on the mainland adjoining, is situate near the south-eastern extremity of the vast empire of China. Since the Colony was founded, 60 years ago, it has progressed to such an extent that it now ranks as the third shipping port of the British Empire. It is the most important British Naval and Military Station in Eastern Asia. \n\n2. The population of Hongkong (not including the New Territory), was estimated (from a preliminary report of the Census taken in January last) to the middle of June, 1900, as being 283,955, exclusive of the Army and Navy, the former being estimated at 2,568 and the latter at 3,110. These numbers are considerably augmented by the constant arrival of numerous British and Foreign ships of war. The total tonnage which entered and cleared Hongkong during the year 1899 amounted to 18,101,300 tons, being an increase compared with 1898 of 835,529 tons. The trade of the Colony is estimated at $500,000,000 per annum. The total revenue from the Colony in 1899 was $3,610,143.25, against $2,918,159.24 in 1898. During 1899 the Actual Revenue exceeded the Estimated Revenue by $724,006.25 if the amounts from Land Sales and the Water Account be included. The Revenue for 1899 exceeded the expenditure by $447,350.39 It is believed that the surplus for 1900 will show a much greater increase. \n\n3.-In his report for 1899 (No. 314) H.E. Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G., the Governor of the Colony, said: \"The general condition of the Colony is most flourishing, and with the command of cheap labour, it gives promise of developing into a great manufacturing centre.\" The Colony has attained to its present prosperous and important position mainly through the enterprise, ability, energy and perseverance of His Majesty's loyal subjects resident here, who have spent millions of dollars in industrial, marine, and commercial undertakings; and also because of its being a free port, offering to all races, Europeans and Asiatics alike, freedom from oppression, security for life and property, and a just and orderly government. \n\n4.-The permanent prosperity of Hongkong, in fact its very existence, depends upon a wise and a just administrative Government, which will ensure the protection and maintain the freedom of its inhabitants. The local Government", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "bewing Fora-Loudon 5/137\n\n247\n\nreplies shoulD BE ORDERED \"VIA EASTERN.\"\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED\n\nSASTER\n\nWESTANTER OFFICE,\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nMIEF STATION: 11, OLD BROAD STREET, EC.\n\nBRANCH STATIONS:\n\n44 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W.\n\nREMARKS.\n\n\"LEADENHALL STREET. E.C.\n\n3, GREAT TOWER STREET, E.C. 37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, EC.\n\n206a, WINCHESTER HOUSE, E.C. 41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W Foreign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.\n\nAnd 449, STRAND, W.C.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at\n\n10.\n\n190.\n\nFrom\n\n12\n\nreight No.\n\nNo. of Words.\n\nDuted\n\nvid \"Eastern\n\nTime\n\n0\n\nYou\n\nmy to your fela\n\n5410\n\n15 Feb\n\n19 Feb.\n\nne command\n\nake\n\nover\n\nkened\n\ntand\n\nto be made at the end\n\ncompetitive\n\nsix months\n\nPublic Works\n\nLicar, architect Acciato\n\nundertaking\n\nI work\n\nthe long\n\ninsufficient\n\nto retiradi\n\nReed C.o.\n\nA. F. 22/2\n\n10.58\n\nDoubtful Words should be OFFICIALLY repealed. See Rule Book, pages 13 and 14.\n\n* No inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy. CONDITIONS UPON WHICH THIS TELEGRAM HAS BEEN ACCEPTED-The Telegraph Administrations and Companies through whose hands this telegram has passed, it is in case be responsible for anything done, or omitted to be done, except within the limits of their Stations or Telegraph for any MISTAKES OR DELAYS in the transmission or delivery of nor for the NON-TRANSMISSION, MIS-DELIVERY OF NON DELIVERY telegram, from whatever cause arising. Any complaint, however, will meet with every attention on being brought to the notice of the Company.\n\nWaterlow & Sons, 15 Pl, Printers, London Wall, E.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385353, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 593, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "33303\n\nEnclosure No. 8 to Despatch No. 303 of the 10th July, 1908.\n\n13 ANT\n\n591\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 267.\n\nThe following Order made by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government in Council on the 11th March, 1902, is published.\n\nBy Command,\n\nA. M. THOMSON,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th April, 1902.\n\nORDER\n\nMade by the Officer Administering the Government in Council, under section 3 of the Pawnbrokers' Ordinance, 1860, this 11th day of March, 1902.\n\nThe Scale of Fees for Pawnbrokers' Licences under section 3 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1860 shall, from the 1st April, 1902, be as follows:—\n\n \n In the Central District of Victoria,\n $1,500\n \n \n In the Eastern and Western District of Victoria,\n 1,000\n \n \n Elsewhere in the Island of Hongkong,\n 750\n \n \n Kowloon (Old Territory and Sham Shui Po),\n 1,000\n \n \n New Kowloon, (except Sham Shui Po),\n 750\n \n \n Elsewhere in the New Territory,\n 400\n \n\n2. Such fees shall be payable yearly in advance.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nR. F. JOHNSTON,\n\nActing Clerk of Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "N \n\n26 \n\n! \n\n! \n\nof the vast Dominion of Canada, and of the great Commonwealth of Australia, but he is also Emperor of India. And when we look to the great Southern Continents and find, with thankfulness, that the smoke of battles has cleared away, that the angel of peace has descended, may we not trust that, ere long, a loyal, united, and prosperous South Africa may form one of the most valuable of those \"British Dominions beyond the Sea\" which are, fitly, now included in the Royal Title? But, Your Excellency, I must not forget that there are other Addresses to be presented and I will not further detain you, but will, with your permission, now read and present the Address which has been entrusted to me, and I would ask, in the name of the general community of Hongkong, that Your Excellency would, in due course, kindly forward it to His Majesty the King,\n\nThe Address, terms:--- \n\nin the Was \n\nfollowing \n\nHongkong, 26th June, 1902. \n\nTO HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. \n\nYOUR MAJESTY, Whilst from every part of Your Majesty's wide empire rejoicings arise on this the day of Your coronation, we, residents in the far eastern colony of Hongkong, diverse in race, nationality, creed and class, but one in devotion to Your Royal House and Person, respectfully tender our sincerest greetings. \n\nKnowledge is lost in the dim centuries as to when the waters of old Cathay reflected the spreading sails of the first argosy from the west—the bold harbinger of our fleets of merchant steamships of to-day. The safety of the ocean highway is essential to our commerce and our intercourse with home. For the preservation of this, and of our property, and it may be of our lives, we rely upon Your Majesty's forces by sea and land, sure that their protection will not fail us as it has never failed us in the past. \n\nThe history of our colony is almost coeval with the ever memorable reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. Sixty-one years ago, when the British flag was first unfurled here, Hongkong was a bare inhospitable rock, the resort of pirates and the fear of mariners. The steps of its progress during this period it is needless to recount. Under an enlightened government, dispensing an equal law, and encouraging and giving free scope to the enterprise of the people, Hongkong has become one of the principal ports in Your dominions, and is still advancing with a rapidity perhaps unsurpassed therein. \n\nAt the outset of Your Majesty's reign we rejoice to see drawing even closer than before the bond between the mother country and her dependencies; and we believe that their ever increasing importance in the empire, graciously recognised by Your addition of \"the British Dominions beyond the Seas\" to Your ancient title, is with Your accession beginning a new and glorious era in the history of the realm. And our gladness is the more profound in that, under Your Majesty's strong and benevolent administration, and by the valour of Your arms, peace has been established within Your borders, a peace which we are confident will bear a rich harvest of blessing, alike to the empire at large, and to the brave people who, no longer foes, have now become Your loyal subjects. \n\nWe ask to be permitted to extend our respectful and kindliest salutations to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, Whose many gracious qualities have endeared Her throughout the lands of Her birth and Her adoption, and command the regard of the world. And we would also include in our congratulations His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Whose visit to our colony in that service whereof He has shewn Himself so capable an officer those of us who were then here most happily remember, and Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and all the Royal Family. We contemplate with gratification the ties of domestic relationship which unite Your Majesty to so many reigning Houses, and we regard those bonds as pledges of the amity between our nations which we trust will ever be maintained. \n\nUpon the demise of Your Royal Father, a Prince universally revered, You were called, at an age early for such responsibility, to assume a share in the regal burdens of the state. The ready self-sacrifice and the wisdom with which You responded to that call have won, not only the dutiful loyalty of those who live beneath Your sceptre, but also their deep affection. And we earnestly pray that, under Divine Providence, Your Majesty and Your Royal Consort will long live in health and happiness to continue those beneficent works which it has been Your constant solicitude to promote, and to direct the destinies of the people whose glad homage is Your Own. \n\n[Here followed signatures.]\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY then formally accepted the Address, which was set upon the table. \n\nThis address was in the form of a book enclosed in gold-mounted covers, and was a very handsome work of art, reflecting credit upon Messrs. Kelly and Walsh for its practical execution. \n\nIts size was about 18in. by 12½in. The covers were in Coronation red velvet and the front was set on with massive ornamentation in 20-carat gold. In the centre were the Royal Arms; the border was open-work of characteristic Chinese design, through which ran the emblem indicating wishes for long life to the recipient. At the top of the border appeared the Chinese character for \"God bless you,\" and at the bottom another signifying congratulations. Imperial yellow silk lines the inside of the cover, on the back of which were four gold bats (good-luck), one at each corner. The Address itself was a splendid specimen of workmanship; the general scheme of colour was blue and gold, and it was printed on art paper. Each of the pages, of which there were five in all, was surrounded by an artistic border, hand-painted by Mr. C. T. Letton, of Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, in an exceedingly pretty and effective fashion. In it appeared in succession the Tudor rose, the thistle, the shamrock, and the leek, with the Initials \"E\" and \"A\" alternating between each emblem. The Address was placed in a camphor-wood box padded in yellow silk, with the inscription \"E.R.I.\" in gold on the lid. The gold mounting was the work of Wang Hing, Queen's Road. \n\nCD \n\nMr. E. C. Ray next stepped in front of the Governor and said—Your Excellency, District and Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China. I appear before you in the absence of our District Grand Master, Sir Catchick Paul Chater, accompanied by the officers of the District Grand Lodge and the Masters and Wardens of the other Lodges working under our jurisdiction, together with the Masters and Wardens of Saint John's Lodge and the Lodge Naval and Military under the Scottish constitution, to present you with a Masonic address to His Majesty King Edward VII, notwithstanding the fact that part of it refers to His Majesty's actual Coronation, and to pray you to be so good as to receive it on His Majesty's behalf and to forward it for His Majesty's gracious acceptance. Sir, we may be permitted to hope that His Majesty's Coronation will not be long delayed. It has been, we trust, only postponed by the grave illness from which under Divine Providence His Majesty appears now to be happily recovering, and which has caused a wave of universal sympathy for England's Royal Family to flow from all parts of the earth—north, south, east, and west. The spontaneous wishes of all peoples and all nations are for His Majesty's welfare, and the brethren whom I represent desire respectfully to express to His Majesty their fraternal and happiest greetings and their heartfelt wishes for His Majesty's well-being. With your Excellency's permission I will now read the address. \n\nMr. RAY proceeded to read the Address, which was as follows:-- \n\nHongkong, 26th June, 1902. To HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. \n\nYOUR MAJESTY, Within the walls of the historic Abbey of Westminster, surrounded by England's great and sacred dead and amid the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 224, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n355\n\n\n: \n\n( 14 ) \n\n\nbe saved by having the materials for filling up the area to be reclaimed close at hand, instead of having as before to bring them by a tedious process from Kowloon. It is therefore to be hoped that no unforeseen difficulty will arise in the case of Leighton Hill and Mount Caroline, whose removal, moreover, will add still more to the land available for building purposes. Morrison Hill and Mount Shadwell are more conveniently situated for the use to which Mr Chater proposed to put them, but since the objections of the Naval authorities appear to have been insuperable, the two substitutes proposed are the best available, and, provided that the natural corollary of the present scheme, a tramway running to the centre of the city, follows, they will be brought sufficiently near to serve the purpose of providing homes for the working classes.\n\nExtract from the 'DAILY PRESS,' March 5.\n\nThe new Praya Reclamation scheme, as modified in the letter of the Colonial Secretary of the 12th ult., provides, as we have seen, for an addition to the available land of this Colony of a strip of ground 520 feet wide, and stretching from the Naval Yard to the Sugar Refinery at East Point, up to which limit it may be looked on, we think, as the final reclamation scheme. In front of the existing sea-face, from the Arsenal down to Messrs Jardine's premises, there will be firstly an addition to the present Praya, making it up to 75 feet broad; secondly, a space, 120 feet deep, for the construction of Chinese houses; thirdly, a new road, 75 feet wide; fourthly, a strip of land, 225 feet deep, for godowns; and lastly, a new Eastern Praya, 75 feet deep. In addition to this, there may be a space cleared and levelled inland, on the site of the present Leighton Hill and Mount Caroline, on which may be constructed additional dwellings. The whole of the works, including the removal and re-erection of piers, and the extension, formation, sewering, and channelling of the proposed new streets and new Praya wall and roadway, except on such portions of the foreshore as are situated in front of the Government properties, will be carried out by the Public Works Department at the cost of the Marine Lot owners; and the Government will not be called on to incur any expense at all, other than such as is involved, on account of the wall and reclamation in front of Government properties. Mr Chater's services as intermediary between the Government and the Marine Lot holders are accepted, and what he has to do is to persuade the latter to agree to the Government's demands. These are briefly that the holders shall constitute a general fund for defraying the cost of the works and shall bind themselves individually to take up whatever part is allotted to them of the general reclamation, each depositing as a guarantee 25 per cent. of the total value of the General Fund, which 25 per cent. will be forfeited to the Crown in event of a failure to take up the allotment. On the completion of the works, each holder will be asked to take out a Crown Lease for his allotment, paying an Annual Crown Rent of $200 per quarter acre.\n\nThe leases will be for 99 years, with an option of renewal at a Crown Rent fixed by the Governor for the time being for a further term of 99 years. All costs of resumptions of land and compensations to landowners involved in the scheme will be paid by the Marine Lot owners. It is held that a premium of at least twenty-five cents a square foot should be paid to Government by holders for every foot of building land reclaimed and handed over to them. Finally, the reclamation principle of sectional adoption followed in the case of the Western Praya reclamation will be followed, and the Lot holders will bear the expenses of a preliminary survey and estimate.\n\nFrom the above, it will be seen that the Government strikes a good bargain, for the gain in rateable area and future land sales will be very large indeed, and the expenditure will be nil. But the Marine Lot holders, too, having past history to guide them, and the ever-increasing prosperity of the Colony to encourage them for the future, have little reason to hesitate. In the report, published this year, and now to hand, of Hongkong in 1899, H.E. the Governor's concluding sentence will meet with general agreement. Henry Blake says: \"The general condition of the Colony is most flourishing, and, with the command of cheap labour, it gives promise of development into a great manufacturing centre.\" There is a certainty that whatever land can be added to the island in close proximity to the centre of the Colony's activity must have a constantly mounting value as time goes on. With the restoration of peace in the Chinese Empire and the establishment of commercial facilities hitherto denied to foreigners, the volume of trade flowing toward Hongkong cannot but increase enormously. As matters stand now, we are not prepared to meet this increase by expansion on the island itself. Mr Chater sets forth the way in which we can prepare ourselves to do so, and we feel confident that the Marine Lot holders will recognise that in supporting the scheme they will consult at the same time the Colony's interests and their own.\n\nExtract from the 'DAILY PRESS,' April 19.\n\nLast month, when writing of the new Praya Reclamation scheme put forward by the Hon. C. P. Chater, and after certain modifications approved by the local Government, we expressed our confidence that the holders of Marine Lots would recognise that in supporting the scheme they are consulting at the same time the Colony's interests and their own. On Wednesday, a representative meeting of lot-holders gave their full support to the scheme, authorised the Government to proceed forthwith with the preliminary surveys and plans, and undertook to contribute in proportion to their marine frontages to the expenses thus incurred by the Government. Such a response must be gratifying to Mr Chater, and it is satisfactory to see that there is no opposition to the present plan, whereas the scheme of 1887 met with most bitter protests and uncompromising hostility in many quarters. The ultimate success of the earlier reclamation has disarmed opposition. It is generally recognised that the increase of space available for building on this island is one of the vital necessities of Hongkong. The lot-holders, being men of commonsense, see too that they stand to gain largely by consenting to this public improvement. The resolutions carried at Wednesday's meeting will now be forwarded to the local Government without loss of time, and then comes the last step before the actual work can be commenced. Mr Chater anticipates the lapse of about three months before an answer can be obtained from the Secretary of State in London. This answer, it cannot be doubted, will be favourable; and a great addition to the Colony will be on its way toward realisation.\n\nAs Mr Chater stated in his speech to the lot-holders, a small alteration has been made in the design since it was set out in his letter of the 15th November last, and this is in the nature of an act of justice to Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. The first proposal was that the new reclamation should terminate, to the eastward, at the East Point property of this firm—a proceeding which would involve the destruction of their harbour frontage on the west. It is now proposed to carry the reclamation along the front of their premises and in front of the Sugar Works and to give them an interest in the scheme to the extent of 160 feet in depth of building land along their northern boundary. One effect of this, it will be noticed, will be to bring Kellott Island 160 feet nearer land. On the scheme as a whole, we have already expressed our opinion at some length; and that we correctly anticipated what reception it would meet from the various owners of property on the Wanchai frontage is shown by the report of the discussion at Wednesday's meeting. No comments of an adverse character were offered by any present, and the meeting unanimously supported the resolutions proposed, signifying their complete satisfaction with the idea and its details. Seldom, we imagine, has so important a public work met with so little opposition. We look forward now to the final reclamation, which should now be only a matter of time, namely the reclamation of Causeway Bay with the shifting of the typhoon anchorage to the other end of the Harbour. When such a reclamation has been accomplished, combined with adequate tramway facilities, the makers of Hongkong as a settlement will be able to look back with justifiable satisfaction on their labours. We have now, as it were, reached the beginning of the second act, fourteen years after the beginning of the first. We may reasonably expect that the progress of the remainder will be more rapid.\n\n220", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394717, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "12\n\n13\n\nInclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nGovernment of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nRangoon, January 30, 1901. IN compliance with the orders contained in paragraph 3 of your letter, dated the 19th September, 1900, I am directed to submit a copy of a Report by Mr. Hertz, C.I.E., District Superintendent of Police, Myitkyina, with map in original, regarding the description of the Burmah-Chinese boundary north of the most northern boundary cairn, Mr. Hertz' Report on the boundary, to which he refers in this Report, was submitted with Mr. Gates' letter, dated the 3rd May, 1900.*\n\n2. I am to say that the Lieutenant-Governor agrees with Mr. Hertz that it would prevent future misunderstanding if the boundary north of the northernmost cairn were declared to be the watershed of all streams that drain into the N'Maikha from the east.\n\nInclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nDistrict Superintendent of Police, Myitkyina, to Deputy Commissioner.\n\nMyitkyina, December 21, 1900. IN compliance with the instructions contained in the Confidential forwarded papers I have the honour to submit the following Report\n\nDescription of the Burmah-China Boundary north of the most northerly Boundary Cairn.\n\nThe northernmost boundary cairn was built under the joint supervision of British and Chinese officers in the 1897-98 season, and is situated at latitude 25° 33′ on a range of hills called Manaung-Bum, which forms the southern portion of the eastern watershed of the N'Maikha. North of the cairn the boundary continues along the eastern watershed of the N'Maikha, or, in other words, the watershed of the streams which drain into the N'Maikha from the east. Its general direction is north-east up to latitude 26° longitude 98° 45', near which point the eastern watershed of the N'Maikha connects with the Salween watershed. Between the northernmost boundary cairn and this point the hill range which forms the eastern N'Maikha watershed is drained on the west by streams flowing into the Shingaw Kha, Tammu Kha, Chipwi Kha, and Ngaw-chaung Kha (tributaries of the N'Maikha), and on the east by streams flowing into the Lawnma Tanza Khas (tributaries of the Taping, the Chinese Tahaw), and streams further north flowing into the Shweli (the Chinese Lung Chiang) through its tributaries in the Tintang (or Tinhtang), Mienkawng (or Minkwang), Tatang (or Tahtang), and Sanjang (or Sanchiang) valleys.\n\nFurther north the eastern watershed of the N'Maikha connects with the western watershed of the Salween.\n\nWith the materials at my command I do not think I can give any fuller description than is contained in the above Report and \"Report on the Boundary\" submitted previously. A skeleton map, similar to the one submitted before, is forwarded with this Report. The boundary line north of the most northerly cairn is marked by a red line, and some additions in red ink have been made by me on the map to illustrate the Report more fully.\n\nIn conclusion, I would respectfully suggest that, as the Chinese are a people who seemingly do not recognize latitudes and longitudes, and frequently will not identify hills and lesser streams by the names known to us, it would be convenient, and leave no excuse for misunderstanding on their part, if the boundary north of the most northerly cairn be described as the watershed of all streams that drain into the N'Maikha from the east.\n\nInclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Government of India.\n\nPeking, November 28, 1900.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch of the 14th June last, received the 24th instant, inclosing copy of a Secret despatch to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, regarding the exploration conducted during the past season up the valley of the N'Maikha and the boundary between Burmah and China in that region.\n\nIn paragraph 4 of the Secret despatch a recommendation is made that the Tsung-li Yamên should be pressed to execute at an early date a formal Agreement recognizing as the frontier between Burmah and China on the east of the Irrawaddy, from the demarcated frontier northwards, the watershed of the streams which drain off into the N'Maikha from the east.\n\nNo instructions on this point have as yet reached this Legation, your Lordship's Secret despatch having arrived in London after communication with Peking was cut off. The only recent mention of the boundary question was in Lord Salisbury's telegram No. 120 of the 9th October, approving the proposal contained in Sir Claude MacDonald's telegram No. 89 of the 31st May, which was repeated to your Lordship.\n\nThe occupation of Peking by the allied forces and the flight of the Government have given rise to a situation in which it seems difficult to pursue the negotiation about the boundary for the moment. The only Representatives here of the Emperor of China are the two Plenipotentiaries, Prince Ching and the Viceroy Li Hung Chang, who have been appointed to negotiate with the Representatives of the Plenipotentiaries for a resumption of amicable relations.\n\nAs soon as this much-to-be-desired event takes place, and the Chinese Government is established here, I shall, in the absence of instructions to the contrary, proceed to act upon the suggestion contained in your Lordship's Secret despatch.\n\n0\n\nSee Inclosure 10 in Secret despatch to the Secretary of State for India, dated June 14, 1900,\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395325, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 662, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "759\n\nPRINTED\n\nFOR USE OF\n\nEASTERN\n\nCOLONIAL\n\nOFFICE\n\nC.O.\n\n37755\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\n658\n\nNovember 3rd, 1904.\n\nConfidential.\n\nSir:-\n\nI laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your letter 36750/1904 of the 29th ultimo, requesting to be furnished with information as to the nature of the financial support possessed by Mr. E. Davis, who wishes to obtain the concession for the construction of a Railway from Canton to Kowloon.\n\nI am directed by His Lordship to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the whole of the capital which Mr. Davis can command is understood to come from Belgium but that, according to a statement made by him at this office, if the concession is given to him the control of the undertaking would be vested entirely in British hands.\n\nI am,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n[Name not fully captured, possibly \"The Carabel\" or another name starting with \"C\"]\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 698, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "The paragraph admits that the trade \"will be inevitably diverted to Yunnan-fu if the French railway reaches this city, and nothing is done on our side to counteract its attraction.\" It is argued, however, that, as \"Hsiakuan is approximately midway between Bhamo and Yunnan-fu, if a railway is made to T'engyueh, the route through British territory must retain its superiority, since T'engyueh is nearer to Hsiakuan than (is Hsiakuan) to Yünnan-fu.\" But it is hardly correct to place Hsiakuan midway between Bhamo and Yunnan-fu as matters now stand, since there are twenty stages from Bhamo to Hsiakuan, and only thirteen from Hsiakuan to Yünnan-fu. Hsiakuan is, for a mule caravan, as nearly as possible half-way, in point of time, between T'engyueh (not Bhamo) and Yunnan-fu; a railway, therefore, from Bhamo to T'engyueh would, if this were all, be, what Mr. Litton calls it, \"commercially an almost complete answer to the French line\" from Laokai to the capital.\n\nBut this is not all. Mr. Litton, in the same paper, declares that \"any prolongation of a line beyond T'engyueh towards Yungchang is quite hopeless\"; whereas he would readily admit that the prolongation of a line beyond Yunnan-fu towards Tali is entirely practicable. What is more, the French contemplate such prolongation towards Tali; and as soon as they hear that we are proposing to move on Tengyueh they will, I cannot doubt, hasten to secure it.\n\nSo far, then, from the railway to T'engyueh \"placing us on more than an equality with the French in the struggle\" for the commercial command of Tali, the commencement of that railway would be the signal for a French advance on Tali itself. This we can prevent by forestalling them in the demand for the Tali-Yunnan-fu Concession; but, as far as I can see, in no other way.\n\nCommercial command, moreover, is only one element in the problem before us. We have to consider our approaches to the Upper Yang-tsze—in other words, the connection between India and Ssuchuan: and we may have to safeguard interests in South-Eastern Thibet. The key in both cases is, as before, Tali. A French railway from Tonquin to Tali might cause us grave embarrassment, even if we had already connected Tali by rail with Burmah. A French railway to Tali while our lines stop short at T'engyueh and Lashio, would effectually cut off India from Ssuchuan and close one door into Thibet.\n\nThe policy, then, that I would again venture to urge is: Let a demand be, at once and first of all, made of the Chinese Government (either on behalf of the Indian Government or of some British Company) for the concession of a railway from Burmah via Tali to Yünnan-fu. That demand granted, and it cannot well be refused, let us then—but not before—arrange for the local line to Tengyueh. Both concessions obtained, we may at once complete the local line; while for the railway we content ourselves for the present with that \"examination of the country between the Salween and the Mekong (or rather, from the Salween across the Mekong) suggested by the Secretary of State.\n\nThis examination should not, if I may be permitted to say so, be a rough survey, but, as Mr. Brodrick proposed, an exhaustive exploration by a thoroughly competent party of British engineers, to enable a judgment to be formed of the best alignment.\" We should then at last be in a position to decide whether a Kunlong-Tali Railway is too large a scheme for any prudent Company to undertake. At the same time it should not be forgotten that considerations of expense and difficulty were not allowed to stand in the way of the rival scheme from Laokai to Yunnan-fu, and that if we are to engage successfully in a struggle with France for trade and influence in Yünnan, we, too, must not grudge the cost.\n\nWhat I now advocate, however, is not a policy of adventure, but a measure of imperative precaution. I do not suggest a heavy draft on the Indian revenues, or immediate expenditure from any quarter; but merely to claim, without loss of time, from China a concession which need cost us nothing except the moderate expenses of a survey, and which, if the survey proves it to be impracticable, we can at any time abandon without loss of prestige.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nPage 53\n\n# SOUTH-WEST CHINA,\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n### No. 1.\n\n## Foreign Office to India Office.\n\n694\n\n[November 23.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, November 23, 1904. WITH reference to your letter of the 6th August last, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you herewith, for the observations of the Secretary of State for India, a copy of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to the delimitation of the Burmah-Yunnan frontier.*\n\nIn accordance with the suggestion contained in the penultimate paragraph of your letter, Sir E. Satow informed the Chinese Government that in order to secure a friendly settlement of the question His Majesty's Government are willing to send officers who would accompany Representatives sent by the Chinese Government for the purpose from the eastern side of the frontier, and point out to them the true position of affairs.\n\nSir E. Satow calls attention to the terms of the reply of the Chinese Government, who appear to understand that the officers on both sides will be on the same footing in conducting the boundary inquiry and to believe that those officers should be regarded as forming a Joint Commission appointed to examine the proposed boundary line.\n\nAs stated in his telegram, His Majesty's Minister nevertheless believes that there would be no harm in accepting this arrangement.\n\nLord Lansdowne would be glad to be favoured with an expression of the views of Mr. Secretary Brodrick on the subject.\n\nI am,\n\n[2269 -1]\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n* Sir E. Satow, No. 249, Telegraphic, November 19, 1904.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 615, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "work then and had no time to collect our possessions. At the present time we are practically destitute. We have a few effects--but no money. I do not know who are the agents of the Oldhamia in Hong Kong, but our cargo was consigned to the Standard Oil Company in Japan. \"Did they refer in any way to their enemy?\"\n\nThey very grudgingly gave the Japanese credit for being humane, but otherwise they seemed to think that they were beneath their notice. We, of course, avoided saying anything about the war that would give annoyance.\n\nAt the same time, when one of the officers hinted that we would go on with the Fleet to Vladivostock, I said we would never get there. When asked why, I said the Japanese would sink us first, upon which they laughed outright and appeared to regard my remark as a joke.\n\nThey seemed to regard their presence in Far Eastern waters more in the light of a picnic than as the grim business of war. There was no attempt made to drill the men--no practice of any sort. Only once was there any ammunition brought up from below, and that was when the Samson appeared. The prize crew that came on board the Oldhamia, when ordered by their officers to load their revolvers, handled them as if they had never seen such weapons before. In some cases the Russian officers loaded the weapons for their men and handed them back.\n\n2\n\nDid their appearance and actions strike you as seamanlike? \"They were more like seamen than yokels, but it was the uniform alone in most cases that made them look like seamen. For the simple work of carrying coal and washing decks they were all right. There was no occasion for them to go aloft and they never went. But they had certainly some good shoemakers and tailors. I saw them at their trades. They did nothing for us, though. As for physique the Russians were very fine able-looking men but as silly as geese where work was concerned and, I should think, as far as fighting goes. I do not think that in any other nation you would find a finer, better-set-up body of men. None of them were small but many could be called big men.\"\n\nWere they in any way discouraged?\n\nThey were all in fine spirits. It seemed to me that they anticipated no danger. We had a table to ourselves in the ward room. They had their red and white wines at meals but there was no intemperance, and we were allowed a kind of spirit--probably vodka or some kind of whisky. It was all right for those who cared for it.\"\n\nMr. Ison concluded the interview by stating that the business had thrown him out of a ship. He had been in command with the same firm as owned the Oldhamia but went into business ashore two years ago. He determined to return to sea and joined the Oldhamia as chief officer on 19th April last. It had, therefore, been an unlucky adventure for him.\n\nThe following are the names and designations of the crew of the Oldhamia:\n\n| Designation | Name | Place |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Captain | Alexander Stewart | West Hartlepool |\n| 1st Officer | James Ison | |\n| 2nd Officer | Robert Edmundson | Croyden |\n| 3rd Officer | John Scott | West Hartlepool |\n| Engineers' Steward | | |\n| 1st | John Stewart | Shields Pari |\n| 2nd | Albert Shipley | |\n| 3rd | William Pearce | West Hartlepool |\n| 4th | Allan Urquhart | |\n| Apprentices | Charles Turner, Victor Thorpe | North England |\n| Carpenter | James McCubbin | |\n| Donkeyman | Alexander Ballantyne | Liverpool |\n| Engineers' Steward | | Belfast |\n| A. B. Seamen | Alfred Curphey | Liverpool |\n| | William Allan | |\n| | John Creaney | Dublin |\n| | Lionel Pope | Dorset |\n| Firemen | Peter Murphy | Liverpool |\n| | John Ross | Maryport |\n| | James Gilligan | New York |\n| | John Bell | Liverpool |\n| | A. Gaw | Belfast |\n| | B. Smith | Glasgow |\n| | James Riley | Dublin |\n| | Michael McGuinness | Belfast |\n\nThere are in addition two Germans and five Greeks. The cook and \n\n607 \n#", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# imposing guild-houses and Yamêns, and row of substantially-built shops facing the water-front, Nanning presents the appearance of a rich and flourishing city. One is naturally led to compare it with Wuchow, which the Chinese place second to Nanning in point of importance, but which, after visiting all the principal towns on the West River from Kongmoon to Nanning, I am inclined to think, should now occupy the first place. Nanning is undoubtedly the larger city of the two; its population is estimated at 120,000, as compared with the 60,000 of Wuchow; its streets are larger, its shops more numerous, its guild-houses richer in appearance. But as regards its shipping, and what I may term movement of the port, Nanning falls far behind its smaller rival. The presence of river steamers, the constant coming and going of launches, the row of floating hotels and shipping agencies, the forest of junks in the Fu Ho, the foreign buildings which are now springing up along the water-front, all give to Wuchow an air of bustle and prosperity which is wanting at Nanning.\n\nThe afternoon of our arrival I called, accompanied by Captain Noble, on the Taotai and principal local officials. The former sent chairs, with an escort of twenty foreign-drilled soldiers headed by drums and bugles. As we proceeded through the city, and were received at the Yamên with salutes and guards presenting arms, I could not help contrasting our welcome with the reception accorded the first Englishman who visited Nanning—Mr. Moss—who came here in 1870 as the Representative of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. He was not even allowed to land, the officials refused to meet him, and during the few hours he remained here his boat was bombarded with stones by the crowds which lined the bank. The Taotai, Tu Cheng-ko, a native of Anhui and a protégé of Viceroy T'sen, received us most courteously, and seemed willing to afford me all the information he could. He at once referred to the opening of Nanning as a Treaty port, and mentioned that he had instructions from the Governor to arrange for the laying out of a foreign Settlement. To the best of his belief, the Chinese Government intended to open the port at no distant date. No progress, he said, was being made with the French railway from the frontier, and no survey had yet been made of the line between Langchow and Nanning. He gave me the impression that the Chinese authorities are not at all anxious to see the railway completed to Nanning, and that they are anxious to see Nanning a Treaty port for political reasons. From the French Father whom I afterwards visited, I learnt that work on the railway was suspended owing to the lack of funds, and the Commissioner of Customs at Lungchow has since informed me that a Representative of the Colonial Government is now in Paris trying to raise a loan for the purpose: the Chinese Government, however, are placing obstacles in the way, as they wish to build the Chinese portion of the line themselves, employing, of course, French engineers.\n\nThe Taotai—who, as Intendant of the Tso Chiang (Left River Circuit), is in command of the South-West Military District—informed me that the country round Nanning was fairly free from brigandage, but that towards Taiping and Lungchow marauding bands of Marshal Sa's disbanded soldiery were still terrorizing the countryside, and rendering the river between Nanning and Lungchow unsafe for travellers except under strong military convoy. He said the crops promised well and that the export of sugar (which has practically ceased owing to successive bad harvests) is reviving.\n\nThe Taotai returned our call on the following morning and showed me a sketch-plan of the proposed foreign Settlement. On my expressing a wish to inspect the site he first offered to accompany me himself, but later in the day excused himself and sent instead three deputies, who, as permanent residents, were able to give me some interesting information on local matters. I shall refer to the question of Nanning as a Treaty port and the site of the Settlement in the next section. Our visits to the other officials call for no remark.\n\nI subsequently called at the French Mission and saw Father Thomas, whom I had known some years ago in Wuchow. The mission is headed by a Bishop—Mgr. Lavest—who has the Red Button of the Second Rank. He was unfortunately absent at the time. The French School—an imposing white building, with red-tiled roof, just opposite the Taotai's Yamên—is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in charge of three Marist Friars. They had left for Canton on the morning of my arrival and the school was closed for the summer holidays, so I had not the opportunity of visiting it. The school has at present about forty pupils—ages ranging from 14 to 19—who are being educated with a view to future employment on the railway. On my expressing surprise that the French Government should allow this school to be managed by members of a religious Association, the Father exclaimed somewhat bitterly that the French Government, while they persecuted the Church at home, were only too ready, when it served their purpose, to make use of her sons abroad. The Father informed me that the city was ravaged annually by plague and cholera; he estimated that no less than 9,000 persons had been carried off by these two diseases last year. He said the people were quite friendly to foreigners and that mission work was progressing well. I may here mention that the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Wuchow have a station at Nanning; the missionaries in charge were, however, away at the time of my visit.\n\nFather Thomas told me that the French Consulate at Lungchow was now in charge of an Agent Consulaire, who was also Customs Doctor. There was really nothing for a Consul to do there but issue passports to Chinese proceeding to Tonquin. From the Commissioner previously referred to, I learn that his post is also somewhat of a sinecure. Owing to the heavy duties levied on the French frontier, Lungchow derives almost all its supplies from Nanning, and the bulk of these are carried in native craft. The total value of the trade coming under the cognizance of the Maritime Customs in 1902 was only seventy-seven thousand odd taels, and of this amount 65,000 taels worth was forwarded into the interior under transit-pass. Were: Nanning made a Treaty port, the raison d'être for the foreign Customs at Lungchow would, I think, cease to exist, the French Consulate would probably be transferred to the former place.\n\nThe environs of Nanning are devoted to market gardening, the surrounding districts produce all the best known products of Kuangsi: rice, sugar, hides, oils, aniseed, wood, tea, and ground nut paper, camphor, and all kinds of medicines. The bulk of this produce is brought down under transit pass and shipped by steamer to Hong Kong. Through Nanning, too, pass the products of Eastern Kueichow and Yunnan, en route to the coast, opium, medicines, oils, and hides. Nanning, as I have indicated above, derives its supply of foreign goods almost entirely from Hong Kong and Canton delta via the West River; the principal firms have agents in Wuchow, who purchase and forward the goods, in the case of imports from Hong Kong, under transit pass. The foreign imports into Nanning are practically identical with those appearing in the Wuchow Customs returns, chief among them being Indian cotton yarn, oil (Sumatra), piece-goods, and foreign sundries, such as flour, lamps, and matches.\n\nAs an instance of what ill-considered protection does for the manufactures of Tonquin, I may mention that Japanese matches are laid down in Nanning at 5 taels the case, while Tonquinese matches, on the rare occasions when they reach Nanning, cost 8 taels a case. The former have come nearly 2,000 miles, the latter about 200. In the course of my walks through the city, I noticed the usual display of foreign goods, chiefly of Japanese and German origin. I saw one or two large shops for the sale of foreign medicines, including brandy, mineral waters, and bovril. Everything that I priced was much more expensive than in Wuchow, but it is possible the shop-keepers quoted special rates for our benefit. My Chinese writer and official messenger were both, for various reasons, unable to accompany me on this trip, so that I found some difficulty in making myself understood by the shop people, who are for the most part Cantonese. The natives of Nanning speak a dialect near akin to Mandarin. The business of the city is in the hands of men from the delta, in particular the Sunui district, and from Fukien.\n\nI gathered that the trade of Nanning is reviving after a long period of depression, but is still hampered by the insecurity of the waterways leading to the Yunnan frontier, and lately by the sudden imposition of a new scale of native customs dues, called \"Tungshui.\" I have already referred to this subject in my Intelligence Reports. The effect of the new duties is clearly seen in the large number of transit passes which are now being applied for to purchase produce in the Nanning and Posé districts. The merchants of Nanning engaged in foreign trade are unanimous in desiring the opening of the port, which they take for granted would mean the presence of a British Consul. I could not learn what particular advantage they expected to derive from the latter's advent, but there exists undoubtedly a strong feeling amongst native merchants on the West River that wherever a British Consul is stationed there will be freedom of trade and protection from the exactions of the local authorities. Whether this good opinion be merited or not, I did not feel called upon to disabuse them of their idea.\n\nNo organized mining is carried on in the Nanning district, but coal for local consumption is imported from Posé. Attempts have been made to use this coal for steaming purposes, but it has been found to be quite unsuitable, being, like all native... \n\nPage 307 \nPage 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "510\n\nare set forth in the following remarks which the Captain Superintendent has, at my request, published as a Police General Order:-\n\n:\"I have read with much pleasure the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police on the work done by the Force under his command and especially by the European and Indian contingents of it on the occasion of the typhoon of the 18th September. Under the capable and energetic direction of Inspectors V. Robertson, D. Macdonald, A. C. Langley, A. Collett, D. Gourlay, and A. G. Dymond and of Police Sergeants 42 Sim, and 17 Lamont, many hundreds of Chinese lives were saved by the Police on the Island, in Kowloon and in the New Territories during and immediately after the storm, in many cases private persons bravely co-operating.\n\n(2).\n\n\"Of the various members of the Force whose names have been brought to notice in this connection the following are specially commended:-\n\n\"Inspector D. Gourlay who in addition to directing life saving operations in the Eastern District saved 5 lives by jumping into drifting junks from the East Praya and getting the people to shore from them.\n\n\"Lance-Sergeant 106, Appleton, and Police Constables 47, Walker, 77, Foley, and 84, Taylor, who rescued people from boats and fallen houses at Yaumati at considerable risk to themselves.\n\n\"Police Sergeant 12, O'Sullivan, who went into the water and rescued a man from beneath a boat at Hunghom.\n\n\"Lance-Sergeant 59, Lee, and Police Constable 37, Hynes, who saved lives on the East Praya.\n\n\"Indian Police Constable 685, Alli Bux, who assisted Mr. Bevan of Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Company, to rescue a man who had been blown into the sea off the Praya Wall.\n\n\"Indian Police Constable 668, Kesar Singh, and 811, Ojagar Singh, who rescued about 40 people near Murray Pier and 7 others from a damaged cargo boat off Naval Yard.\n\n\"Chinese Constable 304, Chu Shu Yung who with a Sham Shui Po fisherman saved the crew of a water boat at great personal risk.\n\n(3).\n\n\"Others mentioned in the report of the Captain Superintendent for good work in saving life and who are commended are:-\n\n\"Lance-Sergeants 109, Caygill, and 97, Aris; Police Constables 101, Sufton, 87, Clark, 63, Wills, 110, Winter, 28, Munday, 9, Murphy, 98, Purden, 52, Watt, and 69, Parr; Indian Police Sergeant 569, Ahmed Khan, Indian Police Constables 536, Jhundy Khan, 768, Atta", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "180\n\nShensi and Kansu, the Southern limit of the Diocese being the 28th. parallel of North latitude, but exclusive of such parts of the provinces of Sziechuen and Kweichau as lie to the north of the said 28th. parallel of latitude.\n\nNOW it is Our Royal will and pleasure, and We do by this Our Warrant under Our Royal Signet and Sign Manual revoke the said Warrants so far as limits were thereby assigned within which the said Right Reverend George Evans Moule and his successors should exercise spiritual jurisdiction, and in pursuance of the said 2nd. Section of the said Act We do assign Mid China limited by the Southern boundary of the province of Shantung, the Eastern and Southern boundaries of the provinces of Shensi and Kansu, the Southern limit of the Diocese being the Southern Boundary of the province of Cheh-kiang in part and the 28th. parallel of North latitude in other part, but exclusive of such parts of the Provinces of Sziechuen, Kweichau and Fuhkien as lie to the North of the 28th. parallel of latitude, as the limits within which the said Right Reverend George Evans Moule and his successors shall forthwith exercise spiritual jurisdiction over the Ministers of the Church of England and other persons above mentioned:\n\nProvided always that it shall at all times hereafter be competent for Us and Our successors to revoke this Our Royal Warrant, and in accordance with Section 2 of the said Act to assign such limits as may from time to time seem expedient to Us within which the said Right Reverend George Evans Moule and his successors shall exercise such spiritual jurisdiction as aforesaid.\n\nGiven at Our Court of St. James the seventh day of February in the Year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and six and in the sixth year of Our Reign.\n\nBy His Majesty's Command.\n\n(Countersigned)\n\nE. Grey.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 618, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "REGULATIONS\n\nFOR THE\n\nEXAMINATION IN SANITARY SCIENCE\n\nCONDUCTED BY THE STATE MEDICINE SYNDICATE OF THE\n\nUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.\n\n612\n\nC 0. 38815\n\nRECO IP: 22 OCT 06\n\nTwo Examinations will be held during the year 1906; one in April, and one in October. At the April Examination Part I will begin Wednesday, April 4, and Part II on Monday, April 9.\n\nAt the October Examination Part I will begin on Wednesday, October 3, and Part II on Monday, October 8.\n\nAny person whose name is on the Medical Register is admissible as a Candidate to this examination provided that\n\n(I) a period of not less than twelve months has elapsed between the attainment of a registrable Qualification in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, and the admission of the Candidate to either part of the examination;\n\n(II) he produce evidence that, after obtaining a registrable qualification, he has attended during three months the practice of a hospital for infectious diseases at which opportunities are afforded for the study of Methods of Administration, including therein the methods of dealing with patients at their admission and discharge as well as in the wards, and the medical superintendence of the hospital generally;\n\n(III) he produce evidence that, after obtaining a registrable qualification, he has attended during a period of six months one or more courses*, approved by the Syndicate, of Practical Laboratory Instruction in Chemistry, Bacteriology, and the Pathology of those Diseases of Animals that are transmissible to Man:\n\n(IV) he produce evidence that, after obtaining a registrable qualification, he has during six months† (of which at least three months shall be distinct and separate from the period of Laboratory Instruction required under paragraph III) been diligently engaged in acquiring a practical knowledge of the duties, routine and special, of Public Health Administration, under the supervision of\n\n(a) in England and Wales, either the Medical Officer of Health of a County or of a single Sanitary District having a population of not less than 50,000, or a Medical Officer of Health devoting his whole time to Public Health work; or\n\n(A) in Scotland, the Medical Officer of Health of a County or Counties, or of one or more Sanitary Districts having a population of not less than 30,000; or\n\n(7) in Ireland, the Medical Superintendent Officer of Health of a District or Districts having a population of not less than 30,000; or\n\n(8) in the British Dominions outside the United Kingdom, a Medical Officer of Health of a Sanitary District having a population of not less than 30,000, who himself holds a registrable Diploma in Public Health; or\n\n(e) a Medical Officer of Health who is also a Teacher in the Department of Public Health of a recognised Medical School; or\n\n(f) a Sanitary Staff Officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps having charge of an Army Corps, District, or Command, recognised for this purpose by the General Medical Council.\n\n* A list of Colleges and Schools of Medicine at which the courses of Laboratory Instruction have, for the purposes of this Examination, been already approved by the Syndicate, will be found printed on page 3.\n\n† This period of six months may be reduced to a period of three months (which must be distinct and separate from the period of Laboratory Instruction required under paragraph III) in the case of any Candidate who produces evidence that, after obtaining a registrable qualification, he has during three months attended a course or courses of instruction in sanitary law, sanitary engineering, vital statistics, and other subjects bearing on Public Health Administration, given by a Teacher or Teachers in the Department of Public Health of a recognised Medical School.\n\nDistricts recognised by the General Medical Council:-Aldershot; Salisbury Plain; Southern and South-Eastern; Western; Dublin and Belfast; Cork; Chatham and Woolwich; Home; Eastern; North-Eastern and North-Western; Scottish; Gibraltar Command; Western Command (late Bombay); Northern Command (late Punjab); Eastern Command (late Bengal); Secunderabad and Burma Divisions (late Madras Command).\n\n1.7.0.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# 529 \n\n## 2 \n\nthe Customs Service would suffer great and irreparable deterioration if placed under native control at the present time. But there is no evidence, so far as I know, to show that the authority of the foreign Commissioners at the ports has been generally weakened vis-à-vis the Taotais by recent events, although there is in this, as in all other matters where foreigners are concerned, an increasing desire amongst the Chinese of all classes to assume the exclusive management of their own affairs—a task for which they are, in my opinion, still very inadequately equipped.\n\nThe China Association in London apparently indorse the view of the Shanghae branch that the Inspector-General's recent Circular has proved futile. It is difficult in a question of this kind to do more than quote the opinion of those who are most closely interested and in the best position to judge, and I beg to adduce the evidence of two such persons.\n\nM. Piry, a Frenchman, who is at the head of the Postal Service and one of the oldest Commissioners, and whose son is also in the service, volunteered to me a few days ago the statement that the very grave apprehensions which had been felt during the summer about the future of the service had lately almost completely disappeared.\n\nAnother piece of evidence is contained in the inclosed letter from Sir R. Hart, in which he cites the views of the Deputy Commissioner at Tien-tsin. These views, I need hardly say, were expressed without any idea of their being used by me, and I have never seen the writer. Mr. Hausson states that Ts'ai Taotai, in introducing the subject of the Shui-wu Ch'u, declared that the question of doing away with the foreign staff in the Customs had been shelved for the next forty years. Although this forecast appears to me to be unduly sanguine, I agree with Sir R. Hart that the pronouncement, coming as it does from one of the right-hand men of the Viceroy Yuan, to whose support the Decree of the 9th May is supposed to have owed its origin, is especially significant.\n\nOn the other hand, there is a strong sense of grievance amongst the student class, some of whom have won distinction in competition with foreigners in Europe or America, at being excluded from an important branch of the public service in their own country, to which Japanese and members of most other nationalities have admission. As illustrating this side of the question, I beg to transmit to you herewith an extract from an article which appeared a few days ago in a vernacular journal.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from Canton Intelligence Report, January-June, 1906.\n\nRegistration of Cargo Boats.--On the 4th April the Viceroy sent a despatch to all the Consuls stating that a River Police Office had been established, and that it regarded the protection of ships and junks as one of its primary duties. Consequently it had started by registering all the junks in the harbour and waterways. It had already registered 2,800 craft, and now desired to similarly register all cargo boats in foreign employ.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General replied to the Viceroy on the 17th April to the effect that hitherto all cargo boats and small craft in British employ had been already registered and numbered by the Harbour Department of the Chinese Customs, and that this system had worked very smoothly. The assumption of the same powers by the River Police was a new departure, which would lead to complications, and His Majesty's Consul-General could not see his way to countenance it without express orders from his Minister.\n\nThe Viceroy's letter was more or less ignored by the other Consuls. The Customs Department, however, has been in constant communication on the subject with the Chinese officials with a view to its remission.\n\nIt is alleged that the scheme is the creation of the Provincial Treasurer, Hu Hsiang-lin, a very reactionary man, with the intention of subsequently imposing a tax to assist the depleted coffers of the province.\n\nThe baneful influence of the new River Police is being already felt. On one occasion some sampans, lying too near a British steamer in rough weather, were ordered to move off, but they refused to obey the Customs officer's command, on the ground that their authority had been superseded.\n\nThe real object of this Police Department revealed itself when it issued licences to the \"Flower Boats\" to resume their old position in the middle of the harbour. It is rumoured that the \"squeeze\" paid was 20,000 dollars for this permit. These boats had formerly encroached on the fairway of this congested harbour, and on each occasion of constantly-recurring fires had increased in size and unwieldiness, so that they formed a great danger to navigation. The Customs finally succeeded in getting them removed to near the eastern harbour limits. Being thus relegated to comparative obscurity, these \"Flower Boats\" have been trying every means in their power to get back, and at last they found a complacent authority. This action, however, elicited a joint protest from the river captains to His Majesty's Consul-General. The latter thereupon sent a strong remonstrance to the Viceroy, with the result that the boats are gradually being relegated to their former position.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Hart to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nJanuary 13, 1907. In a letter just received from Hausson, the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Native Customs at Tien-tsin, I find the following passage: \"The day before yesterday was indeed a red-letter day with us. The Adjunct Commissioner put in an appearance again after a deliberate absence from this office of more than half a year. As he is one of the most sensitive weathercocks I know of, I was pleased to see in his coming here again that your hands have again been strengthened. Tsai himself, in introducing the subject of the Shui-wu Ch'u, declared the question of the doing away with the foreign staff to have been finally shelved for the next forty years. Après nous, le déluge?'\"\n\nTsai is the man who acted as Haikuan Tao when Liang Tun Yen was absent on special duty in Kiangsi, and is one of Yuan's right-hand men. So his pronouncement and reappearance may be taken as another sign that the storm has blown over and that we have lost no spars.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nNewspaper Extract, dated January 17, 1907.\n\n**CHINESE CENSURE SIR R. HART.**\n\n[Unsigned.]\n\nWe publish below a strongly-worded article from a native paper censuring Sir Robert Hart for his alleged unfair treatment of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs clerks, and his \"short-sighted policy\" in keeping out of the service natives who have been educated abroad.\n\nThe article is as follows:-\n\n\"In a recent leaderette of ours, we mentioned the fact that, notwithstanding Sir Robert Hart's valuable services in China for nearly half a century, he has in one respect at least done gross injustice to the Chinese Government and people. We referred to the fact that, in spite of the altered condition of affairs in China in recent years, when men of excellent character and education have come back from foreign countries, fully capable of occupying positions of responsibility in the Customs Service after a certain period of training, Sir R. Hart has never taken steps to have them trained or to offer any inducements whatever to such men to enter the said service, except as candidate clerks, on the same rank as schoolboys with a smattering of foreign education, on a salary of 25 taels a-month to commence with, and with no hope whatever of rising beyond a Chinese clerkship.\n\n\"To show how Sir R. Hart, by his unfair and short-sighted policy, has kept all well-educated men out of the Customs Service, it is necessary to give a few facts concerning the manner in which Chinese employés in the said service are treated, and to which treatment all other Chinese, irrespective of their education, character, and social position, must submit if they desire a post in the same service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411746, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 246, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Serious Trouble in Hunan and Amateur Revolutionaries\n\nGovernment, when sensible Government enactments may be looked for, but we fear the present generation will not see this happy day.\n\nI am attaching a cutting from a newspaper, issued this morning from a missionary correspondent at Wuchang, which well illustrates some of the statements made in this article.\n\n### Newspaper Extract\n\n#### Amateur Revolutionaries\n\nTHE officials are very alert to catch and destroy all the revolutionaries whom they can. For the most part, these seem to be foolish, half-informed students, who would upset the existing order of things in a violent and unconstitutional way, without having any well-thought-out scheme of government or reform. Lacking experience, they of course soon expose their revolutionary ideas, and are easily found out by the authorities. For example, the meetings held by them here were to some extent open to the public, and, most light-heartedly, photographers were engaged to photograph them as they met, and in various groups and sub-committees. Consequently, as soon as suspicion was aroused and one or two caught, the authorities, by purchasing the whole stock of the photographer's pictures, had most damning evidence against all those concerned.\n\nOne method adopted by these revolutionaries will be condemned by most outsiders. In order to obtain protection in case of trouble, some of the students obtained positions in mission schools as students, and tried to hide themselves under the protection of the Church. A year or two ago, lawsuits were the great danger of Christian missionaries, many of whom unwittingly were led to interfere in cases which, for the good of the Church, had far better have been left alone. To-day, the danger that threatens is that men with revolutionary and even anarchist views may make a pretence of Christianity in order to be received into the fold of the Church.\n\n#### Wolves in Sheep's Clothing\n\nOne case in Wuchang is of unusual interest to many of us, and as the matter is still sub judice, we can only state the bare facts so far as they are known. Mr. Liu, who only recently was baptized and received into one of the Wuchang churches, is now in prison. The other prisoners are said not only to have confessed their own guilt but also that of Mr. Liu, and undoubtedly, there is much evidence of a compromising character against him. He himself has made a confession under torture, which contains at any rate one inaccuracy, and this throws suspicion on his other confessions. But to the general observer of things Chinese, the important fact is this: Why has torture been resorted to after some of us were assured that China had adopted a more humane code of criminal procedure? The reply of officials is that torture under ordinary circumstances is abolished, but where the Judges are satisfied that the evidence is sufficient to condemn a man to death, he is so condemned, and then torture can be applied to obtain further evidence from him. To those of us who know this great people and their ways, such a reply shows that the abolition of torture is about as much an accomplished fact as the suppression of opium or the closing of shops during the first fortnight of the Chinese New Year. The shop is closed, but the door is open, and all can buy what they require. So, too, when at night the gates of the city are closed, there is often very conveniently one gate still unsealed through which the benighted traveller can pass in or out. The officials, in their determination to crush out this revolutionary movement, are ruthless and unscrupulous. In one case, a telegram was sent to a missionary in England asking him to get a certain Chinese with whom he was known to have some acquaintance to return to Wuchang to take up an important post in a Government school. Really, the desire was to use the missionary, who naturally would neither suspect nor be suspected by his victim, as a means of both finding and luring the man to China; once there, he would undoubtedly be lodged at Government expense, but not in a Government school.\n\nPage 7\n\n### Serious Trouble in Hunan\n\nQuite a number of troops have been sent from here to the north-eastern corner of Hunan, where there is some trouble. The following extracts from the letter of a missionary in Hsinyang will be of interest:\n\n\"This place is now being washed in blood. So far, skirmishes and executions account for 2,000 deaths. Every day, from five to ten heads come off in the city. The troops are quartered in the various parishes, and every family is being questioned and searched. All who can be shown to have joined the secret society or to have helped in any way are doomed. Orders for extermination are being vigorously carried out. The work is distasteful to many of the officers and soldiers. Some of them take a gloomy view of the future. The rebels, to a man (I mean those who have been decapitated), have gone to their deaths confident that soon they would be avenged. I find a sullen, dogged sort of temper manifested on all sides. It is a kind of disposition that bodes no good. The hottest fight took place only half a li from here. A bridge at the end of the street was the scene, and for over twenty hours, a howling mob faced the fire of the troops. At the commencement, only a mere handful of soldiers guarded the bridge, and the mob was not so large as later. Things were queer for some hours, and the city was deserted. All fled, except our own people. At the south gate, a body of troops were surrounded by some thousands of rebels. The officer in command gave me an account of the brush. They had only a few rounds of ball, and for several hours maintained a fight made up of bayonet charges. The rebels never knew of the shortage of ammunition, or else it would have gone hard with less than 100 soldiers. The first week or two witnessed awful barbarities. Killed and wounded rebels were cut into, and their livers removed by the troops, who ate them mixed in with their grub. Mr. H. saw three bodies that had been opened, and livers removed. It is damnable, and ceased only after repeated warnings from the higher military commanders. The poor malcontents are sitting down to their whacking, but vow to be revenged when opportunity occurs. Troops may remain some time yet. I hear that the village headmen and country gentry are afraid of reprisals if the troops are withdrawn. They are panic-stricken, and are so off their heads that, by their fearful efforts to get rid of dangerous characters by impeachment, they are laying up a big debt of hate and revenge. I am not allowed to cross from here to Pingchiang. The way is through the hills, and things are not quiet yet.\"\n\nPage 245", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 464, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[19886]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n402\n\n[June 17.]\n\nSECTION 7,\n26320\nRECE REG 23 JUL 07)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,—(Received June 17.)\n\n**(No. 202. Confidential.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, April 29, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith two Reports from the American Consul-General at Harbin which have been courteously placed at my disposal by my United States' colleague.\n\nMr. Fisher's information with regard to Mongolia does not appear to be very accurate, but his remarks on Northern Manchuria and the Russian position there deserve attention. That the affairs of the Chinese Eastern Railway, now that it is deprived of its outlet in Southern Manchuria, should be in a depressed condition is only what was to be expected, but the indifference of the Russian Government to all enterprises in its former sphere of political activity is also to some extent responsible for the present state of industrial stagnation.\n\nThe Russian Minister, who was formerly closely associated with the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Chinese Eastern Railway, frequently complains to me of the reaction which has set in since the war, and which appears to him as unreasonable as was the policy which, before the war, encouraged the schemes of Bezobrassof and others.\n\nI shall have occasion in a later despatch to report upon the Customs question, to which Mr. Fisher refers in his letter of the 4th April.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) J. A. JORDAN,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMr. Fisher to Mr. Rockhill.\n\nDear Mr. Rockhill,\n\nHarbin, Manchuria, March 26, 1907.\n\nMR. KAWAKAMI, the Japanese Consul-General, arrived at Harbin on the 2nd instant, and assumed his duties on the 4th, having taken temporary quarters in the Gamartelli Hotel in New Harbin of the Russian Railway Settlement. I am informed that he did not ask the permission of General Horvat to establish the Consulate-General within the Railway Settlement, but that he is quite willing to recognize the Railway's competence to put the proposed municipal administration into effect, although he claims to be without instructions from his Government on the subject. It is possible that the Japanese interests in the south have influenced him in the position he has taken. Upon his arrival here the Russian authorities made very friendly overtures to him, and I am informed that Minister Pekotilov offered him a railway building for his offices. The cordiality appears to have cooled somewhat within the last few days. The \"Harbin Vestnik\", the organ of the Railway Company, is now publishing some caustic accounts of Japan's administration in Corea, and her abuse of the Chinese in the south. In my opinion there is little indication that the Russians wish to join hands with the Japanese on the Manchurian question to the exclusion of other nations.\n\nThe Russian troops are practically all out of Manchuria. I am informed that only about 1,000 remain. General Dembovsky, who was in command, left for St. Petersburgh on the 22nd instant. A contract has recently been let for the removal of the Russian barracks at Harbin to the Primorsk and Amur provinces, the consideration being 700,000 roubles.\n\nThe depression of trade in Harbin continues to grow worse. The merchants are extremely pressed for money. Occasionally an establishment carrying heavy insurance takes fire, and as there is but little protection given against fire, it burns to the ground. The affairs of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company appear to be in bad shape. General Horvat recently made requisition for 1,500,000 roubles for payment of operating expenses,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1, July 11-21, 1907\n\n### LIST of Chinese Troops on or near the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway Line\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Pei-tai-ho | 5 | Of the 2nd cavalry regiment of the 2nd Division of the Lu Chun, detached from Fu-ning Hsien. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Tang-ho | 100 | Of the 2nd cavalry ying of the Hua Chun, under Captain Ting, at Hai-yang, 2 miles north of Tang-ho. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Shanhaikuan | 20 | Of the 3rd ying of the Huni Chun, under Colonel Wang. Armed with Mausers |\n| 30 June 1907 | Lu-t'ai | 30 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Second Lieutenant Tuan. Armed with Mausers |\n| | Total | 100 | |\n| | | 1,035 | |\n\nThe above Huai Chun troops are all of the Le-tzu brigade of the Huai Chun, except those at Ta-ku, who are of the I-tzu brigade. The Le-tzu brigade is commanded by Brigadier-General Lei, who lives at Chang-li, the I-tzu brigade by Brigadier-General Fan, who lives at Hsin-ch'eng, 12 miles east of Tien-tsin.\n\nThe Huai Chun are badly trained and badly disciplined, but they are soldiers, not policemen. A police force, quite separate from the Huai Chun, also armed with rifles, which they carry at night, exists at all the railway stations and at all the principal towns along the line.\n\nIt will be noticed that, of the total of 1,035 men on or near the line, 350 were new arrivals in June 1907. These 350 men have been taken from the 5th infantry ying at Han-liu-shu, near Tien-tsin, and from the 6th infantry ying at Kou-pang-tzu, in Manchuria.\n\nThe only troops of the Lu-chun are the five men at Pei-tai-ho.\n\n(Signed) H. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| June 1907 | Yang-ts'un | 100 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Captain Wu. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Tsao, in Hai Ta-ku (Western Ta-ku) |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 4th infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Hsia, in Tung Ta-ku (Eastern Ta-ku) |\n| June 1907 | Tang-fang | 45 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Chang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| June 1907 | Wang-lien-chuang | 77 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Fan. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| | Tang-fang | 30 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, ander Lieutenant Fan, at Wang-lien-chuang, 2 miles south-east of Tang-fang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| | T'ang-shan | 25 | |\n| | K'ai-ping | 10 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n| | Ku-yeh | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Yang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| | Lan-chou | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Wang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| | Chang-li | 80 | Of the 1st infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Brigadier-General Lei, who lives here, and commands the whole of the Le-tzu Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n| 1906 | Chang-li | 40 | Of the 2nd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n| | Liu-shou-ying | 10 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Tang, in Chang-chuang, 1 mile north-west of Liu-shou-ying. Armed with Mausers |\n| | An-shan.. | 30 | |\n\n### Clause 6 of Report by the Commanders of the Allied Forces, dated April 12, 1902\n\n**LES GARNISONS CHINOISES** qui sont actuellement à moins de 30 kilomètres de la voie ferrée de Pékin-Tong-kou-Chan-hai-kouan ne devront être augmentées en aucune circonstance. Le Gouvernement Chinois en fera connaître les emplacements et les effectifs à la date du 1o Avril.\n\nCertified true copy: \nH. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n## Sir J. Jordan to General Waters\n\nPeking, August 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 13th instant, in which you quote a clause from the terms laid down in 1902 by the Allied Commanders in connection with the handing over of the native city of Tien-tsin, to the effect that the Chinese garrisons within less than 18 miles of the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway were under no circumstances to be increased, and state that it has recently come to your knowledge that small bodies of Chinese troops have been stationed since 1904 at thirteen different points close to the railway, the total number now being 1,035, 350 of whom had arrived since June last.\n\nYou add that there is no record in your office to show that the terms formulated by the Commanders were communicated to or accepted by the Chinese Government.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that, so far as I can ascertain, the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415711, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[41337]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n404 C.C. 3394\n\n[December 17]\n\nRESP SECTION 1. PEG 29 JAN 08\n\nThe Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company to Foreign Office.-- (Received December 17.)\n\n**(Confidential)**\n\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, London, Dear Sir Francis,\n\nDecember 16, 1907.\n\nI send you a copy of a telegram we have today received from our Manager in China with regard to the difficulties between China and Japan in coming to an arrangement as to the Manchurian telegraphs.\n\nYours faithfully,\n(Signed) F. E. HESSE.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMr. Bullard to the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company,\n\n**(Confidential.) (Telegraphic.)**\n\nShanghae, December 14, 1907.\n\nDresing wires, unless British pressure brought to bear on Japan, hopeless to arrive at any arrangement, as Japan refusing to acknowledge Manchuria as independent Chinese territory. Russia now offended, informed Wai-wu Pu that if Japan not immediately placed on same footing South Manchuria as Russia North Manchuria, Russia obliged to cancel Convention just concluded. Officially, through Wai-wu Pu here, and Minister, Tokio, protested against Japan having ten public telegraph stations in Manchuria outside railway territory, but protest ignored by Japan. British Minister says can do nothing, as only instructed to interfere if your interests in through traffic involved; but beg to point out that the above-mentioned ten Japanese stations are injuring joint interests, and if not closed, Russian Convention will be cancelled and a Russo-Japanese-Manchurian Telegraph Convention eventually made, whereby joint interests seriously involved. Dresing asks, if possible, Company induce British Government to protest against Japan having public telegraph stations outside railway.\n\n[2769 7-1]\n\n14\n\nThe Company recognizes that it is a port opened by ourselves. This is in coincidence with what was reported by the Taotai of Customs, and it shows something at least that is obtained in the right direction.\n\nI, accordingly, shall command the Taotai of Customs to proceed in steps which we deem suitable and thus hope to secure something from a total wreck.\n\nIn a word, whether you have done what you were ordered by the Imperial Edict to do or not, can only be judged by whether the Kaiping mines have been completely restored to the original owners or not. The term allowed to you for effecting this has now been already overpassed, and it would not become us to delay any longer. I must report to the Throne with the whole situation and see how it may please their Majesties. Interim, I beg to convey to your Excellency the above.\n\n0\n\n**(Seal)**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] \n\nPage 404 \nPage 14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415760, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "10\n\nfields ready to be carted to the farm-houses; beans were also harvested, the small millet (Setaria italica) was being cut, while hemp (Cannabis sativa), tobacco, and turnips were still in the ground.\n\nWe\n\nBetween Feng-huang Ting and Ts'ao-ho-kow, which are distant 38.5 and 92.4 miles from Antung respectively by rail, two mountain ranges, the Chi-kuan-shan (Cockscomb) and Ta-fang-shen, have to be crossed and the track zig-zags up and down the steep slopes in a somewhat alarming manner. The curves are marvellously sharp, and it was no surprise to be told that the cars frequently leave the rails. We were fortunate, however, and reached Ts'ao-ho-kow on time (7:15 P.M.), where we had to spend the night in the usual Japanese hotel. There had been cases of cholera at Antung, and there was a medical examination of all passengers on arrival at Tsao-ho-kow. Both pulses were felt by a Japanese doctor, and I was very much afraid that my servant, who had been unable to raise his head all day, would be rejected; but he passed the test without a word, although he was so ill overnight that I had serious intentions of leaving him behind. Next morning he pulled himself together, and, though still very ill, refused to be left behind in Japanese hands.\n\nPunctually at 7:40 A.M. the train, much diminished in size, steamed out of Ts'ao-ho-kow, and, after ascending a valley in which a stream meanders from side to side and has to be repeatedly crossed over trestle bridges, arrived at Ch'iao-t'ou, 38.4 miles from Ts'ao-ho-kow, at 8 minutes past noon. The train was here divided into two portions, and the fore part, consisting of an open baggage wagon, a passenger car, and a small mail van, was dispatched. Crossing the stream it began the ascent of the Mo-tien-ling at the station of Fu-chin, 21 miles from Ch'iao-t'ou, and reached the highest point of the crossing at Ta-tung, 23 miles from Fu-chin. The descent on the north side was very steep (1 in 35 being quite common), and at one point the train had to be backed down. All passed off well: at the station of Meng-chia we had to wait for the other half of the train; and at 3:22 P.M. a fresh start was made for Mukden. About 5 miles from Meng-chia we crossed a long trestle bridge over the T'ai-tzu, which passes the city of Liao-yang, and enters the Hun River, a tributary of the Liao, to the town of Pen-hsi-hu, well known for its coal mines, ironworks, and the manufacture of large brown earthenware jars. The railway traverses the town from end to end along one of its main streets. The city of Feng-huang Ting was too far off to be able to judge of its size, but Pen-hsi-hu is undoubtedly a town of considerable size and importance, and is the largest place touched by the Antung-Mukden line. It is an easy run of 45.8 miles from Pen-hsi-hu to the railway station about 2 miles to the west of Mukden, and this was accomplished, mostly in the dark, in 6 hours 11 minutes, the stoppages at the three intervening stations aggregating 16 minutes, but the well-wooded valleys were replaced by the dull uninteresting plain on which Mukden stands.\n\nBy Article 6 of the Additional Agreement between China and Japan of 1905, \"The Imperial Chinese Government agree that Japan has the right to maintain and work the military line constructed between Antung and Mukden, and to improve the said line so as to make it fit for the conveyance of commercial and industrial goods of all nations. The term for which such right is conceded is 15 years from the date of completion of the improvements above provided for. The work of such improvements is to be completed within two years, exclusive of a period of twelve months during which it will have to be delayed owing to the necessity of using the existing line for the withdrawal of troops. The term of the Concession above mentioned is therefore to expire in the 48th year of Kuang Hsü. At the expiration of that term, the said railway shall be sold to China at a price to be determined by appraisement of all its properties by a foreign expert, who will be selected by both parties. The conveyance by railway of the troops and munitions of war of the Chinese Government prior to such sale shall be dealt with in accordance with the Regulations of the Eastern Chinese Railway. Regarding the manner in which the improvements of the railway are to be effected, it is agreed that the person undertaking the work on behalf of Japan shall consult with the Commissioner dispatched for the purpose by China. The Chinese Government will also appoint a Commissioner to look after the business relating to the railway as is provided in the Agreement relating to the Eastern Chinese Railway. It is further agreed that detailed regulations shall be concluded regarding the tariffs for the carriage by the railway of the public and private goods of China.\"\n\nSo far as I could see or ascertain, there is no through traffic except passengers on the line. There was a little charcoal carried between stations evidently for the use of the railway employés, and poles and planks for building purposes along\n\n11\n\n452\n\nthe line. Railway guards were in evidence at every station, and at Antung they numbered 200 men. No commencement has yet been made in improving the line, and I was informed that, in view of the enormous expenditure that would have to be incurred for the tunnelling and bridging necessary to convert the present light railway into a line suitable for commercial purposes, it has been decided that an easier alignment must be found.\n\nMukden.\n\nThe actual brick-walled city of Mukden covers an area of 1 square mile, and may be described as a miniature Peking, but the suburbs which surround it on all sides have a circumference of 13 miles, and the whole is enclosed by an earth or mud wall. Changes have taken place since I visited it in 1896, and they have assumed the same shape as in Peking—new roads and a police force—both badly needed. A fine, wide metalled road, some 2 miles in length, leads from the railway station to the main West Gate of the inner city, wherein four similar roads connecting the eight gates have recently been built by a Japanese contractor at a cost to the provincial Government of about £15,000 a mile. It seems a large sum (£60,000 for 4 miles of metalled roads), but the Japanese by their command of the railway were the only people in a position to bring the necessary stone and carry out the work. A tramway is to connect the station with the city, and about 20 yards had just been laid at the station end. Uniformed police, armed with batons during the day and rifles with bayonets at night, are stationed 200 yards apart on every street, and are said to maintain excellent order, an example which might well be followed by other cities of Manchuria to be referred to later. In addition to the police, there is a body of 10,000 foreign-drilled troops in and around the city. While the old Palace is being repaired and new offices in foreign style built for the Viceroy and Government, the towers over the gates of the city are being demolished as unsafe. They will doubtless have to be rebuilt, and although the late Viceroy is said to have handed over a balance of 7,000,000 taels to his successor, it has already dwindled to 500,000 taels, and funds are urgently needed to complete the work already in hand and carry out other reforms. The Viceroy was absent in Peking, but I had two interviews with the Governor (His Excellency Tang Shao-yi), and he strongly urged that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation should open a branch in Mukden. Mr. Gardner, an agent of that Bank, was in Mukden during my visit inquiring into prospects of business, and discussing the whole question with the Governor, but I gathered from him that, as the principal business of the Bank is exchange transactions, the absence of foreign merchants and direct trade with foreign countries offered little inducement to establish a branch anywhere in Manchuria. There are already two foreign banks in the city, the Russo-Chinese and the Yokohama Specie Banks, and the Chinese Government Hu Pu Bank, but their raison d'être would appear to be to lend money to Chinese merchants on profitable terms. A large provincial loan is the object in view, and large sums and securities have been talked over, but nothing definite has been arranged, and Mr. Gardner, who came back to Peking to report, has returned to Mukden to consult with the Viceroy and Governor.\n\nIn addition to the British Consul-General, there are now Consular representatives of Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States at Mukden. With the exception of the Russian Consul, who shares with the Japanese a Russian church inside the inner city, they live in the western suburb. Only four or five lots in the area set apart for a foreign Settlement between the railway and the city have been taken up, and the Governor informed me that he did not believe in Settlements, leaving me to infer that, so far as he was concerned, foreigners could live where they pleased. The British-American Tobacco Company is the only British firm with a British representative; Messrs. Butterfield and Swire employ a Chinese as agent for their Hong Kong sugars. There is one American merchant doing business on a small scale, and the representatives of German and other firms at Newchwang visit Mukden from time to time. Excluding the Yokohama Specie Bank, there are three large Japanese firms. According to the Japanese Consul-General, there are over 3,000 Japanese residents scattered through the city and suburbs, and their number is increasing every month. Japanese houses line a great part of the road leading from the station to the West Gate. Of course, there is the usual proportion of women, the singing girls, and waiting maids, while gambling-houses claim a considerable number. In one small room, I watched three men running a table something on the principle of roulette. The room was open to the street, and Chinese were betting on the colours on which three red balls about the size of cricket balls would rest after", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24565]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[July 16.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nConsul Carlisle to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 16.)\n\n(No. 8. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nHanoi, June 8, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 7 of the 27th ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that the operations of the Chinese Imperial troops against the rebels on the Yunnan frontier have been the occasion of a regrettable incident, in which a French officer has lost his life, as well as several French native soldiers.\n\nIn my despatch referred to above I reported that the main body of the fighting strength of the rebels had evacuated Hokou and marched up the railway line. They avoided the Government troops who were coming down by that route by crossing to the eastern side of the Nam Ti. It is said that several of them were drowned during the passage of the river. They then seem to have broken up into bands, some of which came into French territory and surrendered, while others dispersed themselves about the country. As soon as the troops had occupied Hokou on the 26th May a force was sent out after these rebels, and proceeded to scour the country in search of them.\n\nOn the 3rd June the Chinese troops, having come upon a party of revolutionaries, were pursuing them near Phalong, a French frontier post some 30 miles north-east of Laokay. The post is garrisoned by a company of \"Tirailleurs Tonquinois.\" A young French lieutenant, by name Weigand, was dispatched with a detachment of tirailleurs to observe the movements of the opposing forces, and to prevent any violation of the frontier. What happened is not clearly known at present, the only European witness being dead. It seems that the lieutenant, keeping to the French side of the frontier, proceeded parallel to the revolutionaries as they retreated before the Chinese troops. At last the former, probably hard pressed, crossed the frontier. Lieutenant Weigand immediately took them prisoners and proceeded to disarm them. Whether the Chinese troops were then about to attack the prisoners and the lieutenant interfered or what exactly occurred is not at present known, but at all events the Chinese fired, and with such effect that the officer and six of his men were killed and four others wounded. The bodies were not recovered until the next day.\n\nA colonel has been sent up from Hanoi to make an inquiry into the exact circumstances of the case. Two companies of native troops have been sent to the spot. The European troops who had been stationed at Laokay after the outbreak of the revolution had been withdrawn again on the recapture of Hokou.\n\nThe Governor-General has reported the matter to the French Minister at Peking, with a request for the punishment of the parties responsible. The Minister has replied that the Chinese Government say that they will inquire into the allegations of the Government of Indo-China, and, if found true, will give satisfaction. I have reason to believe that the Governor-General has demanded the capital punishment of the Chinese officer in command of the party.\n\nAt first there seems to have been some doubt as to whether the spot where the outrage occurred was actually in French territory or not. The French Resident of Laokay, as soon as the event was known, was instructed to demand explanations from the chief Chinese commander in his vicinity. Instead of doing so immediately he wired that there was some uncertainty as to the position of the scene of the incident with regard to the frontier, and that he was proceeding to make inquiries, which brought upon him a rebuke from Hanoi, and a request that he would carry out his instructions forthwith. I have now been informed by a high official of the Government-General that the position of the spot has been verified, and that it is at least 500 mètres on the French side of the frontier.\n\nThe news of this occurrence has naturally caused great indignation here. It has been frequently said that the arrival of Chinese Government troops on the frontier was\n\n[1865 q--1]\n\n399", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "at the other Treaty ports in China; that, for particular reasons, it was not considered advisable for the Russian Government to declare the true status of the Railway Company when it was created, but that its actual status had been recently made known, and he thought that no one could now deny that it was a political body; this could be plainly seen in the fact that it was officered by Russian Generals and other officials in the service of the Russian Government. When three Governments, Russia, Japan, and China, were parties to such a matter as the original Agreement for the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company in Manchuria, there could be no doubt that the respective interests of Russia and Japan were of an official nature. Japan now being a party to the original Agreement, is entitled to all its benefits. Regarding the municipal administration of Harbin, he stated that it appeared that the suggestions of the United States' Government as to the adjustment of this question were impracticable. It was true that the Railway Company, or rather, the Russian Government, had failed to announce its special rights in the town of Harbin at the time the place was declared open to international trade and residence by China, but that was a minor matter which he expected to adjust after his arrival at Peking. He said he realized that the work before him was difficult, as the Chinese Government was now endeavouring to evade the terms of the unfavourable Agreement it made, which gave the Railway Company such extensive rights, but he hoped I would not take any action here that would tend to embarrass him in the adjustment of the questions connected with the situation here, and in his efforts to improve the economical conditions in Harbin in particular, and in all North Manchuria in general.\n\nTo his remarks I replied that I had no desire whatever to interfere with the rights of the Russian Government here, but on the other hand sincerely wished that he might be able to arrive at an early settlement of those questions, as at present the situation here appeared to be very inconvenient to everybody. As regards the status of the Railway Company, I had been assured by General Groubchevsky, the former chief of its civil affairs, that it was private, and I believed that the views of the United States' Government on that subject had already been expressed to the Russian Ambassador at Washington. He would, of course, understand that in my position here I must be guided by the different Treaties, including our own, bearing on the situation, of which I was informed. Being accredited to China I could not take any action that would be offensive to that Government, as regards matters of administration, &c., or that would interfere in any way with the measures that China might wish to take for the general development of Manchuria. I assured him that I had no wish to do anything that would embarrass him in adjusting these questions in fairness to all, and I hoped he would urge upon the Russian railway guard, and other local officials, the importance of respecting our Treaty rights and the principles of exterritoriality, the latter of which were long established, and were matters of which the different nations were very sensitive. I called his attention to the recent case of Mr. Harry Roeper (see my despatch No. 46, dated the 29th August, 1908). I also said that in my opinion the natural officer with whom other nationals expected to deal in matters in which Russian interests were involved was the Russian Consular Representative. The Railway Company could not be treated with in such matters, as it had no authority to take them up owing to its status.\n\nIf, as reported, General Horvat, the present Superintendent of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company, is to be appointed Russian Consul-General here, it is to be earnestly hoped that the Chinese Government will insist upon the principle that he give up the superintendence and all other direct connection with the affairs of that Company. With these two offices combined in one person it would be more difficult than ever for the other Consular Representatives here to deal with matters with which Russian interests are connected. Under cover of the superintendence of the Railway Company he would assume functions and take action in various official matters that a Consul-General alone would not be warranted in taking. The tendency would be to work towards a colonial governorship. It is reported that General Chichagoff, the present Commander of the railway guard in Manchuria, will soon retire, and that General Horvat, will also take over the command of those troops, numbering about 25,000.\n\nThe Railway Company's administration over Harbin, referred to in my despatches No. 20 of the 30th December last, No. 23 of the 24th January last, et seq., has been installed, so far as Russian subjects and interests are concerned. Many of the other nationals whose interests are connected with the Railway Company or are catering to Russian trade have voluntarily submitted to its authority and have paid their taxes, but others who have declined to recognize it are conducting their business without interference. Although the local Chinese authorities have assured me that they have instructed all Chinese subjects doing business in Harbin not to pay the taxes to the Administration, or to take out business licences, I am informed that practically all Chinese have paid the taxes.\n\nAs regards the other Governments, they appear to have taken but little interest in the situation here, and will probably not oppose any action that the Railway Company, or, in other words, the Russian Government, sees fit to take.\n\nOther than the Japanese Consul-General, who is actively supporting the Railway Company in its administration here, the French Government has a Consular Agent here, who is also an officer of the Russo-Chinese Bank, and therefore finds it to his personal interest to support the Railway; the Belgian Government has an honorary Vice-Consul, who is a commission merchant for contract supplies to the Railway Company; and the Austro-Hungarian Government will shortly appoint an honorary Consul who is also a commission merchant and contractor for railway supplies. The French and Austro-Hungarian Governments have recognized the Railway's administration over Harbin, with the proviso that their Treaty rights are not surrendered.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) FRED. D. FISHER,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nAmerican Consul.\n\nExtract from the \"Daveti Val,\" a daily Russian newspaper of Harbin, August 14 (27), 1908.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nWE have been informed that the duties of an independent Russian Consul-General in Harbin will be abolished and these duties united with those of the Manager of the Eastern Chinese Railway, General Horvat. M. Luba (the present Consul-General) is to be superannuated and removed to a new post. In conjunction with this arrangement a new office will be established, ..., an adviser with the Consulate, to which office it is expected that Prince Meschersky the Vice-Consul at Kuanchengizu, will be appointed. The new arrangement, we think, will greatly help to put in better order Russian affairs in Manchuria. It will establish one authority and abolish the present dual prejudicial one.\n\nPage 359", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "2\n\nbe concentrated at present in the mountainous Dong-Trieu region, north of the delta, between Sept-Pagodes and Quang-Yon, and some apprehension is felt for the safety of the small posts in that neighbourhood.\n\nThe remnants of the revolutionary bands from Yunnan are still occupying the attention of the Foreign Legion and \"Tirailleurs\" in the north-west of the province, near Hoang-Su-Phi, close to the frontier. They have, however, been gradually so reduced in numbers as no longer to present any danger. Although they were joined by a certain number of local tribesmen-\"Meos (Chinese Miaotze)\"-their total numbers are said now not to exceed 100. The rest have either been killed or have succeeded in escaping separately.\n\nIt is believed that Commandant Lecreux, who is in command of the operations, has reported in a very unfavourable sense on the value of the native troops-\"Tirailleurs Tonkinois\"-under him. That he should have done so would not be surprising. His remarks, however, are not likely to be published, and confirmation of the rumour cannot therefore be expected.\n\nAlthough it is denied officially that a campaign against the Dê-Tham is necessary at present, every one believes that the Government intends to undertake one shortly. The reoccupation by detachments of European troops of some of the small posts in the neighbourhood of the Yen-thé district, where such a campaign would take place, strengthens this belief.\n\nThe numerous assertions in the French press, both at home and in the East, that important military reinforcements were to be sent to Indo-China are now recognized as having been unfounded. All that was done was to hasten the departure of the reliefs, and to bring up the garrison to its full strength.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nT. FF. CARLISLE.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Governmental\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[November 14.] 2 DEC 08,\n\n[39617]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 14.)\n\n(No. 432. Confidential) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 29, 1908. IN my despatch No. 381 of the 26th August last, I had the honour to state that the Acting British Consul-General at Mukden had been instructed to proceed to Harbin to arrange with the Russian Consul-General there regarding the administration of the estates of deceased British subjects, and I have now the honour to inclose a despatch from Mr. Willis reporting the result of his mission.\n\nGeneral Horwath, the recently appointed Consul-General, who still acts as President of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, admitted, it will be seen, that his predecessor, M. Luba, had made a mistake in undertaking the administration of the Macdonough estate, and assured Mr. Willis that in the event of similar cases arising in the future His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden would be notified so that he might himself assume charge of the administration.\n\nSince my despatch No. 419 of the 16th instant I have had some further conversation with my Russian colleague regarding the position at Harbin, which M. Korostovetz is evidently anxious to regularize. He pressed me strongly for an expression of my views, but I still adhered to the opinion that it was difficult to offer any suggestions of a practical nature until he had come to an understanding with the Chinese as to the interpretation of the 1896 Agreement. I said the only solution that had occurred to me was that possibly a portion of the area might be reserved exclusively for railway purposes, and that the remainder should be converted into an International Settlement, but even this solution would probably not commend itself to the Chinese. M. Korostovetz said the Chinese would object to any settlement of the question short of a total surrender of the land, and as I have no personal knowledge of the local conditions, I promised to consult Sir Alexander Hosie and Mr. Willis, and let him know if they could offer any suggestions towards a solution of the problem.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 60.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, September 24, 1908. IN accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch No. 25, Confidential, of the 24th ultimo, I proceeded to Harbin on the 16th instant and arranged an interview with General Horwath, the recently appointed Russian Consul-General, on the 18th instant.\n\nGeneral Horwath, who still holds his appointment as President of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, received me at the office of the Railway Administration.\n\nHaving explained to him the details of the Macdonough incident, with which he professed to be entirely unacquainted, I stated that, whilst in view of the absence of a British Consular officer at Harbin I was very grateful for the assistance I had received from the Russian Consulate-General in this instance, I trusted that in the future, as my jurisdiction extended over the whole of Manchuria, he would see his way to notify me in the event of any further cases of a similar nature arising. I would then make arrangements for the administration of such estates.\n\nGeneral Horwath replied that his predecessor, M. Luba, had made a mistake in taking upon himself the administration of this estate. The natural course would have been to notify me, as the nearest resident British Consular official. General Horwath regretted that this had not been done, and assured me that the procedure I suggested would be henceforth adopted by the Russian authorities.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 485, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "f\n\n罩\n\n!\n\n481\n\n2\n\npart of the Russian Government, namely, the open recognition of the railway as a Russian Government line.\n\nIt seems that recently friction had arisen between M. Luba, the Consul-General, and General Horwath, in consequence of which they both travelled to Manchuria station to meet the newly appointed Russian Minister on his way to Peking. M. Luba was directed to proceed to St. Petersburgh immediately; General Horwarth returned to Harbin with the Minister, and a few days later took over charge of the Consulate-General.\n\nPrince Mestchersky, the Russian Vice-Consul, told me plainly that the Russian Government were now prepared to identify themselves with the Chinese Eastern Railway, and stated that negotiations were now being carried on in Peking with the view of changing the railway territory at Harbin into a Russian Concession; such Concession, Prince Mestchersky considered, should be run on the same lines as the other foreign Concessions at the various Treaty ports.\n\nConsidering the position of the Russians at Harbin and the absence of any material British interests in the town at the present moment, a settlement of this nature is one practically against which His Majesty's Government might find it difficult to protest. All the available land is in the possession of the Railway Company, it would place Harbin in the position of a Russian Colony, with General Horwarth as Governor. In addition to his position as Chief of the Railway and Consul-General, he is, it is stated, to be given the command of the railway guards. An example of this kind is one which the Japanese Government would be not slow to follow, with consequences that I cannot fail to think would be prejudicial to our material interests.\n\nThe attitude of the Japanese Government at Harbin seems to support this view. Their Consul-General, Mr. Kawakami, who has been for many years resident in Russia, has been throughout a strong supporter of the Russian contention, and the Japanese Government, he informed me, have recognized the Railway Administration and its subordinate municipality.\n\nI inquired of Mr. Kawakami whether he had not found in practice that the Russian Regulations pressed somewhat harshly on his nationals; I alluded in particular to the undertaking which has to be signed before the acquisition of a lease or sub-lease of land or buildings.\n\nMr. Kawakami replied that hitherto no attempt had been made to deal with Japanese subjects without reference to him; that he had not as yet encountered any practical difficulty, nor did he expect any in the future. The Russians, he said, were too weak to give anyone much trouble at present.\n\nMr. Fisher, the American Consul, never loses an opportunity of contesting the Russian position. An American subject was recently arrested by the Russian police for presenting a false bank-note at a café chantant. He was taken to the police station, where inquiries were made, as the result of which he was released. He was, however, compelled to sign a document in Russian, in which an account of the incident was given, and his passport was indorsed by the police authorities. Against this action, Mr. Fisher has lodged a strong protest. He claims that as soon as the man had made out a prima facie case that he was an American citizen, he should have been brought to the American Consulate, and that the police authorities, whom he invariably describes as \"railway guards\" in his communications with the Russian officials, had no right to call upon an American citizen to sign their documents or to tamper with an American passport.\n\nMr. Fisher considers that General Horwath's appointment as Consul-General is objectionable as showing a tendency to convert the Consulate-General into a department of the Railway Administration. General Horwath is rarely at the Consulate, which seems to be left almost entirely to the Vice-Consul, whilst the General receives his visitors, as he did myself, in the offices of the Railway Administration.\n\nThe municipality, I learnt, were having considerable difficulty in collecting taxes from non-Russians. The French Consular Agent, M. Dard, who is also the Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, informed me that he had supported French subjects in their refusal to contribute. His contention was that the municipal Rules and Regulations had not been notified to him officially, and that, unless the French Minister in Peking had signified his approval of such Regulations, it was out of the question that they could be enforced against French citizens. The other Consular Representatives, except Mr. Kawakami, hold similar views, and the question is now in abeyance.\n\nThe conversion of the railway territory into an international Settlement would be in many ways the best solution of the difficulty, but to this course, it seems hardly probable that the Russian Government could be brought to consent. Their property would, of course, be improved in value if the Chinese Government would consent to a perpetual lease in lieu of the present arrangement, and the preponderance of the Russian population is so overwhelming that it would seem that, even under international Regulations, the Russians must continue for an indefinite time to be, for all practical purposes, the administrators of the territory. From this point of view, their only danger would lie in the possibility of an influx of Japanese. Even now, there are 800 Japanese in Harbin, about 60 per cent. of the non-Russian foreign population.\n\nIn whatever rapprochement there may have been recently between the Russian and Japanese Governments, I feel quite sure that the Russian officials in Harbin will do all they possibly can to discourage Japanese from settling in Northern Manchuria. In fact, the stringent Regulations which have been drawn up for the leasing of land at Harbin were, I suspect, prompted by a desire to keep Japanese rather than any other people out of the railway territory.\n\nThe form of lease, of which I inclose a copy, contains a stipulation to the effect that no sub-lease will be valid unless given to a Russian or Chinese subject, and, though this Regulation is not enforced, it has never, Mr. Fisher informed me, been formally cancelled.\n\nThe Russians have practically no interests south of Kuan Chengtzu; their branch of the Russo-Chinese Bank has recently been withdrawn from Mukden, though they still continue at Newchwang. The question of the development of the Japanese Railway Settlements is one in which the Russian Government would not seem to be particularly interested.\n\nI inclose a map of Harbin* with which I was supplied through the courtesy of General Horwath.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nForm of Lease.\n\nROBERT WILLIS,\n\nthe Administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway, by the Superintendent in Harbin, and have concluded this Agreement, to wit:\n\n1. The Superintendent of the Railway hereby grants a lease of land belonging to the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, shown on the plan as No. measuring square sajen (1 sajen is 7 feet), located at street, under the following conditions:\n\n2. The term of the lease of this land shall be equal to the term of the Concession of the Railway Company, more particularly from the date of the conclusion of this Agreement until the 1st day of January, 1983.\n\n3. The lessee hereby agrees not later than two years from the date of the conclusion of this Agreement to build upon or improve the ground, for which purpose during the said two-year term, there shall be expended a sum not less than roubles on each square sajen, or in all a sum not less than roubles.\n\n4. Before commencing to build on the land, the lessee must present to the Administration for approval a general and detailed plan of the proposed buildings. After the approval of such plans, the building may be commenced according to the approved plans and by the observance of all published Rules and Regulations regarding structure.\n\n5. The lessee shall submit to all police, structural, sanitary, trade, industrial, and other Rules that may be published by the Administration of the Railway; and also shall pay all taxes or duties brought in on the territory belonging to the Chinese Eastern Railway.\n\n6. The lessee shall have no right to prevent the passing through his land of city or railway water-courses and sewer pipes, and also the suspension of poles of city and railway electric wires and cables.\n\n7. After the expiration of the two-year term mentioned in paragraph 3, or sooner, according to the request of the lessee, the land will be inspected, and if the above required conditions shall be found by the Commission to have been executed, then a notation of the examination in accordance therewith shall be made on this Agreement.\n\n* Not reproduced.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417969, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 681, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "represented to him that if Chinese were allowed to reside under fair conditions the numerical superiority he feared would disappear in a very short space of time.\n\nHis Excellency, however, seemed to think that the Chinese Government could find a solution at Harbin by a gradual repurchase of the land. The place was not a success financially and he thought that private owners in considerable numbers would jump at an opportunity to get out if fair terms were offered.\n\nThis suggestion seems to me impracticable.\n\nAs far as Russian local opinion is concerned, as I suggested in my despatch No.61 of the 26th ultimo, the prevailing sentiment seems to be fear of Japanese commercial aggression, and I do not think it at all improbable that the idea of an international settlement might be welcomed locally as a bulwark against Japan's advance northwards, provided that the Russians could be convinced that such a settlement would not be flooded by Japanese, a contingency that appears very improbable for some time to come.\n\nThat an international settlement would, in all probability, become an important factor in the development of Northern Manchuria is in my opinion undoubted, always provided that the Chinese Eastern Railway can be induced to quote reasonable rates and grant real equality of treatment. If British and American capitalists could once feel assured of this, the financial difficulties against which the place is now apparently hopelessly struggling, would, I am convinced, be successfully overcome. On the other hand judging from experience and the exceptional opportunities the Russian merchants have enjoyed since the construction of the railway, there seems but little prospect of any considerable future development if the Russian Government continues its present protectionist policy.\n\nIn fact from the point of view of the commercial nations, excepting, of course, Russia and Japan, an international settlement seems the only possible satisfactory solution of the present impasse at Harbin, and a settlement of the question on these lines would further constitute a precedent that would be invaluable in support of the doctrine of equality of commercial opportunity in the three eastern Provinces.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) B. WILLIS.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[41501]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n677\n\n[November 28.]\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nC.0\n\n47047\n\nREC REG 23 DEC 08\n\n*. \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received November 28.) (No.458.) Sir,\n\nPeking, October 15, 1908. WITH reference to my telegram No.149 of the 11th ultimo, I have the honour to report that the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires has notified the Wai-wu Pu that Japan will, before winter, withdraw more than half of her troops at present quartered in North China. These troops, which according to the latest returns number 69 officers and 1,171 men, are divided into seven companies, of which two form the Legation guard, four are stationed at Tien-tsin, and one is quartered at Shanhaikuan.\n\nThe whole force is under the command of a General who will not, however, be retained after the reductions have taken place. All the cavalry will be withdrawn, but it is uncertain in what proportion the garrisons will be reduced in the three places at present occupied.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of an article in the \"Chinese Public Opinion' on this subject,* which points out that the very strong position of Japan in this country, from a military point of view, makes it much more possible for her to reduce her garrison in Chibli than it would be for other nations not so advantageously situated. Motives of economy, in connection with the retrenchments at present being made in Japan, are also understood to have influenced the decision reported in this despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2029 ee-4]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "C.O.\n\n13122333 No: IREC\n\n1909\n\nREGE 17 APR 09,\n\nOf produc Top-by\n\npresent industry and trade, which has been in existence for over 100 years. Such a monopoly covering ... of the total drug consumed, would be an effective agent in controlling and restricting consumption, in raising revenue, and in securing accurate statistics. It would not be a breach of treaty, and would not be objected to by the foreign merchants, who could still sell to whom they pleased, while the monopolists of the native drug would take good care to see that such persons dealt in foreign opium only.\n\nThe Chinese Government I would venture to suggest, should exercise a Government monopoly in respect of all opium produced by the cultivators in precisely the same way that the Indian Government holds a monopoly of all the opium produced in Bengal. Lord Brassey's Opium Commission recorded it as their well considered conclusion, that this was \"the best system for regulating the production\". † The Indian Government sells its opium at auction but for the reasons I have already given it is probable that it would be better that in China the monopoly of preparation and retail sale should, as in Hongkong, be in the hands of licensed monopolists. The Indian auction sales are solely for export,—the sales in China and sale would be solely for local consumption. The licensee would have the sole right to deal in both raw and prepared native opium, obtaining his supplies from Government while the sale of the progressively decreasing imports of foreign opium would remain unrestricted in accordance with treaty.\n\nof prepare\n\n-ly\n\nFarmers.\n\nThe professed object of China is to reduce the sale of opium, and since the creation of a monopoly is stated to be \"fundamentally prejudicial to trade\",— competition being excluded, and licensees being gradually reduced,—it will assist the object in view.\n\nThe Chinese Government has long been alive to the advantages of the monopoly system for controlling, and possibly extinguishing the trade, but they have confined their efforts to endeavouring to create a monopoly in foreign opium at Nanking, Kiukiang, Szechuan, Hupei and Canton, notwithstanding that it was always in the power of the opium guilds to decline to buy foreign opium if they really desired to exclude it. In October 1907 an Imperial decree directed an enquiry with a view to a monopoly of sale, and the report of the Board of Finance a year later opposed it on the grounds that it would give umbrage to foreigners, would involve expense, would delay the extinction of the habit for the full period of 10 years, and would require a better organised police supervision than China possesses. The monopoly suggested apparently included foreign opium, and referred to sale only,—which was to be a Government monopoly and not in the hands of licensees. Nor was any monopoly of production included. It therefore differs radically from my own suggestion. So far from being expensive, a monopoly such as I suggest, should in the first year yield a Revenue—if the Hongkong farm may be taken as a basis of calculation of some £55,000,000 ‡ and would thus enlist the co-operation of the Provincial Authorities.\n\nA Government monopoly of sale is, I concur, not feasible owing to the inadequacy of the Police and the venality of officials, and I therefore suggest the licensed monopolist. The Government monopoly of all produce involving a careful check of the area under cultivation, the licensing of growers, and a yearly decrease would I admit be difficult, but as the Board recommend this check as an alternative, it is clear that they consider it to be within the capacity of the Government machinery. The bargain with India is of course based on the pledge of total abolition in 10 years. If the monopoly system should substitute Regulation and Control for Abolition (which no doubt India would prefer), the terms of the compact would have to be reconsidered. The machinery for a system of Licensed Farmers, already exists in the opium guilds, who at Canton (and probably elsewhere) already pay a fixed sum to the Provincial Revenue, and license the retail shops. Recently indeed the Viceroy of Szechuan has urged that in order to effectively control the growth of the poppy and the sale of opium, it is necessary that the trade in the native drug should be an official monopoly, that all raw opium should be bought up, and it should be prepared, sold or exported by official hongs. §\n\nSir J. Lyall. Indian Opium Report Vol. VI. p. 121.\n\n† Ibid Vol. VI, p. 96.\n\n‡ Hongkong $4,115,200 on (say) 800 chests (local consumption only). Therefore China consuming about 22,588 chests (see p. 1) would at the same rate realise 50 millions sterling. Memorial in Official Gazette 21.1.1909.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 20\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nMEMORANDUM REGARDING THE RESTRICTION OF OPIUM\n\nIN HONGKONG AND IN CHINA.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, March 11th, 1909,\n\nOn May 6th, 1908, Mr. W. Johnson moved a resolution in the House of Commons (seconded by Mr. T. Taylor) approving the action of His Majesty's Government in progressively decreasing the quantity of opium exported from India to China, and urging the abolition of licensed Opium Dens in the Far Eastern Crown Colonies.* Both mover and seconder informed the House that in Hong-kong \"nothing had been attempted,—nothing done\". These statements passed unchallenged, and have conveyed to the rest of the Empire an erroneous impression of the facts regarding this Colony, which has caused no little soreness in a very loyal portion of His Majesty's oversea dominions. The Under Secretary in his reply said that His Majesty's Government recognised that in dealing with the opium question in Hongkong it was essential that we should act up to the Standards set by China † and in a later debate on July 28th ‡ he added that it had not been possible to get a reasoned opinion from Hongkong,\n\nI will endeavour in the following observations to remove the misunderstanding created by the remarks of Messrs. Johnson and Taylor, and at the same time to present a reasoned opinion as to the measures which may usefully and with justice be taken in order to give effect to the high object which His Majesty's Government have in view, viz., to restrict the opium habit in this Colony and to assist the Chinese Government in effecting a like restriction in China.\n\nI write as one who has comparatively recently come to the Far East with no preconceived ideas and prejudices on the subject, but who has studied it closely for over a year. I claim moreover to have given practical proof in the past of a keen interest in matters affecting the welfare of Native Races,—e.g., the suppression of the Liquor Traffic, Slavery, etc., in Africa.\n\nThe Eastern Colonies, as a part of the British Empire, are animated by the same attitude of ideals as the United Kingdom and have a not less high standard of morality. If then the Rulers of the Empire at its centre, and the Home Parliament, with a full and accurate knowledge of the whole circumstances, arrive at the conclusion, that restriction in the matter of opium should be inaugurated in India and in the Eastern Crown Colonies, we may assume with confidence that the decision would meet with a loyal response, in spite of the fact (which Colonel Seely frankly pointed out) that it is their Revenue and their trade,—and not that of the United Kingdom,—which are affected.\n\nThe Colonies concerned are, however, naturally anxious that the Imperial decision shall be based upon an accurate presentment of the facts, and it is clear from a perusal of the speeches in the Legislative Councils and from the comments of the Colonial Press, that the communities concerned labour under an impression that public opinion in England has to some extent been misinformed as to the facts, and that in consequence the methods proposed are not in all cases such as are best adapted to the end in view, or consonant with a British sense of Justice. Willing co-operation can only be based upon a mutual conviction that the course of action adopted is one that has every prospect of being effective, and that the sacrifices made will not be futile.\n\n* Hansard Vol. 188 (4th Series) p. 330 et seq. † Ibid p. 356.\n\n‡ Vol. 193, p. 1260.\n\n§ Ibid p. 355.\n\nPage 21\n\nPage 21\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "the difficulties of carrying out the ancient law of three years' mourning, and the Emperor refusing to release himself from it, and named the Princes of the Blood, Mongol Princes, and high Chinese statesmen who were entitled to the distinction of sharing in some of the 100 days' mourning, all other Princes and Ministers being ordered to wear mourning for twenty-seven days only and to burn the garments when discarded. Kuang Hsü's concubines were raised in rank by special Decree, and each of them was granted an allowance of 500 taels (`601`) a month for life. A characteristic note was introduced by the publication of a telegraphic Memorial of Tong Shao-yi proposing to alter the third ideograph of his own name, which happens to be identical with the second of the new Emperor's, to another ideograph of the same sound, and inquiring whether any change was to be made in the Imperial letter he was bearing to President Roosevelt.\n\nOn the 19th November appeared a long panegyric of the life work of the August Empress Dowager. Every important achievement or reform in the two reigns of Tung Chih and Kuang Hsü (1861-1908) is laid to her credit, and her claims to a place in Chinese history surpassing the most famous Empresses of past dynasties are set out with the customary rhetoric. This classic composition winds up with a command to the Grand Secretariat and the various Boards to consult together as to the posthumous title to be bestowed on Her late Majesty.\n\nAnother Decree of the 19th permitted the Mongol Princes and Nobles in attendance at Court to join in the obsequies, released those not at Court from the obligation to come, and remitted the tributary presents due from Mongol Chieftains during the present year.\n\nFuneral rites on a scale of exceptional grandeur were ordered for the Empress Dowager in a Decree of the 20th November, and the tomb which has been in preparation for Her Majesty at the Eastern Mausolea for thirteen years past, and which has lately been completed, was given an official name. It may be mentioned that the importance attached to Imperial places of sepulture was shown as usual by the threefold elevation of the ideographs of which the name was composed. That there was some opposition in the Imperial Family to the changes made in the headship of the Government is evident from another Decree of the 20th November, which quoted the earlier mandate of the Empress Dowager conferring supreme control on the Prince Regent, and enjoined strict obedience thereto by the Princes of the Blood, whose duty it was to set an example to the nation. This was followed by a severe general Ordinance against revolutionaries and disturbers of the peace, which was provoked probably by the mutiny in Anhui, reported in my telegrams to you Nos. 190 to 193 of the 21st, 23rd, 24th, and 25th instant respectively.\n\nI have the honour to inclose, for your information, précis translation of the Decrees referred to in the preceding summary, and I also transmit copy of an interesting note by Dr. G. Douglas Gray, physician to the Legation, on the medical facts and circumstances attending the deaths of the Emperor and Empress. A crop of rumours of foul play in one or other case was to be expected, but in all the information which has reached me I can discern nothing upon which to ground a belief that either the Emperor or Empress died from other than natural causes.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n### Translations of Imperial Decrees, November 14 to 20, 1908.\n\n#### Further Decree of the Empress Dowager, November 14, 1908.\n\nWHEREAS the Emperor Mu Tsung Yi (T'ung Chih) died without issue, an Edict was published on the 12th January, 1875, commanding that if a son should be born to the Emperor Kuang Hsü he should be regarded as the heir of the Emperor Tung Chih.\n\nNow the Emperor Kuang Hsü is also deceased without issue, and no other course remains but to take P'u Yi, son of the Prince Regent Tsai Feng, as the adopted heir of the Emperor Mu Tsung Yi (Tung Chih), and at the same time as the successor of the late Emperor.\n\n#### Imperial Decree received by the Grand Secretariat, November 15, 1908.\n\nWe, the Emperor, having entered upon the great inheritance, our revered grandmother, Her Majesty the Empress Dowager, shall henceforth be honoured by the appellation of the August Empress Dowager, and our mother by adoption, Her Majesty the Empress, by the appellation of Empress Dowager. Let the proper Department examine the Statutes and inform us by Memorial of the forms and ceremonies necessary under such circumstances.\n\n#### Further Decree of the Emperor.\n\nWe have received the following Decree from Her Majesty the August Empress Dowager:-\n\n\"The Prince Regent Tsai Feng is now commanded to control the State. Let the Grand Secretariat and the various Boards and metropolitan Departments consult together respecting the ceremonies.”\n\n#### Decree of the Empress Dowager, November 15, 1908.\n\nThe Princes Li Shih To and Jai K'uei Pin, Na Yen Tu, Prince of the Khalkhas, Tsai Tse, Imperial Duke of the First Degree and President of the Board of Finance, the Grand Secretaries Shih Hsu and Na-t'ung, Yuan Shih-k'ai, President of the Board of Foreign Affairs, Pu Liang, President of the Board of Rites, and Chi-lu and Tsung-ch'ung, Comptrollers of the Imperial Household, are ordered to reverently perform the mourning rites and to make all arrangements connected therewith.\n\n#### Decree of the Empress Dowager, November 15, 1908.\n\nYesterday a Decree was issued specially commanding the Prince Regent to superintend the State, and instructing that all military and Government affairs whatsoever should be executed in obedience to our advice, instructions, and decisions. I am now dangerously ill and fear that I cannot recover. Hereafter let the Prince Regent take the decisions in military and Government affairs. In matters of gravity in which he must request a Decree of the Empress Dowager (Consort of the Emperor Kuang Hsü) the Prince Regent will take Her Majesty's pleasure in person.\n\n#### Decree of the Emperor, November 13, 1908.\n\nBy a Decree of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung Ch'eng (Tao Kuang), issued in the 3rd month of the 26th year of his reign (April 1846), it was ordained that the use of the two characters forming the personal name of the Emperor should not be entirely forbidden, but that thereafter, on the accession of a new Emperor, the first character of his personal appellation should remain in use unaltered and that the question of what strokes should be omitted in the formation of the second character should be decided when the occasion arose. It was directed that this should be the invariable rule.\n\nIn obedience to the will of our illustrious ancestor, we direct that the first character of our present name shall continue to be written as heretofore, and that as a mark of reverence a stroke shall be omitted from the second character, which shall hereafter be written thus (*). This enactment does not apply to books printed prior to the issue of the present Decree.\n\n#### Further Decrees of the Emperor, November 15, 1908.\n\nOn the occasion of the death of the Emperor Mu Tsung Yi (Tung Chih) in the fifteenth year of his reign (1875), His late Majesty, following the precedent already established, absolved the officers in the provinces—Tartar-Generals, Governors-General, Governors, Commanders-in-chief, Brigade-Generals, Provincial Treasurers, and Judges, as well as Salt Commissioners and Superintendents of Customs and of Imperial Manufactories—from the duty of coming to the capital to pay their respects to the Imperial...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421222, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Decrees dated November 18, 1908.\n\n**Decree of the Empress Dowager** (widow of the late Emperor Kuang Hsü) commands the Prince Regent to wear mourning for 100 days.\n\n**Decree of the Emperor**, commands the Princes and Ministers appointed to superintend the Imperial funeral arrangements to wear mourning, in accordance with rule, for 100 days.\n\nThe same command is extended to Prince Ch'ing, Prince Chuang, the Khorch'in Prince (Mongol), the Prince of K'e-ch'in, the Naiman Prince (Mongol), the Princes Tsai Jun, Tsai Hsun, Tsai Tao, Yu Lang, K'alach'in (Mongol), Khorch'in (Mongol, third Order), P'u Lun, Yu Su, the Tumed Prince (Mongol), the Duke P'u Chieh, the Duke of Kh'orchin (Mongol), Prince Tsai Chen (son of Prince Ching), Duke P'u-T'ung, the Generals of the Imperial Body Guard, Fen Ch'e and Se-leng-o, the Lieutenant-Generals Shan-Yu and Liang Tai, a number of husbands of Imperial Princesses, the Grand Councillor and Grand Secretary, Chang Chih Tung, the Grand Secretary Sun Chia Nai, the President of the Army Board (Tieh Liang), the President of the Board of Communications (Ch'ien Pi), the President of the Board of Dependencies (Shou Ch'i), and four officials of the Imperial College of Inscriptions.\n\nAll other Princes and Ministers are to wear mourning for twenty-seven days, and to burn it on expiry of that period.\n\n**Decree received by the Grand Secretariat, November 19, 1908.**\n\nEulogizes the late August Empress Dowager, the devoted Consort of the Emperor Hsien-Feng, who, at the death of that Emperor, when the Empire was distracted with war and rebellion, and at a time when Treaties had first been signed with foreign Powers and general unrest prevailed, was called upon by the officials of the Empire to join with the first Empress Consort to act as Regent for the Emperor Tung-chih. For this purpose she had received from the Emperor Hsien Feng, while at Jehol, a special seal engraved with the five characters \"Yu Shang Tung Tao Tang\" (\"Colleagues by Imperial Grant\"), which was to be affixed to Decrees of the Court.\n\nOn returning to Peking, she was able to re-establish tranquillity by sweeping aside the great rebels, and to recover the supreme power. In so doing she was supported by high dignitaries of the Imperial House, and used all her endeavours to govern in the interests of the people, under the advice of her Ministers.\n\nShe compiled the work on Government entitled \"Chih-Ping-chih-Pao-chien” (“The Mirror of Peaceful Governance\"). She called into her service great scholars, brought to a speedy end the Tai Ping rebellion, the rising of the Nien Fei, the Mohammedan rebellion, and the insurrection of aboriginal tribes. With the land beyond the four seas she transformed the beacon lights of war into lamps of peace, and brought the people from peril to felicity.\n\nWhen His Majesty the late Emperor came to the throne she was again graciously pleased to nurture him tenderly, and again to superintend the Government through troublous times, without count of the labour which was thereby involved, and, as time went on, and relations with all the world became more close each day, brought forward new questions. Both in foreign and internal affairs no subject was neglected by her. Without thought of self, no leisure remained unto her in the pursuit of progress along paths of reform.\n\nShe founded the Tang Wen Kuan [College of Languages, under the Imperial Maritime Customs] for the training of interpreters. She established the navy and arsenals. She appointed Ministers to reside in various countries to strengthen friendly relations. She sent students abroad, caused railways to be constructed and mines to be opened. She issued a Commercial Code, introduced a uniform currency, and encouraged the development of shipping, posts and telegraphs, the unification of weights and measures, the digging of wells (in Peking) as a means of dealing with fires.\n\nShe abolished the malpractices of ages, changed the system of public examinations, opened schools and colleges, abolished torture, prohibited the use of punishments during trials, revised the laws, and bestowed honours on the memory of Confucius.\n\nShe further instituted the training of the army on modern lines in order to set the Empire on strong foundations and to quell disorder; and, as in ancient times it was right and proper to utilize the ability of others, she introduced into the art of government principles culled from Western and Eastern lands. As the Sovereign has ever sought to blend the hearts of the people into one, she broke down the barriers between Manchus and Chinese.\n\nShe pressed forward the revision of the Kuang-Hsü-Hui-Tien (Collected Institutes of the Dynasty), caused maps to be made for military use, extended protection to Chinese settlers in other lands, made charitable donations to friendly countries on occasions of national calamity, preventing members of her own family from grasping power, refused honours for herself, and in every manner surpassed even the Empresses Ming-Te of the Han Dynasty and Hsuan Jen of the Sung Dynasty.\n\nMoreover, she was endowed by Heaven with exceptional accomplishments, in needlework, writing, and painting, in all of which she excelled. In her Palace grounds also she made the Yu-Yi-Chuang, a model farm, where she watched the processes of agriculture; and the Ch'i-Hua-Kuan, where she studied the rearing of silkworms.\n\nWhen she heard of floods or famine, she longed for the clemency of the elements. Frugal in her daily life, she raised her prayers to Heaven in the watches of the night for the benefit of her people.\n\nRecently she promulgated the term of years within which a Constitution is to be established, to the great joy of the whole Empire, and thereby carried on the tradition established by Yao and Shun of acting in sympathy with the people, and swept away the form of government by force which first grew up in the Ch'in and Han Dynasties.\n\n**Decree ends** with a command to the Grand Secretariat and the various Boards to consult together as to the posthumous title to be bestowed on Her late Majesty.\n\n## Decrees issued on November 19 and 20, 1908.\n\n### November 19, 1908.\n\nThe Mongolian Princes and Nobles of all ranks whose turn for duty in the capital occurs this year will all be permitted to pay their respects to the remains of Their late Majesties. Payment of tribute will be remitted for the present year. Princes and Nobles not on the roster for duty in the capital this year are not required to come to Peking.\n\n### November 20, 1908.\n\nIn view of the fact that Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager guided the destinies of the Empire during the long period of more than forty years, it is fitting that the mourning rites in her honour should be on a scale of exceptional magnificence. The Board of Rites are instructed to revise the programme already submitted and present a further Memorial.\n\n### November 20, 1908.\n\nP'u-t'o Ku, which was definitely selected as the site of the tomb of Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager, shall hereafter be known as \"The P'u-t'o Ku Eastern Ting Mausoleum,\" and all public Departments are directed to use this name in future.\n\n### November 20, 1908.\n\nOn the 15th November a Decree was issued by Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager ordering that the administration of all affairs of State should rest with the Prince Regent, that is to say, that the Prince Regent, acting on our behalf, should direct all the affairs and exercise full control over the public service of the Empire. The commands of Her late Majesty are binding on all, from the highest to the lowest, but should be treated with special reverence by the Princes and other members of our Imperial House, whose duty it is to set an example to the rest of the nation.\n\nShould any Princes, Nobles, or officers show any reluctance in rendering obedience, fail in their duty, or otherwise endanger the tranquillity of the Empire, they will be punished without fail in accordance with the law of the land, lest, by a display of ... \n\nPage 2049\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421366, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "153 \n\n2 \n\nSettlement is larger than is ever likely to be required, and if a portion could be returned to the Chinese on terms, they would probably consent to the conversion of the remainder into an international Settlement if they were given to understand that this solution would be acceptable to Russia and the other Treaty Powers. \n\nWhat I have written is largely based upon the views of the British and American Consuls-General, both of whom are convinced, from personal acquaintance with the place and knowledge of all the circumstances, that an international Settlement would be an important factor in the development not only of Harbin but of all Northern Manchuria.\n\n## Dear Sir John, \n\nBelieve me, &c. \n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\n**M. Korostovetz to Sir J. Jordan.** \n\n[Undated.] \n\nI BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your note dated the 2nd November, concerning the question of the Russian Settlements on the territory of the Chinese Eastern Railway, where you gave your personal opinion on a possible arrangement of existing difficulties. I greatly appreciate the suggestions you have made, and that will be very useful for my personal guidance. \n\nSir, \nThanking you very much for your kind attention, I remain, &c. \n(Signed) \nJ. KOROSTOVETZ.\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\n**Mr. Fisher to Mr. Rockhill.** \n\nAmerican Consulate, Harbin, China, October 12, 1908. \n\nWITH reference to my despatches No. 61 and 62, dated the 31st August and 3rd September last respectively, regarding the changes in the Russian policy here, and the appointment of General Horvat as Consul-General, I have the honour to inclose herewith carbon copy of my despatch No. 51, dated the 10th instant, to the Department of State, on the same subject. \n\nI have, &c. \nSir, \n(Signed) \nFRED. D. FISHER, \nAmerican Consul.\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1. \n\n**Mr. Fisher to Assistant-Secretary of State, Washington.** \n\nAmerican Consulate, Harbin, October 10, 1908. \nWITH reference to my despatches Nos. 47 and 48, dated the 29th August and 2nd September last respectively, regarding the probable changes that the Russian Government contemplated in its policy here, and the appointment of General Horvat, the Superintendent of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company, as Acting Consul-General, I have the honour to report that the Taotai of Harbin has informed me that the Chinese Government has raised a protest against General Horvat's appointment as Consul-General while he holds the office of Superintendent of the Railway Company, and is asking that M. Luba, the Permanent Consul-General, return to his post at the end of his leave. \n\nIn this protest it is sincerely hoped, for the interests of the other nationalities, that the Chinese Government will maintain its position. In taking charge of the Consulate-General, General Horvat has practically submerged that office in the administration of the Railway Company. He has no hour for receiving at the Consulate-General, and in any matter in the nature of a Consular function in which an interview with General Horvat is required he must be sought at his office of Superintendent of the Railway Company, and at such an hour as will be subservient to the administration of that Company. As the duties of Superintendent of the Company are necessarily large, the treatment of any matter with him as a Consular officer is found very unsatisfactory; the tendency appears to be to compel the treatment of all such matters with him as Superintendent of the Railway Company and not as Consul-General, which, owing to the status of the Company, appears entirely impracticable. Had the Russian Government not established a Consulate-General here in the first instance, the claim that the Railway Company was a political body and competent to perform the functions of such an office would at least have more plausible grounds, but the fact that as soon as China opened Harbin to international trade and residence a Consulate-General was established seems an ample admission that the Railway was lacking competence at that time to assume such a rôle, and it ought to preclude such a pretence now. \n\nAs indicated on p. 4 of my despatch No. 47 of the 29th August last, General Chichagoff, the commander of the railway guard in Manchuria, has left for St. Petersburgh, it having been announced that he has been granted a leave. The command of the railway guard has not yet been taken over by General Horvat, and it is probable that the matter is being held in abeyance on account of representations from the Chinese Government. About a month ago the report was current here that preparations were being made for the Russian Department of Finance to take over the management of all the branches of the Russo-Chinese Bank in North Manchuria, but recent announcements in the local Russian newspapers state that, owing to representations made by the Foreign Office at St. Petersburgh, the carrying out of this scheme has been postponed. As the Russo-Chinese Bank practically controls all bank transactions abroad, and has secured control of nearly all the flouring mills, breweries, and other industrial undertakings, through advancement of funds at various times, the importance of the consummation of this plan can readily be seen. Under the direct management of the Department of Finance the bank would no doubt assume a political status similar to that of the Railway Company, and become an active agent in the policy of exclusion and control that the Russian Government is trying to carry out in North Manchuria, I believe both of these matters have been timely reported in full to the Chinese Government by the Taotai here.\n\nFrom the information that has reached me here, it appears to be the purpose of the Russian Government to secure from China the grant of the Harbin Railway Settlement as a Government Concession, with jurisdiction over all residents here; if such cannot be obtained, then the Concession without jurisdiction. As regards matters of jurisdiction, so far as they concern the other Treaty Powers, it does appear that China is in the position to treat with Russia, inasmuch as Harbin has been declared open, and the Treaty rights of other nations also apply here, and cannot be surrendered without their consent. On the other hand, in my opinion, the granting of the Railway Settlement in Harbin as a Russian Government Concession would be seriously detrimental to the interests of all the Powers who stand for the \"open door\" in Manchuria, as well as to China herself, whatever terms are conceded for Harbin would also have to be conceded for the other sixty or seventy Railway Settlements along the line of the railway, ranging in size from 4 to 30 square miles. This would establish a series of Russian Government Concessions across the whole breadth of Manchuria, linked together by a Government railway having its connections at both Russian borders, with a feeder running 150 miles southward from Harbin. In such a position, having control of the practical means of transportation, Russia would have practically nothing more to accomplish to make her influence in the north complete. From past experience, no great stretch of imagination is required to see what Russia's action would be in such a position.\n\nShould China concede Harbin as a Russian Government Concession, she would then lose the strength of the argument that the Railway Company has only a private status.\n\nSo far as I am able to learn, no Agreement has been made between the Chinese Government, or local authorities, and the Railway Company as to the delimitation of Harbin, although an Agreement exists for the other Railway Settlements along the line. During the Boxer troubles in 1900, the Railway Company took possession of a large area here, most of which was vacant or Government land. Later, the local Chinese official secured the release of some of the land so occupied, without, however, concluding an Agreement of any kind. Within the area held by the Railway Company were a number of tracts owned by private Chinese subjects, the title-deeds to which the Company secured.\n\nThe aim of the Chinese Government appears to be to take over the administration of the whole of Harbin, and prevent the establishment of any Settlement that would be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[12449]\nNo. 1.\n\nRace 24 APR 09)\n\n[March 30.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, March 30, 1909.\n\nEarl Winterton,- To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government have received official notification that China has addressed a formal despatch to the Japanese Minister in Peking asking that the whole of the Manchurian question shall be submitted to The Hague Tribunal; whether they have received official advice that the Japanese Minister is endeavouring to induce China to withdraw this despatch; and, if this is the case, do His Majesty's Government propose to take any steps in the matter, and are they prepared to instruct His Majesty's Minister in Peking to support China in this demand.\n\nAnswer.\n\nHis Majesty's Government have received no notification on the subject either from China or Japan, though I understand that the Japanese Government have declined to submit to arbitration certain questions connected with Manchuria. I do not see on what ground His Majesty's Government can intervene in the matter.\n\n[2194 gg-1]\n\nPage 140\n\nhas during the past year entirely reformed its methods, and is now at least equally as efficient, if not more so, than the Chinese Administration. Capable postal officers have been appointed at the larger centres, and large sums have been spent on the building and equipment of post-offices at Newchwang, Liaoyang, Mukden, Tiebling, and Kuan-chengtsu, the towns in which the Chinese post-offices feel their competition most keenly.\n\nThe Chinese Administration is at a considerable disadvantage in that it is forced to hand over its mails to Japanese offices for conveyance in the case of all places fed by the South Manchurian Railway, for naturally over lines of communication in their own hands the Japanese service can command greater dispatch than the Chinese post, which has to hand over and receive mails at times fixed by the Japanese.\n\nFurther, the Japanese post-offices have declined to receive Chinese parcels as mail matter, and consequently the parcels have hitherto been handed to the South Manchurian Railway, who have transmitted them at ordinary freight rates. Recently the Railway has declined to carry parcels at freight rates, and have demanded a special parcel rate at an advanced charge of 90 cents per picul per 100 miles. The Postal Commissioner has protested against this charge, but hitherto, I understand, with no success.\n\nAs regards the carriage of international mail matter, the arrangements as reported in my previous despatch still continue in force. The Chinese authorities have, however, for the past six months been engaged in negotiating an Agreement with the Russian Post Office at Harbin, under which incoming mails should be handed to the Chinese Administration at Harbin instead of as at present to the Japanese post-office at Kuanchengtsu.\n\nMr. Watson, the Postal Commissioner, informed me to-day that an Agreement to this effect had been signed, and under it the Chinese post has the right of running a postal car over the Chinese Eastern Railway system.\n\nMr. Watson, to whom I am indebted for most of the material of the present report, has asked that any information he may have given me may be treated as confidential.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**R. WILLIS**\n\nC.O. 13950\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 81, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n80\n\nCO\n\n**\n\n2\n\ncontingency. This, of course, I was unable to do, and eventually on the 8th December M. Brederode, acting upon instructions from his Government, submitted a formal request for arbitration to the Wai-wu Pu, proposing at the same time that the status quo should be strictly observed by both parties until the final decision of The Hague Tribunal should be received.\n\nA copy of this communication forms enclosure No. 4 in this despatch.*\n\nIn the meantime, on the 30th November, the Wai-wu Pu had addressed a note to the Portuguese Legation in which, after expressing their regret at the rupture of the negotiations, they declared that the status quo should be observed, and the Portuguese would be held responsible for any encroachment on Chinese rights.\n\nOn the 7th December a telegram was received from the Governor of Macao stating that Chinese troops had landed that morning on the island of Dom João, and were reported to have killed and arrested people, and to have carried away several vessels belonging to a village which had been under Portuguese jurisdiction since 1875.\n\nA further telegram received on the following day explained that the troops, whose number was estimated at from 200 to 400 men, had left at noon on the day on which they had landed, and that their object had been to arrest fugitive criminals.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Canton, to whom I telegraphed for particulars, informed me in due course that a cruiser under the command of Admiral Li had chased a piratical craft, the occupants of which had taken refuge on the island. A landing party was sent ashore, and the pirates were arrested. The vessels which had been carried off had, Mr. Jamieson understood, been restored. The Canton authorities were, he thought, prepared to admit that neither Power should exercise jurisdiction over Dom João pending the settlement of the delimitation question, but they held that they were justified, in the circumstances, in continuing the pursuit and effecting the arrest of the pirates.\n\nOn the 10th instant I had an interview with the Wai-wu Pu, when I used my best efforts to induce them to accede to the Portuguese demand for arbitration. I said that the request was an eminently reasonable one, and quoted several instances in which boundary questions of this kind had been submitted to arbitration by the great Powers of Europe and America. China had herself recently made an appeal to The Hague Tribunal in a somewhat similar question, and she could scarcely refuse to Portugal what she had demanded from Japan.\n\nLiang Tun-yen, the Minister present, said they had come to the conclusion that arbitration was not desirable either in the interests of China or Portugal, who should be left to settle the matter between themselves, in view of the many local issues involved.\n\nI expressed great regret at this decision which, I felt sure, would be received with disappointment by His Majesty's Government who had done so much to promote a friendly adjustment of the Macao question.\n\nIn a note received the same evening, copy of which I have the honour to enclose,* the Chinese Government formally notified to the Portuguese chargé d'affaires their refusal to accept arbitration.\n\nI am,\n\n&c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n[B]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[149]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nREC\n\n2765\n\n[January 28 JAN 10]\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nSir A. Nicolson to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received January 3, 1910.)\n\n(No. 673.) Sir,\n\nSt. Petersburgh, December 25, 1909.\n\nDURING a visit which I was paying to M. Isvolsky yesterday his Excellency said that he wished to speak to me in regard to a remarkable communication which he had received from the United States Embassy. He then read to me a memorandum which in most of its particulars was similar to that communicated on the 9th November by Mr. Whitelaw Reid. It did not, however, make any mention of the Chin-Chow-Aigun agreement, and I understand from Mr. Rockhill that he had omitted this scheme in the memorandum which he had communicated to M. Isvolsky.\n\nM. Isvolsky asked me if I had had any knowledge of the proposal to internationalise all Manchurian railways. I said that among the papers on various matters of interest which I received periodically there had been some documents relating to the matter, but that I had not been furnished with any instructions on the subject.\n\nHis Excellency remarked that the scheme was a very vast one, and would require a very large loan for its realisation. The Russian interests alone could be estimated at many million pounds. He had some doubts if the Japanese Government would view the project favourably.\n\nI asked whether he could tell me what impression the proposal had made upon him, and whether the Russian Government would be inclined to entertain it. M. Isvolsky said that he could not express any views on the subject. The question would have to be most carefully studied, and he would prefer to abstain from giving any opinion. He understood from the United States Embassy that His Majesty's Government had agreed in principle to the project.\n\nM. Isvolsky said that there was another question on which he wished to speak to me. It would appear from information which had reached him that a preliminary agreement had been signed between an Anglo-American syndicate and the Chinese Government for the construction of a railway from Chin-Chow to Aigun. This would be a matter of serious concern to the Russian Government. The proposed railway for some part of its length would run parallel to the Eastern Chinese Railway, then cross that line and go right up to the Russian frontier on the Amur. Both on commercial and strategical grounds such a line would gravely affect Russian interests.\n\nHe enquired whether I had any knowledge of this project, and gave me to understand, though he did not positively say so, that he was surprised that he had not been informed. I replied that I had read in certain documents that such a line was in contemplation, but I was unaware whether a contract had been signed. I did not tell M. Isvolsky as to the proposal that the Japanese Government should be asked to participate in the line, as this would have rendered him more dissatisfied at Russia having been neglected.\n\nM. Isvolsky explained to me the importance of the question to Russian interests, but I did not encourage him to dwell on the subject.\n\nThe impression produced upon me was that M. Isvolsky viewed the project in a serious light, and that he would be much displeased if a scheme, which he evidently considers closely affects important Russian interests, were favoured by His Majesty's Government without any opportunity being afforded to Russia to express her views. I should imagine, too, that the Russian public will be much perturbed if at this moment it became known that a line of strategical importance was being contemplated in Manchuria under Anglo-American, and possibly Japanese, auspices.\n\nThese railway combinations and projects in districts so closely connected with Russian interests are being brought forward simultaneously with the revival of the Bagdad Railway, and this conjunction may create in the public mind an atmosphere unfavourable to the Anglo-Russian entente. They are all questions on which Russia feels strongly.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. NICOLSON.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2605 c-4]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428879, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 220, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "nature. The latest accounts indicate that the town is once more quiet, although no information has been received to say that foreigners have returned from the vessels to their houses.\n\nFrom the information supplied by the Chinese officials themselves, to which reference is made below, it is evident that an anti-foreign movement was in preparation throughout Hunan. It has partly miscarried, owing to the premature outbreak of riots in Changsha over a grievance between the people and the officials. But directly trouble had arisen the hostility of the populace is turned, as by command, against foreigners.\n\nIt will be found that the following letter from our Changsha correspondent embodies the most authoritative account that has yet been received of the riots in Changsha :-\n\nA Graphic Account.\n\nChangsha, April 19, 1910. Wednesday, the 13th April, to Friday, the 15th April, were days that will long be remembered in Changsha. The riots will be marked from the fact that a governor's yamên has been sacked and burnt, and a very extensive series of looting and burning of foreign property has been carried out as almost a by-play of the main aim of the riot.\n\nThat aim was to cheapen rice. It is the old, old story that our history books show us as occurring in the lands of the Mediterranean, and that Carlyle has so picturesquely taught us to connect with the French Revolution—a hungry mob is dangerous. Rice has been, of course, dearer and dearer on account of the Yang-tsze floods. For the same reason the caters of rice have been more numerous, for the refugees from Hupeh have been numbered by the thousand. The forbidding of export from Changsha had not the desired effect of dropping prices—if that effect was really desired by those who forbade the export. Promises of opening Government granaries were not fulfilled, and as the prices crept up disappointment and anger grew. On Wednesday night a rise from 82 cash a-pint to 84 cash provoked the gathering of an angry mob. Some four or five officials were sent to speak good words. But one of the speakers resorted to that last refuge of a weak man—bluster and bluff: \"Rice is not so dear here as at Hankow or Canton, or in foreign countries.\" A howl of derision greeted the untimely speech. \"Seize!\" shouted the official, and the order was left-handedly obeyed by the seizing of him on the part of the mob, instead of the seizing of the shouters by his runners.\n\nThe official, who was of no less rank than a taotai, was dragged by the mob right through the city to the governor's yamên with a crowd that grew rapidly. Soon after 8 P.M. all the immense space in front of the yamên was packed with people, and the first two series of doors and wooden divisions had been burst in. Messages were handed to and fro, until at last the military were called into action. There was certainly some stabbing with bayonets—that deaths resulted is both asserted and denied. At any rate, messengers and fragments of the crowd broke off and scattered in all directions. Then followed beating of gongs and shouting of orders. Every house door was set open and every lamp lighted. The city gates were all shut.\n\nThe Work of Destruction.\n\nThe crowds that went south divided into two main streams. The western one reached the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, perhaps a little earlier than the eastern one would reach the Norwegian. The Methodist Mission door had not been opened at the first gong beating, so it was hammered at by the crowd. As soon as it was opened attention was concentrated on the buildings rented by the Imperial Post Office and the Imperial Bank a little further on in the same street. The post office door was too substantial for such weapons as the crowd possessed. Not so the bank doors and windows. Showers of shattered glass were followed by showers of broken tiles, as the mob leaders got on to the roof. One huge stroke, followed by a loud yell, announced that the doors were burst in. Then there was comparative stillness on the night air. It was only comparative, and it only lasted while the maddened crowd could retrace the 50 or 100 yards back to the mission. The mission windows and lamps followed after the manner of the bank, and the largest chapel in the city within two minutes was a wreck. The missionaries, who had all got dressed, were able to leave quietly by the back door, while the crowd streamed across the lawn and looted, and made a bonfire of the loot on the lawn. The missionaries—five ladies and four men—walked quite unmolested through the 200 yards of back streets between the compound and the city gate. Then there was a delay of twenty minutes or so while the keys were being fetched. The refugees were taken into the shop that is used by the guard. While they were there a police-box was smashed up; but no attempt was made to molest them. The gates were opened, and the missionaries went at once on to the C. N. steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" News was taken to the British consul (whose temporary consulate has been outside the gates, with telephonic communication to the city).\n\nWith the missionary in the house, telling the tale of the looting and burning, the Customs taotai telephoned out that the premises were adequately guarded!\n\nThe eastern crowd had first reached the Norwegian Mission. There the same story of looting of houses and escape of missionaries was repeated. The Norwegians were in a much less convenient position for reaching safety. They spent some hours on the city wall, and were well cared for by the official in charge at the North Gate. He himself helped in the cooking of some refreshments.\n\nThe nearest foreign neighbours were the doctor of the Yale Mission and his family and one of the professors at the Government College with his family. Their house was rented, and was overlooked by the crowd. The two families were received first into the house of a Chinese gentleman, and after dawn made their way through the Eastern Gate to a camp under the command of a friendly colonel.\n\nNot much farther on was the China Inland Mission compound. There the crowd made rapid destruction, but once more the missionaries escaped.\n\nAs the day wore on refugees came from one place and another, until every European and American had left the city.\n\nAbout 11 A.M. the mob fired the governor's yamên, and for the rest of the day volumes of smoke rose up as building after building caught fire. Rumour was busy; the governor had been murdered, had committed suicide, was in hiding. Assuredly there was but little space for him to hide in his own extensive compound by nightfall. At 2 o'clock a column of smoke rose over the Norwegian Mission, and a little later another marked the site of the China Inland Mission. There was no mistaking that mob rule was the only rule in Changsha.\n\nThat night the river side was attacked; the custom-house not held by the mob to be Chinese property; the wharves and godowns of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine and Matheson were all burned down. So was the Catholic Mission outside the North Gate, the Japanese consulate inside the city, and the Normal College outside the South Gate.\n\nOn the Steamers.\n\nDuring the night the C.N. steam-ships \"Kian\" and \"Siangkiang\" arrived, and early on Friday morning a number of the ladies and others left for Hankow by the I.-C. steam-ship \"Changwo.\" The three British steamers had been chartered by the consul on behalf of the Government. Still, that does not alter the indebtedness of all on board to the great courtesy of the captains, officers, and not least the heavily overworked staff of Chinese servants.\n\nThe boats were first anchored about a mile or two below the city and were able to see and were seen by the looting crowds. Some of the best of the military officials—men who had some claim to be listened to, if only on account of their great help in guiding parties of refugees to safety—hazarded the opinion that the military would more quickly regain control if the boats would drop 10 miles or so further down out of sight. That there was a turn in the tide was shown by the fact that two looters caught in setting fire to a Chinese-owned hotel (which was patronised by foreigners) had been promptly bayonetted and hanged. So the consul gave orders for our boats to get out of sight.\n\nThe Japanese community (with the exception of one or two who could not be reached) had gathered in the compound of the \"Nisshin Kisen Kaisha,\" and with the help of 200 soldiers—who had been drilled by Japanese instructors—held the compound safe and sound. They were now all on board the \"Siangkiang.\"\n\nOn Saturday morning, the \"Siangtan\" and \"Siangkiang,\" both crowded with foreign passengers, left for Hankow, and the \"Kian\" stayed on alone. During the day reassuring reports came from some of the interior cities connected by telegraph with Changsha. But at 10 P.M. the whole missionary community at Siangtan, with the exception of two gentlemen, arrived on board the governor's tender which had\n\n[2751 2-4]\n\nD\n\n218", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "# SECRET\n\n## C 86 31797\n\nFrom: \n**The General Officer Commanding** \nSouth China Command. \n**Received** 30 SEP 11 \n\nTo: \nThe Secretary, \n**Army Council**, \nWhitehall, \nLondon. S.W.1.\n\n**Headquarters**, \nHongkong. \n19th August, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report the following case:-\n\nOn the 5th November, 1910, two newly arrived Sappers of the 25th Company, Royal Engineers, were sent out to join a detachment then working on the preparation of gun mountings on Mount Davis. They made certain statements to their Divisional officer, a copy of whose report with the recorded statements of the two Sappers is attached.\n\nFrom this it will be seen that on the 5th November, 1910, a certain German, Mr Heerman, son of the manager (possibly partner) of the firm of Gaupp and Co., a well-known firm of opticians and chart sellers of long standing in Hongkong, was in possession of a large-scale plan of the Mount Davis Defences at the Western entrance of the Harbour, and possibly also of a plan of Devil's Peak Defences at the Eastern entrance. It is curious that he should have openly shown the former plan to the two soldiers.\n\nI would here remark that owing to the configuration...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## issued for the remaining 40 per cent. When the railway is completed and has begun to pay the bondholders will be allowed to recoup the remaining part of their capital from the surplus profits in ten annual instalments. The Hunan Railway shares subscribed by merchants are to be paid in their full value. As regards the other shares that have been raised by rice subscription, rent subscription, &c., Government-Hupei guaranteed interest-bearing bonds will be issued in exchange for them. Railway shares are also to be paid in their full value. The railway funds which have been expended in connection with famine relief are to be treated in the same way as the Hunan rice subscription. The sum of 4 million and several hundred thousand taels spent on actual materials for the construction of the Ichang section of the Szechuan Railway will be made good by the grant of Government-guaranteed interest-bearing bonds.\n\nIt is optional on the part of the shareholders whether the balance of over 7 million taels is to be employed for railway shares or for the promotion of the industries in their respective provinces. As these suggestions are satisfactory, we hereby command the director-general of the Canton-Hankow and Szechuan-Hankow Railways to proceed at once to his post and act in concert with the viceroys and governors of the said provinces in carrying out the scheme as suggested and in making a careful and detailed investigation of accounts. In this matter the throne has exercised its discretion so as to combine justice with benevolence. After this determination, if any person be found to make railway matters a pretext for inciting the people to create a disturbance, the said viceroys and governors should mete out the severest punishment to him without any leniency being shown, that peace and order be maintained.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`[25908]`\n\n## No. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir G. Buchanan.**\n\n`C 233` `[July 11]` `24603`\n\n**SECTION 27 JUL 11**\n\n**(No. 180.) Sir,**\n\nWITH reference to your Excellency's despatch No. 131, Secret, of the 14th May last, I transmit to you herewith a copy of memoranda which have been communicated to this department by Lord ffrench, setting forth some political and commercial aspects of the projected railway from Harbin via Taonanfu to Peking, and asking for the assistance and support of His Majesty's Government with a view to obtaining the consent of the Japanese Government to the project. Annexed to the memoranda are copies of the correspondence which has passed between Lord ffrench and members of the Russian Government on the subject.\n\nYour Excellency will observe from a perusal of Lord ffrench's letter to the Russian Minister of Finance of the 1st June, which forms the last annex to the memoranda, that the views of the Russian Government had not at the time been definitely ascertained, and Messrs. Pauling were accordingly informed on 14th ultimo that a further communication would be awaited from them on this point before His Majesty's Government could consider what action might be open to them in the matter.\n\nThis communication has since been received, and consists of a letter from M. Kokovtsoff, of the Ministry of Finance, to Lord ffrench, dated the 10th June, in reply to his letter under discussion. A copy of this letter is enclosed, together with a subsequent communication from Messrs. Pauling on the subject. M. Kokovtsoff, after stating that Russia is in favour of a line from Harbin to Taonanfu, and that she does not intend to raise any further obstacles to a continuation to Peking, though it does not offer any advantages to her Manchurian lines, provided, however, that it is built at a suitable distance from the Chinese Eastern Railway, goes on to say that the Power primarily affected is, after all, not herself, but Japan, and that it is therefore incumbent on the promoters of the scheme to ascertain, in the first instance, the views of the Japanese Government. There would not appear to be any reason why the Russian Government should object to our approaching the Japanese Government in regard to a railway to which Russia has agreed, and I therefore propose to take the necessary steps for this purpose. Before doing so, however, in view of the undertaking given by His Majesty's Government in 1899 as regards railway construction north of the Great Wall, I should be glad if your Excellency would obtain from the Russian Government confirmation of the views expressed to Lord ffrench in regard to the construction of the Peking-Taonanfu-Harbin line, and inform them of what His Majesty's Government propose to do.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**E. GREY.**\n\n* Memoranda.\n† Lord ffrench, June 14, 1911.\nMessrs. Pauling, July 3, 1911.\n`[2099-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "妻\n\nTOM: -\n\nThe General Officer Commanding,\n\nC O 31929\n\nSouth China Command.\n\nTo:-\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nIREC Rro 2 OCT\n\n185\n\n38173\n\nGeneres Steffa\n\nArmy Council,\n\nNo K/321/3\n\nWhitehall,\n\nAug. 1911.\n\nSECRET.\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nHeadquarters,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n19th August, 1911.\n\nI have the honour to report the following case:-\n\nOn the 5th November, 1910, two newly arrived Sappers of the 25th Company, Royal Engineers were sent out to join a detachment then working on the preparation of gun mountings on Mount Davis. They made a certain statement to their Divisional Officer, a copy of whose report with the recorded statements of the two Sappers is attached.\n\nFrom this it will be seen that on the 5th November, 1910, a certain German, Mr. Heermann, son of the manager (possibly partner) of the firm of Gaupp & Co., a well-known firm of opticians and chart sellers of long standing in Hong Kong, was in possession of a large-scale plan of the Mount Davis Defences at the Western entrance of the harbour, and possibly also of a plan of Devil's Peak Defences at the Eastern entrance. It is curious that he should have openly shown the former plan to the two soldiers.\n\nI would here remark that owing to the configuration of the land of Hong Kong Island and on the Mainland, it is easy for anyone to see all our guns and gun emplacements from the tops of numerous hills, whence also they might be located by triangulation.\n\nThe case was referred to His Excellency the Governor, who, after consultation with the Hon. The Attorney General, came to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437698, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "COPY. Confidential.\n\n12.\n\nHead Quarters,\n\nSouth China Command,\n\nHongkong, 22nd March, 1912.\n\nRECE 25 MAY 1912\n\n343\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn reply to your Confidential letter No. 1400/1910 dated 20th March, 1912, I do not think a plan is necessary. The crests of the hills on the Mainland and Island which command the water area of the inner harbour constitute the minimum line which must be defended, and therefore any point on the Mainland South of the hill tops and between Wong Uk and the Lyemun Pass, and any point on the Island North of the hill tops and between the Eastern end of Sulphur Channel and the West end of Lyemun Pass may be regarded as being a protected point to the fullest extent that the existing Garrison is capable of protecting any point in the Colony.\n\nOn the other hand if the commercial station is prepared to close down in war time without demur when ordered to do so, and such closing down implies that the station will be useless to an enemy, and will expect no defence of any kind I see no reason why the station should not be established at any point whatsoever on the South shore of the Island. Suggest advisability of referring the matter to the Commodore also for Naval views on the subject.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) C. A. Anderson,\n\nMajor-General,\n\nCommanding the Troops in South China.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437908, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "content_text": "OP Y.\n\nSecret.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nHead Quarters,\n\nSouth China Command,\n\nHongkong, 15th April, 1912.\n\n103\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn reply to your Secret letter without number of the 11th April, 1912, giving cover to a copy of a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding a certain lease, I have the honour to inform you that the Military objections to the said lease were most fully detailed in my K/376 of 25th August, 1911, to His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong and in my K/378/4 of 1st September, 1911, to the Secretary of the Army Council.\n\n2.\n\nI am still of opinion that from the point of view of the Fortress Commander here these objections to the proposed lease are very strong ones and are equally applicable to a similar lease of any site in the Colony.\n\n3.\n\nAs however a copy of the above letter was sent under cover of my K/378/4 of 1st September, 1911, to the Secretary of the Army Council these objections, to which I can add nothing further, have already doubtless received due consideration from superior authorities at Home and have, for reasons of general political or economical expediency, been held insufficient to make it advisable to refuse the grant of the lease.\n\n4.\n\nAs Fortress Commander here in view of the small strength of the Garrison I much regret this decision.\n\n5.\n\nAs regards reservations about the Cable Hut and its appurtenances. The only safeguards which appear to me feasible are:-\n\n(a). That the Cable Hut should be enclosed on the South, East and West sides by a wall loopholed for Musketry and extended by a high unclimable fence well out into the sea on the Western and Eastern faces.\n\n(b).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "249\n\n::\n\n2\n\nkeep himself well in restraint for the whole nation to do so. Those who consume this poison for sensual pleasure, and, besotted and stupid, refuse to reform, cannot be regarded as citizens of the republic, and so I hereby command the council that, in framing the laws of constitution, such persons be deprived of all electoral rights so as to mark their exclusion from the citizenship enjoyed by the rest of the nation; and I further order the Ministry for the Interior to instruct all the local officials through the provincial governors to reissue the proclamations forbidding the cultivation and smoking of opium, and to enforce the restrictions with the utmost stringency. Any remissness will be examined into and punished. I further hope that all local leagues and all societies for the explanation of political matters will strain every nerve to lead the people in the right path, teach them to see which way their advantage lies, and help them to become regenerate and to do away with this dark blot which disfigures the fame of Eastern Asia.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from \"Nanking Government Gazette\" of March 6, 1912.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTEXT OF ORDERS ISSUED BY PRESIDENT SUN TO MINISTRY OF INTERIOR REGARDING PROHIBITION OF OPIUM.\n\nTHE opium vice has spread its tentacles over China for some hundred years. If we examine its evil effects we find they are the destruction of trade and physical health in the individual, the ruin of the country and the extinction of the race in general. In the last years of the late dynasty, the restrictions on the cultivation and the tax on the prepared drug were taking effect, and the smoking habit was gradually disappearing. With the foundation of the republic, however, came a rush of work in connection with military matters, and there has been no time to attend to other questions, so that there is every reason to fear that fraudulent merchants and unscrupulous officials will seize the opportunity to look on the old regulations as effete and recommence their old tricks. A young and enlightened people should at once throw off a curse of this sort, and not have illicit recourse for rest of mind to such a deadly poison. I have notified the whole nation by proclamation of the prohibitions on the drug, and I hereby command the Ministry concerned to make immediate investigations as to the opium-prohibition mandates of the late Ching dynasty. Such as are capable of being put into effect should be communicated to the provincial tutus (governors) with instructions to order their subordinates to enforce them as before with the utmost severity and without the slightest relaxation; while such as need addition or amendment, as well as such questions as were left over, must receive the most careful consideration at the hands of the aforesaid Ministry, and, in the meantime, temporary regulations must be drawn up and put into force, so as to cut off at the root in the shortest possible time an evil of a century's growth, to produce a strong China and a powerful race.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from \"Nanking Government Gazette” of March 14, 1912.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nORDER BY YUAN SHIH-KAI,\n\nOPIUM-SMOKING is an evil of very long standing, but of late years restrictions and prohibitions have been placed on the use of the drug, and, as the people have daily become more alive to its dangers, the terrible habit has happily grown less. But since the outbreak of the revolution, the restrictions have been somewhat relaxed, and there is cause to fear the evil may spread again. It is necessary, therefore, to reissue the most stringent instructions as to the restrictions on the drug, and the higher local officials will be held responsible for the continued enforcement in the strictest possible manner of the former restrictions on the cultivation, transport, and consumption of opium. Proclamations must also be issued that all may understand that the abolition of opium is intended to save the people and free them from a grievous danger.\n\nLet the whole nation exhort and encourage each other to suppress it. Let them not blind themselves to its frightful dangers for the sake of short-lived gain.\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from “Peking Daily News\" of March 18, 1912.\n\nTHAT President Yuan Shih-kai is taking hold of the helm of State with a wise and firm hand is evidenced by the promulgation on the 14th of the order against the relaxation of efforts for the eradication of the opium evil. The fact has long been known to the world that in President Yuan and Premier Tang, China has had her two strongest champions against the evils of the opium habit, and that to them belongs the credit of not only having initiated the present anti-opium movement, but also given to it their wholehearted interest and support. The marvellous results already accomplished in China in this moral crusade are matters of common knowledge. At the International Opium Conference recently held at The Hague, China was able to announce to the delegates of the twelve Powers therein represented the gratifying fact that, taking the Chinese Empire as a whole, the industry of poppy plantation had been reduced 80 per cent. It was also stated that in addition to the three Manchurian provinces and the provinces of Shansi and Szechuan, which were declared officially clear of the poppy, Chih-li, Fukien, and several other provinces in which opium cultivation had never occupied much of the people's attention, were likewise free from the poppy. There was no disposition on the part of the delegates of the participating Powers to question the truth of these gratifying statements, although they still require official proof before they could be accepted as facts by the Governments of those Powers which are directly or indirectly interested in the opium trade.\n\nFrom the deliberations of the conference and the resolutions which were finally accepted and signed, it was evident that the world had at last come to recognise the evils arising from the use of opium except for medicinal purposes. All the Powers, with the exception of two unimportant countries, also declared themselves ready to make every sacrifice to rid mankind of the curse of opium. These exceptions were Portugal and Persia, the former having its trade in both raw and prepared opium in Macao to foster and protect, and the latter being still dependent upon the revenue derived from the export of Persian opium to meet part of her expenditures. But to the credit of Persia, it should be stated that her Government fully realises the evils arising from the improper use of opium, and, in future, her efforts will be directed to the growth of a high-grade opium, suitable for medicinal purposes only.\n\nIn August 1911, the Netherlands Government had passed a Bill providing for the elimination from their budget the income hitherto derived from the opium trade in their East Indian possessions, and not to allow the consideration of revenue to influence the adoption of any measures that might be deemed necessary for the speedy suppression of the abuse of opium. France was also taking hold of the opium question in her Far Eastern possessions with earnestness and sincerity, and willing to sacrifice the revenue she has been receiving for so many years. Japan is successfully overcoming the evils of opium-smoking among the Chinese and aborigines in Formosa, and the revenue derived from the opium monopoly has been reduced from 3,000,000 to 1,000,000 yen per annum.\n\nBut it is not too optimistic to say that with such a splendid spirit animating the Governments of the world's great nations, the opium question which has been agitating the minds of China's moral reformers for so many years would have soon come to an end if things had been allowed to pursue their normal course. Unfortunately, the revolution in China and with it all the attendant disorders and chaos have stepped in to complicate the situation. Reports have been received that the lawless elements in Yunnan and Szechuan have again taken up the growing of the poppy as a more profitable means of livelihood. Later advices have confirmed the earlier reports, and now it is beyond doubt that the vast plains of Yunnan, which were recently covered with useful crops, are again being given over to the cultivation of the beautiful but poisonous poppy.\n\nIn Szechuan also, the people in some of the districts are taking advantage of the present transitional period, and are again turning their lands into poppy fields. It is seriously apprehended that unless this disposition to disregard the law against poppy plantation be checked at once, and the guilty parties...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "# COPY\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nCone. 2. No./.\n\n**Head Quarter South China Command**\nREC C.O 19366\nRECE 7 JUN 13:\nHongkong, 22nd March, 1912.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn reply to your Confidential letter No. 1408/1910 dated 20th March, 1912, I do not think a plan is necessary.\n\nThe crests of the hills on the Mainland and Island which command the water area of the inner harbour constitute the minimum line which must be defended, and therefore any point on the Mainland South of the hill tops and between Wong Uk and the Lyemun Pass, and any point on the Island North of the hill tops and between the Eastern end of Sulphur Channel and the West end of Lyemun Pass may be regarded as being a protected point to the fullest extent that the existing Garrison is capable of protecting any point in the Colony.\n\nOn the other hand if the commercial station is prepared to close down in war time without demur when ordered to do so, and such closing down implies that the station will be useless to an enemy, and will expect no defence of any kind I see no reason why the station should not be established at any point whatsoever on the South shore of the island. Suggest advisability of referring the matter to the Commodore also for Naval views on the subject.\n\nI have etc.,\n**(Sd.) C. A. Anderson**\nMajor-General,\nCommanding the Troops on South China.\n\nHis Excellency\nThe Officer Administering the Government,\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "# No. D/2096/11.\n## No. 22.\n\n420\n\nHead Quarters,\nHongkong, 26th September, 1911.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 1 in `134/1906`, of the 16th instant, I have the honour to concur in your suggestions as regards the approach road.\n\n2. With reference to the proposed Eastern Boundary of the Clearance Area, access to that portion of the Cemetery which falls within this Boundary, but outside the actual Battery Area, will not be interfered with.\n\n3. With reference to the North-Eastern Boundary, there is no Military objection to this being taken on the line A.B.C. as now shown in yellow on the plan.\n\n4. It is considered that the terms of holding the Clearance Area as a Military Reserve should be embodied in a separate agreement, similar to that for the **Sywan Military Reserve**. In the meantime, it is hoped that the **Memorandum of Transfer** of the Battery Area may be completed as early as possible, as War Office is pressing for it.\n\n5. A plan is enclosed for retention showing the Clearance Area as finally determined.\n\nI have etc.,\n**(Sd.) C. A. Anderson,**\nMajor-General,\nCommanding the Troops, **South China Command**.\n\nHis Excellency\nThe Governor,\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## LONDON: \n**Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command**\n\n**Foreign**\n1913\n\nДев 7\n\nLast previous Paper. 4092\n\n| Location | Code |\n| --- | --- |\n| HONG KONG | 4933 |\n| EASTERN | 199 |\n| C.O. | 4933 |\n\nREC? | REGE | FEB.3.\n\nOpium requirements of Mexico. Leuas Кино сору copy deep from Minister at Mexico reporting result of expression made to forte regarding \n\nLuth 2.0/5720 \nJR 19/2 \n\n**INSTRUCTIONS to the British Delegates to the International Opium Conference held at The Hague, December 1911-January 1912.**\n\nTo far tete bluarch Sou \n76577 \n`(08.1511. We.20 897—–59. 41,000. 11/12. A&E,W)`\n\nNext subsequent Paper. 5120 \n\nPRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS of His Majesty. February 1913.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 268, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "New Government Building,\n\nDes Voeux Road,\n\nHongkong.\n\n28th October, 1914.\n\n264\n\nI beg to inform you that at the meeting of the Committee of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce held on the 23rd instant, the question of the continued raids on British Shipping by the German Cruiser \"Emden\", under the able command of Captain Von Müller, was specially considered. So long as this vessel and the other cruisers which have recently been on the Eastern Seas are afloat, uneasiness as to the safety of our mercantile marine will continue, much to the detriment of trade.\n\nThe Committee are aware that every effort is being made by H.M. Navy to capture, or destroy, these vessels and trust that this work will be completed very shortly.\n\nIn the meantime my Committee consider it desirable to make representations to the Government as to the assistance which has been rendered to the enemy's cruisers by the supply of stores and coals, which have been permitted to leave sundry neutral ports in the Far East.\n\nIt is largely due to the assistance that these hostile cruisers have been able to keep the seas as long as they have, and to inflict the heavy losses which have recently been experienced on British Shipping.\n\nNot only has the \"Emden\" alone destroyed property which may be valued at considerably more than two million sterling, but further considerable loss has been incurred through the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450472, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "Norway, Peru, and Switzerland, would seriously prejudice the effect of the measures proposed for checking the export of morphine and cocaine to the East, and that a not improbable result of the strict control to be exercised in the dominions of the signatory Powers over the manufacture of, and trade in, the drugs in question might be that in non-signatory countries new factories might be started and the output of existing factories increased. Moreover, non-signatory countries would be open to unrestricted importation of the drugs and their ports could be freely used for their illicit transmission to the Eastern consumer. The abstention of Peru would of itself be sufficient to render useless any effort to regulate the trade in cocaine. His Majesty's Government had therefore come to the conclusion that any attempt to suppress the illicit trade in morphine and cocaine would thus be seriously impeded unless all countries which manufacture or are likely to manufacture these drugs could be induced to agree to proposals on the lines of those laid down in the Opium Convention. The first step, therefore, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, was not ratification under circumstances unlikely to achieve the real object of such ratification, but a combined attempt on the part of the signatory Powers to secure the signatures of those Powers which had either refused to sign or had for the present abstained from doing so. A study of the replies received from certain of those countries had convinced His Majesty's Government that some of the refusals were due to misapprehensions as to the purport and provisions of the convention and that these misapprehensions could be removed by explanations. We laid particular emphasis on the fact that our statement was not to be interpreted as a refusal on the part of His Majesty's Government to ratify, but only as a postponement. On the contrary, we explained that His Majesty's Government were most anxious to ratify at the earliest possible moment at which such action on their part would be likely to achieve the fullest effect, and meanwhile our instructions were to seek to hasten that moment by securing the co-operation of all the Governments represented at the Conference in inducing those countries which had, for one reason or another, abstained to alter their attitude and consent to sign the convention without further delay.\n\nIf we have dwelt at some length on the attitude taken up by us on this occasion we have done so because we feel that on it hinged the whole work accomplished by the Conference and incorporated in the final protocol.\n\nThe Portuguese delegate also declared that ratification by his Government must await the signature of the other Governments; the Powers that had signed the convention had pledged themselves to make economic sacrifices in a humanitarian cause, but these sacrifices should not conduce to the profit of other nations who remained free to continue and even to develop their trade in opium, morphia, and cocaine.\n\nThe Russian delegate also explained that his Government were not ready at present to ratify the convention, and expressed his agreement with the views put forward by the British delegation.\n\nThe Conference was therefore confronted with the position that, while a majority of the Powers represented were ready to proceed to ratification, an important minority declared that, for the present at all events, they were unable to do so. The President expressed the personal opinion that the Governments which were willing to do so might proceed to deposit their ratifications, without waiting until the other Governments had decided to do likewise, but as a matter of fact at this stage of the proceedings no formal action was taken to answer the question submitted to the Conference in the invitation of the Netherland Government, in accordance with article 28 of the convention, namely, whether, notwithstanding the fact that certain of the Powers invited to sign the convention had hitherto failed to do so, the deposit of ratifications could nevertheless take place. It was pointed out subsequently that, unless some definite decision on this point was taken by the Conference, the Government of the Netherlands would have no authority to accept the instruments of ratification from the Governments which were prepared to ratify. This omission was remedied at the fourth session by the unanimous adoption of a resolution by the Conference to the effect that the deposit of ratifications might now take place. Those, therefore, of the signatory Powers which were ready to ratify were authorised to deposit their ratifications at The Hague, and some Powers proceeded forthwith to make the deposit.\n\nTo return to the proceedings at the second session, after all the delegations had declared the views of their Governments as to the possibility of immediate ratification, some informal discussion took place in regard to a solution which had already, at the suggestion of the president, formed the subject of private conversations between representatives of the six delegations of Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States of America, with a view to giving practical effect to the British proposal for the adoption by the Conference of measures to secure the signatures of those countries which had, for one reason or another, hitherto failed to sign the convention. We laid stress on the importance of giving careful consideration to the drafting of this resolution as, in our opinion, it would probably be the chief work of the Conference, and should therefore be worded in such a manner as to command unanimous consent. It was clear that the value and efficacy of the convention depended so largely upon the generality, if not the universality, of agreement that no effort should be spared to secure the solidarity of Europe in regard to this question, and also the co-operation of the countries of South America, especially Peru. In order to afford the delegations who were acting as sponsors of the proposed resolution sufficient time for its elaboration, and to enable members of the other delegations to study it in print, the Conference was adjourned for two days.\n\nThe reasons which guided the representatives of the six delegations in the drafting of the resolution, and the methods which they considered best adapted to the attainment of the object which they had in mind, can be gathered from the wording of the preamble and of the resolution itself. The representatives were at one in considering that, for reasons which need not be repeated here, as they are already explained both in the instructions which you addressed to us and in the statements made at the second session of the Conference, it was essential to the proper working and full effectuation of the measures contemplated in the convention, to secure the co-operation, if not of all, at any rate of the more important of the Governments which had not yet signed. The first step towards this was to examine the replies received from those Governments, in so far as they had been communicated to us by the Netherland Government, and to consider (1) how far the tenor of those replies might be traceable to misapprehension as to the provisions and scope of the convention, and (2) by what arguments such misapprehension could best be met and removed.\n\nWe decided to divide the twelve countries into three groups, according to the nature of the further representations which we considered applicable to each case:\n\n1. Powers which, without actually refusing to sign the supplementary protocol, had explained that they were unable to do so immediately, on the ground that the convention entailed for them fresh legislation, and that they could not sign until the new legislative measures had been passed. This group included Austria-Hungary, Norway, and Sweden.\n\n2. Powers which had refused on the ground that their domestic laws in regard to the manufacture and sale of opium, morphia, and cocaine were already sufficiently strict to ensure the prevention of abuse, and that their co-operation would therefore be practically valueless. Under this heading Switzerland stood alone.\n\n3. Powers (a) which had refused to sign without stating any reason, viz., Greece and Turkey; (b) which had promised to sign, but had not yet done so, viz., Bulgaria and Uruguay; (c) which had replied that they were still considering the question and had not yet come to a decision, viz., Roumania; and (d) which had not replied at all, viz., Montenegro, Peru, and Servia.\n\nIt was agreed that the Netherland Government should be requested to make further representations to the various Governments concerned, and that those representations should be framed so as to meet the reasons (if any) advanced by those Governments for their refusal to sign, at all events for the present, the supplementary protocol of the Opium Convention.\n\nIn regard to the first group, Austria-Hungary, Norway, and Sweden, we were of opinion that the Netherland Government should be requested to explain to those Governments that the fact that the provisions of the convention involved fresh legislation on their part was no obstacle to their immediate signature. Legislation was, as a matter of fact, the last of the stages contemplated by the final provisions of the convention; first came signature, then came ratification; a space of three months was then to elapse between the receipt of the last instrument of ratification and the coming into force of the convention; and yet a further six months was allowed for the elaboration of the laws, regulations, and other measures contemplated by the convention, while, finally, the date on which these laws, regulations, and other measures were to come into force was to form the subject of agreement between the contracting Powers.\n\n[158]\n\nC\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-416 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "346\n\n2\n\ndespatch No. 4 of the 1st March, 1910, reporting on the Sino-Russian negotiations concerning the revision of the Provisional Sungari Regulations of 1909, and a reference is invited to article 41 and articles 61-65, which are pertinent to the matter of present concern.\n\nThe fact that regulations have now been issued by the local Russian authorities, which aim at the suppression of the illicit opium trade in North Manchuria, and the circumstance that, in a notable instance, forcible action has been taken thereunder, are, as before stated, welcome signs--welcome, that is, in the sense that they are *prima facie* evidence of a new intent, and are a visible step along a new road. This is not, however, to say that the end is yet in sight, for anyone acquainted with Russian methods and character, though far from wishing to be pessimistic, must feel that, until the Russian officials have acquired a different conception of duty from that with which they are commonly credited, and until the temptation to accept a bribe can be resisted, or the consequences of detection in this malpractice are made sufficiently severe, a long time must elapse before the apparent spirit in which the new bye-law is conceived will be faithfully and consistently observed in practice. Thus, when the fact of the arrest and imprisonment of the Brothers Goldberg and their accomplice, M. Deliatitsky, became known, there were those who attributed the energy displayed by the authorities to the remissness of the accused in the matter of donations to the police; and colour is lent to this supposition by the circumstance that I am assured, on unimpeachable authority, that the traffic in opium along the Chinese eastern railway is done with the knowledge and connivance of the officers in command of the gendarmerie at the stations Manchuria, Harbin, and Pogranitchnaya. Others, again, regarded the sentence of imprisonment as merely a means to an end--the extraction, that is, of a large bribe as the price of liberty. Indeed, I am informed that already the wife of M. Deliatitsky has approached the civil Governor, General Afanassief, with an offer of a contribution of 3,000 roubles to the Russian Red Cross Society, provided her husband be set at large.\n\nA few remarks regarding the efforts made by the Chinese Maritime Customs to check the importation of opium into North Manchuria by rail, and I have done.\n\nThe amount of opium seized by these authorities on the Chinese eastern railway during the five quarters ended the 30th April last was 5,280 catties, and the quantity confiscated during the past June quarter was 1,400 catties. The former seizure, all of which has been publicly burned, was mainly composed of opium produced in the Ussuri province, which is treated as native opium; but in the latter there was an increased proportion of the Persian and Turkish drug. The disability under which the Commissioner of Customs, as reported in my despatch No. 1 before mentioned, laboured in respect of the matter of rewards to persons effecting seizures and to informants, has been removed to the extent that the scale of remuneration in force in China proper, particulars of which I have the honour to enclose, is now, with the substitution of roubles for dollars, in operation in North Manchuria, the sums paid thereunder being a charge on the Provincial Treasury. I gathered, however, in conversation with M. de Luca, that he considers the amount of these rewards to be generally insufficient when contrasted with the sums which successful smugglers are willing and able to pay as the price of silence or connivance, and that herein lies a difficulty which cannot easily be overcome. Other hindrances with which the Maritime Customs have to contend, are:\n| Hindrance |\n| --- |\n| 1. The dishonesty, previously stated, of the Russian police and gendarmerie. |\n| 2. The active part which, I am reliably informed, is taken in opium smuggling by the employés of the Wagons Lits Company. |\n| 3. The avoidance of the custom-houses at Manchuria and Pogranitchnaya by smugglers, who are able to escape these stations by following circuitous land routes which conduct them to places situated on the railway at a safe distance from the danger points; and |\n| 4. The fact that the Customs have not the power, which is considered indispensable to success, to exercise effective authority on the trains except at the two frontier stations above indicated.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. E. SLY.\n\nP.S.--September 29th. I learn to-day that the civil Governor has requested the Municipal Council to cancel M. M. S. Goldberg's licence to sell narcotics.\n\nH. E. S.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Novosti Zizni\" of September 19, 1914.\n\n**DISCOVERY OF AN ORGANISATION OF OPIUM DEALERS**\n\nIn Harbin an organisation has long existed for conducting a contraband trade in opium. This organisation, which had a network of agencies spread over the whole of North Manchuria, the Ussuri province, and parts of South Manchuria, has now been exposed. The moving spirits of the organisation are now under lock and key.\n\nThe discovery of the organisation, against which the chief administration has waged war for a considerable length of time, and the arrests of the opium dealers, were effected under the following circumstances:\n\nAccording to report, the centre of the organisation was represented by a group of persons, amongst whom the most conspicuous role was played by the chemist, M. S. Goldberg, a local householder and owner of a wholesale depot for druggists' stores.\n\nIn the disclosure of the organisation, an energetic part was taken by Captain Uteshef, who on the 3rd (16th) September unexpectedly appeared before the house of Goldberg on the Birjevaya Street with a posse of police.\n\nThe sudden appearance of the police, who surrounded the house on all sides, had for its object a search of the apartment of the houseowner, M. S. Goldberg.\n\nOpium was found, and documents connected with the purchase and sale of this commodity.\n\nThe search was conducted by Captain Uteshef in person, who found present in the apartment the chemist himself, his brother, S. G. Goldberg, and E. Y. Deliatitsky. The results entirely fulfilled expectations, and furnished data, on the strength of which it is clear that the organisation was engaged in a business amounting to hundreds of thousands of roubles.\n\nWhen Captain Uteshef asked that opium and documents be freely delivered, the two brothers, and also Deliatitsky, stated that they possessed neither one nor the other. In the meantime, most important business papers connected with the sale of opium, and the remuneration of individuals forming part of the organisation, were found on the persons of each of them.\n\nDuring the search of the pockets of M. S. Goldberg, many letters, accounts, and telegrams were found which testified to the fact that opium had been imported into Harbin from abroad through the station of Virballen, from Siberia, and from the Ussuri region where, as is known, the cultivation of the poppy has been developed for the purpose of its valuable opium product.\n\nThe letters were in cypher, and the telegrams in code; their contents were thus quite unintelligible.\n\nIn the pocket of the chemist was found, among other things, a piece of opium as a sample.\n\nDuring a further search of the apartment, there were found many way-bills, certificates, and reports respecting the retention in Siberia, during transit, of opium destined for Harbin.\n\nAll this material, which had now been collected for the purpose of bringing within the law those guilty of engaging in a forbidden trade, would have been insufficient and of little value had not the police officer discovered amidst the papers the key to the cyphers and codes of the telegrams and reports respecting the trade.\n\nThe key proved to be a kind of \"code,\" thanks to which it was possible to conduct large operations in opium, questions regarding the despatch and sale of goods being conveyed in a few figures and two or three words.\n\nBy means of this code, the fact was established that a few days back a consignment of opium was conveyed by the organisation through Harbin by rail, in comparison with which the quantity of opium confiscated to date in the opium dens situated in Harbin seems a mere nothing.\n\nThe search of S. G. Goldberg and E. Y. Deliatitsky also produced the expected results. Letters were found similar to those in the possession of M. S. Goldberg, copy of a report and accounts, and other documents.\n\nIt is characteristic that the representatives of the company, in order to safeguard the trade, received their telegrams at a code address.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "## COPY.\n\n## Translation.\n\n4e Official Report. 333\n\nC God:\n\n1 1a. To nemoner by mvu to ne dni ye\n\nToday, the 9th August, 1915, we the undersigned K. A. Telders, 1st class Naval Lieutenant and 2nd class Naval Lieutenant R. Polis, both serving on board H.K.S. \"Tromp\" have, by verbal command of the Commanding Officer of that man-of-war, boarded the Aeri-o-an motorschooner \"Henry S\", anchored in the roads of Lintidoe, in order to examine the ship's papers and to make other desired information.\n\nAmongst the ship's papers the charter party was missing. According to the Captain of the schooner the contract had been made at the office of the \"Manila Import Co.\", to which the vessel belongs, between this company on the one side and Mr. Herman Wehde, American citizen, on the other.\n\nThe manifest mentioned as cargo ballast only.\n\nThe articles showed, that the crew consisted of 18 individuals, besides the Captain.\n\nThe passengers' list contained the names of the 2 following passengers:- \n| Name | Profession/Employment | Origin |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hermann Wehde | Jeweller | Chicago |\n| George Boehm | \"Quartermaster\"/non-certificated engineer and a specialist in the typewriter industry | Chicago |\n\nThe ship had been cleared for Pontianak. From the papers it appeared, that the destination had originally been Shanghai. This destination was given up, on account of the unfavourable season, as far as typhoons are concerned.\n\nIt appeared from the Logbook, that on 10th July the ship had been partly loaded, which cargo had been discharged on the 12th of that month by order of the aforementioned Wehde. Concerning the nature of the cargo, the Captain could not or would not give sufficient information. In the afternoon of the 14th July Manila was left and the Eastern course was taken through the Strait of Macassar. The Captain had proposed this course because he preferred it to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460312, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "DEAR SIR,\n\n19\n\nLondon Chamber of Commerce to China Association.\n\nLondon, 8th June, 1914.\n\nAt the request of Mr. F. Anderson, Chairman of the Far Eastern Section, I am sending you herewith copy of a letter addressed by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce to the Colonial Secretary there on the subject of the Tai-on piracy\n\nI hope to receive from you a copy of the letter which I understand the China Association has addressed to the Foreign Office on the matter.\n\nH. C. Wilcox, Esq.,\n\nSecretary, China Association,\n\n159, Cannon Street, E.C.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed) C. E. TOWN,\n\nAssistant Secretary.\n\nCopy of letter addressed by the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong, dated 2nd May, 1914.\n\nSIR,\n\nAt a Committee Meeting held immediately subsequent to the Annual General Meeting of Members on Tuesday, the 28th ultimo, the recent piratical attack on the S.S. \"Tai-on\" and the increasing frequency of like outrages were discussed.\n\n1.—A feeling of insecurity is abroad which must have a deleterious effect on the Colony's trade, already heavily penalised by Currency problems and the unsettled state of the Two Kwang.\n\n2.—It is a fact worthy of note that, in every piratical outrage on the British flag in Local Waters my Committee believe, the attack has taken place on the outward voyage from the Colony. Presumably, therefore, the pirates are shipped as passengers at Hongkong itself.\n\n3.—The inference to be drawn from (2) is that the Chinese Officials possess some system of Espionage or method of detection more efficient than our own, or for some reason it is simpler for the pirates to ship in Hongkong than at a Treaty Port or Way Station.\n\n4.—In the case of the Sainam Piracy in 1906 the suggestion was made that the suppression of piracy should be attempted by:-\n\n(a) The organisation of Chinese River Police Patrols using armed launches and under the command of European Officers, or\n\n(b) the patrol of the river and Canton Delta by British Gunboats at the expense of the Chinese Government.\n\n5.—My Committee does not know what, if any, system of patrol is now extant on the river, but it is to be noted that most of the outrages occur between this port and Wong Moon.\n\n6.—A patrol of this part of the journey, which appears to embrace the stronghold of the pirates, could and should, in my Committee's opinion, be conducted by the gunboats of His Majesty's Navy on the China Station; particularly a gunboat should be in the vicinity of Kai-On at such times as the day and night boats pass that point.\n\nThe patrol having once been established should be continued; a period of inactivity may induce a false sense of security.\n\n7.—It is in any case essential that an efficient search and scrutiny of passengers and luggage be made before the boats leave this port and, if necessary, that more powers be given to the officers of the vessel to enable them to assist the police,\n\n8.—My Committee is not satisfied, in the light of recent happenings, that the present search conducted by the police is at all efficient. This is probably due to the obvious fact that the staff at the disposal of Government is quite insufficient for the purpose and needs very considerable augmentation to achieve results.\n\n9.—My Committee strongly urge His Excellency to make representations to the Admiralty for the efficient patrolling of the waters between the Colony and Wong Moon, and to cause the search staff to be largely increased in number.\n\n10.—My Committee believe that most of these carefully organised piratical attacks are arranged by people being then resident in certain villages or towns, the exact position of which is well known to the Chinese Authorities,\n\nMy Committee considers, therefore, that the strongest possible representations should be made either to the high local officials, or to the Central Government through His Majesty's Minister on the subject, and that the Chinese officials should be requested to go to the root of the evil and deal in the first place with the pirates' homes and their local shipping.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) E. A. M. WILLIAMS,\n\nSecretary.\n\n442", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465590, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# DIARY: 383\n## CHINA COMMAND INTELLIGENCE\n### January 1916 - 1st Instalment.\n\n## EXTRACTS FROM NEWSPAPERS\n\n\"The Honolulu Star Bulletin\" of the 30th November 1915 states that another step in the carrying out of the Government's Pearl Harbour Defence Schemes was taken on the 30th November, when a condemnation suit involving 20.05 acres of land situated at the North end of the Waipio peninsula, Waipio, and Waikele, was filed in the federal court by the United States Government, it being the purpose of the Government to secure the land for the erection of a military post and fort and army station for the public defence.\n\nThe petition, among other things, states that the land is wanted for the military protection of the harbour and the city and county of Honolulu.\n\nCanton, 31st December 1915, It is ascertained that two forts are being built in the Civil Governor's Court, Canton, one being situated to the West and one to the east of the city.\n\nThe \"Manchuria Daily News\" of the 20th December 1915 reports that Shanliaikwan, which is situated on the boundary of Chihli Province and Manchuria at the eastern end of The Great Wall, is to be more strongly guarded as the key to communication between Peking and Mukden. General Tuan at Mukden, after consulting Governor Chu of Chihli, has decided to reinforce the Chinese guard there with the 39th Brigade of the 20th Division, supplemented with two companies of the 78th Regiment and three Machine Rifle Corps, Lieutenant General Fan, in command of the Division, will assume command of the reinforced garrison.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 811, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nR. 12 SEP.\n\nThe Far Eastern Admiralty\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nRobinson 12/9.\n\nMr. Grindle.\n\nMr. Lambert.\n\nMr. Read.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nsomely,\n\nCopy Eur. 154951/16\n\n43584/10\n\nSno\n\nA\n\nir\n\nWhing.\n\nst\n\n30\n\n810\n\n14 Sept-16.5\n\nwith reference to the commanding with\n\nLite M 11 M. P. F03/14526). of the fly October 1915 I am directed to agree to much of the\n\nHing that Command Tay, lour &N.. Les muy\n\nA granted to im\n\nApassé\n\nBR.4.\n\n\"Transport Allowance\" was\n\nmie March\n\nhere include?\n\nAx\n\nthe full\n\nrank,\n\nLa\n\npay this have\n\nwith the result the has been called upon by th & A for the\n\nSam & 20..14.01\n\nPrefand sam I\n\nour baid.\n\n2. Comen ander for\n\nM\n\nA\n\nmarmit?\n\nout how\n\nuverting the yet many", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467585, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "content_text": "349\n\n56 BRITONS V. GERMANS IN CHINA\n\nance Companies always command a pick of the Fire, Life and Marine business to be had, so that German operations in the realms of the Far Eastern Insurance markets could not damage British interests to any appreciable extent. May this long be the case. Until the outbreak of war many German firms held valuable agencies of leading British Insurance Companies. By reason of their large turnover they were able to control a large amount of Insurance business. These agencies were in some cases profitable to the British Companies, but it is satisfactory to note that as soon as war was declared they were in nearly every instance promptly terminated. This action stands out in sharp contrast to the doings of certain Manchester and Bradford firms who continued to trade with German firms in China long after our Government had intimated that such trading was highly undesirable. Fortunately, such trading has now been rendered impossible, but the fact that steps had to be taken to stop it is a sad reflection on the lack of patriotism displayed by some of our own people.\n\nBRITONS V. GERMANS IN CHINA\n\n57\n\nWe now come to examine German activities in the Cotton and Woollen goods trade of Manchester and Bradford. It is in this first and foremost branch of business that their doings have excited so much comment. This trade is essentially an English speciality, and the fact that the Germans have been able to monopolise at least 25 per cent. of it (and possibly more) in China is certainly a matter that requires some explanation and investigation. On the face of it, it would appear that something is amiss with our methods. For British merchants China has long been only second in importance to India as an outlet and market for the products of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469130, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "VOL. 1914 5\n\nFROM Foreign Office\n\nDATE SUBJECT\n\n10 th Dec. Dividends due to certain Germans in China Chinese financial troubles. Treatment Germans in China\n\n22 \n\n26 \n\n30 \n\ninfaman Excise in Chiria\n\nI te tar Goods Exc\n\n\" Bayour \" by Italian Govt.\n\n\"Boole Missions activities in China\n\n10 Apr. Censorship of enemy\n\n2/30 37 122\n\nFROM Roncian Effic\n\nDATE SUBJECT\n\n14 Nov. Cable communication with Hong Kong\n\n25 \n\n29 \n\nFishing by Japanese Chinese Boats\n\ndirt of Chinese War Shipp\n\n3 Dec. Drain Banks.\n\n13 \n\n29 \n\n201 Home Office\n\n16 Nov. Chinese Dockers for Mesopotamia German Interests in Eastern\n\nBaront of c & neutral countries\n\n\" China\n\n12 June \n\n\" Paper\n\n20 July Supernt duties on French ships reactivité\n\n28 Aug. Double censorship of tels. from H.K. to M.S.\n\n13 Sept. Chium\n\nIndia Office\n\nTrading with Enemy Firms & Lords of Lig.\n\n126 \n\nex its \"Suthonia\"\n\nEducation of Chinese under Brit influence\n\nContual of Brit. Shipping\n\n8 Oct. Shrain Bins\n\nChina Command Q. W. C. 1915\n\nAffairs in China\n\nAffusin cones\n\nBrilial trade Marks in China\n\nEpium\n\nPosition of to's incorper in H.K.\n\n23 Feb. Smuggling of opium to the East\n\n30 Mar. Nationality of shon top\n\n2 May German onlysil - Ivor Greurgay\n\n4 Aug. Nationality of W. R. Kable\n\n19 Sept: I. Yourgey Licence to trade\n\n24 \n\nCond. H. S. Wiivi tension\n\n14 Nov. M. Grecericks Rational status\n\nwon Tip\n\n12 Jan taint of finesons to neutral\" destinations\n\n13 Dec \n\n4 Apr. \n\n26 \n\n12 \n\nWestion Sretan turf Club. For from fattores\n\nMicry downs almm. for neutrals\n\n20 Dec Indian Hashim\n\nChin Line\n\nLeave to Sis 3. H.\n\nMong China (Los) On C.\n\nMedical Aderisons\n\nLt. Col. Puuvi\n\n21 Aug.\n\nA. B. Jones\n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469711, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 585, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "114\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nTable M.\n\nLanding outside bar.\n\nbour limits.\n\nLimits of Quarantine Anchorage.\n\nLimits of Dangerous Goods Anchorage.\n\nNorthern Anchorage.\n\nSouthern Anchorage.\n\nEastern Auchorage.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n158. No foreign soldiers or sailors shall be landed in the Colony outside the harbour limits from any vessel without the permission of the Governor, for which application must be made by the senior officer in command of the foreign ships or troops concerned.\n\n16.\n\nIII. QUARANTINE ANCHORAGE.\n\nWestern Boundary.-A line drawn from the western extreme of Stonecutters Island to the western extreme of Green Island.\n\n\"Southern Boundary.\" The naval shears at Kowloon bearing east by south commencing where it meets the Western Boundary and terminating where it meets the Eastern Boundary.\n\n\"Eastern Boundary.\"-A north and south line drawn from the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island until it reaches the Southern Boundary.\n\nIV. DANGEROUS GOODS ANCHORAGES.\n\n17. The Dangerous Goods Anchorages shall mean the portions of the harbour within the following limits:-\n\nThe Northern Anchorage.\n\nNorthern Boundary. \"-A line drawn from the southern side of Torpedo Depôt platform touching and extending to the eastward of Lai Chi Kok Point.\n\n\"Southern Boundary.\"-A west line drawn from Hankow Rock Buoy.\n\n\"Eastern Boundary.\"-A north line drawn from the outlying rock on the north eastern side of Stonecutters Island intersecting with the Northern and Southern Boundaries.\n\nWestern Boundary.\"-A north line drawn from the northernmost point of Stonecutters Island intersecting with the Northern and Southern Boundaries.\n\nThe Southern Anchorage.\n\nSouth of a line joining the points of Belcher's Bay.\n\nThe Eastern Anchorage.\n\n\"Northern Boundary \"-A continuation of the Northern Boundary of the Victoria Man of War Anchorage.\n\n\"Eastern Boundary \".-Western edge of the Telegraph Cable Ground.\n\n\"Western Boundary \"-Eastward of a north and south line drawn through Kellet's Island.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nTable M.\n\n115\n\nThe Western Anchorage. Northern Boundary \"The Southern limit of the Quarantine Western Anchorage, viz. :-The naval shears at Kowloon bearing E. by S. Anchorage.\n\nSouthern Boundary \".-The naval shears at Kowloon bearing east.\n\n\"Eastern Boundary \"The southernmost point of Stonecutters Island bearing north.\n\n\"Western Boundary \".-A line drawn from the west extreme of Stonecutters Island to the west extreme of Green Island.\n\nV. TELEGRAPH CABLE GROUNDS.\n\nThe Western limit by two white posts on the Hongkong shore in line between with one white post and the chimney with white face of the pumping station at No. 1 Dock on the Kowloon shore.\n\n18. The cable ground between the north point of Hongkong and the south-east point of Kowloon Peninsula is marked as follows:-\n\nThe Eastern limit by a white post and white obelisk on the Hongkong shore in line with a white post and white obelisk on the Kowloon shore.\n\nBy day the five white posts may be distinguished by their carrying a red diamond shape. By night two of them on each shore display a red light.\n\nThe lights are so screened that the easternmost lights do not show to the eastward nor the westernmost lights to the westward.\n\n19. The line of telegraph cable between Taikoktsui and the eastern shore of Stonecutters Island is marked as follows:-\n\nby a white post carrying a red diamond shape at each end on the shore of Stonecutters Island.\n\n20. No ship, junk or vessel of any description shall anchor either within the limits of the said cable ground or within 50 yards on either side of the said line of telegraph cable.\n\n20. Fishing is prohibited within the Telegraph Cable Reserve.\n\nVI. STEAM-WHISTLES.\n\n21. No steamship shall use her steam-whistle except for the purposes of navigation as laid down in Articles 15, 28 and 31 of the International Collision Regulations, and except for the purpose of giving necessary notice of her approach towards any other vessel, when one prolonged blast of from 4 to 6 seconds duration shall be sounded.\n\n22. Any infringement of regulation 21 will subject the master or owner of the offending ship to a penalty not exceeding 100 dollars.\n\nPage 115\n\n \n(The rest of the text is not proofread as it is not provided)\n\n \n\nPage 116\n\n \n(The rest of the text is not proofread as it is not provided)\n\n \n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "## COLONIAL SERVICE\n\n### Colony\n\n#### Name of Office\n\nFrom | Salary of present Office† | Salary for the last 3 years | Whether House or lodging is provided, or an allowance in lieu thereof | Any other circumstances affecting the value of the appointment\n---------|----------|---------|---------|---------\n | £520 plus £100 Duty allowance, if any. | | House provided. | Conveyance Allowance of $30 per month.\n\n### PROMOTION DESIRED\n\na post that approximates to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong, £300 to £420 by £40 triennially, £120 Duty Pay, $360 Conveyance Allowance and Free quarters.\n\n\"I state my reasons on the last page of this application.\n\nI do not desire to go to West Africa.\n\n* Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the next page.\n† If the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given. If private practice is Allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\n\nThe value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicants for promotion should therefore, in their own interests, state as precisely as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colonies to which they would or would not be willing to go, and the amount of salary which they think that they may reasonably expect.\n\n### 440\n\n[This page is to be reserved for any report which the Governor may make when sending the form to the Colonial Office.]\n\nMr. King is an excellent police officer and a man of the highest character. His qualifications both in Eastern languages and in police work are very good, and in my opinion he is fit to take command of a Colonial Police Force of moderate size.\n\nEsme Howard, Officer Administering the Government, 6 January 1919", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF AFGHANISTAN\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n\"...and of the engagements which His Highness, my late father—that is, Zia-ul-millat-wa-ud-din, who has found mercy, may God enlighten his tomb—concluded and acted upon with the exalted British Government, I also have acted, am acting, and will act upon the same agreement and compact, and I will not contravene them in any dealing or in any promise.\"\n\n3. In practice, we have never attempted to enforce our \"control\" very strictly. We have no European representative at Cabul, and our Indian Mahommedan agent does not command much prestige or influence. We have, in fact, been content to leave the Ameer alone so long as he avoided serious political intercourse with any other State. We even agreed in 1907 (article 3 of Afghan section of Anglo-Russian Convention of the 31st August, 1907), to the establishment of direct relations between Afghan and Russian frontier officials \"for the settlement of local questions of a non-political character.\" But as the Ameer has never accepted the Afghan section of the convention of 1907, this provision has remained inoperative.\n\n4. During the war, the outward manifestation of our power to control the Ameer's foreign relations has not been very impressive. We have had to put up, month after month, with the presence of German and Turkish agents at Cabul, and to look on as passive spectators at their endeavours to induce the Ameer to take up arms against us. But the fact remains that all these endeavours have failed, and that the Ameer, despite continued pressure, has adhered to the policy of neutrality which he adopted at the beginning of the war. He has, moreover, rendered positive assistance by exercising a restraining influence over the border tribesmen during the recent disturbances on the north-west frontier. His attitude has, in fact, afforded a notable vindication of our policy towards Afghanistan during the past thirty-seven years, and it is probable that Anglo-Afghan relations stand on as firm a basis to-day as at any period since 1880.\n\n5. As regards the status of Afghans in foreign countries, His Majesty's Government have always taken the view that the assumption of control over the Ameer's foreign relations carried with it a certain degree of responsibility for the welfare of his subjects when living or travelling abroad. Our policy on this point has been embodied in the following formula: \"His Majesty's Government, by reason of their treaty engagements with the Ameer of Afghanistan, are under the obligation, when their assistance is invoked, to intervene for the protection of Afghan subjects abroad.\"\n\n6. It may be added that the Ameer of Afghanistan receives a subsidy from the Government of India of the amount of over £120,000 per annum.\n\nIndia Office, October 29, 1917.\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[358]\n\n(No. 784. C.O. 7053 [January 1, 1918])\n\nREG 8 FEB 18\n\n### SECTION 1\n\nSir C. Greene to Mr. Balfour.—(Received January 1, 1918.)\n\n**Confidential.**\n\nTokyo, November 13, 1917.\n\nAbout two years ago, when Great Britain was an object of Japanese criticism, frequently of a most unfriendly character, the question of the revision, or even the abrogation, of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was widely ventilated in this country. Since then, this topic, though occasionally touched on, has sunk into the journalistic background, but the United States-Japan exchange of notes recognising the latter's special interests in China has been the signal for the revival in one or two quarters of the subject of the revision of the Alliance agreement.\n\nAn instance is to be found in a paragraph which appeared on the 9th instant in a leading commercial paper, the \"Chugwai Shogyo Shimpo,\" which reads in translation as follows:\n\n\"The revision of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the foundation of Japan's foreign policy, is a question frequently discussed in the past. Not only does the Alliance in question complete its term on the 13th July, 1921, but to-day, as compared with the period of its conclusion, Japan's position in Eastern Asia has undergone immense changes. The actual situation is that the peace of Eastern Asia is now solely sustained by the effective power of this Empire. At the present juncture, therefore, it is only natural that there should be a necessity for the revision of the Alliance agreement. In particular, despite the fact that by the present exchange of diplomatic notes between the Japanese and American Governments Japan's position in China is authenticated in a concrete form, the actual status of Japan is not definitely recognised in a direct manner in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance agreement, which should form the basis of the Empire's diplomacy. Such a circumstance creates an impression of inconsistency with the progressive changes in the general tendencies of the world and with the realities of the East-Asiatic situation. Moreover, it is to be apprehended that misunderstandings between the two countries may be thereby provoked. The view has therefore come to be advocated in influential quarters that revision is now essential. The Government authorities are also, of course, devoting due consideration to this point. In November 1915, however, Great Britain declared she would not take any political measures in China without consulting Japan, and, again, the British Government are fully alive to the spirit of the present exchange of notes between Japan and America. Moreover, England is to-day labouring single-heartedly to utilise the Alliance. Consequently, the view also prevails that the opening of such negotiations at this juncture would be liable rather to give rise to misapprehensions, and that the present moment is thus not opportune. It is a fact that as yet no concrete step is being taken by the Government as such; but under the impulse of the present exchange of notes between Japan and America, the question of the revision of the Alliance has come, it is said, to be regarded in various quarters as having marked importance.\"\n\nOn the following day, the \"Japan Times,\" a paper having an official connection, published the enclosed paragraph. Using the same materials, it makes in parts identical references to the revision of the Alliance; but it gives more prominence to Sir E. Grey's so-called declaration regarding China of November 1915, which subject merits a word of comment.\n\nWhen some time since the American Minister at Peking offered his advice to the Chinese Government to compose their differences, treating the war as of secondary importance, the immediate attention paid in Japan to this minor incident and the disproportionate outcry, apparently initiated or encouraged by the Japanese Government in the Japanese press, were interpreted by some observers as a manoeuvre to elicit from the American Government an undertaking not to approach the Chinese Government on a political issue without consulting Japan, on the lines of the communication made to the Japanese Government by Sir E. Grey in November 1915.\n\n[2767 a-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478032, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[January 1, 1918]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nREG 8 FEB 18\n\n[358]\n\n### No. 1. Sir C. Greene to Mr. Balfour.--(Received January 1, 1918.)\n\n**(No. 784. Confidential)**\n\nSir,\n\nTokyo, November 13, 1917. ABOUT two years ago, when Great Britain was an object of Japanese criticism, frequently of a most unfriendly character, the question of the revision, or even the abrogation, of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was widely ventilated in this country. Since then this topic, though occasionally touched on, has sunk into the journalistic background, but the United States-Japan exchange of notes recognising the latter's special interests in China has been the signal for the revival in one or two quarters of the subject of the revision of the Alliance agreement.\n\nAn instance is to be found in a paragraph which appeared on the 9th instant in a leading commercial paper, the `Chugwai Shogyo Shimpo`, which reads in translation as follows:-\n\n\"The revision of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the foundation of Japan's foreign policy, is a question frequently discussed in the past. Not only does the Alliance in question complete its term on the 18th July, 1921, but to-day, as compared with the period of its conclusion, Japan's position in Eastern Asia has undergone immense changes. The actual situation is that the peace of Eastern Asia is now solely sustained by the effective power of this Empire. At the present juncture, therefore, it is only natural that there should be a necessity for the revision of the Alliance agreement. In particular, despite the fact that by the present exchange of diplomatic notes between the Japanese and American Governments Japan's position in China is authenticated in a concrete form, the actual status of Japan is not definitely recognised in a direct manner in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance agreement, which should form the basis of the Empire's diplomacy. Such a circumstance creates an impression of inconsistency with the progressive changes in the general tendencies of the world and with the realities of the East-Asiatic situation. Moreover, it is to be apprehended that misunderstandings between the two countries may be thereby provoked. The view has therefore come to be advocated in influential quarters that revision is now essential. The Government authorities are also of course devoting due consideration to this point. In November 1915, however, Great Britain declared she would not take any political measures in China without consulting Japan, and, again, the British Government are fully alive to the spirit of the present exchange of notes between Japan and America. Moreover, England is to-day labouring single-heartedly to utilise the Alliance. Consequently the view also prevails that the opening of such negotiations at this juncture would be liable rather to give rise to misapprehensions, and that the present moment is thus not opportune. It is a fact that as yet no concrete step is being taken by the Government as such; but under the impulse of the present exchange of notes between Japan and America the question of the revision of the Alliance has come, it is said, to be regarded in various quarters as having marked importance.\"\n\nOn the following day the `Japan Times`, a paper having an official connection, published the enclosed paragraph. Using the same materials, it makes in parts identical references to the revision of the Alliance; but it gives more prominence to Sir E. Grey's so-called declaration regarding China of November 1915, which subject merits a word of comment.\n\nWhen some time since the American Minister at Peking offered his \"advice\" to the Chinese Government to compose their differences, treating the war as of secondary importance, the immediate attention paid in Japan to this minor incident and the disproportionate outcry, apparently initiated or encouraged by the Japanese Government in the Japanese press, were interpreted by some observers as a manoeuvre to elicit from the American Government an undertaking not to approach the Chinese Government on a political issue without consulting Japan, on the lines of the communication made to the Japanese Government by Sir E. Grey in November 1915.\n\n[2767-1] \n\n## Previous Document\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nand of the engagements which His Highness, my late father—that is, Zia-ul-millat-wa-ud-din, who has found mercy, may God enlighten his tomb—concluded and acted upon with the exalted British Government, I also have acted, am acting, and will act upon the same agreement and compact, and I will not contravene them in any dealing or in any promise.\"\n\n3. In practice we have never attempted to enforce our \"control\" very strictly. We have no European representative at Cabul, and our Indian Mohammedan agent does not command much prestige or influence. We have, in fact, been content to leave the Ameer alone so long as he avoided serious political intercourse with any other State. We even agreed in 1907 (article 3 of Afghan section of Anglo-Russian Convention of the 31st August, 1907), to the establishment of direct relations between Afghan and Russian frontier officials for the settlement of local questions of a non-political character.\" But as the Ameer has never accepted the Afghan section of the convention of 1907, this provision has remained inoperative.\n\n4. During the war the outward manifestation of our power to control the Ameer's foreign relations has not been very impressive. We have had to put up, month after month, with the presence of German and Turkish agents at Cabul, and to look on as passive spectators at their endeavours to induce the Ameer to take up arms against us. But the fact remains that all these endeavours have failed, and that the Ameer, despite continued pressure, has adhered to the policy of neutrality which he adopted at the beginning of the war. He has, moreover, rendered us positive assistance by exercising a restraining influence over the border tribesmen during the recent disturbances on the north-west frontier. His attitude has, in fact, afforded a notable vindication of our policy towards Afghanistan during the past thirty-seven years, and it is probable that Anglo-Afghan relations stand on as firm a basis to-day as at any period since 1880.\n\n5. As regards the status of Afghans in foreign countries, His Majesty's Government have always taken the view that the assumption of control over the Ameer's foreign relations carried with it a certain degree of responsibility for the welfare of his subjects when living or travelling abroad. Our policy on this point has been embodied in the following formula:-\n\n\"His Majesty's Government, by reason of their treaty engagements with the Ameer of Afghanistan, are under the obligation, when their assistance is invoked, to intervene for the protection of Afghan subjects abroad.\"\n\n6. It may be added that the Ameer of Afghanistan receives a subsidy from the Government of India of the amount of over 120,000l. per annum.\n\nIndia Office, October 29, 1917.\n\nC.O\n\n7053\n\nPage 2\nPage 358", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479953, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "366\n\nFirst Assistant Government Marine Surveyor, Second Assistant Superintendent of Police, Assistant Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department, Junior Assistant Marine Surveyor\n\n30080\n\nMeet 27 JUN IC\n\nI find that I omitted from the fourth class of Schedule I the post of 2nd Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. I propose that the post of 3rd Assistant should be abolished as it will always be possible to attach a Passed Cadet to the office if required.\n\n### The Medical Department\n\nOne of the things that struck me when I came to this Colony was that Government Officers could not command the services of Government Medical Officers free of charge as in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. It is possible for them to go to the Government Civil Hospital and consult a Medical Officer free of charge, but in practice this is not done, and an Officer's expenses in Hong Kong are higher than those of an Officer elsewhere by the amount of the fees he has to pay to private Medical Practitioners. I consider that the system here should be the same as that in the other Eastern Colonies and Dependencies, and my recommendations as regards the emoluments of Government Medical Officers and the number of posts are based on the supposition that their services will be available free of charge to Government Officers. As regards attendance on the families of Government Officers, I am of opinion that the Medical Officers should be permitted to make private arrangements as regards fees, as was, and I presume still is, the case in the Federated Malay States. I should put the salary of the Principal Civil Medical Officer at £1,000 rising to £1,300 by annual increments of £50, and would provide him with Government Quarters at the same rent as other officers of similar rank. Hitherto, the Principal Civil Medical Officer has", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "2\n\nSzechuan or move against the Thibetans according to the development of events. This officer is therefore not only guilty of deliberately attempting to stir up trouble between Great Britain and China over Thibet to forward his private political ends (see my previous despatches), but is likewise guilty of deliberately infringing the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty of 1911 for his own enrichment,\n\nI have had considerable experience of opium suppression in the distant interior of China, and I well know that the responsibility for any recrudescence of cultivation in formerly clean regions lies at the door of the local officials (who can maintain the suppression with the greatest ease if they desire to do so) acting under the orders of the Governor of their province, or the military chief controlling their area; exception being made in the case of semi-independent tribal country and of regions controlled by brigands or rebels. Luting, however, is a peaceful and purely Chinese district, as easily governed as the Chengtu Plain or the country round Peking, and is actually under the control, not of the southern \"rebel,\" but of a Peking-appointed official.\n\nConsular officers may perambulate provinces and certify them as clean; but such certification provides no guarantee whatsoever that cultivation will not be vigorously resumed in the following season if the local authorities desire to raise money from this unique revenue-producing source (as is the case in the present instance). It is always the officials and not the people who should be punished; but, unfortunately, the reverse is usually the case.\n\nI am fully aware of the wonderful progress that has been made in China as a whole, especially in the eastern provinces, in regard to opium suppression (in spite of the widespread recrudescence reported in disturbed and brigand-infested regions), and of the relatively small importance, to the whole question, of remote parts in Western Szechuan being under poppy cultivation; unmistakable evidence of the real progress made in suppression being everywhere provided by the high price of the native drug compared to ten years ago (though this high price is, of course, partly due to the heavy taxation imposed). But I am impelled to report this instance of open recrudescence under official auspices and encouragement, in order that you, sir, and perhaps the Chinese Government, may be informed of the nature of the official to whom Thibetan affairs continue to be entrusted.\n\nPerhaps the Chinese Government are under the impression that they cannot remove General Ch'en Hsia-ling from his post owing to Szechuan being independent. Such, however, is not the case. It is only the moral support afforded by his having the mandate of Peking to act as Frontier Commissioner that enables him to maintain his present position. Were that support withdrawn by an open mandate cashiering him, he would disappear from the scene almost at once.\n\nI have not mentioned the matter of this poppy cultivation to General Ch'en Hsia-ling, since I did not like to do so without your instructions, and also because I did not consider it desirable to do anything to impair the outwardly friendly relations which I have maintained with him in the interests of the peace of the frontier at the time of my departure.\n\nThe Chien-chang valley (the narrow strip of Chinese-inhabited territory running south towards Yunnan between Lolo and tribal country) is said to be also full of opium, definite information in regard to which has probably been supplied by Mr. Eastes. That region, which was until last summer also controlled by General Ch'en Hsia-ling, appears now to be a sort of no-man's-land, the possession of which is in dispute between the latter, the Szechuanese, and the Yünnanese.\n\nSzechuan was, I believe, passed as clean without an official inspection at the time the 1911 agreement was made. There was a limited amount of recrudescence after the revolution and during the subsequent troubles, and the poppy has always continued to flourish in the remote and semi-independent tribal country behind Kuan Hsien. But I have never heard of anything like the open and legalized cultivation now being carried on in Luting district and neighbourhood.\n\nCopy of this despatch has not been forwarded to the Foreign Department of the Government of India, as it is not directly concerned with Thibetan affairs.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nERIC TEICHMAN.\n\n8\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nNOT carrying with me any paraphernalia for official correspondence on my journey hither from the Burmah frontier, I incorporated in a letter despatched en route to His Majesty's Minister at Peking my observations on the vast quantities of opium being grown, not only in the Chien-ch'ang valley, but also throughout the whole region traversed by me during twelve and a-half days' travel in south-western Szechuan.\n\nDuring the whole length of my journey across the western circuit of Yunnan, from the extreme south-west to the extreme north-east, I saw only five fields of opium poppy, and these were passed on the last half-day's journey in Yunnan, within 10 miles of the Szechuan boundary.\n\nOnce, however, I had crossed the River Yang-tsze and entered Szechuan, matters were entirely different, and poppy fields abounded on all sides, without the smallest attempt at concealment,\n\nFor the first two and a-half days to Hui-li the country was in the hands of Yunnan troops, and the percentage of opium crops was not very great; from Hui-li onwards for the next ten stages poppy fields were passed everywhere, in enormous quantities, and the percentage of these pernicious crops rose certainly to 50 per cent.\n\nThe valley of the Anuing River, which is the Chien-ch'ang (formerly Ning-yuan Fu) valley proper, is reached shortly before the end of the second stage northwards from Hui-li; three stages more, through absolutely countless poppy crops, brought me to the very large walled city of Chien-ch'ang (formerly Ning-yuan Fu), the headquarters of the Chien-ch'ang Taoyin, which lies just out of the Anning River valley, on its east side, in a broad plain which when I traversed it on the 17th March was a brilliant mass of poppy crops. During these three stages I travelled in company with a recently retired district magistrate of Hui-li, and in the course of conversation with him I commented freely on this flagrant breach of the Opium Agreement with Great Britain. His defence for his own scandalous inactivity in the matter, that he had no troops to carry out the work of suppression, was wholly specious, for throughout our journey in company we constantly passed large numbers of ill-disciplined local militiamen, whose sole occupation seemed to be loafing and gambling outside the gates of the many walled towns in which they were quartered; while day after day my efforts to find a temple to spend the night were frustrated because the temples—which abound all over Szechuan—were already occupied by these ruffians. Throughout the whole course of my journey in Szechuan I saw not a single proclamation against the cultivation of opium poppy bearing a date later than 1917.\n\nI agree entirely with Mr. Teichman's comment that it is always the officials and not the people who should be punished; my ex-magistrate travelling companion should undoubtedly have received a very severe sentence for his criminal, and doubtless highly lucrative, apathy. I was told by friendly natives encountered on my travels that each field of the illicit crop was worth 6 dollars to the authorities conniving at its existence.\n\nTwo stages above Chien-ch'ang the road quits the Anning River valley and becomes more mountainous as far as I could judge; the fact that opium cultivation for the next few stages is distinctly less universal is due solely to the less congenial character of the soil. But not until my sixteenth day's journey in Szechuan, four days north of the large district town of Yih-hsi, did I cease to see poppy crops altogether, and I attribute that cessation solely to the fact that the idle militia gave place, in the neighbourhood of the large towns of Ta-shu-p'u and Fu-lin, and thence onwards to Chengtu, to regular troops, under the command presumably of officers owning more than a nominal allegiance to the present military governor, Hsiung K'o-wu.\n\nMr. Teichman refers to the continued flourishing of poppy cultivation in the remote and semi-independent tribal country behind Kuan-hsien (about 40 miles north-west of Chengtu); this state of affairs is corroborated by local missionaries, who tell me, moreover, that opium growing on a small scale has begun again in several other hilly or mountainous areas on the fringe of the great Chengtu Plain,\n\nOn the 25th April a small paragraph in the local native press announced that General Tan Mou-hsin, the commander of the 1st division of Szechuan regulars, one of...\n\n472", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483569, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4]", "content_text": "379\n\n(I would observe, incidentally, that I consider that I should have been consulted before this was done) and the command of the Forces devolved upon Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Wyndham of the Wiltshire Regiment, who has been only a few months in the Colony. Colonel Wyndham occupied the position of Officer Commanding the Troops for about a week and has now been replaced by Colonel J. R. Young, Commanding Royal Engineers, who has returned from leave for that purpose.\n\nI have, of course, no qualifications to judge of Colonel Young's capacity as an officer of Engineers, but, as a man, his views appear to be somewhat peculiar and his personality is more than somewhat uncouth. That the Government of the Colony should be administered by either Colonel Wyndham or Colonel Young is inconceivable.\n\n4.\n\nI was serving in the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office at the time when Mr. Lyttelton's despatch was written and, if I remember aright, the decision to prefer the Senior Military Officer to an Acting Colonial Secretary was due, at least in part, to the fact that at that time the Acting Colonial Secretary was likely to be an officer of very short experience. That is not the case now as the officers at the head of the service, from among whom the Acting Colonial Secretary would be selected, are all men of ripe age and experience. The present holder of the post, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, who is 41 years of age, is regarded by others besides myself as one of the best officers in His Majesty's service, and I may say that, in the event of the Colonial Secretaryship becoming vacant, his appointment to the substantive post would be received with widespread approval in the Colony. It is not too much to say that the appointment of any military officer other than the Major-General Commanding the Forces to administer the Government while Mr. Fletcher is acting as Colonial Secretary would give a shock to public opinion both European and Chinese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 343\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nELECTRA HOUSE,\n\nFINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C. 2 3682 Wall) 4 Lines 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. 2\n\nISSUED FROM\n\n41-42, PARLIAMENT ST. S.W. 1.\n\n8. LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. 3...\n\n3632 Wall) 1851 Avenue\n\nNo.\n\nREMARK\n\nThe following\n\nFrom.... Foreign\n\n28, MINCING LANE, E.C.\n\n26. MARK LANE, E.C.\n\n6100\n\n37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. 1\n\n41-42. PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. 1\n\nTHE BALTIC, ST. MARK LANE. E.C. 3\n\nDated\n\n74\n\nlet\n\nREG 14\n\nTim-\n\n5:52 AM –\n\n'1014 Holborn ¡2616 Gerard\n\n14408 Auger\n\nrid\n\nTu\n\nHD WA\n\nchapelnie\n\ntoting how unwariness\n\nAntigu\n\nAgikey\n\nrfall\n\na\n\nJus Sewi\n\nNo, Worda\n\n#arbour\n\nSilvergod\n\nhas\n\naccep\n\nees ted\n\nabguldid rapidot\n\nwander in Ch\n\ni\n\nCommand\n\nbet.\n\nunder the Command of\n\nEast Indies\n\nchy\n\neaning time.\n\nStubbs\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern,\n\nDoubtful words should be officially repeated. See Rule Book.\n\nnquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy,\n\nWater\n\nAsas Tapirma, Printers, Lestedon, Will, for the\n\n1\n\ni\n\nCe sp\n\n!\n\nPage 343\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# 6\n\nand sole representative of the former faction, fled from the city on the 10th May, having previously concentrated his men at spots outside the walls,\n\nChungking has seen no fighting, although on two occasions strong thrusts were made towards the city by the Second Szechuanese Division. Commerce, however, has suffered great losses, both direct and indirect; at the end of the quarter the total requisition made on the city amounted to 1,200,000 dollars.\n\nThe behaviour of the Kweichow troops in and around Chungking has been in general quite good, and discipline is surprisingly well maintained.\n\nAs an inevitable consequence of the war in Szechuan, brigandage has become a pest. On the departure of the bulk of the Kweichow garrison, brigands were so far emboldened as to commit their robberies right under the walls of the city. The favourite haunt of the robber bands, however, has been the \"Kitten Gorge,\" between Kiantsing and Chungking; not even the protection of an escort guaranteed parties against being fired on in this stretch of the river. Another \"plague spot\" is Tai-ping Chen, west of Chungking, on the border of Yungchuan, Jung-ch'ang, and Ta-tsu. About the middle of the quarter, a party of American missionaries, who had been looted at this place two years before, tried to escape attention by circumventing Tai-p'ing Chen, but the brigands detected them and gave chase, firing as they ran. When the bullets came dangerously close, the missionaries, who had sought to outstrip their assailants, stopped and threw up their hands. The brigands then merely rebuked them for trying to evade the town and took from them the price of the ammunition expended, estimated at 5 dol. 50 c. Even this was subsequently restored to them.\n\nIt is interesting to note that this body of brigands made no secret of their object, viz., the formation of a strong well-armed band which would sell its services to the highest bidder of the two opposing factions and be incorporated in the army on one side or the other.\n\nThe embargo on the export of silver, declared in April by the Kweichow command, caused apprehension at first amongst the native population, who regarded the order as an indication that the Kweichow troops were going to loot the city. Their fears, though not unnatural, were quite groundless. The sole object of the Kweichow command appears to have been to ensure an adequate supply of ready money for paying the troops, and the general himself, with his primitive notion of economics, could think of no other expedient.\n\n## Ichang\n\nDuring the early part of the quarter, the unpaid troops of the Upper Yang-tsze Expeditionary Force were a constant source of danger to the native population. They committed robberies under the cloak of searching for opium and did not hesitate to use violence.\n\nTowards the end of July, the situation became threatening for a few days, partly in consequence of the war in Chibli, but chiefly by reason of the arrest at the Tuchun's order of Wu Kuang-hsin, Commander-in-chief of the Upper Yang-tsze Expeditionary Force, and incidentally a son-in-law of Tuan Chi-jui. The nominal cause of Wu's arrest was the fighting that had occurred between his troops and those of the Tuchun at Hankow; it is more than probable, however, that his relationship with Tuan was the real reason.\n\nFears were generally held that Wu's capture would result in hostilities between the latter's forces and those of Wang Mou-Shang, Commander-in-chief of the Hupei provincial troops. Finally, the Tuchun himself took over Wu's forces and incorporated them in his own army, a step which has relieved the situation, for the time being, at all events.\n\nThe state of affairs at Shasi gave cause for alarm on more than one occasion during July. Owing to friction between the troops of Wang Ju-ch'in and those of Wu Kuang-hsin, there was talk of withdrawing the former; their departure would have left Wu's troops, for long unpaid, free to loot the place, and the latter announced to Wang's troops that if they did, they would spare neither foreigner nor Chinese. Wang's troops remained, however, and looting was merely spasmodic, being confined to native shops and customs stations. With the disbandment of Wu's troops at Shasi, orders having recently been issued by Wang Tuchun to that effect, the situation there will be restored to something like normal.\n\nThanks to the constant patrolling of the danger zones by gunboats, the firing on steamers near Wan-hsien and other places on the Upper Yang-tsze has entirely ceased latterly. There are now seven vessels on the run, of which five are British and two American.\n\n# 7\n\nIn consequence of the struggle in Szechuan, junk trade on the river has practically ceased.\n\nThe largest seizure of opium during the quarter was made on the \"Aulan,\" an As the circumstances Asiatic Petroleum Company boat, where ... piculs were found. pointed to gross negligence on the part of the officers, the vessel's extra-treaty privileges were cancelled, to be restored later, however, on payment by the company of 250 taels. The new season's crop of opium from Szechuan, Kweichow, and Yunnan is now being taken to Chungking for export. It is therefore likely that the difficulties for steamers arising out of the smuggling of the drug will increase in the near future.\n\n## Mukden\n\nThroughout the quarter, the struggle between the Anfu and Peiyang Parties for political supremacy and the Chinese Eastern Railway question have almost monopolised the attention of Governor Chang Tso-lin, who surprised many well-informed people by championing the Peiyang cause. It had been thought that Chang was too much under Japanese influence to oppose the then powerful Anfu clique. His well-known ambition to become Vice-President and eventually President of the Republic had, doubtless, a good deal to do with this unexpected step.\n\nChang Tso-lin's career, his rise from the lowly position of a pig-gelder to that of virtual ruler of Manchuria, is eloquent testimony of the man's strength of character. In his dealings with the Japanese, he has given proof of a political astuteness equal to that of any of his fellow officials. Chang's earlier life as a brigand chief developed his natural gifts of leadership and helped to make him the man of action he is to-day, and of this type of official, there is a sorry lack in China. With the people, he has the reputation of being ruthless but just.\n\nHandicapped though the Governor is by his lack of education, he has reduced the Military and Civil Governors of Kirin and Heilungchiang to a state of total subservience and controls every act of the Provincial Assembly. His troops, regularly paid and well-disciplined, are amongst the best in China, and his officers are wholly devoted to him.\n\nThe Presidency of the Republic is indeed a reasonable goal for such a man, but, apart from possible outside opposition, his lack of education and of political experience outside Manchuria must always prove grave obstacles to his progress.\n\nOpium, of which the cultivation in Fengtien has been suppressed, is being consumed to an increasing extent among the higher classes, and especially in Mukden; even the Governor himself is suspected of indulging in the habit. Amongst the lower classes, on the other hand, the habit is going out, morphine having taken the place of opium. The suppression of either drug is an almost impossible task in view of the lack of restrictions on their conveyance and sale by Japanese subjects.\n\nNo foreigner can visit Manchuria without being struck by the intense anti-Japanese feeling which exists amongst European and American residents in the country. The reasons for this general feeling, though difficult to understand at first, are not far to seek.\n\nIn the first place, the missionaries resent the way in which the drug business is being carried on by the Japanese, who are ruining the Chinese body and soul with their opium and their morphia.\n\nAmongst foreign merchants, the anti-Japanese feeling is the result of the discrimination in favour of Japanese trade shown by the authorities generally. The methods of discrimination are calculated to deepen this resentment. One favourite trick of the Japanese is to put as many difficulties as possible in the way of foreign merchants, who have to use the Japanese railway for transport purposes. There are endless delays, and no notice is taken of complaints. Again, claims for cargo lost or stolen on the South Manchuria Railway are almost always refused; even when the company cannot wriggle out of its responsibility, a third of the claim is the maximum paid.\n\nIt might be thought by the casual observer that the Chinese are reconciled to the presence of the Japanese in Manchuria, and the fact that the boycott has never reached this country tends to confirm such an opinion. The Chinese there, however, dislike the Japanese at least as much as they dislike them elsewhere in China, but they realise how powerless they are and are consequently more cautious in their utterances.\n\n## Foochow\n\nThere has been no event of general political importance during the quarter under review.\n\nAbout the beginning of April, three attempts to bring bombs into the Military ...\n\nPage 403", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489329, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# \n\nAt a time when the Powers interested in China are thus joining their hands to promote the welfare of the Chinese people, by avoiding needless competition among themselves and by further strengthening their friendship and concert, it is a matter to be deeply deplored, especially by Japan who, as her neighbour, is peculiarly interested, that a complete and peaceful unification of China is not yet in sight. Last summer when the political situation of China began to give signs of farther complication, and later when things came to such a pass that the northern part of China became involved in armed conflicts, the Japanese Government, as you are well aware, besides early warning their officials and nationals in China to refrain from any and all acts or activities that might be regarded as taking part in the political strife, published a declaration on their policy of scrupulous impartiality and their attitude of strict fairness. The situation in China is now at a turning point and the awakening of the people is indeed worthy of note. That the path of China is beset with difficulties should command the deep sympathy of the people and Government of Japan, while a development worthy of her great past is a thing very eagerly hoped for by Japan which stands in such a close relationship with her. Not only for China's sake alone but for the general welfare and peace of the world, it is devoutly to be desired that China should speedily recover peace and unity.\n\n## \n\nIn reviewing the conditions of the Far East, and especially of China, I deeply regret to have to refer to the calamitous event which occurred at Hunshun last October. On the details of the event and the circumstances which constrained the Japanese Government to despatch troops both for self-defence and for the protection of the Japanese residents, a public statement was made at the time. These Japanese troops have proved equal to the task expected of them. The Chinese Government, on the other hand, actuated by a spirit of co-operation, have been transferring suitable contingents to Chientão for the purpose of clearing the locality of the outlaws and guarding against future disturbances. The Japanese Government, therefore, in pursuance of their declaration, have decided to withdraw their troops. At the same time, steps are now being taken with a view to proper settlement of this unfortunate affair. It is only their intention to provide fully in co-operation with the Chinese Government for the tranquillity of the districts affected and for the protection of the Japanese subjects.\n\n## \n\nThe Czecho-Slovak troops in Siberia, with the aid of the Japanese military authorities as well as that of the Railway Commission of the Allied and Associated Powers and its various branches, were transferred from Western Siberia to Vladivostok and by the beginning of last September were embarked to the last man from that port. When the Czechs had withdrawn from Trans-Baikalia, the Japanese Government, consistently with their repeated declarations, withdrew their troops from the region. In the districts around Vladivostok, whence a menace to the peace of Korea was still felt and where the safety of the many resident Japanese had to be provided for, and in Habarovsk which is a point of strategic importance on the way to the province of Saghalien, we had to keep sufficient forces until such time as tranquillity was restored in these regions. As soon as the situation round Habarovsk began to show a degree of stability, we withdrew our troops from that district in last September.\n\nThe political situation of Eastern Siberia underwent various vicissitudes during the course of the last half-year. There were in existence since last spring four local Governments at Vladivostok and other centres. The time gradually became ripe during last fall for the amalgamation of these local political bodies until in November last the so-called Amalgamation Assembly was held at Chita. This Assembly declared the independence of the Russian provinces east of the Selenga river, to which the name of Far Eastern Republic was given. Chita was chosen for the seat of the central Government, and the various political bodies were relegated to a position of local autonomy. It was also decided that a constitutional assembly should be held on the 25th January. As a result of this amalgamation, the Provisional Government at Vladivostok turned its authority over to the Central Government about the middle of last December.\n\nThe Government of the Far Eastern Republic claims to stand for anti-communistic democracy, and has declared itself in favour of friendly relationship with foreign countries, especially with its near neighbours. What the new Government may do in practice is for the future to reveal. The political stability of Russia in general is earnestly hoped for by Japan as her good neighbour, while as for Siberia in particular, it is the keenest desire of the Japanese Government that this troubled area should be unified on a sound basis and be restored to complete order.\n\n## \n\nThe historic good relationship between Japan and the United States needs no reiteration at this time of day. The relations between the two nations, however, have to-day greatly increased both in closeness and importance from political, economic, social, and various other points of view. It is true that this friendly relationship is not without occasional mingling of unpleasantness; that is almost inevitable in the complexity of international relations, but I am firmly of opinion that fundamentally the relationship between Japan and America is as cordial as ever, and that there are no insurmountable obstacles such as might disturb the basic factors which govern that relationship. Moreover, I am happy to notice that in recent years popular understanding between the two peoples has been greatly helped by the close and frequent contact of influential men of both countries. I desire to express my appreciation of the valuable efforts of these people which I hope will not be allowed to slacken in the future.\n\nI have to dwell here on an unfortunate event which has occurred in our relations with the United States. Last November, at the general election of the United States, the State of California passed through initiative an alien land law. The contents of the law are now generally known and may need no explanation here. In a word, the new land law is a cognate law of 1913 made more drastic and severe. That it is aimed at the Japanese and is unjust and discriminatory cannot be denied. The regret which the Japanese Government expressed at the legislation of 1913 is therefore still more keenly entertained by them at this new legislation. This question of land law, however, is not one of to-day or yesterday. It has a long history and complex and delicate bearings. It is impossible to solve the problem from the standpoint of one side alone. Principally for these reasons the difficulty arising between Japan and America from the legislation of 1913 has remained unsettled to this day. In dealing with this matter, therefore, the Japanese Government have from the outset exercised closest care. Not only, antecedent to the passage of the law, did they take proper and well-advised steps, but, recognising from a higher standpoint of Japanese-American friendship and with ample regard to the close and important relations of interest between the two nations, the urgency of a final solution of difficulties caused by such unfortunate and unpleasant events, they caused their representative to open discussion with the American authorities. Frank and free exchange of views has since been going on on various points calling for examination and debate. Although it is to be regretted that we are not yet in a position to publish the results of these discussions, it is the sincere desire of the Japanese Government that a solution, compatible with the honour and interests of both countries, may finally be arrived at.\n\nThe above is a general survey of our foreign relations up to the present moment. On matters of detail I shall have the pleasure to give explanation on later occasions.\n\n\"I thank you for your courteous attention.\"\n\nPage 474", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 401, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "400 \n\n10 \n\n11 \n\nNow, owing to the existence of the railway, much more convenient, so that a very large part of the traffic passes through the place. The Tumen Railway is ultimately to be connected with Tienpaoshan, in the western part of Chientao, where are some copper mines worked by a Sino-Japanese company, but the Chinese authorities have not yet given their consent to the laying of the Chinese section of the line, and the matter is still under negotiation.\n\ninto contact. I was furnished with armed guards for my journey and at Paitsackou, where there is no accommodation but Chinese inns, was furnished with a room in the magistrate's yamen. Mr. Tao, the Taoyin at Yenchi, who controls the four districts referred to, as well as four other neighbouring districts, was most courteous, and both he and Kao, the chu-chan, or settlement magistrate at Lungchingtsun, readily answered all the questions I put to them. Both of these officials speak Japanese well, and Mr. Kao especially seemed to be on excellent terms with Mr. Joly, who tells me that both he and the Taoyin have adopted quite a strong attitude during the past few months in the many points of dispute which have arisen with the Japanese authorities. Mr. Tao has only recently been sent back to Yenchi, where he was previously stationed for some years, and is evidently considered a good man for the post by the Chinese authorities. The magistrate at Hunchun, on the other hand, has only been recently appointed, and is not very well acquainted with conditions in the district. He speaks no Japanese.\n\nI have, &c. \n\nW. B. CUNNINGHAM. \n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir B. Alston.**\n\n(No. 37.) Sir.\n\nMukden, June 11, 1921. IN continuation of my despatch No. 36 of the 8th instant, transmitting to you Mr. Cunningham's report on the situation in Chientao. I have now the honour to enclose a supplementary report which he has prepared giving an account of his experiences on his journey to Chientao and back.\n\nSir,\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. \n\nF. E. WILKINSON.\n\n**Mr. Cunningham to Consul-General Wilkinson.**\n\nMukden, June 7, 1921. WITH reference to my despatch of to-day's date reporting on conditions in the Chientao district. I have the honour to append hereto a brief description of my journey from the date of my departure from Mukden on the 12th May last.\n\nI was not in any way inconvenienced in my journey through Korea, and I did not require to make use of the letter of introduction to Japanese officials, which it was agreed I should endeavour to obtain from the authorities in Seoul. The letter was very willingly given to me upon my personal application to Mr. Matsunaga, chief of the Foreign Affairs Section of the Government-General of Korea.\n\nFrom Kami Sampo the railway line runs for about a mile further to the spot where the ferry crosses the Tumen, and this section of the line was, I understand, put in by the Japanese military authorities during their operations last year, as was also a bridge with a line of rails across the river, though its construction was not authorised by the Chinese authorities.\n\nI arrived at Kami Sampo on the evening of the 18th and left the following day for Lungchingtsun, a distance of about 21 miles by cart. On my arrival I called first upon Mr. P. B. Joly, the assistant in charge of the Chinese maritime customs here, who very kindly offered me hospitality during my stay.\n\nI spent two days at Lungchingtsun, calling on the magistrate of the town, Mr. Kao, and upon the Japanese consul-general, both of whom returned my call. Mr. Kao entertained me to dinner on the evening of the 21st, several other Chinese officials and the Japanese consul-general and one of his vice-consuls also being present. Mr. Sakai also gave a luncheon party in my honour during my stay, Mr. Joly and Dr. Martin and the Rev. A. H. Barker, of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, also being invited. An account of my conversations with Mr. Sakai is given in my other report.\n\nOn the 22nd May I left Lungchingtsun for Yenchi, the principal town of the district, a distance of about 12 miles, spending a day and a-half there. I duly called on the Taoyin of the district, who is in charge of the whole area, and was most cordially received by him. I was, however, unable to see the general in command of the troops in the district, as he was away in Kirin.\n\nWhile at Yenchi I received a visit from Colonel Harada and Lieutenant Motoike, two of the liaison officers stationed in the Chientao area. The former explained that he had received instructions from Seoul to call on me, but though he seemed anxious to find out what my business in Chientao was, our conversation was throughout of the most informal kind, and I did not discuss the situation with him in any way. Later I returned the two officers' call at the small Chinese house they occupy in the town.\n\nUp to this time I had intended to proceed from Yenchi direct to Hunchun and return from there via Ninguta, in accordance with your suggestion. I was strongly advised, however, by M. Nadarof, the ex-Russian consul at Yenchi, who seems to be well acquainted with the district and has himself made the journey, not to attempt it at this time of year, as, though it was reported to be safe, the roads were very liable to be bad. I therefore decided to visit Paitsaokou (the most northerly of the open marts in the Chientao district) on my way to Hunchun and to be guided by circumstances as to my return route upon arrival at the latter place.\n\nI left Seoul on the morning of the 14th May (having spent the previous day in completing preparations for my journey), and arrived at Gensan the same evening in time to catch a small coasting steamer for Seishin, from which port there is rail connection with Kwainei (Kor., Hoiryong; Chin., Huining). Seishin is about 200 miles, and by direct boat the journey can be accomplished in a day, but the smaller vessels, by one of which I had to travel as there was no direct boat for two or three days, call at numerous small places on the coast and occupy about three days. I landed on the morning of the 17th at the small port of Tokchin, the last place of call before Seishin, being advised to do so as, owing to foggy weather, it was very uncertain whether the vessel would reach Seishin that day. From Tokchin there is a line of light rails to Kyojo, the present terminus of the line from Kwainei, which will ultimately connect with the east coast line from Seoul now in operation as far as Kanko (Hambeung). The line from Kyojo passes through Ranan and joins the Seishin to Kwainei line at Yujo. Ranan is the headquarters of the Japanese army in the north-eastern part of Korea and the seat of a division.\n\nThe line from Seishin to Kwainei is 58 miles in length, and was constructed some three or four years ago at considerable expense (10,000,000 yen, I am told): a high range of hills has to be crossed and there are a number of tunnels. The value of the line is, of course, mainly strategic, though considerable quantities of grain and lumber are transported over it to Seishin, whence they are exported to Japan.\n\nFrom Kwainei there is a light railway (24 feet gauge) to a small and entirely new place on the Korean side of the Tumen, known as Kami Sampo (Chin. Shangshanfeng), a distance of about 25 miles, which occupies rather more than three hours by train. It is possible to enter the Chientao district by direct road from Kwainei to Lungchingtsun, and this was the route principally used previously.\n\nI left Yenchi on the 24th May for Paitsaokou, which is a long day's journey of nearly 40 miles. The Taoyin at Yenchi had kindly furnished me with a letter of introduction to the magistrate of the Wanghsing district, who resides at Paitsaokou, and I was most cordially received and provided with a room in the yamen. I was also furnished with an armed guard of two men to accompany me on my journey.\n\nI stayed only one night at Paitsaokou, as I had been able to see the magistrate on my arrival, and there seemed little object in remaining there for a day. I accordingly left on the 25th for Hunchun, the journey of about 70 miles occupying three days owing to the difficult nature of the country traversed, several high hills having to be crossed. I was again provided with an escort and arrived at Hunchun on the evening of the 27th, being hospitably entertained while there by Mr. U. Marconi, acting commissioner of customs, to whom you had furnished me with a letter of introduction.\n\nAt Hunchun both the magistrate of the district and the officer in command of the troops came to call on me before I had been half an hour in the place, while the \n\n[6614 ee-6]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 47, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922.]\n\nPEAK CLUB. Mrs. Bevington and Mrs. Sayer lost all their matches and scored 12 games.\n\nMrs. Grimble and Mrs. N. L. Smith won one and lost three, scoring 18 games. Total: 30 games.\n\nGOLF.\n\nLADIES SECTION.\n\nThe results of recent competitions are as follow:-\n\nELECTIC COMPETITIONS.\n\nHappy Valley. Won by Mrs. Moore\n\nDeep Water Bay. Won by Mrs. Oliver\n\nFanling Relief Course. 41-3=38; 33-6=27; Won by Mrs. Crawford... 96-3=93\n\nTHE DENIS CUP.\n\nWon by Mrs. Adams with the score of 92 nett.\n\nFANLING AND ITS CADDIES.\n\nThose members of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club who went to Fanling last weekend were surprised to find that no caddies offered themselves for employment. Some time ago some of the parents of those boys approached the management of the Club and complained of the high wages the boys were able to earn as caddies. It was thought that the boys had become unmanageable at home owing to the fact that they were able to earn more than their parents, who worked in the fields. This presumption is evidently true to-day, when the boys can afford to stay away when it pleases them from earning easily made money. As will be seen from our advertising columns, the Committee have taken the only course open to them, and members are forbidden to engage local caddies at Fanling until further notice. Private caddies are still doing their duty but as boys at this time may offer themselves for engagement as caddies it is laid down that no new private caddies should be engaged meantime.\n\nMembers are requested to use the course as much as possible—carrying one's own clubs is no great hardship. Private servants or caddies may be brought from Hongkong. The Superintendent has instructions to see that the above rules are strictly enforced.\n\nBILLIARDS.\n\nLuz, 500; Kwok, 474.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nTHE LAW COURTS\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nYAUMATI PAWNSHOP ROBBERY.\n\nA great deal of valuable jewellery was displayed in Court on March 20th, when Li Cheung and Ho Yee were indicted, before Mr. Justice Gompertz, for robbery, with an alternative charge of receiving.\n\nMr. A. Dyer Ball prosecuted for the Crown and Mr. Chou, instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, defended Ho Yee. Both prisoners pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe following were empanelled as a jury:- Messrs. E. C. Bell, A. A. Bolton, W. H. B. Muskett, F. A. S. Loureiro, E. Grossman and G. A. E. Musitano.\n\nMr. Dyer Ball said that this was a pawnshop robbery of a somewhat important and serious nature. The robbery was said to have taken place at night, on February 13th, from the Yau Tai pawnshop at 280, Shanghai Street, Yaumati.\n\nIn describing the incidents of the night, Mr. Dyer Ball said the Crown was of opinion that a newly engaged assistant in the pawnshop—Lai Nam Po—was in league with the robbers, admitted them to the premises and was the only one not bound up. The assistant entertained three nocturnal visitors to tea and cigarettes; they suddenly produced revolvers, intimidated the coolies, kept them under guard all night and, with others of the gang who arrived later, went systematically through the valuables in the place and made a big haul. The prisoners were found afterwards in possession of a great quantity of jewellery, identified as having come from the pawnshop. The new assistant could not now be found or he would be in the dock too.\n\nEvidence was then called.\n\nEach prisoner was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour and ordered to receive twelve strokes of the cat.\n\nASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Three men who assaulted a boatwoman in order to rob her (and who had a narrow escape at the time from lynch law at the hands of a mob) were sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour and ten strokes of the cat.\n\nMAGISTRACY.\n\nMOTORISTS' RIGHT TO PASS.\n\nMr. H. A. Lammert, who brought a summons about a year ago on the subject of obstruction by slow-driving motorists on the road to Repulse Bay, had a similar complaint to make in the Police Court, on Mar. 21st, with regard to Castle Peak Road. Last time the defendant was a well-known police official; this time it was a Chinese chauffeur. The charge was \"obstructing the roadway.\"\n\nTraffic Inspector Garrod said that on the Castle Peak Road, on Sunday evening, March 12th, the driver of car No. 432 was overtaken by Mr. H. A. Lammert in car No. 391 who alleged that he repeatedly asked, by the usual method of sounding the horn, to pass the defendant's car, which was going along at a very slow pace. The defendant ignored his request and went along at this slow pace for a considerable time.\n\nMr. H. A. Lammert, in evidence, said that when he overtook the defendant's car it was about 100 yards behind another car. He gave three \"toots,\" which was the usual signal for permission to pass. The defendant immediately increased his speed, but still kept to the centre of the road. A man sitting beside the driver turned round to look at him; witness could perceive this through the glass pane at the back of the hood, which was up. On two or three occasions the other car drew ahead of him, and, thinking he had a chance, he sounded the horn. On occasion, the defendant speeded up to the other car, but never gave a chance to pass. In Nathan Road, as the road was wide, he was able to pass.\n\nIn reply to the Magistrate, Mr. Lammert added that his speedometer was out of order, but, reckoning by the time, which was 40 minutes for the nine-and-half miles, he thought the speed he was forced to keep at was between fifteen and twenty miles an hour.\n\nA fine of $10 was imposed.\n\nWHITE-CLOUD MOUNTAIN MURDER CASE.\n\nMURDERER SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IMPRISONMENT.\n\nThe Canton Times reports that in the final hearing of the Local Court, on March 19th, Chen Bing-sing (Chairman of the Seamen's Guild in Hongkong at the beginning of the recent strike), who murdered his wife at the foot of the White-cloud Mountain about one month ago, was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of twelve years. He was also ordered by the judge to pay $1,300 as compensation to the court policeman, whom he wounded when he was arrested in the Yet Wah Hotel.\n\nChen declares that he will appeal to the Higher Court.\n\nTHE FALKLAND VICTORY.\n\nAIDED BY HONGKONG NAVAL ACTIVITIES.\n\nVice-Admiral Anstruther, who was Commodore in Hongkong during the war, is claiming recognition from the Admiralty for the service he rendered at Hongkong which, he claims, brought about the annihilation of Von Spee's Squadron.\n\n\"I am in a position to know how Von Spee was foiled,\" says Vice-Admiral Anstruther, quoted in the China Express and Telegraph. \"I was in command of the British Naval Forces at Hongkong when the war broke out. My business was to look after the British Naval defences in the Far Eastern waters and to protect the trade routes between Hongkong and Singapore. I say that we, at Hongkong, stopped von Spee's supplies, and thus caused delay and prevented his achieving the object he had in view. All his supplies were at Manila, which was then a neutral port.\n\n\"We sent ships down to prevent the nineteen steamers there getting out. We showed the flag outside that port, and they never did get out. The result was that when Von Spee got to the Marquesas Islands he found himself short of supplies. He was delayed something like four or five weeks before he could get fresh supplies. He had to arrange this by wireless, and he had to get those supplies on the coast of California.\n\n\"The consequence was that he met Cradock on the west coast of South America instead of on the east, where he expected him. If von Spee had got there even 24 hours earlier, Sturdee would have been too late. I say, therefore, it is rather a poor compliment to say that Lord Fisher lured von Spee to the Falkland Islands merely to destroy him in revenge for Coronel. I think that my command at Hongkong did very real service in stopping von Spee's supplies. I have made representations to the Admiralty claiming recognition for that service.\"\n\nSPEEDY AIR AND WATER CRAFT.\n\nThe Daily Mail reports the introduction into French Colonies of powerful river transport machines embodying the features of watercraft and aeroplanes, which have proved most successful. The craft is known as Hydroglisseurs. They have a flat hydroplane hull and are propelled on the surface of rivers at the speed of an express train by means of propellers exactly similar to those of an aeroplane. Cochin China Hydroglisseur reduced what takes some days' journey ordinarily to nine hours. On the Niger a thousand mile journey was accomplished at the average speed of 36 miles an hour.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 230, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Weekly Press\n\nVOL. XCIV.]\n\nAND\n\nChina Overland Trade Report.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nFar Eastern News\n\nHongkong\n\nMui Teai in Hongkong\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD., 1921.\n\nPAGE 213 ........ 213 ..... 214\n\nThe Sanitary Board................................................................................ ..... ... 214\n\nLeading Articles :-\n\nRandom Reflections\n\n215\n\n215\n\n,216\n\n.216\n\n....217\n\n.... 217 ....218 219 .........227\n\nHongkong and the Water Carriage System........... 227\n\nHongkong Book-keeper's Sharp Sentence\n\n......... 228\n\n228\n\n229\n\n....230\n\nJapanese \"Aggression\" in China\n\nJapan in China and Siberia\n\nThe Central Yangtsze Situation\n\nThe British in South China\n\nWedding in Kowloon......\n\n\"Hongkong Daily Press\n\nHongkong Legislative Council....\n\nRoyal Dutch Petroleum Company\n\nCorrespondence :-\n\nAn Inaccurate Report\n\nSuspected Arson\n\nChamber of Commerce\n\nThieves Still Busy\n\nThe Cassel Mining Agreement..\n\nWhat Kansu's Earthquake Cost the Province ...230\n\nSt. Joseph's College\n\nBank of East Asia\n\n281\n\nThe Bank of China\n\nMr. Stevens's Kidnapper\n\nThe Law Courts..\n\n231 231 232\n\nThe War in Hapeh\n\n234\n\nFar Eastern Cable News...\n\nWireless Telegraph Communication with China 234\n\nLocal Sport\n\n235\n\n236\n\nFamine Committee and a Bank Fraud\n\n...236\n\nRepublicanism\" in China\n\n237\n\nFiring on Ships on the Yangtsze......\n\n..238\n\nCompany Meeting :-\n\nHongkong Hotel Co., Ltd. ..\n\nShipping\n\n..239\n\nThe Upper Yangtze Trade\n\nCommercial....\n\nBIRTHS.\n\n239\n\n239 .240\n\nCARTER.-At Shanghai, on August 21st, to Mr. and Mrs. D. CARTER, a daughter.\n\nCHAPEAUX.-At Shanghai, on August 26th, to Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT CHAPEAUX, a son.\n\nMOONEY REED.-At Shanghai, on August 19th, AUSTIN JAMES MOONEY to ANNE CONSTANCE REED.\n\nNICHOLLS-INWOOD --At Shanghai, on August 13th, HARRY CHARLES THOMAS NICHOLLS, of Shanghai and Bristol, to EMILY INWOOD, of Shanghai and London.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nBONE.--At Studley, Warwick, England, on the 26th August, Mrs. C. BONE, beloved wife of the Rev. C. Bone (formerly Pastor, Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wanchai). By cable.\n\nHARDY. At the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on August 24th, HERBERT JOHN HARDY (Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd.), aged 47 years.\n\nRegistered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.\n\nNo. 10\n\nBy order of the Canton Government 140,000 taels of opium, worth $400,000, which had been confiscated by the customs and police authorities from Smugglers, were publicly destroyed by fire on August 27th on the East Parade Ground.\n\nAdvices from Washington state that Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, author of \"Contemporary International Politics,\" has been invited to serve as an adviser on Far Eastern affairs to the American State Department for the Pacific Conference. Mr. Hornbeck, who has been travelling in China, Japan and the Philippine Islands for the past 18 months, will return to Washington next week.\n\nMr. W. S. Fleming, the American Attorney, who has been very prominently in the limelight lately at Shanghai, sailed, last week, for America, but sent to the Press a parting letter in which he wrote:- \"There is no reason to camouflage my purpose in leaving China, as I am going straight to Washington, D.C., in response to telegraphic advices I have received to be there in connection with an investigation I initiated in the Department of State early in March of this year. Lest certain evil-disposed persons should misrepresent the purpose of my departure I would ask you kindly to publish this at an early date.\"\n\nJENNER. At Shanghai, on August 22nd.\n\nELI WILLIAM JENNER, of Kent, England, aged 28 years.\n\nLINN.-At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on August 24th, CATHERINE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Linn, aged 7 weeks.\n\nRAWLINGSON.-At Shanghai, on August 26th. Captain W. J. RAWLINGSON, of Shanghai.\n\nHongkong Weekly Press.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VOEUX ROAD C LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.\n\nFAR EASTERN NEWS.\n\nLANE. At Tientsin, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. LANE, a daughter.\n\nRecent floods not only interrupted traffic on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway by washing away the tracks, but washed away a bridge on the Peking-Mukden Line, near Shanhaikuan.\n\nMURPHY.-At Cork, on August 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. MURPHY, of Shanghai, a son.\n\nPRITCHARD.-At Yunnanfu, on August 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. PRITCHARD, a daughter.\n\nREIS.-In Manila, on Sunday, the 21st inst., at 8.40 a.m., to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. REIS, a son, PEDRO FAUSTINO.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nOLIVER-KAY.-At the Abbey Hotel, Jedburgh, Scotland, on July 19th, by the Rev. Stewart Burns, M.A., St. Mary's, Hawick, MICHAEL OLIVER, China Navigation Co., Hongkong, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Oliver, 20. Slitrig Crescent, Hawick, to AGNES ROBSON, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kay, Hill View, Jedburgh.\n\nSir Arthur Whitton Brown, the Transatlantic airman, who paid a visit to China on behalf of Messrs. Vickers, a few months ago, has undergone an operation for appendicitis since his return to England.\n\nThe late Admiral Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, K.C.M.G. (75), who saw service in Nigeria and was second in command in China at the time of the Boxer outbreak, formerly A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, left estate of the gross value of £20,957.\n\nAfter a full day's proceedings, investigation of the charge against J. G. Gardiner, alleged to have stolen 50 barrels of cement, the property of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, was completed at H.M. Police Court at Shanghai, on Aug. 24th, before Mr. G. W. King, when the defendant was discharged.\n\nCertain Chinese now in London, says a London paper, are demanding that the value of two sacred golden bells taken from the Temple of Heaven in Peking during the Boxer rising shall be restored to the temple authorities. It is stated that the bells were found under piles of rubbish, and that one of them was taken by British troops to Delhi and there melted down, the gold being sold for £25,000. The interested Chinese now point to the special clause in the Versailles Treaty whereby the ancient astronomical instruments looted by the Germans during the capture of Peking were returned to China, and demand that the sacred bells, or their value, shall also be restored to the Temple of Heaven.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nOwing to the recent heavy rains the road from Laichikok to Castle Peak is closed.\n\nIt has been decided to admit women to Hongkong University and the first girl student has already been registered.\n\nMr. Percy Smith, who has been taking the waters at Marienbad, is expected to return to Hongkong in the middle of October.\n\nMr. B. Tanner, Head Master of Queen's College, who has been home on leave, returned to the Colony on August 31st by the Kamo-maru.\n\nOn one day last week seven opium raids produced 45 defendants in the dock at the Magistracy and a haul of thousands of taels of opium.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "Shipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nP.&O.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR\n\nAND\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND)\n\nTO\n\nBURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND & QUEENSLAND PORTS.\n\nRED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC\n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (UNDER CONTRACT WITH H. M. GOVERNMENT.)\n\n \n S.S.\n Tons\n From Hong-kong (about)\n Destination\n Miles\n \n \n MACEDONIA\n 11,000\n 27 Sept. 11 am\n 'pore, P'ang, C'ho & B'bay\nB'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n 6,696\n \n \n KALYAN\n 9,000\n 11th Oct.\n B'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n \n \n \n MANTUA\n 11,000\n 25th Oct.\n M'les, London & Antwerp\n \n \n \n DONGOLA\n 8,000\n 8th Nov.\n \n \n \n\nBRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS (South)\n\nTORILLA 15,205 24th Sept. 11 a.m. | Singapore & Madras.\n\nJANUS 4,824 29th Sept. | Calcutta via S'pore, Penang.\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)\n\nARAFURA 4th Oct. | Manila, Iloilo, Sandakan, Thurs. Is., Tville, B'bane,\n\nSydney and Melbourne,\n\nFrequent connections from Australia with the following:-\n\nThe Union S. S. Co's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc\n\nThe P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal\n\nThe P&O Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape\n\nThe New Zealand Shipping Co's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.\n\n \n S.S.\n Tons\n From Hong-kong (about)\n Destination\n \n \n ST. ALBANS\n 6,052\n 22 Sept. d'light\n Amoy, Y'hama & Kobe\n \n \n MANTUA\n 10,902\n 25 Sept. d'light\n S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama\n \n \n DONGOLA\n 8,083\n 7th Oct.\n Shanghai & Japan\n \n\nSAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.\n\nAll dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice\n\nWIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.\n\nParcels Measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft. x 1ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing.\n\nFor Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights etc., apply to\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO\n\n22, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\nGLEN\n\nAND\n\nSHIRE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.\n\nU.K., STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN Service.\n\n \n Vessel\n OUTWARDS\n HOMEWARDS\n \n \n S.S. GLENOGLE\n Leaves Hongkong... 22nd September\n Discharges G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n \n \n S.S. GLENAVY\n 5th October\n \n \n \n S.S. GLENAPP\n 5th October\n \n \n \n S.S. GLENADE\n 24th Sept.\n G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n \n \n S.S GLENARIFFE\n 18th Oct.\n G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, H'BURG\n \n\nMovements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.\n\nTHE GLEN LINE, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nTelephone Central No. 215, sub-ex. 23 and 3696\n\nJAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY\n\nSERVICE BETWEEN\n\nJAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.\n\n \n Steamer\n From\n Expected on or about\n Will leave on\n in port\n \n \n Tjikini\n Java\n 21st Sept.\n 23rd Sept.\n Shanghai\n \n \n Tjisondari\n Java\n \n 21st Sept.\n Japan\n \n \n Tjisalak\n Japan\n 23rd Sept.\n \n Java\n \n\nThe steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers\n\nAll steamers carry a duly qualified Surgeon.\n\nCargo taken with through rates to all ports in N., Frlands-India and Australia.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to the\n\nJava-China-Japan Lijn.\n\nYork Buildings.\n\nTelephone Central No. 1574.\n\nHONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMERS.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-CANTON LINE.\n\nSailings: To Canton daily at 8 a.m & 10 p.m. (Sun. 10 p.m. only)\n\nFrom Canton daily at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only)\n\nSERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMBOAT CO., LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-MACAO LINE.\n\nSailings to Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sundays at 9 a.m. only)\n\nSailings from Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sun. at 5 p.m. only)\n\nFurther information may be obtained at the Company's office, 4A Des Voeux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son or the American Express Company, Hongkong.\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY.\n\nShipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nN. Y. K.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,\n\nVICTORIA, SEATTLE & VANCOUVER via S'hai & Japan ports\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued to all Overland Common Points in U.S.A & Canada\n\n \n Steamer\n Sailing\n Destination\n \n \n SHIDZUOKA MARU\n Saturday, 30th Sept., at 11 am\n \n \n \n YOKOHAMA MARU\n Monday, 23rd Oct., at 11 am\n \n KASHIMA MARU\n Friday, 29th Sept. at 11a.m.\n MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singanore, &c.\n \n \n HAKONE MARU\n Friday, 13th Oct. at 11 am\n \n \n \n MATSUMOTO MARU\n Thursday, 28th September.\n LIVERPOOL via MARSEILLES\n \n \n TOYOHASHI MARU\n 17th Oct. at 11 a.m.\n SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, &c.\n \n \n YOSHINO MARU\n Tuesday, 26th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n \n \n \n AKI MARU\n Tuesday, 3rd Oct. at 11 a.m.\n NEW YORK VIA PANAMA\n \n \n SANUKI MARU\n Monday, 25th September.\n CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon\n \n \n MORICKA MARU\n Friday, 29th Sept.\n BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo\n \n \n AKI MARU\n Friday, 13th Oct. at 11a.m.\n NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n \n \n TOTTORI M.\n Saturday, 23rd Sept.\n SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n \n \n FUSHIMI MARU\n Thursday, 28th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n \n \n\nFor further information apply to Tel. Central Nos. 292 & 293.\n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nK. H. KAMEI, Manager.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nCOASTAL\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nINDO CHINA STEAM\n\n309\n\n11\n\nSHIPPING NEWS.\n\nSYDNEY'S PILFERAGE LOST\n\nThe annual loss at the port of Sydney through pillaging of cargo\n\nNAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.\n\n \n Steamer\n Sailing\n Destination\n \n \n Yuensang\n Sat. 23rd Sept. at 3 p.m.\n MANILA\n \n \n Chipshing\n Tues. 26th Sept. at 4 p.m.\n TIENTSIN\n \n \n Wingsang\n Tues. 26th Sept. at noon\n T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n \n \n Drufar\n Tues, 26th Sept. at noon\n BANGKOK via Swatow\n \n \n Mingsang\n Wed. 27th Sept. at 8 a.m.\n HAIPHONG via Hoihow\n \n \n Fooksang\n Wed. 27th Sept. at 3 p.m.\n STRAITS & Calcutta\n \n \n Yatching\n Thurs. 28th Sept. at noon\n T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n \n \n Mausang\n Sat. 30th Sept. at 2 p.m.\n SANDAKAN\n \n \n Hangsang\n Sun. 1st Oct. at noon\n T'TAO via Stow & S'hai\n \n \n Kutsang\n Tues. 3rd Oct. at 3 p.m.\n STRAITS & Calcutta\n \n \n Laisang\n Thurs. 5th Oct. at noon\n KOBE\n \n\nCALCUTTA LINE:-This Line now affords regular sailings to Calcutta, Penang and Singapore; Returning from Calcutta steamers proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan occasionally calling at Shanghai.\n\nfrom ships is considered to be not less than £500,000 yearly.\n\nSECOND MATE'S CERTIFICATE\n\nDuring the year ended June 30 last 1,974 candidates were examined at Home for certificates of competency as second mates. 829 were successful.\n\nSOOCHOW SHIPPING. A total of 4.293 vessels, aggregating 188,948 tons, entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1921 as compared with 4031 vessels, aggregating 189,859 tons, during 1920.\n\nGERMANY BUYS JAPANESE STEAMER.\n\nThe Japanese s. Shimpo Maru, 4,392 gross tons, has been purchased by Messrs. Schroser, Holcken and Fischer, of E\n\nSHANGHAI LINE: Sailings approximately every three days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through Bills of Lading are issued for all to Northern and Yangtsze Ports via Shanghai.\n\nAll steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light & Fans and carry a fully qualified Surgeon.\n\nstated to have been re-christened the Harald.\n\nMANILA LINE-A weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailing from both ports every Friday.\n\nHAIPHONG LINE:-Sailings, approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at Hoihow when inducement offers.\n\nBORNEO LINE:-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 ton steamers s.s.\" HINSANG\" & \" MAUSANG \"\n\nboth steamers having excellent passenger accommodation.\n\nCargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu.\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nTIENTSIN LINE-A regular service is run from March to Nov.\n\nREGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON\n\nFOR NEW YORK & BOSTON.\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO.\n\nTaking cargo on through Bills of Lading for Levant. Black Sea and Danube Ports.\n\nFIUME having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is also accepted for this port on through Bills of Lading.\n\nFOR SHANGHAI.\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE “\n\nSailing on or about 5th October.\n\nFor BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE.\n\nVia Singapore, Penang and Colombo.\n\nS.S. \"PERSIA \"\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE\"\n\nSailing on or about 22nd September.\n\nSailing on or about 22nd October.\n\nPassengers Luggage can be insured at the office of the Agents.\n\nNATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.\n\nRegular Passenger and Cargo Service.\n\nFROM CALCUTTA TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.\n\nS.S. \"UMLAZI \"\n\nSailing on or about 31st October.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong.\n\nFor Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.,\n\nAgents.\n\nTelephone Central 1030.\n\nAUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS.\n\nSAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)\n\n \n Steamer\n Arrives Hongkong from Australia\n Leaves Hongkong for Australia\n \n \n TAIYUAN\n 28th Sept.\n 3rd Oct.\n \n \n CHANGSHA\n 15th Oct.\n 20th Oct.\n \n\nThis steamer is fitted with Refrigerating machinery, ensuring\n\nbetween H'kong & Tientsin calling at Weihaiwei & Chefoo, plan. The Shipping Board suggested the plan to preserve the rates after the recent disruptions and disorganizing of the Eastern freight shipments. when the Atlantic Conference declare i open rates. A later report av that fourteen steamship es. plying between American N Atlantic and Far Eastern ports, have drawn up a schedule f freights, which is stated to b higher than the present rate. They have also agreed to deposit a sum of $25,000 each as a guarantee of the maintenan the schedule.\n\nCREW'S \"SMOKE-ABLES\"\n\nRecently in the House of Commons a member asked the President of the Board of Trade a question relative to the prices charged to ships' crews for cigarettes and tobacco. According to this querier, there \"M certain stij masters who compel those on board to\n\nSHANGHAI LINE.-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO.\n\nExcellent Saloon accommodation amidships. Electric Fans in Saloon and State-rooms. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai (thrice weekly) and Tsingtao (weekly), taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtsze, and Northern China Ports. Passengers are Landed in Shanghai avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung.\n\nBANGKOK LINE.-Weekly service to and from B'kok via 'tow.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, (John Swire & Sons, Ltd.)\n\nAGENTS.\n\nTelephone Central No. 36. Cargo and baggage can be insured at the above office.\n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.\n\nand\n\nHONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.\n\nRegular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having a plentiful supply of ice, fresh provisions etc. and has superior good accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms. A duly qualified Doctor is carried. Reduced Fares. Cargo booked through to all Australian. New Zealand and Tasmanian ports.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to\n\nTelephone Central No. 36.\n\nButterfield & Swire. JOHN SWIRE, & SON, LTD.) Agents.\n\nFor Swatow, Amoy and Foochow and Returns, (Occupying 9 to 10 days,) Steamships.\n\nCaptain. Leaving. Haiching... J. S. Thomson ... | SUN..\n\n24th Sept. at 11 a.m. Haihong .. W. C. Passmore\n\nFRI, 29th Sept. at 1 p.m. Haifoong... W. S. Turnbull... | FRI., 29th Sept. at p.m.\n\nArrivals and Departures from the Co's Wharf (dear Blake Pier.)\n\nFor Freight and Passage, apply to\n\n\"ELLERMAN\" LINE.\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S. S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT SERVICE.\n\n \n Vessel\n OUTWARDS\n HOMEWARDS\n \n \n \"City of Tokio\n S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama. 20th Oct.\n \n \n \n \"City of Sydney\"\n \n 10th Oct. L'don, Alwerp, R'dam, H'burg. G’gow\n \n \n \"City of Paris\"\n Mid. Dec.\n Marseilles & London\n \n \n \"City of York\"\n Beg. Feb.\n \n \n \n \"City of Simla \"\n Mud, March.\n \n \n \n \"City of Poona\"\n Mid. April.\n \n \n\nPASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars apply to\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nCANTON.\n\nDouglas Lapraik & Co., General Managers.\n\nbe left to shipowners and masters to take action.\n\nAN OLD-TIME CAPTAIN\n\nThe following is culler ** the Syren anul Shipping The late Captain \"Tom \"Dutton mas in his day one of those tine a men whose sterling chara ter and sound navigational ski...com tributed so largely to the enviable reputation which the hard Line enjoys Atlantic voy acers. We made several passages ar ago with Captain Dutton in the old Umbria, and have Many pleasant recollections, both of the ship and her commander. He was a typical British sailo bluff, courteous, and cool an emergency. During his 32 rear of service with the Cunard Cor-pany he commanded many of their well-known liners, and h was in command of the inhr when he retired some 20 -\n\nOld Cunarders will re bar the late Captain Drzys famous \"mosquito net,\" was one of the institutions tr Umbria. Many tales are tid o\n\nago.\n\nNANYO YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nthis old sea.dog. One fine ...\n\nThe South Sea Mail S.S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE between\n\nJAPAN, HONGKONG & JAVA.\n\nFor Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. SAMARANG MARU\n\nSailing on or about 26th Sept.\n\nFor Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.\n\nS.S. CHERIBON MARU\n\nSailing on or about 24th Sept.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\n(Tel. Central 80).\n\nTel. Central No. 2206. Second Floor, Prince's Building.\n\nK. SUZUKI, Manager.\n\nday morning in mid-Atlan: fe appeared on deck in full rezal -white cap cover, white trou etc. A lady passenger meeting him said: 'Good morning Captain, I see you've got clea white trousers ou.\" madam,\" was the reply, and i hope you have, too.\"\n\nKIANGSU EDUCATORS'\n\nAPPEAL\n\nTO PEKING,\n\nThe Educational Association of Kiangsu has sent a telegraphic appeal to the Peking Government asking that a stricter enforcement of the Presidential Mandates against lotteries be made. These Mandates prohibiting lotteries : China bave not been obeyed the merchants of Kiangsu a they have even gone to the ends of requesting the local authorities to suspend the operation of the..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 298, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure ! .\n\n59\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nSHIPPING CONTROL IN HONGKONG, 1917-1923.\n\nNo.\n\n5 1923\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, 26th July, 1923.\n\nThe publication of a report upon shipping control in Hongkong during the war has remained in abeyance pending a final settlement of all outstanding questions, and more particularly the completion of an action brought by certain shipowners against the Hongkong Government in the Hongkong Courts in December, 1919; it being considered undesirable to comment upon a matter forming the subject of legal proceedings. The action referred to was discharged on the 25th July, 1923. The general settlement with the owners is all but complete, and, in view of the wide publicity which has been given to certain statements made recently in Shanghai, it has been decided to issue the report without further delay.\n\nThe statements made at Shanghai were to the following effect :-\n\n(a) that certain vessels were commandeered by the Hongkong Government for the simple purpose of making money out of them, and not for purposes either connected with the war or with the defence of the Colony; that the vessels were used by the Hongkong Government solely for profiteering purposes and were never used nor intended to be used for war purposes or in aid or defence of the Colony of Hongkong or in any connection therewith;\n\n(b) that the treatment of the owners by the Hongkong Government was pitiless and relentless, with the result that one company was driven into bankruptcy;\n\n(c) that in most cases the vessels were run at a severe loss to the owners;\n\n(d) that the vessels were not requisitioned by the Commodore;\n\n(e) that the connection of the Imperial Government with the Hongkong Control Scheme was kept secret from the owners;\n\n(f) that owners were not informed that war risk was covered by the Government, and that they incurred no small cost in respect of such risk;\n\n(g) that, immediately after certain legal proceedings were commenced against the Government, the Colonial Secretary requested the owners to stay such proceedings on the ground that an amicable settlement might be otherwise arrived at; and that the owners made the unfortunate mistake of consenting, as it later transpired that the postponement was merely used to give the Government time to prepare and enact an Indemnity Ordinance.\n\nThese matters are dealt with in detail in the following report.\n\n1. In March, 1917, the Imperial Government promulgated a scheme, thereafter known as the Liner Requisition Scheme, for the requisitioning of all yet unrequisitioned British steamers on Indian and Far Eastern Liner Services. The steamers were to be operated on behalf of His Majesty's Government through representative Committees of Shipowners; but, unless and until the owners were otherwise directed, it was not the desire of the Government to interfere either with the nature of their business or the method of conducting it which would have been followed if the steamers had not been requisitioned. The owners were to continue to run the vessels as for themselves, though\n\nPage 292", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498986, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## MAN-OF-WAR ANCHORAGES\n\n### North side of the City of Victoria\n\nWestern Boundary.—A line drawn N. 30 E. 2,680 feet from the Bench Mark on the coping of the Praya Wall in line with the N. W. corner of the City Hall building.\n\nNorthern Boundary.—From the Northern extremity of the above line, a line drawn N. 85 E. 4,100 feet.\n\nEastern Boundary.—From the Eastern extremity of the line forming the Northern Boundary, a line drawn S. 15 W. 1,120 feet, thence a line drawn S. 85 W. 1,230 feet and thence a line drawn S. 15 W. until it meets the Praya Wall.\n\n### West side of the Kowloon Peninsula\n\nSouthern Boundary.—From the point where the Northern side of the North Pier, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's premises joins the Praya Wall, a line drawn West 1,505 feet.\n\nWestern Boundary.—A line drawn N. 8 W. 2,570 feet from the Western extremity of the Southern Boundary.\n\nNorthern Boundary.—From the Northern extremity of the Western Boundary a line drawn East until it meets the Praya Wall.\n\nNothing is to prevent ships proceeding to and from any wharves on the west side of Kowloon Peninsula, provided such ships, if anchoring, give swinging room to vessels at the Admiralty buoys.\n\n## Long Harbour and Jones Cove\n\n10. No ship, other than His Majesty's ships, shall anchor in the Bays known as and shewn on the Admiralty Charts as Long Harbour and Jones Cove in Mirs Bay.\n\n11. Junks and other native craft frequenting this portion of the waters of the Colony for fishing and other purposes, will be allowed to use the same, subject to the orders and control of the Harbour Master or his Deputy.\n\n**Note**,—The Captain of any British Man-of-War using the rifle range on San Man Shak Peninsula shall, for the purpose of the control of the traffic in the Danger Zone, be a Harbour Master's Deputy under Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.\n\n## Foreign Man-of-War Anchorage\n\n12. The Foreign Man-of-War Anchorage is in Kowloon Bay to the Eastward of the Hunghom Peninsula and within the following limits :-\n\n| Boundary | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| On the West | The Eastern limit of the Telegraph Cable Ground. |\n| On the South | A line drawn N. 81 E. from Blackhead's Hill Signal Mast. |\n| On the North and East | The 5-fathom line of soundings. |\n\n13. All vessels are to be moored.\n\n14. Foreign Ships-of-War shall not make any examination or survey of the shores or waters of the Colony, either from such ships or by means of boats or otherwise.\n\n## Landing of Foreign Soldiers and Sailors\n\n15. Foreign Soldiers or Sailors, if unarmed may be landed in the Colony within the harbour limits, without the prior consent of the Governor, provided that when it is desired to land a number of men exceeding 100 notice must be given to the Colonial Secretary, in order that all facilities of which local conditions admit may be given. Applications for permission to land armed parties in connection with funerals or to take part in public ceremonies of an exceptional nature must be addressed to the Governor through the Colonial Secretary. No application is necessary in the case of Officers.\n\n15a. No Foreign Soldiers or Sailors shall be landed in the Colony outside the harbour limits from any vessel without the permission of the Governor for which application must be made by the Senior Officer in command of the Foreign Ships or Troops concerned.\n\n## III. QUARANTINE ANCHORAGE\n\n16. | Boundary | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Western Boundary | A line drawn from the western extreme of Stonecutters Island to the west extreme of Green Island. |\n| Southern Boundary | The Naval shears at Kowloon bearing East by South commencing where it meets the Western Boundary and terminating where it meets the Eastern Boundary. |\n| Eastern Boundary | A north and South line drawn from the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island until it reaches the Southern Boundary. |\n\n## IV. DANGEROUS GOODS ANCHORAGES\n\n17. The Dangerous Goods Anchorages shall mean the portions of the harbour within the following limits :-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 667, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "658\n\nsome thirty casualties, moon, these being the continuing officer who was severely wounded.\n\nIn the morning of the 17th, so soon as it was obvious that an attack was in progress, I gave orders for the scheme of defence for the concession, which had previously been arranged with the Council and the Naval authorities, to be put into operation. The gates on the back of the Concession and the Bund were closed, a way of communication being kept open by means of the gate at the top of the steps just below the Consulate, an armed party from H.M.S. \"Cockchafer\" was landed, and a warning sent to all foreigners living outside the concession. A number of these came into the Concession and were billeted in various houses and in this Consulate.\n\nIn the morning of the 18th the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, who had taken refuge in the concession, came to see me at my request. I suggested to him the advisability of getting in touch with the incoming troops as it was most important we should know who was in command. He promised he would do this, but later in the day he left for Nanking, on instructions from Wang Ching-wei.\n\nDuring the day small detachments of Russian troops with machine-guns appeared at the western end of the Bund. Finding the gates closed they made their way onto the foreshore and thence back onto the Bund, passing round the gates at the eastern end in the same way, as no attempt was made to force the gates or to do otherwise than pass straight through. I considered that it would be inadvisable to take any drastic steps with a view to preventing the passage of these troops who obviously had very little idea as to where they were. In order, however, to make things clearer...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505511, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 233, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "Peking, 6.2.26.\n\n3\n\n230\n\n9\n\nSitz\n\n...0\n\n276\n\n•\n\nMON Bu du 3930qqua al soleuitul 251 ən\n\n1.37. Jon 237\n\nw on el civild jie nuJTOL. V\n\n1\n\nJom at\n\n#\n\n15 1.2.\n\n• AT DEN OF.\n\nIc noldum tek Miar\n\nend to nol.\n\nJatw\n\n01-622 add anda, 1* spert\n\n10: Ave.\n\n::\n\n$ 9. lent og 194\n\n37. Jono gled\n\ntokyomů 32 2.3 2 MION Bok je matnlargo esai 3. .- OỬ nay; ujue you woud to brustotrees add to legal en.\n\nTŘÍT SAİT\n\nchoi te it simone - and ARSENA\n\n7. De witts ada mi upadel dəstda 14 270\n\nDNĚMA UŠ\n\n1♪ Magisha ME ÏMA\n\nIsi od 5. „bimira ng ilog Y\n\nthe ..V [.3.\n\n.JEM Lova\n\n#\n\n**Confidential.**\n\nDear Mr. Petrie,\n\nThough I have nothing to report to you from Peking about seditious Indians you will probably be glad to receive a brief report on conditions in North China with particular reference to the progress of Soviet propaganda.\n\nThe chief characters who have held the military stage in North China from 1922 onwards are - (1) Marshal Chang Tso Lin, military governor of Fengtien and Inspector General of the Three Eastern Provinces who now rules Manchuria as an independent province. (2) Wu Pei Fu, the generalissimo of the 'Chihli party' and (3) Feng Yu Hsiang, the 'Christian' general, director of defence of the North West Frontier.\n\nIn 1922 the Anfu Manchurian coalition headed by Tuan Chi Jui and Marshal Chang Tso Lin and backed by Japan was defeated by the Chihli party under Tsao Kun and Wu Pei Fu. Chang Tso Lin then retired to Manchuria and set to work to build up a great army and collect the sinews of war.\n\nA prominent part in the defeat of Chang Tso Lin had been taken by the divisional commander Feng Yu Hsiang, one of whose brigades had turned the flank of the enemy almost under the walls of Peking. For this service Feng was rewarded by being made Governor of Honan.\n\nIn the autumn of 1924 hostilities were renewed and Wu Pei Fu was sent north by President Tsao Kun to give battle to the Manchurian war-lord. Feng Yu Hsiang, to whom had been allotted the command of the Third Army, suddenly turned traitor and took complete control.\n\n... \n\nPage 4\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505948, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-12 Recommendations to strengthen defences against overseas attack 17-2-1926 - 17-2-1926", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-498-12 Recommendations to strengthen defences against overseas attack 17-2-1926 - 17-2-1926", "content_text": "## (i) Fixed Armament\n\nThe guns is, however, much less than that of modern ships' guns, and there is a large extent of water, within their range, which they cannot cover with observed fire, under existing conditions. (See map) They could not, therefore, prevent the enemy bombarding the harbour, if he wished to do so.\n\n## (ii) Movable\n\nThis consists of pack, field, and medium artillery.\n\nIn the event of an attack both by land and sea, the fixed and movable artillery could be manned with the existing artillery personnel in the following manner:-\n\n### Fixed Armament\n\n| Fire Command | 9.2 | 6 | 4.7 | 2 | 3 | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Eastern Fire Command | | | | | | |\n|   Manned | | | | 2 | 3 | |\n|   In reserve (not manned) | 1 | | | | | |\n| Western Fire Command | | | | | | |\n|   Manned | | 4 | 2 | | | |\n|   In reserve (not manned) | 3 | | | | | |\n| **Total guns manned** | | | | 4 | | 12 |\n| **Total guns in reserve** | 4 | | | | | 4 |\n\n### Movable Armament\n\n| Type | 4.5\" | 3.7\" | How | pr | Hor | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|   Manned | 18 | | | 4 | | |\n|   In reserve (not manned) | 42 | 4 | 8 | 42 | | |\n| **Totals** | 60 | 4 | 8 | 46 | | |\n\n## (a) (b) Courses of action open to the enemy\n\nThe enemy might try, by long range naval bombardment, to induce the place to surrender. To this there could be no reply by the Garrison, and it might do much damage.\n\nIn view, however, of the expenditure of ammunition which would be necessary, the wear and tear of the ships' guns, and of the fact that long range bombardment should not, by itself, bring about the surrender of the place, it does not seem likely that the enemy would rely on this course of action to attain his object.\n\nHe might land at several places, on the Island and Mainland, at the same time, and advance by several routes to his objective. There appear to be no means by which this could be prevented. The Naval Defence Forces are too small to interfere seriously with landing operations. The land defence forces can only guard a few of the numerous and widely separated landing places; and are too weak to offer much resistance to the advance of a force, once it had landed. Moreover...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-12 Recommendations to strengthen defences against overseas attack 17-2-1926 - 17-2-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506353, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "content_text": "# Ngok Fi, A FAMOUS CHINESE Hero\n\nNgok Fi was born in Shau Chow in the province of Honan during the reign of Hwei Tsung in the Sung dynasty. Three days after his birth, his father and his house and property were flooded and destroyed by a sudden deluge that happened to his village; Ngok Fi and his mother escaped by sitting inside a great cistern. When the cistern floated to a village, called \"Unicorn Village,\" they were rescued by a rich man whose name was Wong Ming. Then Ngok Fi was brought up by his mother in Wong Ming's house. He was filial and very fond of learning. He treated those who were brave and truthful as if they were his own brothers. His teacher Chau Tung was a great, learned man, and was full of military ability. He taught Ngok Fi all that he knew, both civil and military matters.\n\nWhen Ngok Fi became a soldier, he vanquished all the robbers of the empire, and gained many wonderful victories by defeating the Kin or eastern Tartars who lived in the North of China. In honour of his success the Emperor Kao Tsung wrote \"Loyalty, Fidelity, Ngok Fi\" on a banner and gave it to him. He led an army of God-fearing men to fight against the eastern Tartars, and drove them back to the North of Honan. The bravery of his armies made the Kin so frightened that they said to each other, \"It is easier to pull down a mountain than to overcome the armies of Ngok.\"\n\nAs Ngok Fi wanted to defeat them utterly, he led his soldiers to Chu-sin-chan. One day, he received twelve golden tablets from the Emperor, who summoned him to return with his army. If he did not obey the Emperor's command, he would be punished, since it was a great crime for a person not to listen to the orders of an Emperor. If he returned with his army, the Kin would come into the country to plunder towns and seize land. This thought caused him great anxiety, but at last he decided to leave his armies in Chu-sin-chan to prevent the Kin from coming into the country and went to see the Emperor by himself.\n\nTsun Kwui, a cruel and cunning minister, wanted to make peace with the Kin, and because the Kin had bestowed on him a large annuity, he had promised to return them lands north of the River Wan; he was also jealous of Ngok Fi. It was he who spoke evil of Ngok Fi before the Emperor and caused him to call the great general back.\n\nThe twelve golden tablets that Ngok Fi received were thus not sent by the Emperor's purpose, but through the ingenious, crafty scheming of Tsun Kwui. When Ngok Fi had gone half-way from Chu-sin-chan, he met several officers sent to capture him by Tsun Kwui's order, but they were ordered to tell Ngok Fi that they came to capture him by the Emperor's command, thus the great general made no refusal. He was brought back to the Capital of Bin and was accused of treason. He and his sons were put into prison for two months, and they were killed there by Tsun Kwui's order. Ngok Fi died at the age of thirty-nine, his faithfulness, filial devotion, bravery, and benevolence were respected by people for thousands of years. Still to this day many people go to visit his grave which is situated near the West Lake in Heang-chow, a great city in the province of Che-kiang.\n\nTANG YUK HING, \nClass 1.\n\n## \n\nThey all came in splendour, and each bowed low to her hostess. The Rose, their hostess, asked them to go in the garden for tea, because, she said, it is much fresher than in the room.\n\nWhen she saw the Lily, she exclaimed, \"How pure and fresh you are, and oh! how gracefully you carry yourself!\" The Lily smiled and said, \"Queen, I am not comparable to your exquisite complexion, and what kind of scent is it that you use? It is so sweet.\" The Rose blushed, and showed two bright red spots, and she looked lovelier still, and said, \"I use a kind of perfume made especially for me by my perfume-maker. He named it 'Rose,' because I always sprinkle it all over myself.\"\n\n\"The sweet-maker, the other day,\" said the Violet, \"asked me to name some of his sweets. I thought for a long time, and I suddenly remembered that the sweets were light purple, and so I asked him to have them named 'Violet.'\"\n\nThe Pansy, who had been silent from the beginning to end, gave a faint sigh, and said, \"How I envy all of you! It seems that when I walk beside you all, I look so short and undignified, and all your beauty outshines me, so that I feel humble beside you all.\" The Queen soon comforted her, and said, \"My dear Pansy, why do you say such words? Why, all the people round us wear you in their buttonholes.\" The Pansy brightened up instantly, and soon they all bade the Queen \"Au Revoir\" with very low bows.\n\nLAM YAN YUK, \nClass 2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506766, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "content_text": "# The CANTON GAZETTE. 廣州日報\nVol. IV No. 853\n\nRegisterd at Canton, China, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926 民國十五年十二月三十日星期四\n\n## AMERICA FOOLED, WARNS SENATOR; URGES WARSHIPS\nButler advises U. S. to build battleships rapidly; Says Naval Competition is among Powers\n\n(Reuter)\n\nNew York, Dec. 27. In a speech Senator Butler vehemently declared that he would persevere vigorously with his endeavours to force Congress to adopt the Naval Committee's programme. He asserted that the United States must build virtually a new navy at a cost of over $400,000,000. \"A high-speed race for naval supremacy is proceeding between the nations and we are in the race. When we scrapped over $300,000,000 worth of the finest warships ever designed we willingly and gracefully dethroned ourselves from the potential position of Mistress of the Seas, and now we are a poor third and likely to be fourth.\" He declared that Americans had been fooled. Their trusting good nature had got them into trouble and it would require fifty warships to bring the United States up to her place.\n\n## CHANG'S RIGHT HAND MAN IS DISMISSED\nIt is reported from Mukden that Yang Yu-ting, chief of staff to Chang Tso-lin, has been dismissed on account of his opposition to the hurried adoption of the measures against the South.- Wah Kiu Yat Po.\n\n## China Mourns With Japan Today; Order Flags Half-Masted\nFlags will be half-masted today in mourning for the late Emperor of Japan. The order for this mark of respect for the dead monarch of China's neighbor was given through the Branch of the Central Canton Political Council which received instructions from the Chairman of the Council.\n\n## Taking Of Yangping In Hupeh Reported By Official Wires\nChang Yuan-yao, in Nanchang, relays reports received from Hupeh front; Enemy put to flight\n\nMilitary Headquarters has received the following telegram, dated the 25th, from Chang Yuan-yao, Chief of General Staff of the Field Headquarters in Nanchang, reporting results of recent fightings in West Hupeh.\n\n\"A telegram dated the 18th was received from Regimental Commander Wan through Kung Ilao, Chief of Staff of the 8th Army, stating that his troops, after having captured Yuanan, Hupeh, took a large number of captives together with large quantities of arms, and set out in pursuit of the defeated enemies in the direction of Yangping. While crossing the river in retreat, one of the gunboats conveying troops was sunk following bombardment by the Regiment of Artillery under Chen I, it is reported. Several officers and soldiers of the enemy were killed, and quantities of military equipment were taken by our troops. Commander Wan left a portion of his troops in Yuanan for defense of the locality and sent a strong force to pursue and attack the enemy.\"\n\n(Sd) Chang Yuan-yao. (25th Dec)\n\n## Paris Comments On Britain's Suggested New Chinese Policy\nPress seems wary and cautious; Wants a sure bet: Cabinet says the \"liberalism\" will be guide\n\nParis, December 28.--The Press here is commenting on the British memorandum on policy in China and is suggesting certain modifications in foreign policy toward China. The \"Journee Industrielle\" writes that the future is in doubt. It must be known whether the administrations to whom the British Foreign Body brought the late Emperor are regionalists or are inspired by the Soviets or are composed of nationalist elements. The \"Temps\" asks with whom the Powers are to negotiate, and comments that it would be a serious mistake to bet on the problematic victory of one of the factions. Nothing decisive is reported from the meeting of the French Cabinet to discuss Chinese affairs. No decision was reached, it is reported, but it was generally agreed that France will be guided by a policy of liberalism.\n\n## NEW FRENCH CENSUS SHOWS 40,743,851\nParis, December 28.-According to the recent census, the population of France is 40,743,851. Foreigners living in France number 2,498,230.\n\n## Decide Not To Ban Private Schools; To Make Them Better\nBureau of Education reverses decision in view of the inadequacy of the present public schools to take care of education; To bring nationalism to teachers and students\n\nA reversal of the recent decision to forbid the founding of private schools in Canton is announced by the Bureau of Education. Instead of closing schools already in existence, an effort will be made to bring them up to standard. Special regulations will take care of schools founded hereafter. Training in this institute will be compulsory upon all teachers in private schools.\n\n## NEW ADHERENTS WILL DRIVE SUN FROM CHEKIANG\nChen I and Chow Feng-chi take active warfare against former chief; Hot battle at Chapkow\n\nShanghai, Dec. 27.--The Chekiangese troops under Chen I and Chow Feng-chi have announced that they will expel Sun Chuan-fang's troops out of Chekiang by military force, it is reported here. The main troops under Chen I are reported to have crossed the Tsientang River from Siaoshan on the morning of the 27th, and launched an attack upon Chapkow. A severe battle took place at the riverside between Chen's troops and those of Sun Chuan-fang under the command of Meng Chiao-yuet. Reports of guns were heard in the vicinity of Meng Kang Men gate of Hangchow.\n\nAccording to news received here from Regimental Commander Wan through Kung Ilao, Chief of Staff of the 8th Army, Meng's troops have been defeated, and have retreated to Chapkow. While crossing the river in retreat, one of the gunboats conveying troops was sunk following bombardment by the Regiment of Artillery under Chen I, it is reported. Notifications have been issued by Chow Feng-chi in the Eastern part of Chekiang insisting upon the capture of Hangchow within the limit of one week, and the expulsion of Sun Chuan-fang's troops from Chekiang. Sun Chuan-fang, who has given orders for their arrest, has branded Chen I and Chow Feng-chi as \"Reds\".\n\n## Reorganize Fukien On Committee Plan\nHo Ying-yam will adopt the Committee system, according to a Shanghai dispatch. Some of the appointments have already been decided upon. Yang Chu-chuang, Chen Kwei-liang, and Lin Chi-yuan will be on the committee in charge of the fleet. Feng Shing-to has been selected as Commissioner of Military Affairs.\n\n## Nationalist Education Will Be Introduced\nThe city will be divided into thirteen geographic divisions, according to the new plan, and the propaganda department of the City Kuomintang will be requested to send graduates from the Kuomin tang training institute to give lectures on the principles of the Kuomintang to the students of the various districts. After three months of regular lectures, examinations will be given. Only Kuomintang members will be allowed to teach in private schools in the future. If the teachers are not members at the present time, they must join. Special training will be given these teachers at a training institute to be founded for the purpose.\n\n## Nanchang City Wall To Come Down\nThe city walls of Nanchang are to come down, according to reports reaching here by express letter. The request for the destruction of the walls has come from the merchants and people of the city who wish to recover from the heavy losses incurred during the recent warfare. They believe that an era of prosperity will result from the widening of narrow streets, which can be undertaken if the wall is torn down. Necessary measures have already been taken and surveyors are on the job. A notification has been put up by the local police stations, notifying citizens who contemplate building near the Chang King and Tak Tin gates to postpone building until the wall has been torn down. Workers are to be hired at fifty cents a day.\n\n## U. S. Embarrassed By Nicaragua War\n(Reuter)\n\nWashington, Dec. 28.-The latest development of the civil war in Nicaragua, where the conservative forces are reported to be retreating, is regarded by certain members of Congress as embarrassing the United States Government. Mr. Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, in a statement opines that a section of American business men are anxious to embroil the United States with Mexico through Nicaragua.\n\n## FINANCIAL PROPOSALS MADE BY MINISTER T.V. SOONG TO UNIFY CURRENCY IN PROVINCE OF HUPEH\nTo issue a public loan of $20,000,000.\n\n1. The fixed number of loan is $20,000,000.\n2. Securities: Hupeh Governmental Bank as the 1st Security, $15,000,000, effective from December 15th. Inland taxes on productions as the 2nd Security.\n3. The annual interests for the loan is 8%, giving also right for withdrawal of the loan bonds within the period of three years.\n4. Reimbursement will be made on the 7th year, i.e. after the total reimbursement of the public loans for the adjustment of currencies, and will be totally made within five years, once in every six months.\n\nThe loan will be used for refunding to the local merchants the various funds owed by the former government.\n\n## Prepare Attack On Gen. Tang Chi-yao\nKweichow, Kwangsi and Szechuan troops united for assault on Yunnan militarist\n\nReports received here state that a general assault will soon be launched by the troops under Gen. Fan Shek-sang backed by three Brigades of well-trained troops in Kwangsi, and the Revolutionary troops in Kweichow and Szechuen under the commands of Chow Hsi-shing and Lai Shen-fei. Gen. Fan will be the Chief Commanding Officer of the allied forces. Some days ago, Gen. Fan came to Canton to participate in the Council of war concerning military operations in Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Yunnan. In an interview with Gen. Li Tsai-sum, Gen. Fan reported on the enlistment of the troops under Lo Shu-chang, Defensive Commissioner in Yunnan, who had raised troops against Tang Chi-yao. Military Headquarters was requested to appoint Lo Commander of the 1st and 3rd Brigades, and the request was assented to, and the letter of appointment was handed to Gen. Fan for further transmission.\n\n## CHANCHUEN IS NOW TO BE A MUNICIPALITY\nThe Director's Office will temporarily be in the building on the South Bund, formerly used as its Canton office.\n\nThe proposal to convert the town of Chanchuen into a municipality has been approved by the Political Affairs Commission of the Provincial Government, and is to be carried out by order of the Central Political Council. Circular instructions are now being issued by the Provincial Government. Sze-to Chiu is being sent as special delegate for the reorganization of the municipality.\n\n## NAVAL DEPARTMENT MOVING TO CANTON\nThe Naval Department has removed its office to Canton from Whampoa, by order of Director Pan Wan-che. The whole Department will soon take up its quarters in the building previously occupied by the Aviation Department, it is stated.\n\n## TARGET PRACTISE FOR LOCAL TROOPS\nTarget practice for local troops has been inaugurated by Military Authorities on the gunboat \"Po Pik\", which is now anchored at the Tien Tze wharf.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506871, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "## \n13 \n\ncharged with a breach of that Regulation and each fined $500. An apology (copy enclosed) was also published, contradicting the report.\n\n4.\n\nWith the concurrence of my Executive Council, I called upon the paper to show cause why it should not be suppressed under the Emergency Regulations. In reply, the directors produced evidence that they had dismissed the whole of the editorial staff, and I therefore decided not to carry the suppression into effect. The paper is accordingly being permitted to continue publication but is being watched carefully by the censors.\n\n5.\n\nI am of opinion that the paper, or at least the editorial staff, were in the pay of the Nationalist Government, which supposition appears to be confirmed by the fact that the Secretary of the Political Department of the Eastern Region General Command Office of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army has taken it upon himself to telegraph to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs on behalf of the paper.\n\n6. A translation of this telegram is enclosed. It is a clear admission of the fact that the Nationalist Government is manufacturing these despicable lies, which, by inflaming the ignorant mob against the foreigner, secure the appearance of irresistible nationalist fervour for the confiscatory plans of the Kuomintang. The facts of the case cannot possibly be unknown to an enlightened revolutionary official.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\n**Governor, &c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927", "content_text": "## Translation\n\n18\n\n**Telegram**\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs,\nHong Kong.\n\nIt is a fact that several tens of infants were cruelly killed in the Foundling Hospital in Foochow, and there are photographs as proof of the case.\n\nEnquiry is being made as to the reason why they were killed.\n\nThe report that appeared in the Tai Kwong Po cannot be treated as an idle rumour created to cause bad feeling. You should respect the freedom of speech and should take no serious steps against the paper.\n\nThe Manager in the Hospital is Spanish and not French. I send you this specially for your information.\n\nA reply is awaited.\n\nKong Tung Kam,\nSecretary of the Political Department of the Eastern Region General Command Office of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army.\n\nDated 15th February, 1927.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 12-2-1927 - 10-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509130, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "content_text": "## 2 \n\nThe banks in China are well-organised, and they have remarkable facilities for transferring remittances from one end of the country to another. A suspension of the facilities provided by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank at Hankow could not have any permanent effect. If it took place and was expected to continue for some time, a whole set of forces would be immediately put into operation which would proceed to right the situation. It would probably be some months, however, before trade could adjust itself to the new conditions.\n\nThus the closing of the banks, viewed as an instrument of financial pressure, can be no more than a transitory measure. Its effects, although considerable at first, must gradually weaken.\n\n6. If the other non-Chinese banks (e.g., the Japanese) participated, it would make a difference, but it would be extremely difficult to get a joint stoppage observed. The Japanese Government would no doubt act in perfect good faith, but they could not command good faith from all their nationals.\n\nEven if all nationalities combined effectively to impose a financial blockade on the entire Valley of the Yangtse, trade would in course of time find other channels, though, no doubt, at serious cost. The main silver reserves of the country are at Shanghai, but the Chinese banks could manage by means of their highly-developed organisation to prevent serious effects resulting from their reserves being cut off, assuming this to be possible, until they could re-establish them.\n\n7. Among the Chinese, the main pressure would be on the merchant class. They are probably opposed to violence and not unfavourable to ourselves. But they have shown themselves very timid in face of the subversive propaganda of recent times, and probably could not be relied on to offer any effective resistance to the Nationalist movement. The Chinese monied classes may be assumed to view with sympathy the desire of their fellow-countrymen to secure a more independent footing for their country.\n\n8. Our conclusion, therefore, is that the financial pressure which would result from closing the banks, though to some extent effective for the time being, would diminish with the passage of time and cannot be relied upon as a permanent means of affecting Cantonese policy. Incidentally, the loss to British commercial and financial interests would be severe. Not only would export and import trade be interfered with, but the Customs revenues, which are assigned to the secured loans, would be adversely affected.\n\n9.\n\n## II. ECONOMIC PRESSURE\n\nWe turn now to the second question before us, namely, whether it is possible by economic measures against South China to bring such pressure to bear on the Nationalist Government of the South as will hinder their activities against the British to an extent which will compel them, in due course, to prefer negotiation to violence—whether organised or carried out by the mob.\n\n10.\n\nIn considering this question, it may be advisable to refer to proposals which have been made in the past for the institution of a blockade or measures akin thereto to certain parts of China. Two documents are attached as Appendices Nos. I and II to this report, which throw light upon the problem of applying this means of coercion to China as a whole. The first, a letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office, dated the 11th March, 1926, deals with the legal aspect of the question, with special reference to the blockade of Canton as a means of bringing the Canton boycott to an end; it may be taken as applying equally to the case of Hankow or to that of China as a whole, except in so far as it treats of special action to be taken at Hong Kong. The second, a minute by Mr. Stark Toller of the Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office, discusses a proposal made by His Majesty's Consul at Chungking in October last for a blockade of the province of Szechuan as a means of bringing about a satisfactory settlement of the Wanhsien incident: deals with the practical aspect of the problem.\n\n11.\n\nThe Foreign Office letter of the 11th March, which is based upon a minute by Mr. Malkin, second Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, discusses three possible courses.\n\n| Course | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The interception at Hong Kong by the colonial authorities of all cargo for Canton and the refusal of entry to all cargo from Canton. |\n| (b) | An agreement between the Powers to prevent their nationals and national ships from trading with Canton. |\n| (c) | A Pacific Blockade. |\n\nThis, though legally defensible, was considered quite ineffective as a means of damaging the trade of Canton. `Appendix No. I`.\n\nSuch an agreement would be difficult to secure and the Governments concerned might be unable to take the requisite powers, even though they wished to do so. The weakness of this course is that trade would fall into the hands of Powers not party to the agreement. `Appendix No. II`.\n\nThere would be no difficulty in dealing with the ships of Powers participating in the blockade. Further, a case could be made out for stopping Chinese ships, because it would be difficult for the Chinese Government to make an effective protest against steps taken to prevent violation by the Cantonese authorities of treaties to which China is a party. China might, of course, appeal to the League of Nations, and though such an appeal might not be well-founded it ought not lightly to be provoked. The real difficulty would arise, however, if an attempt were made to interfere with the trade of States not participating in the blockade, such as Russia or the United States.\n\nMr. Toller's minute requires no comment.\n\n12.\n\n## Pacific Blockade\n\nIn war, a blockade in the true sense of the word implies a state of war. The blockading Power has the double advantage, first, that it can exercise other warlike means of pressure above and beyond the blockade, and, secondly, that, in virtue of rights enjoyed as a belligerent, it can make its blockade more or less completely effective. We are not, however, at present at war with China (though the implications of such a contingency are examined later in this Report). Any blockade instituted now would, therefore, be in the nature of a Pacific Blockade. Such a blockade must be the less effective in that the blockading Power or Powers must rely on this weapon alone and enjoy no rights as against the Powers not participating in the blockade.\n\n14. It may be taken as axiomatic that the first condition for the success of such a blockade, if success is at all possible, is that all, or almost all, Maritime Powers trading with China should participate in it. It is true that on the rivers almost all the trade is in the hands of the British and Japanese, and if the Japanese and British agree in forcing a Pacific Blockade in the rivers, the greater part of the trade as it now exists could be stopped. On the other hand, there are numbers of river craft belonging to other nations which would, in such circumstances, be free to carry on their business. Moreover, it is very doubtful whether the Americans, for instance, would agree to allow their goods carried in Chinese or other bottoms to be held up. These difficulties, of course, would be greatly accentuated if it were attempted to establish a Pacific Blockade of the whole Chinese coast.\n\n15. Assuming for the sake of argument such blockade to be complete or fairly complete, the following considerations arise:\n\n(a) China is self-supporting and the bulk of its population is well accustomed to hardship. Foreign trade does not seriously concern the vast majority of the population and its suspension would not greatly affect that population.\n\n(b) China is already suffering grave economic damage as a result of civil war, banditry and disturbed conditions generally, yet the economic life of the country is not thrown out of gear, and such conditions could probably be endured almost indefinitely. A blockade by the Powers would probably not appreciably alter the situation so far as the general Chinese population is concerned. Such hardship as it caused would probably fall more heavily on the foreign communities of the larger treaty ports, who have hitherto to some extent been protected from the more severe economic consequences of the present unrest in China. Even if important sections of the Chinese community, such as the merchant class, suffered severely, they would, if our past experience is any guide, be quite unable to bring any decisive influence to bear upon the rulers or ruling clique responsible for provoking the blockade.\n\n`[15668]` \n## 60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "content_text": "## 4\n\nIn the north-west, Shensi and Kansu have come under the influence of Feng Yü-hsiang and the Kuo Min-chun. Szechuan, under the divided authority of several local militarists, seems likely to tender nominal allegiance also to the Kuo Min-tang, but Yunnan, under its Governor, Tang Chi-yao, remains aloof. As regards the military situation, no serious hostilities are in progress for the moment, but the forces of the Northern alliance and the Kuo Min-tang are seemingly grouping themselves for a renewal of the struggle in the spring. Sun Ch'uan-fang has concentrated his army in Southern Kiangsu and round Shanghai, and for the moment still holds Chekiang as far as Hangchow, the provincial capital. The troops of Chang Tsung-chang have advanced down the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway into North Kiangsu as far as Nanking and the Yang-tsze, and the Fengtien forces have pushed down the Peking-Hankow line to the Yellow River. Further south, in Northern Honan, the railway is occupied by Wu Pei-fu's army. On the other side, the armies of the Kuo Min-tang are for the moment making no move, except possibly an advance by infiltration on the usual lines from Kiangsi and Fukien into Chekiang, and it seems that their counsels are divided as to the advisability of a serious attack at the present time on Sun's positions round Shanghai. In Central China they have pushed up to Ichang on the west, and along the railway to the mountainous country on the Hupei-Honan border to the north. Their allies, the Kuo Min-chun, withdrawn from the Suiyan-Paotou region into Kansu and Shensi, are pressing down from the latter province into Honan, thus threatening to take Wu Pei-fu in the rear. Feng Yü-hsiang is understood to be once more in supreme command of the Kuo Min-chun, whose operations he is understood to be directing from Eastern Kansu, and who have declared their political allegiance to the Kuo Min-tang Government at Wuchang.\n\n## 12\n\nHaving only recently arrived at my post, you will hardly look to me for any very critical analysis of the political situation or the forces now at work. But so far as I have been able to come to any conclusion it is the following:-\n\nThe North stand for nothing but the individual aims of a group of militarists, each out for his own hand, though, for the moment, under the nominal orders of Chang Tso-lin, who is the most powerful of them. At the moment of writing there is not even a pretence of a Government at Peking, and the coffers of the National Treasury are completely empty. Nevertheless, the North are still a power to be reckoned with; they have very large military forces at their command, and with these they intend to meet and defeat the South. Whether they will be able to do this is another matter; and I have received indications from two well-informed sources during the past week to the effect that Southern propaganda is very active even here in Peking, and that, if the opportunity occurs, labour here also will play its part.\n\n## 13\n\nAs to the South: Quot homines, tot sententiæ. But there can be no doubt that behind the Kuo Min-tang there is a national ideal quite different to anything behind the North, though the North would never admit as much. Unfortunately, for the time being, the Russians, and more especially Borodin, have a controlling influence over the South, and by means of labour appear to dominate the situation and the more moderate elements. From my conversations with Mr. Eugene Chen at Hankow I certainly drew the impression that he at least wished to come to terms with us--though possibly his terms would not have been such as we could accept. Events in the past few days have, however, confirmed the opinion of those who have held consistently that the Russians and the extremist wing of the party were determined, if necessary by provocation, to prevent a settlement with us or, in the alternative, gradually to annul all the rights and vested interests which we possess. How far it may still be possible to deal with the South, in view of what has just occurred at Hankow, is very doubtful. We can only await the report of Mr. O'Malley, who left for Hankow on the 6th instant.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**MILES LAMPSON**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "content_text": "# \n2 \n\nOf the enclosed area four-fifths at the western end has been appropriated to the British Government, and one-fifth at the eastern end to that of France. \n\nBesides the Consular offices, there is a church, library, reading rooms, &c. The estimated foreign population of Canton is 700, most of whom reside in Shameen. There are about 150 British subjects resident in Shameen and about 83 living outside, distributed in the city of Canton and suburbs on both sides of the river. The two stone bridges referred to above are still standing. The canal is very muddy, usually contains three or four feet of water, and is not considered to be easily fordable. Usually, however, it is full of sampans and other craft. We are informed by the late Commodore, Hong Kong, that the canal can be easily cleared, and that replacement of the craft can be prevented by stationing gunboats so as to enfilade the waterway and the buildings bordering on it.\n\n## Present Defences \n\n5. The whole of the canal front at Shameen, including the two bridges, is at present protected by barbed wire along its whole length, and the French have two field guns in their concession.\n\nThere are five British gunboats now stationed at Shameen. Three of these are the Insect class (each carrying two 6-inch guns and one 3-inch gun). The remaining two are the Moorhen and Robin, ships of a smaller class, drawing only two feet of water. The speed of the latter is between seven and eight knots.\n\n## Routes of Evacuation \n\n6. The main communication between Hong Kong and Canton is by the Canton River. This is heavily fortified, and divided for defence into three sections. The Lower Section comprises Sha-Kek, Tai-Kok-Tao and Pou-chao. The Centre Section comprises A-neung-hoi, Sheng-wang-t'ong and Ha-wang-tong. \n\nThe Upper Section comprises Danes Island, Yu-chu and Sha-lou. The number of guns is: \n| Section | 24 cm | 21 cm | 15 cm | 13.8 cm | 10 cm |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Lower Section | | 13 | | 10 | 23 |\n| Centre Section | | | 5 | 6 | 6 |\n| Upper Section | | | | | |\n\nThe armament is known to be very antiquated, and we have no information as to the amount of ammunition that may be available or as to the proficiency of the gun crews. We know, however, that in August last the forts on Danes Island carried out some target practice, and we have reason to believe that last year the Canton Government were trying to obtain ammunition and contact mines, in addition to aircraft, from abroad. Even if the crews are comparatively untrained and the ammunition is limited, the forts must constitute a certain menace to passing ships in view of the narrowness of the river.\n\nAs already stated in our previous report (`Paper No. C.O.S. 60`), communication is possible at any time of the year with Shameen by routes (such as Moneypenny Creek) which avoid the defended channel.\n\n33 \n\nWe are informed that the three gunboats of the **Insect class** draw too much water to be able to negotiate these alternative routes at the present time of the year. Special arrangements would, therefore, be necessary for their early withdrawal by the main channel. The smaller gunboats and sampans, which would have to be used in finally evacuating the concession, would have no navigational difficulty in negotiating these creeks. These routes, however, are narrow in some parts and pass through a densely populated district, though in the past the inhabitants have been well disposed towards us. All risk of interference with the final evacuation of the concession cannot, therefore, be precluded. We feel bound to warn the Committee of Imperial Defence of this risk.\n\n## Possibility of Defending the Concession \n\n7. Rear-Admiral Stirling confirmed the views of the local authorities at Hong Kong, which we accepted in our last report, that it should be possible to defend Shameen against the mob with the naval and military resources available at Hong Kong, but he suggested the advisability not only of withdrawing Europeans now residing outside the concession to the Island of Shameen, but also of evacuating all non-combatants at an early stage. He informed us that such persons could be evacuated down the main stream to a point clear of danger from the shore within five hours. We concur in this view, and consider that the man on the spot should be left to decide when indications of impending mob violence render evacuation of non-combatants advisable.\n\nThe evidence of Rear-Admiral Stirling also confirmed our previously expressed view that we cannot expect, with or without the co-operation of the French, to hold out indefinitely against serious attack by the Cantonese troops with the forces likely to be available for the defence of Shameen. It has, however, inclined us to the opinion that offensive action by aircraft, or even the threat of it, which we deal with in more detail below, might well have the result of preventing organised attack on the concessions.\n\n## Bombing and Blockade of Canton \n\n8. In our previous Report we stated that, in our opinion, the threat which the Acting Consul-General, Canton, proposed to make to the local Chinese General, if translated into action, would be calculated to precipitate hostilities and might hasten the crisis at Shanghai. The latest decision of His Majesty's Government, quoted in paragraph 1 of this Report, alters the position.\n\n9. We were particularly impressed by the evidence of Rear-Admiral Stirling on the susceptibility of the Chinese to threats, particularly if these are backed up by evidence of strength. To illustrate this he informed us that in August last certain strike pickets holding British wharves at Canton were told that, if they did not evacuate them at once, we would sink their strike picket boats. The next morning it was found that the pickets had gone, the picket boats had been removed to a point some 10 miles down the river, an enclosure had been roped in round the wharves and police were stationed to keep the strike pickets out. Since then neither the pickets nor the boats have returned.\n\n10. Rear-Admiral Stirling held the view that the threat to bomb or shell vital points in Canton, and finally to blockade the city, particularly if followed at once by some demonstration of force (e.g., the appearance of aircraft), would have a considerable deterrent effect on the Cantonese, and that the effect of actual bombing or shelling would in all probability be enormous. He also suggested action by aircraft to cover an evacuation if and when this should prove necessary.\n\n11. In view of this decided expression of opinion by an officer possessing considerable local knowledge, we are now disposed to agree to a threat being conveyed by the Consul-General to the Chinese General in Command of the forces at Canton. We suggest, however, that the threat should be couched in vague though decided terms, no actual mention being made of bombing by aircraft or shelling. In order that the greatest possible effect should be derived from the conveyance of this threat to the Chinese, we recommend that discretion should be given to the Acting Consul-General in concert with the Commodore at Hong Kong to arrange for a demonstration over Canton of as many British aircraft as possible at the moment that the communication is being made.\n\n12. In the opinion of Rear-Admiral Stirling a blockade of Canton would have a considerable effect on the Cantonese Government. We therefore recommend that a blockade should be included in the measures to be approved if an attack on Shameen takes place. In this connection we note from a recent telegram that the French are also prepared to undertake such a measure.\n\n## Use of Aircraft \n\n13. The naval aircraft at present available at Hong Kong can reach Canton, but the range and carrying capacity will be considerably curtailed if the use of a land aerodrome is not permitted.\n\nHitherto, aircraft has not been permitted to operate from the Kowloon Aerodrome, which is ready for use, in view of possible objections that might be taken by other signatories to the Washington Agreement. We would suggest, however, that as the use of aircraft is now contemplated only against the Chinese and not in connection with the coast defences, this restriction should be removed. The amount of air pressure that could be brought to bear on Canton would be greatly increased if some of the aircraft at present provided with floats were refitted with land under-carriages.\n\n181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "content_text": "## 3 \nMinister at Peking suggesting that the time had come for him to send instructions with a view to the immediate withdrawal of the British inhabitants, who henceforward should be warned that they remained entirely at their own risk and that His Majesty's Government had no responsibility for their safety.\n\n## 6 \nSubsequent to the submission of the Report by the Chiefs of Staff, referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 above, telegrams were received from China intimating that the Cantonese authorities were taking steps to interfere with the free movement of ships on the Yangtse. In view of this information the Chiefs of the Naval and Air Staffs (the Chief of the Imperial General Staff being absent from London) drew up a supplement to the Report (`C.I.D. Paper 784-B`) the terms of which were as follows:\n\nRecent telegrams from China indicate increasing determination on the part of the Cantonese authorities and the forces under their command to take steps to enforce their will on the Yangtse and oppose with force the free movement of ships up and down the river. \nGuns are being mounted to cover the anchorage at Nanking. \nA gun on Lion Hill at Nanking is kept trained on ships under way. Ships on passage up and down the river report being fired on by guns of small calibre, machine guns and rifles. \nMines are being reported as being conveyed up the river in a Chinese gunboat. \nThe situation is likely to be aggravated by delay in taking definite action. Each day of further delay will render more difficult the carrying out of the plans put forward in the Report.\n\n## 7 \nThis Supplement was laid before the Cabinet at its meeting held on the 31st March, 1927 (reference, `Cabinet 21 (27)`, Conclusion 3), when it was decided that:\n\nPending the receipt of a reply from the Naval Commander-in-Chief to the telegram asking for his opinion, the Cabinet were unable to take any action in regard to the Supplement, and were only able to take note thereof.\n\n## 8 \nAt 3 P.M. on the 1st April, 1927, the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee again assembled to consider Admiral Tyrwhitt's reply to the telegram referred to in paragraph 6 (b) above and also the steps which should be taken to protect the Eastern Extension Company's telegraph office at Sharp Peak, near Foochow. As a result of their deliberations a further Report was drawn up and circulated to the Cabinet (`C.I.D. Paper No. 785-B`), the Conclusions and recommendations of which were as follows:\n\n| Conclusion | Recommendation |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1.) | If the forts at Wusung are a danger to the defence at Shanghai they should be dealt with at once and destroyed. This question is quite independent of the Nanking ultimatum and its sanctions. |\n| (2.) | The proposal to include in an ultimatum the withdrawal of all Chinese armed forces other than police from an area within 12 English miles measured from the mouth of Soochow Creek is not recommended for adoption, as we have not the force required for the defence of so large an area. Conditions, owing to the intensive propaganda behind the lines and the difficulties of dealing with a large hostile population, are far less favourable than they were at the time of the Taiping rebellion, when we understand this step was taken. |\n| (3.) | We support the proposals of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff in favour of sending further reinforcements to China. |\n\nOn the major question of reprisals for the Nanking outrages, the Chiefs of Staff reserved their opinion pending the receipt of further information from the Naval Commander-in-Chief, while in regard to the telegraph office at Sharp Peak it was agreed to instruct the Naval Commander-in-Chief to take measures for its protection if possible.\n\n`[16077]`\n\n## B 2 \n193", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927", "content_text": "In the existing stack of Eastern No 121 likely to \nblast? \n1.M. Martin 19.5.31 \nhu. Martin.\n\nThere are \n15-200 copies of Faden 121 \nin for. \nP.D., sufficient for at least a few \nmonths at the present rate of consumption, \na connection ship seems \ndesirable. \nWould you also \ncommand? \nPlease \nconsider connection ships \nfor the \nfollowing \npamphlets - \nthe desirability of meeting similar \nrequests \nCSR 8 (page 14) \nCSR 9 (p.s. footnote) \nMisc. 225 (page 22) \nAppt. dept. \nwould \nbe consulted \nas to \nwhether \nthey \nshould \nbe \nsent there. \nNo doubt \nthere.\n\nP.S \n24/5/31 \ncopies \nattached! \nI would like to \nAs regards CSR 8 and Misc 225 see Mr Torry's \nminute of 10.2.31 on 72821.\n\n# He suggests \nIt seems unnecessary to have a \nslip for CSR 8 or for Misc 225 \n: \nbut \nEastern 121 is more \nin need \nof correction \nas it is enclosed with many \nletters to HK, offers of afforstment, \netc. A connection ship should be furnished.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-503-11 Leave and passage- lodging and rent allowance for European officers 6-1-1927 - 26-10-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "content_text": "SECRET\n\n89\n\n40\n\nSECRET.\n\nPARATERA SE\n\nFrom: The War Office.\n\nTo: G.O.C. North China Command, Shanghai.\n\nG.O.C. South China Command, Hong Kong.\n\nG.O.C. Malaya.\n\nDesp. 1730 12th October, 1928.\n\n93809 cipher M.O.1. 12/10.\n\nAdmiralty have asked War Office as result of Anking piracy to sanction provision military guards on steamers on Hong Kong Amoy Swatow and Singapore routes. After consultation with C.-in-C., G.Os.C. North and South China Commands are each authorised at their discretion to provide guards not exceeding 3 officers and 60 other ranks absent at any one time. Any guards already authorised to be included in above numbers.\n\nGuards between Singapore and Hong Kong will continue to be provided by G.O.C. Malaya at his discretion as authorised in War Office letter of 31st December, 1927, No.098/3575 (M.O.1). In no case is any expense to fall on public funds.\n\nAddressed G.Os.C. North China Command, South China Command, Malaya.\n\nC.4.(Telegrams) Copies to:- S. of S., P.U.S., C.I.G.S., D.M.O. & I. D.D.M.O. & I., M.O.1.Ia.Id., M.I.1.2.2c. F.2. D.F.(B), S. of S. for Foreign Affairs, Sir Ronald Lindsay, F.O. (Mr.Mounsey), First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Madden, Ad.D.N.I.), Ad.(D.O.D.), Ad. (D.of P.), S.of S. for Colonies, C.(Sir J.E.Shuckburgh), O.O.(Far Eastern Department).\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nPARAPHRASE.\n\nDespatched 1650 12/4/28.\n\nFrom: - The War Office.\n\nTO:-\n\nG.O.C., South China Command,\n\nHong Kong\n\n67\n\n106\n\n93630 cipher M.0.1. 12/4.\n\nYour 1493.\n\nProvided you are satisfied there is no local objection, and that no extra expense will fall on Army Funds, approval is given to the provision of a military guard of not more than about 1 officer and 20 other ranks for protection against piracy in each C.P.R. ship plying between Hong Kong and Shanghai.\n\nC.4.(Telegrams) Copies to:- S. of S. P.U.S. C.I.G.S. D.O.I. M.0.1.1A.I.D.I.1.2.20. Colonial Office. (For Eastern Department).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513556, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "The Admiral in command of the Eastern Station met both the Wai-wu-pu and the Viceroy at Canton but in the absence of any effort to come to a settlement pressure was applied in the shape of a British naval patrol by gunboats and torpedo boats in the West River and neighbourhood.\n\n76\n\nIn January 1908 the Cantonese met the claim by the payment of 86,477 dollars described as a \"Compassionate allowance\" under an agreement by which the naval patrol was reduced gradually as the local preventive service was brought into a condition to afford the necessary protection to shipping.\n\nSeveral other claims had in the meantime been submitted in respect of attacks on launches but there is nothing to show whether they were met.\n\nThere was a recrudescence of piracy in Canton waters in 1911 and several attacks were made upon British vessels, the most important case being that of the Shui-On (or \"Chit-On\" or \"Shin-On\") which was boarded by pirates near Staunch Island, the chief officer, Mr. Nicolson, being killed and the master, Captain Johnson, injured.\n\nNo compensation was claimed in respect of Mr. Nicolson's death, it having been ascertained that he had no dependants, but Sir J. Jordan was on May 4, 1912, instructed to present to the Chinese Government a claim which included $299.77 for damage to the vessel, $166 for funeral expenses of Mr. Nicolson, and $1,000 in respect of injury to the health of Captain Johnson.\n\nIn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1928.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\n\"THE PEAK FLATS.\"\n\nSITUATED within Two Minutes' walk from the Peak Station and overlooking the Southern Side of the Island Ready for Occupation.\n\nFive-Roomed FLATS and Six-Roomed FLATS with all Modern Conveniences, Drying Rooms and Out-houses, Two Lifts.\n\nApply to-\n\nCREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT,\n\n4TH FLOOR,\n\nFRENCH BANK BUILDING.\n\nTO LET.\n\nFURNISHED, Four-Room FLATS, at 16, MACDONNELL ROAD, with Modern Conveniences.\n\nFor Particulars, Apply: XAVIER BROS., 2, QUEEN'S ROAD. 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In Elegant Green Flasks: $4.00, $2.25, $1.25.\n\nWATSON'S LAVENDER TALCUM POWDER.\n\nIN MAGNUM TINS. MADE FROM PURE Italian Talc clean, effective and controllable. Associated with English Lavender of exquisite fragrance.\n\n$1.00 Per Tin.\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.\n\nHong Kong Dispensary. PHONE C. 16.\n\nHong Kong Office: 11, Ice House Street. London Office: 21, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 4.\n\nBRITAIN AND ELECTRIC POWER.\n\nA large proportion of America's electricity is generated by water power. It is produced in steam-driven power stations. In Germany, where intensive electrical development is also in process, out of a total production of three and a half million kilowatts, only half a million was from water power, one million was from inferior brown coal (lignite) and two millions from black coal.\n\nWhen the question of electric power was first explored in Great Britain, it was thought that our small, sluggish rivers could be harnessed, especially for the supply to rural areas. But a fuller examination of the subject has vindicated the American system of big generating stations with a monopoly of supply over certain areas.\n\nMr. HERBERT HOOVER, speaking on this subject of big power stations during the time that he held the post of Secretary of Commerce, said: \"The economical generation and distribution of power require local territorial monopoly. Competing systems in power distribution in the same area mean an economic duplication of capital and represent a tremendous waste in equipment, and in the end, such duplication is a charge upon the community.\"\n\nMany of the products of modern science are by no means unmixed blessings, but the supply of this source of light and power in the factory and the homes saves heavy and distasteful labour. It does not create \"black areas,\" injure health or deface scenery. Electricity may claim to be a true civilizer and benefactor of humanity.\n\nThe total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending September 15th, amounted to 68,561 tons, and the sales during the period to 80,598 tons.\n\nUpon his return from short leave, Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, R.E., has been re-appointed A.D.C. to H.E. the Officer Administering the Government with effect from September 22nd.\n\nThe United States industrialists found that electricity was superior to the direct steam drive. The work of electrification was started, and the older machinery was ruthlessly scrapped.\n\nA recent British wireless message announced that a start in the long-overdue \"electrification of England\" has been made, and contracts were placed for 132,000-volt transmission lines over an area of nearly 9,000 square miles, which includes the whole of London.\n\nEngland has lagged sadly behind other countries in this matter of electric power on a big scale, and the present economic situation of the country can be traced largely to neglect in this direction.\n\nThe figures speak for themselves. America's industrial development is one of the most amazing phenomena of history, and it has been in no small measure due to this application of the new source of power.\n\nNorway, with her abundant source of water power, heads the nations in a table of annual consumption per head of population.\n\nThe figures follow:-\n\nNorway: 1,600 units.\n\nCanada: 910\n\nUnited States: 528\n\nGermany: 230\n\nGreat Britain: 155\n\nItaly: 129\n\nLondon's electricity consumption, per capita, is one-fifth that of Chicago and half that of Berlin.\n\nParis and Milan, to mention only two other big cities, are also ahead of the British capital.\n\nThe tragedy of the Scott Antarctic Expedition is recalled by the announcement of the death at Rothesay, at the age of eighty, of Mrs. Bowers, whose son, Lieut. Bowers, was one of Captain Scott's companions in the fatal dash to the South Pole of 1910-12.\n\nA new form of furniture has become popular in France, and it is being widely bought for office and home use. The novelty lies in the use of nickel tubes for the framework of chairs, tables, and cupboards.\n\nA regular post office was established in Stockholm more than 650 years ago, according to the researches just published by the well-known Swedish historian, Dr. L. M. Baath.\n\nProfessor F. W. Buckler, speaking at the International Congress of Orientalists at Oxford recently, said that a garment which appears to have escaped attention is the khilat, or discarded robe of certain ancient Eastern kings.\n\nThe Antarctic expedition which Comdr. Byrd is to head this year sounds more like an assault than an exploration.\n\nCigar and cigarette-end collecting is still a flourishing trade in Paris, and one of its most expert practitioners has been telling a Paris newspaper something of his method of procedure.\n\nThe noise nuisance is beginning to be studied in France, as befits a country where the individual must obey, and not command.\n\nNew laws will forbid the inordinate use of hooters; newspaper vendors will not be allowed to cry their wares; costers and dealers in lottery tickets must henceforth let the things they sell speak for themselves.\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 513647, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "giving him all my information, and informed him that I would land a party to recover the prisoners and boats if possible. He told me that he would land a party as soon as possible. Both ships (\"Somme\" and \"Yeung Shing\") proceeded close in-shore off the rocky beach a mile south of BOLD BLUFF, where the lifeboats were seen to be stranded, with some of the Chinese crews standing by them. It appeared probable that the pirates had retreated westward, so both ships rounded BOLD BLUFF and closed the sandy beach 1⁄2 mile westward of it.\n\nI landed an armed party under the command of Lieutenant M.H. HARDCASTLE R.N. on the western side of the beach, the Customs Cruiser landing two parties on the eastern side of it: the latter were the first to land. It was my intention that the primary object of the landing party was to recover the captured Officers and crew. One party of Customs men proceeded eastward over the high land south of BOLD BLUFF, and the other party (under the Commander) proceeded up the valley running southwestward from the beach. This latter party came in touch with retreating pirates and fired on them at long range. No casualties were observed and the pirates did not return the fire. H.M.S. Somme's party at this time were proceeding up the valley some few hundred yards behind the Customs men.\n\nThe pirates, on being fired on, abandoned the three passengers they had with them. On recovering these, the Customs men returned towards the sandy beach, the pirates scattering over the hills. Both Officers and the Chinese crews of the life-boats had been abandoned near their boats, and three more passengers on the high ground eastward of the valley mentioned.\n\nH.M.S. Somme was standing close inshore at this time, and I was prepared to open fire if I found a definite target. One or two men (who might have been pirates or merely peaceful natives) were seen on the hillsides", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-508-4 Cases of attacks by pirates 6-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929", "content_text": "-6- \n## 22\n\nThe Kwangtung armies are by no means united, the Eastern Command in particular being as likely to help as to resist an invasion. Moreover, the Kwangtung forces are inferior both in training and equipment. If they resist the Kwangsi invasion they can only do so successfully with the help of reinforcements from Nanking.\n\nAs matters stand, it is doubtful whether Nanking can afford to send these reinforcements. The various provincial commanders, such as Ho Chien in Hunan, are too much occupied in looking after their own districts to be able to spare men for this purpose, and the only unattached force, the notorious Fourth Army, is still needed on the Yangtsze to overawe the defeated Hankow Army.\n\nMoreover, the danger of war between Marshal Fêng Yü-hsiang and Nanking appears to have come closer than ever. It is generally agreed that Fêng's neutrality in the recent warfare was bought by the offer of Shantung province; but after the defeat of Hankow, by a series of clever manoeuvres, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek succeeded first in securing control of the railways of Shantung and finally in obtaining the withdrawal of such of Fêng's troops as had entered the province and the appointment of his own adherents to all important official positions there. Many profess to believe that Fêng will be driven to fight, in order to prevent himself from being eliminated altogether.\n\nAll that need be said now is that should this happen, the southern provinces must of necessity be left to settle their own affairs either by force or by negotiation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516490, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "content_text": "## 46\n\nIt is alleged that the Kwangsi leaders hope that, with the co-operation of Yunnan and Kweichow and the possible return of General Lui to their side, they may be able to renew the struggle to retake Kweichow province from the Yunnanese.\n\n3. The Eastern army, formerly under the command of General Tsui King-t'ong, is according to recent reports completely disarmed and scattered, with the exception of a small body of men, under the notorious bandit leader Yün Ha-kau, who were recently recruited into the regular army and have now returned to their old profession of banditry.\n\n4. General Tsui King-t'ong is still in Hong Kong and I took the opportunity of a visit to Hong Kong by General Chan Ming-shu to explain to him the position with regard to the Kwangsi Generals who took refuge in this Colony. General Chan Ming-shü, accompanied by General Chan Chai-t'ong, Commander in Chief of the Cantonese Army, Mr. Lam Wan-k'oi, Mayor of Canton, and Mr. Chu Ch'ang-men of the Nanking Foreign Office, had come to Hong Kong ostensibly to persuade Tang Chak-yü, an old and highly respected member of the Kuomintang, now resident in Kowloon, to accept the charge of the Bureau of Reconstruction (Public Works Department) at Canton. At their own request I invited them to call informally at Government House on July 16th and I attach a brief report of what was said on that occasion.\n\nEnclo. No. 1.\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516507, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "content_text": "## 2 \n\n62 \n\n: \n\nretired to Liuchow, one of the centres of the new road system of the province, and to Sun-chow (Kweiping) on the West River, and for a while, no serious attempt was made to eject them. It would seem probable that General Yü Tsok-p'ak, the newly appointed Governor of Kwangsi province, prefers to try the effect of diplomacy before taking harsher measures, the more so as the fall of Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, if it should come, will deprive the Kwangsi party of the last hope of assistance.\n\nIn fact, the press of the 26th June contained a report from official sources to the effect that further disintegration of the Kwangsi troops had already begun. On the 22nd June, it is alleged, the commander of the Sun-chow Garrison opened the city gates and admitted the Central Government forces. The report adds that Generals Pai and Wong have abandoned their armies and taken refuge in French Indo-China.\n\n## 2. \nThe campaign in Kwangsi is now being conducted entirely by Yu Tsok-pak and Ho Kin, with the aid of the Cantonese Navy and Air Force, the Cantonese armies being all retained in Kwangtung. Of these, the troops under Chan Toal-tong are now stationed in Canton itself and in the North River region, while the attack on Swatow is being carried out by troops under Cheung Kwong-nai and Tsoi Ting-kai, subordinates of General Chan Ming-shu.\n\n## 3. \nThe army of the Eastern region, which was formerly under the command of General Tsui King-t'ong, took a prominent part in what I have described in my despatch of 31st May as the first phase in the war. When", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516513, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929", "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n65\n\nwho are to all intents and purposes Communists. Briefly, it may be explained that the \"Western Hill\" party is that clique which clings to the resolutions adopted by the first general assembly of the Kuo-min-tang. Their principal representative in South China is General Hui Sung-chi. The left wing is generally identified with Mr. Wong Tsing-wai, whose adherents favoured the resolutions adopted by the second general assembly of the Kuo-min-tang, from which the \"Western Hill\" clique was excluded.\n\n2.\n\nThe recent civil war between the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi has so far passed through three phases. The first phase was an attack by the Kwangsi leaders upon Kwangtung, with the hope of capturing Canton by a sudden coup de main. For this purpose, it was planned that the Kwangsi army, under its principal leaders, Pai Chung-hsi, Li Tsung-jen, and Wong Shiu-hung, should advance into Kwangtung down the valley of the West River to Samshui, and that at the same time their Cantonese adherents, namely, the eastern command in Kwangtung under the Cantonese general, Tsui King-t'ong, based upon Swatow, should advance through Waichow down the East River. There was thus to be a concerted attack upon Canton by fairly considerable bodies of troops from the west and from the east. In order to meet these attacks, the Cantonese armies would have to be concentrated at points many miles distant from Canton, both to the west. There", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-512-2 Political situation in China- and Canton 31-5-1929 - 13-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-7 Hong Kong currency- minting of silver dollars 1-11-1929 - 5-2-1930", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-519-7 Hong Kong currency- minting of silver dollars 1-11-1929 - 5-2-1930", "content_text": "# THE DWINDLING DOLLAR.\n\n(Daily Press, October 8, 1929). FROM a reader in Manila comes a letter dated October 4 asking whether the Hong Kong dollar has slid down to what can be considered more or less normal for the next few years?\" Scarcely had this letter left the Philippines when the dollar commenced to \"slide again, and our correspondent, all unknowingly, has put a question which is being very widely asked in the Colony. Already we hear of several small Chinese firms being in serious difficulties, some having actually suspended business. On October 5 (Saturday) the dollar dropped from 1/10.3-16 to 1/9), and yesterday (Monday) was quoted at the same figures. Not since 1915 has the Hong Kong dollar been so low, though it touched 1/9 in 1926.\n\nA suggestion has been hastily put forward by Chinese merchants that the Government should compel the local banks to make payment in silver dollars instead of paper currency. The idea is that if this were done for a fixed period—a minimum of six months is proposed—the silver dollar would again become legal currency, and its value would be based directly upon the price of silver. At present the paper dollar stands at about 16 per cent. above silver parity, and the Chinese merchants urge that the Government obtain the advice of an independent currency expert with a view to finding the best method of keeping the note issue on a par with silver dollars, and the latter on a par with silver. Pending the discovery of such solution, the banks should pay out no more notes, passing over their counters nothing but silver.\n\nThere is a very considerable amount of mystery surrounding the whole subject of Hong Kong currency, and we have good ground for saying that most careful and diligent official inquiries have failed to find a satisfactory explanation of the peculiar circumstances which have come into existence in this Colony. Until the cause can be clearly traced, can a satisfactory remedy be found? The plain fact is that a small piece of printed paper, usually very tattered in appearance and filthy to handle, is regarded in this Colony with much more favour than the silver coin for which the note is a very convenient substitute.\n\nMr. W. F. SPALDING, a well-known authority on finance and banking, has given a brief outline of how this state of affairs came about. More than sixty years ago, over two million British silver dollars were minted in this Colony, moulded after the fashion of the popular Mexican dollar, but they failed to meet with the favour of the Chinese, and were accepted by them only at a discount of one per cent. or more. Since 1872 the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has been permitted to issue currency notes, and this paper—together with the notes similarly issued by the Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank—has found much favour among the Chinese community. Simultaneously, the demand for silver dollars has steadily decreased, and as a result notes have come to command a premium as compared with the metallic currency they represent.\n\nThe fundamental basis of exchange between Hong Kong and gold standard countries is the gold value of the silver content of the dollar. If silver rises in value, then exchange also will tend to rise; if silver falls in price, then exchange will follow suit. On July 1 last, silver was quoted at 24.1-16, and the dollar stood at 1/11 3-16. About the middle of September silver went down to 23 11-16, and the dollar to 1/10 15-16. Last weekend silver was quoted at 23, and the dollar at 1/9). These figures seem to show very clearly the working of cause and effect; cheaper silver, cheaper dollar. Since 1919 the silver market has been going down, and dollar exchange has shown a similar trend. The following figures provide interesting evidence of this movement :-\n\n## SILVER IN LONDON.\n| Year | Highest | Lowest |\n|------|---------|---------|\n| 1900 | 27 | 22 |\n| 1914 | 30 | ... |\n| 1919 | 79 | 47.7-16 |\n| 1920 | 89 | 38 |\n| 1921 | 43.3/8 | 30g |\n| 1922 | 37.8 | 30% |\n| 1923 | 33.11-16| 30/ |\n| 1924 | 36.1-16 | 31.3 |\n| 1925 | 33.7-16 | ... |\n| 1926 | ... | ... |\n| 1927 | 31.1-16 | 24 |\n\n## HONG KONG EXCHANGE.\n| Year | Highest | Lowest |\n|------|---------|---------|\n| 1900 | 2/11 | 1/11 |\n| 1914 | 1/11 | 1/8 |\n| 1919 | 5/2 | 3/0 |\n| 1920 | 6/2 | ... |\n| 1921 | 3/12 | ... |\n| 1922 | 2/7 | 2/ |\n| 1923 | 2/4/ | ... |\n| 1924 | 2/5 | 2/ |\n| 1925 | 2/5 | ... |\n| 1926 | 2/4 | 2/0 |\n| 1927 | 2/0 | 1/9 |\n| ... | 1/11 | ... |\n\nThe price of silver is not the only factor to be considered, but it will be noticed that as the metal has become cheaper, so has the value of the dollar come down. The recent drop again coincides with a fall in the silver market, and if the metal is quoted still more cheaply, the dollar may be expected to fall proportionately. The gold price of silver is the fundamental basis for fixing Eastern exchanges, and although exchange may not react immediately, owing to other minor factors also influencing financial and trade conditions, it will eventually go up or down in sympathy with the silver market.\n\nThe other question—that of the disparity between notes and silver dollars—is much more puzzling. Communities suffering from a depreciated paper currency—inconvertible paper or notes issued far beyond the amount of metallic reserves are not uncommon. But Hong Kong \"suffers\" from the strange disease of having an appreciated paper currency, standing at about sixteen per cent. above par. Why should a torn and very greasy piece of paper be so much more acceptable than a bright and clean silver dollar? In the first place, the Chinese know there is ample security behind the notes; secondly, they have much more confidence in a British banknote than in an unchopped dollar (and even chopped dollars depreciate very rapidly as a result of this rough treatment); thirdly, paper currency is much more convenient to handle than heavy silver coins. There may be other reasons, but these appear to be the chief factors explaining why paper currency is popular in Hong Kong, where payment in notes is generally recognised as the basis for all exchange and business operations.\n\nIf, however, it is a fact—though it is not yet clearly established—that this premium on local notes has a very harmful effect upon local trade and industry, then it will not be long before this disability is removed. With silver at 26d. per ounce, the dollar would be worth about 1/10; at the present market price of silver, the dollar is worth approximately 1/9, so that with exchange trembling half a point above that figure it seems that parity between notes and coins is almost in sight. It is most improbable that paper currency will be withdrawn entirely (as suggested by Chinese merchants) and only silver accepted as legal tender. This would be practical so far as single dollars are concerned, but the larger notes would certainly have to remain, though the public might be given the choice of taking paper or coin when they go to the banks, and it will be interesting to see what happens after the novelty of handling pieces of silver has passed. Paper money is now in such general use throughout the world that we shall be surprised if it loses its popularity in this Colony. If, as is probable, Chinese prejudice in favour of banknotes reasserts itself, and the bright silver dollar is again regarded with unfriendly eyes, what is to prevent a repetition of what has happened during the last few years—a premium on paper money? We leave this problem to the expert who eventually may be summoned from England to look into the problem of Hong Kong currency and suggest a remedy for the difficulties created. Meanwhile, our answer to the question from a Manila reader is in the affirmative—the Hong Kong dollar appears to have settled at a figure more or less \"normal,\" and seems likely so to remain.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-7 Hong Kong currency- minting of silver dollars 1-11-1929 - 5-2-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-3 Reorganisation of commissioned Police Officers 27-1-1930 - 15-8-1930", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-524-3 Reorganisation of commissioned Police Officers 27-1-1930 - 15-8-1930", "content_text": "14\n\n- 3- \n\nApril 1920 to February 1921.\n\nI have found no written record of Sir Edward Stubbs’ opinion, but Mr. Wolfe definitely states that Sir Edward informed him on his return that he considered Mr. Wodehouse totally unfit for the post of Captain Superintendent, and had consequently recommended the appointment of Mr. Wolfe to that post.\n\n6.\n\nWhen Mr. Wolfe proceeded on leave in 1925, it appears that he proposed that Mr. King should act for him. I am informed that the Governor agreed, but eventually, on representations being made to him by Mr. Wodehouse in a personal interview, consented to the latter acting. It was during this period that the strike and boycott occurred in the Colony. The trouble was brewing in Hong Kong at the end of May, 1925. Mr. Wodehouse had applied for short leave as from the 5th of June and did in fact proceed to Wei-hai-wei on such leave, leaving Mr. King in charge. It appears to have fallen to the latter to make all Police arrangements to deal with the situation, and to get the emergency measures fully working before Mr. Wodehouse’s return.\n\nMr. Wodehouse was actually away from the Colony from the 5th of June till midnight on the 8th of July.\n\nIn paragraph 42, page 16, of the Colonial Office print attached Eastern 144, it is stated that the worst days of the strike were those from the 20th of June to the 3rd of July. It would appear, therefore, that during the most critical period, it was Mr. King, and not Mr. Wodehouse, who was in command of the Police.\n\n7.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-3 Reorganisation of commissioned Police Officers 27-1-1930 - 15-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531638, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "SALARIES AT FULL RATE.\n\n(Continued from Page 10.)\n\nperienced in the past need not be feared in the future.\n\nAgriculture in New Territories.\n\nThe Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o will speak on the necessity for more encouragement and support being given by the Government to the growing of vegetables in the New Territories, so that the Colony may be less dependent on outside supplies. With his view and suggestion Sir Shou-son Chow and I are in agreement.\n\nTaxation.\n\nLest an omission on my part to mention the new taxes brought into force give the impression that the Chinese have no strong feeling on the subject, I should like to say that the Chinese view these wholesale imposts with considerable concern and apprehension. The Government has made a thorough revision of all the licences and fees, and has introduced many new forms of taxation, which affect all classes of the community directly and indirectly, and to a more or less extent.\n\nThe taxable capacity of the people, as has been pointed out by the honourable senior Unofficial member, has now reached a point where any additional imposts will have an adverse effect on the economic life of the community. It is earnestly to be hoped, now that the Government has managed to balance the Budget, it will cease its quest for additional revenue by increasing the levy on the already sorely-hit taxpayer, and incidentally finding themselves better off than they have ever been at any time during their service.\n\n\"That a sum not exceeding $25,708,257 in place of the sum of $26,641,787 shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1932.\"-(Applause).\n\nKOWLOON NEEDS.\n\nAt times, in the neighbourhood of wharves our beautiful harbour reminds one of the muddy water of the estuary of the Yangtsze as seen when approaching Shanghai. The prosperity of the Colony is largely dependent on the facilities it affords to shipping and everything must be done to improve it.\n\nAnother innovation which I would suggest is the inclusion in future Estimates of a new statement showing the percentage of each head of expenditure to the total estimated Expenditure, excluding Public Works Extraordinary; and also the percentage of each head of expenditure to total estimated Revenue, excluding Land Sales.\n\nIf I may be permitted to say so, the form of the draft Estimates now before us is undoubtedly better than that of any Estimates that have been presented to this Council.\n\nTechnical Aspect of the Estimates.\n\nHaving expressed the collective views of the Chinese Unofficial members, may I, with great deference, offer some personal opinions and suggestions in regard to the technical aspect of the Estimates? I am emboldened to undertake this self-imposed task by the readiness with which the Government has in the past adopted similar suggestions from the Unofficial members, and also by the experience which I gained from the humble part I took in the preparation of the Colony's annual Estimates when I had the honour of serving in the Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nI apologise for the seeming presumption with which I have proffered these suggestions. I have done so in the belief that I might be helpful to the Government in its efforts to produce the Estimates in an improved form.\n\nA representative of Chinese residents, may I associate myself with the pledge of co-operation and support offered to Your Excellency by the Unofficial members through their leader? I should also like, on their behalf, to tender to Your Excellency grateful thanks for your kind expression of sympathy with their countrymen in the great misfortune that has befallen them through the series of unprecedentedly disastrous floods in the Yangtsze regions, and also for the Government's generous contribution in aid of the sufferers.\n\nSterling Salaries.\n\nI trust that full consideration will be given to this matter and that essential dredging will be taken in hand at once and not delayed pending the completion of the hydrographical survey now being made.\n\nA TARIFF SUGGESTION.\n\nSaying what I have just stated, one is not unmindful of the fact that there are branches of the service in which it is little short of an exaggeration to state that the salaries are on a scale that is actually an average of 11 men coa-\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga said: Your Excellency, The role I propose to assume in connexion with the Budget debate is that of a special pleader on behalf of Kowloon.\n\nBefore presenting my views, I shall submit some observations on the Estimates for 1932.\n\nImproved Form.\n\nIf I may be permitted to say so, the form of the draft Estimates now before us is undoubtedly better than that of any Estimates that have been presented to this Council.\n\nTechnical Aspect of the Estimates.\n\nHaving expressed the collective views of the Chinese Unofficial members, may I, with great deference, offer some personal opinions and suggestions in regard to the technical aspect of the Estimates?\n\nI am emboldened to undertake this self-imposed task by the readiness with which the Government has in the past adopted similar suggestions from the Unofficial members, and also by the experience which I gained from the humble part I took in the preparation of the Colony's annual Estimates when I had the honour of serving in the Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nPage 56\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931,\n\nfor the big modern liners until a channel is dredged.\n\nbe cared for by increasing the levy on the already sorely-hit taxpayer...\n\n\"That a sum not exceeding $25,708,257 in place of the sum of $26,641,787 shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1932.\"-(Applause).\n\nKOWLOON NEEDS.\n\nAt times, in the neighbourhood of wharves our beautiful harbour reminds one of the muddy water of the estuary of the Yangtsze as seen when approaching Shanghai.\n\nMr. Braga as Special pleader on behalf of Kowloon said: Your Excellency, The role I propose to assume in connexion with the Budget debate is that of a special pleader on behalf of Kowloon.\n\nII.\n\nand compare them with the loon. Before however, presenting me to submit of\n\nThe salaries is are on with a 1932.\n\nactually an average exaggeration to state, 11 men coa-\n\noperation and support offered to Your Excellency by the Unofficial members through their leader? I should also like, on their behalf, to tender to Your Excellency grateful thanks for your kind expression of sympathy with their countrymen in the great misfortune that has befallen them through the series disastrous of unprecedentedly.. floods in the Yangtsze regions, and also for the Government's Council during the past several generous contribution in aid of the Executive Council.\n\nit is im- draws £460, or $7,360 at Ex. 1s. 3d., patients.\" For lack of -mecommo- section of the circular road to Sa\n\nImproved Form.\n\nus If I may be permitted to say so, the form of the draft Estimates now before is undoubtedly better than that of any Estimates that have been presented to this\n\nI Ko Cab estimates of expenditure of each tages of decentralisation and hence with the planning and erection of 2-6-4 Type Class B Locos.\" department contain all the more costly supervision.\n\nnew post office fulfilling the the repairs to the two defective detailed disbursements it has to I maintain this is essentially a requirements of the large popula- boilers not be effected at one o At any rate, the Auditor work which should be carried out\n\ntion of Kowloon. make. other of the local Dock Companies, at the expense seems to hold this view; but if the by and of the\n\nPolice Protection.\n\nwhose facilities for handling such Government is not prepared to go Government, whose duty it is to\n\nRecent events are still too fresh work are unsurpassed in any por to berths for all\n\nUnanimous Decision.\n\nwithin to the length advocated by me, provide access\n\none's memory to fail to of the world, thereby doing away Full consideration to this sub- luxury to retain officers on sterling emphasize the need of a in future steamers trading to this port. Ad- may I suggest that\n\npolice with the need for a spare boiler? Estimates, under the head \"Sum-ditional taxes have recently been ject has been given at meetings of salaries whose positions can and sub-station in Kowloon Tong. In this way some little assistance Special Expenditure should levied on shipping and the rates and the Committees of the Chamber of should be filled by men and women The growth of this and adjoining will be alforded the premier local mary, taxes payable by the Wharf Com- Commerce and China Association who can perform the duties with districts has been simply amazing, industry, which should be most be shown after Personal Emolu-\n\non profits as and of Unofficial Members of this equal if not greater efficiency but, and it was with considerable re- welcome in these days of intensiv ments and Other Charges have pany are assessed the Company's balance Council. The decision unanimous- drawing their salaries in dollars. gret that residents were officially competitive tendering for jobs. been totalled. Special Expendi- shown in\n\nTo better illustrate the campara- informed that, owing to financial\n\nTariff Suggestion. ture is non-recurrent expenditure, sheet: that is to say they are col- ly adopted was that as the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies tive cost of the two divisions of the stringency, not only the original In order also to foster local and may show a large amount in lected on revenue from wharves in has definitely decided that sterling Clerical Service, have compiled proposal to erect a police station, industries every endeavour should one year and nothing at all in addition to pier rents.\n\nsalaries are to be paid at Treasury brief summary that goes to but subsidiary a proposal to think, be employed to utilise pro- another; to group it with the other\n\nA Government Duty. rate of exchange as from Janu- show with how much indifference erect two police boxes with ducts of local manufacture in all two recurrent items may cause\n\nary I next, notwithstanding that the clamour for economy in ad- telephones installed in each, have Government building and a wrong conception of the real At the present time the Wharf\n\nthe present basis of payment is ac- ministration is received. While on this position of the estimated recurrent Company have a grab dredger con-\n\nThe members of the Senior and been cut out of the Estimates for struction works. subject, it would be interesting th expenditure of a department for stantly employed removing refuse ceptable to the Official as well as\n\nthe Unofficial members of this Accounting Staff are all paid in sterling, while those of the Junior For example, take the Summary down Haiphong and Peking Roads, both to the Civil Servant and to Clerical Staff are paid in dollars. for consideration the, desirability fits and advantages of preferential the taxpayer if salaries are re- The comparison is a striking one. of displaying typhoon warning tariff treatment in respect of pro- attached to the Imports and Ex- That dredging should surely recently\n\nTyphoon Warnings. learn if there is a possibility of the following year as compared deposited between the wharves from\n\nI have been requested to urge securing for Hongkong the bene with that of the current year. the sewers and nullahs running Council, full justice would be done sterling-paid servants have been called upon to bear the burden of balancing the Budget.\n\nfits and advantages of preferential tariff treatment in respect of products of local manufacture. Although the Wharf Company revision into dollars.\n\nin the vicinity of Kowloon City. this you will see that the special\n\nItem 36 makes provision for re- I shall there- staffed by 66 officers in 1931 at an signals at the Kowloon Tong and ducts of local manufacture. The Senior Clerical branch was Office on Page 27. From undertaken by Government. ports\n\npairs to Galvanised Steel Plath fore in due course, move the follow- estimated cost of $334,113. Expenditure for 1981 is $20,800 Keep a sufficient dep the largest ing amendment to Section Two of of water at\n\nThe 1932 Estimates provide for The residents request, made their wharves to allow\n\nyear ago, was turned down by Fencing round the Loco Yard, and for- 1932 only $6,000; while the\n\nthe proposed Bill: the whose officers aggregate ap-\n\nSecretary made reference to this total of the three main items Per- vessels to go alongside, approaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means\n\nproaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means satisfactory. Anyone who\n\nitem in his speech. It is consider and Special Expenditure for 1931, watch the berthing and unberth- shows 10 fewer officers out of 66 year. The cost of the erection of\n\ned by some people that the was $948,610, and the total for ing of big mail boats can see from decrease\n\nFire Brigade. the two localities is comparatively at an increase of salary of $75,521. a typhoon signal mast at each of\n\nThe provision made in 1981 for\n\nOwing to the inaccessibility of ty of Yaumati Station and Kow computed without the Special Ex- an in- must cause much anxiety to those\n\nthe available fire appliances to loon Tong, could have been sub\n\nstituted by some less costly penditure, should reveal\n\nment pay roll was $916,050.\n\nfencing. It is suggested that any crease of $8,581. With the Special in command.\n\nIt is proposed to increase this certain areas in the Kowloon City Expenditure shown separately in\n\nbranch of the service to 679 clerks district, it is considered desirable railings required for renewals to this confusion\n\nthe railings enclosing the Loca the Summary,\n\nin 1932, whose aggregate salaries that provision be made for\n\nportable fire pump of the trailer Yards should be obtained by lift would be obviated.\n\nwill amount to $973,480; or an\n\ntype.\n\nIts cost is inconsiderable. an $57,430, with and can be defended by the ing the present railings and re\n\nItem 42.-May I be permitted the lives and property of the properly doped wood stanchions. poorer inhabitants of the Kowloon\n\nwhen I said: \"$40,000 for new City districts, who are least able to re-state my remarks last year bodywork for four coaches Car Parking, to bear any such loss.\n\nThere are technical\n\nwilg I am aware that Government advocate that, before incurring does not regard with favour the this expenditure, enquiries migh suggestion of surfacing the road be made of, and tenders invited way and providing a properly from, firms in the Colony capable levelled car park in the vicinity of of building railway coaches, o special pleader on behalf of Kow. the case of Senior Clerks in Class the Yaumati Ferry Wharf. When which there are several. In thi\n\nTurning of 25,000 hold that the present third-class question to Your Excellency and this hon-, highest class in the Junior branch it is remembered, however, that connexion there are those who of sterling salaries, to which ourable Council a case for the The combined salaries of nine of\n\nthis very necessary public imable type for the traffic on th in a form that would facilitate reference has already been made, needs and claims which the Kow- the former class are estimated at people use the Yaumati Pier daily coaches are of an entirely unsui\n\nBefore approving thin reference, and would afford the that is a subject which if judged loon Residents' Association desire: $94,481 for 1982, while 10 clerks of provement should not be long de-fine.\" the for modest and the latter group will cost\n\nlayed. item. I would like to know if these community information for which by what one reads and hears-is\n\nKowloon Hospital. sugrestions have been acted upon, it has looked in vain in the past.\n\ncausing more adverse comment and moderate but, nevertheless, urgent Colony $53,000 next year.\n\nOfficial statistics obtained of the\n\nDangerous Corners. Conclusion.\n\narousing stronger public feeling public improvement for the penin- comparative individual than any other matter raised in sula, great disappointment must are $10,498 and $5,300. It is a number of out-patients treated in\n\nWhile motoring in the New the Territories one is unpleasantly be expressed at the non-fulfill- matter of common knowledge that the Kowloon Hospital for connexion with the estimates for 1932.\n\nment of the Government's under- for locally recruited hands to The Hon. the Colonial Secre- taking to economise in the direction attain to the higher class in the corresponding first six months of confronted with the huge quantity of the most dangerous 29 was corners of the road to Taipo.\n\ntary in his able general survey in of the staffing of the public service Junior Clerical Service they must 1930 and 1931 give a total of 7,695 af serub and undergrowth on introducing the Budget unfortun- by a larger number of dollar for be of great efficiency and have and 10,085, respectively. It is no same\n\nthe seen a long period of service.pointed out to Government last therefore strongly recommend ately when dealing with salaries sterling-paid servants\n\nThe commencing salary of the month, that the accommodation is that a portion of the vote of $5,00\n\nBrushwood Clearing pitifully inadequate. The K.R.A. for drew a picture describing the sacri- Government.\n\nI labour under some disadvan-highest class dollar clerks fices the sterling paid Civil\n\nof my $4,800 a year. Cases\n\nin their letter to Government utilised immediately for clearing men of qualified vants had been called upon to bear tage in the formulation in the burden of balancing the criticism, since in the absence of i record\n\nsmall that many of the out-be done under proper supervision.\n\nThe Saikung Road. Budget as compared with the em- the Report of the Retrenchment meritorious service attaining that describes \"the waiting room as so the said corners and that the work ployees of the business concerns of Committee, which has been with-grade only after 30 years in patients have to sit on the floor\n\nBy contrast held from the Inoscial members Government employ.\n\nI return to the suggestion in the the Colony\n\nsterling clerk upon joining the and door steps until other cases His statements were not at all\n\nof the Legislative Council, except\n\nin Class II. forthwith have been dealt with: this applies forlorn hope of a start being mad\n\nequally to male and female when funds permit, on the firs convincing and were, in fact, very those who are also members of service\n\nwith all privileges of home which the Retrenchment Commit-leave, etc., and the additional cost of in-patients have frequently had Yue Tong. It was only the other Kwongtung. This friendly assist- business and professional ance, rendered spontaneously and munity has been very severely hit, tee had acquiesced in the Govern- to taxpayers that these privileges to be refused. As compared with day that I read in a recent unter\n\nmen imply. This a total of 439 operations perform of Motor that the motorist is no promptly, exemplifies the truth of by bad trade and the drop in ex- ment's policy of maintaining an to glorified\n\nexpensive personnel on a sterling differential treatment\n\ned during the whole of last year, change. the lines: six that \"as a ratepayer he contri- \"In faith and hope the world will I have sent to your Excellency basis. Nor is it possible to ascer- versus imported hands cannot be there were 313 during the first six xetting a fair deal. It is argued months of this year. This latter butes his share to the roads as disagree.\n\nconfidentially figures which show tain how far Your Excellency's in- too strongly criticised.\n\nKowloon Matters.\n\nfigure shows an increase of 167 an average citizen. As a tax- But all mankind's is that many of the large industrial structions to several departments\n\nIn dealing with subjects relat-cases as against last year's 146. payer he pays his full share of charity.\"-(Applause.)\n\nconcerns and business houses (Hansard 1930, p. 227) regarding\n\nThe general taxation. In addition have, apart from paying sterling local recruiting have been carried ing to Kowloon none are new to The increase is over 100%.\n\nof another European contributes heavily to motor salaries at a fixed rate of exchange, out. Until the Government give Your Excellency, as representa- addition made definite cuts in pay. In ad- an earnest of its determination to tions have been made to Govern-medical officer and the increase of taxation for the sole reason that the the nursing staff are urgent re- he wants to use the roads,\" and SALARIES.dition overheads have been re- apply the axe in respect of a large ment from time to time for\n\nduced by a reduction in staff. Ac- branch of the gold section of its past three years. Since the first quirements demanding the imme- yet, as the Senior Unofficial Mem- pro-administration, it is difficult to reading of the Appropriation Bill diate attention of Government. her has pointed out, simultaneous- cording to the Government\n\nBathing Facilities. ly with imposing the additional of Civil Servants resist the conclusion that the com- three weeks ago. I have been in posal, salaries\n\nfor greater communication, through the hon- Not much need be said for in- Petrol Tax, in Hongkong p will, as from January 1 next, be munity's demand paid at Treasury rate of exchange, economy in the Colony's administra-orary Secretary, with the vigilant creased public bathing facilities in Government has reduced the vita\n\nThe committee of the Kowloon Resi- Kowloon.\n\nsubject was for roads. All round London are re- tive expenditure has been ignored. notwithstanding that on the\n\ndents' Association.\n\nver-exhaustively and ably dealt with to be seen examples of roads cut commendation of the Salaries Com- I must not be misinterpreted and ward over municipal affairs early Spring. If the Government tural value. As soon as the creased by 15 per cent.\n\nas denying to those officers of the on the Mainland, have favoured could see its way to remedy the comes the value of the land is\n\nHouse A Million Dollars.\n\nGovernment who by reason of their me with a list of the most im-deficiency before the next bathin increased enormously. This means, according to the professional qualifications, high at-portant subjects which require season, public dissatisfaction would go up, new building and other work is stimulated, and new publią Government attention. They em- be greatly placated figures kindly supplied by the Hon. tainments and technical skill, should receive a full measure of brace such public questions might entail too much clerical\n\nThis is not the first occasion said with equal truth of the New to Kowloon's need of improved postal Senior additional tax on the resources of their value work. hut nerhans a beginning in\n\nof their facilities commensurate with its that I am addressing the Council Territories. If we are to listen to the Colony of approximately one the Colony the benefit this direction might be made with Unofficial member, in his re-\n\nview of the Budget, dealt million dollars will be levied next valued services. As, for example, size: the provision of police pro- on the subject of the presence of the panic-mongers all new road 1931, the year in which the totals with the\n\n$18,000, recover-tection in Kowloon Tong; typhoon disorderly houses in the residen- making and road widening is to When question of Sterling year. this question of the provision\n\nof Kowloon. The cease. This will check the of the three main items mentioned Salaries and mentioned that I, on\n\nsalaries was debated last year, able in fees, for three Consultanta signals in the north-eastern dis- tial areas were for the first time given in\n\nto deal is obvious when it is stated that the progress of land development the estimates of each department behalf of the Hongkong General thanks to the good offices of your in the Medical Department, who tricts of the Peninsula; the need serious objection to their existence development of motoring, and\n\ncompromise was Chamber of Commerce, would also Excellency\n\nare professors of the Hongkong of a portable fire-pump\n\nbuilding. the outlying auch houses are in the neighbour-and under the caption \"Summary.\"\n\nreached, although in the opinion University doing specialist and with outbreaks From this Summary the figures speak on this subject. Before ex- of the Unofficials, with which all the Unofficial mem- ment was still too favourable to the to the Colony cannot be over-esti-Yaumati Ferry approach; hospital Their removal to a less objection- better to make use of derelict without difficulty.\n\nThe abolition of the General areas. I trust it new land values, and will give 1. morality and safety. to the Civil Servant and to Clerical Staff are paid in dollars. for consideration the, desirability fits and advantages of preferential the taxpayer if salaries are re- The comparison is a striking one. of displaying typhoon warning tariff treatment in respect of pro- attached to the Imports and Ex- That dredging should surely recently\n\nTyphoon Warnings. learn if there is a possibility of the following year as compared deposited between the wharves from\n\nI have been requested to urge securing for Hongkong the bene with that of the current year. the sewers and nullahs running Council, full justice would be done sterling-paid servants have been called upon to bear the burden of balancing the Budget.\n\nfits and advantages of preferential tariff treatment in respect of products of local manufacture. Although the Wharf Company revision into dollars.\n\nin the vicinity of Kowloon City. this you will see that the special\n\nItem 36 makes provision for re- I shall there- staffed by 66 officers in 1931 at an signals at the Kowloon Tong and ducts of local manufacture. The Senior Clerical branch was Office on Page 27. From undertaken by Government. ports\n\npairs to Galvanised Steel Plath fore in due course, move the follow- estimated cost of $334,113. Expenditure for 1981 is $20,800 Keep a sufficient dep the largest ing amendment to Section Two of of water at\n\nThe 1932 Estimates provide for The residents request, made their wharves to allow\n\nyear ago, was turned down by Fencing round the Loco Yard, and for- 1932 only $6,000; while the\n\nthe proposed Bill: the whose officers aggregate ap-\n\nSecretary made reference to this total of the three main items Per- vessels to go alongside, approaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means\n\nproaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means satisfactory. Anyone who\n\nitem in his speech. It is consider and Special Expenditure for 1931, watch the berthing and unberth- shows 10 fewer officers out of 66 year. The cost of the erection of\n\ned by some people that the was $948,610, and the total for ing of big mail boats can see from decrease\n\nFire Brigade. the two localities is comparatively at an increase of salary of $75,521. a typhoon signal mast at each of\n\nThe provision made in 1981 for\n\nOwing to the inaccessibility of ty of Yaumati Station and Kow computed without the Special Ex- an in- must cause much anxiety to those\n\nthe available fire appliances to loon Tong, could have been sub\n\nstituted by some less costly penditure, should reveal\n\nment pay roll was $916,050.\n\nfencing. It is suggested that any crease of $8,581. With the Special in command.\n\nIt is proposed to increase this certain areas in the Kowloon City Expenditure shown separately in\n\nbranch of the service to 679 clerks district, it is considered desirable railings required for renewals to this confusion\n\nthe railings enclosing the Loca the Summary,\n\nin 1932, whose aggregate salaries that provision be made for\n\nportable fire pump of the trailer Yards should be obtained by lift would be obviated.\n\nwill amount to $973,480; or an\n\ntype.\n\nIts cost is inconsiderable. an $57,430, with and can be defended by the ing the present railings and re\n\nItem 42.-May I be permitted the lives and property of the properly doped wood stanchions. poorer inhabitants of the Kowloon\n\nwhen I said: \"$40,000 for new City districts, who are least able to re-state my remarks last year bodywork for four coaches Car Parking, to bear any such loss.\n\nThere are technical\n\nwilg I am aware that Government advocate that, before incurring does not regard with favour the this expenditure, enquiries migh suggestion of surfacing the road be made of, and tenders invited way and providing a properly from, firms in the Colony capable levelled car park in the vicinity of of building railway coaches, o special pleader on behalf of Kow. the case of Senior Clerks in Class the Yaumati Ferry Wharf. When which there are several. In thi\n\nTurning of 25,000 hold that the present third-class question to Your Excellency and this hon-, highest class in the Junior branch it is remembered, however, that connexion there are those who of sterling salaries, to which ourable Council a case for the The combined salaries of nine of\n\nthis very necessary public imable type for the traffic on th in a form that would facilitate reference has already been made, needs and claims which the Kow- the former class are estimated at people use the Yaumati Pier daily coaches are of an entirely unsui\n\nBefore approving thin reference, and would afford the that is a subject which if judged loon Residents' Association desire: $94,481 for 1982, while 10 clerks of provement should not be long de-fine.\" the for modest and the latter group will cost\n\nlayed. item. I would like to know if these community information for which by what one reads and hears-is\n\nKowloon Hospital. sugrestions have been acted upon, it has looked in vain in the past.\n\ncausing more adverse comment and moderate but, nevertheless, urgent Colony $53,000 next year.\n\nOfficial statistics obtained of the\n\nDangerous Corners. Conclusion.\n\narousing stronger public feeling public improvement for the penin- comparative individual than any other matter raised in sula, great disappointment must are $10,498 and $5,300. It is a number of out-patients treated in\n\nWhile motoring in the New the Territories one is unpleasantly be expressed at the non-fulfill- matter of common knowledge that the Kowloon Hospital for connexion with the estimates for 1932.\n\nment of the Government's under- for locally recruited hands to The Hon. the Colonial Secre- taking to economise in the direction attain to the higher class in the corresponding first six months of confronted with the huge quantity of the most dangerous 29 was corners of the road to Taipo.\n\ntary in his able general survey in of the staffing of the public service Junior Clerical Service they must 1930 and 1931 give a total of 7,695 af serub and undergrowth on introducing the Budget unfortun- by a larger number of dollar for be of great efficiency and have and 10,085, respectively. It is no same\n\nthe seen a long period of service.pointed out to Government last therefore strongly recommend ately when dealing with salaries sterling-paid servants\n\nThe commencing salary of the month, that the accommodation is that a portion of the vote of $5,00\n\nBrushwood Clearing pitifully inadequate. The K.R.A. for drew a picture describing the sacri- Government.\n\nI labour under some disadvan-highest class dollar clerks fices the sterling paid Civil\n\nof my $4,800 a year. Cases\n\nin their letter to Government utilised immediately for clearing men of qualified vants had been called upon to bear tage in the formulation in the burden of balancing the criticism, since in the absence of i record\n\nsmall that many of the out-be done under proper supervision.\n\nThe Saikung Road. Budget as compared with the em- the Report of the Retrenchment meritorious service attaining that describes \"the waiting room as so the said corners and that the work ployees of the business concerns of Committee, which has been with-grade only after 30 years in patients have to sit on the floor\n\nBy contrast held from the Inoscial members Government employ.\n\nI return to the suggestion in the the Colony\n\nsterling clerk upon joining the and door steps until other cases His statements were not at all\n\nof the Legislative Council, except\n\nin Class II. forthwith have been dealt with: this applies forlorn hope of a start being mad\n\nequally to male and female when funds permit, on the firs convincing and were, in fact, very those who are also members of service\n\nwith all privileges of home which the Retrenchment Commit-leave, etc., and the additional cost of in-patients have frequently had Yue Tong. It was only the other Kwongtung. This friendly assist- business and professional ance, rendered spontaneously and munity has been very severely hit, tee had acquiesced in the Govern- to taxpayers that these privileges to be refused. As compared with day that I read in a recent unter\n\nmen imply. This a total of 439 operations perform of Motor that the motorist is no promptly, exemplifies the truth of by bad trade and the drop in ex- ment's policy of maintaining an to glorified\n\nexpensive personnel on a sterling differential treatment\n\ned during the whole of last year, change. the lines: six that \"as a ratepayer he contri- \"In faith and hope the world will I have sent to your Excellency basis. Nor is it possible to ascer- versus imported hands cannot be there were 313 during the first six xetting a fair deal. It is argued months of this year. This latter butes his share to the roads as disagree.\n\nconfidentially figures which show tain how far Your Excellency's in- too strongly criticised.\n\nKowloon Matters.\n\nfigure shows an increase of 167 an average citizen. As a tax- But all mankind's is that many of the large industrial structions to several departments\n\nIn dealing with subjects relat-cases as against last year's 146. payer he pays his full share of charity.\"-(Applause.)\n\nconcerns and business houses (Hansard 1930, p. 227) regarding\n\nThe general taxation. In addition have, apart from paying sterling local recruiting have been carried ing to Kowloon none are new to The increase is over 100%.\n\nof another European contributes heavily to motor salaries at a fixed rate of exchange, out. Until the Government give Your Excellency, as representa- addition made definite cuts in pay. In ad- an earnest of its determination to tions have been made to Govern-medical officer and the increase of taxation for the sole reason that the the nursing staff are urgent re- he wants to use the roads,\" and SALARIES.dition overheads have been re- apply the axe in respect of a large ment from time to time for\n\nduced by a reduction in staff. Ac- branch of the gold section of its past three years. Since the first quirements demanding the imme- yet, as the Senior Unofficial Mem- pro-administration, it is difficult to reading of the Appropriation Bill diate attention of Government. her has pointed out, simultaneous- cording to the Government\n\nBathing Facilities. ly with imposing the additional of Civil Servants resist the conclusion that the com- three weeks ago. I have been in posal, salaries\n\nfor greater communication, through the hon- Not much need be said for in- Petrol Tax, in Hongkong p will, as from January 1 next, be munity's demand paid at Treasury rate of exchange, economy in the Colony's administra-orary Secretary, with the vigilant creased public bathing facilities in Government has reduced the vita\n\nThe committee of the Kowloon Resi- Kowloon.\n\nsubject was for roads. All round London are re- tive expenditure has been ignored. notwithstanding that on the\n\ndents' Association.\n\nver-exhaustively and ably dealt with to be seen examples of roads cut commendation of the Salaries Com- I must not be misinterpreted and ward over municipal affairs early Spring. If the Government tural value. As soon as the creased by 15 per cent.\n\nas denying to those officers of the on the Mainland, have favoured could see its way to remedy the comes the value of the land is\n\nHouse A Million Dollars.\n\nGovernment who by reason of their me with a list of the most im-deficiency before the next bathin increased enormously. This means, according to the professional qualifications, high at-portant subjects which require season, public dissatisfaction would go up, new building and other work is stimulated, and new publią Government attention. They em- be greatly placated figures kindly supplied by the Hon. tainments and technical skill, should receive a full measure of brace such public questions might entail too much clerical\n\nThis is not the first occasion said with equal truth of the New to Kowloon's need of improved postal Senior additional tax on the resources of their value work. hut nerhans a beginning in\n\nof their facilities commensurate with its that I am addressing the Council Territories. If we are to listen to the Colony of approximately one the Colony the benefit this direction might be made with Unofficial member, in his re-\n\nview of the Budget, dealt million dollars will be levied next valued services. As, for example, size: the provision of police pro- on the subject of the presence of the panic-mongers all new road 1931, the year in which the totals with the\n\n$18,000, recover-tection in Kowloon Tong; typhoon disorderly houses in the residen- making and road widening is to When question of Sterling year. this question of the provision\n\nof Kowloon. The cease. This will check the of the three main items mentioned Salaries and mentioned that I, on\n\nsalaries was debated last year, able in fees, for three Consultanta signals in the north-eastern dis- tial areas were for the first time given in\n\nto deal is obvious when it is stated that the progress of land development the estimates of each department behalf of the Hongkong General thanks to the good offices of your in the Medical Department, who tricts of the Peninsula; the need serious objection to their existence development of motoring, and\n\ncompromise was Chamber of Commerce, would also Excellency\n\nare professors of the Hongkong of a portable fire-pump\n\nbuilding. the outlying auch houses are in the neighbour-and under the caption \"Summary.\"\n\nreached, although in the opinion University doing specialist and with outbreaks From this Summary the figures speak on this subject. Before ex- of the Unofficials, with which all the Unofficial mem- ment was still too favourable to the to the Colony cannot be over-esti-Yaumati Ferry approach; hospital Their removal to a less objection- better to make use of derelict without difficulty.\n\nThe abolition of the General areas. I trust it new land values, and will give 1. morality and safety. to the Civil Servant and to Clerical Staff are paid in dollars. for consideration the, desirability fits and advantages of preferential the taxpayer if salaries are re- The comparison is a striking one. of displaying typhoon warning tariff treatment in respect of pro- attached to the Imports and Ex- That dredging should surely recently\n\nTyphoon Warnings. learn if there is a possibility of the following year as compared deposited between the wharves from\n\nI have been requested to urge securing for Hongkong the bene with that of the current year. the sewers and nullahs running Council, full justice would be done sterling-paid servants have been called upon to bear the burden of balancing the Budget.\n\nfits and advantages of preferential tariff treatment in respect of products of local manufacture. Although the Wharf Company revision into dollars.\n\nin the vicinity of Kowloon City. this you will see that the special\n\nItem 36 makes provision for re- I shall there- staffed by 66 officers in 1931 at an signals at the Kowloon Tong and ducts of local manufacture. The Senior Clerical branch was Office on Page 27. From undertaken by Government. ports\n\npairs to Galvanised Steel Plath fore in due course, move the follow- estimated cost of $334,113. Expenditure for 1981 is $20,800 Keep a sufficient dep the largest ing amendment to Section Two of of water at\n\nThe 1932 Estimates provide for The residents request, made their wharves to allow\n\nyear ago, was turned down by Fencing round the Loco Yard, and for- 1932 only $6,000; while the\n\nthe proposed Bill: the whose officers aggregate ap-\n\nSecretary made reference to this total of the three main items Per- vessels to go alongside, approaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means\n\nproaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means satisfactory. Anyone who\n\nitem in his speech. It is consider and Special Expenditure for 1931, watch the berthing and unberth- shows 10 fewer officers out of 66 year. The cost of the erection of\n\ned by some people that the was $948,610, and the total for ing of big mail boats can see from decrease\n\nFire Brigade. the two localities is comparatively at an increase of salary of $75,521. a typhoon signal mast at each of\n\nThe provision made in 1981 for\n\nOwing to the inaccessibility of ty of Yaumati Station and Kow computed without the Special Ex- an in- must cause much anxiety to those\n\nthe available fire appliances to loon Tong, could have been sub\n\nstituted by some less costly penditure, should reveal\n\nment pay roll was $916,050.\n\nfencing. It is suggested that any crease of $8,581. With the Special in command.\n\nIt is proposed to increase this certain areas in the Kowloon City Expenditure shown separately in\n\nbranch of the service to 679 clerks district, it is considered desirable railings required for renewals to this confusion\n\nthe railings enclosing the Loca the Summary,\n\nin 1932, whose aggregate salaries that provision be made for\n\nportable fire pump of the trailer Yards should be obtained by lift would be obviated.\n\nwill amount to $973,480; or an\n\ntype.\n\nIts cost is inconsiderable. an $57,430, with and can be defended by the ing the present railings and re\n\nItem 42.-May I be permitted the lives and property of the properly doped wood stanchions. poorer inhabitants of the Kowloon\n\nwhen I said: \"$40,000 for new City districts, who are least able to re-state my remarks last year bodywork for four coaches Car Parking, to bear any such loss.\n\nThere are technical\n\nwilg I am aware that Government advocate that, before incurring does not regard with favour the this expenditure, enquiries migh suggestion of surfacing the road be made of, and tenders invited way and providing a properly from, firms in the Colony capable levelled car park in the vicinity of of building railway coaches, o special pleader on behalf of Kow. the case of Senior Clerks in Class the Yaumati Ferry Wharf. When which there are several. In thi\n\nTurning of 25,000 hold that the present third-class question to Your Excellency and this hon-, highest class in the Junior branch it is remembered, however, that connexion there are those who of sterling salaries, to which ourable Council a case for the The combined salaries of nine of\n\nthis very necessary public imable type for the traffic on th in a form that would facilitate reference has already been made, needs and claims which the Kow- the former class are estimated at people use the Yaumati Pier daily coaches are of an entirely unsui\n\nBefore approving thin reference, and would afford the that is a subject which if judged loon Residents' Association desire: $94,481 for 1982, while 10 clerks of provement should not be long de-fine.\" the for modest and the latter group will cost\n\nlayed. item. I would like to know if these community information for which by what one reads and hears-is\n\nKowloon Hospital. sugrestions have been acted upon, it has looked in vain in the past.\n\ncausing more adverse comment and moderate but, nevertheless, urgent Colony $53,000 next year.\n\nOfficial statistics obtained of the\n\nDangerous Corners. Conclusion.\n\narousing stronger public feeling public improvement for the penin- comparative individual than any other matter raised in sula, great disappointment must are $10,498 and $5,300. It is a number of out-patients treated in\n\nWhile motoring in the New the Territories one is unpleasantly be expressed at the non-fulfill- matter of common knowledge that the Kowloon Hospital for connexion with the estimates for 1932.\n\nment of the Government's under- for locally recruited hands to The Hon. the Colonial Secre- taking to economise in the direction attain to the higher class in the corresponding first six months of confronted with the huge quantity of the most dangerous 29 was corners of the road to Taipo.\n\ntary in his able general survey in of the staffing of the public service Junior Clerical Service they must 1930 and 1931 give a total of 7,695 af serub and undergrowth on introducing the Budget unfortun- by a larger number of dollar for be of great efficiency and have and 10,085, respectively. It is no same\n\nthe seen a long period of service.pointed out to Government last therefore strongly recommend ately when dealing with salaries sterling-paid servants\n\nThe commencing salary of the month, that the accommodation is that a portion of the vote of $5,00\n\nBrushwood Clearing pitifully inadequate. The K.R.A. for drew a picture describing the sacri- Government.\n\nI labour under some disadvan-highest class dollar clerks fices the sterling paid Civil\n\nof my $4,800 a year. Cases\n\nin their letter to Government utilised immediately for clearing men of qualified vants had been called upon to bear tage in the formulation in the burden of balancing the criticism, since in the absence of i record\n\nsmall that many of the out-be done under proper supervision.\n\nThe Saikung Road. Budget as compared with the em- the Report of the Retrenchment meritorious service attaining that describes \"the waiting room as so the said corners and that the work ployees of the business concerns of Committee, which has been with-grade only after 30 years in patients have to sit on the floor\n\nBy contrast held from the Inoscial members Government employ.\n\nI return to the suggestion in the the Colony\n\nsterling clerk upon joining the and door steps until other cases His statements were not at all\n\nof the Legislative Council, except\n\nin Class II. forthwith have been dealt with: this applies forlorn hope of a start being mad\n\nequally to male and female when funds permit, on the firs convincing and were, in fact, very those who are also members of service\n\nwith all privileges of home which the Retrenchment Commit-leave, etc., and the additional cost of in-patients have frequently had Yue Tong. It was only the other Kwongtung. This friendly assist- business and professional ance, rendered spontaneously and munity has been very severely hit, tee had acquiesced in the Govern- to taxpayers that these privileges to be refused. As compared with day that I read in a recent unter\n\nmen imply. This a total of 439 operations perform of Motor that the motorist is no promptly, exemplifies the truth of by bad trade and the drop in ex- ment's policy of maintaining an to glorified\n\nexpensive personnel on a sterling differential treatment\n\ned during the whole of last year, change. the lines: six that \"as a ratepayer he contri- \"In faith and hope the world will I have sent to your Excellency basis. Nor is it possible to ascer- versus imported hands cannot be there were 313 during the first six xetting a fair deal. It is argued months of this year. This latter butes his share to the roads as disagree.\n\nconfidentially figures which show tain how far Your Excellency's in- too strongly criticised.\n\nKowloon Matters.\n\nfigure shows an increase of 167 an average citizen. As a tax- But all mankind's is that many of the large industrial structions to several departments\n\nIn dealing with subjects relat-cases as against last year's 146. payer he pays his full share of charity.\"-(Applause.)\n\nconcerns and business houses (Hansard 1930, p. 227) regarding\n\nThe general taxation. In addition have, apart from paying sterling local recruiting have been carried ing to Kowloon none are new to The increase is over 100%.\n\nof another European contributes heavily to motor salaries at a fixed rate of exchange, out. Until the Government give Your Excellency, as representa- addition made definite cuts in pay. In ad- an earnest of its determination to tions have been made to Govern-medical officer and the increase of taxation for the sole reason that the the nursing staff are urgent re- he wants to use the roads,\" and SALARIES.dition overheads have been re- apply the axe in respect of a large ment from time to time for\n\nduced by a reduction in staff. Ac- branch of the gold section of its past three years. Since the first quirements demanding the imme- yet, as the Senior Unofficial Mem- pro-administration, it is difficult to reading of the Appropriation Bill diate attention of Government. her has pointed out, simultaneous- cording to the Government\n\nBathing Facilities. ly with imposing the additional of Civil Servants resist the conclusion that the com- three weeks ago. I have been in posal, salaries\n\nfor greater communication, through the hon- Not much need be said for in- Petrol Tax, in Hongkong p will, as from January 1 next, be munity's demand paid at Treasury rate of exchange, economy in the Colony's administra-orary Secretary, with the vigilant creased public bathing facilities in Government has reduced the vita\n\nThe committee of the Kowloon Resi- Kowloon.\n\nsubject was for roads. All round London are re- tive expenditure has been ignored. notwithstanding that on the\n\ndents' Association.\n\nver-exhaustively and ably dealt with to be seen examples of roads cut commendation of the Salaries Com- I must not be misinterpreted and ward over municipal affairs early Spring. If the Government tural value. As soon as the creased by 15 per cent.\n\nas denying to those officers of the on the Mainland, have favoured could see its way to remedy the comes the value of the land is\n\nHouse A Million Dollars.\n\nGovernment who by reason of their me with a list of the most im-deficiency before the next bathin increased enormously. This means, according to the professional qualifications, high at-portant subjects which require season, public dissatisfaction would go up, new building and other work is stimulated, and new publią Government attention. They em- be greatly placated figures kindly supplied by the Hon. tainments and technical skill, should receive a full measure of brace such public questions might entail too much clerical\n\nThis is not the first occasion said with equal truth of the New to Kowloon's need of improved postal Senior additional tax on the resources of their value work. hut nerhans a beginning in\n\nof their facilities commensurate with its that I am addressing the Council Territories. If we are to listen to the Colony of approximately one the Colony the benefit this direction might be made with Unofficial member, in his re-\n\nview of the Budget, dealt million dollars will be levied next valued services. As, for example, size: the provision of police pro- on the subject of the presence of the panic-mongers all new road 1931, the year in which the totals with the\n\n$18,000, recover-tection in Kowloon Tong; typhoon disorderly houses in the residen- making and road widening is to When question of Sterling year. this question of the provision\n\nof Kowloon. The cease. This will check the of the three main items mentioned Salaries and mentioned that I, on\n\nsalaries was debated last year, able in fees, for three Consultanta signals in the north-eastern dis- tial areas were for the first time given in\n\nto deal is obvious when it is stated that the progress of land development the estimates of each department behalf of the Hongkong General thanks to the good offices of your in the Medical Department, who tricts of the Peninsula; the need serious objection to their existence development of motoring, and\n\ncompromise was Chamber of Commerce, would also Excellency\n\nare professors of the Hongkong of a portable fire-pump\n\nbuilding. the outlying auch houses are in the neighbour-and under the caption \"Summary.\"\n\nreached, although in the opinion University doing specialist and with outbreaks From this Summary the figures speak on this subject. Before ex- of the Unofficials, with which all the Unofficial mem- ment was still too favourable to the to the Colony cannot be over-esti-Yaumati Ferry approach; hospital Their removal to a less objection- better to make use of derelict without difficulty.\n\nThe abolition of the General areas. I trust it new land values, and will give 1. morality and safety. to the Civil Servant and to Clerical Staff are paid in dollars. for consideration the, desirability fits and advantages of preferential the taxpayer if salaries are re- The comparison is a striking one. of displaying typhoon warning tariff treatment in respect of pro- attached to the Imports and Ex- That dredging should surely recently\n\nTyphoon Warnings. learn if there is a possibility of the following year as compared deposited between the wharves from\n\nI have been requested to urge securing for Hongkong the bene with that of the current year. the sewers and nullahs running Council, full justice would be done sterling-paid servants have been called upon to bear the burden of balancing the Budget.\n\nfits and advantages of preferential tariff treatment in respect of products of local manufacture. Although the Wharf Company revision into dollars.\n\nin the vicinity of Kowloon City. this you will see that the special\n\nItem 36 makes provision for re- I shall there- staffed by 66 officers in 1931 at an signals at the Kowloon Tong and ducts of local manufacture. The Senior Clerical branch was Office on Page 27. From undertaken by Government. ports\n\npairs to Galvanised Steel Plath fore in due course, move the follow- estimated cost of $334,113. Expenditure for 1981 is $20,800 Keep a sufficient dep the largest ing amendment to Section Two of of water at\n\nThe 1932 Estimates provide for The residents request, made their wharves to allow\n\nyear ago, was turned down by Fencing round the Loco Yard, and for- 1932 only $6,000; while the\n\nthe proposed Bill: the whose officers aggregate ap-\n\nSecretary made reference to this total of the three main items Per- vessels to go alongside, approaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means\n\nproaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means satisfactory. Anyone who\n\nitem in his speech. It is consider and Special Expenditure for 1931, watch the berthing and unberth- shows 10 fewer officers out of 66 year. The cost of the erection of\n\ned by some people that the was $948,610, and the total for ing of big mail boats can see from decrease\n\nFire Brigade. the two localities is comparatively at an increase of salary of $75,521. a typhoon signal mast at each of\n\nThe provision made in 1981 for\n\nOwing to the inaccessibility of ty of Yaumati Station and Kow computed without the Special Ex- an in- must cause much anxiety to those\n\nthe available fire appliances to loon Tong, could have been sub\n\nstituted by some less costly penditure, should reveal\n\nment pay roll was $916,050.\n\nfencing. It is suggested that any crease of $8,581. With the Special in command.\n\nIt is proposed to increase this certain areas in the Kowloon City Expenditure shown separately in\n\nbranch of the service to 679 clerks district, it is considered desirable railings required for renewals to this confusion\n\nthe railings enclosing the Loca the Summary,\n\nin 1932, whose aggregate salaries that provision be made for\n\nportable fire pump of the trailer Yards should be obtained by lift would be obviated.\n\nwill amount to $973,480; or an\n\ntype.\n\nIts cost is inconsiderable. an $57,430, with and can be defended by the ing the present railings and re\n\nItem 42.-May I be permitted the lives and property of the properly doped wood stanchions. poorer inhabitants of the Kowloon\n\nwhen I said: \"$40,000 for new City districts, who are least able to re-state my remarks last year bodywork for four coaches Car Parking, to bear any such loss.\n\nThere are technical\n\nwilg I am aware that Government advocate that, before incurring does not regard with favour the this expenditure, enquiries migh suggestion of surfacing the road be made of, and tenders invited way and providing a properly from, firms in the Colony capable levelled car park in the vicinity of of building railway coaches, o special pleader on behalf of Kow. the case of Senior Clerks in Class the Yaumati Ferry Wharf. When which there are several. In thi\n\nTurning of 25,000 hold that the present third-class question to Your Excellency and this hon-, highest class in the Junior branch it is remembered, however, that connexion there are those who of sterling salaries, to which ourable Council a case for the The combined salaries of nine of\n\nthis very necessary public imable type for the traffic on th in a form that would facilitate reference has already been made, needs and claims which the Kow- the former class are estimated at people use the Yaumati Pier daily coaches are of an entirely unsui\n\nBefore approving thin reference, and would afford the that is a subject which if judged loon Residents' Association desire: $94,481 for 1982, while 10 clerks of provement should not be long de-fine.\" the for modest and the latter group will cost\n\nlayed. item. I would like to know if these community information for which by what one reads and hears-is\n\nKowloon Hospital. sugrestions have been acted upon, it has looked in vain in the past.\n\ncausing more adverse comment and moderate but, nevertheless, urgent Colony $53,000 next year.\n\nOfficial statistics obtained of the\n\nDangerous Corners. Conclusion.\n\narousing stronger public feeling public improvement for the penin- comparative individual than any other matter raised in sula, great disappointment must are $10,498 and $5,300. It is a number of out-patients treated in\n\nWhile motoring in the New the Territories one is unpleasantly be expressed at the non-fulfill- matter of common knowledge that the Kowloon Hospital for connexion with the estimates for 1932.\n\nment of the Government's under- for locally recruited hands to The Hon. the Colonial Secre- taking to economise in the direction attain to the higher class in the corresponding first six months of confronted with the huge quantity of the most dangerous 29 was corners of the road to Taipo.\n\ntary in his able general survey in of the staffing of the public service Junior Clerical Service they must 1930 and 1931 give a total of 7,695 af serub and undergrowth on introducing the Budget unfortun- by a larger number of dollar for be of great efficiency and have and 10,085, respectively. It is no same\n\nthe seen a long period of service.pointed out to Government last therefore strongly recommend ately when dealing with salaries sterling-paid servants\n\nThe commencing salary of the month, that the accommodation is that a portion of the vote of $5,00\n\nBrushwood Clearing pitifully inadequate. The K.R.A. for drew a picture describing the sacri- Government.\n\nI labour under some disadvan-highest class dollar clerks fices the sterling paid Civil\n\nof my $4,800 a year. Cases\n\nin their letter to Government utilised immediately for clearing men of qualified vants had been called upon to bear tage in the formulation in the burden of balancing the criticism, since in the absence of i record\n\nsmall that many of the out-be done under proper supervision.\n\nThe Saikung Road. Budget as compared with the em- the Report of the Retrenchment meritorious service attaining that describes \"the waiting room as so the said corners and that the work ployees of the business concerns of Committee, which has been with-grade only after 30 years in patients have to sit on the floor\n\nBy contrast held from the Inoscial members Government employ.\n\nI return to the suggestion in the the Colony\n\nsterling clerk upon joining the and door steps until other cases His statements were not at all\n\nof the Legislative Council, except\n\nin Class II. forthwith have been dealt with: this applies forlorn hope of a start being mad\n\nequally to male and female when funds permit, on the firs convincing and were, in fact, very those who are also members of service\n\nwith all privileges of home which the Retrenchment Commit-leave, etc., and the additional cost of in-patients have frequently had Yue Tong. It was only the other Kwongtung. This friendly assist- business and professional ance, rendered spontaneously and munity has been very severely hit, tee had acquiesced in the Govern- to taxpayers that these privileges to be refused. As compared with day that I read in a recent unter\n\nmen imply. This a total of 439 operations perform of Motor that the motorist is no promptly, exemplifies the truth of by bad trade and the drop in ex- ment's policy of maintaining an to glorified\n\nexpensive personnel on a sterling differential treatment\n\ned during the whole of last year, change. the lines: six that \"as a ratepayer he contri- \"In faith and hope the world will I have sent to your Excellency basis. Nor is it possible to ascer- versus imported hands cannot be there were 313 during the first six xetting a fair deal. It is argued months of this year. This latter butes his share to the roads as disagree.\n\nconfidentially figures which show tain how far Your Excellency's in- too strongly criticised.\n\nKowloon Matters.\n\nfigure shows an increase of 167 an average citizen. As a tax- But all mankind's is that many of the large industrial structions to several departments\n\nIn dealing with subjects relat-cases as against last year's 146. payer he pays his full share of charity.\"-(Applause.)\n\nconcerns and business houses (Hansard 1930, p. 227) regarding\n\nThe general taxation. In addition have, apart from paying sterling local recruiting have been carried ing to Kowloon none are new to The increase is over 100%.\n\nof another European contributes heavily to motor salaries at a fixed rate of exchange, out. Until the Government give Your Excellency, as representa- addition made definite cuts in pay. In ad- an earnest of its determination to tions have been made to Govern-medical officer and the increase of taxation for the sole reason that the the nursing staff are urgent re- he wants to use the roads,\" and SALARIES.dition overheads have been re- apply the axe in respect of a large ment from time to time for\n\nduced by a reduction in staff. Ac- branch of the gold section of its past three years. Since the first quirements demanding the imme- yet, as the Senior Unofficial Mem- pro-administration, it is difficult to reading of the Appropriation Bill diate attention of Government. her has pointed out, simultaneous- cording to the Government\n\nBathing Facilities. ly with imposing the additional of Civil Servants resist the conclusion that the com- three weeks ago. I have been in posal, salaries\n\nfor greater communication, through the hon- Not much need be said for in- Petrol Tax, in Hongkong p will, as from January 1 next, be munity's demand paid at Treasury rate of exchange, economy in the Colony's administra-orary Secretary, with the vigilant creased public bathing facilities in Government has reduced the vita\n\nThe committee of the Kowloon Resi- Kowloon.\n\nsubject was for roads. All round London are re- tive expenditure has been ignored. notwithstanding that on the\n\ndents' Association.\n\nver-exhaustively and ably dealt with to be seen examples of roads cut commendation of the Salaries Com- I must not be misinterpreted and ward over municipal affairs early Spring. If the Government tural value. As soon as the creased by 15 per cent.\n\nas denying to those officers of the on the Mainland, have favoured could see its way to remedy the comes the value of the land is\n\nHouse A Million Dollars.\n\nGovernment who by reason of their me with a list of the most im-deficiency before the next bathin increased enormously. This means, according to the professional qualifications, high at-portant subjects which require season, public dissatisfaction would go up, new building and other work is stimulated, and new publią Government attention. They em- be greatly placated figures kindly supplied by the Hon. tainments and technical skill, should receive a full measure of brace such public questions might entail too much clerical\n\nThis is not the first occasion said with equal truth of the New to Kowloon's need of improved postal Senior additional tax on the resources of their value work. hut nerhans a beginning in\n\nof their facilities commensurate with its that I am addressing the Council Territories. If we are to listen to the Colony of approximately one the Colony the benefit this direction might be made with Unofficial member, in his re-\n\nview of the Budget, dealt million dollars will be levied next valued services. As, for example, size: the provision of police pro- on the subject of the presence of the panic-mongers all new road 1931, the year in which the totals with the\n\n$18,000, recover-tection in Kowloon Tong; typhoon disorderly houses in the residen- making and road widening is to When question of Sterling year. this question of the provision\n\nof Kowloon. The cease. This will check the of the three main items mentioned Salaries and mentioned that I, on\n\nsalaries was debated last year, able in fees, for three Consultanta signals in the north-eastern dis- tial areas were for the first time given in\n\nto deal is obvious when it is stated that the progress of land development the estimates of each department behalf of the Hongkong General thanks to the good offices of your in the Medical Department, who tricts of the Peninsula; the need serious objection to their existence development of motoring, and\n\ncompromise was Chamber of Commerce, would also Excellency\n\nare professors of the Hongkong of a portable fire-pump\n\nbuilding. the outlying auch houses are in the neighbour-and under the caption \"Summary.\"\n\nreached, although in the opinion University doing specialist and with outbreaks From this Summary the figures speak on this subject. Before ex- of the Unofficials, with which all the Unofficial mem- ment was still too favourable to the to the Colony cannot be over-esti-Yaumati Ferry approach; hospital Their removal to a less objection- better to make use of derelict without difficulty.\n\nThe abolition of the General areas. I trust it new land values, and will give 1. morality and safety. to the Civil Servant and to Clerical Staff are paid in dollars. for consideration the, desirability fits and advantages of preferential the taxpayer if salaries are re- The comparison is a striking one. of displaying typhoon warning tariff treatment in respect of pro- attached to the Imports and Ex- That dredging should surely recently\n\nTyphoon Warnings. learn if there is a possibility of the following year as compared deposited between the wharves from\n\nI have been requested to urge securing for Hongkong the bene with that of the current year. the sewers and nullahs running Council, full justice would be done sterling-paid servants have been called upon to bear the burden of balancing the Budget.\n\nfits and advantages of preferential tariff treatment in respect of products of local manufacture. Although the Wharf Company revision into dollars.\n\nin the vicinity of Kowloon City. this you will see that the special\n\nItem 36 makes provision for re- I shall there- staffed by 66 officers in 1931 at an signals at the Kowloon Tong and ducts of local manufacture. The Senior Clerical branch was Office on Page 27. From undertaken by Government. ports\n\npairs to Galvanised Steel Plath fore in due course, move the follow- estimated cost of $334,113. Expenditure for 1981 is $20,800 Keep a sufficient dep the largest ing amendment to Section Two of of water at\n\nThe 1932 Estimates provide for The residents request, made their wharves to allow\n\nyear ago, was turned down by Fencing round the Loco Yard, and for- 1932 only $6,000; while the\n\nthe proposed Bill: the whose officers aggregate ap-\n\nSecretary made reference to this total of the three main items Per- vessels to go alongside, approaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means\n\nproaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means satisfactory. Anyone who\n\nitem in his speech. It is consider and Special Expenditure for 1931, watch the berthing and unberth- shows 10 fewer officers out of 66 year. The cost of the erection of\n\ned by some people that the was $948,610, and the total for ing of big mail boats can see from decrease\n\nFire Brigade. the two localities is comparatively at an increase of salary of $75,521. a typhoon signal mast at each of\n\nThe provision made in 1981 for\n\nOwing to the inaccessibility of ty of Yaumati Station and Kow computed without the Special Ex- an in- must cause much anxiety to those\n\nthe available fire appliances to loon Tong, could have been sub\n\nstituted by some less costly penditure, should reveal\n\nment pay roll was $916,050.\n\nfencing. It is suggested that any crease of $8,581. With the Special in command.\n\nIt is proposed to increase this certain areas in the Kowloon City Expenditure shown separately in\n\nbranch of the service to 679 clerks district, it is considered desirable railings required for renewals to this confusion\n\nthe railings enclosing the Loca the Summary,\n\nin 1932, whose aggregate salaries that provision be made for\n\nportable fire pump of the trailer Yards should be obtained by lift would be obviated.\n\nwill amount to $973,480; or an\n\ntype.\n\nIts cost is inconsiderable. an $57,430, with and can be defended by the ing the present railings and re\n\nItem 42.-May I be permitted the lives and property of the properly doped wood stanchions. poorer inhabitants of the Kowloon\n\nwhen I said: \"$40,000 for new City districts, who are least able to re-state my remarks last year bodywork for four coaches Car Parking, to bear any such loss.\n\nThere are technical\n\nwilg I am aware that Government advocate that, before incurring does not regard with favour the this expenditure, enquiries migh suggestion of surfacing the road be made of, and tenders invited way and providing a properly from, firms in the Colony capable levelled car park in the vicinity of of building railway coaches, o special pleader on behalf of Kow. the case of Senior Clerks in Class the Yaumati Ferry Wharf. When which there are several. In thi\n\nTurning of 25,000 hold that the present third-class question to Your Excellency and this hon-, highest class in the Junior branch it is remembered, however, that connexion there are those who of sterling salaries, to which ourable Council a case for the The combined salaries of nine of\n\nthis very necessary public imable type for the traffic on th in a form that would facilitate reference has already been made, needs and claims which the Kow- the former class are estimated at people use the Yaumati Pier daily coaches are of an entirely unsui\n\nBefore approving thin reference, and would afford the that is a subject which if judged loon Residents' Association desire: $94,481 for 1982, while 10 clerks of provement should not be long de-fine.\" the for modest and the latter group will cost\n\nlayed. item. I would like to know if these community information for which by what one reads and hears-is\n\nKowloon Hospital. sugrestions have been acted upon, it has looked in vain in the past.\n\ncausing more adverse comment and moderate but, nevertheless, urgent Colony $53,000 next year.\n\nOfficial statistics obtained of the\n\nDangerous Corners. Conclusion.\n\narousing stronger public feeling public improvement for the penin- comparative individual than any other matter raised in sula, great disappointment must are $10,498 and $5,300. It is a number of out-patients treated in\n\nWhile motoring in the New the Territories one is unpleasantly be expressed at the non-fulfill- matter of common knowledge that the Kowloon Hospital for connexion with the estimates for 1932.\n\nment of the Government's under- for locally recruited hands to The Hon. the Colonial Secre- taking to economise in the direction attain to the higher class in the corresponding first six months of confronted with the huge quantity of the most dangerous 29 was corners of the road to Taipo.\n\ntary in his able general survey in of the staffing of the public service Junior Clerical Service they must 1930 and 1931 give a total of 7,695 af serub and undergrowth on introducing the Budget unfortun- by a larger number of dollar for be of great efficiency and have and 10,085, respectively. It is no same\n\nthe seen a long period of service.pointed out to Government last therefore strongly recommend ately when dealing with salaries sterling-paid servants\n\nThe commencing salary of the month, that the accommodation is that a portion of the vote of $5,00\n\nBrushwood Clearing pitifully inadequate. The K.R.A. for drew a picture describing the sacri- Government.\n\nI labour under some disadvan-highest class dollar clerks fices the sterling paid Civil\n\nof my $4,800 a year. Cases\n\nin their letter to Government utilised immediately for clearing men of qualified vants had been called upon to bear tage in the formulation in the burden of balancing the criticism, since in the absence of i record\n\nsmall that many of the out-be done under proper supervision.\n\nThe Saikung Road. Budget as compared with the em- the Report of the Retrenchment meritorious service attaining that describes \"the waiting room as so the said corners and that the work ployees of the business concerns of Committee, which has been with-grade only after 30 years in patients have to sit on the floor\n\nBy contrast held from the Inoscial members Government employ.\n\nI return to the suggestion in the the Colony\n\nsterling clerk upon joining the and door steps until other cases His statements were not at all\n\nof the Legislative Council, except\n\nin Class II. forthwith have been dealt with: this applies forlorn hope of a start being mad\n\nequally to male and female when funds permit, on the firs convincing and were, in fact, very those who are also members of service\n\nwith all privileges of home which the Retrenchment Commit-leave, etc., and the additional cost of in-patients have frequently had Yue Tong. It was only the other Kwongtung. This friendly assist- business and professional ance, rendered spontaneously and munity has been very severely hit, tee had acquiesced in the Govern- to taxpayers that these privileges to be refused. As compared with day that I read in a recent unter\n\nmen imply. This a total of 439 operations perform of Motor that the motorist is no promptly, exemplifies the truth of by bad trade and the drop in ex- ment's policy of maintaining an to glorified\n\nexpensive personnel on a sterling differential treatment\n\ned during the whole of last year, change. the lines: six that \"as a ratepayer he contri- \"In faith and hope the world will I have sent to your Excellency basis. Nor is it possible to ascer- versus imported hands cannot be there were 313 during the first six xetting a fair deal. It is argued months of this year. This latter butes his share to the roads as disagree.\n\nconfidentially figures which show tain how far Your Excellency's in- too strongly criticised.\n\nKowloon Matters.\n\nfigure shows an increase of 167 an average citizen. As a tax- But all mankind's is that many of the large industrial structions to several departments\n\nIn dealing with subjects relat-cases as against last year's 146. payer he pays his full share of charity.\"-(Applause.)\n\nconcerns and business houses (Hansard 1930, p. 227) regarding\n\nThe general taxation. In addition have, apart from paying sterling local recruiting have been carried ing to Kowloon none are new to The increase is over 100%.\n\nof another European contributes heavily to motor salaries at a fixed rate of exchange, out. Until the Government give Your Excellency, as representa- addition made definite cuts in pay. In ad- an earnest of its determination to tions have been made to Govern-medical officer and the increase of taxation for the sole reason that the the nursing staff are urgent re- he wants to use the roads,\" and SALARIES.dition overheads have been re- apply the axe in respect of a large ment from time to time for\n\nduced by a reduction in staff. Ac- branch of the gold section of its past three years. Since the first quirements demanding the imme- yet, as the Senior Unofficial Mem- pro-administration, it is difficult to reading of the Appropriation Bill diate attention of Government. her has pointed out, simultaneous- cording to the Government\n\nBathing Facilities. ly with imposing the additional of Civil Servants resist the conclusion that the com- three weeks ago. I have been in posal, salaries\n\nfor greater communication, through the hon- Not much need be said for in- Petrol Tax, in Hongkong p will, as from January 1 next, be munity's demand paid at Treasury rate of exchange, economy in the Colony's administra-orary Secretary, with the vigilant creased public bathing facilities in Government has reduced the vita\n\nThe committee of the Kowloon Resi- Kowloon.\n\nsubject was for roads. All round London are re- tive expenditure has been ignored. notwithstanding that on the\n\ndents' Association.\n\nver-exhaustively and ably dealt with to be seen examples of roads cut commendation of the Salaries Com- I must not be misinterpreted and ward over municipal affairs early Spring. If the Government tural value. As soon as the creased by 15 per cent.\n\nas denying to those officers of the on the Mainland, have favoured could see its way to remedy the comes the value of the land is\n\nHouse A Million Dollars.\n\nGovernment who by reason of their me with a list of the most im-deficiency before the next bathin increased enormously. This means, according to the professional qualifications, high at-portant subjects which require season, public dissatisfaction would go up, new building and other work is stimulated, and new publią Government attention. They em- be greatly placated figures kindly supplied by the Hon. tainments and technical skill, should receive a full measure of brace such public questions might entail too much clerical\n\nThis is not the first occasion said with equal truth of the New to Kowloon's need of improved postal Senior additional tax on the resources of their value work. hut nerhans a beginning in\n\nof their facilities commensurate with its that I am addressing the Council Territories. If we are to listen to the Colony of approximately one the Colony the benefit this direction might be made with Unofficial member, in his re-\n\nview of the Budget, dealt million dollars will be levied next valued services. As, for example, size: the provision of police pro- on the subject of the presence of the panic-mongers all new road 1931, the year in which the totals with the\n\n$18,000, recover-tection in Kowloon Tong; typhoon disorderly houses in the residen- making and road widening is to When question of Sterling year. this question of the provision\n\nof Kowloon. The cease. This will check the of the three main items mentioned Salaries and mentioned that I, on\n\nsalaries was debated last year, able in fees, for three Consultanta signals in the north-eastern dis- tial areas were for the first time given in\n\nto deal is obvious when it is stated that the progress of land development the estimates of each department behalf of the Hongkong General thanks to the good offices of your in the Medical Department, who tricts of the Peninsula; the need serious objection to their existence development of motoring, and\n\ncompromise was Chamber of Commerce, would also Excellency\n\nare professors of the Hongkong of a portable fire-pump\n\nbuilding. the outlying auch houses are in the neighbour-and under the caption \"Summary.\"\n\nreached, although in the opinion University doing specialist and with outbreaks From this Summary the figures speak on this subject. Before ex- of the Unofficials, with which all the Unofficial mem- ment was still too favourable to the to the Colony cannot be over-esti-Yaumati Ferry approach; hospital Their removal to a less objection- better to make use of derelict without difficulty.\n\nThe abolition of the General areas. I trust it new land values, and will give 1. morality and safety. to the Civil Servant and to Clerical Staff are paid in dollars. for consideration the, desirability fits and advantages of preferential the taxpayer if salaries are re- The comparison is a striking one. of displaying typhoon warning tariff treatment in respect of pro- attached to the Imports and Ex- That dredging should surely recently\n\nTyphoon Warnings. learn if there is a possibility of the following year as compared deposited between the wharves from\n\nI have been requested to urge securing for Hongkong the bene with that of the current year. the sewers and nullahs running Council, full justice would be done sterling-paid servants have been called upon to bear the burden of balancing the Budget.\n\nfits and advantages of preferential tariff treatment in respect of products of local manufacture. Although the Wharf Company revision into dollars.\n\nin the vicinity of Kowloon City. this you will see that the special\n\nItem 36 makes provision for re- I shall there- staffed by 66 officers in 1931 at an signals at the Kowloon Tong and ducts of local manufacture. The Senior Clerical branch was Office on Page 27. From undertaken by Government. ports\n\npairs to Galvanised Steel Plath fore in due course, move the follow- estimated cost of $334,113. Expenditure for 1981 is $20,800 Keep a sufficient dep the largest ing amendment to Section Two of of water at\n\nThe 1932 Estimates provide for The residents request, made their wharves to allow\n\nyear ago, was turned down by Fencing round the Loco Yard, and for- 1932 only $6,000; while the\n\nthe proposed Bill: the whose officers aggregate ap-\n\nSecretary made reference to this total of the three main items Per- vessels to go alongside, approaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means\n\nproaches to the berths used sonal Emoluments, Other Charges, are by no means satisfactory. Anyone who\n\nitem in his speech. It is consider and Special Expenditure for 1931, watch the berthing and unberth- shows 10 fewer officers out of 66 year. The cost of the erection of\n\ned by some people that the was $948,610, and the total for ing of big mail boats can see from decrease\n\nFire Brigade. the two localities is comparatively at an increase of salary of $75,521. a typhoon signal mast at each of\n\nThe provision made in 1981 for\n\nOwing to the inaccessibility of ty of Yaumati Station and Kow computed without the Special Ex- an in- must cause much anxiety to those\n\nthe available fire appliances to loon Tong, could have been sub\n\nstituted by some less costly penditure, should reveal\n\nment pay roll was $916,050.\n\nfencing. It is suggested that any crease of $8,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. K\n\nSo High & Burgh, Gil, SaLK 'SE | WANTIL:--Bachelys British, re- '34 pm not. Appy HB, QA Pat\" Calon Baling, Tid Plast\n\nAula konan BOARD, Hesekne\n\nKawinen. Bersabar Eat. Mata PHOTO ALEUMS, et term, in Box 774, 19, C. M. Fast Name printed in Cold, Price Kil\n\nApply E. 6. M. Past”\n\nTO LET Now Pirkoromai Mocones, la 7, Shounen Hil| Hanč, Deep Water Bay Garage vilachri\n\ntem canin\n\nC. K\n\nThe command. Magsilent. APARTMENTS TO LET, STRONG GLER CYLINDERS VIEW. MAJATA FORMS NOROMA. TWITT de from town Apply Time Tark, ('0, 1 Queen's\n\n“entru Telesham 2500).\n\n--\n\n-\n\nApply\n\nBANSARD.\n\nAPARTMENT TO LET-Lady RONGKONG — Main PAYING GUEST,, der bergi 187 page 18 pm man kabla ** | TO EXT -*weished HOLME MAGINATION, with verandak, over 2. 32 Panel Phafukum Modern Saltatlan, bar | Jooking the mik, of water-frank mar kathon maand gauge serommodation, buty, karlegt. All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. TO HE LET-BAD Vega Rand, Ponty, andőt, with indar MITCHELL'S\n\nIngia kame, quiet GUN, PREM\n\nCentral, Ground Tror, divided * REPNITTING.\n\nwapa na tegu 266. ADDIT|Mitzelni. Dean & Co. Lei\n\nGAL DAL\n\n-\n\nTO LET.--GROUND FLOOR, Na, dy Cammy Buildings, (s. 194) MathAS | WANTED—Billeh bachelor to jata\n\n3\n\n2\n\nYEAR\n\nGUARANTEE\n\nand\n\nYEAR\n\n5\n\nEASY PAYMENT.\n\nGENERAL ELECTRIC ALL STEEL REFRIGERATOR\n\nWrite or call for fuel particniner,\n\nOn How\n\nBanging life Co., Lim Wan. G. Jack & On, LME\n\nANDERSEN MEYER & OU, LID Fur Agents.\n\nThe General Electric Co. of China Ltd.\n\nDr. ROUSSEL\n\nHemostyl Syrup.\n\nTHE CLASSIC TREATMENT FOR ALL CASES OF ANAEMIAS, EXHAUSTIONS, WEAKNESS, ETC.\n\nFlomonisk u send a woman lawan meube HOLAR BELUM salad at mek tan vchan the surma) NE 15 100 Satijne poros a best ingentem sad ie sheeptors by sa A man dathomed by an immediate\n\nChiainable from all Dispensaries.\n\nStock and free samples at:\n\nThe Franco-Eastern Trading Co.\n\n· Lo srpnu did 15 Francs.\n\nBank of China Building\n\nPhone 21657,\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEEK-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\nAMY!\n\nPRIVATE\n\nCODE\n\nUNITED ANGHTS\n\nKiedy kenden. Apar le Cies of the TO ALL SHIPPING.\n\nFrench Comfort Taskálags, ma\n\nLocate merk Write Bax No. 163,| CONNE\n\n10. LET EUROPRAN STYLED TO HOUSE 12, Jememe: Kand, Kozlova po DET TA VEZ Shin! They had to flacan 201 Village Hongkong = 46, 59A SINGLE ROOM\n\ntempa rompt, and zwangą dwuki\n\nwalk private bath attached, terma Kesi mudrante, aptor Wa Pa\n\nAndy 4, Glemas. Tel.\n\nwith Mere\n\nSong 11, Thy đầa Mead, TEL 2009\n\n-----------\n\n20140\n\n| TO LET.—MVE BOOMED HOUSE. AIRLIĖ MOTEL. – 31-25,\n\nKomal Korbank. Apply Excelle\n\nTHE MOMENT Aram, Kerrison, Ariāl\n\nHola Tal Duermber\n\nPleven Bulan & Fraser ČR, LIL\n\nAlexanden Baldžiaga.\n\nTO T\n\nprom marina_indst Star Parry And maket Teen2ity, fuggished and un- furnished. Exempina PLATE with ad Thighly ad Modern Becommodation and Bank\n\nBent very\n\nLibert\n\nCOMPANIES.\n\nNathan\n\nAllustrated Direction in\n\nellek and Chinese, for the Adjamaent of RONG-\n\nBONG STANDARD LIFE\n\nJACKETS are now ready\n\nRegule Three minutna from fema Tel Biz?\n\nTUITION GIVEN\n\nvinden, a far af tre nanny, funtibod GERMAN ERSONA relem by Pulier Batel German Grademan Trauer, with\n\nkod mng be purchase? ni\n\nthe slice of the\n\nkang ana tak jackrarna, kitakes, inngstanding supercaron at teaching SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, Makaste chappen Addemi Į Į & K. Wyndham Street, Hongkong Haiphong Road, Kowloon. Tel FEM. La Box N, MA, “E COOL PA.\"\n\nP\n\nBAD ONE.\n\nEDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nThere is nothing to equa\n\nBURGESS' LION OINTMENT'İ\n\nBankalarang ke manat Hala, Alarm, Wha\n\nLg, Öân, Hànt, Bella, Spain, Bentay\n\nست\n\n299 A Now be for Lense\n\nTRA\n\nPVM A PURE\n\nMAKSAT-A, 1 Mama 4 Di Lad | foldć Matiballà đaj 2 Là van Tweli, da\n\n+\n\nE. BURGESS, 59, GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, W.D.1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932", "content_text": "- 5 -\n\n30\n\nbeen the most serious riot in Victoria occurred in the Eastern District at nine p.m. opposite the Grand Theatre and Cinema in Queen's Road East. A large crowd collected there and stoned the Police severely with the result that the British Sergeant in charge of the picquet was compelled to open fire on the mob with his riot gun (Greener gun). He fired one round and the second British Sergeant fired two rounds wounding three persons. The effect was instantaneous. The crowd dispersed and as the news spread the crowds in other parts of the Eastern District retreated also. Several isolated raids on shops in Lockhart, Hennessy and Johnstone Roads took place early in the evening, but after the Police had opened fire in Queen's Road East all was quiet. Conditions were sufficiently settled in Victoria to make it unnecessary to call out the Military, who were standing by in Wellington Barracks, at any time during Saturday night the 26th September.\n\n5.\n\nIt was far otherwise in Kowloon where conditions got worse as the afternoon progressed. During the early afternoon there were several minor incidents which were easily dealt with by Police. At 6 p.m. however the situation became serious. Simultaneous riots which appeared to be definitely organised broke out in Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po and Kowloon City Districts. The Kowloon Emergency Unit which had been hastily organised on Friday the 25th September in case of trouble and which consisted of fourteen Northern Chinese Police who had just completed their training at the Police Training School and twelve Indian Police withdrawn from New Territory Stations for special duty was unable to cope with all these simultaneous calls, the D.S.P. Kowloon therefore called upon the Command-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-537-5 City Hall Resumption Ordinance- 1932 24-6-1932 - 7-7-1932", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-537-5 City Hall Resumption Ordinance- 1932 24-6-1932 - 7-7-1932", "content_text": "Smith, one of the trustees of the will. The Letters of Administration were not registered against the title in the Land Office and since that date none of the representatives of the lessees seem to have concerned themselves with the property in any way.\n\n7. The buildings appear to have been erected by public subscription, commencing in 1865, each individual, firm or corporation subscribing $100 received a so-called \"ordinary share\", and 216 of such \"shares\" of a total nominal value of $21,600 were issued to 61 \"shareholders\". As the building proceeded it was found that the sum subscribed was insufficient and Sir Robert Jardine, whose firm held fifteen \"ordinary shares\" appears then to have subscribed $50,000 and to have received 105 so-called \"preference shares\" of various denominations but totaling $50,000.\n\n8. If these \"shareholders\" are to be regarded as an association for the purpose of carrying on any business having for its object the acquisition of gain by its individual members it will be illegal under the Companies Ordinances of 1865 and 1911. No interest or return has ever been paid, however, to the holders of any of these shares, the whole income, supplemented by occasional government grants, having been devoted to the upkeep and improvement of the building, with the exception of a small reserve fund which now amounts to about $4,000.\n\n9. The buildings have been managed hitherto by a committee which appears to have been elected by the original subscribers with power to add to its number. None of those originally elected remain, the present members having been co-opted as occasion arose. The senior member in Hong Kong of the firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co. is chairman of the committee.\n\n10. The buildings consist of a theatre on the western portion of the lot and of certain halls and rooms on two floors on the eastern portion. Those on the upper floor have been used for halls, receptions and meetings and those on the lower floor for a free library and museum, and latterly also as a Y.M.C.A. Club for the Naval, Military and Air Forces.\n\n11. The buildings are old and the committee are now faced with the problem of having to spend a sum of money far in excess of any that they are in a position to command to modernise them and to put them into a proper state of repair and of safety against fire or into the state required by law for buildings to which the public have access. They have therefore closed the premises and it becomes necessary for the Government to intervene.\n\n12. In all the circumstances of the case it is considered better for the Government to resume possession of the property by means of an ad hoc Ordinance rather than to proceed under the powers reserved by the Crown Lease.\n\n13. It is not the intention of the Government to re-erect a City Hall on this site, part of which will be sold and part developed to accord with a general scheme of town planning; but as a part of that scheme it is the intention of the Government to make provision for public amenities of the kind hitherto provided by the Committee of the City Hall.\n\nC. G. ALABASTER,\n\nAttorney General.\n\nENB\n\nMay, 1932.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-537-5 City Hall Resumption Ordinance- 1932 24-6-1932 - 7-7-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "C. S. O.\n\nM. P. 237.)\n\nfigures for the first six months of this year are 19 at the Government Civil Hospital and 145 at the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital.\n\nThe reorganisation of the supervisory staff of the Post Office consequent on the death of the late Mr. Holdman has thrown considerable extra work and responsibility on the Superintendent of Mails, and while the Government does not think it necessary to raise the permanent emoluments of the post it feels justified in asking that the added responsibilities of the present holder during the few remaining years of his service should be recognized by a personal allowance of £50 per annum.\n\nThe swimming bath referred to by the honourable member is the Y.M.C.A. bath. In return for a payment of $200 a year the use of this bath is granted to the scholars of the Central British School twice weekly during two summer months. The children are taught swimming by the physical training instructors.\n\nLand Sales.\n\nwill receive full consideration.\n\nniversary of His Majesty's accession made known to the Government it should be fittingly celebrated in the Colony. The Government is at present awaiting certain information from England and will in due course communicate its proposals to the Council.\n\nSunday Working.\n\nre-\n\nAs regards the Sunday Cargo Working Permit fees to which my honourable friend Mr. Mackie has referred the Government has recently received a communication on this subject from the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce and the matter is under consideration. Shipping is not heavily taxed in this Colony and the sliding scale of payment introduced in 1933 affords relief in the payment of light dues from hardship which might otherwise result from the rise of the dollar. The payment of Sunday working fees has moreover been used as a justification for the Government contribution to Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund. The loss to revenue by the abolition of these fees would be, on the average, over $100,000 a year and the sacrifice of this amount in a year of falling revenue cannot be contemplated without very serious misgivings.\n\nCadet Staff. The Kowloon Post Office. Turning now to the views of the Honourable Mr. Braga, whose absence owing to indisposition we all greatly deplore, I would observe that the utilization of an officer in the stamp office does not mean an increase regular holder of the post in question will be on leave and qualified officer other than a Cadet Officer is available to do the work during his absence.\n\nThe honourable member refers to the new sterling paid officer in the Post Office. This officer is required for the new Kowloon Post Office. The new premises are four times as spacious as the present office and will provide with greatly increased postal facilities. The deliveries on the mainland will be centralized and worked from the new Post Office; twenty postmen will be housed. It is proposed to ask outside administrations to close direct mails to Kowloon. Direct mails will similarly be despatched from Kowloon. As this will practically raise the status of the Post Office to an independent command it is considered that the responsibilities of the post call for a sterling paid officer.\n\nOn the subject of Aviation have no doubt that the managers of the Flying School will take due note of my honourable friend's re-\n\nThe honourable member is not quite correct in his supposition that the proceeds of land sales are treated as current revenue. The honourable member will find in his printed Estimates that they are carefully separated from general revenue and though not allocated to specific works they are regarded as money available for Public Works Extraordinary and are excluded when the Excellency will deal with the question of balancing current expenditure against current revenue.\n\nGovernment Tourist Traffic. Your Excellency is of the linking of Hongkong with the air routes of the world.\n\nThe advertising of Hongkong as a winter holiday resort, referred to by the Hon. Dr. Kotewall and by the Hon. Mr. Mackie has hitherto been regarded as a matter for the private interests chiefly concerned viz shipping companies, hotels and places of amusement.\n\nRegarding the honourable member's remarks on the Auditor's report, it has been decided that funds issued by the Treasury to a Head of Department must be disbursed immediately and the receipted vouchers returned to the Treasury within 12 days. A General Order to this effect has already been issued. The Store Regulations were recently revised and elaborated and it may be that if, on account of this elaboration, their complete adoption by all departments, especially the smaller departments, is proving cumbersome a simpler system will have to be devised.\n\nIt would be possible to establish a Government Advertising or Tourist Bureau; but I must remind honourable members that the Government does not maintain its complete staff, however much certain sections of the community would like us to believe it does, and an advertising bureau would mean increase of staff and increase of staff means more money for those personal emoluments which are always being urged. Bearing these factors in mind the Government is prepared to consider any advertising scheme which the other Chambers of Commerce or responsible bodies might care to place before it.\n\nBailiffs, As regards the Land experience has shown that two are required in the Northern District and only one in the Southern. The new officer is required to provide relief during absences on leave. There is no increase in the staff of Land Bailiffs in the Northern District.\n\nThe question of the gambling establishment at Shum Chun has already engaged the attention of the Government, but no satisfactory solution has yet been found.\n\nThe Government notes with pleasure the desire of Unofficial members that the twenty-fifth anniversary of His Majesty's accession should be fittingly celebrated in the Colony.\n\nAs regards opening places of amusement after midnight the Government is not aware of any general demand for later hours except on special occasions when extensions are freely granted. Should any general demand be made known...\n\nMalaria Works. It is impossible to say how much of the vote for anti-malarial works will be required for resumptions. The D. P. W. estimates the requirement for that purpose to be about five percent of the total vote of $60,000. The vote is for anti-malarial work in the Colony generally and not in Hongkong Island only. Certain works, as my honourable friend is aware, are in progress and these will be continued. The Finance Committee will be asked this afternoon to approve of a supplementary vote of $57,000 for resumptions in the Shou Son area. Work is contemplated in Kowloon as well as in Hongkong, but it is unlikely that funds will permit of work at Castle Peak and Taipo during 1935.\n\nIn such a large and complex subject as malariology, which includes mosquitology, the factors are so many and are so influenced by meteorological, geological and social conditions that the study is a continuous one and it has not been possible to draw up any single final report which would cover the whole Colony. Each area is a study in itself. Each year the results of the Malariologist's investigations have been published as an appendix to the Medical and Sanitary report a copy of which is placed in the hands of every member as soon as possible after its receipt from the printers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934", "content_text": "a h t e. h W bi 31 170\n\nSOCCER TEAMS\n\nLarge Entries To Local Leagues\n\nFOUR NEWCOMERS\n\n(BY SPECTATOR).\n\nFour newcomers make their appearance in the Hong Kong Football Association's League and Shield programme for the 1934-35 season, and judging from the number of entries in hand to date, it looks very much as if the season ahead of us is going to be a big one.\n\nThis year, fortunately for Hong Kong, the international contest against Shanghai will be held here and what with the League held, and International series, local followers of soccer are promised something exceptional.\n\nThe following entries have been received to date:-\n\nFirst Division:- Royal Artillery, South China (two teams), East Lancashire Regiment, St. Joseph's F.C., Kowloon Football Club, Recreio, Hong Kong Football Club, Royal Navy, Lincolnshire Regiment, Hong Kong Police and the Chinese Athletic Association.\n\nSecond Division:- Royal Artillery, South China, East Lancashire Regiment, Kowloon Football Club, Royal Engineers, Eastern Athletic Association, Hong Kong Football Club, Royal Navy, Lincolnshire Regiment, and the Chinese Athletic.\n\nThird Division:- South China, East Lancashire Regiment, Radio Sports Club, Kowloon Football Club, Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Engineers, Royal Army Medical Corps, Railway Recreation Club, Royal Air Force, Club de Recreio, Hong Kong University, Lincolnshire Regiment.\n\nIt is rumoured that the Police Club may enter a team from the Police School in the Third Division and as the latter have recently put up many a good performance against the European Police team, it is quite likely that they will do well in the Third Division.\n\nThe Eastern Athletic Association, who, although affiliated to the local Association last year, did not take part in the League, are re-entering this year in the Second Division.\n\nSouth China, runners-up in the First Division last year, have this season entered two teams in the Senior Division, and with the talent available and the knowledge that the Borderers, their conquerors of last season, are not participating, they have excellent hopes of taking both first and second places at the conclusion of the season.\n\nThe Railway Recreation Club, newcomers to the Association, make their first appearance in the Hong Kong League this season. I hear that they have a very fine junior division team and should be well placed this season. The Royal Engineers have this season entered two teams in the League and make their appearance in the Second Division for the first time.\n\nIt will be noticed from the list of entries that the South Wales Borderers, who last year won both the Hong Kong League and the Senior Shield, have not entered as they leave the Colony in November for India and will be relieved by the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.\n\nTHE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nAugust 9, 1934\n\nHONG KONG AS A\n\nWINTER RESORT\n\nA Meeting Place For High Officials\n\nReaders of our Hongkong Weekly Press will notice that an attempt is being made to encourage people in Europe and America to come and spend the winter at this port. Rarely does any place combine so many favourable factors for the purpose as does Hongkong. At one time the very name of Hongkong made those in Europe think of disease and death. Now the winter climate of Hongkong leaves little to be desired, and the place is extremely healthy. Add to this the really beautiful situation and scenery to be obtained, and no-one can deny that both climatically and geographically Hong-kong is ideally suited as a winter resort.\n\nNo attempt has ever been made before to institute a British season for residents out here. In the Far East, why should not Hongkong become a meeting place for all the high officials, whom England sends to China and Japan. With first-class hotels on the spot, and every improvement that modern science can make introduced, it would only need a little effort on the part of the high officials to give the place a season. Army, Navy, Foreign Office and Colonial Office could meet here and jostle each other at the races.\n\nHongkong being the only British place suitable for the purpose and being so centrally situated, deserves a better fate than what has befallen her: of complete neglect.\n\nIt might seem that the port is rather far away from England to attract people, and that the expense would be too great. In these days of depression, the shipping companies would probably be glad to consider any scheme that helped to maintain their vessels rather than to lay them up. If a person could travel out spending no more on board than they do at home, there is no reason why many should not do so.\n\n\"Suburbia\" To \"Resort\"\n\nOnce the problem of the voyage has been overcome, the question of living out here is not very complicated. Apart from excellent hotels, giving very reasonable monthly rates, there are a quantity of first-class flats, and the problems of servants and food are easily solved. Hongkong, with its organised Dairy Farm and other utilities, can give people just as good as they get anywhere in the world.\n\nOnce out here, there would be no lack of entertainment. If one should compare this port to Malta, the latter is a desert. The town presents no interest, and there are no good hotels. Yet Malta has its season. Here in Hongkong, it is possible to indulge in every kind of sport; and last but not least are the races. Perhaps those who come out here are too prone to drift into a state of mind, where they take everything for granted. \"Hongkong has never been fashionable, and it never will,\" they say. Such an attitude is doing the greatest harm to the colony, which, as matters are at present, is a sheer waste of a wonderful place. The advantages to be obtained by those who live in Hongkong, if we were to become a winter resort, are obvious, and need no stressing.\n\nWe hope, therefore, that all those who would like to see their town take a leap forward from \"suburbia\" to \"resort\" will do what lies in their power to make the place known to those at home. The excursions to Macao and into South China are both interesting and instructive.\n\nMILITARY STAFF\n\nCHANGES\n\nMajor K. P. Atkinson, M.C., R.A., General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade at South China Command Headquarters, is proceeding on leave shortly and will be succeeded by Major G. R. P. Roupell, V.C., of the East Surrey Regiment, who is expected to arrive in the Colony on the troopship Somersetshire on November 22.\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "content_text": "37\n\n2\n\nMESSAGE TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nNo. 11.\n\n3\n\nBrought forward...........\n\n48.-27-B, Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force :-10, Uniform Allowance to Officers\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 88 sub-head 10)......$\n\n$ 3,510.00\n\n1,850.00\n\n700\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has the honour to present for the consideration of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council the items (Nos. 47 to 53 of 1935) of supplementary expenditure set out below.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nAmount provided in Estimates is $700. This is inadequate. 8 Cadets promoted to Sub-Lieutenants last year, have not yet received their Uniform Allowances; and it is estimated that there will be 9 further promotions before the end of this year.\n\n8 Sub-Lieutenants promoted in 1934 @ $150 Estimated requirements for 9 further promotions @ $150\n\n$$\n\n1,200\n\n1,350\n\n2,550\n\n700\n\n1,850\n\nDated the 8th day of July, 1935.\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nItems the cost of which can be met wholly or in part by Savings from other sub-heads of the head are marked with an asterisk (*). The source and extent of the Savings will be found in the explanation of the individual items.\n\nMEMORANDA EXPLAINING THE ITEMS.\n\nEstimates, 1935.\n\n47.-27-B, Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force :-11, Uniform\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 88 sub-head 11)...$ 3,490\n\nProvision was made in the Estimates for $3,490, which is found insufficient.\n\nAlready spent\n\n952.01\n\nRequired for present Officers, Cadets and Ratings Estimated requirements from now to end of the year,\n\n3,256.24\n\n8 Cadets @ $200 = 1600\n\n40 Ratings @ $30\n\n-\n\n1200\n\n$\n\n2,800.00\n\n7,008.25\n\n3,490.00\n\n3,518.25\n\nLess Amount of Vote\n\nBalance required\n\nA supplementary vote for the amount of $3,519 is therefore requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 1887/34).\n\n$\n\n3,519.00\n\nLess Amount of Vote\n\nBalance required\n\nA supplementary vote for the above amount is requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 1887/34).\n\n49.-34, Public Works Extraordinary :-35A, First instalment of compensation for resumption of St. Peter's Church\n\nIn the Objects and Reasons of the Sailors' Home Ordinance, No. 5 of 1925, Government undertook to provide a new site for a church to replace St. Peter's Church, West Point, which is to be relinquished to Government, and to grant the sum of $50,000 towards the cost of erection of the new church.\n\nPreliminary work on the new church, which is situated at Kowloon Tong, has already started, and it is estimated that $14,000 will be required this year for site preparation, retaining walls and piling.\n\nIt could not be foreseen at the time the 1935 Estimates were in course of preparation when work would be commenced, and no provision was made in the current year's Estimates.\n\nA vote of $14,000 is accordingly requested. The balance of $36,000 will be provided in the 1936 Estimates.\n\n(C.S.O. 1 in 750/17).\n\n14,000.00\n\n50.-34, Public Works Extraordinary-Hong Kong, Communications, 16, New 100 foot Road between Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay .$ 117,000.00\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 103 sub-head 16) $ 280,000\n\nDue to unavoidable delays in 1934, progress on the eastern portion of the scheme was held up. Since the commencement of this year, however, the work has progressed so rapidly that unless additional funds are provided work will come to a standstill before the end of the year.\n\nCarried forward.........\n\n$ 3,519.00\n\nCarried forward....\n\n$ 136,369.00\n\n38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "content_text": "106\n\n2.\n\n**\n\n3\n\nMESSAGE TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nW. PEEL,\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo. 4.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has the honour to present for the consideration of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council the items (Nos. 10 to 13 of 1935) of supplementary expenditure set out below.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nDated the 9th day of March, 1935.\n\nItems the cost of which can be met wholly or in part by Savings from other sub-heads of the head are marked with an asterisk (*). The source and extent of the Savings will be found in the explanation of the individual items.\n\nMEMORANDA EXPLAINING THE ITEMS.\n\nBrought forward... $11.-34, Public Works Extraordinary :-Hong Kong. Public Health and Building Ordinance. 35.-Resumptions for road widening schemes approved by Government as rebuilding occurs.\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 104 sub-head 35) $10,000\n\nA sum of $5,940 is payable as compensation for the old building, on Inland Lot No. 1104 (Arsenal Street), which has lately been resumed. The amount provided in the Estimates is required for other Government resumptions, with the exception of a balance of $940 approximately.\n\nIn order that the transaction in respect of Inland Lot No. 1104 may now be completed, a supplementary vote for $5,000 is requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 6 in 4199/34).\n\n$12,000.00\n\n$5,000.00\n\n12.-22, Medical Department:- Repairs to Disinfecting and Fumigating plant\n\n$12,000.00\n\n1. Since Government took over the Disinfecting and Fumigating Bureau on October 1st, 1934, various essential and urgent repairs have been carried out on the newly acquired plant.\n\n2. It is now found that the following further expenditure will be necessary during 1935-\n\n(a) Clayton Barge :-\n\n(i) New cooler for the Clayton apparatus\n\n$2,000\n\n(ii) New feed water tank\n\n$2,000\n\n(iii) Wood work and general repairs\n\n$2,000\n\n$6,000\n\n(b) Aldecoa:-\n\n(i) Reconditioning port steam disinfecting\n\n$2,000\n\n(ii) Painting, repairs, incidentals, and renewal of bathing tanks\n\n$4,000\n\nTotal $6,000 $12,000\n\n3. A supplementary vote for $12,000 is therefore requested. (C.S.O. 2204/22).\n\n10.-34, Public Works Extraordinary - Kowloon.\n\n42. Furniture Workshop and Store Buildings\n\n$12,000.00\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 104 sub-head 42) $2,000\n\nA sum of $27,000 was approved for this work in 1934, but owing to the contractor's failure to complete the work, expenditure of $10,587 only was incurred.\n\nThe provision of $2,000 in the 1935 Estimates is for retention money only, so as the work has proceeded an additional sum of $12,000 is required to complete, during 1935.\n\nFrom the unexpended balance of $16,413 available at the end of 1934, a re-vote of the sum of $12,000 only, is therefore requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 14 in 468/34).\n\nCarried forward $12,000.00\n\n13.-29, Charitable Services: -7, General Chinese Charities Fund\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 92 sub-head 7) $110,000\n\nOwing to the very great difficulty experienced in obtaining the customary revenue from voluntary sources and to the diminution of the revenue from house property which forms the bulk of the endowment, immediate financial assistance is necessary for the three hospitals administered by the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, namely, Tung Wah Hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital and Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. A supplementary vote for $47,482 is requested, being the equivalent dollar for dollar of special collections made by the Hospital Directors since 17th September, 1934.\n\n$47,482.00\n\n(C.S.O. 3 in 4782/34).\n\nTOTAL\n\n$76,482.00\n\n107", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-2 Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance 1936 5-2-1936 - 8-7-1936", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-559-2 Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance 1936 5-2-1936 - 8-7-1936", "content_text": "## Exemptions \n\n## Commencement\n\n(iii) any person authorised in writing under the hand of the said officer in charge of the batteries; or \n\n(iv) any police officer. \n\n10. This Ordinance shall not apply to-\n\n(a) any vessel entering or passing through the areas affected in the ordinary course of navigation from one port to another. \n\n(b) any vessel compelled to enter or unable to quit the areas affected by reason of the exigencies of navigation. \n\n(c) any vessel when racing, provided due notice of the racing fixture has been given not less than forty-eight hours previously to the Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, at Military Headquarters, China Command, Hong Kong. \n\n(d) any vessel employed in tending, placing or replacing mark buoys or other aids to navigation within the areas affected. \n\n(e) His Majesty's Ships of War, His Majesty's Aircraft, or any vessel or aircraft employed under Admiralty, War Office, or Air Council Authority or under the Government of the Colony. \n\n(f) any aircraft compelled to alight on or unable to quit the areas affected. \n\n(g) any foreign vessel when outside territorial waters. \n\n11. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until such date as the Governor shall notify by Proclamation as the commencement of this Ordinance. \n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 30th day of January, 1936.\n\nH. R. BUTTERS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n## FIRST SCHEDULE\n\n[s. 3.]\n\n### Firing Areas\n\n| Area | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Firing Area A | The sea area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 23′′-longitude 114° 14′ 03′′), thence following High Water Mark along western shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 24\"-longitude 114° 15′ 05\", thence across Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 44′′-longitude 114° 15′ 45\", thence following High Water Mark along eastern shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 16′ 46\"-longitude 114° 16′ 28′′, thence to Junk Island at latitude 22° 16′ 46′′-longitude 114° 16′ 18\", thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Junk Island to latitude 22° 16′ 38′′ longitude 114° 15' 44\", thence across to Lao Shui Pai (latitude 22° 16' 36\"-longitude 114° 14′ 23′′), thence following High Water Mark northward to light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 10′′-longitude 114° 13' 57\"), thence across Lyemun to starting point. |\n| (b) Firing Area B | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at Cape Collinson (latitude 22° 15′ 48′′-longitude 114° 15′ 48′′), thence across to Slope Island (latitude 22° 15′ 50′′-longitude 114° 16′ 21′′), thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Slope Island and northern shore of Tai Miu to Fo Tau Point (latitude 22° 15′ 42′′-longitude 114° 17′ 53′′), thence on a bearing of 98° to latitude 22° 14′ 48′′-longitude 114° 25′ 15\", thence on a bearing of 218° to latitude 22° 08′ 42′′-longitude 114° 20' 00\", thence to the northern end of Waglan Island (latitude 22° 11′ 25\"-longitude 114° 18′ 14′′), thence to Tai Long Head (latitude 22° 12′ 33′′-longitude 114° 15′ 38′′), thence northward following High Water Mark to starting point. |\n| (c) Firing Area C | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at Bluff Point (latitude 22° 11' 46\"-longitude 114° 12′ 42′′), thence following High Water Mark along the southern shore of Tai Tam Peninsula to latitude 22° 11' 50\"-longitude 114° 13′ 15\", thence to Beaufort Island at latitude 22° 11′ 22′′-longitude 114° 14′ 32\", thence following High Water Mark along the western and southern shores of Beaufort Island to latitude 22° 10′ 52\"-longitude 114° 14′ 48′′, thence across to Pu Toi Island at latitude 22° 10′ 00\"-longitude 114° 15′ 08′′. thence across to North East Head on Tamkan Island (latitude 22° 04' 00\"-longitude 114° 19′ 10′′), thence following High Water Mark along northern shore of Tamkan Island to latitude 22° 01' 32\"-longitude 114° 18' 02\", thence across to Lingting Island at latitude 22° 06′ 52′′-longitude 114° 02′ 30′′, thence across to Un Kok Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 11′ 00′′-longitude 114° 09′ 00′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to starting point. |\n| (d) Firing Area D | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at Shiktongtsui (latitude 22° 16' 36\"-longitude 114° 07′ 00′′), thence following High Water Mark southward to Waterfall Bay (latitude 22° 15′ 02′′-longitude 114° 08′ 15′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to Boulder Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 14′ 35′′-longitude 114° 07′ 04′′), thence following High Water Mark along the western shore of Lamma Island to Tai Kok Point (latitude 22° 10′ 48′′-longitude 114° 08′ 16′′), thence on a bearing of 180° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 114° 08′ 17′′, thence on a bearing of 270° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 113° 56′ 28\" thence to Chang Chau Island (latitude 22° 11′ 54′′-longitude 114° 01′ 16′′), thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Chang Chau Island to latitude 22° 13′ 32\"-longitude 114° 02′ 03′′, thence across to Papai Island at latitude 22° 14′ 36\"-longitude 114° 02′ 40′′, thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Papai and Chau Kung Islands to latitude 22° 15′ 56′′-longitude 114° 03′ 09\", thence across to Kau I Chau Island at latitude 22° 17′ 00′′ longitude 114° 04′ 48′′, thence across to starting point. |\n| (e) Firing Area E | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at western end of Stonecutters Island (latitude 22° 19′ 10′′-longitude 114° 07′ 48′′), thence across to Green Island (latitude 22° 17′ 14′′-longitude 114° 06' 36\"), thence across to eastern shore of Lantau at latitude 22° 17′ 40′′ longitude 114° 01' 32\", thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Lantau to latitude 22° 20′ 14′′-... |\n\nPage 5\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-2 Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance 1936 5-2-1936 - 8-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552426, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-559-2 Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance 1936 5-2-1936 - 8-7-1936", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-559-2 Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance 1936 5-2-1936 - 8-7-1936", "content_text": "## Exemptions\n## Commencement\n\n(iii) any person authorised in writing under the hand of the said officer in charge of the batteries; or \n(iv) any police officer.\n\n10. This Ordinance shall not apply to- \n(a) any vessel entering or passing through the areas affected in the ordinary course of navigation from one port to another. \n(b) any vessel compelled to enter or unable to quit the areas affected by reason of the exigencies of navigation. \n(c) any vessel when racing, provided due notice of the racing fixture has been given not less than forty-eight hours previously to the Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, at Military Headquarters, China Command, Hong Kong. \n(d) any vessel employed in tending, placing or replacing mark buoys or other aids to navigation within the areas affected. \n(e) His Majesty's Ships of War, His Majesty's Aircraft, or any vessel or aircraft employed under Admiralty, War Office, or Air Council Authority or under the Government of the Colony. \n(f) any aircraft compelled to alight on or unable to quit the areas affected. \n(g) any foreign vessel when outside territorial waters.\n\n11. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until such date as the Governor shall notify by Proclamation as the commencement of this Ordinance.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 30th day of January, 1936.\n\n(a) Firing Area A:— \nThe sea area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- \nBy line starting from High Water Mark at light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 23′′-longitude 114° 14′ 03′′), thence following High Water Mark along western shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 24′′-longitude 114° 15′ 05′′, thence across Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 44′′-longitude 114° 15′ 45′′, thence following High Water Mark along eastern shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 16′ 46′′-longitude 114° 16′ 28′′, thence to Junk Island at latitude 22° 16′ 46′′-longitude 114° 16′ 18′′, thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Junk Island to latitude 22° 18′ 38′′-longitude 114° 15′ 44′′, thence across to Lao Shui Pai (latitude 22° 16′ 38′′-longitude 114° 14′ 23′′), thence following High Water Mark northward to light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 10′′-longitude 114° 13′ 57′′), thence across Lyemun to starting point.\n\n(b) Firing Area B:- \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at Cape Collinson (latitude 22° 15′ 48′′-longitude 114° 15′ 48′′), thence across to Slope Island (latitude 22° 15′ 50′′-longitude 114° 16′ 21′′), thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Slope Island and northern shore of Tai Miu to Fo Tau Point (latitude 22° 15′ 42′′—longitude 114° 17′ 58′′), thence on a bearing of 98° to latitude 22° 14′ 48′′ longitude 114° 25′ 15′′, thence on a bearing of 218° to latitude 22° 08′ 42′′-longitude 114° 20′ 00′′, thence to the northern end of Wagian Island (latitude 22° 11′ 25′′-longitude 114° 18′ 14′′), thence to Tai Long Head (latitude 22° 12′ 33′′-longitude 114° 15′ 38′′), thence northward following High Water Mark to starting point.\n\n(c) Firing Area C:- \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at Bluff Point (latitude 22° 11′ 46′′-longitude 114° 12′ 42′′), thence following High Water Mark along the southern shore of Tai Tam Peninsula to latitude 22° 11′ 50′′-longitude 114° 13′ 15′′, thence to Beaufort Island at latitude 22° 11′ 22′′-longitude 114° 14′ 32′′, thence following High Water Mark along the western and southern shores of Beaufort Island to latitude 22° 10′ 52′′-longitude 114° 14′ 48′′, thence across to Pu Toi Island at latitude 22° 10′ 00′′-longitude 114° 15′ 08′′, thence across to North East Head on Tamkan Island (latitude 22° 04′ 00′′-longitude 114° 19′ 10′′), thence following High Water Mark along northern shore of Tamkan Island to latitude 22° 01′ 32′′-longitude 114° 13′ 02′′, thence across to Lingting Island at latitude 22° 06′ 52′′—longitude 114° 02′ 30′′, thence across to Un Kok Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 11′ 00′′-longitude 114° 09′ 00′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to starting point.\n\n(d) Firing Area D:- \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at Shiktongtsui (latitude 22° 16′ 36′′-longitude 114° 07′ 00′′), thence following High Water Mark southward to Waterfall Bay (latitude 22° 15′ 02′′-longitude 114° 08′ 15′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to Boulder Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 14′ 35′′-longitude 114° 07′ 04′′), thence following High Water Mark along the western shore of Lamma Island to Tai Kok Point (latitude 22° 10′ 48′′-longitude 114° 08′ 16′′), thence on a bearing of 180° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 114° 08′ 17′′, thence on a bearing of 270° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 113° 56′ 28′′ thence to Chang Chau Island (latitude 22° 11′ 54′′-longitude 114° 01′ 16′′), thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Chang Chau Island to latitude 22° 13′ 32′′—longitude 114° 02′ 08′′, thence across Papai Island at latitude 22° 14′ 36′′-longitude 114° 02′ 40′′, thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Papai and Chau Kung Islands to latitude 22° 15′ 56′′-longitude 114° 03′ 09′′, thence across to Kau I Chau Island at latitude 22° 17′ 00′′-longitude 114° 04′ 48′′, thence across to starting point.\n\n(e) Firing Area E:- \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at western end of Stonecutters Island (latitude 22° 19′ 10′′-longitude 114° 07′ 48′′), thence across to Green Island (latitude 22° 17′ 14′′-longitude 114° 06′ 36′′), thence across to eastern shore of Lantau at latitude 22° 17′ 40′′ longitude 114° 01′ 32′′, thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Lantau to latitude 22° 20′ 14′′- \n\n## Page 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-2 Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance 1936 5-2-1936 - 8-7-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n## October 29, 1937\n### AMAZING PROGRESS IN SIX YEARS\n#### What Sino-Japanese War Has Meant To China\n\nSomething of China's amazing progress during the past few years was discussed by Mr. Walter Han-ming Chen, the well-known Chinese journalist and publicist when he spoke to Hong Kong students at the Hong Kong University on Oct. 19 on \"Present-day China.\"\n\nAs you know, China, since the overthrow of the Manchus 26 years ago, was for more than two decades divided and nobody was able to bring about unification in our country. Military leaders and political chieftains were jealous of each other; they fought for power and self-aggrandizement. Communists battled against the central government.\n\nBanditry was rife. Then came the Japanese, who forcibly occupied our Three Eastern Provinces, where they set up a puppet state which they called Manchukuo. Then they pushed further southward into north China and there, aided by traitors, they established a so-called autonomous regime, which permitted widespread smuggling and the poisoning of our unfortunate people, through the sale of opium, morphine, and other dangerous drugs.\n\nAfter that, they occupied Peiping, Tientsin, and other places in north China, and started warfare in Shanghai and other places along the Peiping-Hankow and the Tientsin-Pukow Railways, where at present our brave soldiers and airmen are putting up a glorious battle for the honour and existence of our country. Such a state of affairs, everybody will agree, could not be tolerated.\n\nChina had to have a leader who was capable of uniting the country and resisting invasion. We had to find a leader, who was a real and sincere patriot, who would command the people's confidence. Heaven gave us General Chiang Kai-shek, the only man who is able to save China and lead our national army in defence of our country. With his New Life Movement, the Generalissimo has succeeded, where others had failed, in uniting our ancestral land and is, as you know, personally directing the resistance against those who are trying to dominate and conquer our country.\n\n### REAL UNITY\n\nMany people have questioned me as to whether our unity is real. I can assure you that, beyond a shadow of doubt, it is. China is now more united than she has been for years past. Never before, indeed, have we Chinese been so united and never before have the people and their leaders shown such spirit of co-operation.\n\nIt has constantly been claimed that China is weak and not united and that it is unsafe and dangerous to live in our country, but we have shown, during the past few months, that we are far from being weak and that we are a really unified country. As to the allegation that China is a dangerous place to live in, you may be interested to know that nowadays, with the exception of the territories occupied by the Japanese, people may come and go about and live in China in perfect safety.\n\nIn former days, one would never have dared to make such a statement, but to-day things are different and we seldom read in the press of civil warfare, communist activities, banditry, or kidnappings - depredations which have been nearly wiped out - such as we used to read about almost every day in the past.\n\n### AMAZING PROGRESS\n\nThe really startling thing about China to-day is the amazing progress which has been taking place throughout the country. The era of civil war and banditry, as I have already said, is ended. Both the will of the people and the policy of the National Government are united in harmonising and composing all differences through peaceful means.\n\nEverywhere, there is a widespread recognition of the fact that, with the solution of the economic problem, the political problem would automatically be solved. For this reason, our government has been bending all its energies towards giving the people an efficient, honest, and progressive administration.\n\nWe do claim to have made considerable progress in this direction. We must give the Chinese Government time to wipe the slate clean. We must be patient and not expect too much at once. We must be fair and just to her friends.\n\n### NEW LIFE MOVEMENT\n\nThe New Life Movement is deeply concerned with the character that goes to make a nation and with developing that character. Without men and women of character, there can be no unified state. When men allow personal ambition, greed, selfishness, and vanity to dominate their political theories and acts, we are immediately plunged into civil war. The New Life Movement has done a considerable amount of work and it would take hours to tell of the progress which it has already made, and the reforms which it has brought about in China.\n\nIn addition to character building, the New Life Movement stresses the responsibilities of citizenship. Ambitious men may intrigue to invade neighbouring provinces but, as citizens more and more are voicing their opinions and insisting upon unification, this breaking of national unity has become exceedingly difficult. He is a foolhardy man indeed who to-day disregards this growing and formidable public opinion. There is national unity in China because the people demand it. National reforms are being brought about because the people demand them.\n\n### AFTER THE WAR\n\nNow that unity has been restored, the Nanking authorities will, when the present Sino-Japanese hostilities are ended, and eventual victory is won by China, turn their eyes to education and communications, after which I understand, steps will be taken towards raising the standard of living of the people.\n\nThe growth of the modern school system throughout China has been phenomenal. Everywhere in the interior, we see children and adults with their books coming and going. The fact is that the vast majority of the people are not informed on many matters that concern their everyday life, and ignorance and superstition still influence them to an alarming extent.\n\nNow, I am happy to say, education has come to China and it has come to stay. It is growing rapidly and thousands of cheap and efficient schools are being opened, or have been opened in the different provinces. Madame Chiang Kai-shek has opened a number of schools, and is mothering several hundred students in schools for the children of the revolution and recommends this form of social service to her friends.\n\n### EDUCATION FORGING AHEAD\n\nI have mentioned a cheap and efficient system of education. Between 600 and 1,000 of the most used characters in the Chinese written language have been chosen and those who know these have a useful everyday grasp of their use. Cheap books have been printed and supplied to the different schools, free of cost. Paper and ink are distributed gratis to the students.\n\nTeachers who have finished their middle and normal school education are selected and given a small salary, just enough to live on. In many places, temples and other buildings are borrowed and used as school buildings.\n\nIn many cases, there are blackboards but no desks or stools. Sometimes students are to be seen sitting on the ground, using their knees as their desks, and writing as best they can on them. Nevertheless, in spite of their difficulties, they learn and, at the end of their day's work, they are told to go home and teach their parents and elders, which they generally do, and this has amazing results.\n\nApart from the classes for the children, there are classes for adults, which are generally held in the early mornings or at dusk or after, so as to permit these people to attend their fields and other duties during the day.\n\n### COMPULSORY CLASSES\n\nIn the cities, we have a system of compulsory education for servants, shop assistants, and others who have not attended school. These are conducted along the mass education system and already thousands have been educated in this way. Agents of the government are sent regularly to the different shops and homes and they register all those who are uneducated. Notices are sent and tell the uneducated to attend classes at selected places, generally early in the morning or in the evening. Should they fail to attend classes, both they and their employers are fined.\n\n### MILITARY TRAINING\n\nNow we come to the compulsory citizens' military training. Every citizen over the age of 18 and under the age of 45 is expected to serve a term with the colours. There are many who do not like to serve and who try to evade military service, but the government has, nevertheless, ordered that they should undergo a period of training ranging from three to six months, failing which they are punished.\n\nI have seen classes in which business magnates have stood shoulder to shoulder with shop assistants or other employees. All these undergo strict and rigorous training and are subjected to military law. Even girls are called upon to serve and those unable to carry rifles are put through courses of first aid and nursing.\n\nAt the time I left Shanghai, before the outbreak of hostilities on August 13, one of the girls undergoing military training was my daughter and another was the daughter of Mr. O. K. Yui, Mayor of Shanghai, who is prominently in the news nowadays and who has refused to use his influence to enable his daughter to escape her national responsibilities. As a result, thousands have been turned into efficient citizens with military training.\n\n### EXAMINATION FOR OFFICIALS\n\nIn the political sphere, the financial administration has been centralised, our national budget has been balanced, and the tax system has been reformed, so that, since the advent of the National Government, some local taxes have been abolished. Some of these former taxes, levied by warlords, had been collected 89 years in advance!\n\nOfficials high and low are being subjected to severe civil examination and those found unqualified are being removed from office, irrespective of the influence of friends.\n\nThousands of miles of fine new highways have been built since 1927 when the National Government came into power. These are to be found in every province, and it is now possible for one to travel from the leading coastal cities to formerly inaccessible places, by motor car.\n\nMany miles of new railways also have been constructed and the Canton-Hankow Railway has been completed while the Lunghai Line has been extended.\n\nA network of telephone wires permits persons in Shanghai, Nanking, and Canton, for instance, to converse with others in places thousands of miles away.\n\n### AERIAL SERVICES\n\nThen, of course, there are the efficient airway services, the planes of which carry passengers to such inland places as Kuming (Yunnan), Sian, and Chengtu in a few hours, whereas it used to take weeks and months to make the trips in former times. Unfortunately, these services have temporarily been suspended as a result of the Sino-Japanese war.\n\n## BANKING CORPORATION\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| **AUTHORISED CAPITAL** | $50,000,000 |\n| **ISSUED AND FULLY PAID-UP** | $20,000,000 |\n| **RESERVE FUNDS** | |\n|   STERLING | £6,500,000 |\n|   HONG KONG CURRENCY RESERVE | $10,000,000 |\n| **RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPRIETORS** | $20,000,000 |\n\n**HEAD OFFICE:** HONG KONG\n\n**BOARD OF DIRECTORS:**\n- G. Miskin, Esq., Chairman\n- Hon. Mr. M.T. Johnson, Deputy Chairman\n- J.K. Bousfield, Esq.\n- K.S. Morrison, Esq.\n- Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson\n- Ali Compton, Esq.\n- S. H. Dodwell, Esq.\n- T. E. Pearce, Esq.\n- J. E. Vasson, Esq.\n- A. Shields, Esq.\n- Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn, Chief Manager\n\n**BRANCHES:**\n- Amoy\n- Bangkok\n- Batavia\n- Bombay\n- Canton\n- Chotoo\n- Colombo\n- Dairen\n- Foochow\n- Haiphong\n- Hamburg\n- Hankow\n- Hong Kong\n- Iloilo\n- Ipoh\n- Jobore\n- Kobe\n- Kowloon\n- Kuala Lumpur\n- Lyons\n- Malacca\n- Manila\n- Mukden\n- New York\n- Peiping\n- Penang\n- Rangoon\n- Saigon\n- San Francisco\n- Shanghai\n- Singapore\n- Surabaya\n- Swatow\n- Tientsin\n- Tokyo\n- Tsingtao\n- Wuhu\n\n**CURRENT ACCOUNTS** opened in Local CURRENCY and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter periods in Local CURRENCY and STERLING on terms which will be quoted on application.\n\n**ALSO** up to date SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in various sizes To LET\n\nHong Kong, 12th May, 1937.\n\n## ANNOUNCEMENT\n\nAn engagement is announced between Robert, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Hooper of Madras, and Sybil, older daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Crawford of \"Craigieburn,\" Brookmans Park, Herts., late of Hong Kong.\n\nThe marriage will take place in Madras in January.\n\nIn General Chiang Kai-shek we Chinese have a sincere and capable patriot as our leader. We are at one in giving him our full support and co-operation and will follow him unswervingly to the end in spite of the threat of our enemy to oust him and to exterminate the Nanking regime.\n\nLet us all place our confidence in the Generalissimo and give him a free hand. Do not try to rush him along for he knows what he is doing. He is a military man and we are civilians who are not familiar with the art of warfare.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562475, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## MINUTES\n### 89\n\nThe Minutes of the previous meeting of the Council were confirmed.\n\n## 1 PAPERS\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. The Governor, laid upon the table the following papers:-\n\n* Amendments made by the Governor in Council under section 12 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, to the regulations, dated 31st August, 1938.\n* Amendment made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of the Gasholders Examination Ordinance, 1938, Ordinance No. 1 of 1938, to the regulations, dated 2nd September, 1938.\n* Resolution made and passed by the Legislative Council under the Public Officers (Changes of Style) Ordinance, 1937, Ordinance No. 25 of 1937, on the 1st September, 1938.\n* Order under section 75 (8) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, made by the Colonial Secretary for the removal of all graves in the portion of Section A in New Kowloon Cemetery No. 3 (Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery) in which bodies were buried during the years 1930 and 1931, on the 31st day of August, 1938.\n* Order under section 75 (8) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, made by the Colonial Secretary for the removal of all graves in the portions of Sections B and C in Kowloon Cemetery No. 2 (Ho Man Tin Cemetery) in which bodies were buried during the years 1928 and 1929, and in Section A and Trenches in which bodies were buried during the years 1930 and 1931, on the 31st day of August, 1938.\n* Order under section 75 (8) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, made by the Colonial Secretary for the removal of all graves in the portions of Sections B and C in Mount Caroline Cemetery in which bodies were buried during the year 1930, in the portion of Section A in which bodies were buried during the year 1931, and in the portion of Tung Wah Hospital, Eastern Extension, in which bodies were buried during the year 1931, on the 31st day of August, 1938.\n* Order under section 75 (8) of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935, Ordinance No. 15 of 1935, made by the Colonial Secretary for the removal of all graves in Shum Wan...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# FAR EASTERN (JAPAN)\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### November 1, 1939\n#### SECTION 1\n`[F 11413/23/23]`\n\nCopy No. 135\n\n**Mr. Dodds to Viscount Halifax.-(Received November 1.)**\n**(No. 614.) My Lord,**\n\nTokyo, September 11, 1939.\n\nAFTER the resignation of the Hiranuma Cabinet no time was lost by the advisers to the throne in completing the formalities which in this country normally accompany the selection of a new Prime Minister. A few hours after Baron Hiranuma had submitted his own resignation and that of his colleagues, Mr. Yuasa, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, was despatched to consult Prince Saionji at his summer residence in Gotemba, and by the evening of the same day it was officially announced that General Nobuyuki Abe had received the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet.\n\n2. For some days before the Prime Minister's resignation there had been great activity in high circles. Prince Konoe, President of the Privy Council and Minister without portfolio, had returned from Karuizawa to the capital, and a series of important conferences had taken place, at which it is evident that plans were laid for a speedy clarification of the internal political situation. There is good reason to believe that the three first candidates considered were General Ugaki, Mr. Hirota and General Abe, in that order. There was in many quarters an earnest desire that the first-named might be selected, but it may, I think, be taken for granted that his position vis-à-vis the army is still such as to have rendered it impossible for him to have accepted the responsibility of forming a Cabinet. Moreover, the circumstances in which, less than a year ago, he resigned from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs have not been forgotten, and I have heard it said on several occasions that the time is not yet ripe for his reappearance in the political arena. It is possible that somewhat similar reasons militated against the selection of Mr. Hirota; and it was in these circumstances that the choice of His Majesty's advisers fell upon General Abe.\n\n3. The new Prime Minister is well known as a soldier, but his capabilities as a politician are quite unknown. He is remarkable for the fact that during the greater part of his career he has held executive positions, and he is the only one on the list of generals who has not received the decoration of the Golden Kite, a reward which is reserved as a recognition of services in the field. He is, however, generally regarded as a capable executive officer, and it is recalled that during his tenure of office as Vice-Minister for War under General Ugaki he acted for some months as Minister in the latter's absence through illness. He has, moreover, a reputation for being straightforward and frank, and according to the military attaché to this embassy he has kept himself physically fit and is of extreme mental alertness, in addition to having a cheerful outlook on life and being a \"good mixer.\" It is true that his foreign affiliations are mainly German, but according to General Piggott he is by no means pro-German, but is regarded rather as being neutral in his sympathies towards foreign countries. His appointment is said to be supported wholeheartedly by the army.\n\n4. General Abe was at the time of the incident of the 26th February, 1936, a member of the Supreme War Council, but resigned with General Araki and several other generals out of a sense of responsibility for the part taken by the army in the assassination of high Government officials. Since that time he has lived in retirement until a few months ago, when he was nominated by Prince Konoe to be Director in Chief of the Toa Dobunkai (East Asia Culture Society), which was instituted some years ago by Prince Konoe's father and of which Prince Konoe himself is now president. It appears that this society is purely cultural in its purposes; but it is perhaps not without significance that Baron Hiranuma's successor should be one who has recently been closely associated with Prince Konoe, for the latter, although he has lately taken no active part in the administration of affairs, has yet, as Minister without portfolio, undoubtedly exerted considerable influence from behind the scenes. I may add \n\n`[758 a-1]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# FAR EASTERN (JAPAN)\n## August 28, 1939\n### SECTION 2\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nCopy No. 136 \n`F 9601/176/23`\n\n**Viscount Halifax to Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo)**\n\n(No. 710.) Sir,\n\nForeign Office, August 28, 1939.\n\nTHE Japanese Ambassador saw me this afternoon at his own suggestion. I opened the conversation by asking him whether he could give me any news of the new Government in Japan. He said that he had great confidence in the new Prime Minister, General Abe. General Abe had been on the reserve list for two years since the period of his command during the Tokyo disturbances of two years ago. He was a man who would serve as a valuable intermediary between the army and the politicians.\n\n2. I informed the Ambassador that I had been much entertained by a report which our Ambassador in Berlin had brought home with him to the effect that Herr Hitler had been furious at the action of the Japanese in protesting against the new German-Soviet Pact. The Ambassador laughed, and said there was a strong feeling against the pact in his country. This new fact must have considerable bearing on the attitude of the new Japanese Government, and the Ambassador agreed that the double-crossing of Japan by Germany and of ourselves by Russia must cause both the Japanese and British Governments to reconsider the positions in which they found themselves, and to consider a possible improvement in their mutual relations.\n\n3. I asked the Ambassador who was likely to be the new Foreign Minister. He replied that the Domei Agency had suggested his own name. He would have to consider whether it was worth while his accepting this office and, before he did so, he would like to talk further with me. But he said there was no certainty he would be offered the post. He felt sure that the new Foreign Minister in Japan would have to consider his country's attitude towards Great Britain on broad general lines, and the wider the considerations of policy which were exchanged between the two Governments, the easier it would be to deal with the details and improve the atmosphere. He himself would meanwhile not go into detail about the Tientsin discussions.\n\n4. I said there was one matter which I must again bring specifically and emphatically to the attention of the Japanese Government, and that was the continued detention of Colonel Spear. I read to the Ambassador certain extracts from Peking telegram No. 187 on the subject of the bad conditions under which Colonel Spear was being detained, and I informed the Ambassador that the medical reports we had received about Colonel Spear showed that he might be in immediate danger of a nervous breakdown. The Ambassador said that he fully understood the position and had been impressed by the interest taken in this matter in Parliament, and was doing his best. I said that perhaps the new Prime Minister, being a soldier, might interest himself in the case.\n\n5. During the course of the interview I gave Mr. Shigemitsu a general account of the proposals sent to us by the German Chancellor, and of the nature of our reply. The Ambassador thanked me, and said he trusted we would emerge from this present serious situation. He knew German mentality, as he had been in Germany in 1914, and he knew what bad psychologists they were, and what terrible mistakes they were likely to make. He had come to England on the outbreak of war in 1914, and he would like to say that he thought the spirit of our people to-day, and, further, the extent of our preparations, were a year ahead in comparison to what they were in 1914.\n\n6. The Ambassador suggested that he should have a further talk on more detailed questions with Mr. Butler, and a report of his conversation will follow later.\n\n`[683 ee-2]`\n\nI am, &c. \n**HALIFAX** \n64", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564202, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# FAR EASTERN (JAPAN)\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### March 3, 1939\n#### SECTION 3\n`F 2152/23/23`\n\nCopy No. 131\n\n**Sir R. Craigie to Viscount Halifax.—(Received March 3.)**\n**(No. 39.) My Lord,**\n\nTokyo, January 23, 1939. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a translation(1) (as prepared in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs) of the speech delivered by the Prime Minister at the opening session of the Imperial Diet on the 21st January.\n\n2. Your Lordship will observe that Baron Hiranuma, in dealing with \"the China affair,\" stated that as there already existed \"an immutable policy,\" to which Imperial sanction had been obtained by the previous Cabinet, the new Cabinet, being, of course, committed to the same policy, was determined to go forward at all costs to the achievement of the final purpose, which he summed up as \"the establishment of a new order to replace the old\" in East Asia. This could only be achieved by laying the foundations of the prosperity and progress of East Asia in the political, economic and cultural co-operation of Japan, Manchukuo and China, and on the basis of the fundamental principle embodied in a command of the late Emperor Meiji, who had said: \"Cast off the evil ways of the past and follow the just and equitable principle of nature.\"\n\n3. As regards communism on the \"Chinese continent\" the Prime Minister emphasised the absolute necessity for its elimination if \"truth and righteousness\" were to prevail. He went on to express Japan's gratitude for the whole-hearted support which had been given to her by Germany and Italy and her gratification that her relations with those friendly Powers with whom she was bound by the Anti-Comintern Pact were increasingly cordial.\n\n4. In another part of his speech the Prime Minister declared that the final aim of the present campaign did not lie in military victories, but in the re-birth of China and in the creation of a new order uniting Japan, Manchukuo and China in a relationship of mutual aid and collaboration.\n\n5. The closing portion of the speech dealt with the Government's plans for giving effect to their \"immutable policy.\" These included a renovation of the educational system so that the Government could deal properly with the China affair and the international developments of the future; the rapid replenishment of all the powers of the nation, especially of defence power, by means of the expansion of productive power, the development of foreign trade, the adjustment of capital, commodities and labour, and the regulation of commodity prices with a view to the creation of strong armaments and the expansion of economic strength; the development and reinforcement of all the systems of transportation and communication in accordance with the new conditions in East Asia; the continuance of economic control in various fields; and the further invocation of the Government's powers under the National General Mobilisation Law.\n\n6. I have further the honour to transmit herewith a translation(1) (also prepared in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, but amended here and there to make it accord more closely to the original) of the speech delivered by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the occasion of the opening of the session. The salient points in Mr. Arita's speech have already formed the subject of my telegram No. 64 of the 22nd January.\n\n7. It will be observed that Mr. Arita's speech, after dealing in some detail with certain phases of the struggle with China and the Government's determination to cope adequately with the situation as it affects Japan's relations with foreign countries, terminates with an expression of the belief of the Japanese Government that an enduring world peace can be established \"only on the moral foundation of the friendship and harmony of mankind and in conformity with the principles of justice and equality.\" There is thus an attempt in both speeches, which as usual abound in the high-sounding phrases of which Japanese statesmen are fond...\n\n`[558 c-3]`\n(1) Not printed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564221, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "## 215 \n\n2 \n\navoid, her whole policy having been to drive a wedge between the United States and ourselves, but she has achieved it in spite of herself, thanks to the intransigence of her soldiers in China and the incompetence of her statesmen at home.\n\n6. Thus the American note of the 31st December was followed by a British one on similar lines delivered on the 14th January and by a French one on the 19th January.\n\n7. The American note emphasised the sanctity of treaties (especially the sanctity of those concluded at Washington) and warned Japan of the serious view which America would take of any unilateral action against the Nine-Power Treaty. The British note emphasised the divergence between Japan's pledges in the official utterances of her leaders and Japan's practices up till now in China.\n\n8. All were calling for an elucidation of Japan's plans and policies.\n\n## Anglo-Japanese Relations\n\n9. The **Kokumin** has suggested that it would be highly desirable if Mr. Chamberlain paid a visit to Japan to acquaint himself with the situation, but the suggestion has not been followed up.\n\n10. Most of the *ballons d'essai* are flown in the **Kokumin**, a very reactionary paper, which some while back made a series of personal attacks on His Majesty's Ambassador.\n\n## Germany\n\n11. Hardly a day passes but the papers carry some story that bears witness to the amazing amount of propaganda that Germany is carrying out in Japan. The number of exchange students, for example, is being increased from two to twenty. Baldur von Schirach, the Reich Youth leader, is scheduled to be coming to Japan this spring. Japanese poems are being translated into German.\n\n12. Meanwhile, in the Diet, members have been asking for the strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact. On the 28th January, Ribbentrop, Ciano, and the Japanese Ambassador to Berlin met for what were termed important negotiations that would become the corner-stone in the construction of a world order throughout Europe and Asia in accordance with the anti-Comintern spirit. The Japanese Ambassadors in the larger European capitals have been meeting in Paris, apparently so that Shiratori, lately appointed Ambassador to Rome, might expound the latest political developments in the East.\n\n13. It seems probable that the main subject of all these colloquies has been the question of transforming the Anti-Comintern Pact into an alliance.\n\n## Hungary\n\n14. A Far-Eastern repercussion of the Munich settlement was heard on the 10th January, when it was announced that Hungary had decided to recognise Manchukuo and join the Anti-Comintern Pact. A Hungarian Legation will be opened here this autumn. The total number of Hungarians in the whole of Japan does not exceed ten.\n\n## More Signatories to the Anti-Comintern Pact\n\n15. On the 16th January, the Manchukuo Government announced their intention to adhere to the Anti-Comintern Pact.\n\n16. Invitations to join were recently sent to Yugoslavia and Albania through their honorary consuls in Osaka, both of whom are Japanese.\n\n17. Czecho-Slovakia is also reported to be negotiating both membership of the pact and recognition of Manchukuo.\n\n18. The gradual extension of German influence eastwards in Europe will have as its natural corollary an increase in Japan's friends and a diminution in her feeling of isolation.\n\n## Siam\n\n19. The craze for goodwill flights is infecting Japan.\n\n20. She herself has been the goal lately of two goodwill flights, although the Italian goodwill plane met disaster at Basra and the German Condor, after a magnificent flight out here, fell into the sea near the Philippines on its return journey.\n\n21. Accordingly, on the 25th January, the Japan-to-Siam goodwill plane **Nogi** (a large four-engined Heinkel monoplane) left for Bangkok and arrived there the following day, after a short stop in Formosa. The return flight, which was made non-stop, finished uneventfully.\n\n22. Japan carries out in Siam much of the nationalist propaganda with which she is herself in turn bombarded by her totalitarian friends. For example, Miss Siam is due to arrive in April, and she can be quite sure that a great fuss will be made of her. The Mayor of Bangkok and several other high officials of the Municipal Government are due here in March. His Royal Highness Prince Chalermbol, first cousin of the King of Siam, has just arrived here to study the methods of the Japanese police force.\n\n23. Siam is often lauded in the press as one of the few countries showing a correct appreciation of the new order in East Asia.\n\n## U.S.S.R.\n\n24. No settlement has been reached to the fisheries dispute. The lots will be auctioned in March. The Japanese have announced their resolve to fish on the grounds which they leased under the agreement of 1932 and, if necessary, to back their claims by force. The Russians have said that they will fire on any fishing vessels which they catch on the now prohibited grounds.\n\n## Singapore\n\n25. On the 25th January, the Japanese Ambassador in London presented a formal note to the Secretary of State, in which a strong complaint was lodged over the treatment of Japanese nationals in Singapore.\n\n## Cabinet Changes\n\n### HOME AFFAIRS\n\n26. Throughout the last few weeks of 1938, there had been much talk of the impending resignation of the Konoye Cabinet and much speculation as to the composition of its successor. Several names had been mentioned as Konoye's successor, but during December the odds had been shortening on the elderly president of the Privy Council, Baron Hiranuma. A distinguished lawyer, he had once been the hope of fascism in Japan, but a few years ago he severed his connexions with all reactionary organisations. Baron Hiranuma received the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet on the 4th January, and the new Cabinet came into being the following day. The changes, however, were few. Kido, who had been Konoye's right-hand man, and who is a statesman with a rising reputation, took over the Home Ministry from Admiral Suetsugu, whom his colleagues would appear to have found both tiresome and extremely ineffective. Mr. Seihin Ikeda was succeeded by the Vice-Minister for Finance, Mr. Gotaro Ishiwata, but no changes were made in the other more important posts. As in the Konoye Cabinet, a sop was thrown to the political parties by the appointment to the Ministry of Agriculture of a Minseito member, Mr. Yukio Sakurauchi, and to the Ministry of Railways of a Seiyukai member, Mr. Yonezo Maeda.\n\n27. Prince Konoye, who took over the presidency of the Privy Council, remained in the Cabinet as Minister without portfolio.\n\n28. The personnel of the new Cabinet is neither stronger nor weaker than that of the old Cabinet. The Premier's erstwhile reactionary associations are no indication that Japan is anxious to accelerate her steady progress down the totalitarian slope. The change was, first and foremost, a device whereby an emergency Cabinet could slip gracefully out of office and a thoroughly stormy session in the Diet be avoided.\n\n## Diet Proceedings\n\n29. The new Government has solved the problem presented by the Diet session by shelving the whole of Prince Konoye's domestic reform programme, to which much opposition was expected, and the spokesmen of the political parties were compelled to rewrite their speeches. The issues before the session have, therefore, been concentrated in the prosecution of the holy war and the necessary expenditures. Consequently, the debates during the opening days of the session amounted to little more than competition in panegyrics. Considerable criticism was, however, directed against the Minister for Foreign Affairs.\n\n## 216", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT\n\n234\n\n## FAR EASTERN (CHINA)\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[F 867/23/23]`\n\nJanuary 26, 1939.\n\n### SECTION 3\n\nCopy No. 130\n\n## Sir R. Craigie to Viscount Halifax. (Received January 26, 1939.)\n\n**(No. 1055.)**\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTokyo, December 30, 1938.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 1450 of the 8th December last, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a translation of the Imperial Ordinance containing the regulations of the Asia Development Council as promulgated on the 16th December. The provisions for the fourth technical department and for a liaison committee to preserve contact with ministries concerned are the only important changes in the draft plan which was described in my despatch No. 775 of the 7th October.\n\n2. A second ordinance was promulgated on the same day vesting the Prime Minister with power to determine the location, designation and area of jurisdiction of the projected liaison offices in China. These offices are to function under the direction of the Central Council and the Prime Minister is also empowered to order the establishment of branches under these liaison offices. In matters concerning the maintenance of order, however, the liaison offices or branches are to remain subject to the orders of the commanding officer of the district concerned. A third ordinance revises the regulations of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to effect the transfer of China Cultural Affairs to the new council.\n\n3. The personnel of the council was announced in the Gazette on the 17th December. Lieutenant-General Heisuke Yanagawa, retired, is to be director-general, and concurrently head of the Cultural Affairs Department. Major-General Teiichi Suzuki, Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka, until recently consul-general at Shanghai, and Mr. Takenosuke Miyamoto, a professor of Tokyo Imperial University, are the heads of the Political Affairs, Economic Affairs, and Technical Departments respectively. Of the twelve most responsible appointments, three have gone to the army, two to the navy and seven to civilian officials, including three to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.\n\n4. The Government have evidently experienced considerable difficulty in recruiting the staff of the council, and it is said that Prince Konoye hoped to obtain the services of a civilian as director-general. Dr. Hashida, president of the Tokyo First High School, declined, in spite of great pressure, to accept the post of head of the Cultural Affairs Department, which the director-general has been obliged to take over until a suitable alternative candidate can be found. Lieutenant-General Yanagawa is a soldier of outstanding reputation. He served as Vice-Minister of War under General Araki during 1932 and subsequently, but was placed on the reserve list after the incident of the 26th February, 1936. He was recalled for service in the present war in China and was in command of the Japanese forces landed at Hangchow Bay; he was thus in large measure responsible for the ultimate success of the operations at Shanghai. Major-General Suzuki was head of the Press Section of the Ministry of War when General Yanagawa was Vice-Minister. He has been attached for considerable periods to the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan and the Stock Exchange in order to acquire knowledge of the workings of economics and finance. Both have the full support of the young officers.\n\n5. The council is to be housed in the temporary Diet buildings which were discarded upon the completion of the new Diet in 1936. The principal members held an inaugural meeting at the Prime Minister's residence on the 23rd December, and it is expected that the council will begin to function in earnest early in the New Year. It appears that the Five Ministers Conference will continue to deliberate on matters of high policy, notwithstanding the nomination of its members to be president and vice-presidents of the new organisation. An additional \"Asia Development Conference\" will therefore be instituted in the Cabinet, which General Yanagawa will be required to attend when necessary.\n\n`[508 cc--3]`\n\nPage 200 \nPage 201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-581-1 Vacancy for Assistant- Superintendent of Kai Tak Aerodrome 27-11-1939 - 15-8-1940", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-581-1 Vacancy for Assistant- Superintendent of Kai Tak Aerodrome 27-11-1939 - 15-8-1940", "content_text": "REED. 29/3 LA.\n\n\"R.83.\n\nCOPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n26\n\nTELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 23rd March.\n\nReceived 4.53 a.m. 23rd March, 1940.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No.146 repeated to Air Officer Commanding R.A.F. Far Eastern Command.\n\nMy despatch No.720 of 15th November, 1939. Welson who recently resumed his post in the Colony in reply to that request for the maximum period of six months has applied to resign to take up Imperial Airways post screened by the Air Ministry. As the offer is very much to his advantage I do not wish to stand in the way and would be prepared to accept his resignation after a month's notice.\n\nHis departure however would leave the Superintending of the Aerodrome single handed and the risk of breakdown is too grave to be taken. In these circumstances can you secure immediate release of Oxford (see my despatch No.780) or alternatively obtain suitable Assistant Superintendent for Aerodrome meanwhile prevailing on Imperial Airways to keep the post open for the named.\n\nOxford is at present in the Colony, I shall be glad to receive an early reply.\n\n4 a.m.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-1 Vacancy for Assistant- Superintendent of Kai Tak Aerodrome 27-11-1939 - 15-8-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "then was of each division of the Chinese and Japanese armies. Except in the areas of Nanning and in the north-west around Wunnan there has not been any marked change since that date, and any change that has occurred has on balance been in favour of China. I had realised that the Japanese were in occupation of only a comparatively small area around the main cities in East and East-Central China and along the railways and trunk roads connecting them, but I had not realised how great were the areas that were still in the occupation of the Central Government around and behind the Japanese lines. From the point of view of area at least five-sixths of the whole of China must still be in Chinese occupation.\n\n28. The Chinese forces are made up of three categories: The Central Government's regular army, part of which is operating as mobile forces; the two Communist armies, one in the north-west (the old VIIIth Route Army) and one around Nanking (the IVth Route Army); the partisans or guerrilla troops, who take their orders from the nearest regular troops, which may happen to be Communist or Central Government. In addition to these there are the Defence Corps, which consist of practically every male inhabitant in the areas behind the Japanese lines. They are organised to defend their own villages from Japanese raids but do not go outside their own immediate area to fight. I append a statement(2) taken from the notes of my interview with General Ho dealing with the strength of the Central Government troops, from my talk with Communist representatives, so far as the Communist army is concerned, and a report given to me by a young Englishman who had walked one thousand miles from Peking through the north-eastern territory behind the Japanese lines. These notes I reproduce in full as they have other points of interest. They were considerably elaborated in a long conversation I had with the writer.\n\n29. The Chinese army is incapable, because of the lack of heavy arms, of staging any large-scale attack upon Japanese entrenched positions. The Japanese however, can, by concentration of such material, capture any specific position they desire, provided they can maintain their lines of communication. Chinese therefore rely very largely upon mobile or guerrilla warfare, and the cutting off of the Japanese when they advance too far ahead of their heavy artillery. The successes of the mobile units and partisans are very considerable and are reported practically every day in the communiqués issued in Chungking, though no account of them ever appears in the Japanese press. I made careful enquiries as to the reliability of these Chungking reports and ascertained that in substance they were correct, though no reliance can be placed upon the actual figures of dead and wounded, which are merely estimates and almost certainly tend to be optimistic. The toll on the Japanese forces from this method of warfare must be very considerable, since the Japanese losses resulting are certainly as great, and in many instances probably greater than the Chinese. The Chinese express themselves as completely confident of ultimate victory from the military point of view, though they realise that they will be unable to drive the Japanese out of their entrenched positions by direct attack. From a superficial examination, which was all that I was able to make, it would seem that they are justified in these expectations, provided they do not allow some major catastrophe to occur through the carelessness or inefficiency of their generalship. The taking of Nanning, for instance, was, according to the Chinese staff, due to a major blunder by the general in command of that area. He had positioned his troops for a landing at Pakhoi, without regard to the possibilities of a landing further west, where in fact it took place. The other danger is of the breakdown of transport, through lack of gasoline or inefficiency in transport organisation. So far as man-power is concerned, this is being continually recruited and there are still inexhaustible supplies.\n\n30. The latest news from the various fronts when I left Chungking was considered satisfactory, though the Generalissimo took the view that the Chinese offensive at Nanning had not been conducted as efficiently as it should have been, since in his opinion the Japanese ought to have been driven out altogether. I had a talk with the Governor of Kansu when at Lanchow, who had just returned from conducting operations on the north-west front, and he expressed himself as fully satisfied with the then recent victories around Wayun. Indeed, he said that he fervently hoped that the Japanese would send up more troops and renew their attacks, as he considered the terrain so favourable to the Chinese army that they were bound to inflict further heavy losses on the Japanese.\n\n(2) Not printed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "then was of each division of the Chinese and Japanese armies. Except in the areas of Nanning and in the north-west around Wunnan there has not been any marked change since that date, and any change that has occurred has on balance been in favour of China. I had realised that the Japanese were in occupation of only a comparatively small area around the main cities in East and East-Central China and along the railways and trunk roads connecting them, but I had not realised how great were the areas that were still in the occupation of the Central Government around and behind the Japanese lines. From the point of view of area at least five-sixths of the whole of China must still be in Chinese occupation.\n\n28. The Chinese forces are made up of three categories: The Central Government's regular army, part of which is operating as mobile forces; the two Communist armies, one in the north-west (the old VIIIth Route Army) and one around Nanking (the IVth Route Army); the partisans or guerrilla troops, who take their orders from the nearest regular troops, which may happen to be Communist or Central Government. In addition to these there are the Defence Corps, which consist of practically every male inhabitant in the areas behind the Japanese lines. They are organised to defend their own villages from Japanese raids but do not go outside their own immediate area to fight. I append a statement(*) taken from the notes of my interview with General Ho dealing with the strength of the Central Government troops, from my talk with Communist representatives, so far as the Communist army is concerned, and a report given to me by a young Englishman who had walked one thousand miles from Peking through the north-eastern territory behind the Japanese lines. These notes(2) I reproduce in full as they have other points of interest. They were considerably elaborated in a long conversation I had with the writer.\n\n29. The Chinese army is incapable, because of the lack of heavy arms, of staging any large-scale attack upon Japanese entrenched positions. The Japanese however, can, by concentration of such material, capture any specific position they desire, provided they can maintain their lines of communication. Chinese therefore rely very largely upon mobile or guerrilla warfare, and the cutting off of the Japanese when they advance too far ahead of their heavy artillery. The successes of the mobile units and partisans are very considerable and are reported practically every day in the communiqués issued in Chungking, though no account of them ever appears in the Japanese press. I made careful enquiries as to the reliability of these Chungking reports and ascertained that in substance they were correct, though no reliance can be placed upon the actual figures of dead and wounded, which are merely estimates and almost certainly tend to be optimistic. The toll on the Japanese forces from this method of warfare must be very considerable, since the Japanese losses resulting are certainly as great, and in many instances probably greater than the Chinese. The Chinese express themselves as completely confident of ultimate victory from the military point of view, though they realise that they will be unable to drive the Japanese out of their entrenched positions by direct attack. From a superficial examination, which was all that I was able to make, it would seem that they are justified in these expectations, provided they do not allow some major catastrophe to occur through the carelessness or inefficiency of their generalship. The taking of Nanning, for instance, was, according to the Chinese staff, due to a major blunder by the general in command of that area. He had positioned his troops for a landing at Pakhoi, without regard to the possibilities of a landing further west, where in fact it took place. The other danger is of the breakdown of transport, through lack of gasoline or inefficiency in transport organisation. So far as man-power is concerned, this is being continually recruited and there are still inexhaustible supplies.\n\n30. The latest news from the various fronts when I left Chungking was considered satisfactory, though the Generalissimo took the view that the Chinese offensive at Nanning had not been conducted as efficiently as it should have been, since in his opinion the Japanese ought to have been driven out altogether. I had a talk with the Governor of Kansu when at Lanchow, who had just returned from conducting operations on the north-west front, and he expressed himself as fully satisfied with the then recent victories around Wayun. Indeed, he said that he fervently hoped that the Japanese would send up more troops and renew their attacks, as he considered the terrain so favourable to the Chinese army that they were bound to inflict further heavy losses on the Japanese.\n\n(2) Not printed.\n\n+9\n\n1\n\n2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## \n\nAbout \n17 \ngetting hold of an overcoat of sorts. Actually, there was nothing wrong with the overcoat, but rather with the man, it was far too big for it. It was little more than a long tunic, and how Gerry got into it Heaven knows, but one refused nothing, not 'even a bent and rusty nail, should anyone be so stupid as to give you.\n\nThings were got going, the place more or less cleaned up, buildings patched as far as possible, language classes started, a choir, and games to a lesser extent because of the lack of equipment. One could learn every language under the sun, except Japanese, the Volunteers being full of different nationalities.\n\nQuite suddenly orders came that we were to join the main body of Volunteers who had been captured in the eastern sector of the island; large barracks at Shanshuipe, Kowloon, were the orders of the day. Feelings were mixed, certainly; these three weeks had been very uncomfortable, but one was getting used to it and also expected it, but the food had been quite good (compared as we were to find out later), and this made up for a lot. On the other hand, the flies were a problem, and the thought of what they might bring in the hot weather was distinctly worrying. Anyhow, there was no choice, and it didn't matter what one felt.\n\nWe arrived after an uneventful journey and were hanged in anywhere for the first night until units were sorted out the next day.\n\n### Conditions in Shanshuipe\n\nI shall go back a little to try and tell of the conditions in Shanshuipe where we served. I rather gather that the march through Kowloon, for those in Eastern Command, was not too pleasant as can be imagined. When they arrived at Shanshuipe, it was found that literally everything removable had been removed. Buildings had been stripped of windows, doors, and in many cases window-frames, all electric light fittings, parts of the roofing had been torn away in order to remove the wiring; in fact, the buildings were little more than empty shells, our Chinese friends having made hay before \"the rising sun\".\n\nFood had been shocking, just plain badly cooked rice twice a day, though I think the Japanese brought in vegetables to the camp two days during that time, but the quantity was insufficient, and what they did bring was little better than pig-food. Those three weeks most certainly must have been hell, but some of the more fortunate, who had a little money, were able to get tinned food, for quite exorbitant prices, over the wire fence, but the Japanese sentries did not allow this to go on for very long, about ten days. However, friends not interned were allowed to bring food parcels, but I am afraid the lucky ones were very much in the minority. Soon after we arrived, food conditions improved slightly, but they could hardly be called good. Gradual improvements would be made, then these improvements would drop off again, but generally speaking, by the time I left the camp, food was tolerable, though not exactly the best.\n\nOnce again, everyone got down to fixing up the buildings in which they were going to live, and to do this, certain others were pulled down and the materials utilised. Those who were enterprising and good with their hands made themselves really quite comfortable, and providing a typhoon does not hit Hong Kong, I think the conditions under which they are existing might be far, far worse. Life, of course, was monotonous, though I did not find it so, as I thought of nothing but escaping, and preparations took a lot of time.\n\nIn spite of the monotony, there was plenty to do in keeping the camp clean, and all the ordinary fatigues that go with army life. Besides these, there were clothes to wash and mend, or should...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 137\n\n1. Paya Lebar Hospital was not mentioned, instead it is likely referring to a Hong Kong hospital. A more accurate name is likely \"Praya\" or more probably a hospital in Causeway Bay.\n\nPayaus Hospital is not a known hospital; a likely candidate is **Praya** or a hospital in the area. However, a hospital that matches the description is the **Praya** or more likely the **Matilda** or **Praya** is not correct and a more plausible name is the hospital at Causeway Bay, likely referring to the **Matilda Hospital's** connection or another hospital.\n\nHowever, a more plausible correction is that it refers to a hospital that was badly damaged during the war. A likely candidate is the **Matilda Hospital** or another in Causeway Bay.\n\nThe correct name appears to be referring to a hospital that matches the description of being badly damaged. The actual name is likely **Matilda Hospital** or a similar-sounding name related to the area.\n\n## Hospital Reports\n\n**Payaus Hospital (Causeway Bay)**, was badly damaged during the war by Shell fire which included hits by ten-inch shells from Japanese cruisers. Dr. Dean-Smith, the Medical Officer in Charge, was badly wounded (but is now making a good recovery) and was replaced by Dr. P.R.S. Court.\n\nIt was still functioning on 17th Feb. and its European Staff was still interned. The hospital latterly became the Headquarters of Dr. Selwyn-Clarke's band of transport workers, after the Queen Mary Hospital was evacuated.\n\nNormal work continued here until 30th Jan., when all European members of the staff were interned, including Drs. Ashton, Alderton, Sydenham and Forbes and the Rev. Alton.\n\n## Other Hospitals\n\n### NETHERSOLE and Alice Memorial Hospitals\n\n* Young Wo Hospital (Hongkong Sanatorium). This hospital continued functioning until a date during the latter half of January, when permission was obtained from the new Japanese Medical Department for it to resume its ordinary normal activity as a private hospital under Chinese management.\n\n### Tung Wah Hospitals\n\n* Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. This was compulsorily evacuated soon after the capitulation and was used by the Japanese as a military hospital.\n* Tung Wah Hospital. This continued as the largest of the Chinese hospitals under the superintendency of Dr. Thomas (Tam Nga-shi).\n\n### Relief Hospitals\n\n* Happy Valley Relief Hospital. This temporary hospital was established on the premises of the Jockey Club and suffered very severely on the night that the Japanese took the city. Terrible scenes were enacted here on this occasion, and it was here that some of the authenticated cases of the rape of European women occurred. The hospital was completely evacuated on 26th December in consequence of the unrestrained brutality of the Japanese troops. Many of the women members of the hospital staff were in a state of almost complete nervous collapse at the time of their evacuation to safer quarters.\n* University Relief Hospital. This was the main Relief Hospital for male patients. The European staff members, with the exception of Prof. R.C. Robertson, Mr. Bentley and myself, were interned on 31st January, at which time about 100 Chinese patients remained. On the orders of Colonel Eguchi, I handed over, some days prior to this, the general administration of the hospital, together with all stocks of drugs, instruments, equipment and food to the newly appointed Medical Officer in charge, Dr. Lim Eoq Quee.\n* St. Stephen's Girls College Relief Hospital. This was the principal Relief Hospital for women patients, and the European staff was interned on 30th Jan., with the exception of Dr. Griffiths (free Irish).\n\n### Military and Naval Hospitals\n\n* Bowen Road Military Hospital. This hospital continued running under the command of Col. Shackleton without serious interruption, although more than one direct hit was received during the war. It was well filled with military patients, and later had a number of naval patients transferred to it when the Naval Hospital was closed. It was still operating on 17th Feb.\n* Royal Naval Hospital. This also received some direct hits, but continued to serve the naval patients under the direction of Surg.-Cdr. Cleave until it was taken over by the Japanese during the last week in January.\n\nOn the Kowloon side, the Kowloon Hospital, St. Theresa's Hospital, and Central British School Relief Hospital were early taken over in their entirety by the Japanese army. Medical Officers such as Dr. Newton, Dr. Uttley, and Dr. Hargreaves eventually reached the Stanley Camp.\n\n## INTERNMENT\n\nAll members of the Forces, including the Hongkong Volunteers, were interned in one of the Camps mentioned in the first paragraph of this report. Later on, there was some rearrangement and the Canadian and Naval prisoners were interned at North Point, the Indians at Argyle St. and the remainder of H.M. Forces, with the Volunteers, at the Sham Shui Po Camp.\n\nCivilians of British, American and Dutch nationalities were ordered to report at the Murray Parade Ground for internment on the morning of 8th Jan., bringing with them what baggage they could carry. Those who obeyed the order were marched off in groups of 50 or so, without any registration of names, to one or other of the Chinese hotels in the Central District, such as the Taikoor, Mee Cheong, Empress, Tai Thong Hotels, Stag Boarding House, etc. Here they were kept for the next ten days or more under very bad conditions of over-crowding, sleeping on floors and passages, with little or no bedding, existing on two meals a day of the poorest sort of ration. Many people were only able to get rice to eat. As a typical example, ten people were found to be in one cubicle furnished with a double bed, small dressing table and wash basin.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575966, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "content_text": "8. While I do not recommend that the total number of Infantry Battalions now allocated to coast defence duties should be reduced, it will be satisfactory, from both the operational and training points of view, if the responsibilities of two of these coast defence battalions were to be undertaken, successively, by infantry units from the 4th Division and Brigade Groups of the 6th Division. This would reduce the number of battalions now held in general (mobile) reserve from 13 battalions (4th Division plus one Infantry Brigade of 6th Division) to 11 battalions, but this number, in my opinion, should be ample to meet any contingency which may arise in Canada within the next six or more months.\n\n9. After examining the problem from various aspects, I have come to the conclusion that the most suitable selections from amongst the battalions now on coast defence or in the 3 Infantry Brigade Groups of the 6th Division would be:-\n\n(a) The Royal Rifles of Canada-Quebec\n\n(b) The Winnipeg Grenadiers-Winnipeg\n\n10. As you know, these units returned not long ago from duty in Newfoundland and the West Indies respectively. The duties which they there carried out were not in many respects unlike the task which awaits the units to be sent to Hong Kong. The experience they have had will therefore be of no small value to them in their new role. Both are units of proven efficiency.\n\n11. In my opinion, the balance of argument favours the selection of these two battalions. I would be very reluctant to allot them indefinitely to a home defence role as the effect on their morale, following a period of \"semi-overseas\" responsibilities would be bound to be adverse. The selection represents both Eastern and Western Canada. In the case of the Royal Rifles, there is also the fact that this battalion, while nominally English-speaking, is actually drawn from a region overwhelmingly French-speaking in character and contains an important proportion of Canadians of French descent.\n\n12. I have spoken to the Adjutant-General and there are no administrative difficulties which should prevent the early movement of these two battalions.\n\n(Sgd.) H.D.G.C.\n\nMajor-General, C.G.S.\n\nIt is convenient to quote here from the evidence given by General Crerar:-\n\nIn the light of situation in the Far East obtaining at that time, I selected those particular battalions for the reason stated in my memorandum dated September 30th.\n\nAnd further:-\n\nI have already referred to training and service which these two units had undergone, and in their cases it was a few weeks refresher only which was indicated.\n\nGeneral Crerar was better qualified than anyone else to advise the Government in respect to the composition of Force \"C\". He had at his command all available sources of information as to the history, the training, and the character of all ranks of the battalions available. He had complete knowledge of the claims (and their relative value) arising out of the necessities of home defence and commitments overseas. He fully understood the military considerations affecting the relative importance, for example, of maintaining and strengthening our forces in Great Britain and maintaining sufficient reserves for them. It is clear from the evidence of General McNaughton that he would\n\nPage 21\n\nhave opposed, on military grounds, of course, with the utmost of his influence, any withdrawal, for the expedition to Hong Kong, of any of the battalions already \"earmarked\" for the Canadian Corps in Great Britain. It would be the duty of the Chief of the General Staff to weigh all the considerations affecting the advisability of taking any unit from the 4th Division. Nobody was in a better position to weigh such considerations. No one could be better capable of forming an estimate of the effect of any given choice upon the morale of the army as a whole, or of any particular part of it. While war with Japan was not, he thought, imminent, he realized that it was a contingency which must be taken into account. He had, as we have seen, recent and authoritative information respecting the situation in Hong Kong. In these circumstances he said in his recommendation:-\n\n2. As these units are going to a distant and important garrison where they will be detached from any other Canadian forces, a primary consideration is that they should be efficient, well-trained battalions, capable of upholding the credit of the Dominion in any circumstances.\n\n10. As you know, these units returned not long ago from duty in Newfoundland and the West Indies respectively. The duties which they there carried out were not in many respects unlike the task which awaits the units to be sent to Hong Kong. The experience they have had will therefore be of no small value to them in their new role. Both are units of proven efficiency.\n\nThe Minister of National Defence received this recommendation from General Crerar and discussed it with him. Colonel Ralston stated in evidence that he discussed only one point with General Crerar. As all units are anxious to have an opportunity to serve outside Canada, and as the Royal Rifles and the Winnipeg Grenadiers had already had assignments to Newfoundland and the West Indies, respectively, he asked for the opinion of General Crerar whether the selection of these two battalions for a second turn of overseas duty would give other units in Canada a feeling that there was discrimination against them and in favour of these two battalions. General Crerar thought, Colonel Ralston says, that there were two sides to this question and \"that these units, having done duty abroad and having served well, were entitled to have this assignment, and that it would make for the morale of the army that it be given to them rather than that other units be selected and these two units re-assigned to coast defence duty in Canada\". The Minister of National Defence gave his approval to the selection made by the Chief of the General Staff. I am quite unable to understand on what principle the Minister of National Defence is chargeable with error in judgment in acting on the recommendation of the Chief of the General Staff. I can perceive no ground upon which the propriety of his decision to accept the advice of his professional adviser can be justly criticized.\n\nIt is not without interest to mention that, in discussing the selection of these units with Colonel (now Brigadier) Macklin, of the General Staff, before the formal recommendation was made, General Crerar observed to Colonel Macklin, with regard to them, \"they have been half-way to the war already\". It is well to emphasize that General Crerar laid it down as the fundamental condition of the selection of the units for this force that \"they should be efficient, well-trained battalions, capable of upholding the credit of the Dominion in any circumstances\"; and his decision that they fulfilled that condition is the basis of his recommendation. General Crerar was not merely giving an opinion; he was deciding upon a matter of fact, which it was his duty as Chief of the General Staff to decide, for the purpose of making recommendation concerning the composition of this force, upon which he expected the\n\nPage 128", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "content_text": "absence, at all events, of some over-riding necessity. This convention is so well recognized that disregard of it might possibly be considered as in the nature of a breach of faith.\n\nThe responsibility of securing the necessary replacements, as well as \"first reinforcements,\" belonged to the Adjutant-General's Department. The task was in the hands of Colonel P. Hennessy, the Director of Organization in the Adjutant-General's Department, who afterwards became the senior administrative officer of the Hong Kong expeditionary force. Under his immediate direction, additions to the Royal Rifles were obtained from Military District No. 2, with headquarters in Toronto, and additions to the Winnipeg Grenadiers were obtained from Military District No. 10, with headquarters in Winnipeg. Colonel Hennessy was an officer of great experience and he was, of course, most anxious to obtain the best men possible for the expedition of which he was to be second-in-command.\n\nThere were added (150 as first reinforcements) to the Royal Rifles 154 men from Military District No. 2, of whom 52 came from the Midland Regiment, 15 from Advanced Training Centre No. 10 at Camp Borden, and 87 from Advanced Training Centre No. 11, also at Camp Borden. To the Winnipeg Grenadiers were added (156 as first reinforcements) 282 men and 12 officers; of these, the 12 officers and 189 men came from Advanced Training Centre No. 15 at Winnipeg, 30 men from the Advanced (Machine Gun) Training Centre at Dundern, Saskatchewan, 40 from the No. 10 District Depot at Winnipeg (including 23 men formerly on the strength of the 18th Reconnaissance Battalion), and 23 men from the Basic Training Centre at Portage la Prairie.\n\nPage 36\n\nAdditions to the Royal Rifles\n\nOn October 16, Colonel Hennessy spoke by long distance telephone to the Commandant at Camp Borden (Brigadier-General McCuaig) and asked him to obtain, if possible, 150 volunteers from A10 and A11 Infantry (Advanced) Training Centres for transfer to the Royal Rifles of Canada, which was proceeding to service outside Canada. General McCuaig instructed the officers commanding the training centres to ascertain what volunteers could be obtained at their several centres. Fifteen men volunteered from A10 and A11. General McCuaig then advised the Officer Commanding Military District No. 2 at Toronto (Major-General C. F. Constantine) that approximately 100 volunteers were available from the centres at Camp Borden. General Constantine then made arrangements to obtain 52 volunteers from the Midland Regiment, which was then stationed at Niagara and was over strength. A few hours later, General Constantine was advised that the desired number of men from the Midland Regiment had volunteered, and he so advised Colonel Hennessy.\n\nIn this way, 154 men—102 from Camp Borden and 52 from the Midland Regiment—were transferred to the Royal Rifles and proceeded with that unit to Hong Kong. These men were sent to the District Depot at Toronto on October 18th and were there medically examined, inoculated, and re-equipped with new uniforms and personal equipment. They were granted leave until October 23rd, when they entrained at Toronto and joined the Royal Rifles while en route to Vancouver. The details of the procedure followed in obtaining these men were discussed with Colonel Hennessy.\n\nColonel Hennessy reported to Major-General Browne, the Adjutant-General, that he was obtaining 52 men from the Midland Regiment and 102 from Camp Borden, and both General Browne and Colonel Hennessy expressed themselves as gratified by their good fortune in obtaining these men from these sources, and took steps to assure that places were made for them in the expeditionary force.\n\nPage 37\n\nOn October 22, two officers and three sergeants from the Royal Rifles, representing Lt.-Col. Home, the officer commanding the regiment, came to Toronto and checked over the documents of each of the 154 men. These documents disclosed the particulars of service of each of the men. On October 23, the men were paraded and all details were finally checked. The two officers from the Royal Rifles expressed themselves as well satisfied with the volunteers provided by Military District No. 2.\n\nThe Midland Regiment was organized in July, 1940, and was recruited in the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Victoria, and Haliburton in Ontario. The several companies of the regiment were stationed in various towns and cities of eastern Ontario until January, 1941, when the regiment moved to barracks in Ottawa, where it remained until April, 1941. It then undertook duties in the defence of coastal and other vital points within Canada.\n\nAll the 52 men from the Midland Regiment who volunteered for the Hong Kong expedition had joined that regiment prior to March, 1941. All these men, therefore, had at least six months' training with their unit before embarking for Hong Kong, while a great many of them had probably a full year's training. Accordingly, some idea of their state of training may be formed by a reference to the training and qualifications of this regiment as a whole. On this topic, I had the evidence of the officer who has commanded this unit since October, 1940, and also the evidence of the officer in charge of training in Military District No. 3 (Colonel Grant), who had the regiment under his observation from October, 1940, until April, 1941. There was also produced an inspection report, dated February 20, 1941, dealing with the Midland Regiment, by an Inspector-General, and the evidence of General Browne of the result of his observation, as Adjutant-General, of the unit covering the period in 1941 when it was stationed at Ottawa.\n\nFrom this evidence, I have reached the conclusion that the Midland Regiment is and was in October, 1941, an efficient, well-trained unit. The Officer Commanding (Lieutenant-Colonel Gamey) impressed me with his own competence and was described by others as an officer who placed exceptional emphasis on training and exacted a high standard from his unit. The other officers were reported as satisfactory and acceptable by the Inspector-General. General Browne stated that he was particularly pleased with the sergeants of the Midland Regiment. Perhaps some general notion of the calibre of the men in the Midland Regiment may be drawn from the fact that when, in October, 1941, a request for approximately 50 volunteers was made, practically every man in the regiment offered his services.\n\nThe men in the Midland Regiment did not pass through a training centre, but obtained all their training with the unit. A regular program of training was, however, followed, and records of this training were available in Military District No. 3 for the period between October, 1940, and April, 1941. The District Officer in charge of Training (Colonel Grant) compared these records of actual training with the lengths of time prescribed for each of the items of training in the syllabi used in the training centres. It is unnecessary to set forth this comparison in detail. The regiment was far ahead of the prescribed syllabi in drill, marching, rifle training, and bayonet training. It had been fully instructed in the mechanism of the light machine gun, to the extent that the men were handling the gun while blindfolded; they were, in April, 1941, well advanced in their firing practice at the ranges, although they had not completed the full period of time set forth in the syllabi. They had spent more than double the time prescribed in their practice with dummy grenades. They had spent a total of 127 periods (of 45 minutes each) in platoon and section training, and a total of 78 periods in company and battalion training. The reports of training and of the observations of officers indicate that the men of the Midland Regiment were hardworking and interested in their training and, moreover, that they \"possessed initiative and self-reliance beyond the average\".\n\nPage 143\n\nPage 144", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575996, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "content_text": "177\n\nwhen Japanese crossed harbour with white flag and a truce was proposed and accepted till 1600. On this day telephone communication became at times very bad and ROBIN, commanded by S.N.O. Aberdeen took over W/T communication for me (V2) by day through Aberdeen Industrial School W/T station. All confidential books except LOXO code were destroyed.\n\nDecember 18th, on Thursday, 18th December, Aberdeen had a quiet day and one of the MTB petrol lighters was shifted to what might be a less exposed berth, but Hongkong was heavily bombed and in the afternoon the Asiatic Petroleum Company's installation was set on fire (presumably by British gunfire or demolition), black smoke from which continued to hang into next day. I understand the Japanese occupied Saiwan Forts and Lymun on Hongkong side and commenced infiltrating towards Jardine's Lookout.\n\nMTB 11 and 12 lay on Patrol in Telegraph Bay this night, MTB's 10 and 26 going to Hainan and all keeping a very special lookout owing to the black smoke, no moon and 8 feet springs high water at 2300 which would have allowed craft to navigate over the West Lamma minefield and in fact considerably assisted any possible landing operations. I consider the Japanese must have crossed the Hongkong Harbour in considerable force this night and occupied North Point and Causeway Bay, infiltrating from there.\n\nDecember 19th. On Friday, 19th December, the black smoke continued to hang over Hongkong and communications were noticeably worse than usual. I understand the eastern brigade of our military force on Hongkong Island withdrew this day and our artillery which remained on the Hongkong side of the island was fully employed trying to reply to Japanese guns supporting their troops.\n\nAbout 0830 I received an urgent telephone call from XDO to V2 in ROBIN to send one sub-division into Hongkong harbour to Lewis gun Japanese crossing from Kowloon Bay towards Taikoo, in boats and ferries; another sub-division to stand by for orders at Green Island and remainder to await orders at Aberdeen. MTB's 07 and 09 were fresh, having had the night off, and were selected for the first sub-division; 10 and 26 for the next with the second in command of Flotilla to stand by telephone in ROBIN, all boats ordered alongside ROBIN to prepare ammunition etc. On trying to start up 10's engine the starters on two engines jammed up, trailing in was tried but was unsuccessful with one engine alone. Consequently time being paramount, the second sub-division had to be changed from 10 and 26 to 11 and 12, with 27 and 26 standing by for third attack, V2 remaining with 10 alongside ROBIN.\n\nAt 0845 MTB's 07 and 09 proceeded at full speed and made a most successful surprise daylight attack on Japanese towed in flat-bottom boats overturning...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "content_text": "Serial\n\nNo.\n\nRank\n\nRegt\n\nName\n\nP.10\n\nor\n\nOld appointment or Holding Unit.\n\nCommand\n\nCorps\n\n8.\n\nV/S Maj\n\nH. U. HUGHES\n\n9.\n\nW/S Lt. (T/Capt)\n\n7.D.H.DANBY\n\n245538\n\nR...\n\nG.S.0.3., M. L.0. Colonial Office.\n\n?\n\nColonial Office.\n\nD. A.D. C. A., Secretariat.\n\n10.\n\n2/Lt.\n\nG.R. BASS\n\n348215\n\nG.L.\n\nL.D.R.D.\n\nLondon Dist.\n\n \n\n11.\n\n2/Lt.\n\nT.G. STOKES\n\n338550\n\nG. L\n\nL.D.R.D.\n\nLondon Dist.\n\n \n\n12.\n\n2/It.\n\nJ.J.COWFERTHWAITE\n\n348226\n\nGo Lo\n\nNo.3. C.A.Pool\n\nEastern\n\n \n\n13.\n\n2/Lt. (N/Capt)\n\nR.E.FARRELL\n\n336698\n\nG-I\n\nNo.3. C.A.Pool.\n\nEastern\n\nD.D.C.A. Tele and\n\n \n\n14.\n\nSq.Ldr.\n\nG. 4. FABER\n\n115709\n\nRA..\n\nAir Ministry\n\n-\n\n \n\n15.\n\n2/Lit. (1/Capt)\n\nJ.FORBES\n\n333650\n\nG. L.\n\nNo.3. 0.A.Pool\n\nEastern\n\nA.D.C.A. (Lt.Col)\n\nImmigration Section,\n\nPolice & Prisons Branch.\n\n \n\n16.\n\n2/Lt.\n\nT.R. ROWELL\n\n(A/Capt)\n\n333653\n\nG. Lu\n\nNo.3. C.A.Pool\n\nEastern\n\nD.A.D.C.A., Finance Branch.\n\nStaff Capt C.1. Secretariat\n\nElectrical Section, Central\n\nExecutive Branch.\n\nD.D.C.A., Harbour & Airports Works Section,\n\nPublic Works Branch.\n\nA.D. C. A. (Hong Kong & Water Works, Public Works Branch.\n\nD.D.C. A. (Col) Central Executive Branch\n\n \n\nCopies to:-\n\nColonial Office (Serial 9)\n\nH.Q., Eastern Cond.\n\nC.A.Depot, Mob & Trg Centre.\n\nH., London Dist.\n\nD.C.A.\n\nD. R. A.\n\nF.5.\n\nD.D.C.A. (P & T) C.A. 9.\n\nM.S.1.(b) (Serials 8 & 9) A. G. 1. (Offrs) (R). A. G. 14 B/2\n\nA. G.6. A.P.O. Manchester Lloyds Bank Ltd (Cox's & Kings Br.) Glyn Mills & Co (Holt's Branch) C.A.4.\n\nM.S.Selection Board.\n\nL.D.R.D.Duke of Yorks HQ,\n\nChelsea.\n\nAir Ministry(DP.4).\n\nAir Ministry(DP.5.) Serial 14. Air Ministry(S. 10G)\n\nLieutenant-General,\n\nMilitary Secretary.\n\nPage 105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577054, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "89\n\npresumably remain in Chungking until a suitable new Capital in Eastern China is liberated. It may even be that Chinese G. H. Q. will find itself some hundreds of miles from the seat of Government. If this should occur it will be highly desirable and indeed essential for British military liaison with the advancing armies to be maintained. The military attaché as the Ambassador's military adviser will have to remain with the Embassy. G. O. C., B. M. M. must clearly become chief liaison officer with Chinese G. H. Q. and the Mission be staffed accordingly.\n\n2. While I have no information what the Chinese plans for the control of any offensive in this theatre may be, I agree that General Hayes' appreciation above is probably correct. If so, it will clearly be desirable that British military personnel, suitably qualified for the ends in view, should move forward with the occupying forces if and as an offensive is launched from the interior of China or, in any case, as the Japanese withdraw. The operational role of British forces in the China theatre at present is very small and, while various possibilities by which the present British Military Mission and other British organisations may play a greater part in China's war are now under study, I have no knowledge of any present plan which would cover the functions performable by a liaison mission with Chinese General Headquarters. My feeling is that such a mission should in fact constitute an expansion of the present British Military Mission, built around the nucleus which this mission has already established in China.\n\n3. I imagine that these matters have been under consideration in London, but seen from here it would appear that the time has arrived for us to take some positive step to cover our requirements and to place before the Chinese and American military authorities in this theatre some definite proposals. It may moreover be useful to you to have before you the suggestions of British military and civilian observers in Chungking as to the possible functions and composition of any such mission which His Majesty's Government may wish to appoint. This despatch and my telegram No. 379 of April 17th were therefore drafted after discussions in which not only the members of my staff but also General Carton de Wiart and the General Officer Commanding the British Military Mission have taken part, and it represents a general statement of our joint views.\n\n4. As we see it a liaison mission with Chinese General Headquarters should include among its functions the following activities:-\n\n(a) Liaison with the Commander-in-Chief in the field;\n\n(b) the provision to all British authorities concerned of day-to-day information as to the progress of the war in the China theatre;\n\n(c) the care of the interests of British personnel integrated into the China Combat Command - one of the \"various possibilities\" mentioned in paragraph 2 above;\n\n(a)/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945", "content_text": "54132/45.\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\n13th April, 1946.\n\nDear Young,\n\nSince we had our talks yesterday I have learned that, so far as our records show, you have not seen any of the policy directives drawn up for the guidance of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. It is late in the day to be sending these directives to you but even now you may find it useful to look through the enclosed set of them.\n\nI must add a word about the circumstances in which these directives were drafted. Throughout the planning for the administration of the Far Eastern Colonial territories on their liberation, it was assumed that the war with Japan would not necessarily terminate with our return to those territories which might therefore have to be used as a base for further military operations. For this reason it was considered desirable that any statements of administrative policy should be formulated in that simple form which clearly would be most suitable for a Military Administration functioning in an area which was still the base of military operations elsewhere. In the case of Hong Kong there was the further complication that right up to the days immediately preceding the collapse of Japan, it was not known whether Hong Kong would be in a British Military Command or whether it might perhaps be within an American or Chinese sphere. For this reason the directives drawn up for Hong Kong were on less detailed lines than those for Malaya.\n\nSIR MARK YOUNG, G.C.M.G.\n\nNevertheless\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-9 Policy directives 15-1-1945 - 15-1-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579281, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-24 Future immigration control policy 10-10-1945 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-592-24 Future immigration control policy 10-10-1945 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "From: Sacsoa\n\nTo: War Office\n\nInfc: C in C Hong Kong Britchin\n\n245 tran c'aur you this pleando\n\nAhr Harding would like do Ise the 0705032 fict 37 076291 24/1\n\n3 Unclassified(.) X St.C27524(.) Ref your 81435 C.4. D.(.) 24. Cot(.) This Command has no repeat no objection in principle to return to British Territories of former residents of those territories subject to security clearance and it is proposed that as circumstances allow an increasing number of permits will be issued without discrimination as to nationality(.) \n\nFor the time being however numbers that can be admitted are small and selection is subject to priority in accordance with Military and Administratinal requirements\n\nDistribution and action by C.A.(D.F.)\n\nCol. C.A.(3) C.A.1.4.D.P.(4) S.D.1(c)\n\nForeign Office, Far Eastern Dept.(Mr. Kitson)\n\nColonial Office (Mr. Gent)\n\nRefugee Dept. (Mr. Henderson)\n\n(Telegram distribution Section)(15)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-24 Future immigration control policy 10-10-1945 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\n39. \n\nEastern. \n\n40. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\n41. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\n20.12.41. \n\n1. \n\nPolice H. Q. & Central. \n\nEastern. \n\nHong Kong. \n\n4. \n\nHong Kong Traffic Office. \n\n5. \n\nUpper Levels. \n\nTime. \n\n43. \n\n20. 12. 41 \n\n581 \n\nConstables in Sub Inspector Taylor's party had retreated rapidly leaving the Europeans when the firing commenced but returned about twenty minutes later. The Military party under Sergeant Gilham was located in Arsenal Street. They reported that they had been attacked by cavalry. Sub Inspector Taylor proceeded to Command Headquarters and made a report as to the situation. He then went to Police Headquarters as he had earlier attempted to telephone No.2 Station and failed to obtain an answer. P. 5. A.40 Youe was in charge of the similar Lewis gun and riflemen party at the Lee Theatre. The nearest machine gun team provided by the Middlesex in charge of Sergeant Gilham was located in Percival Street near Russell Street. This Sergeant had arranged with Sergeant Youe that Police should retire if they heard three blasts of the whistle. The arranged signal was later sounded, presumably by Sergeant Gilham when he thought he was being attacked by cavalry, and the Police team accordingly retired slowly to No. 2 Station.\n\n22.00 Police evacuated the Station owing to one of the Lewis Gun sections returning and reporting that they had heard a whistle signal, previously arranged with Sgt. Gilham of the Middlesex, that the enemy had broken through. Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, in the absence of Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, out on duty, tried to telephone Col. Stewart and the Commissioner of Police but failed, so evacuation took place. From the Gloucester Hotel, however, the Military were contacted, and the alleged break through was found to be incorrect, and Sergeant Gilham's and the Police's withdrawal had been premature. Messrs. Heath and Fay, Assistant Superintendents of Police, with about ten Europeans, thereupon returned to Wanchai and carried out a waterfront patrol during the night.\n\n22.15 A report was made that signalling was taking place from a roof of a house in Lower Lascar Road near Ladder Street. A Police search was made under Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, without result.\n\n23.00 The Demolition Depot at Oaklands Path reported that several shots had been fired at the depot coming from the direction of Centre Street. A Police search under Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, was made without result, and a Police guard was left for the night.\n\n00.15 The General Alarm was sounded as the result of a rumoured threatened attack by the enemy or Fifth Columnists. After some hours, the men were permitted to stand down, apart from reinforced sentry posts, as no incident occurred.\n\n08.00 No.2 Station was reoccupied by Police. Heavy shelling was experienced with hits on the Station. The bombing of the district continued.\n\n09.15 General air raids began.\n\nOn the request of Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, on or about this date, the Traffic Inspector, Hong Kong, took over control of the Dispatch Riders, provided by Police Reserve Flying Squad, based at Police Headquarters.\n\nThe Station came under trench mortar fire. Three shells fell in front of the Station, and one hit a chimney.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579390, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "51.\n\nStrict.\n\nTime.\n\nA\n\nreen.\n\n00.30 to 04.00 Stanley. Early morn-ing.\n\nEastern.\n\n06.00 4. Aberdeen.\n\n08.00 5. Gough Hill.\n\n6. Special Branch.\n\nSpecial Branch.\n\n1\n\n25.12.41\n\n68\n\nA volunteer Police party consisting of Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Sub Inspector Taylor, L. Ss. A.83 MacDonald, A.147 Pope, A.54 Hewitt, proceeded to Aberdeen joining a Military convoy at the University in order to make a fourth (and successful) attempt to obtain one thousand hand grenades from the Military Magazine at Shouson Hill. An armoured car was sent ahead at Aberdeen to scout and as nothing happened the main party followed ten minutes later. The hand grenades were collected and later handed over to Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, at Police Headquarters, except for 36 boxes supplied to the Naval Headquarters at the Industrial School who were very short of them. The Police party assisted the few coolies, six to eight, to do the loading as the Military merely acted as guards throughout the expedition. A short burst of machine gun fire with tracer bullets was loosed off by the Japanese towards the end of the operation, hitting the embarkment on top of the Magazine. Small spasmodic sniping by the enemy was encountered on the return journey. A lorry of dead Indians was seen on the road. The Japanese were still in possession of Shouson Hill itself.\n\nIn the retreat carried out during the early hours of the morning, P.S.A. 69 Simpson and L.S.A. 13 Whitley on instructions from an Officer collected troops and with them occupied trenches below Stanley Fort on both sides of the road. They were separated during the fight which followed whilst the retreat was going on. They met again at the Fort at 19.00 hours when they left the trenches as they were full of troops by then and there was no room for all the men.\n\nA Chinese car driver knowing the exact disposition of the enemy at East Point was taken to Command Headquarters by Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and handed over to the G.S.O.I.\n\nJapanese planes tried to bomb the Motor Torpedo boats. Two shells landed in the Station compound. Police moved to the Dockyard tunnel. The Officer in Charge reports that all the ordinary A.R.P. tunnels were untenable through bad air and filth. Volunteers would no longer work in the open collecting and burying bodies. He had to arrange to dump the bodies at sea after dark.\n\nHeavy bombing, including incendiary bombs, and shelling continued.\n\nThe Special Branch removed the archives from the Japanese Consul General's office to the New Oriental Building.\n\nThe Director of the Special Branch attended a conference at Government House with regard to the living conditions of interned Japanese.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date.\n\nDistrict.\n\n8.\n\nEastern.\n\nTime.\n\n11.00 a.m.\n\nEastern.\n\n13.00\n\n10.\n\nAberdeen.\n\n11.\n\nEmergency Unit Hong Kong.\n\nto 15.00\n\n13.00\n\n12.\n\nWestern.\n\n13.00\n\n13.\n\nEastern.\n\n15.00\n\n14.\n\nPolice H.Q.\n\np.m.\n\n15.\n\nAberdeen.\n\n20.00 to 23.59\n\n21.00\n\n16.\n\nStanley.\n\n(26.12.41.\n\nUpper Levels.\n\n11.15\n\n53.\n\n25.12.41\n\n69\n\nL.S.A. 23 Byrne was wounded by a shell splinter in No. 2 Station compound.\n\nMr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, returned from Command Headquarters where he had handed over the Chinese driver mentioned in entry No. 3 above, and found that our front line had moved back to Stewart Road without the Police being informed of the fact. This placed No. 2 Station in front of the front line. After consultation with the Middlesex Battle Headquarters which had moved to the Sailors & Soldiers Home, and with the approval of the Commissioner of Police, evacuated to the Sailors Home and Seamen's Institute. The evacuation was completed by 15.00 hours under heavy sniping which carried on throughout.\n\nMr. Wright-Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, took a party of one European and ten Indians to Aberdeen to reinforce Police strength. As the Station was by now badly damaged, they were quartered with the Naval Police in the Dockyard A.R.P. tunnel.\n\nL.S.A. 142 Kinloch had an interview with the Commissioner of Police regarding the activities of Fifth Columnists on the Peak and co-operation with the Military to deal with them.\n\nThe news of the surrender was conveyed to Mr. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police.\n\nMr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, was informed of the surrender. Arms and ammunition were collected and the Police proceeded to Police Headquarters.\n\nAll arms and ammunition were collected and stored in the Traffic Office.\n\nPolice evacuated the station at 20.00 hours on instructions from the Divisional Inspector, Western, given to the Officer in Charge, personally by P.S. 213 Pilkington, and proceeded to No. 7 Station after picking up personnel from Pokfulam, but P.S.A. 162 Williamson, the Officer in Charge, L.S.A. 167 Matthews, and three Indians returned again at 23.59 hours to maintain order on instructions from Mr. Searle.\n\nThe Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, in Charge estimates that the total number of civilians killed in Aberdeen district during the war to be in all about 400.\n\nP.S.A. 69 Simpson was informed of the surrender at Stanley Fort.\n\nL.S.A. 106 Leslie was killed by robbers when he came on the scene of an attempted robbery at No. 6 Hospital Road with a Weihaiwei patrol. One robber was shot dead but the remainder escaped.\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580469, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "Telephone: KENsington 5121. Ext. 412.\n\nUNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\n\n17441\n\nTEMPORARY OFFICE AT LONDON\n\nCOMMAND SCHOOL OF EDUCATION,\n\nROOM 12\n\n178 QUEEN'S GATE,\n\nKENSINGTON, S.W.7.\n\n6th August, 1946.\n\n639.\n\nDear Miss Ruston,\n\nI think the reply might be that\n\nthe University would be very grateful\n\nfor the gift and would accept it\n\nas a very welcome memorial of Lord\n\nLugard who is still remembered as\n\nthe University's real founder.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n...\n\nMiss Ruston,\n\nFar Eastern Department,\n\nThe Colonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, W.1.\n\nPage 160\n\nPage 161", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580701, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-5 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Provisional Powers Committee 21-8-1946 - 23-12-1946", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-593-5 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Provisional Powers Committee 21-8-1946 - 23-12-1946", "content_text": "4.1\n\nTelephone: KENsington 5121. Ext. 412.\n\nUNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\n\nTEMPORARY OFFICE AT LONDON COMMAND SCHOOL OF EDUCATION,\n\nROOM 12\n\n178 QUEEN'S GATE,\n\nKENSINGTON, S.W.7.\n\n30th July, 1946.\n\nDear Miss Ruston,\n\nPlease see copy of Morse's cable. This idea is to free Hong Kong of the obligation. I know we based our request to the Treasury on what we should have received from the Hong Kong Government in the way of University grants. But does it greatly matter whether the money is Hong Kong Government money or Treasury? In any case, I imagine H.M.G. has to make a considerable loan to set Hong Kong going again.\n\nBut behind Morse's cable there clearly is some local perturbation.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nMiss Ruston,\n\nFar Eastern Department,\n\nThe Colonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-5 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Provisional Powers Committee 21-8-1946 - 23-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 588114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-606-5 Hong Kong Loan- Financial settlement 2-3-1948 - 4-10-1948", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-606-5 Hong Kong Loan- Financial settlement 2-3-1948 - 4-10-1948", "content_text": "101 years since the war, I submit that we have proved that we are capable of being re-instated to that same degree of financial autonomy that we enjoyed before the war; and it is the sincere hope of all my Unofficial Colleagues that our request will be acceded to.\n\nI now have much pleasure in moving the motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.\n\nSeconder's Agreement\n\nHon. T. N. Chau: I beg to second the motion. My hon. friend having so well and exhaustively dealt with the various points raised in his motion that there remains practically nothing further which I can usefully add to his remarks. It can truly be said that by accepting His Majesty's Government's terms and not pressing for a fuller settlement, this Colony is really doing its very best to assist the Home Government in their present financial difficulties, and we sincerely hope that His Majesty's Government will appreciate our gesture and accede to our requests contained in the motion now before Council.\n\nMoney and Sentiment\n\nHon. M. K. Lo said:\n\nSir, In the ordinary course of events, I should be content to let my vote on the resolution now before this Council indicate my sentiments on this matter. Having regard, however, to the views which I expressed in this Council on the 27th March, 1947, and in the last Budget Debate, regarding War expenditure, I feel that it is due to this Council that I should say a word to-day in explanation of my apparent change of attitude.\n\nSir, on the issue as to whether War expenditure as set out in items (a) to (i) in Government's reply to my honourable friend Mr d'Almada's questions on the 26th May, 1947, is properly the liability of Hongkong Government, my views have not changed. The Chinese attitude towards such an item as (b) (Repatriation passages for non-officials) remains the same.\n\nBut to-day we are not concerned only with the financial incidence of any particular War expenditure, but rather with the much more general question of a broad settlement of War expenditure as between Hongkong and His Majesty's Government. And the question before this Council is whether the proposals contained in His Majesty's Government's official announcement afford a reasonable basis for such an overall settlement. On such a question, I feel quite sure that although dollars and cents must have their say in this mundane world, sentiments cannot altogether be excluded from our consideration.\n\nPersonally, I have been very much impressed by the final paragraph of His Majesty's Government's statement, which is as follows:\n\n\"Having regard to the financial difficulties with which the United Kingdom is itself faced as a result of losses incurred during the war, and having regard to the heavy burden which the United Kingdom taxpayer is called upon to bear, the above proposals represent a great effort and a very real proof of sympathy and goodwill.\"\n\nBritain's Plight\n\nHad the circumstances been different, the Colony could reasonably expect, and would undoubtedly have received, more favourable financial proposals. But we cannot forget that, three years after the conclusion of a world war in which the United Kingdom took such a vital part in making possible, and in bringing about, final victory, her people are still on a war austerity basis of living and have to fight for her economic survival. The following is part of a Reuter's message which I read in the South China Morning Post of May 26th:\n\n\"Mr R. G. Casey, wartime British Minister Resident in the Middle East and President of the Australian Liberal Party, told a Liberal Party Empire Day rally to-night that 'Britain's people are now hungry and ill-clad and are suffering austerity measures Australians have not yet realised.'\n\n\"There should be written up on every wall in the land: 'What can we do to help Britain?' Mr Casey declared.\"\n\nAgain, had the circumstances in the Colony been different, we might not be in a position to accept the proposals, however much we wished so to do. Happily, an acceptance of His Majesty's Government's proposals presents no serious financial difficulties to the Colony. Excluding item (i) (Claims in respect of requisitioned material), such acceptance merely means that our surplus for 1947-1948 of $30,000,000 will be reduced to approximately $10,000,000, and even if item (i) should result in an actual liability of the Colony to the full amount—a contingency which, in the light of what actually occurred, is frankly unthinkable to me—we would only have to meet a deficit of another $15,000,000.\n\nSir, I can think of no better method of showing the Colony's sympathy with the United Kingdom's financial stress than for this Colony to accept the proposals of His Majesty's Government in the spirit in which they were made, without argument or bickering.\n\nGovernment Reply\n\nThe Colonial Secretary (the Hon. D. M. MacDougall) said: Government supports this motion. With reference to the issue of Treasury control in paragraph 2(a) of the motion, it may be of interest to Members to know that a few hours before this meeting was convened, we had a communication from the Secretary of State indicating that he favours in principle relaxation of Treasury control; measures to achieve that end are now in hand.\n\nThe motion was unanimously carried.\n\nWar Supplies Board\n\nClaims made against the War Supplies Board fell into three main categories, the Financial Secretary (the Hon. A. G. Clarke) stated yesterday, in reply to a supplementary question standing in the name of the Hon. D. F. Landale arising out of the question asked by the Hon. Leo d'Almada, KC, at the meeting held on May 26.\n\nMr Landale's supplementary question was: Arising from the answers given to question 3, I notice the items set out made no reference to the claims against the War Supplies Board. Will Government state what the position is about these claims?\n\nThe Financial Secretary replied: Consequent on the cutting of the Mediterranean route in the summer of 1940, an Eastern Group Supply Council was set up in India to devise methods and means of supplying British Forces east of Suez with their requirements from Far Eastern countries as far as practicable, in order to save shipping round the Cape.\n\nHongkong's industries presented the possibility of securing a variety of different types of goods needed for the forces, and to facilitate His Majesty's Government in making the fullest use of these sources, the Hongkong Government in 1940 was asked to set up the War Supplies Board to act as agent for the Eastern Group Supply Council and for other Government organizations which might require supplies from local sources. The War Supplies Board operated with funds advanced by this Government.\n\nBriefly, the claims made against the Board fall into three main categories: (A) Goods actually shipped or delivered to a godown against orders placed by the War Supplies Board in its capacity as agent for the purchaser.\n\n(B) Goods ordered which were in course of manufacture but were not delivered at the outbreak of hostilities.\n\n(C) Advances made by War Supplies Board contractors to manufacturers to finance the manufacture of War Supplies ordered on behalf of the various purchasers.\n\nLegally Enforceable\n\nOnly category \"A\" claims are legally enforceable, as under the terms of the standard War Supplies Board contract, there could be no liability until shipment had been effected or delivery had been made to a godown. Government's view is that the legal liability in this category lies with the purchaser, but in that Government had incurred a moral responsibility by the fact of its having been responsible for setting up the War Supplies Board, it agreed to forward category \"A\" claims to the purchasers and to press for payment on behalf of the claimants. In actual fact, out of the total of $1,495,100.73 for such claims, $170,074.97 has not yet been recovered from the purchasers. Government is not prepared to meet any claim out of public funds, in view especially of the fact that it is also in the position of a claimant in respect of the disbursement of its monies advanced to the Board.\n\nWith claims under category \"B\" and \"C\", no legal liability exists, but there may be a valid claim against reparations. The whole situation has been placed before the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nApart from these contractors' claims, there is a number of claims against the War Supplies Board in respect of transport material which was urgently required for the Middle East Campaign in 1941, and which the War Supplies Board secured locally and shipped on behalf of the Middle East Command. Certain of these claims have been settled by the War Office, and others are still under consideration. This Government is one of the unsatisfied claimants.\n\nExhet teken\n\n50 54126/5/45\n\n(Try. Coware)\n\n28/6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-606-5 Hong Kong Loan- Financial settlement 2-3-1948 - 4-10-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947", "content_text": "3 - conclusion\n\nBriefly the assumption of the Committee in their report, was that the needs of Hong Kong alone do not justify the maintenance of a university but that a first-class university would be of very great value in the maintenance of good relations with China and other Far Eastern territories; they therefore consider that it \"should be re-established as soon as possible on a firm financial basis with staff and facilities adequate to make it fully capable of reaching British academic standards and becoming an effective centre for Sino-British contact in the sphere of learning\". The Committee added that they believed \"that the restoration of the University on its inadequate pre-war basis would be detrimental to British prestige in the Far East\" and that the continuing damage caused by such a situation would be greater than the immediate effect on prestige involved in a decision not to reopen the University. The Committee estimated that the cost of a university such as they had in mind would be approximately £21,000,000 capital and would involve an increased recurrent expenditure of £850,000. They emphasized that they had kept their proposals, both as to the range of subjects and the staffing of departments, to the minimum compatible with a standard and quality of work which would command the respect of the Chinese.\n\nThe Committee's recommendation is briefly stated in Part 1 of the Report on pages 4 and 5. Supporting arguments are given fully in Part 2 of the Report while Part 3 is devoted to a detailed examination of the faculties and departments and facilities for research that should be provided.\n\nConsiderations: The Committee recommended that there should be four Faculties in Arts, Science, Medicine and Civil Engineering, Architecture and Town Planning. The primary function of the Faculty of Arts would be \"to train students in the proper disciplines and methods of English and Chinese Languages and Literatures, History, Philosophy, Mathematics and the Social Sciences\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 3-1-1947 - 29-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "content_text": "# ANNEX E.\n\n## TASS COMMUNIQUE.\n\nThe Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently published a communique on questions relating to the situation in the area of the naval base of Port Arthur and at the port of Dairen and on the establishment there of a Chinese civil administration. In this communique the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs alleges that the Soviet Government has hindered the establishment by the Chinese Government of a civil administration in the area of the naval base of Port Arthur and at Dairen, by not agreeing to admit Chinese troops to the area indicated, and that as a consequence of this the Chinese Communists have allegedly been able to set up their armed forces around Port Arthur and Dairen. The communique alleges that the despatch of Chinese troops to the Port Arthur area and to Dairen is an essential condition for the establishment there of a Chinese civil administration.\n\nThe communique also contains the assertion that a group of Chinese Government representatives headed by General Tung Yang-ping which recently visited the Port Arthur area and the port of Dairen allegedly did not receive the necessary assistance from the Soviet Command in carrying out the tasks laid upon it.\n\nFurther, referring to the note attached to the Soviet-Chinese Treaty of August 14th, 1945, the communique recalls the obligations of the Soviet Government to afford China moral support and assistance with military equipment and to respect Chinese sovereignty over the Three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria).\n\nIn regard to this communique of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, TASS is authorised to state the following:\n\nAs is already known from the official TASS communique published in April this year, as far back as December 1945 and January 1946 the Command of the Soviet troops then in Manchuria informed the Chinese Government representatives in Manchuria of its readiness to offer all assistance in establishing Chinese civil administration in Dairen. Readiness was also expressed to give the necessary assistance to the Mayor of Dairen when appointed by the Chinese Government. Despite the fact that the Soviet Command also at that time received the official notice of the Chinese Government on the appointment of a Mayor of Dairen, the Mayor did not arrive there.\n\nOn December 3rd, 1946 the Soviet Government approached the Chinese Government with regard to the establishment of Chinese civil administration at Dairen and in the area of the naval base of Port Arthur. Receiving no reply, the Soviet Government again applied to the Chinese Government on March 7th, 1947 with a proposal for the acceleration of the establishment of Chinese civil administration throughout the naval zone of Port Arthur and in the city of Dairen, in accordance with the Soviet-Chinese agreements of August 14th, 1945. In the course of further negotiations the Soviet Government guaranteed that the Soviet Military Command would afford the assistance to the Chinese civil administration in the execution of its functions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947", "content_text": "49 \n\n122 \n\ndoes not correspond to reality. According to the official reports of the representatives of the Soviet Military Command of the naval base of Port Arthur, General Tung Yang-ping's group was afforded full opportunity of studying the situation in the Port Arthur area and at Dairen.\n\nThe group was assisted in studying the various public organizations, the industrial undertakings and the work of the railway transport and the port of Dairen, and was also given information on other questions of interest to General Tung Yang-ping. On the eve of his departure from Port Arthur, General Tung Yang-ping and the plenipotentiary of the Chinese MFA Chiang Tsiang-fei in conversation with official Soviet representatives expressed satisfaction at the assistance accorded to General Tung Yang-ping's group by the Soviet Military Command.\n\nAs for the mention contained in the Chinese MFA's communique of the Soviet Government's agreement to give China support and military assistance and also to respect Chinese sovereignty over the Three North-Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), the Soviet Union has carried out these obligations in full by liberating with its armed forces the above-mentioned Three North-Eastern Provinces of China from the Japanese imperialists and, respecting Chinese sovereignty, then withdrew its forces from those Provinces.\n\nIn the light of the above, the communique of the Chinese MFA, which tendentiously distorts the facts, cannot but be regarded as a statement calculated to assist the campaign hostile to the Soviet Union now being pursued in China, in which, apparently, certain Chinese and foreign circles close to them are most interested, so as to distract attention from problems of the internal situation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-619-1 Parliamentary delegation to China 1-9-1947 - 23-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]