[ { "id": 255380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "# War Office\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of the Home department, in order to the said declarations which have been duly examined, returned in order that the same may be submitted to your Grace in support of this application. Is your &c. But was informed that such papers could not be returned. May it therefore please your Grace to take this memorial into favourable consideration and to grant to your humble petitioner a certificate confirming the rights and duties of British subject in conformity with the rules provided for such cases. Your petitioner will ever pray.\n\nLondon, 25 September 1852\n\nJacob Arnhold \nMontpelier Villas \nLaurie Road \nSydenham\n\nMemorialist and who is a native of Hamburg, a Chinese merchant, who is about to return to Hongkong to make application for a certificate of Naturalization which will confer on him the rights of a British subject in that Colony.\n\nDraft.\n\nEd. Zimmermann \nSolicitor \nAgent for the above-named Jacob Arnhold \n5 Claremont Square, N \nLondon\n\nInform him that he must apply to the Local Authorities as it is not in the power of Her Majesty's Government to assist him.\n\nThe Back of \nMR. J 9852 \nbr\n\n## Letter from Ed. Zimmermann\n\nLONDON, 5, CLAREMONT SQUARE, N. JULY 1862.\n\nPermit me to inform you, that I am prepared to give assistance in any legal proceedings to be transacted abroad. Being a Foreign Advocate and also an admitted English Solicitor, and acquainted therefore with the requirements of English as well as Foreign Law, I should hope to be of service with regard to matters connected with International intercourse. I usually visit Austria, Prussia, and the other German States, and Belgium and France during the long vacation, and shall leave London in the middle of August.\n\nMy offices and addresses are:\n| Location | Address |\n| --- | --- |\n| in LONDON | 5, Claremont Square, N. |\n| in PARIS | 34, Rue des petites écuries |\n| in BERLIN | 26, Mohrenstrasse |\n\nAny communication directed to either of the aforesaid places will receive immediate attention.\n\nAs regards my references, I may state that I am well-known at the Imp. R. Austrian Embassy and Consulate General, at the R.R. Prussian, Bavarian, and Hanoverian Embassies and Consulates in London, and that I have the honour to be a member of the Incorporated Law Society of Great Britain.\n\nI shall consider it an agreeable duty to undertake with care and promptitude any matter you may entrust to me, and remain,\n\nYours obediently, \nEd. ZIMMERMANN, L.L.D.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280542, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "ill fitted to win the approval of ev\n\ning the question, and filled with sere sibility?\n\n22. His Excellency has not a whighest\n\nment is really more respected now, experie\n\nhave been permitted to enter the Beersed a\n\nlong ago that the Government was unable sup.\n\njew\n\nning\n\nhaunts. They know now that the overment is confess it. They also know that write in the colony is aced more ough to than a third, whilst larceny amongst survante, a crime gently able to gaming losses, is sever five per cent. Tess than had been before the licences were issued.\n\ntracë-\n\n23. The Governor further der the existence of that great sean-dal and discontent\" at the Gourmt policy, which the commiuse assert to prevail \"here and on the of China.\" That policy was inaugurated with the unanimous approval of the Executive and Legis lative Councils. It has been for a series of years a measure favoured by the local experience of each governor and his advisers. It has now been removed from the region of mere speculation and experiment, and proves that it is possible by its agency to suppress the gross evils inseparable from illegal gambling dens of iniquity. Moreover, the \"scandal and discontent\" are each comparatively limited, as well in duration as extent, for here they are chiefly but recently generated by the reaction of an agitation maintained in England by well meaning persons, ignorant of the circumstances which have produced and which justify that policy. Such ignorance is perhaps natural, but the com-parisons of Hong Kong with Heligoland and Baden most forcibly and aptly illustrate the unfounded inferences to which it leads.\n\n24. Therefore unless by direct command of Her Majesty's Govern-ment, with which the responsibility of the change would then rest, his Excellency is not prepared to abandon the important results already obtained for any mere sentimental objection, or because irrepressibly arises from the policy, by which on the whole the greatest revenue still good can be effected. He would personally be delighted to get rid of that revenue if the committee would only make some practicable sug-gestion enabling him to do so without stcrifieing the power which he now has over the licensees, and which as yet he sees no safe means of dispensing with.\n\n25. In conclusion, I have to state that his Excelleney is well aware he had no actual claim on the committee's attention, except to request their correction of a misstatement of a fact. Nevertheless, as a mem-ber of their association, he craves indulgence for the additional remarks which he has instructed me to make on a subject of some interest to a body established to discuss the most important social questions.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nContinental\n\nIntelliger\n\nNORTH GERMANY.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).\n\nHAMBURG, December 1.\n\nthe captain was enabled to make his scape. What adds to the o\n\nof the story is the domestic complication of affairs that ensque from wife having mourned his loss and the married again; and the now finds her surrounded by a numerous progeny in addition left behind.\n\nRear-Asimiral Petz, with the ships forming the Austrian expedition the Far Ea has arrived safely braliar, and left that port on the time by it to Morocco is not stated, 21 of Bovimber for Tangiers. What his object is in wasting precion\n\nand Norway has appointed Mr. William Robertson, of Ningo, to be Vice- By Royal Decree dated Stockholm, November 11, the King of Sweden Consul a at part, under the Consulte-General at Sunghai.\n\nCOMMERCIAL.\n\ns is no altera-\n\nin great request and stocks again nearly exhausted. A cargo (2,540 chests) has just arrived from China, but is not yet in the market. Flores agais Rice callandi no sales reported except for consumption. Cassia Ligne rising. Pepper and Cardamoms also higher. Iu teas: tion. A sudden demand has sprung up for refined camphor, which ha created a rise, and none is now to be had under 20 sch. beo. per lb. Nothing 18.7 for spring delivery. has been done in Spelter; the nominal quotations are 18.10 loco, and\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nARRIVED.-Falcke, from Macao (Cassia Lignea).\n\nSALLEL-Papa, to Shanghai; ward, to Hong Kong; Tellus, ta Akyab; Alice, to Macassar and Heng Kong; Wilhelm, to Bangkok: Honolulu, to Bangkok; J. H. Jessen to Singapore and Penang; Maria\n\nMiles, to Hong Kong,\n\nN.B. The Maria Miles came into collision with the Swedish brig Ve-randa, off the mouth of the Elbe, lest bowsprit and cutwater, and has returned to liamburg to repair damages.\n\nSHIPPING AT REMERHAVEN, lieu, for Kangoou (4,016 bags rice, 500 chests catch); Devonshire, for ARRIVED.-Tordenskiold, for Rangoon (6.590 bags rice); E. Von Beau-\n\nrice); Senator Iken, for Rangoon (18,000 bags rice); Moonbeam, for Bassein (11,425 bags rice); Sarah Newman, for Bassein (13,300 bags Rangoon (10,000 bags rice).\n\nHOLLAND.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nof the departments of Foreign Affairs and Justice baving already been The discussions upon the Budget Have progressed must rapidly; those\n\nROTTERDAM, December 1.\n\napproved of by a very large majority, and the remainder are expected to pass without delay, From tho debates I gather some matters of interest for your readers in the Far East. I a former letter I wrote you that the Finance Minister had rejected the claims put forward by Dutch merchants in Japan for compensation for losses arising out of the late hostilities which the Allied l'owers were engaged with Japan, They, however, wi not content with this decision, and a second endeavour has been made course by their influence, in the Second Chamber of the States General obtain a grant of compensation. The members dealing with the th chapter (Foreign Affairs), Messrs. Heydenryck, Pynappel, and Vird Verbrugge, proposed as an amendment to grant a sum of 8.44.757.84 State Commission appointed to examine the claims. The mercha the applicants. This amount was just half the sum proposed by supported this amendment by an alldress, in which they again ondea-veured to prove the justice of their claims. The motion gave rise to a very lengthened debate. Mr. Heydenryck, in order to elucidate the grounds of the proposal, referred to the large number of documents rela-five to the matter, and said that the State ought not to absorb the entire Casembroot gave his opinion that since the King had approved the rejec profit of the indemnification paid by the Japanese Government. Mr. de tion of these claims, the question was at an end. He was astonished at the proposal being made again, but now that it was doce he also had an' amendment to make, which was to grant a sum of 25,000, en hebulf of expedition, and which is now invalided. Mr. Gratana demonstrated that. the Royal Navy, especially for the division which took part in the said\n\nHe opposed the grant, and preferred to support the amendment of Mr. de the traders ought to claim compensation of the Japanese Government\n\nMr. Heyden yek. He said that there was no lawful ground upon which Casembroot. Mr. Godefroi also declared himself against the motion of the State could be called upon to indemnify these traders. Mr.Van Voort-huyzen disapproved of the proposal on the grounds that our traders not put forward any claim of a similar nature. Mr. V. A. Linden said transporting their merchandise to China, which involved costs, for which that the traders had acted against the advice of the English admiral, by they now sought compensation. Several other members also took part in the discussion, and the result was the rejection of Mr. de Casembrout's motion by 46 against 18 votes, and that of Mr. Pynappel, C.S., by 53 against 11 votes, which I think will bet the affair finally at rest. discussion of the budget. Mr. Van Delden said that Holland vught not Another question with regard to Japan was brought forward during the be represented there by an ambasador but by a consul-general. He finished his speech with a philippid against Mr. Polsbroek, which was replied to by Mr. de Casembroot, who demonstrated the necessity that a diplomatic mission should remalu in Japan, and that the chef\" ought to bear the title of minister. After the reply the matter dropped. From again denied the existence of any foundation for the rumours which were the further discussions I only find that the Minister of Foreign Affairs set in circulation, respecting negotiations between Bolland and France to establish a commercial and military convention. Such negotiations the Minister declared bad never taken place, and he stated further that we were on the most friendly terms with all the Powers.\n\nNow that the Prassian Consulates in China have been transformed into German Federal ones, and the salary of the Consul-General in China is transferred to the budget of the Confederation, it has become needful to place on the special Prussian estimates the sums required for the salary of the Envoy at Feking (who has hitherto received the salary of the Con-sul-General), and those of the other officials of the bassy. These will now tigare among the expenses of the Foreign Department, and of course are subject to the approbation and consent of the House of Representa-tives; but when the question is brought forward it will no doubt be a matter for the consideration of the members whether it is expedient to have in future a specifically Prussian Legation at Peking, in addition to the Federal German Consulates already existing in other parts of the Chinese dominions. The subject will probably give rise to an interesting debate, and meet with some opposition, as in the face of the serious deficit in the revenue, great economy is required to make things straight again, and there will be but little inclination to increase the burdens of the tax-payers in Prussia by the creation of new and superfinous appointments, the salaries of which might easily be shifted to the Federal Budget, and be borne by all the twenty-two States composing the North German Confederation in proportion to their population, the more so as the sub-had no more right than the English, French, and Americans, who had jects of all of them are placed under the protection of the Ambassador, be be called Prussian or Federal. Whed the subject was discussed in the last session of the German Parliament, on the occasion of voting the estimates for the Federal budget, it appeared as if the Prussian Govern ment wished to retain the Embassy in China as a Prussian establishment, and of course the members of the Federal Parliament made no opposition, heing only too glad to escape being addled with the payment of the salaries, whilst their fellow-subjects in China enjoyed the same protection as the Prussians. It is now a subject between the Prussian Government and their own Parliament, and simply almoney question; for the appoint-to ment of the Ambassador and the patronage of the inferior offices is placed in both cases in the hands of the King of Prussia, either in bis capacity of sovereign or as President of the North German Confederation. The Germanic Lloyd's,\" established last year for the classification of German shipping, have just published the first number of their Interna-tional Register, with an explanation in German and English of the abbreviations and signs used, as well as the tables for the measurement of shipping and the tarif of charges. It contains a list of the 273 merchant vessels that have hitherto been classified,\n\n&\n\nA strange story is related in a Bremen leval journal, announcing the return to that city of Captain Oldejan, of the Bremen ship Amulia, who bad not been heard of for several years and was supposed to be dead. It appears, however, that he lost his vessol in the China Seas, but, managed with his crew to reach an island where they were kindly received and well treated; but the inhabitants would not allow them to leave, and it was only by means of a well-planned and leverly executed stratagem that\n\nYou will remember that the Finance Minister recently proposed to of the stamp duty now levied on ewspapers Some Amsterdam and augment the import duty on tea, as partial equivalent for the abolition Rotterdam houses have addressed the Second Chamber of the States General, petitioning them to reject this proposal, because an increased daty would greatly prejudice the interests of the ten trade. The Hague\n\nHongkong.\n\nLorial Luna Opo\n\nThe bentang to\n\nMe\n\nAntered\n\n757\n\nNational Association\n\nfor the promotion\n\nof Social\n\nMeet 1/2/69\n\nEn Johmion\n\nSu Wand ford\n\nLovence\n\nAel2d 1387\n\nCopy for. 2o. 16-4 Feb 1869-\n\n4 Feb 186.\n\n22\n\n1869\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\n1800\n\nI am directed\n\nGrail Grauwith\n\nacknowlag\n\nThe wicht\n\non the 284444\n\nof your\n\nletter\n\nthe\n\n14 Jaur, & 8\n\nα\n\nthe temorial from\n\nThe National Association\n\nfor the Promotion of Social Secence -\n\non the subject of leccused in. Hongkong Sambling\n\ns of the as\n\naformu.\n\nMemorial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 185, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "## Confidential\n\nThe \n\nMy Lord, \n\nof years \n\n71130 \n\nGerman Embassy. \n\nJune 1874 \n\n183 \n\nAlready for a long series of years the grievous abuses connected with the shipment of Chinese \"coolies\" to foreign countries, designated by the name of \"Coolie Trade\", have attracted the attention of civilised states, and induced them to consider the means which might be adapted to afford effectual remedy.\n\nThe several Governments have tried various ways for this purpose, but the object arrived at has not been attained. It was the British Government which first attempted to put a stop to the coolie trade by passing the Chinese Passenger Act.\n\nEarl of Derby \n\n`74&S40137`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 295044, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 268, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "Houghong; and I am to request that, laying these Papers before his Lordship, you will move him to inform Lord Derby what answer should be returned to Count Munster's note, which, as Lord Carnarvon will see, has crossed your letter of yesterday.\n\nYour most obedient humble servant\n\n9282 \n74 \n265 \nGerman Embassy July 20/12 \nMayford, 1874.\n\nI had the honor to receive from Earl Granville a copy of a report from the Royal British Governor of Hong Kong, from which it appeared that the German firms of \nEarl & Darby and Paul...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301514, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "## By 121 Elas Subaris German Embassy gad det. 1897.\n\nThe Lunch. Gost intends to abolish the German active Consulate at Hongkong and at the same hour appoint the Lump: Consell at Canton, Sherr von Poder, as consul at Hongkong. At the latter place however the purpose is to install a Vice Consul to discharge the current business and to be under the supervision and direction of ... & Des...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; you had discovered that the Foreign Office, by inadvertently failing to place before you a full report, had allowed to be bought in a public despatch, an unfounded insinuation against the care and accuracy of our Ambassador at Rome in his official statements concerning how the Attachés to our mission in Italy could best become Italian; had rejected the opinion and recommendations of that Ambassador and of the Staff of the Embassy; had ignored the Civil Service Commission in England, and their constituted Board of Examiners; and had released the decision of the accuracy of the Ambassador's assertions, founded on the authority of learned Italian scholars, and a Missionary of discredited German ex- antecedents and character, and Ansare who had exposed himself to the just and severe criticism of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who was, moreover, wholly ignorant of the Italian language (properly so called).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332840, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "441\n\nC\n\nJune 14/86\n\nFranciation\n\nCount Hatzfeldt\n\nའ-ན\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMr.\n\nThe Smerun of\n\n193\n\n71.\n\nKangkong. 196/86.\n\nSouth Australia No 465\n\nMetoren No 58 J\n\nhaw birth Walys. 57\n\nMINUTE.\n\nJust. 22. June 1886\n\nMr. De Robeck 22\n\nMr. Wingfield. 22\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade,\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\n22\n\n22/2\n\nMr. Osborne Morgan.\n\nLord Granville.\n\nhusbration Dept to see.\n\n24\n\nFeb.\n\nBrug 186\n\nVictorin 19197\n\n205718\n\n9124758\n\nRombing EC: Arty feeds 264fril to\n\n3Af\n\nCopy 7.0\n\nMy And\n\n24th\n\nJune 1886.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you the\n\naccompanying copy of a memorandum, delivered\n\nby Count Berlimarich Envoyé Extraordinary\n\nand\n\nMinister Plenipotentiary of H.M; the German Emperor in Berlin\n\nto H.M; Ambassador at Berlin, in reply to it from the Earl of Rosebery, relative to\n\na request made by the German Embassy at this Court that certain mail vessels subsidized;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332994, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "the Governor of Hongkong a copy \n\nof German Government, a translation \n\nthe note Verbale of the \n\nof which accompanied the letter from this office of the 26th ultimo, \n\nand to instruct him to give \n\nevery \n\nassistance in his power \n\nto the Vice Consul in the \n\nprosecution of the sailors who \n\ntook the opium \n\non board the \n\n\"Marie \" in Hongkong \n\nû \n\n15697 \n\nranslati \n\nAug 21.1886 \n\nIn his 2. Malets no 573 \n\ncopy of the note Verbale in translation is sent herewith. \n\nI am, her \n\nYour most obedient, \n\nhumble servant, \n\nP. 10 fai \n\n0.0. \n\n346 \n\nnote Verbale 16307 \n\nIRECT \n\nSEP O \n\nIn acknowledging the \n\nreceipt of the note Verbale of auth ult: respecting a dispute which has arisen between \n\n24 \n\nthe Imperial Vice Consul von Möllendorf & the Hongkong Authorities, the F.O has the honour to reply as follows \n\nto the Note Verbale of the British Embassy of 24th April \n\nlast \n\nThe F.O agrees with H.B.M's Govt that the German \n\nConsuls\n\nCorrected version with proper HTML formatting and adherence to the given instructions:\n\n1. Corrected \"7.0\" to \"F.O\" as it likely stands for \"Foreign Office.\"\n2. Changed \"&\" to \"&\" to ensure proper HTML encoding.\n3. Maintained the original content and structure as much as possible, using tags for paragraphs.\n4. Did not include any markdown or code fences in the output.\n5. Preserved the original characters, spaces, line breaks, and page numbers as per the instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Acknowledged subject of the Austro-Hungarian Government.\n\nHis Excellency is therefore about to add the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject, and the matter will be left to be adjusted with the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in London.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nFrederick Hervart\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Johnny Oct\n\nMr. De Robeck\n\nMr. Wingfield\n\nMr. Bramston\n\nMr. Meade\n\nSir R. Herbert\n\nLord Onslow\n\nSir H. T. Holland\n\nM. Ebden\n\nSeen\n\nThis came to me with the despatch about the German Lunatic Lady, & My Gausse, with DS Oct 9440 Akuy\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch no. 110 of April last respecting the costly maintenance of an Austro-Hungarian subject Lunatic in the Hongkong Asylum and to express regret that an oversight had occurred. This despatch had not been previously answered.\n\nIt appears that the patient in question was sent to the Hospital by the Austrian...\n\nPage 193\n\n...\n\n(To be continued from previous page)\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350514, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "## REOP C.O. 179\n### 846 German Embassy, London, Jan: 8.1892 (Ref 15 JAN 32)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn accordance with my instructions, I have the honour to transmit herewith to Your Lordship a statement of the II Civil Court of the Tribunal of Kiel with 2 documents concerning the lawsuit brought by the heirs at law of Captain Johannsen Stemmersam against the testamentary executor committed by his wife to the property of her husband, who died before her; & I have to ask Your Lordship to be so good as to supply the information requested therein. It is also requested that these documents be returned.\n\nMarquis of Salisbury Kg.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 49, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# No.112.\n## Commercial\n\nMy Lord:-\n\n**BERLIN.** \nSAP 22 APR 98.\n\n16th April, 1898.\n\nPage 46\n\nI have the honour to forward to Your Lordship herewith, a copy of the new Law, with translation, which I have received from Mr. Harriss Gestrell, Commercial Attaché to this Embassy, relating to \"Postal Subventions to Shipping Companies\". This Law was passed early in the month in the Reichstag; and grants a yearly subsidy of £75,000 to the North German Lloyd Company for a fortnightly service to China. Their former contracts and this new one are to be jointly continued for fifteen years.\n\nI have &c., \n(Signed) \nFrank C. Lascelles.\n\n**The Marquess of Salisbury. K.G.,** \n&c., &c., &c.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374550, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 623, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "619\n\nand in spite of their efforts to prevent it.\n\nI have privately communicated the substance of\n\nthis Note to the German Embassy.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nEdmund Monson.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378943, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 757, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## GERMAN EMBASSY, LONDON\n\nEG? 21 SEP 00 \n745 \nSeptember 15th, 1900.\n\nMy Lord:- \nThe steamer \"Arragonia\" of the Hamburg-America line, which is to leave Hamburg for the Far East shortly, will take to Hongkong for the firm of Meyer and Company of that place four cases marked: \n`M/C/3464 Hongkong` \n`M/3464` \n`C/7/3461` \n`C/5461` \n\ncontaining ten Mauser self-loading pistols, cal. 7.65 mm with appurtenances and six thousand cartridges.\n\nAs no suspicion attaches to the consignment, the Imperial Government have given permission for its exportation on condition that the articles shall be addressed to the Imperial Consulate at Hongkong, in order that the Consulate may decide whether they are to be handed over to Meyer and Company.\n\nThe Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., \n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379014, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 828, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## My Lord:-\n\n0.\n\n**GERMAN EMBASSY, LONDON REGISTRY**\nNovember 5th, 1900.\n816\n\nThe firm of Kunst and Albers of Hamburg despatched to the Far East on the 22nd of September last 50 cases of arms and ammunition on board the steamer \"Arragonia\" of the Hamburg-America line, and on the 17th ultimo 25 cases of arms and ammunition and 517 casks of shot on board the steamer \"Prinz Heinrich\" of the North German Lloyd.\n\nThe goods are to go via Hongkong and the greater part of them are for the Vladivostok branch of the firm of Kunst and Albers. Only one chest of the consignment sent by the \"Arragonia\" is intended for the Port Arthur branch of the firm.\n\nAs no suspicion attaches to the goods, the Imperial Government have authorized their exportation on condition that they are addressed to the \n\nThe Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.,\n&C., \nImperial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379018, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 832, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "# EIGH \n## OFFICE \n## REL \n\n2.0. \n\nBe it a \n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE.** \n\nNovember 10th, 1900. \n\n820 \n\nSir:- \n\nI am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a note, which has been received from the First Secretary of the German Embassy, requesting that instructions may be sent to the British authorities at Hongkong to allow the exportation from that place of a case of arms despatched from Hamburg and intended for S. J. Bogdanoff of Khabarowsk. \n\nI am to request that, should Mr. Secretary Chamberlain see no objection, instructions may be sent as desired. \n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble Servant, \nFrancis Bertie \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office. \n\nCaron Eckhardstein November 1900", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379019, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 833, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "My Lord:-\n\n**REL**\n\nReceived Nov 20\n\n**GERMAN EMBASSY, LONDON, November 6th, 1900.**\n\n821\n\nThere is on board the steamer \"Sambria\" which recently left Hamburg, a case of arms marked S. J. B. T.T. and Company 6808 Habarofsk, despatched by Wilhelm Bauart, merchant, Hamburg, and intended for S. J. Bogdanoff, of Chabarovsk.\n\nAs Bauart addressed the consignment to the Imperial Consulate at Hong Kong or to its Order, the Imperial Government raised no objection to its exportation.\n\nThe Imperial Consulate at Hong Kong, to which the Bill of Lading has been sent through the Imperial Government, has been instructed to send the goods to the Imperial Commercial Agent at Vladivostok.\n\nThe Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 842, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "# RECEIVED 17 NOV 00\n## 830\n### GERMAN EMBASSY, LONDON.\nNovember 13th, 1900.\n\nMy Lord:-\n\nOn board the Steamship \"Princess Irene\" which recently left Bremen for Eastern Asia 54 cases of Arms and Ammunition were shipped by Messrs. Kunst and Albers of Hamburg and consigned to their branch-house in Vladivostok.\n\nAs the consignment is addressed to the Imperial Consulate at Hong Kong, the German Government raised no objection to the export of these goods.\n\nThe Consulate, to which the bill of Lading was forwarded, has been instructed to re-ship the goods to the Imperial Commercial Agent at Vladivostok.\n\nThe German Agent has however been instructed only to deliver these cases to the Firm entitled to receive them if he is convinced, that any employment...\n\nHis Excellency,\nThe Marquess of Lansdowne,\n&c., &c., &c.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "4 \n\nstocks being liable to mildew cannot be kept for long, and that it is greatly to the advantage of China to give every facility to the mills. I have further informed him that, as the Tariff makes no provision for taxing cereals sent abroad, the China Flour Mills are prepared to pay a duty of 5 Haikuan taels per bag of 50 lbs. for the permits, which roughly speaking is the equivalent of 5 per cent. ad valorem. The Viceroy has now civilly but definitely refused to grant the permits, and the China Flour Mills must get rid of their surplus as best they can.\n\nWhile of course the Viceroy is within Treaty rights in refusing to allow the export of flour to foreign countries, it is difficult to understand his short-sighted policy. With flour selling at about 2d. a pound, a large stock in hand, and a bountiful harvest in prospect, it is surely good policy to allow the mills to reduce their surplus, and at the same time contribute to the revenue. You will be conferring a great boon both on the British Company and on the Chinese themselves, if you can induce the Central Government to make some concession on this point, with any restrictive safeguards they may wish. Under present conditions the vast granary of the Yang-tsze Valley is being rendered useless and its agricultural population ruined.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n5 \n\nIf, as you hold, the export of flour abroad should come under Article 2 of the Rules of Trade, it should be duty free, but if the payment of duty would facilitate negotiations on the subject there would be no objection on the part of the flour mills to an export duty. This would check over-export, and bring in a considerable revenue to the Chinese Government. The present price of the flour produced by the mills is 1 dol. 80 c. per bag of 50 lbs. for best, and 1 dol. 20 c. for coarse, or say an average price of 4 dollars per picul of 1331/3 lbs.\n\nAt 5 per cent. ad valorem this would be 20 cents. per picul. A specific duty should, however, be fixed for 50-lb. bags on this basis. It would be most advisable that Taotai's permits should not be required for the export, as experience has shown to what unlimited extortion and delay such permits lead.\n\nTrusting I have made the matter clear, and earnestly requesting your cordial support for this new and promising industry.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD,\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 3.\n\nActing Consul-General Mansfield to Mr. Townley.\n\nShanghae, July 8, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No. 14 of the 1st instant, with regard to the Viceroy's refusal to grant permits for the export of flour from Shanghae.\n\nThe Viceroy's refusal to grant these permits is based on the fact that flour is ground wheat, and that the exportation of all grain whatsoever is prohibited by Treaty (Rule 5, paragraph 3). He also alluded to the impending scarcity in the north, and to the fact that in September, 1900, at the Consul-General Warren's request, his predecessor, the late Viceroy Liu, had, as a special favour, granted a permit for a part of the amount applied for on the clear understanding that it should not be taken as a precedent. He further mentioned that he had last year refused a similar request of an American, and used the well-worn argument of the necessity for protecting the food supply of the people.\n\nA brief history of the China Flour Mills Company, Limited, the pioneer in this new industry, may be of use.\n\nThe Company was formed in 1896 and came into operation in December, 1897. The flour was at first shipped in the ordinary way, duty free, through the Customs to Vladivostok, no permit being required. This apparently went on till 1898, when a firm at Tien-tsin proposed to start a Company to manufacture flour, and asked the Commissioner of Customs if export abroad would be allowed, and, after reference to Peking, received an answer in the negative. On representation being made that the export was allowed in Shanghae, the Shanghae Customs was instructed to disallow the export abroad, with the note that if the manufacturers of flour desired other treatment they should apply to their Minister.\n\nIn August 1899, accordingly, Messrs. Schärff and Co., who, though General Managers of the British Company, are a German firm, applied to their Minister, the late Freiherr von Ketteler. I have the honour to inclose translation of his reply, covering the correspondence with the Tsung-li Yamên on the subject. (It is noteworthy that he does not claim as a Treaty right the export abroad of flour.) In August 1900, Consul-General Warren applied, under conditions similar to the present case, to the late Viceroy Liu Kun-yi for a permit for the China Flour Mills Company, Limited, to export their surplus stock of 100,000 piculs, and his Excellency as a special favour granted permits to export half that amount. This is the case referred to by the present Viceroy.\n\nIt does not appear therefore that hitherto the export of flour abroad has been claimed as legal under Article 2 of the Rules of Trade annexed to the Treaty of Tien-tsin, but its authorization has been asked for as a concession, and as sound policy under industrial conditions not existing when the Treaties were made.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 3.\n\nBaron von Ketteler to Messrs. Schärff and Company.\n\nImperial German Embassy, Peking,\n\nSeptember 9, 1899.\n\nIN reply to your letter of the 4th August, I beg to say that, based upon the particulars placed at my disposal, I have again written (on the 24th August) requesting a conditional restriction of the export prohibition of the mill's products, and attach copy of my letter.\n\nYou will observe from the inclosed copy of a reply from the Tsung-li Yamên, dated the 4th September, that the Tsung-li Yamên has again declared that they are unable to agree to your wish for granting a permit for a limited quantity.\n\nIt is therefore much to my regret that, at present, I cannot hold out hopes of a successful carrying on of the correspondence, but as soon as a favourable opportunity offers, I shall take up the matter again, and shall not fail to inform you later on of further steps taken in this matter.\n\nThe Imperial German Ambassador,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 3.\n\nVON KETTELER.\n\nBaron von Ketteler to Prince Ch'ing and the Tsung-li Yamên.\n\nPeking, August 24, 1899.\n\nREFERRING to my letter of the 10th July, transmitting a request from the German firm of Walter Schärff and Company to cancel an export prohibition of the products of their flour mill.\n\nThis request has not been acceded to on the plea that through such export scarcity of food supplies would be arrived at. Your decision has been passed on to the firm in question, and I am now requested to reply that the question of a decrease in food supplies will not be raised by such export.\n\nThe mill in question manufactures two kinds of flour, viz., fine flour and coarse flour.\n\nThe fine flour is not consumed to any extent by the poorer classes, but principally by foreigners living in China, and by people living in adjoining countries. The other product is coarse flour, which is consumed by the working classes living in China. Only the fine grade of flour, which is not required even in times of scarcity, is wanted for export, while the coarse flour remains in the country. Both grades of flour are made simultaneously. Without fine flour a mill cannot make coarse flour. The larger the quantity of fine flour, the more coarse flour is made for the consumption of the poorer classes. The export permission would therefore assist the manufacture of food for the masses.\n\nAttention is further drawn to the fact that in this year, owing to a rich wheat crop, prices of wheat have declined considerably.\n\n304", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 706, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n702\n\nC.O\n\n40153\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 28]\n\nHERP 28 NOV C\n\nSECTION\n\nMr. Whitehead to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received November 14.)\n\n(No. 250.) My Lord,\n\nBerlin, November 12, 1904. WITH reference to your Lordship's telegram No. 58 of the 7th instant, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy and translation of a note verbale which I have received from the Imperial Foreign Office, stating that the German Government are not satisfied with the proposed alterations in the Chinese Trade-mark Regulations, and that the German Ambassador in London has been instructed to approach your Lordship on the matter.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. B. WHITEHEAD.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nNote Verbale.\n\nTHE Ministry for Foreign Affairs has the honour to inform the British Embassy, with reference to his Excellency the Ambassador's Memorandum left on the 8th instant on the question of the new Chinese Trade-mark Regulations, that the German Government do not consider that the changes proposed by the Chinese Government are calculated to protect those interested from the dangers which threaten them if these Regulations are already in force. It seems to the Imperial Government, therefore, now, as formerly, desirable that the adjournment of their coming into force should be obtained in Peking.\n\nThe Foreign Office has the honour to state that the Imperial Ambassador in London has been informed of this view, and has been instructed to approach the British Government in this sense.\n\nBerlin, November 10, 1904.\n\n[2236 6-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 564, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\nNo. 1\n[July 21]\n557\n\n## SECTION 1\nC.U.\n\nThe Marquess of Lansdowne to His Majesty's Representatives at Washington (No. 155), Tokió (No. 142), Vienna (No. 76), St. Petersburgh (No. 276 A), The Hague (No. 54), Brussels (No. 67), Lisbon (No. 42), Madrid (No. 103), Copenhagen (No. 35), and Stockholm (No. 10).\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, July 21, 1904.\n\nUNDER an Order in Council of the 2nd February, 1899, it is open to a foreigner whose trade-mark has been infringed by a British subject in China to take proceedings against the latter in the British Consular Court, provided-\n\n1. That the consent in writing of His Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires be obtained to the prosecution; but\n2. Such consent may be withheld unless His Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires is satisfied that effectual provision exists for the punishment in Consular or other Courts in China of similar acts committed by the subjects of the State or Power of which such prosecutor is a subject.\n\nBy correspondence with the French, German, and Italian Representatives in this country, it has been ascertained that provision exists for the punishment in the Consular Courts of France, Germany, and Italy in China of subjects of those countries should they infringe British trade-marks, and the necessary information has been given to His Majesty's Representative in Peking and to the Representatives there of the three countries mentioned to enable them to carry out the arrangements desired by their Governments for the mutual protection of their trade-marks.\n\nI request that you will inquire whether the Government to which you are accredited would be disposed to conclude a similar arrangement with His Majesty's Government.\n\nCopies of the Order in Council of the 2nd February, 1899, and of the correspondence which took place last year with the Italian Representative at this Court on the subject are inclosed for your information and guidance.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) **LANSDOWNE**\n\n### Inclosure 1. in No. 1\n\nSignor Carignani to the Marquess of Lansdowne.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nItalian Embassy, London, July 30, 1903.\n\nTHE Government of His Majesty the King, my august Sovereign, being desirous of coming to an arrangement with the other Governments with a view to secure reciprocal protection of trade-marks in China, have now instructed me to bring the following to the knowledge of your Lordship:-\n\n1. In virtue of the civil and penal jurisdiction which is intrusted to the Consuls and Consular Tribunals of His Majesty the King of Italy, and which they exercise in China, they are competent to take cognizance of all claims which may be presented to them respecting the counterfeiting of trade-marks by Italian subjects.\n2. So any claim which English manufacturers may have to present to them in order to obtain protection for trade-marks, duly registered in the Kingdom of Italy, as against Italian subjects, shall henceforward be adjudicated, in the first instance, by the Consular Tribunal, and, in the last instance, by the Court of Appeal at Ancona.\n3. The right of property in trade-marks is regulated in Italy by the Law of the 30th August, 1868.\n\nI have the honour to request your Lordship to be good enough to take note of this Declaration, and to inform me whether Italian subjects will be able to invoke the same legal protection in China, on the part of the English Consular authorities, in all that concerns their property in trade-marks duly registered in Great Britain.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **CARIGNANI**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403669, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nCHARLES S. CHAMPNESS\n\n### Letter from Native Preacher, Yenping\n\nOn the 26th of the 6th moon, in all the places of Yenping City, the \"Seng Sz\" affixed to the walls of the city copies of a placard emanating from the Shanghae Boycott Committee, forbidding the purchase of American goods. Although these placards do not involve the church, yet the people of the city, when they see this Proclamation, say, \"This is treating our fellow-countrymen in a most barbarous manner.\" They also say, \"Mr. Main, Miss Hartford, and Miss Linum have appeared to be good people, but their goodness is false goodness.\" Others say, \"Let us first prevent the sale of American goods and then drive out the Americans themselves and their converts.\" If these placards are posted up in Song Chiong, Ciong Lok, Sa-going, Ing Ang, and other counties, there will be still further trouble for the churches.\n\nAs I hear these words, I cannot but fear that great trouble is coming for the churches. Please acquaint Miss Linum and Dr. Skinner with this, and carefully take what steps you think best to preserve the church, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n### Doyen of Consular Body to Tsung Shan\n\n**American Embassy, Foochow, China, August 22, 1905**\n\nIt has been brought to the notice of the various members of the Consular Body at this port by their nationals residing or travelling in the interior, that placards, announcing the boycott of American goods, have in several instances been so worded as not merely to dissuade the people from purchasing goods of American origin, but to excite their feelings against foreigners generally.\n\nAttention has been particularly drawn to those placards posted in the Yenping Prefecture, in the city and elsewhere, which are stated to be of such a nature that it is apprehended that at no distant date the popular passions they are arousing will find vent in outrages against foreigners and their property.\n\nIn this instance the local officials have not merely refrained from putting a stop to the publication of such dangerous documents, but it appears that they have stood by while the gentry of the prefectural city themselves were engaged in posting them up.\n\nMy object in this communication, as representative of the Consular Body, is to warn your Excellency of the serious consequences that must ensue if, under cover of the boycott, anti-foreign placards are allowed to be spread broadcast throughout the country, especially if official countenance is lent to it, as by the action of the gentry of Yenping City.\n\nWith the boycott of American goods this Consular Body has no concern, and whether the Chinese elect to purchase such goods or not is a matter of indifference to them, but they cannot view with the same indifference the serious danger to foreign life and property which must result from the popular excitement caused by the propaganda, and they deem it incumbent upon them to remind your Excellency of your personal responsibility in the matter.\n\nI entertain no doubt whatever that your Excellency has every intention of affording full protection to all foreigners, but I would point out that a time must come sooner or later when popular feeling will get beyond control, and the officials, in spite of their best efforts, will be powerless to avert the catastrophe.\n\nThe fact that the propaganda in the interior is really due to a desire to spread a general anti-foreign movement, and not merely to the wish to boycott American goods, is amply evidenced by the fact that no boycott in the interior can be necessary, inasmuch as if the boycott is carried out goods will not get into the country at all, or in any case no further than the ports.\n\nI trust, therefore, that your Excellency will take the necessary measures before it is too late that you will instruct the officials throughout the Province of Fukien that no placards are to be posted up and no literature circulated which is calculated to stir up the people against foreigners, and incite them to excesses. I further trust that your Excellency will address a strong reprimand to the officials of Yenping City for having permitted the gentry to take an active part in the posting up of the placards, and will deal severely with those of the gentry who so unwarrantably lent their support to the proceedings.\n\nIf this is done speedily it is hoped that any impending trouble may be averted; failing this we cannot but feel the gravest apprehensions for the future.\n\nI may add that the various members of the Consular Body are reporting to their Ministers in Peking on this subject.\n\nI take this opportunity to wish you joy and promotion.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| SAMUEL L. GRACEY | American Consul and Doyen of the Consular Body |\n| N. SCHOUISKY | His Russian Majesty's Consul |\n| T. NAKAMURA | His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Consul |\n| L. FLAYELLE | Consul for France |\n| BERTRAM GILES | His Britannic Majesty's Consul |\n| J. C. OSWALD | Her Netherland Majesty's Consul |\n| H. WINTZER | His German Majesty's Acting Consul |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407831, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 295, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[39660]\n\n290\n\n[November 26.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir M. Durand to Sir Edward Grey.-\n\n(Received November 26.)\n\n(No. 194.) Sir,\n\nWashington, November 11, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 31 of the 22nd February last, inclosing copy of a note from the Secretary of State, in which the objections of the United States' Government to section 25 of the draft Regulations for the registration of trade-marks in China are set forth and certain amendments proposed, I have now the honour to forward to you herewith copies of a further note and inclosures which I have received from Mr. Root on this subject.\n\nFrom the correspondence inclosed in this note it will be seen that the United States' Government have withdrawn their objection to Article 25, on the understanding that the following addition be made to Article 7, viz.:-\"The right of priority shall extend only to such trade-marks as have been registered in a foreign country after the going into effect of the law.\"\n\nOn the acceptance of this amendment by the Governments interested the United States' Minister at Peking will be instructed to accept the project.\n\nI wish to point out that the first paragraph of Mr. Root's note of the 15th instant contains a slight inaccuracy. The note of the 17th February, to which he refers, did not inclose a Memorandum, but dealt directly with the question.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. M. DURAND.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nExcellency,\n\nMr. Root to Sir M. Durand.\n\nDepartment of State, Washington, October 15, 1906.\n\nIN my note of the 17th February last I had the honour to inclose a copy of a Memorandum regarding the protection of trade-marks in China, in reply to the Memorandum of the German Ambassador of the 18th January last.\n\nIn a note of the 12th May the German Ambassador submitted some remarks of his Government on this Memorandum, which have had my careful consideration, and I have now written to the German Ambassador that this Government is prepared, on certain conditions, to withdraw its objection to section 25 of the project for the protection of trade-marks in China formulated by the Representatives at Peking of Germany, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Great Britain.\n\nI have the honour to inclose, for your information, copies of these two notes. Upon the acceptance by the Governments named above of the addition to Article 7 as stated to the German Ambassador, the American Minister at Peking will be instructed to agree to the project formulated by the Representatives of the above-mentioned Powers.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nELIHU ROOT.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nM. von Sternburg to Mr. Root.\n\nImperial German Embassy, Washington, May 12, 1906.\n\nMr. Secretary of State,\n\nTHE Memorandum of the State Department of the 17th February last, concerning the regulation of the protection of trade-marks in China, has been laid\n\n[2241 cc-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411040, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 217, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Article 6 \nof a delegate appointed by their superiors, and be directed to present a true statement of the facts of their case; and, without consideration as to whether their craving for opium is heavy or slight, they will be given six months within which to give up the habit altogether. At the expiry of this period they must apply for an officer to be appointed to examine them again, and enter into a bond, which will be filed. If they become seriously ill and fail to break off the habit within the stipulated time, they may represent the facts to their superiors, in which case any hereditary title they may possess will be transferred according to the proper rules of succession to another to hold, and, if they are officials, they will be retired with whatever rank they may be holding. If it be discovered that they are holding back the facts and infringing this rule by means of deception, they must be impeached and degraded, as a warning against any such trifling and deceit.\n\nIf the superior authorities are lax in examining, they shall be reported to the Throne for the determination of a penalty.\n\nFurther, all teachers and scholars in any schools or colleges, and officers and warrant officers of the army or navy, who are addicted to opium shall be dismissed within three months.\n\n## Article 10\nTo enter into negotiations for the prohibition of the import of foreign opium in order to close the sources of supply.\n\nThe prohibition of the growth of opium and of its consumption is a measure of internal policy which we are justified in taking without further circumspection. But the question of foreign opium, which is imported from other countries, impinges on our foreign relations, and the Imperial commands should therefore be sought to direct the Board of Foreign Affairs to make a satisfactory arrangement with the British Minister with a view to effecting an annual decrease within the next few years of the import of foreign opium pari passu with the decrease of native opium, so that both may be absolutely prohibited by the expiry of the time limit of ten years.\n\nBesides Indian opium, the drug is also imported from Persia, Annam, and the Dutch Indies in no small quantities. In the case of Treaty Powers negotiations should similarly be entered into with their Representatives in Peking to effect the prohibition of such import; while with non-Treaty Powers we can exercise our own prerogative in strictly forbidding the import.\n\nAll Tartar Generals, Military Lieutenant-Governors, Governors-General, and Governors should also direct their subordinate authorities and Commissioners of Customs to take preventive measures along the trade routes and frontiers to stop smuggling.\n\nAs regards morphia and the instruments used for its injection into the skin, the effects of which are even more injurious than those of opium itself, proper effect should be given to the stipulations laid down in Article XI of the British Commercial Treaty, and Article XVI of the American Commercial Treaty, and instructions be issued to all custom-houses to disallow the import of any morphia and instruments into China which are not for medical use; while a strict prohibition must be enforced against any shops in China, whether native or foreign, manufacturing morphia or instruments for its injection.\n\n## Article 11\nAll Tartar Generals, Governors-General, and Governors of Provinces should direct the civil and military authorities in their jurisdiction to issue Proclamations promulgating these Rules for general observance.\n\n**This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.**\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[2329]\n\n**(No. 257.)** Sir,\n\nNo. 1,\n\n214\n\n4802 [January 21.]\n\nSECTION 7 FEB 07\n\nMr. H. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 21, 1907.)\n\nTokió, December 24, 1906.\n\nTHE question of the necessity of protecting trade-marks against piracy for use in China, by an Agreement with Japan on the subject, is occupying the attention of the German Embassy here.\n\nSir John Jordan, in his despatch No. 469 of the 13th ultimo addressed to the Foreign Office, pointed out the necessity of such an Agreement in the interests of British trade-marks.\n\nThe German Embassy has inquired of His Majesty's Embassy whether the British Government has any understanding with the Japanese Government on the subject. I understand that the desire for such information was with a view to an Agreement between Germany and Japan similar to any such Convention or understanding as might exist between Great Britain and this country.\n\n[2324]\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **HENRY CROFTON LOWTHER**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 365, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "# 363\n\n## DOMESTIC\n\n### Office en-lndividual\n\n### Foreign\n\n1908 \n25 Jan \n7 \n\n### Last previous Paper\n\n$9 \nSalarizo \nTONG KONG \nNo. 2915 \n\n**(Subject.)** \n**RECE** \nC.O. 2915 \nRec 27 JAN 08 \nSalaries of for: Officers \nLuciss Embassy \nmemo drawn up by ferman on subject of pres for? and that statements thereof may verified \n\n156405-W. 8. 1,.--392-- \n2560--11-7, \n25613-W. & L.-10- \n25000-11-07 \n\n### Next subsequent Paper\n\n**(Minutes,)** \nMr Fisses \nmentales \nThere and a lot of figures. \nTheirs Riaschanians \nI think can't understand \nI think the have been pulling the Imperial leg. \nI submit a draft which ought to have confined myself to the more essential points, saying nothing about the minor absurdities of family remittances which preceded exchange compensation \n815", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415671, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 366, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "# \nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No. 2515/08`.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, \nForeign Office, \nLondon.\n\nRece \n`C.O. 2915` \nRE: 27 JAN 08,\n\n## \n364 Colonies \nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \nhis compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the \nColonies \nand is directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to \ntransmit the accompanying copy of a memorandum communicated \nby the German Ambassador at this Court requesting verification of certain information as regards the salaries of \nGovernment officials at Hongkong.\n\nThe Secretary of State would be glad to be advised \nwhat answer should be returned to the German Embassy.\n\nForeign Office, \nJanuary 25, 1908", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415678, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 373, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "# Hong Kong \nF.0./2915/08 \n15- \n371 \n**DRAFT** \n## UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE \n## FOREIGN OFFICE \n\nDowning Street, \n18 February, 1908. \n### MINUTE \n\nMr. Stubb @ 12 \nSir, \nMr. Feldes 10 \nMr. Just. \nMr. Antrobus, 14 \nMr. Cox. \nSir \nMr. Lucas. \n.44 7. \nSir F. Hopwood. \nMr. Churchill. \nThe Earl of Elgin. \n\nFor cars?? Table in envelope `hermitte 67-0`. There are three copies. Tury sho \n\nI am directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter `2515/08`, of the 25th of January in which you forwarded a copy of a memorandum, received from the German Embassy, on the subject of the salaries of Government officers in Hong Kong.\n\n2. The earlier part of the memorandum contains a number of inaccuracies, and it would be difficult to amend it so as to bring it into accord with actual facts.\n\nLord Elgin...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416431, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 596, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n589\n\nC. O. T8960\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[May 11.]\n\nRM 26 MAY 08\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n[16108]\n\n(No. 94.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 11.)\n\nTokió, April 15, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit a somewhat striking leading article from the \"Japan Times\" of the 10th April, entitled \"Policy of Exclusion in Manchuria.\" The \"Japan Times,\" it should be said, is a Japanese paper, though published in English, and is the organ of the Japanese Foreign Office.\n\nThe article in question deals with the attitude adopted by the American Consul in Harbin, as reported in recent telegrams, in which he refuses to acknowledge the Russian right of exclusive jurisdiction in Harbin. Why this question has suddenly come to the front is not quite clear.\n\nThe American Consul appears to have raised the same question as long ago as October 1906, on the occasion of his first arrival in Harbin. I quote from Captain Salmond's Report, which was forwarded to me in your despatch No. 197 of the 17th September last:--\n\n\"Was he\" (the American Consul) \"going to open the Consulate inside the Russian Settlement or outside?\n\nThe Consul replied that he would open the Consulate inside their Settlement, as they were pleased to call it, but he added that he recognized no Settlement.\n\n\"He reported his action to Peking, and was informed that the American Legation had received assurance from the Chinese Government that the Russians had no right whatever to the Settlement they were claiming.\"\n\nThe American Embassy here, who receive copies of all Mr. Fischer's despatches, state that when the question was recently raised, Mr. Fischer was at first alone in his protest, the Japanese Consul siding with the Russian contention. Eventually the German Consul appears to have stood by his American colleague.\n\nThe attitude of the Japanese Consul is perfectly intelligible, as what happens to-day in Harbin may happen to-morrow in Mukden and other towns lying in the Japanese sphere, but the line followed in the inclosed article in supporting the attitude of the American Consul is not so easy to follow as coming from a Japanese.\n\nThe article first quotes clause 2, Article III, of the Portsmouth Treaty to the effect that Japan and Russia engage to restore entirely and completely to the exclusive administration of China all portions of Manchuria,\" and then Article IV, in which the two Powers engage \"not to obstruct any general measures common to all countries which China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria,\" the very Article which Messrs. Pauling adduced as their strongest argument for the right to build the Hsin-min-tun-Fakumen extension.\n\nI understand that the subject has not been alluded to between the American Embassy and the Japanese Government, but if the Japanese Government should decide to uphold the American contention in support of China's sovereign rights it might at the present moment be a very politic move, when there are so many outstanding questions between China and Japan, and especially in view of the boycott in South China which, though at present not serious, might easily become so.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\n[2960 1-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416562, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 727, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "720 \n\n2 \n\nWhen it comes to dealing with individual Japanese on such a basis, it is quite another thing. From earliest times, it has been apparently the inalienable right of the white man in the Far East (and elsewhere) to treat the Oriental—in this case the Chinaman—as an inferior being, and to behave accordingly. When, therefore, the Japanese not only object to being treated as inferior beings, but actually claim and put into practice the inalienable right of the white man, the latter is apt to view the proceeding with displeasure.\n\nMuch has been said about the commercial morality—or rather immorality—of the Japanese. Without in any way wishing to defend this point on their behalf, I do not think the foreigner has much right to sit in judgment. Owing to the great commercial depression now obtaining in Japan, there have been several failures in the number of business concerns; amongst these, two very old-established German firms have suspended business. The head of one of the principal English banks in Japan told me that the bank had advanced three firms money on the security of silk then in their godowns. When the pressure came, and the bank wished to realize, it was found that the silk had disappeared, having already been sold to other creditors, and there were no further assets.\n\nMr. Lindley, in his Report, has touched upon the treatment of the Chinese Government by the Japanese Government, and has stated that the sympathies of the Anglo-American community in China—he might have added the Far East generally—are on the side of the Chinese. This is undoubtedly true, and it has become a case of \"give a dog a bad name,\" for in the eyes of the above-mentioned community, the Japanese cannot do right.\n\nWith regard to the questions between the two Governments, His Majesty's Government are, of course, in a proper position to judge, for they have before them the reports from the Legation in Peking and from this Embassy. Speaking from a personal experience of both posts, I have no hesitation in saying that I have always found the Japanese Government reasonable, courteous, friendly, and amenable; the Chinese Government of my day exhibited, except on very rare occasions, none of these qualities. No one will be readier to acknowledge the truth of this last assertion than His Majesty's present Representative in Peking, who rendered me such invaluable assistance in coping with the obstructiveness and ignorance of the Chinese Government of twelve years ago.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD**\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n## Report by Mr. Lindley.\n\nAlthough a report on the state of feeling amongst the foreign community in China does not properly fall within the province of a Secretary of this Embassy, I was so much struck during a recent visit to Peking, Tien-tsin, Mukden, and the leased territory with the intense anti-Japanese sentiments animating all classes and nationalities, that it may be worth while to put on record the impressions of an inquirer who is better acquainted with Japan than with China.\n\nBefore the recent war, it appears that foreign opinion in China regarding Japan was pretty sharply divided; continental Europeans were in general pro-Russian, while British and Americans were pro-Japanese. At the present moment, the latter are, possibly, more anti-Japanese than the former. I propose to deal first with those charges against the Japanese which careful inquiries have elicited as the ostensible reasons for this remarkable change of attitude on the part of the Anglo-American community and press; later, an effort will be made to trace the underlying causes which appear to have contributed to, even if they are not sufficient of themselves to account for, the present state of affairs.\n\n### 1. Prostitution.\n\nAlthough cheap sneers on the subject of missionary efforts are common enough, there can be no doubt that the Anglo-American missionaries in China exert considerable influence on the opinions of their compatriots, an influence they owe to the general respect which their lives and characters have rightly earned. The majority of the missionaries were pro-Japanese before and during the war; the subsequent enormous influx of Japanese prostitutes into nearly every part of China has completely alienated their sympathies; they are now anti-Japanese to a man.\n\nThere are, no doubt, many foreigners who would regard this question with a lenient eye if the Japanese prostitutes were regulated and inspected, but those to whom the moral issue is of unimportance join in the general execration when they find that disease is spreading with alarming rapidity in the wake of these unfortunates. It is believed that this is an evil which the Japanese Government have the power to check, and their failure to do so produces the impression that they are utterly indifferent to the welfare of the people of the country, provided that Japan herself reaps the advantage of the steady flow of wealth which the profession directs to her. The foreign community do not, in fact, appreciate this novel method of redressing an adverse balance of trade, any more than they would appreciate the force of an allusion to the opium traffic, with which a Japanese might receive any observations on this subject. The Japanese authorities in Tôkið, on the other hand, are fully alive to the evil, but state that they are unable to check it, as the prostitutes do not leave Japan in their professional capacity, but emigrate without special licences or permits of any kind, like other individuals. In the face of Sir A. Hosie's Report on the condition of affairs at Antung, it is, however, difficult to believe that any serious effort has yet been made to deal with the question.\n\n### 2. Commercial Immorality.\n\nThose acquainted with commercial dealings in general, and in the Far East in particular, will listen to vague charges against the commercial morality of a nation with scepticism; but, even if the Japanese in China are little worse than their competitors in this matter, and it is difficult to avoid the conviction that they are, there can be no doubt that their successful imitation of foreign trade-marks has given a solid handle to accusations of a more general character. Imitations exist to an enormous extent in Japan itself, and they are naturally to be found in China. Public opinion in this country is not a healthy one in this respect, and it is public condemnation following exposure which is more efficient than any laws or regulations in checking such an abuse. At the same time, there appears to be some confusion of mind on this subject, and foreigners are very apt to put down all Japanese goods made up in European style as fraudulent imitations of some special brand; but it cannot be reasonably expected that the Japanese should refrain from putting up goods in foreign style, though they may well be asked to avoid copying their rivals' marks and placing \"made in France\" on articles which have obviously never been west of Shanghae. The Japanese authorities, while admitting that an abuse exists, object to Japan being held up as the only country practising these frauds; they assert that their goods in South America are fraudulently copied to an enormous extent by German firms.\n\n### 3. Conduct towards the Chinese People.\n\nThough no one is averse to taking an occasional pull at a pig-tail himself, it is contrary to human nature to view with equanimity such an act in others, and stories of the tyrannous conduct of the Japanese towards the Chinese in Manchuria naturally arouse the indignation of those who hear them. A four days' stay at Mukden was enough to convince me that the Chinese are to a certain extent terrorized by the Japanese settlers in that town; the latter are mostly the scum of Japan and are a law unto themselves in their dealings with the natives, who dare not make complaints for fear of the consequences.\n\nThis state of affairs is serious, and it is not to be wondered at that foreigners blame the Japanese, and fail to appreciate the extraordinary difficulties of the situation. It must be borne in mind that the original settlers came in the wake of a victorious army at a time when it was hardly possible to supervise their behaviour; those who have followed them have been drawn from the roughest of the population, and are naturally a difficult class to deal with. At the present moment, Japanese are precluded from emigrating to any country which suits them except Manchuria and Corea, and it can hardly be expected that any hindrance should be put by the Central Government in the way of those who wish to settle in these two countries. But so long as all are free to go who wish, and so long as extra-territoriality exists, it will be extremely difficult to keep in proper order a large low-class population settled in the midst of a people whom they despise and, not unnaturally, regard as a conquered race. The present situation is the inevitable outcome of Japan's victorious war, and is further complicated by an inherent quality of the Japanese character which is at the root of many of their difficulties in Corea. The adage \"Live and let live\" is no doubt an excellent one, though generally honoured in England rather in the breach than in the observance; in Japan, it is the rule of life. Thus, if a respectable person sees your pocket being picked in a tram in Tôkið, he will neither call your attention to the fact nor aid you in any way should you observe it yourself; if you appeal to a policeman against the extortionate demands of a rikisha coolie, he will invariably advise you to pay the sum demanded; in a recent...\n\n[1822 i-1] \nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 42, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "C. 0. 40\n\n4\n\nprotect its own missionaries in China, but it was not till ten years later—on the 22nd July, 1891—that the separation was completed. On that date the German Minister in Peking presented the Catholic German Bishop of Shantung to the Tsung-li Yamên.\n\nItalian\n\n8. Italy has more recently broken away. Her first attempt was in 1884, when the war was in progress between China and France and Signor de Luca was Italian Minister. After the troubled year of 1900 the attempt was renewed, and with success. Missionaries are no longer under French protection. When will Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, Austrian, and Portuguese missionaries be protected by their own Ministers?\n\n9. It is essential that China should come into direct intercourse with the Pope. Negotiations towards this end were made in 1888, when an extraordinary mission was confided by Li Hung Chang to an Englishman named John George Dunn (30th day, 9th moon, 11th year Kuang Hsi (6th November, 1885)). He was to proceed to Rome, and there establish direct relations between China and the Pope. His mission was so far successful that the Pope decided to send a Legate to Peking, and nominated as his first representative Bishop Agliardi, the present Cardinal Bishop of Albano. But France intervened and crushed the project. If the Legate were sent, she threatened to rupture the Concordat by which the Catholic Church in France was maintained by the State, and the Pope, dreading the separation, cancelled the appointment. Now France has torn up the Concordat, has separated the Church from the State, has suppressed the French Embassy to the Vatican, and has expelled the refractory Congregations from France. Surely, if ever there was a time for China to take action, now is the time.\n\n10. But to enter upon direct relations with Rome it is essential that the Decree of the 15th March, 1899, should be first annulled; for, if direct relations are established, there will, as an obvious corollary, be established in China a Catholic hierarchy, with not only, as at present, priests, pro-vicars, vicars, and Bishops, but with Archbishops and Cardinals; and if Bishops are still to rank as equals of Viceroys, what rank can you accord to Archbishops unless equality with Members of the Grand Council; while, as for Cardinals, \"Princes of the Church as they are called, the only rank left for you to give them will be parity with your Imperial Princes,\n\nserve.\n\nThus I have committed to paper some notes which I hope will attract your attention. In this matter I speak as a disinterested onlooker, with no personal interest to serve. There is much that I condemn in your Government, and many reforms that I regard as essential to the well-being of your nation. But no reform is more pressing than this Catholic question—no reform, for it is purely a question of internal administration, that can be more easily accomplished, than the abrogation of that unfortunate Decree of the 15th March, 1899. Now is the time and opportunity.\n\nAt a Conference, held in Shanghae on the 21st October, 1899, at which were present the Protestant Bishops of China, English and American, and the Bishops of Hong Kong and Corea, the question was discussed whether they should acquire for themselves and their missionaries the same privileges that had been conceded to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy by the Edict of the 15th March, 1899. The Bishops unanimously decided that it was inadvisable to take such a step. They had no wish to 'complicate their spiritual responsibilities by the assumption of political rights and duties, such as have been conceded\" in the Edict referred to. The Resolution of the Conference was communicated on the 31st October, 1899, by the British Chargé d'Affaires to Lord Salisbury, and was by him submitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England. The Archbishop approved of the decision taken by the Bishops, considering that \"both as a matter of principle and of policy it was undesirable that Protestant missionaries in China should claim the privileges\" conceded by the Edict.\n\nThe British Government concurred in this view, and the British Chargé d'Affaires in Peking was instructed by despatch, dated the 27th February, 1900, to take no further action in the matter.\n\nPeking, May 1, 1907.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[21203]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\n7 JUL 08\n\n[June 16.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 154.) Sir,\n\nForeign Office, June 16, 1908.\n\nI told the Japanese Ambassador to-day that the United States' Ambassador had spoken to me on the subject of the Russian contention at Harbin.\n\nIt was understood that the Russians claimed complete jurisdiction over 47 square miles at Harbin. This claim seemed to go beyond a fair interpretation of the Railway Agreement; it would create an imperium in imperio, and would be consistent neither with the integrity of China nor the \"open door.\"\n\nI understood that Mr. Root had expressed this view to the Japanese Ambassador at Washington, as he feared the Japanese might be going to support the Russian contention.\n\nI had told the United States' Ambassador we agreed in the view that such an interpretation of the Railway Agreement would not be consistent with the integrity of China and the \"open door,\" but that we were not prepared to take the initiative in opposing it unless British interests were concerned. We had no Consul at Harbin.\n\nI gathered that the Japanese Government were not committed to the Russian view, and I thought they ought to know that the United States' Ambassador had spoken to me and the view I had expressed.\n\nI had told the United States' Ambassador that we had, in our discussions with Japan, upheld the policy of the \"open door\" with regard to such points as had arisen in South Manchuria, such, for instance, as customs dues at Dalny and equal rates on the Manchurian Railway, and that the Japanese Government had met us on these points.\n\nIf necessary, I should at any time be very glad to discuss this question of the railway jurisdiction with the Japanese, and my only object in mentioning the matter now was that I thought the Japanese Government ought to know what had passed and the view we had taken of the question.\n\n[1819 q-1]\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. GREY.\n\n0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 515, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "I understand that the market for woollen cloth is quite promising, and that Indian yarns have a better sale than any others over the whole province. Fancy and miscellaneous goods are for the most part German or Japanese, and the same, I believe, is the case with the cheaper forms of farming implements. Though I do not wish to speak dogmatically, it seems to me that the demand for foreign goods generally must improve as the north and north-eastern parts of the province are gradually brought into touch with the outer world. I would therefore ask if it is not possible for the north Manchurian markets to be made the subject of careful investigation by experts under the auspices of some representative body like the China Association. It is obvious that with the best intentions in the world the ordinary Consular officer has not the technical training necessary to determine with real accuracy the latent possibilities of these new markets. And, as \"God helps those who help themselves,\" it would be more to the point if British merchants laid aside their methods of verbal complaint against their Japanese rivals in favour of the more practical system of endeavouring to forestall their ambitious designs.\n\nIn connection with the railway Settlements, I should state that of those I saw the most promising was Tiehling. Though the work of construction here was only commencing, there was an air of comparative prosperity about the place which promised well for the future. This is easily intelligible because Tiehling is an important centre for the bean and bean-cake trade, and at the same time a port of shipment on the Liao for merchandise destined for Newchwang.\n\nCareful and systematic plans have been drawn up of all the Settlements along the line, and there is no doubt in my mind that these places will, when they are completed, by the mere force of their respectable organization attract merchants both Chinese and Japanese to reside within their borders. Trade will naturally follow suit.\n\nKharbin.\n\nKharbin is full of an air of despondency. The trade, such as it is, appears from inquiries I made to be mainly in the hands of the Jews and the Germans, with whom the Russian, who is a child in business matters and fated for years to be exploited by others, cannot hope to compete. It has frequently, if I recollect rightly, been stated that Kharbin's prosperity depended entirely on the recent war, and perhaps from the Russian point of view this is correct. This dictum does not, however, take into account the fact that of far more importance than the trade just alluded to, which is a parasitical one of Russian preying on Russian—an exact counterpart of what is happening to-day on a smaller scale in the Japanese railway Settlements—is that with the Chinese. This, by reason of Kharbin's situation within the wheat-belt and on a broad and navigable river, the Sungari, seems likely to become full of promise when the period of depression and despondency succeeding the war passes away. It is difficult, nevertheless, to anticipate what share will fall to the British merchant.\n\nThe United States' Consul, of whom I made inquiries generally, told me that there was quite a respectable demand for British woollen articles, which came apparently by way of Newchwang or Vladivostock. He could not, however, instance any other English-made goods for which there was any sale. Nor were there any British subjects in the town. There was no room, in his opinion, for a foreign bank at present. Any business going was willingly taken up by the Russo-Chinese Bank. Mr. Kawakami, the Japanese Consul-General, was even stronger on the same subject. According to him, the Siberian Commercial Bank had endeavoured to open a branch in the town, but had been warned off because the place was regarded as a preserve of the other institution. I think this is probably the reason why the Yokohama Specie Bank, which has branches as far north as Kwanchengtzu, has not yet put in an appearance at Kharbin.\n\nThe United States' Consul was very anxious to persuade me of the necessity of establishing a British Consular officer at this place, asserting that if this were not done we should find too late that our share of the trade had been captured by the Germans. I take it, however, that his anxiety was really mainly prompted by his desire to have someone to back him in his attitude against the Chinese Eastern Railway. The uses of the stalking-horse are quite familiar to both Americans and Germans in the Far East.\n\nThe other Powers represented at Kharbin are Russia, by a Consul-General; Belgium, by a Consul; France, by a Consular Agent; and Spain, by a Commercial Attaché. It is also reported that a German Consulate is shortly to be opened.\n\nConsidered from the point of view of actual existing trade interests, it does not appear to me that the presence of a British Consular officer in Kharbin is immediately necessary; on the other hand, the political situation is such that it may in the near future become highly desirable, for the safeguarding of British interests, that His Majesty's Government be represented on the spot. Signs are not wanting of Japan's desire to effect a rapprochement with Russia, and though it by no means follows that the consummation of such an object would necessarily be attended with disadvantage to ourselves, it nevertheless appears to me distinctly desirable that the actions of the two Powers in the north of Manchuria should not be allowed to pass disregarded. I can think of no locality more suitable for purposes of scrutiny or the acquisition of intelligence than Kharbin, and for these reasons only would I recommend that the establishment of a Consular officer at Kharbin be taken into serious consideration. Pending the decision of His Majesty's Government in the matter, I would suggest that British interests in the town be confided to the care of His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden.\n\nIn addition to Kharbin, there is another trade-mart in Manchuria which seems to me worthy of attention. This is Kirin, which is presently to be linked by a branch line to the South Manchuria Railway's system. There is no reason why at this place, which lies in one of the most fertile districts of Manchuria, promising openings should not be found for British trade. I would therefore recommend that it be made the subject of investigation when the railway linking it with Changchun is completed.\n\nFinally, I would beg leave to submit the following suggestions for the consideration of His Majesty's Government:\n\n1. That an Assistant from the Japan Consular Service be attached to His Majesty's Consulate-General at Mukden, to enable the officer in charge of that post to keep in close touch with the Japanese. On this suggestion I wish to lay some emphasis. Mukden is the senior Japanese Consular post along the line, and to it all the other Consulates report. It is also, next to Dairen, the most important of the Railway Company's offices. It is, finally, the Chinese seat of government in this part of Manchuria, and consequently the place to which every question affecting the Japanese throughout the province must at some time or other be referred. For His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden to form a correct opinion of questions concerning Chinese and Japanese, or Japanese and foreigners, he should have an accurate knowledge not only of the Chinese language and ways of thought, but also of the Japanese. This, under present circumstances, is an impossibility. Yet if he does not possess this knowledge, he is unable to form a correct estimate of the reasons and objects directing Japanese action, or to obtain full and correct information on matters concerning Japanese policy, railway or political. Mukden is a city which appears to me to be almost as important from a Japanese point of view as from a Chinese, and for His Majesty's Consul-General to be in a position to report authoritatively on both, it seems to me distinctly necessary that he should receive assistance from the Japan establishment. I would therefore, subject naturally to the approval of His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, strongly recommend that an assistant be selected from the Japan service for temporary service in the Consulate-General at the latter place, and that the appointment depend solely on qualifications, and not on seniority;\n\n2. That, even at the risk of overlapping, His Majesty's Vice-Consul be authorized to report on any question in Manchuria in which the Japanese are concerned. It will be remembered that the limit of his jurisdiction is the frontier of the leased territory. I do not think it is necessary to advance reasons in support of this proposal, but if considered necessary they will be forthcoming;\n\n3. That, as I suggested in a private letter to His Majesty's Embassy in Tokyo last year, copies of despatches of general interest be exchanged between the Consulates in Manchuria; or\n\n4. That, if this be found impossible in practice, they be supplied with copies of the print when it refers to Manchuria.\n\nI venture to offer these suggestions because it appears to me that their practical realization would result in the increased usefulness to the public service of the officers concerned. It is obvious that in the open markets of Manchuria, every one of which is a piece of China and a piece of Japan, questions in which the latter are concerned cannot be treated as isolated and independent, but as a part of a whole.\n\nPage 512", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 314, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "Sir,\n\nC.O.\n\n43454\n\n28 NOV 08\n\n319 41258\n\n(NOV 26 1906)\n\nST. PETERSBURG,\n\nNovember 20,\n\n1908.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 362(38614) of November 18th, enclosing correspondence with the Colonial Office on the subject of the compensation claimed from the Russian Government by relatives of certain residents of Hong Kong who were lost when the German boat \"Chine\" was sunk by the explosion of a mine, that vessel being under charter to the Russian Government.\n\nI note that in a letter which the British Vice Consul at Vladivostok addressed to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, on the 8th instant he states that he is on the point of referring the whole case to this Embassy. From the correspondence it appears that the Colonial Office are under the impression that this has been done, but no trace can be found in the Archives here of any communication from Vladivostok on the subject.\n\nI am requesting Dr. Hodgson to enquire how the matter stands.\n\nI have the honour to be with the greatest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nRight Hon. Sir E. Grey, Bart.\n\netc.,\n\netc.,\n\netc.\n\nAddress: London", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 367, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "Art. 2. Japan undertakes immediately to hand over to China, against the payment of 50,000 yen, all Japanese telegraph lines in Manchuria outside the railway territory. Japan is prepared to enter into negotiation with China with a view to coming to a certain arrangement concerning the Japanese telephone service in Manchuria outside the railway territory. Pending the conclusion of such an arrangement, Japan undertakes neither to extend her present telephone system in Manchuria, without having first obtained the consent of the Chinese Government, nor to use her telephone lines for the transmission of telegrams in competition with the Chinese telegraph lines.\n\nArt. 3. At open marts or Treaty ports in Manchuria, which are in close proximity to the Japanese railway territory, namely, Antung, Newchwang, Liaoyang, Moukden, Tiehling, and Changchun, the Chinese Government agrees for a period of fifteen years to place one or two special telegraph wires from the said open marts or Treaty ports to such railway territory at the exclusive disposal of the Japanese Government telegraph service. Such wire or wires shall be maintained in good order and condition by the Chinese Government up to the railway territory.\n\nArt. 4. The special wire or wires mentioned in Article 3 shall be worked from the Japanese telegraph buildings by Japanese clerks in the employ of the Japanese Government, and the Chinese Government undertakes to provide, at a total yearly rent of 700 Mexican dollars, suitable special offices and accommodations for this purpose, it being, however, understood that the said accommodations do not include dwelling quarters for the clerks.\n\nArt. 5. The special wire or wires mentioned in Article 3 can only be used for the exchange of telegrams emanating from or destined to places under the direct control of the Japanese telegraph system.\n\nArt. 6. At the open marts or Treaty ports mentioned in Article 3 the Japanese Telegraph Department will have its receiving office in the Chinese telegraph building, and delivery of Japanese traffic shall be made by messengers wearing no special uniform.\n\nArt. 7. The Japanese Government undertakes to pay to the Chinese Government an annual sum of 3,000 yen as a royalty on all messages forwarded over the Japanese Manchurian telegraph lines.\n\nArt. 8. This Convention shall be confirmed by the two Governments concerned, and shall be put into force when a detailed Agreement shall have been concluded with regard to the Chefoo-Kwantung cable and the Japanese Manchurian telegraph lines.\n\nIn witness whereof the Undersigned have signed this Agreement.\n\nDone at Tôkiô in English, in duplicate, this day of the month of October, 1908.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nPage 363\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received November 9.) (No. 262.)\n\nTokió, October 4, 1908. Sir,\n\nMR. H. IJUIN, who has recently been appointed Japanese Minister to Peking, came to see me on the 2nd instant previously to starting to take up his duties.\n\nMr. Ijuin is, I think, a very good selection. He was for six years subsequent to the Boxer troubles Consul-General in Tien-tsin, and there became well acquainted with Yuan-shi-kai and his lieutenant, Tong-shao-yi. He has also served his country in Seoul, and his last post was, as you are aware, Councillor in the Japanese Embassy in London.\n\nMr. Ijuin stated that his experience at Tien-tsin led him to think that the Englishmen in China did not work together and were too independent, while constantly accusing their Government of being indifferent to their interests they were remarkably indifferent to their interests themselves. Germans, on the other hand, were keen and pushing and looked after their interests; they also hung together and worked much more than our people.\n\nMr. Ijuin admitted that there was such a thing as being too pushing, which he thought was accountable for the heavy failures in German firms which have taken place all over China and also in Japan. These failures seemed to be a source of some satisfaction to Mr. Ijuin, who thought that the English and Japanese should endeavour to work together and understand each other more than they did. He stated that he personally was going to use his utmost endeavours while in Peking to this end, and he greatly looked forward to having Sir John Jordan as his colleague.\n\nHe spoke of the Tsin-min-tun-Fakumen Railway, and greatly deplored the press campaign which was being carried on in England against Japan, and the accusations which were being made against the latter as to her supposed anti-open-door policy, which accusations he strongly refuted.\n\nSpeaking of Tong-shao-yi, who is shortly expected here, he said he was a Cantonese, undoubtedly clever, spoke both English and French well, but was somewhat superficial and lazy, and that he did not study questions deeply; he was, however, quick to make up his mind, and held very strongly and tenaciously to his opinions once arrived at.\n\nHe was Yuan-shi-kai's right-hand man, and had been with him in all his important posts.\n\nMr. Ijuin thought that the Boxer troubles had had with the Chinese Court and Government a great moral effect for good in that the hard experience gained by the Empress-Dowager and the Court officials would have a very salutary effect, anyway for two or three generations, in preventing outrages against foreigners.\n\nMr. Ijuin leaves for Peking with every intention of working on the most frank and cordial relations with His Majesty's Representative at that post.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nCLAUDE M. MacDONALD.\n\n[2029 i-4]\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421661, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 450, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[3849]\n\n**(No. 46.)**\nSir,\n\n6761\nREC\n(REG: 25 E 094\n[January 29.]\n\n### SECTION 1\n#### No. 1\n\n**Sir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received January 29.)**\nParis, January 27, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you, with reference to your telegram No. 43 of the 24th instant, that as soon as I found means of communicating with Mr. Addis I asked him to call at the Embassy, in order to communicate to him the substance of Sir J. Jordan's telegram of the 23rd January containing his views respecting the proposed arrangement with regard to the Hankow-Canton Railway Loan. Mr. Addis had already had one interview with the representatives of the French group interested in the loan, but no definite settlement had, he said, been come to; he understood, however, that no objections would be raised by them to the participation of the German group in the loan. There was to be another meeting in the afternoon, and he was to see the Minister of Finance later on. I asked him to call again and inform me of the result of his interviews.\n\nThe following day Mr. Addis told me that he and the French group had come to a full agreement in regard to the following three points, with a reservation on his part that it must be subject to the approval of the Foreign Office in London, namely: (1) no objection would be made to the participation of the German group in the loan as regards finance; (2) the preferential rights of the British group to supply material and appoint engineers for the railway were not disputed; (3) the proposal that the Belgians should be offered a part of the British share of the loan would not be pressed.\n\nMr. Addis stated that he had found M. Caillaux, whom he had seen the evening before, quite prepared to accept points (2) and (3), but strongly opposed to the admission of the German group. After some conversation he slightly weakened in his opposition, but had said that he must consult M. Pichon and other Ministers before giving a definite answer, and he begged Mr. Addis therefore to defer his departure for Berlin. (See my telegram No. 19 of the 26th January.) Mr. Addis also had an interview with the Head of the Colonial Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, who saw him on behalf of M. Pichon. M. Berthelot stated that the question of German participation was still under discussion, but gave Mr. Addis to understand that it was improbable that the French Government would consent to it.\n\nThis morning Mr. Addis called again at the Embassy on his way to the station in order to tell me that the French Government had definitely refused to allow the German group to share in the loan. M. Caillaux had declared that he was perfectly willing to enter into negotiations with the object of arriving at an agreement under which all loans made to China should in the future be shared by England, France, and Germany. Such an agreement, however, remained to be arranged, and pending such an arrangement he would not consent to the participation of the Germans in this particular loan.\n\nIn reply to a question as to what Mr. Addis intended to do in Berlin, he said he would inform the German group of what had taken place, and would endeavour to persuade them not to make difficulties in China for the English and French groups in regard to this loan. He would point out that the amount involved in the present instance was comparatively unimportant, and that, should they adopt a hostile and obstructive attitude, the conclusion of the agreement suggested by M. Caillaux would be rendered difficult if not impossible. Mr. Addis added that of course any negotiations with such an object were entirely outside his sphere of action.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **FRANCIS BERTIE**\n\n[2104 -1]\n448\n\nPage 450\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 557, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# No.88.\n\nC.O. 8193\n\nTheco 552: 8190\n\n1992 MAR 09.\n\nPARIS - MART 1909)\n\nFebruary 27,\n\nSir:-\n\nWith reference to my telegram No.36 of to-day's date, I have the honour to report that Mr Addis called at His Majesty's Embassy this afternoon and informed me that M. Simon, the representative of the French group, and he had signed the memorandum dated February 26th respecting the Hankow-Canton Railway negotiations as accepted in principle and subject to confirmation by their respective groups.\n\nMr Addis stated that M. Simon, who had an interview with the Minister of Finance before signing the memorandum, told him that the latter had expressed the wish that some arrangement could be arrived at under which all loan business in China, and not only that pertaining to railways, would be shared by the British, French and German groups. Mr Addis remarked that this was of course a much larger question which might be discussed later on but which was outside his present sphere of negotiations.\n\nMr Addis leaves tomorrow for Berlin where he hopes to obtain the signature of the memorandum by the representative of the German group under the same conditions as in Paris, and he intends to return here in three or four days.\n\nI have the honour to be with great truth and respect,\n\nThe Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Bart., K.P., etc., etc., etc.\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n**Ob Rancis Berber**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 694, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nC.O. 10492 \nREGR 25 MAR 09 \nCHINA RAILWAYS \n(8189)\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 1\n\nSir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received March 2.)\n\n**(No. 88.)** \nParis, February 27, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 36 of to-day's date, I have the honour to report that Mr. Addis called at His Majesty's Embassy this afternoon and informed me that M. Simon, the representative of the French group, and he had signed the Memorandum dated the 26th February respecting the Hankow-Canton Railway negotiations as accepted in principle and subject to confirmation by their respective groups.\n\nMr. Addis stated that M. Simon, who had an interview with the Minister of Finance before signing the Memorandum, told him that the latter had expressed the wish that some arrangement could be arrived at under which all loan business in China, and not only that pertaining to railways, would be shared by the British, French, and German groups. Mr. Addis remarked that this was of course a much larger question, which might be discussed later on, but which was outside his present sphere of negotiations. Mr. Addis leaves to-morrow for Berlin, where he hopes to obtain the signature of the Memorandum by the representative of the German group under the same conditions as in Paris, and he intends to return here in three or four days.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **FRANCIS BERTIE**.\n\n[2193 6-] \n-1] \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] \n689 \n[March 2.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 187, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## British and German Settlements in China\n\nDr. Kriege, the German Delegate to the Naval Conference, asked if he might have some conversation with me on the above subject, and therefore, with Sir F. Campbell's assent, I went to see him at his hotel on Saturday last.\n\nI read up the papers beforehand, but I attended the interview upon the footing that I merely desired to find out exactly what it is that the Germans desire.\n\nDr. Kriege assured me that difficulties of a legal kind have been experienced with regard to the enforcement of mortgages, and the execution of judgments in the \"Concession\" Settlements (i.e., the Settlements which are held under lease by the Government from the Chinese Government, as opposed to the international Settlements where all landholders hold these lots by lease or title from the Chinese authorities). So long as each Power retains exclusive jurisdiction over its own nationals, there must of necessity be a conflict of jurisdiction in the case where a foreigner becomes the owner of a lot of land in a \"Concession Settlement\", if such Settlement is regarded as a place where the law of the Concession Sovereign is intended to apply: and this is the view the Germans take.\n\nDr. Kriege maintained vehemently that this system is far the most convenient to the landholders themselves, because the power to borrow money on mortgage is of great value to them, and money cannot be safely lent on mortgage unless both parties know exactly their legal positions. He also asserted that it was extremely inconvenient to all parties that a judgment of a foreign Consular Court could not be enforced in a Concession Settlement without an application to the Consular Court of the Concession Power.\n\nAs to the first point, I told him I had never heard any complaints as to the inconveniences, though I admitted that, judicially, they must arise where a person of (A) nationality purchases a lot in a Settlement of (B) nationality and proceeds to mortgage it to a person of (C) nationality. I suppose the real explanation is that British subjects do not often buy land in foreign Settlements, and when they do and want to mortgage, they mortgage it to their own compatriots.\n\nAs to the second point, I said that, so far as I knew, the judgment of a foreign Court could be executed in a British Settlement without an application to the British Court; but I was told that without doubt in the French Settlements no such execution was allowed.\n\nWe then proceeded to the remedy. Dr. Kriege's desire is that a slight change should be made in the system of exclusive jurisdiction by each Power over its own nationals, and that in a British Concession the British Court should have jurisdiction in all matters relating to the land, and to the enforcement of municipal regulations over Germans--the German Courts having similar limited jurisdiction over British landholders in the German Concessions. He pointed out, and it is true, that there were only two German Settlements and six or seven British Settlements, and that they were offering us a jurisdiction five or six times as large as they would get in return. The arrangement would not apply to any of the international Settlements like Shanghai; in them the present conditions would continue unaltered.\n\nI raised certain possible objections, e.g., that I was not sure whether our Treaties with China authorized our either ceding to Germany jurisdiction over British subjects in certain cases or exercising jurisdiction in certain cases over Germans. I also told him that Shanghai had commenced as a British settlement, and that Captain Balfour had been anxious to exercise jurisdiction precisely on the lines that the German Government now suggested, but that His Majesty's Government had refused to consent, objecting to the idea of any exclusive jurisdiction, and holding that the object of a Settlement was merely to facilitate commerce.\n\nHe told me he was aware that that was the history of Shanghai, but said that it was not a convenient system, and that the result was that the German Courts refused to recognize mortgages of Shanghai land.\n\nI explained to him our system, i.e., that we merely exacted from a foreign purchaser of land in a British Concession an undertaking by both him and his Consul that, if necessary, the Land Regulations of the Concession would be enforced upon him if action were taken in his Consular Court.\n\nDr. Kriege assured me, however, that in some cases we claimed a right to evict a foreigner who disobeyed the Municipal Regulations and confiscate his holding, and promised to give me details later.\n\nThe upshot of our conversation was that I told him Sir H. de Sausmarez would be in London in January, and I would obtain from him information with regard to mortgages and the execution of judgments. I also told him that now that we had the details of what he wanted we should be in a position to obtain reports from China on his proposals.\n\nI expect that when he returns to London in January he will put the Embassy in motion to open negotiations.\n\nThe proposal is superficially reasonable enough, but it is to my mind open to all sorts of objections, and would thrust upon us a considerable jurisdiction that I should think would be no advantage in possessing. Incidentally, Dr. Kriege let out what I expect is the origin of the proposal, and that is that they want to create a Mortgage Bank, but they regard a \"hypothec\" on the German system as the necessary security in each case, and feel no certainty that the \"hypothee\" would always be enforced by the Court of a foreign mortgagor.\n\nOne great difficulty in the proposed arrangement is that all the land-renters in the British Concessions hold their lots on the terms that sale to a foreigner is permissible if the purchaser gives an undertaking by himself and his Consul that the Municipal Regulations will be enforced upon him. The requirement that a foreigner should submit himself to our jurisdiction would be a restriction on the present right of transfer.\n\nI would suggest that observations might be asked for from Peking; and in the meantime I should like a copy of this Minute to send to Sir H. de Sausmarez.\n\nC. J. B. H.\n\nForeign Office, December 22, 1908.\n\n## \n\nelsewhere against the Japanese and Russians, who are making the same attempt as Germany.\n\n4. That the very fact that the Germans exact onerous conditions from would-be British landholders in their Concessions, makes it less likely than ever that British subjects will desert the British Concessions, and thereby injure the prosperity of those Concessions.\n\nEverything points therefore to the advantage of continuing our present liberal system, even if the Germans adhere to the one which they have started. The tendency will merely be, if the Germans persist, for British subjects to be less inclined than ever to desert the British for the German Concessions.\n\nForeign Office, December 18, 1908.\n\nC. S. C.\n\nPage 185", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422506, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 535, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 833\n\nThe United States Government asked for an expression of our views in regard to participation of America in the Hankow Szechuen line as a report of the arrangement recently concluded between German, French and British groups had reached Peking and American capital had expressed the wish to participate.\n\nThe position of the question was explained to the Ambassador in a Memorandum which was handed to him on the 8th instant, and in which it was also pointed out that His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington had in October 1905 verbally informed the United States Government that as it must be assumed that American capitalists did not desire to participate the French and British groups had decided to proceed in the matter. To this course no objections were raised at the time, and the American Embassy in London had moreover been informed that the offer made by the Americans must be regarded as having lapsed.\n\nI explained in communicating this Memorandum that as far as the British financiers were concerned it was clear they were entitled to act independently and indeed they could not be expected to do otherwise after what had passed, at the same time nothing was further from our intention than to prejudice any obligations or rights existing between China and the United States.\n\nWith regard to the agreement now signed it is well known that this was only reached after protracted and difficult negotiations and anything which would endanger its conclusion would be viewed with much concern by His Majesty's Government. You should therefore express our earnest hope that the United States Minister at Peking may be instructed not to make any difficulties as regards the issue of the Imperial Edict of ratification, and add that we would suggest that the recently formed American group should place themselves in communication with the German, French and British banks concerned, in regard to any future loan arrangements in which they may desire to participate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 597, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# C.O 21011\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n## SECTION 2\n\nSir,\n\n**Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 3.)**\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, June 3, 1909.\n\nIt may be remembered that in 1904 my Government was informed, through our legation in Peking, of a promise which the Chinese Government had made in writing to the British and American Ministers at that capital, that in case China was unable herself to raise the necessary capital for the construction of a proposed Hankow--Chung-king Railway, American and British capital would be given the first chance over other foreign competitors.\n\nOn two occasions, the 25th July, 1905, and September of the same year, His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington enquired of the Secretary of State whether it was the desire of American capitalists to participate in this enterprise, to which the answer was given that, the matter had been made public, but as yet the American financial groups had not intimated their intention with regard to the undertaking.\n\nThe department of State, however, does not construe these replies to His Majesty's Ambassador as indicating a relinquishment on the part of American capital of the right to participate in the undertaking.\n\nA report has now reached my Government that British, French, and German groups of capitalists have now under consideration an agreement with China to provide a loan for the construction of certain railways in China, among them being the Hankow-Szechuen line, and the Secretary of State is at the same time made aware that American capital is interested in this western line to such an extent that it would be glad to co-operate with the British interests in accordance with the understanding of 1904.\n\nI am therefore instructed, in bringing these matters to your attention, to ask for an expression of your views for the information of my Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nWHITELAW REID.\n\n`[2317 c-2]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422591, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 620, "title": "CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n### No. 1\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan, \n(No. 108.) (Telegraphic.) \nForeign Office, June 12, 1909.\n\nI have repeated your telegram No. 105 of the 10th June in regard to the Hankow-Szechuan Railway to Mr. Bryce, and have requested him to express the earnest hope of His Majesty's Government that, as regards the issue of the Imperial Edict, the United States chargé d'affaires at Peking will be told not to raise any difficulties, and to state that anything which would endanger the conclusion of the agreement would be viewed with much concern by us. I have further suggested that in regard to any future loan arrangements in which they may desire to participate, the recently-formed American group should place themselves in communication with the German, French, and British banks concerned.\n\nI must add that the United States Ambassador informed me of the desire of American capital to participate in the Hankow-Szechuan line, and has requested an expression of our views in regard to such participation.\n\nThe reply which I have returned is similar to that given by you to the United States chargé d'affaires, and I have added that in December 1905 we regarded the American offer as having lapsed, and so informed the embassy privately.\n\nI further pointed out that, as far as British financiers were concerned, it was clear that they were entitled to act independently, and could not be expected to do otherwise after what had passed, at the same time, that nothing was further from our intention than to prejudice any obligations or rights existing between China and the United States.\n\nPage 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-361 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**(No. 90.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n#### No. 1. Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.\n\n**HANKOW-SZECHUAN Railway.**\n\nForeign Office, June 11, 1909.\n\nI have repeated Sir J. Jordan's telegram No. 105 of the 10th June to you. The United States Ambassador, under instructions from his Government, drew my attention on the 3rd instant to the undertaking given in 1903 (see \"China,\" Part XLVI, No. 46) by China in regard to the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, and referred to the enquiries made by His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington on the 25th July and the 30th September, 1905, as to whether participation in the enterprise was desired by American capitalists. In reply to these enquiries, it was stated that the matter had been made public, but that American groups had not as yet intimated their intentions. These replies, Mr. Whitelaw Reid stated, are not construed by the State Department as indicating that American capital has relinquished its right of participation.\n\nThe United States Government asked for an expression of our views in regard to participation of America in the Hankow-Szechuan line, as a report of the arrangement recently concluded between German, French, and British groups had reached Peking, and American capital had expressed the wish to participate.\n\nThe position of the question was explained to the Ambassador in a memorandum which was handed to him on the 8th instant, and in which it was also pointed out that His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington had, in October 1905, verbally informed the United States Government that, as it must be assumed that American capitalists did not desire to participate, the French and British groups had decided to proceed in the matter. To this course, no objections were raised at the time, and the American Embassy in London had, moreover, been informed that the offer made by the Americans must be regarded as having lapsed.\n\nI explained, in communicating this memorandum, that, as far as the British financiers were concerned, it was clear they were entitled to act independently, and, indeed, they could not be expected to do otherwise after what had passed. At the same time, nothing was further from our intention than to prejudice any obligations or rights existing between China and the United States.\n\nWith regard to the agreement now signed, it is well known that this was only reached after protracted and difficult negotiations, and anything which would endanger its conclusion would be viewed with much concern by His Majesty's Government. You should therefore express our earnest hope that the United States' Minister at Peking may be instructed not to make any difficulties as regards the issue of the Imperial Edict of ratification, and add that we would suggest that the recently formed American group should place themselves in communication with the German, French, and British banks concerned in regard to any future loan arrangements in which they may desire to participate.\n\n[23177-1]\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n23208", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\npréférence qui aurait été consentie par la Chine en 1904 à Mr. Conger pour la construction de la ligne du Szetchuen.\n\nL'Ambassadeur américain ajoutait qu'un puissant consortium de banques américaines s'était constitué avec l'approbation du Gouvernement pour participer aux opérations financières et au développement de la Chine, et que ses représentants se rendaient en Europe et à Pékin pour s'entendre avec les représentants des banques européennes.\n\nM. Pichon a répondu qu'en principe la communication américaine visait deux ordres de considération différents :----\n\n1. Une promesse qui aurait été souscrite par la Chine et dont le respect ne pouvait être réclamé que de cette Puissance, les autres Puissances n'en ayant jamais été informées sous aucune forme.\n\n2. Une entente particulière des financiers américains avec les financiers européens pour les affaires de la Chine, entente qui ne peut être négociée qu'entre les intéressés.\n\nM. Pichon a ajouté qu'en pratique les financiers américains seraient malvenus à insister pour tenter d'empêcher, à la dernière minute, d'accorder la sanction Impériale à la moitié du contrat déjà paraphé concernant la ligne du Szetchuen, contrat négocié publiquement depuis plus de six mois sans qu'aucune réserve se soit produite.\n\nPour pouvoir être revendiqué à l'encontre des tiers, l'engagement Conger aurait dû ne pas rester secret; quelle est d'ailleurs sa valeur exacte, dans quelles conditions, par quelle autorité, et sous quelle forme précise a-t-il été pris? De telles promesses n'ont qu'une valeur très relative, et l'Angleterre, la France, l'Allemagne, en dernier lieu, avaient chacune à faire valoir des engagements chinois, qu'elles considéraient également comme formels. On pouvait d'autant moins s'attendre à la revendication actuelle que le groupe américain, possédant un contrat ferme pour la construction du Hankéou-Canton y avait renoncé de lui-même en 1905; pour la construction de la ligne même du Szetchuen quand, en octobre 1905, le groupe anglo-français du Chinese Central s'est constitué, une participation offerte aux Américains par le canal de l'Ambassadeur d'Angleterre à Washington a été officiellement déclinée, loin qu'une revendication ou même la simple mention d'un engagement Conger fût faite à ce moment.\n\nDans ces conditions, il semble peu concevable que des démarches répétées à Pékin cherchent à amener le Gouvernement chinois à retarder à la dernière heure la signature définitive d'un contrat qui porte à la fois sur le Hankéou-Canton et le Hankéou-Tchentou. Le résultat le plus probable d'une pareille intervention serait le risque d'empêcher, sans profit pour personne, une affaire conclue dans des termes qui respectent tous les droits et susceptibilités chinois et qui ne préjudicient en rien à la libre concurrence, puisque les prêteurs n'ont demandé, à ce point de vue, en échange de l'emprunt qu'un droit de préférence à égalité pour leurs fournitures.\n\nIl paraîtrait plus équitable et plus pratique, sans revenir sur le contrat actuel, de placer la question sur le terrain d'une entente des marchés européens et américains à l'avenir, pour l'exécution des grands travaux publics dans l'intérêt, bien entendu, de la Chine, et pour la réalisation des emprunts étrangers dans des conditions de sécurité et de prix légitimes.\n\nÀ ce point de vue, le Gouvernement de la République, bien qu'ayant pour principe de ne pas intervenir directement dans le détail des opérations et ententes de la finance française à l'étranger et de se contenter d'assurer la défense des grands intérêts nationaux par une surveillance éminente et d'ordre général, envisage favorablement toute entente financière internationale qui mettrait fin à Pékin pour l'avenir à des compétitions également nuisibles à toutes les parties intéressées. C'est dans ces conditions qu'il considérera avec satisfaction les pourparlers des représentants du consortium des banques américaines avec les financiers français en vue de réaliser une entente entre les grands marchés, chacun d'eux devant conserver sa part des emprunts éventuels pour garantir la réalité des participations.\n\nLe 12 juin, 1909.\n\n## **CHINA RAILWAYS.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`[22411]`\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n`23208`\n\n12 JUL C\n\n[June 15.]\n\n## SECTION 4.\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 15.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, June 12, 1909.\n\nCOMPLYING with your request at the close of our conversation concerning the Chinese railway concessions on the evening of Thursday, the 10th June, I send herewith a memorandum of the considerations affecting the subject which I then ventured to bring to your Excellency's attention.\n\nAs I said, they were necessarily informal and in some points at least quite unofficial. At the same time, I believe they fairly represent the view my Government holds of the rights of its citizens in the premises.\n\nI feel sure your Excellency will agree with me that the greatest danger at present in China to the \"open door\" and to the development of foreign trade under it would arise from the pursuit of conflicting interests and the consequent disagreements among the great Western nations. Nothing could be more unfortunate than to drift into a position which might seem to indicate to the Chinese Government that some advantage might be gained by playing off one of the more important Western nations against another. On the other hand, nothing could be more useful than the sight of the four great capitalist nations, Great Britain, Germany, France, and the United States, standing together for the fair and open principle of equality of commercial opportunity.\n\nIt is not for us to deal with the objection which you had previously told me His Britannic Majesty's Government had made to the admission of Germany to the Hankow-Szechuan railway undertaking on terms giving less security as to the use of the loan than the other Powers exacted. The general principle just stated, however, does seem to me clear that a common front presented by the British, French, German, and American financial groups would be highly desirable. It would create that community of interest which is the surest guarantee of harmonious and profitable development, and its effect in satisfying the members of the great and venerable Chinese Government of the entire good faith with which the Western capitalist nations are attempting to assist them in their adoption of Western methods would surely be most helpful.\n\nI recognise fully the force of your complaint that no answer had been made to your repeated requests for action on the part of American financiers, or even to your warning that you could not wait longer, but must complete the undertaking with others if we did not come forward. I do not understand the reason for our delay, although the well-known facts in the financial history of the time may naturally suggest an explanation. The moment when you last called for action on the part of our financiers would seem to have been close to the date when one of the most grave and disastrous of modern financial panics burst upon the United States, and was soon felt in its effects throughout the world. Whatever the reason for our silence, I did not hesitate to express regret for it.\n\nAt the same time, I ventured to say, on my own account, that I did not believe any court of competent international lawyers would support, as a matter of abstract justice and international law, the contention necessarily underlying your action in undertaking to rule out the American financiers from the concession of 1904. This contention is substantially that where two nations have received from another a joint concession, it shall be in the power of one of them, after a lapse of three years, to declare that because the other has not yet put up its money its concession must be treated as lapsed. In fact, I denied the soundness, as a doctrine of international law, of the proposition that of two joint national concessionnaires, one can have the power to fix the term at which the right of the other to its share in the concession should perish through non-user. And, if such be the obligation toward each other of the two Governments who are joint concessionnaires, much stronger must be the obligation...\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[23469]\nC.O. 23208\n[June 22.]\n\n$12 JU\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n#### No. 1.\n\nF. Urbig.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nHerr Urbig to Mr. Addis.\n\nBerlin, June 21, 1909.\n\nHAVE wired Ullmann as follows:--\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\nOn me dit qu'Ambassadeur de France, Washington, n'a reçu aucune instruction de son Gouvernement. Position de notre groupe international vis-à-vis demande américaine est donc devenue plus faible et nous approche à la nécessité de consentir proposition faite par nos représentants Pékin. Télégraphiez.\n\nTelegraph your view.\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 22.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, June 21, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my memorandum of the 12th instant and previous correspondence on the subject of the railway concessions in China, under instructions from my Government I have the honour to hand you herewith, for your information, the substance of a telegraphic instruction addressed to the American chargé d'affaires at Peking by the Secretary of State on the 16th instant.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nWHITELAW REID.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nSubstance of Telegram sent by United States Secretary of State to American Chargé d'Affaires at Peking respecting Railway Concessions in China, dated 16th June, 1909.\n\nTHE American group is willing to participate in this loan on the French basis, namely, 20 per cent. of the total loan on terms identical with those of the French, having equal preference with British, French, and Germans in regard to all financial relations as well as to materials. Owing to the fact that the British, French, and German groups have so nearly reached the completion of their negotiations prior to the formation of the American syndicate, the American group will not insist upon rights in regard to chief engineers and auditors. In signifying its readiness to participate in this loan as above on the general outline which you have already telegraphed, the American group does not consider itself bound by any provisions of the agreement not known to it, and which may impose obligations upon it of which it knows nothing. Moreover, it expects, in addition to participation on the basis named, equal rights to appoint its own representative to act with the banking representative of the other groups as provided in article 7 of the Tien-tsin-Pukow agreement, a copy of which agreement has been submitted to the members of the groups; but it does not feel competent to approve the terms of this agreement in their entirety, owing to lack of knowledge as to what portion thereof governs the present contract. It is assumed that, in adapting the terms of the Tien-tsin-Pukow agreement to meet the new conditions created by the introduction of American and French in addition to British and German interests in the present agreement, consideration will be shown to the special requirement of the American market covering engraved bond, &c.\n\nIn informing your enquirer concerning this attitude of the American syndicate you will point out that, in taking this position, the American group is influenced by its desire to establish harmonious relations with the British, French, and German interests in order to secure cordial co-operation in future enterprises, and that its action in waiving what might be claimed to be its just right may not be regarded as creating a precedent as to the basis for future financial participation in foreign operations in the Chinese Empire.\n\nIn case the British, French, and German groups are ready to accept American participation on the basis outlined above, and on the conditions above stated, you are authorised to sign this agreement on behalf of the American syndicate, consisting of J. P. Morgan and Co., Kuhn, Loeb, and Co., the First National Bank of New York, and the National City Bank of New York.\n\n[2317-1] \n\nPage 2 \n36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## List of the various Classes of Foreign and Chinese Employés in the different sub-Sections on the Northern Section of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway\n\nEngineers of the first, second, and third grades, in charge of Machinery, engine shops, construction, registration, surveying, the receipt and issue of funds, correspondence, materials, telegraphs, and rolling stock. Overseers.\n\nDeputies stationed on each section, and dealing with the purchase of land, correspondence, investigations, the preservation of order, interpreting, receipt and payment of funds, supervision of work, Office servants and messengers, guards, grooms, &c.\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[24157]\n\n**(No. 142.)**\nSir,\n\n(June 28.)\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n### No. 1.\n\nMr. Bryce to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 28.)\n\nNorth-East Harbour, Maine, June 16, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that upon the receipt of your telegram of the 11th June relating to the proposed Hankow-Szechuan Railway I addressed to the Secretary of State a letter on that subject, a copy of which I enclose.\n\nThe reported wish of American financiers to participate has attracted some attention in this country. Articles appear in the newspapers, copies of three of which, one purporting to include a statement issued by the State Department, are enclosed herewith.*\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Bryce to Mr. Knox.\n\nDear Mr. Secretary,\n\nNorth-East Harbour, Maine, June 14, 1909.\n\nYOU will doubtless have already heard from your Ambassador in London of the conversation that has passed between him and Sir Edward Grey regarding the proposed Hankow-Szechuan railroad in China. I need therefore only observe that in July, and again in September 1905, my predecessor at Washington enquired of the United States Government whether any American financiers desired to take part in that enterprise, and that your Government replied that the project had been announced publicly, but that no American financiers had intimated any wish to take part in it, and that thereupon my predecessor had in October 1905 verbally informed the United States Government that the British and French financial groups who were taking up the matter had, under the circumstances, assumed that American financiers had no wish to join, and were proceeding upon that assumption. No objection was then or subsequently taken by the United States Government; and the United States Embassy in London was informed that any suggestion or offer on the part of American financiers must be considered to have lapsed.\n\nAs His Majesty's Government now gather from your Ambassador in London that a wish to join in the enterprise has now been expressed by some American financiers, I am instructed to say to you that nothing is or could be farther from the wish of His Majesty's Government than to do anything which could be prejudicial to any rights or interests between the United States and China. But so far as British capitalists are concerned, the action of the latter in going on alone appears to His Majesty's Government to have been justified under the circumstances, and they could not have been expected, after what had passed, to have done otherwise. His Majesty's Government therefore earnestly hope that the United States Government will, having regard to these facts, think fit to instruct their Minister at Peking not to place obstacles in the way of the issue of an Imperial edict approving the agreement for the making of the railroad, which has been already signed. That agreement has been the outcome of protracted and difficult negotiations. Were it now to be prevented from taking effect, a situation would arise which His Majesty's Government could not view without serious apprehension.\n\nI am further instructed to convey to you the suggestion of His Majesty's Government that it would be desirable that in any further arrangements regarding a loan in which a recently formed group of American financiers might desire to take part, communications should be addressed to the British and French and German banks concerned.\n\n*Two not printed.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422686, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Inclosure in No. 1.\n \nMr. Knox to Mr. Bryce.\n\nI am, &c. \nJAMES BRYCE.\n\nPage 3\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. H. Wilson to Mr. Bryce. \n(Telegraphic.)\n\nYOUR letter dated the 22nd June. \nWashington, June 25, 1909.\n\nI am advised that American financial group has appointed J. S. Morgan and Co. its representative in London to discuss with various financial groups the details incident to American participation in railway loans.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nMy dear Mr. Ambassador,\n\nWashington, June 23, 1909.\n\nI BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th June on the subject of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway Loan and the participation therein of the American group.\n\nThe assurance of the British Government that nothing is or could be farther from their wish than to do anything which could be prejudicial to any rights or obligations existing between the United States and China is duly noted, although I should add that, even in the absence of this specific assurance, the Government of the United States could not have entertained any doubt that such would be the attitude of the Government of His Britannic Majesty.\n\nAfter citing certain details of the arrangements and negotiations which were conducted by or on behalf of the bankers themselves, your Excellency, I observe, gives me to understand that your Government, with a very proper regard for the interests of the British bankers, has not been without some apprehension lest these might possibly suffer by the insistence of the Government of the United States upon its right to demand of China an equal share in the proposed loan.\n\nI am happy in turn to assure your Excellency that the Government of the United States would certainly not wish to injure by its policy the legitimate interests of the British, French, or German bankers affected. This Government does not, however, share in the apprehension which your Government at first felt, and I am happy to find myself quite persuaded that the maintenance of our rights would in no wise jeopardise the interests of the British subjects in the arrangement. I need hardly assure you that our attitude will be as considerate of those interests as our plain duty shall permit.\n\nOn Thursday, the 17th, again on Friday, the 18th, and again on Monday, the 21st, Mr. Mitchell Innes, of your embassy, who made enquiries on your Excellency's behalf, was most fully and frankly explained the position of the United States. Knowing that you had thus been informed, I had not hastened to reply to your letter now under acknowledgment. I am sure also that what has been communicated through Mr. Innes will have made clear to your Excellency the fact that the Government of the United States finds itself entirely unable to modify the instructions to the legation at Peking, or to admit that a third Government, and much less that a group of foreign bankers, could expect to induce this Government to relinquish a right acquired for the benefit of its citizens through an official assurance from another Government.\n\nI am happy to say that our latest advices from Peking indicate that the loan agreement may soon be settled upon a basis of equal participation. Apparently it remains only for the British, French, and German bankers to come to terms with our own in a manner which this Government could accept as satisfactory. As we all know, foreign bankers in China are quite dependent upon their home Governments, and it is a corollary to this fact that it would be extremely easy for the Governments concerned to put an immediate stop to the present controversy by intimating to their bankers that they should yield to the American group the share to which this Government holds a right for them by the pledge of China.\n\nI am, indeed, to-day informed that the German Government has already adopted this course.\n\nI am, &c. \nP. C. KNOX.\n\nDear Mr. Secretary,\n\nMr. Bryce to Mr. Knox, \nNorth-East Harbour, Maine, June 24, 1909.\n\nI AM desired by His Majesty's Government to say to you that there would appear to be some misapprehension in the mind of your Government as to the attitude of His Majesty's Government. Sir Edward Grey's idea in speaking to the United States Ambassador in London was not to refer the United States to the British bank in China, but to suggest that a representative of the United States syndicate should meet in Europe representatives of the British, French, and German groups, and should arrange all details as to financial co-operation of the former on the understanding that the agreement already signed is left undisturbed. Sir Edward Grey is most anxious that an arrangement should be concluded for the participation of the American group, and he still believes that this is the only means by which continued confusion can be avoided. As regards the matter of li-kin dues which are pledged for payment of interest on the loan, no question of interference with Chinese administration will arise. According to the agreement concluded, it is provided that the hypothecation of li-kin shall not interfere in the matter with the reform of customs or alteration in the tariff, and that, should the li-kin dues be hereafter abolished, some other security will be provided by China in its place. His Majesty's Government understand that the French and German groups are as desirous as is the British group of welcoming American co-operation, and are equally convinced that the best mode of arriving at a practical solution will be that representatives of all four groups should meet as soon as possible in conference in London or in one of the continental capitals. The United States representative would be furnished with the agreement concluded, and would be supplied with all information.\n\nI hope that you will see in this suggestion a means of speedily adjusting the matter, and I trust to have an early expression of the views of your Government.\n\nI am, &c. \nJAMES BRYCE.\n\n87", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 598, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n\n## Mr. Rumbold to Sir Edward Grey\n### (Received September 6.)\n\n**(No. 240. Confidential.)**\n\nTokyo, August 16, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nTHE Peking correspondent of the \"Jiji Shimpo\" called at the embassy on the 12th instant with a letter of introduction from Sir John Jordan. In the course of conversation, the correspondent in question said that he understood that China was thinking of building a railway from Chengchow to Tsitsihar. He understood, he said, that Japan would not oppose such a project, but that if she did, she would expose herself to much adverse comment from other Powers, since the proposed line would pass well to the west of Fakumen. He understood that the line had been already surveyed, but he considered that it was impracticable, for the present, as it would not pay.\n\nThe information supplied by this gentleman gave an opening for alluding to the matter in conversation with the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, yesterday, without the necessity for mentioning either Sir J. Jordan's correspondence with you on the subject, or Messrs. Paulings' reported concession for the proposed line. Mr. Ishii's language was very vague and non-committal. All he would say was that it would be premature, at present, to express any opinion as to the attitude the Japanese Government would take up in regard to a project which he characterized as only a rumour from Peking. A line, such as that under discussion, could not possibly pay, at present, and would prove very expensive. On the hypothesis that the line were ever built, he seemed to think that there would have to be some working arrangement with the Chinese by which the interests of Japan and of the South Manchurian Railway would be safeguarded. Such an arrangement would, presumably, be in the nature of a financial compensation to the South Manchurian Railway for any loss of traffic.\n\nIt might be inferred from his Excellency's language that Japan will allow the line to be built, provided that the South Manchurian Railway are duly compensated.\n\nIn reply to a question as to whether the Japanese Government had fixed the competitive area with reference to the South Manchurian Railway, Mr. Ishii said that this course was almost impossible. So much depended on topography, population, and local trade, &c.\n\nWith regard to American participation in the recent Hankow-Canton loan, Mr. Ishii said that he thought it only natural that the United States of America should wish to have a share in this loan. They had originally made a great mistake in allowing themselves to be bought out of the Hankow-Canton concession by the Chinese. He said that he had heard nothing about American railway activity in Manchuria and seemed unwilling to discuss the subject.\n\nIn regard to the foregoing, it is interesting to recall the advice recently given by Mr. Chirol of the Times to Marquis Katsura. Speaking of the South Manchurian Railway, Mr. Chirol said that it would be wiser for Japan to secure a definition of the limits of the competitive area by direct negotiation with China before other foreign interests are engaged. Otherwise, Japan may, one day, be confronted by a powerful foreign syndicate, backed by American and German capital, which would take its stand on the \"open door\" and put her in a very difficult position.\n\nI am unaware of the negotiations regarding the proposed Chengchow-Taonan-Tsitsihar railway to which Lord Ffrench alluded in conversation with Sir J. Jordan, and it would be useful to this embassy to know whatever can be ascertained at Peking on the subject.\n\nI have forwarded a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHORACE RUMBOLD.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\nIt was stipulated that the construction of the railway should be commenced within a period of two years, and that the construction and improvement of the line should be carried out as a joint Chinese and Japanese enterprise, each Government appointing commissioners for the purpose. Hence China has every right to send her representatives to take part in the control and inspection of the operations. At the expiry of the time stipulated in the agreement, however, the Japanese Government gave no indication of any intention to resume negotiations in this matter, nor did they do so until the spring of this year. The Chinese Government, with a view to cement friendly relations between Japan and China, yielded to the former's request for the resumption of negotiations. The department of communications of the Peking Government accordingly sent officials appointed for that purpose. Subsequently, the Viceroy of Manchuria communicated with the Japanese consul at Mukden, insisting upon holding to the original arrangements for building this line; but the consul further delayed matters by refusing China's request that Japan should not place military guards either on or adjacent to the line. This sum to be the reason of the long delay in the negotiations which, however, were still proceeding when, quite unexpectedly, on the 6th August, the Japanese Minister sent a communication to the Wai-wu Pu charging China with procrastination and declaring that Japan would forthwith commence the work without Chinese co-operation.\n\nOn the receipt of this communication, the Wai-wu Pu forwarded to the Japanese Minister at Peking a reply, the gist of which was that, as the improvements were being made in the interests of trade and commerce, no necessity existed for the extension of the railway zone, but that China would not raise any objection if Japan wished to change the gauge and effect other improvements of an engineering character. The reply further emphasised that in the event of the gauge being changed, it must be made the same as that of the Peking-Mukden line, and that no other changes must be made other than those entailed by the necessities of engineering. This stipulation has particular reference to the suggested possibilities of a general change of route. It also stated that no extension of military control under the pretext of patrolling the railway in Manchuria would be permitted, and that the Chinese Government would furnish police or guards to protect the line. It concluded by repudiating any responsibility for the past delay.\n\nWe (Chinese Government) would point out to your Excellencies that the Japanese Government resumed negotiations subsequent to the expiry of the time stipulated in the treaty for the commencement of the work; but although this was the case, we, with a view to arriving at an amicable settlement of the differences existing between Japan and ourselves, did not refuse their request. Now, however, Japan, relying upon her superior strength, suddenly takes action regardless of the terms of the treaty and seeks to lay the blame for delay upon China. We are sure that under the pretext of developing communications and commerce, the Japanese Government desires this railway almost entirely for military purpose. It will also be remembered that the Japanese, in spite of treaty obligations, have made many other encroachments upon the rights and liberties of China.\n\nIn view of the situation brought about by the matters treated of in the foregoing, and particularly regarding the extension of Japanese military control in Manchuria, we have been compelled to lay particular emphasis on questions relating to the military protection of the railway and the constitution of the police force. If Japan had conceded these points, this matter would have been settled long ago, and she would have been under no necessity of attempting to lay the blame for any delay at the door of China. China still hopes for an amicable settlement within the terms of the treaty and, in making this announcement to the Powers, desires simply to set forth the facts in their true light, leaving the world to judge to whom the blame attaches.\n\nPage 33652\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]**\n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| [September 6.] | `RECE 12 OCT 09` |\n| | `SECTION 3.` |\n| | `596` |\n| | `CONFIDENTIAL.` |\n| | `[33431]` |\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[2413 ƒ-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 752, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Minutes respecting Hukuang Loan Agreement, September 30, 1909\n\nRec 25 OCT 09\n\nTHE German councillor of embassy called to say that his Government wished to recommend to our favourable consideration a suggestion of their financial group that the agreement with the Chinese for the Hukuang loan should be concluded at once, leaving the disputed question as to the engineers for the different sections to be settled later, as they feared that the illness of Chang Chih Tung might at any moment terminate fatally, and that then the whole matter would be postponed indefinitely.\n\nMr. Addis called this afternoon and we discussed this suggestion.\n\nThe point is that the Germans admitted the participation of the Americans in the extension beyond Ichang, and that it is only fair that all three should give up something in order to allow of this participation. We only agreed to let them have the Hupeh section on their agreeing that the extension beyond should be shared between ourselves and the French. The Hupeh section was to be the German share. If we are now to sign they get this—their whole share; whereas we and the French will not get ours, as we have to give up some in order to provide for the Americans. Therefore it is not we who are blocking the way.\n\nExplain to German Embassy.*\n\nForeign Office, September 27, 1909.\n\nF. A. C.\nC. H.\n\nI indicated to the councillor of the German Embassy to-day what the lines of our reply on this point would be. It should now be given. Sir F. Campbell could give it verbally. I also told Count Kühlmann that it appeared to me that the German group expected ours not only to make a sacrifice as regards the engineers on the Szechuan line, but also to make another sacrifice on the Canton line to compensate the German group for what they gave up on the Szechuan. The British would thus be making a double sacrifice and the Germans none. I understood that Mr. Addis was now trying to arrange another conference of the three groups.\n\nForeign Office, September 30, 1909.\n\n[2413 gg-1]\n\n* Private letter to M. de Kühlmann, October 1, 1909\n\nE. G.\n\nPage 750 \n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n### **CONFIDENTIAL**\n(36442)\n#### No. 1\n[September 30]\n\n1. expenditure for previous quarters, I understand such have been prepared with the especial object of forming the quarterly statement of capital expenditure and account called for by the loan agreement.\n\nI have been furnished with no statement of general expenditure since the 30th June, 1908, and I am therefore at present (22nd July) in entire ignorance of the progress of expenditure as compared with the progress of construction, and if called upon to certify as to the necessity for remittances from home, could only do so on the general statement that bank balances are not sufficient to carry on the work, I understand that explanations have been offered by the chief accountant as to the causes of delay.\n\nC. O. $4965\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### No. 1\n#### SECTION 2\n\nPage 206\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 10.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, November 9, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nI AM instructed by my Government to call your attention to the danger from the continued delay at Peking in the matter of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway.\n\nObviously, until an agreement is reached among the European bankers, no progress is possible at Peking, especially in the face of the growing local Chinese opposition.\n\nMy Government understands that a practical agreement has been reached at Peking. Under these circumstances it fears that a failure now on the part of the British and German Governments to cause their bankers to complete the arrangement without further delay would be a misfortune of far-reaching consequence for all concerned.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**WHITELAW REID**\n\n[2486 k--2]\n\n2 DEC 09\n[41321]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423605, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n208 \n\n| 09215 \n\nNovember 13, 2 DEC 09,\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n41686\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Note communicated by Mr. Whitelaw Reid.** (Received November 13.)\n\nMR. WHITELAW REID presents his compliments to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and begs to inform him that his Government has been greatly gratified to learn from Berlin that the settlement of the Hukuang loan proposed by Mr. Straight, viz., that an American engineer should be appointed for the Hsiangyang-Kuang section of 200 kilom. to co-operate with and to be subject to the general direction of the German chief engineer, the appointment of the American engineer to be recognised by the Chinese Government by letter, and that by private arrangements the Hankow-Chengtu-Szechuan section is to be divided as follows: first section of 500 kilom., French chief engineer; second section of 600 kilom., American chief engineer; third section of 500 kilom., British chief engineer; is acceptable to the German Government provided that the American engineer for the Hsiangyang-Kuangshui section will not interfere with the judgment of the German chief engineer regarding the purchase of materials. This condition is agreed to by the United States Government on the understanding that it shall in no way prejudice the rights of their nationals for the same privileges and preferences with regard to materials, and for a voice in the selection of purchasing agencies as already agreed upon.\n\nBelieving that the Powers interested are now at one as regards the conditions of the Hukuang loan, my Government is asking that the German representative at Peking be instructed to sign the agreement without delay.\n\nInasmuch as the above settlement is also understood to be in harmony with the proposals of the British Government, as stated in the Foreign Office memorandum of the 20th ultimo, my Government hopes that His Majesty's Government will at once cause instructions to be issued to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation to sign this agreement.\n\nMr. Reid ventures to ask for an immediate favourable reply.\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, November 12, 1909.\n\n`2486 n-1`\n\nSC \n\nJune", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423611, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[41686]\n\n(No. 185.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan**\n\n[November 17.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nForeign Office, November 17, 1909.\n\nHUKUANG loan. Please see your telegram No. 175 of the 29th October.\n\nI hear from the American Ambassador that the German Government would accept, subject to some trifling conditions, the settlement suggested by Mr. Straight. The American Government are willing to agree to this, and hope that His Majesty's Government will no longer defer their sanction of the signature of the agreement.\n\nI told his Excellency that, as the arrangement proposed would give 1,000 kilom. of Szechuan line to Anglo-French group without detracting from our share in the Hankow-Canton line, we saw no ground for objection.\n\nI told him, however, that his information did not exactly correspond to the German views on the subject embodied in a memorandum of the 5th instant which we had received from the German Embassy.\n\n[2486 r-1]\n\nPage 214", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423666, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n### **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n269 \n39899 \nDEC 09 \n\n[November 19.] \n\n## SECTION 1\n\nNo. 1. \n\nSir, \n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received November 19.) \n\nAmerican Embassy, London, November 18, 1909. \n\nWITH reference to my note of the 12th instant and to your reply of the 17th instant regarding the Chinese railway loans, I have the honour, under instructions from my Government, to inform you that the German group has now consented that an American shall be appointed for the Hsiangyang-Kuangshui section, to co-operate under the general direction of the German chief engineer. This arrangement has been approved by the German Foreign Office, which has at the same time officially recognised the equal rights of American and other nationals under the original and supplementary agreements, and notably under article 18 of the latter, as follows:--\n\n| Article Details |\n| --- |\n| \"With regard to article 18, such modifications or extensions of the provisions respecting the appointment of purchasing agents for the two lines as may be necessary to secure equal consideration for British, German, French, or American nationals, and equal facilities for the receipt of tenders in the markets of the four countries shall be made the subject of an equitable arrangement between the director-general and the four banks.\" |\n\nHoping that this information, received this morning from my Government, may shed some light on the doubts expressed in your note of yesterday. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nWHITELAW REID.\n\nPage 270\nPage 271 \n\nforegoing suggestions may commend itself to His Britannic Majesty's Government. That principle finds support in the additional reasons that the consummation of some such plan would avoid the irritations likely to be engendered by the uncontrolled direct negotiations of bankers with the Chinese Government, and also that it would create such community of substantial interest in China as would facilitate a co-operation calculated to simplify the problems fiscal and monetary, reforms now receiving such earnest attention by the Imperial Chinese Government. \n\nAmerican Embassy, London, November 9, 1909. \n\n**This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427722, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n**SUGAR BOUNTIES**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 5.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 5.) (No. 252.)\n\nSir,\n\nTokyo, November 19, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith cuttings from the \"Japan Daily Herald\" of the 28th and 29th ultimo, consisting of an article describing the prospects of the sugar industry in Formosa, together with a few comments thereon by Mr. R. Boulter, acting commercial attaché to this embassy. The article is of interest at the present moment in view of the attempt which will shortly be made to find an outlet in the Chinese market for the surplus production of raw sugar in Formosa. I am given to understand that the writer is a M. R. N. Ohey, a German subject, who is manager in Yokohama of Messrs. Tait and Co., a British firm whose head office is in Amoy, and that his knowledge of the question is up to date and reliable.\n\nI have, &c. (For His Majesty's Ambassador),\n\nHORACE RUMBOLD.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Japan Daily Herald\" of October 28 and 29, 1910.\n\nTHE SUGAR INDUSTRY IN FORMOSA.\n\nTHERE is one Japanese industry which, in spite of the general depression which has now lasted so long and of the consequent lack of all spirit of enterprise, and also in spite of the catastrophe of the Nippon Seito Kaisha, has during the last few years increased greatly and continually attracted capital for new enterprises. It is the Formosa sugar industry.\n\nIt must be admitted at the outset, however, that it has not reached this flourishing condition entirely by its own strength, but that it owes it partly to the extensive subsidising policy of the Government. This subsidising policy has finally gone so far that, especially in consequence of the damage done to the sugar refineries in Japan by the collapse of the Dai Nippon Seito Kaisha which was partly caused by the subsidising policy of the Government, in the last session of the Diet a protest was raised against the system of employing these subsidies hitherto in force, and that this has been replaced by a system at least less open to attack. Under the old system, the officials were bound to class all Formosa sugar as first class (although, according to its quality it should almost all have gone under the second class of the consumption tax) in order to spare it the high taxation of the better quality and in this way procure it a preference of 2.50 yen per 100 kin over the foreign product. According to the decision of the last session of the Diet, this has been changed to the extent that Formosan centrifugal sugar must now be estimated according to its quality. In compensation, however, a sort of premium of 1 yen per 100 kin is guaranteed to it irrespective of quality, so that besides the protective duty of 2.25 yen per 100 kin on foreign sugar, it has in its favour also this consumption tax of 1 yen per 100 kin over imported sugar (Java centrifugal sugar) in favour of the big companies, and to the detriment of the people, for whom sugar is in this way constantly being made dearer!\n\nThe object of this whole development of the Formosa sugar industry as favoured by the Government, and which it will certainly attain in the near future is of course perfectly clear: it is the exclusion of all foreign sugar from Japan and the complete...\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427725, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "6\n\ngranting of the rebate is extended to Formosan sugar also, even though it has paid no duty.\n\nThe grant of this drawback has been renewed at intervals of about two years. The present law expires conjointly with the present tariff, and it is rumoured that the drawback will not be granted afresh from that date. If this should be true the Java sugar will suffer not only the loss of drawback 1.95 yen but also an increase in duty from 2.25 yen to 3.10 yen, a total loss of 2.80 per 100 kin, while Formosan sugar will suffer a loss of 1.95 yen drawback and gain 0.85 yen further protection against Java sugar.\n\n(c.) The export duties abolished were :-\n\nBrown sugar, 45 sen per 100 kin.\n\nWhite sugar, 56 sen per 100 kin.\n\nRefined sugar, 65 sen per 100 kin.\n\n**\n\nIt will be seen from the figures of import and home product given that the most important variety of sugar is centrifugalled sugar or bunmitto.\" The relative position of Java and Formosan centrifugalled sugar as regards subsidies and duties is at present thus\n\nJava.\n\nFormosa.\n\nYen.\n\nYen.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**SUGAR BOUNTIES.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[44074]\n\n(No. 252.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 5.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 5.)\n\nTokyo, November 19, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith cuttings from the \"Japan Daily Herald\" of the 28th and 29th ultimo, consisting of an article describing the prospects of the sugar industry in Formosa, together with a few comments thereon by Mr. R. Boulter, acting commercial attaché to this embassy. The article is of interest at the present moment in view of the attempt which will shortly be made to find an outlet in the Chinese market for the surplus production of raw sugar in Formosa. I am given to understand that the writer is a M. R. N. Ohey, a German subject, who is manager in Yokohama of Messrs. Tait and Co., a British firm whose head office is in Amoy, and that his knowledge of the question is up to date and reliable.\n\nI have, &c. (For His Majesty's Ambassador),\n\nHORACE RUMBOLD.\n\n \n Subsidy (a)\n Drawback (b)\n Import duty\n Consumption tax..\n Total\n \n \n + 1.95\n +1\n 2.25\n 5.00\n 5.30\n \n \n + 1·50\n + 1.95\n -5.00\n - 1.55\n \n \n\nThat is to say, Formosan centrifugalled sugar is protected against Java sugar to the extent of 3.75 per 100 kin.\n\nThere has been some talk lately of establishing sugar refineries in Formosa to compete with those in Japan proper. The Government appears to be determined to prevent such a development of the industry in Formosa, as the following extract from the semi-official \"Japan Times\" of the 11th instant shows :--\n\n\"With the object of preventing over-production, the Formosan Governor-General has given private notice to the existing companies manufacturing unrefined sugar to the following effect :--\n\n\"1. The Government will not give permission for the time being to the establishment of fresh sugar manufactories.\n\n2. Nor will it permit an extension of the present manufactories so as to increase their productive capacities.\n\n\"3. The same restrictions shall be placed also on the production of refined sugar.\"\n\nThe sugar refineries in Japan are said to be excellently equipped, but never to have been worked to their full capacity by any means.\n\nR. BOULTER.\n\nYokohama, November 15, 1910.\n\n0\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Japan Daily Herald\" of October 28 and 29, 1910.\n\n**THE SUGAR INDUSTRY IN FORMOSA.**\n\nTHERE is one Japanese industry which, in spite of the general depression which has now lasted so long and of the consequent lack of all spirit of enterprise, and also in spite of the catastrophe of the Nippon Seito Kaisha, has during the last few years increased greatly and continually attracted capital for new enterprises. It is the Formosa sugar industry.\n\nIt must be admitted at the outset, however, that it has not reached this flourishing condition entirely by its own strength, but that it owes it partly to the extensive subsidising policy of the Government. This subsidising policy has finally gone so far that, especially in consequence of the damage done to the sugar refineries in Japan by the collapse of the Dai Nippon Seito Kaisha which was partly caused by the subsidising policy of the Government, in the last session of the Diet a protest was raised against the system of employing these subsidies hitherto in force, and that this has been replaced by a system at least less open to attack. Under the old system, the officials were bound to class all Formosa sugar as first class (although, according to its quality it should almost all have gone under the second class of the consumption tax) in order to spare it the high taxation of the better quality and in this way procure it a preference of 2.50 yen per 100 kin over the foreign product. According to the decision of the last session of the Diet, this has been changed to the extent that Formosal centrifugal sugar must now be estimated according to its quality. In compensation, however, a sort of premium of 1 yen per 100 kin is guaranteed to it irrespective of quality, so that besides the protective duty of 2.25 yen per 100 kin on foreign sugar, it has in its favour also* this consumption tax of 1 yen per 100 kin over imported sugar (Java centrifugal sugar) in favour of the big companies, and to the detriment of the people, for whom sugar is in this way constantly being made dearer !\n\nThe object of this whole development of the Formosa sugar industry as favoured by the Government, and which it will certainly attain in the near future is of course perfectly clear: it is the exclusion of all foreign sugar from Japan and the complete\n\n* The italicised letters are inserted by Mr. Boulter for purposes of his commentary notes (Enclosure 2.)\n\n[1825 e-1]\n\nB\n\na\n\n258", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428120, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 45, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n[B]\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[47103]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 3.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Whitelaw Reid.\n\nForeign Office, January 3, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's memorandum dated the 29th ultimo, stating that it had been represented to the United States Government that the French Government would withdraw their objection to the signature of the Hukuang loan agreements provided that the French group received engineering rights on an additional 100 kilom. of the Chengtu extension, and expressing the willingness of your Government, if the report was well founded, to share equally with His Majesty's Government in making such sacrifice of engineering rights provided certain conditions were fulfilled.\n\nI have the honour to state, in reply, that no information to the effect that the French Government would be satisfied if their group received engineering rights on an additional 100 kilom. of the extension has so far reached His Majesty's Government. My latest information, which is contained in a note from the French Embassy dated the 22nd ultimo, is to the effect that the French group are unable to accept a share of the Szechuen line inferior to that allotted to the other groups, or to agree to any reduction of the line given them by the Anglo-Franco-German arrangement of the 14th May last.\n\nI expressed my regret at the decision of the French Government to allow the slight and comparatively unimportant difference between the share allotted to the American and German groups and that allotted to the Anglo-French group to interfere with the settlement of the whole question, and I added that I observed with surprise that the Hankow-Canton line should be mentioned on an apparently equal footing with the Hankow-Szechuen line, as if the two lines formed part of one undertaking. I said that in the circumstances it would appear that the only solution of the question now remaining was the division of the Szechuen line into four equal parts among the four groups with the internationalisation of the bonds as desired by the United States Government, and that I was prepared, subject to the concurrence of the French Government, to put this proposal before the United States and German Governments. I am now awaiting the reply to the above communication.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n[2581]\n\nE. GREY.\n\n44", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428255, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 180, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n178\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2272]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 20.]\n\nC\n\n3502\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRECE REG 3 FEB 10:\n\nMr. C. S. Addis to Sir F. Campbell.--(Received at Foreign Office January 20.)\n\nDear Sir Francis,\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation,\n\n31, Lombard Street, London, January 19, 1910,\n\nI HAVE to thank you for your letter of the 19th instant, which explains Sir John Jordan's proposal with regard to the substitution of another railway as the object of the Shanghae-Ningpo loan.\n\nI must say I am not convinced of the practicability of bringing the Chekiang gentry into submission, and, for reasons already mentioned to you, I am of the opinion that the general result upon Chinese credit in this country would be detrimental. We shall, however, do our best to give effect to Sir John Jordan's wishes in the matter, and no time is being lost in preparing a case for counsel.\n\nHukuang loan. I enclose copy of a letter from the German group, which came to hand this morning, together with a copy of my reply.\n\nYours truly,\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nEnclosure I in No. 1.\n\nHerr Urbig to Mr. C. S. Addis,\n\nDear Mr. Addis,\n\nBerlin, January 17, 1910, I HAVE heard that the representative of Messrs. Warburg has left Paris, and that thus far the negotiations about the division of the remaining lines of the Szechuan Railway have not led to any result. I must confess that the progress of the affair is somewhat of a surprise to me. If my informations are correct, there was a time, while the negotiations between London and Paris were going on, when there was an inclination in France to come to a definite arrangement if England, which reserves for itself the entire length of 900 kilom. of the Hankow-Canton Railway, had ceded to France about 50 kilom. of the Szechuan Railway---50 kilom. of a \"perhaps\"-to-be-constructed railway.\n\nI was told a few days ago in Brussels that the Hong Kong Bank did not wish to treat on any other basis than on that of a division of the entire Szechuan Railway in four equal parts. I was inclined to assume that this information was not correct, but now hear that the American Embassy in London has informed your Foreign Office that the division of the Szechuan line into four equal parts amongst the four groups would be entirely unacceptable, as such an arrangement would cancel the agreement already reached between Germany and the United States, and which Great Britain has approved. From this it results that a corresponding proposition has been made by the English groups.\n\nIt is a fact that the German group has not given its consent to the agreement with America until after this agreement had been pronounced in England as being satisfactory. Nor have we entertained any doubts that you in England would take such a view. As the German group ceded to the English group its rights to the Hankow-Canton line, based on the preliminary agreement dated the 7th March, 1909, on the explicit condition to receive in return a portion of equal value of the Szechuan Railway, it is evident that the sacrifice which is being imposed on the German group by the agreement with the United States has also been advantageous to the English group. The German group has made this sacrifice in order to contribute to the finalisation of the pending affair.\n\nThe matter now presents itself for us as follows:-\n\nA proposition, imposing a sacrifice on the German group, goes with careful considerations through all competent channels of the English-German-American coalition and finds the approval of all the respective organs. Soon afterwards, and at a time when France apparently can be made content by an insignificant concession, a\n\n[2581 u-1]\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nwriter points out that the surrender of the Manchurian Railway means the surrender of Manchuria, which Japan, while admitting China's sovereignty, requires as a field for emigration, and the development of which, ineffective unless Japan-directed, is for her a necessary guarantee of future peace. The press has been quick to point out, as with one voice, that if the neutralisation principle is to apply in Manchuria, it must be applicable to foreign railways throughout the Chinese Empire—to German lines in Shantung, to French in Yunnan, to English elsewhere; and both Japan and Russia must be admitted on equal terms to join in the Hankow line, in which four Powers are now concerned.\n\nThe \"Kokumin,\" generally pro-Government, and supposed sometimes to reflect Marquis Katsura's views, writes in its English column as follows:—\n\n'Japan will deal with the neutralisation proposal in a friendly manner, as it comes from a friendly country, no matter whether Japan consents thereto or not. The argument that the neutralisation scheme will guarantee the peace does not apply to Manchuria, in view of the fact that it infringes China's territorial right already established and deprives others of the privileges properly acquired there. It will lead to further complications. Russia's loss of the Chinese Eastern Railway will threaten her Siberian territory. It is also improper now to neutralise part of China's territory, in view of the fact that China may recover the railways in Manchuria upon the expiry of the concession. The Americo-Japan Agreement of 1908 is based upon the maintenance of China's independence and territorial integrity and the preservation of the common interests of the Powers in China. If the Japanese and American Governments always stick to this determination there will be no trouble at any time. It is unnecessary so seriously to discuss the American proposal, as it is absolutely impracticable. It depends upon the consent of China, Japan, and Russia, but they will not consent. Russia's maintenance of the Chinese Eastern Railway, even at an enormous cost, is to preserve the basis of her Oriental policy. If China is now to bear a big loan to recover the Manchurian Railway her finances will be imperilled at once. The proposed railway neutralisation will be better applied to China proper than in Manchuria; but will France and Germany, among other Powers, easily abandon their railways in Yünnan and Shantung?' \n\nSuch, generally speaking, are the views which the first announcement of the internationalisation scheme has elicited from the Japanese press. With each day's utterances disapproval has so far tended to grow rather than to diminish.\n\nBritish Embassy, Tokyo,\n\nJanuary 11, 1910,\n\nC258 4810\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[1696]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Count Metternich.\n\nREG 18 FEB 10\n\n[February 2.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWITH reference to the memorandum communicated by the German Embassy on Foreign Office, February 2, 1910. the 30th November last relative to the Hukuang Loan negotiations, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that I have now been informed by the French Embassy that the proposed division of the Szechuan Railway (Hankow-Chang) into four equal parts among the four groups is not unacceptable to the French Government, provided that the principle of equality between the French and British groups be extended to the Hankow-Canton Railway by the appointment of a French sub-engineer, and that, in the event of China granting the concession for the extension beyond Ichang, the French group receive, as compensation for the section they are giving up to the American group, the fourth or most westerly section of the Hankow-Szechuan line, which was allotted to the British group by the agreement of the 14th May last, made at Berlin, and subsequently ratified in London.\n\nI have informed the French Government, in reply, that, while noting with satisfaction their acceptance of the proposal in regard to the division of the Szechuan line, I see no reason for departing from the understanding arrived at last spring in regard to the two points above alluded to, since the inclusion of the American involves equal sacrifices on the Szechuan line for all three groups, and cannot therefore be held to affect the distribution of engineering sections on either line in the manner suggested by the French Government. I added that, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, the reopening of these questions was to be greatly deprecated as tending to the conclusion that there was to be no finality in any of these negotiations.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2631 6-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 266, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\nRECO\n\n264\n\n4810\n\nREG£18 FEB 10\n\n!\n\n2\n\nof the British Company, \"British and Chinese Corporation,\" which advanced money to the Chinese Government for the construction of the line Shan-hai-kwan--Newchwang, it having been noted that this line must not be under foreign control. It is evident that the position of the Shan-hai-kwan-Newchwang line was recognised as an exception to the general rule established by the agreement of 1899. Therefore the Imperial Government presume that they will in any case be informed as to the form of guarantee of foreign capital under which the Chinchow-Aigun Railway will be constructed before deciding whether they are able to agree with the opinion of the British Government that the participation of British capital in this enterprise is not contrary to the agreement of 1899.\n\nAgain, in the opinion of Sir E. Grey, the Imperial Government have already recognised the correctness of the view of the British Government as to the relation of the agreement of 1899 towards the financing of railway enterprises in China in general, and in particular the Chinchow-Tsitsikar-Aigun Railway, when they expressed a desire that Russian capital should participate in a loan for the construction of the Hankow-Canton and the Hankow-Szechuan railways. As regards this, the Imperial Government consider it their duty to mention that between the plans for the Hankow-Canton and Hankow-Szechuan railways on the one side, and the Chinchow-Tsitsikar--In the first case the Aignu line on the other side, there is a very essential difference. question was that the Russo-Chinese Bank should receive a share in an enterprise conceived by British capitalists, approved of by the British Government, and being realised with the equal participation of British, French, German, and American capital. On the other hand, the project for the Chiuchow-Tsitsikar-Aigun line was not only conceived without any participation by Russian capitalists, but Russia was informed of it only as a matter already decided upon, and now the Imperial Government learn that an ukase by the Chinese Government has already been signed formally authorising this enterprise.\n\nMoreover, the Chinchow-Tsitsikar-Aigun line, which will be the shortest of existing railway routes from Europe to Pekin and the ports of China, and will pass through a district which has hitherto been tapped by the Chinese Eastern Railway, bas, for Russia, an economic significance of the first degree; only a very exhaustive study can determine to what degree this line will compete with the Chinese Eastern Railway. The strategic significance for Russia of the Chinchow-Tsitsikar-Aigun line is evident, as at Blagovyeshchensk it must pass towards an unfortified frontier of Russia. Even if this railway was constructed to Tsitsikar only, it would make it possible for China to concentrate troops along it to the Chinese Eastern line itself whereas Russia, by virtue of article 7 of the Portsmouth treaty, has bound herself not to take advantage of her railway in Manchuria for strategic aims, and has limited her military strength along this route to fifteen men per kilometre. Moreover, the Chinese Eastern Railway occupies an entirely special position; it fulfils for Russia a very important State task as the main route for her relations with her Far Eastern possessions and their supply with Russian wares. The Imperial Government cannot without apprehension see a line of such State importance under a constant threat of interruption and seizure.\n\nThe above considerations have, in the eyes of the Imperial Government, a most serious significance. The construction of the Chinchow-Tsitsikar-Aigun Railway would bring about such a material violation of the balance which has existed along the Chinese Eastern Railway and on the Russo-Chinese frontier, and has permitted their remaining without effective measures of protection, that, in the event of the realisation of the proposed construction, the Imperial Government would be compelled to consider seriously measures for the defence of their possessions in the basin of the River Amur, and a radical alteration of their friendly and confiding policy as regards China.\n\nBritish capitalists evidently are only seeking an advantageous investment of their money, and cannot be interested in co-operating in the unfriendly intrigues of China with reference to Russia. The Imperial Government are therefore convinced that the British Government, in the question of the Chinchow-Tsitsikar-Aigun Railway, will take Russian interests into consideration, and will find it possible to exchange opinions with Russia on this matter.\n\nSt. Petersburgh, January 18 (31), 1910.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[4503]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 8.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 8, 1910.)\n\n(No. 375. Very Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nTokyo, December 26, 1909. I HAVE the honour to state that Sir John Jordan repeated to me on the 10th instant his telegram No. 198 of the 18th to you, stating that the American chargé d'affaires in Peking had informed him that he intended to submit a proposal of a formal nature to the Chinese Government to the effect that all railways in Manchuria should be internationalised, and that the principle of such internationalisation had been accepted by His Majesty's Government. The American chargé d'affaires further stated that he had been instructed to co-operate with Sir John Jordan in advising the Chinese Government to admit the Japanese into some participation in the Chinchow-Tsitsihar-Aiguu Railway.\n\nThis step on the part of the American chargé d'affaires in Peking seemed to me to be of a somewhat unusual nature. Sir John Jordan's telegram did not specifically state that the proposal was made under instructions from the American Government, and the statement that His Majesty's Government agreed in principle to the internationalisation of all railways in Manchuria was not in accordance with the action His Majesty's Government had in the past taken with regard to the South Manchurian Railway; I thought, therefore, that the chargé d'affaires bad exceeded his instructions or perhaps taken a line of his own, and I was the more inclined to adopt the view as I had heard nothing from you on the subject. Happening to meet Count Komura at a private reception the same afternoon, I sounded him on the subject. His Excellency at once said that from Peking he had heard nothing, but the American Ambassador a few hours previously had sent in a formal proposal in writing on behalf of his Government suggesting the internationalisation of all railways in Manchuria-\"those already constructed as well as those which might be constructed in the future.\" This proposal had come as a great surprise to the Japanese Government; it was, in fact, one to internationalise property belonging to the Japanese nation which they had acquired as a result of great expenditure in lives and treasure. His Excellency added that he had not had time to study the proposal carefully; it would of course be submitted to the Cabinet, and when a decision had been arrived at he would at once let me know.\n\nThe same evening the American Ambassador, Mr. O'Brien, was dining at this embassy, and of his own accord spoke to me on the subject. He said that he had received instructions on the 18th instant from Washington to submit a memorandum to the Japanese Government suggesting that all railways in Manchuria should be internationalised. Personally he had more than once spoken to Count Komura with regard to the advisability of the sale by Japan of her rights in the Manchurian Railway-the Japanese Government were in want of money, and hard cash would be much more useful to them than the railway. I ventured to say that it seemed to me that, the South Manchurian Railway being the one asset which remained over to the Japanese as the result of a hard-fought war, for sentimental if for no other reasons they would not feel disposed to sell their hard-won rights. Anyway, I thought that railways in Manchuria meant a great deal more to Japan than money, and, speaking privately, I did not think that the proposal which his Government had made would be favourably received by the Japanese Government, certainly not in regard to the South Manchurian Railway.\n\nThe gist of my conversation with the American Ambassador I telegraphed to you on the following day, the 21st December.\n\nOn the 24th December I received your telegram No. 40 of the 23rd instant, the first on this subject of internationalisation. You stated that the Japanese Ambassador had informed you that his Government proposed to decline to accede to the American proposal for internationalisation because it would be contrary to the position secured to Japan by the Portsmouth Treaty. You added, however, that Mr. Kato was personally inclined to agree to a suggestion made by you to the effect that Japan, while\n\n[2631 -2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429014, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 355, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "6\n\nformed for the purpose, some were brought up by the assembly itself, and some by the people.\n\nResolutions on all were passed by the assembly. The governor examined them, selecting those which could be acted upon, put them into operation, and sent back those which were impracticable to the assembly for reconsideration.\n\nThose of which consideration was not completed were kept over for the next session.\n\nCHEKIANG.\n\nA report on the Chekiang assembly was sent to the Foreign Office on the 13th January by His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai. The governor's official report on the first session has been published, and according to this there were twenty-eight sittings and fifty-six questions considered, of which twenty-seven were the subject of definite resolutions. Of the twenty-seven, seventeen were approved by the governor and given effect to, one was held over for submission to the Throne, and nine were contentious matters which in accordance with the rules were referred to the Senate.\n\nThe seventeen approved dealt with:\n\nIrrigation.\n\nSimplification of Chinese writing.\n\nCourt fees.\n\nPolice for mines.\n\nRiver conservancy.\n\nSericulture.\n\nNormal schools.\n\nPublic resources.\n\nAppropriation of land for public purposes.\n\nPublication of land-tax registers.\n\nCurrency.\n\nAbolition of Corvé.\n\nAbolition of Yamên charges.\n\nAbolition of charges against the provincial revenue for extra-provincial purposes.\n\nAbolition of li-kin abuses.\n\nProvincial constabulary.\n\nRecovery of Pao-shib-shan and Mo-kan-shan to preserve territorial integrity.\n\n(These are two health resorts of foreign missionaries.)\n\nThe nine contentious matters were not enumerated. They were referred to the constitutional government commission, pending the establishment of the Senate.\n\nCHIHLI.\n\nAssembly halls in foreign style are, it is understood, in course of construction in all the provincial capitals. The appended cutting from the Tien-tsin \"Sunday Journal\" of the 22nd May contains the first full account of one of these new buildings which has been published.\n\nMay 31, 1910.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[23517]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n352\n\nCO 21654\n\nRecd\n\nRef 15 JUN 10J\n\n[June 30.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 30.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, June 29, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note dated the 24th instant, in which you are so good as to inform me that the French and German Governments have notified to His Majesty's Government their assent to the agreement arrived at in Paris last month in the matter of the Hukuang loan, and that the French and German representatives in Peking have already been instructed by their respective Governments to co-operate with His Majesty's chargé d'affaires in approaching the Chinese Government on the subject.\n\nI duly communicated the substance of your note under acknowledgment to my Government, and I am now in a position to inform you that on the 28th instant the American Minister in Peking was instructed to join with his British, French, and German colleagues in an identic note, formally requesting the Chinese Government without delay to complete the loan agreement of the 6th June, 1909, already initialled by them, as well as the supplemental agreements come to with a view to the inclusion of the American group, a step which was in accord with the expressed wishes of the Chinese Government.\n\nThe American Minister was also instructed to remind the Wai-wu Pu of the promise given by Prince Ching to the British and American representatives in October 1909, and to point out that in accepting the present loan agreement, this undertaking must henceforth be held to extend to France and Germany as well as to the two Governments to whom the promise was originally made.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nWHITELAW REID,\n\n[2788 gg-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 420, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "417\n\n2\n\ntheir powers under the loan agreement over the whole railway, and while there was a reasonable prospect of the fulfilment of the board's anticipation I was not unwilling to recommend the corporation's representative to exercise patience. He informs me now, however, that, according to the information received by him recently from the board, no definite arrangements have yet been made for giving effect to the loan agreement, and that it is considered probable that several months must still elapse before any change in the situation can be expected.\n\nThe prospect of further indefinite delay is most unacceptable to the corporation, which has exercised great patience during the past two years, and has shown the utmost consideration for the difficulties of the Chinese Government, but which can hardly be expected to submit to the continued disregard of the loan agreement without remonstrance.\n\nIt appears to me that the time has come for the active intervention of the central Government in this matter. The loan agreement was contracted with the Wai-wu Pu and the Board of Communications under the sanction of an Imperial decree of the 6th March, 1908, and your Highness is no doubt well aware that a covenant of this nature cannot be openly infringed or set at nought by agitators of one province for more than two years without serious menace to the peace and credit of the whole Empire. In my view, the simple solution is the issue of an Imperial decree instructing the Board of Communications to resume control of the Shanghai-Ningpo Railway, and I have the honour to request your Highness to memorialise the throne in this sense at an early date.\n\nThe favour of a reply is requested.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24641]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n23223\n\nRece\n\n128 10\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received July 8.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, July 7, 1910. REFERRING to our conversation at the Foreign Office on the 27th June, when I ventured to suggest an apprehension lest one paragraph in your note of the 7th June relative to the Hukuang loan implied an extension to which my Government had not committed itself, I beg to say that I am now instructed to call your attention to an apparent discrepancy between the actual text of the agreement signed at Paris on the 23rd and 24th May, 1910, by representatives of the several financial groups, and the recital thereof in your note. The discrepancy relates to the provision of article 4 of the agreement of the 23rd May \"in regard to the appointment of chief engineers and sub-engineers for the lines contemplated by the original loan agreement.\"\n\nYour note seems to regard the agreement as to any additional engineering rights (up to 600 kilom.) to refer to a possible extension of the line beyond Chengtu. Now, both the text of the agreement of the 23rd May and that of the 11th May between Mr. Addis and M. Simon show that the reference was to any surplus over and above the 1,600 kilom. (estimated length of a possible extension from Ichang or Hsiangyang) to Chengtu, and not beyond that point.\n\nThe understanding of my Government is that the actual distance from Ichang or Hsiangyang to Chengtu by any route to be surveyed is unknown. If it should prove to be less than 1,600 kilom., the division into sections of 400, 600, and 600 kilom. \"shall abate proportionately.\" On the other hand, \"if the extension of the line above referred to should exceed in length 1,600 kilom., then the appointment of chief engineers of the excess between 1,600 and 2,200 kilom, shall be apportioned equally between the American, British, and French groups.”\n\nThe point we have wished to make clear is that the United States has not approved of any arrangement for a possible extension of the line beyond Chengtu. My Government also saw no reason for reminding the Chinese Government of the promise given by Prince Ching to British and American representatives in 1903, except to record the willingness of the United States, Great Britain, and China to admit German and French capitalists to participation in the loan. We have entered into no agreement as to the financing of any future loans that may be needed for the extension of the line to or beyond Chengtu.\n\nWe should be gratified if you could advise us of your understanding on these different points. My Government has taken pleasure in giving its approval to the agreements as signed, and, when informed that the other Governments interested have expressed their approval, will request the Chinese Government, through its representative at Peking, to complete the original and supplemental loan agreements.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nWHITELAW REID.\n\n[2813 h-1]\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429255, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 596, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n[B]\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[28578]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRECEIVED REG 1 SEP 10:\n\n[August 8.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 8.)\n\n(No. 216. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nBerlin, August 6, 1910. WITH reference to the rumour which I have already had the honour to report to you with regard to the dispatch of a German military mission to China, I learn from a source stated to be trustworthy, in touch with the Russian Embassy, that, though nothing has so far been definitely decided, there is an idea under consideration of sending as many as thirty officers. Colonel von Falkenhayn, Chief of the Staff of the XVIth Army Corps at Metz, is understood to have been selected as head of the mission. The officer in question has already served in China under Count Waldersee, and has a certain knowledge of the country and of the language.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. E. GOSCHEN.\n\n[2862-3]\n\n592\n\n \nPage 592\n\nPage 593", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "(33612).\n\n95\n\nсо 28772\n\nREC? Rege 17 SEP 10\n\nGERMAN EMBASSY,\n\nSeptember 12th, 1910.\n\n:\n\nYour Excellency:-\n\nAccording to a communication from the Secretary of State for the Imperial Post Office, the British postal authorities at Hongkong have for some time past allowed both the Chinese and the French post offices at Canton to charge lower postal rates between Hongkong and Canton than they have allowed the German post office there to charge. The efforts of the Imperial Post Office to secure the same privileges for the German post office have up to now been unsuccessful.\n\nRecent negotiations between the German Postal Superintendent at Shanghai and the Postmaster General at Hongkong, in which special stress was again laid on the fact that no valid argument could be brought forward to account for the preferential treatment given by the British authorities to the French as compared to the German post office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "\"This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\"\n\n510\n\nC O\n\n38371\n\nECR(15)\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[November 27.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Mitchell Innes to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received November 27.)\n\n(No. 48.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nYOUR telegram No. 122.\n\nWashington, November 27, 1910.\n\nSecretary of State apprehends much difficulty in negotiation of loan, and would prefer that no representations should be made to China as to the joint signature, at any rate until the negotiations are completed and contract ready for signature.\n\nAmbiguous wording of United States Government's note forwarded to you by last mail gave impression that joint signature could not be secured. This is not the case. United States Government will use their best endeavour without compromising the success of negotiations to secure this privilege with all others for combined groups.\n\nFrench and German Ambassadors have been instructed to follow action of this embassy.\n\n[2982 dd1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434190, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nManchuria; (2) to their sudden and entire reversal of policy regarding the Russian railway settlement at Harbin, which reversal was adopted without in any way consulting the British Legation at Peking, with whom they had been previously co-operating; (3) to their action in the matter of the Hupuang loan negotiations; and (4) to their inconsiderate determination without consultation with His Majesty's Government to convene an opium conference at The Hague.\n\nIn my fifteen years' experience of the Far East I have found the Americans quite ready to change their policy if it suited them without in any way considering others. They are also past masters in the policy of extracting the chestnuts, or attempting to do so, by means of others. Cases of this kind occurred when I was in charge of the legation at Peking, and since I have been in Tokyo I can recall to mind three notable instances of this, and of change of policy to suit their own purposes quite regardless of those with whom they had been working:\n\n1. In 1901, at the time of the struggle with the Japanese over the perpetual lease question, it will be remembered that the Japanese Foreign Office declined to submit the matter to arbitration. In this they were strongly supported by the American Legation, who stated that the house tax was a reasonable one and a proper tax. Had it not been for the support received from the French and German Legations, and the fact that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was on the tapis, the Japanese Government, owing to strong American support, would have maintained their contention and the case would probably never have gone to arbitration. As soon as the Japanese consented to arbitration the American Legation put in a statement to the effect that though they did not approve of the arbitration in principle, yet their subjects would, of course, benefit by any advantage which it might bring. This they have done in full measure, for American perpetual leaseholders are only second to us in number.\n\n2. At the time of the negotiations for the regulation of emigration into Canada the American Embassy tried to obtain our support so as to acquire any advantages which we might get from the Japanese by virtue of our somewhat special position as allies. This, however, did not succeed.\n\n3. In the matter of the trade-marks convention, we were working on parallel lines when the American Government, without in any way consulting or informing us, suddenly gave up to the Japanese jurisdiction in the matter of trade-mark cases in Corea, thereby letting go, to suit their own ends elsewhere, one of the sheet-anchors of the \"Trade-marks\" ship, which, to continue the metaphor, has not yet, so far as we are concerned, been brought into port.\n\nOther instances could be produced in my own experience, both here and in China, of this selfish policy on the part of the United States Government, but sufficient instances have, I think, been named to amply bear out your contention that America shows a \"disregard of us which cannot be ignored when we find ourselves accused of similar offences.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD**\n\n## [B] \n1169 \n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.** \n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nESS REGE 13 JAN II\n\n[December 29.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n[46931]\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey**-(Received December 29.) (No. 446.)\n\nPeking, December 13, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Max Müller's despatch No. 97 of the 7th April last, I have the honour to transmit herewith translations of two Imperial decrees issued on the 4th instant, embodying the results of the labours of the Constitutional Government Committee in co-operation with Prince Tsai Hsün's commission for the reform of the navy, and with the general staff and the Army Board for the reform of that department.\n\nThe chief point of interest attaching to these decrees is that it is the first time responsible Ministers have been appointed in such a marked way, and the step perhaps foreshadows a change which is likely to come in the form of the constitution of a responsible Cabinet composed of the Ministers of the various departments of State.\n\nWith regard to naval administration, the decree approves the recommendations of Prince Tsai Hsün and Admiral Sa Chen-ping, based on their estimate of China's naval requirements and on the investigations made into the naval strength of foreign Powers. The Admiralty Council is accordingly converted into the Board of Admiralty, or Navy Board, and the appointment of a Minister and Vice-Minister is announced.\n\nThe proposals of the Constitutional Government Committee and the Army Board for the establishment of a graduated scheme fixing temporarily the spheres of the officials of the Army Board are adopted. The various posts of president, vice-presidents, and secretaries are abolished, and in their places the offices of Minister and Vice-Minister of War created.\n\nSeparate Imperial edicts of the same date command Prince Tsai Hsin to fill the post of Minister and Tan Hsuch-beng that of Vice-Minister of Marine, Yin Chang that of Minister, and Shou Hsün that of Vice-Minister of War, and Admiral of the Fleet Sa Chen-ping is appointed Commander-in-chief of Naval Forces on the High Seas and the River Yang-tsze.\n\nIn addition to the two cruiser training-ships ordered from England (see Mr. Max Muller's despatches Nos. 97 and 271 of the 7th April and 8th August), I may mention that Admiral Sa, who leaves Peking in a fortnight to resume command of the Chinese navy, and scarcely concealed his chagrin at the transfer, gave me the following confidential information regarding the ships ordered by China from foreign countries:\n\n| Country | Ships Ordered |\n| --- | --- |\n| Germany | One torpedo-boat and two light-draught vessels, of about 800 tons, for service on the Tung Ting Lake. |\n| Italy | One torpedo-boat. |\n| Austria | One torpedo-boat. |\n| Japan | Two gun-boats. |\n\nI understand that orders are likely to be placed in America for one or more vessels.\n\nThe above orders are in the nature of \"complimentary\" orders to the various Powers visited by the Naval Commissioners, and have been given at the urgent solicitation of those Powers, and it would seem that France showed no special desire to obtain orders.\n\nIn connection with naval reorganisation, I may mention that a project is said to be under consideration, which would appear to be the outcome of Prince Tsai Hsun's mission to the United States, for obtaining a loan of 25,000,000 dollars (gold) for the development of China's naval resources.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\n\n[1810 -1] \n189", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434196, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Manchuria; (2) to their sudden and entire reversal of policy regarding the Russian railway settlement at Harbin, which reversal was adopted without in any way consulting the British Legation at Peking, with whom they had been previously co-operating; (3) to their action in the matter of the Hupuang loan negotiations; and (4) to their inconsiderate determination without consultation with His Majesty's Government to convene an opium conference at The Hague.\n\nIn my fifteen years' experience of the Far East, I have found the Americans quite ready to change their policy if it suited them without in any way considering others. They are also past masters in the policy of extracting the chestnuts, or attempting to do so, by means of others. Cases of this kind occurred when I was in charge of the legation at Peking, and since I have been in Tokyo, I can recall to mind three notable instances of this, and of change of policy to suit their own purposes quite regardless of those with whom they had been working.\n\n1. In 1901, at the time of the struggle with the Japanese over the perpetual lease question, it will be remembered that the Japanese Foreign Office declined to submit the matter to arbitration. In this, they were strongly supported by the American Legation, who stated that the house tax was a reasonable one and a proper tax. Had it not been for the support received from the French and German Legations, and the fact that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was on the tapis, the Japanese Government, owing to strong American support, would have maintained their contention, and the case would probably never have gone to arbitration. As soon as the Japanese consented to arbitration, the American Legation put in a statement to the effect that, though they did not approve of the arbitration in principle, yet their subjects would, of course, benefit by any advantage which it might bring. This they have done in full measure, for American perpetual leaseholders are only second to us in number.\n\n2. At the time of the negotiations for the regulation of emigration into Canada, the American Embassy tried to obtain our support so as to acquire any advantages which we might get from the Japanese by virtue of our somewhat special position as allies. This, however, did not succeed.\n\n3. In the matter of the trade-marks convention, we were working on parallel lines when the American Government, without in any way consulting or informing us, suddenly gave up to the Japanese jurisdiction in the matter of trade-mark cases in Corea, thereby letting go, to suit their own ends elsewhere, one of the sheet-anchors of the \"Trade-marks\" ship, which, to continue the metaphor, has not yet, so far as we are concerned, been brought into port.\n\nOther instances could be produced in my own experience, both here and in China, of this selfish policy on the part of the United States Government, but sufficient instances have, I think, been named to amply bear out your contention that America shows a \"disregard of us which cannot be ignored when we find ourselves accused of similar offences.\"\n\n## \n\nI have, &c.\n\n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.**\n\n1911\n\n| Foreign Office | Date | Last previous Paper | Subsequent Paper |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 13/ | Jan. | ?9040, (with the last save one) Tres : 26 Jan \" (with the end only) for Cauf 26 Jan 70. (32.413). Wt.28,032--50. 40,000 11.10. A.&E.W. | HONG KONG 1250 со 1250 RECO Rraf 14 JAN II Cantor Morit. Resumption of Comings of 20 J 195 ent feil. |\n\nTo copy drop from Oc king covering copy corres. between OAG and Mr Max Müller. Proposes to approve Mr Muller's Sir J. Jordan to take no action Mr. Collin's. I Minh Dat ze complaint Lotvo issues from no depreciated currency Tran Their effect Mis complaints from · Concur and to dreit. bunden Sin F. H. May's д effect Па 4 Xa H. A. Mint rather д H. A. 1 trade. generalles. explain the w absenc Em \" for the adding for ponunt\" after Shanghai brohoved Laure Could hardly pass Yo matter And 1 excl. to Send reply Gos? гору д And send also an Xria g cony x A last encl. and Cor as above X All mu Ate in 57H 17/1 fist Actin m the offer\" Treasury of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "{This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n497\n\n8654\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[6588]\n## No. 1\n### [February 25.]\n#### SECTION 1\n\n(No. 51.)\n**(Telegraphic.) R.**\n**Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce**\n\nForeign Office, February 25, 1911.\n\nCHINA currency loan. The American Embassy inform me that the United States Government are confident of securing the assent of the Chinese Government to quadruple signature of loan agreement and proper supervision of expenditure, provided that the British, French, and German Governments do not raise question of appointment of joint advisers. The United States Government express the hope that the three Governments will, in the circumstances, support their demand for appointment of an American adviser only.\n\nI have replied that as joint action seems to be requested, I must first consult the French and German Governments.\n\n(Repeated to Peking, No. 33.)\n\n[1909 66~1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434556, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CO 10672\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n### SECTION 4\n\n(No. 61.)\n\nSir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 13.)\n\nBerlin, March 9, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith a despatch which I have received from Captain Watson, naval attaché to this embassy, relating to the debate in the Reichstag on the estimates for Kiao-chao.\n\nI have, &c. (for the Ambassador),\n\nRICHARD SEYMOUR.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\n(No. 7. **Confidential.**)\n\nCaptain Watson to Sir E. Goschen.\n\nBerlin, March 7, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward summary of debate in Reichstag on estimates for Kiao-chao. The colony is under State Secretary for Navy for estimate purposes. Copies of the German Colonial estimates have been forwarded to the Admiralty.\n\n2. From the debate it would appear that though progress in trade has been made, it does not seem that the colony can yet be regarded otherwise than as a military post and model Government colony.\n\nIn regard to its forming a port of entry of German goods into China, it would seem Hong Kong and Shanghai still prevent Kiao-chao from becoming a large forwarding port for German trade, though progress has undoubtedly been made in this respect owing to railway development.\n\n3. It is noteworthy that the colony appears to pay its own expenses except military costs.\n\n4. The idea of giving some form of self-government to the colony is interesting. Also the measures adopted for preventing spread of the plague.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHUGH WATSON,\nCaptain and Naval Attaché.\n\n### Summary of Discussion in Reichstag on Kiao-chao Budget, February 17, 1911\n\n1. Subsequent to the navy estimates, the budget for Kiao-chao was taken in the Reichstag, this budget coming under the Secretary of State for the Navy.\n\nBefore discussing Kiao-chao, Deputy Nacken, of Centre party, expressed the obligation of those invited to visit dockyards last year to the Secretary of State for the Navy. He also stated the suggestions made by the members visiting had been followed; and alluded particularly to the adoption at Wilhelmshaven of mercantile book-keeping, and anticipated that all would be convinced next year by results of its advantages. States that for the first time a balance appears in the budget of one of the Imperial departments. A sub-committee of the budget committee is still occupied in drawing up suggestions.\n\n2. In regard to Kiao-chao, he stated that trade of protectorate has grown to a gratifying extent. Colony pays its own expenses except military costs. Citizens of Tsingtau have extensive influence upon legal proceedings in the first and second courts. Development of the self-government of the citizens can no longer be delayed.\n\nResults of the various department administrations, with the exception of the dockyard, are satisfactory. Gratifying to know that mercantile book-keeping has been adopted in these departments.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434572, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# 571\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## OPIUM\n\n10673 IREC March 13 PR\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n#### No. 1\n\nNote communicated by Count Metternich, March 13.\n\nThe Imperial Government would like to be informed whether the British Government agree to the adjournment of the date of the Opium Conference to the 1st July proposed by the Dutch Government; furthermore, the Imperial Government would be thankful for information as to the intentions of the British Government in respect to regulating the trade in morphia and cocaine.\n\nGerman Embassy, March 13, 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434681, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[8478]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n94\n\n13346 [March 8]\n\n25 PR II SECTION 1.\n\n**Mr. Bryce to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 8.)**\n\n**(No. 50. Confidential.)**\n\nSir,\n\nWashington, February 24, 1911.\n\nLAST night the Secretary of State, whom I met dining at the German Embassy, took the opportunity of our chatting all three together in the smoking-room after dinner to open the subject of his recent proposal anent the contemplated Chinese loan. Other guests were present, but how far they heard and followed what he was saying it was not easy to tell. Mr. Knox said that, having had a promise from China to accept an American financial adviser, he thought it necessary as a matter of principle to hold the Chinese Government to their contract in that respect; but he would not, in point of fact, insist on the appointment of an American as such adviser. An adviser and guide was absolutely required, because China could not by herself carry out the currency reforms needed, and without some such guidance and control there would be no security for the proper application of the loan to the purposes for which it was destined, but he was perfectly willing that the adviser should be taken from a neutral country such as Holland, or Belgium, or Switzerland, or Sweden, or, possibly, if it could be so managed among the four Powers, an adviser might be selected from each of them in succession. He would nowise press for an American adviser; all he cared for was that China should be protected, not only against exploitation by irresponsible financiers from without, but also from the temptations to misappropriation or waste to which her internal administration was exposed. He earnestly hoped that the European Powers would appreciate this view and would agree to the proposals he had made. To me privately he remarked that, while he understood that in some matters His Majesty's Government might feel bound by their relations with Japan or other Powers, this was a matter in which Great Britain was not so hampered; that she and the United States stood alike for the open-door, and that their policy might therefore more on similar lines. He added that it was obvious that so much had to be done in China and by China in many ways that the present projected loan would probably be only the first of several that would be needed.\n\nIn reply I confined myself to observing that he was quite right in thinking that His Majesty's Government had no ulterior selfish objects, and were heartily not only in favour of the open-door policy, but sincerely desirous of helping China and of doing whatever could be done to promote her good government and welfare, and I promised to inform you of what had fallen from him.\n\nThese Chinese questions are the only part of United States foreign policy in which Mr. Knox appears to take any personal interest.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.\n\nP.S.-Since this despatch was written I have received from the State Department a `note verbale` bearing on the subject and to much the same effect as the conversation above reported. A copy of it is enclosed herewith.-J. B.\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1\n\n**Note verbale communicated to Mr. Bryce**\n\nON the general principle that China should not disregard its international undertakings, this Government has insisted upon the carrying out by the Chinese Government of its promise to ask the United States to nominate a financial adviser.\n\nIn urging the Chinese Government to consent to the joint signature of the pending currency loan by the four financial groups, the United States attaches...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434734, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[8049] \nNo. 1 \n[March 6,] \nSECTION 3 \n\nSir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 6.) \n(No. 50.) Sir, \nBerlin, March 1, 1911. \nWITH reference to my telegram No. 7 of yesterday's date, I have the honour to transmit herewith translation of a memorandum drawn up by the Imperial Foreign Office expressing the agreement of the Imperial Government in the points set forth in the memorandum of the State Department respecting the treatment of the question of the Chinese loan by Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States of America. \n\nI have, &c. \n**W. E. GOSCHEN** \n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n(Telegraphic.) P. \n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1\nGovernment of India to the Earl of Crewe. \nFebruary 22, 1911. \nMY telegram, dated the 19th instant, as to Hpimaw expedition. Compromise on Namting-Nalawt section might, Burmah Government consider, be offered on the terms proposed in Viceroy's telegram of the 22nd March, 1907, to Secretary of State, provided all claim to territory on northern frontier west of watershed is waived by China. Lieutenant-governor would, however, much prefer that northern boundary should not be rectified, and that, provided acceptance of watershed as general boundary is agreed to by China, any tract on British side of watershed over which effective control is proved to have been exercised by Chinese, should be leased by us from them. Lieutenant-governor's views and those advanced in my telegram of the 19th instant are practically identical. In event of compromise being necessary on Namting-Nalawt section, negotiating officer might be left to decide details, which might be either line suggested in letter of the 18th October, 1907, from India Office to Foreign Office, or terms proposed in above-quoted telegram from Government of India. \n\n(Repeated to Peking.)\n\n### Memorandum communicated to Sir E. Goschen by German Foreign Office.\n**(Translation)** \nTHE communication of the United States Government mentioned in the British Embassy's aide-memoire of the 13th instant, on the subject of the Chinese loan, has now also reached the Imperial Government through the German Embassy in Washington. \n\nThe Imperial Government can only express themselves in agreement with the points of view set forth in the memorandum of the State Department for a common treatment of this question by Great Britain, France, the United States of America, and Germany. They have in particular no objection to a statement being made to the Chinese Government by the four Powers interested, in accordance with the American proposal, that they will not support the raising of loans for China either directly or indirectly so long as China has not guaranteed an adequate control of the expenditure. \n\nThe Imperial Government therefore also agree to the suggestion to appoint, now while the present loan negotiations are impending, four auditors from among the nationals of the States interested, to supervise the spending of the money. They also would recommend that these auditors should be appointed not only for one part, but for the whole amount of the loan. The Chinese Government has also agreed to a corresponding arrangement in the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Convention, which answers very well in practice. \n\nThe Imperial German Embassy in Washington has been instructed to reply to the memorandum of the United States Government in the above sense. \n\nBerlin, February 27, 1911. \n[1918 -3] \n\n## Previous Document\n146 \nCO \n14358 \n2 \n\nI have no objection to acceptance of Scott's line east of Wa country, lieutenant-governor does not think that repetition of offer of that line, or reopening question of position of boundary pillars, would assist negotiations. All that is contained in the draft convention attached to the report by Mr. Litton is a description of the watershed, together with an agreement by which compensation for extinction of Chinese claims to `If an` dues from villages on the Burmah side was to be paid by British Government. Amicable settlement would be effected thereby, lieutenant-governor would, in view of information furnished by Hertz, admit claim of Chinese to the Kang-fang and Hpimaw groups of villages. Chinese claims to Htawgaw or other villages in disputed area are not, his honour believes, likely to be pressed. Negotiations should, the lieutenant-governor urges, be on the basis of regarding watershed as general boundary, and empowering a joint commission to rectify it by the inclusion of frontier tract adjacent to watershed, over which effective control is shown to have been exercised by the Chinese in the past, on the Chinese side of the frontier. Any line of modifications in boundary west of watershed is deprecated by lieutenant-governor, as position taken by us all along would thereby be surrendered and trouble would be caused in the future. There would be no objection, in his honour's opinion, to any territory over which Chinese are shown to have exercised effective control, being leased from Chinese. I would concur generally in views of lieutenant-governor, if Chinese Government are willing to accept watershed as the basis of negotiation. Question of further compensation does not arise if settlement can be effected by recognition of claim of Chinese to Kang-fang and Hpimaw villages. But if offer of compensation is necessary hereafter, compensation on section between Namting River and Nalawt is, in my opinion, open to no prima facie objection. But Burmah Government is being consulted on this point. \n\n(Repeated to Peking.) \n[B] \nPage 146 \nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435070, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nNo. 1.\n\n(No. 184.)\n\nSir,\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 17.)**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a memorandum containing my observations on the heads of missions in Peking.\n\nPeking, April 28, 1911.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum respecting Heads of Diplomatic Missions in Peking.**\n\nAustria-Hungary.-M. de Kuczynski, who was doyen of the diplomatic body since the 2nd August, 1909, left for Europe in February last, and is not expected to return here. He has already been fully described in my despatch No. 267 of the 1st June, 1907, and in Mr. Max Müller's despatch No. 251, Confidential, of the 21st July, 1910. The eccentricities of his wife became very marked during the latter part of their stay here, and as doyen M. de Kuczynski showed himself so amenable to German influence that he lost to a large extent the confidence of his other colleagues.\n\nThe Austrian Legation is in charge of the first secretary, M. von Storck, but it is reported that M. von Rosthorn, the Minister at Tehran, who was formerly Chinese secretary here, will be transferred to Peking as successor to M. de Kuczynski.\n\nGermany.-Count Rex, notices of whom will be found in previous reports, was transferred to the embassy at Tokyo about a month ago. Towards the end of his time here he had become very unpopular with his compatriots, and he left Peking for his new post without giving even the members of his own legation an opportunity of seeing him off.\n\nHerr von Haxthausen, who was formerly consul-general at Warsaw, and has since been Minister to Bolivia, has been appointed to Peking, but will not arrive until June. In the meantime, the first secretary, Count Luxburg, is in charge of German interests.\n\nFrance.-The French Minister, M. de Margerie, who was French representative at Bangkok before he came here, is an excellent colleague and a charming man, with whom it is a great pleasure to be associated either in official business or in social life. I fully endorse all that Mr. Max Müller said of him in last year's report. Unfortunately, French interests in China give the French Minister little scope for the exercise of his undoubted ability, but he invariably lends this legation his cordial co-operation in all matters affecting our common interests.\n\nUnited States of America.-The American Minister, Mr. Calhoun, is a lawyer from Chicago, who had no previous experience of diplomatic life, and who is still perhaps rather inclined to look at his new profession from the point of view of his old one. He is a shrewd and thoroughly straightforward man, who takes a practical businesslike view of questions, and is very well-disposed towards us. I have generally found him quite frank and open in spite of his reputation for reticence and reserve, and in the currency loan and other questions in which we have been closely associated he has certainly given us a full share of his confidence. Like all American representatives here, Mr. Calhoun is at pains to cultivate friendly relations with the Chinese, but he is by no means blind to their shortcomings, and occasionally expresses himself in very strong language regarding the delays and evasions which attend the transaction of business.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## **OPIUM**\n\n### SECTION 3\n\n**No. 1.**\n\n**Note communicated by Count Metternich, July 29, 1911.**\n\nTHE United States Embassy in Berlin having enquired if the Imperial Government will be ready for the Opium Conference by the 1st October, the American chargé d'affaires has been informed that the Imperial Government is in favour of the conference meeting on the 1st October, and that the Imperial Government approve in principle of the propositions made by Great Britain. The Imperial Government expressly agree that the conference shall treat the questions relating to morphia and cocaine, and has undertaken to collect as far as possible statistical data. The sale of morphia and cocaine is, in Germany, very strictly regulated by law, and further legislation to make the regulations more stringent are contemplated. It is obvious that, pending the new regulations being drafted, the Imperial Government could not enter for the present into binding international agreements about this last point.\n\n**German Embassy, London, July 28, 1911.**\n\n[2106 ƒ→3] \n7520 \nRece Rro 22 AUG \n340 \n[July 29. \n[B] \n[29888]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to Mr. Raph/Savage and begs to transmit to him for his information the enclosed copy of a communication from the German Embassy with regard to certain services rendered by Mr Savage in connection with the delivery of mails to German warships in the Far East.\n\nDowning Street. 3rd October 1908.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "Ephy\n\n389\n\nThe German Consul at Hong Kong has reported that Mr. R.A.J. Savage, Superintendent of Mails at Hong Kong, during the last six years has always shown the greatest consideration to meet the wishes of the Consulate as well as those of the officers in Command of Ships of the German Navy with regard to the delivery of mails. Requests for alterations in the direction of the naval mails, by necessity often made at the moment and involving therefore no small amount of extra work to the Postal officials, have always met with his kind and ready response. Repeatedly his personal intervention has been instrumental for a considerably earlier delivery of the mails to German war vessels, which were absent from Hong Kong.\n\nAs Mr. Savage is now on leave of absence in England and as there appears to be a likelihood that he will not return to Hong Kong in the near future, the Imperial Government has instructed the German Embassy to inform the British Government that the Admiral in Command of the German Cruiser Squadron in the Far East, as well as the German Consul at Hong Kong, desire and beg to have conveyed to Mr. Savage their best thanks for the kind and courteous way in which he has always met their wishes.\n\nMr. Savage's address is said to be: 33, Anson Place, Plymouth.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 284, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "Page 280\n\n+\n\nAJłw \"Yow OJni yoxwî evinb os paitovsebne trensie oidsirivuado Isles edt,siztauá to ne yemed to ditered edit to? baci,n .etetƐ daixwî end to vene aaugintni doliv od Jnedre end to kroitextavili nixinde A seyolque muried a to sano ent yd bersirri si no beitzno need evad siv avel mort berrurer plejel ariw soiloч ytlü Bizbooxala ni .eoivies yudlik mori bewoxe need kad ed tant niyos eigonitnejanol brwol enov mir no bas «ninmal no noisique no botueris SOW 82. 28B8Beli Meliqyo ( --5-- ) to dearia, Canal xeut end to ga belisteb .eonebrogue\":100 ynisimonqos reddo baie,fisoodret sisi ni beIseonoo (xod f) owd († seinaquoo 'agirie to #radian) of bejauidce osla had an .enimoys-otvor bra ętilanyb snibelyre zol arotenoteh to an nđeo mau bus srezitto naurted to woerde ybsede a verítet -volt san isitejam new to sbnix Ile dɔkw residejot yunsilk bra Levan LLS OJ DOJIEVADU need med doin,elgonidmatanol otal timiansons be seoillo ruBLITO) .send puntik neuted a osni sesoqung kas atostnk saint out to roiredai edt otni 137 bødsrčanog ovad of mori erS Kissi18 30619 denizga noitantiņa qu zida of woveežne odò ni eriga\n\nJduob of aldiazoqui al ji jaunelevoi saada li▲ .sakifa yen bas mod30 ans to consvirnoo toerib erà dakw two baktıno need o780 .noieulomeo enão plao od talog neo bas sela krodtub -locolsretni ban yletaredilsh (Jnsem) axewog Leidsen (dark) bepaal enoljovidunt yď meiía al tew of distinƐ Jeenü szorong of yl yd siial, je Junbranoo dekávï ant od ritsi redotoj nadt rotal ton a'yðɛejal al of obvils yheerin doid,18 to votainki deidzot ent dandde gaidelser of as aœbro beflejab evka zymane edt as JoelieveD tindajalt edaImeno) and ziserd of rebro as ebuloni bas agitatem yď .sin tant eût evoket bas noidnsilidom tient sonte ovaní aqrou prit avossue) Insoll est to noisovni na ot (zodainyang sitwos aqoont zhibnoa yljmetendo need to yood eşti à .azaû boa adaxi mor? fansų seus erit bus dgren atomy einid ni talaas of beura bas duo bellao need evať sústå nivobeä ent of qu bersyɛty need svari shaor bas bedoelīgs need aari drogama\"I^\n\nfrontier of Egypt. Mines have been despatched to be laid in the Gulf of Akaba to protect the force from naval attack and the noto- rious Sheikh Aziz Shawish who has been so well-known as a fire- brand in raising Moslem feeling against Christians has published and disseminated through Syria and probably India an inflammatory document urging Mahometans to (? rise) against Great Britain, Doctor Prueller who was so long engaged in intrigues in Cairo against British occupation and is now attached to the German Embassy in Constantinople has been busily occupied in Syria try- ing to incite the people to take part in this conflict. (Ends).\n\nHARCOURT\n\nPage +\n\n(No other content on this page)\n\n(End of Page)\n\n \nhas been transformed into the required HTML format using `` for paragraphs. The original text has been kept intact with minor adjustments for spacing and readability. The page numbering has been preserved as per the instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 285, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "Page 035\n\n...\n\nTAINOUSAH\n\n281\n\nTranslation of CODE Telegram\n\nFrom SECRETARY OF STATE\n\nTo\n\nGOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\nDate 1st November, 1914.\n\nNovember 1st. My telegram of 30th October secret cypher as to Turkey. Similar statement issued by Foreign Office in the \"Times\" today and you should now publish. You should add to statement as telegraphed to you the following:-\n\nAggressive action was certain to be the result of the activity of the numerous German Officers employed in the Turkish Army and acting under the orders of the German Government who thus have succeeded in forcing the Advisers of the Sultan.\n\nGerman intrigue cannot influence the loyalty to Great Britain of the 70,000,000 of Mahomedan in India and the feeling of the Mahomedan inhabitants of Egypt or of the many millions of Moslems in Africa and in Malaya and elsewhere under His Majesty's protection. They must look with detestation on misguided action under foreign influence at Constantinople which would inevitably lead to the disintegration of the Turkish Empire and which shows such forgetfulness of the many occasions on which Great Britain has shown friendship to Turkey. They must feel bitterly the degeneration of their co-religionists who can thus be dominated against their will by German influences and many of them realise that when Turkey is pushed into war by Germany they must dissociate themselves from a course of action that is so prejudicial to the position of Turkey itself.\n\nThe Turkish Government summarily and without notice on Friday shut off telegraphic communication with the British Embassy at Constantinople. This is no doubt the prelude to further acts of aggression on their part and the British Government must take whatever action is required to protect British...\n\nPage 036", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "Copy of Telegram\n\nFrom Consul-General for U.S.A. in Hongkong\n\nSecretary of State, Washington, U.S.A.\n\nDate 14th December, 1914.\n\nEnclosure 2\n\n216\n\nGerman Government has complained to British Government that German prisoners here are compelled to work like coolies cleaning streets and otherwise unseemly treatment, threatening reprisal. Please instruct Embassy Berlin to inform German Government that I have investigated and find no truth whatever in such reports. I am mailing detailed report.\n\nANDERSON", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451289, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 216, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "(49522)\n\nSir,\n\nC.O.\n\nEMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\nLONDON, September 11th 1914.\n\nREG: 9 SEP 14\n211\n\nPursuant to instructions from the Secretary of State, I have the honour to acquaint you that an American steamship, the \"Havermetal\" appears to have been captured on August 21st and taken to Hong Kong as a prize of war.\n\nThis vessel, formerly the German S.S. \"Germania\", was purchased by one William Katz, an American citizen, at Shanghai from the former owners Messrs. Jebson and Company on July 12th 1913, a regular bill of sale for the transaction having been certified by the American Consul-General at Shanghai and duly forwarded to the Department of State at that time, where it was lodged with the Department of Commerce. The vessel was given the right to fly the American flag and is now an American vessel. When captured, she may have been bound for Tsingtau.\n\nI am instructed to bring these facts to the attention of His Majesty's Government with a request for the vessel's release.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(Signed) Walter Hines Page.\n\nThe Right Honourable Sir E. Grey, Bart., K.G., M.P., etc., etc., etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 286, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## 280 \n## 14 \n## 1914 \n\nLast previous Paper. | Anody Nov | subsequent Paper. \n| --- | --- | --- \n| 82 | | \n\n**HONG KONG** \n43106 \n**German Firms as** \n**Wests** \n**REC** \n**C.O.** \n43106 \n`REG 5 NOV 14` \nagents for American Firms. \n\nSends lobby memo from U.S. Embassy as to portion of Proposes to reply that remedy \nwould be for Americans & apps. But firm's as their agents, \n\n| Jean | ? | \n| --- | --- | \n| Ms Sothis | ? | \n| Sir G. Fiddes | A good answer | \n\nI think ? Concur at once \n6.5.444 \nAVC \nLa. 6.11.14 \n6.11.10 \n\n`W1.81,008—18, 45,000, 12/13.` \nA 42.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 287, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "In any further communication on the subject, please quote `No. 64557` and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\nC.O. `43106` RECO (REGO 5 NOV 14)\n\nWith FOREIGN OFFICE `281` 3rd November 1914\n\nPressing\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit to you herewith copy of a memorandum from the United States Embassy, respecting German firms, which are Agents for American business houses, doing business in Hong Kong.\n\nSubject to the concurrence of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Edward Grey proposes to reply that the remedy would appear to be, that American firms should appoint British firms as their agents, and that no other relief can be suggested in regard to the question raised by Mr. Page.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\nThacker", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 288, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## 571.\n\n**AMERICAN EMBASSY, LONDON.**\n\nOctober 28th, 1914.\n\n**MEMORANDUM.**\n\n282\n\nThe American Embassy has the honour to submit the following copy of a telegram from the Secretary of State at Washington relating to German firms doing business in Hong-Kong:-\n\nTelegram from Consul-General Hong Kong received October 26th advises that Hong Kong Government is placing all German firms there under control of receiverships of British nationality for liquidation. These firms are agents for many important American business houses and action causes American firms to be without representation.\n\nKindly take up with Foreign Office and point out the hardships which will result to American business in Hong Kong and enquire what relief can be afforded.\n\nVajesty's \n**Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 289, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## MINUTE\n\n43/06/14/19.\n\nC.\n\nA Kong.\n\n7NOW 283 7 Morin\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMmhs. S.\n\nUB: het (pro 64557) of the Din Secty Su Koward\n\nPraise Office 4% More forget you\n\nMr. Rofenton off\n\nMr. Cowell 7.1.14 says that he comments\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Islington.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\nin the reply which it is proposed to be in the memorandum from United States Embassy with expert German firms, Hong Kong's views on which are wanted for American Business houses\n\n(Signed). W JUST.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 383, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "# \n78355). \n\n377 \n\nThe American Ambassador presents his compliments \nto His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs \nand has the honour to quote the following telegram \nwhich he has just received from the Secretary of State \nat Washington \n\nEmbassy Berlin reports German Foreign Office \nhas reliable private reports that the treatment of \nGerman civil prisoners in Hongkong is very unseemly, \nand that they are compelled to work like coolies, \ncleaning streets and gutters. If German non-\ncombatant prisoners are compelled to perform labour \nof this kind in Hongkong or other British territory \nGerman Government advises it will have no other \ncourse than to retaliate. \n\nOffice without comment. \n\nBring to attention Foreign \nEmbassy of the \nUnited States of America, \nLondon. \n\nDecember 2nd, 1914.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 424, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# OSI\n\nJ \n\nIn controlling American commerce and the British Atlantic fleet, it is busy holding up North European neutral ships and searching them. For fear of the German sub-marines and in order to avoid the German fleet, all neutral ships are required to run a course leading through English waters, so that England may comfortably and without running any risks control the navigation of neutral countries.\n\nA country, which, like Germany, is economically independent, cannot be injured by attempts at preventing others from doing business. The neutrals have to bear the brunt of the losses. With them rests the responsibility of allowing England to carry on her arrogant and high-handed measures, patrolling the seas, and interrupting commerce. England alone must be called to account, because the neutral countries are suffering losses almost as great as the belligerent powers. Why do they tolerate this? Why does the American nation allow New York harbour to be blocked and its traffic controlled? The neutral states alone have it in their power to put a stop to this tyranny.\n\nThe Scandinavian view of the situation is aptly expressed by the \"Christiania Morgenbladet\": \"Had Skandinavia 50 submarines, this violation of international rights would probably not have succeeded\". As far as that goes, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden have entered a protest in London against blocking the North Sea.\n\n## A Secret Belgian-English Agreement\n\nSpeaking in Parliament at the outbreak of the war, Sir Edward Grey said, \"What England could not leave the Northern coast of France unprotected, nor tolerate the German's violation of Belgian neutrality.\" An English M.P. has publicly proved that the Northern coast of France was protected because, in accordance with the English-French military convention, the French fleet was concentrated in the Mediterranean. It has been proved in the meantime that England had a convention with Belgium according to the plan of that existing already between England and France. Further proofs have been found showing that Belgium had made all preparations for a war with England against Germany in violation of her own neutrality.\n\nThe \"Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung\" brings the facsimile of a formular stamped with the seal of the English Embassy in Brussels, containing the following text:\n\n**E. M. de l'ARMÉE ANGLAISE**\n\nJe soussigné DALE LONG attaché à l'E. M. réquisitionne...\n\nThe \"Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung\" remarks: A whole package of the above formulars has been found in the bureau of the English Spy-Central in Brussels. It was known long before the war that a certain Dale Long lived in Brussels as a spy against Germany in English service. A certain number of his agents were brought before the judge, but it could not be proved with certainty that Dale Long was attached to the English general staff. The above-mentioned papers are a proof that Dale Long was to belong to the English general staff in case of war and, as a member of the English army in Belgium, he had the right to furnish requisitions, and that this authority was couched by the English Embassy in Brussels, as the stamp proved. Heaps of these unfilled formulars, which were found, prove clearly that it is a question of mobilisation measures, which could not have taken place without the consent of the Belgian Government.\n\nAs a further proof, during the war, several Belgian general staff maps were found in a wounded English officer's knapsack, the print on which shows they were published by the English War Office in 1909 and 1912. The printed \"for official use only\" shows their secret character. The maps were drawn in the English War Office and then printed in the military topograph department at Southampton.\n\nAs this edition of Belgian general staff maps has also been found in the Belgian War Office, we have a new proof that, for years, England and Belgium had been making preparations for war against Germany.\n\n## A Dane on the German Ambulances\n\nThe Danish doctor Thorsøe writes to the \"Berlingske Tidende\" on the German army sanitary service in war: As I have had plenty of opportunities of forming an opinion of my own in this respect, I should like to express the following: From the moment the battle-field is searched by the medical corps, every one who is wounded, be it friend or foe, is treated equally, transported, bandaged, and brought to the various hospitals in trains fitted for the purpose. No difference is made whatever. This is the truth. The German Red Cross medical corps, including doctors, soldiers, means of transport, hospital conditions, ambulances, bandaging stations, and hospital trains are ideal. I spoke to all the wounded \"enemies\" and did not come across one who complained of the treatment in any way. A nation that treats its wounded enemies as well as the Germans have done, does not deserve the term \"barbarians\". If the Allies' treatment is nearly as good, human nature can be proud of having reached such a pinnacle of culture.\n\n## State of War\n\nThe period of flooding is over. The inundation tactics in the Yser-Ypres-District turn on their originators. Certainly, the whole district South and South West of Nieuport has been rendered impossible by water, but the German lines have been shortened to advantage and can send new echelons to strengthen the storming line. Our attack on the whole front shows renewed impulse. It appears that a specially violent attack is being put into action against Ypres, which is strongly fortified. The report from general headquarters mentions the places \"Zandvoorde\", \"Hellebelle\", \"Wambeke\", and \"Messines\" as taken, which shows decided progress to the West.\n\nAt the same time, an energetic offensive attack was carried out East of Soissons, which in the first stages stretched across the Aisne. Vailly and Chavonne remaining in our hands. Fighting was very fierce, being carried out at the point of the bayonet, a method generally supposed to be outlived. It is quite clear that our troops... \n\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "395 \n\nA search was conducted by Police under warrant of the dwellings of both these gentlemen and of the Peruvian Consular Offices. The search was made under the superintendence of Mr. T. H. King, Assistant Superintendent of Police between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. on the 22nd ultimo. Nothing suspicious was found at the Consulate or in the rooms of Mr. Cavero. In the rooms of Mr. Layseca, a copy of a letter was found addressed by Mr. Layseca in Spanish to his father, from which I enclose an extract. There were several letters from a German girl in Hamburg, from one of which, dated the 8th December, 1914, I also enclose an extract.\n\nMr. Layseca was formerly Secretary to the Peruvian Consulate in Hamburg. In September, 1914, he was recalled to Lima. He was subsequently transferred to Hongkong.\n\nMr. Cavero arrived recently in Hongkong. Prior to September, 1914, he was Secretary to the Peruvian Embassy at Berlin. In that month, he left Berlin for London. He was recalled to Lima in October. He is said to be engaged to a German lady.\n\n3.\n\nBoth gentlemen made formal protest to the search by Police, and on the 22nd, Mr. Cavero not having then taken over charge of the Consulate, Mr. Layseca addressed the letter, a copy of which is enclosed, to the Colonial Secretary; and on the 29th ultimo, I interviewed both gentlemen in the presence of the Colonial Secretary.\n\n4.\n\nMr. Layseca said, in reply to my questions, that he made use of the address in Canton because he was afraid letters from Germany would not be delivered to him. He said that he was not sure what propaganda Mr. Brahm referred to, but he imagined that it was the contradiction by Peruvians returned from Europe to Peru of the exaggerated accounts published outside Germany of conditions in that country owing to the war, such as shortage of food, anti-war riots, pessimism, etc. With reference to the extracts from his private correspondence which I read to him, Mr. Layseca said that these", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 449, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "V\n\nI\n\n:: 1972\n\nInigo a pử coenzend of KOLTE\n\nHİNG, ET JA (.he)\n\n+\n\nCOPY.\n\nNo. 479.\n\n(To accompany love. (.)\n\nAmerican Consulate-General,\n\n444\n\nHongkong, August 28, 1915.\n\nSubject: Inspection of Camp for German and Austro-Hungarian\n\nPrisoners of War at Hongkong.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Secretary of State,\n\nSir,\n\nWashington.\n\nC. O\n\n56940\n\nREC REGE 10 DECKE\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of\n\nthe Department's Instructions Serial No. 265, File No. 765.72110/550 of June 26, 1915, transmitting a copy of a note verbale addressed by the Foreign Office at Berlin to the American Embassy at that capital and asking that the Consul-General be instructed to visit the camp for prisoners of war in Hongkong with a view of convincing such officer that proper protection for the lives and health of prisoners is had during the hot and unfavourable season of the year in Hong-kong.\n\nIn line with the instructions of the Department to that effect I made arrangements with the colonial government and military authorities for an inspection of the camp on August 25th. On the morning of that date I proceeded to camp in company with the Major-General commanding the British Forces in China and the camp officials. In accordance with instructions given by the military and civil authorities of the colony I was there given every opportunity to inspect the camp and talk with prisoners. I went over the camp carefully in company with the camp officers including the medical officer in charge of its sanitation and the health of the prisoners. Later I received, apart from the British officers, all prisoners who had complaints to make as to any phase of prisoners' life in camp; I also discussed at length questions involving the health and welfare of the prisoners as a whole with Captain Hannig, the senior prisoner who has been chosen by the prisoners soon after their original internment to represent them in all dealings with the British", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456946, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "6026\n\nRec'd 6 FEB 15\n\n257\n\n1986)\n\nIREC\n\nThe American Ambassador presents his compliments to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit herewith enclosed a copy of a letter he has received from the Embassy at Berlin, dated January 27th, relative to the regulations concerning the correspondence of German civilians interned in Hong Kong.\n\nAmerican Embassy,\n\nLondon.\n\n30th, January 1915.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456947, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "SGS\n\nasoa\n\n(21835 & FR\n\nSir:-\n\n6026\n\nREC\n\nREG 6 FEB 15\n\n11986\n\n1 FEB 1915\n\nEMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. BERLIN\n\nBerlin, January 27th, 1915\n\natrí aðunaerq TobezuudmÅ mestnemå gɗT\n\nhot at 8 to \"hotenoel alustel afH of atremtIqmoo\n\ndelwaned +framed of *WOOF! #!!* van boe uzie ̃A matenof\n\n-nd ad÷ ront bevlogen and ad eutdel e to vyoo a beacione\n\ngrit. o* ovitalo% „AVS viauna), badeb,nifzsa de round\n\nmore90 to abfabroquar7o5 ene satm eanoa uñoftsingen\n\nano anoн ni berrotat ametitvto\n\n\"\n\nTaanima (nota 9MA\n\n.nobпou\n\nThe Imperial Foreign Office calls my attention to the fact that the families of German civilians interned in Hong Kong state that their letters to their relatives, who are detained at that place, do not appear to be received, and,\n\nas regards this subject, I have the honor to ask you to ascertain from His Majesty's Government, at the request of the Imperial German Government, the exact regulations concerning the correspondence of German civilians interned in Hong Kong, in particular, whether letters may be written and received without limit and whether such correspondence is permitted in the German language.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) James W. Gerard\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nThe Honorable Walter Hines Page,\n\nAmerican Ambassador,\n\nLONDON.\n\nCHR/TFB.\n\n#58\n\nPage 58\n\n \n(three lines at the top and bottom are kept as is, assuming they represent page numbering)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "20987\n\nRECS\n\nREGE 6 MAY 151\n\n54247\n\nHMAY 4 1915]\n\nThe American Ambassador presents his\n\ncompliments to His Majesty's Secretary of State\n\nfor Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to\n\ntransmit herewith, for such disposition as may\n\nbe thought fit, a copy and translation of Note\n\nVerbale No. III b 7630 of the Imperial Foreign\n\nOffice, dated April 22nd, received through the\n\nEmbassy at Berlin, relative to the alleged\n\ntreatment of German women and children in\n\nHong Kong.\n\nDr. Page will be glad to transmit to\n\nBerlin the substance of any reply that His Majesty's\n\nGovernment may desire to make.\n\nLondon, 3rd May,\n\n1915.\n\n3 Encls.\n\nCopy and translation.\n\n392", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "# TASAG\n\naret A YAM\n\n୮୫୧୦୯\n\n3\n\nAuswärtiges Amt.\n\nNo. III b 7630.\n\n52461.\n\n[21 YAM 2 38]\n\nTRANSLATION.\n\nNote Verbale,\n\nC.O\n\n20987\n\n393\n\nREC REG 6 MAY 15\n\nThe report of the American Consul General at Hongkong of December 15th last on his inspection of the detention camp there, Enclosure with Note Verbale of the Embassy of the United States of America of March 10th, F.O. No. 2606) contains the statement that German women and children are placed by the authorities there before the alternative of internment in the concentration camp or departure from the colony.\n\nThis treatment of women and children, in all cases where, for any reason whatsoever, their departure is not feasible or advisable, is equal to compulsory internment and is inconsistent with the treatment which is accorded to English women and children in Germany and also to German women and children in England itself, and, so far as is known to us, in her other colonial possessions.\n\nThe Foreign Office asks the Embassy of the United States of America kindly to bring the foregoing to the notice of the British Government, through the mediation of the American Embassy in London, and to request that the British Government give\n\nTo the\n\nEmbassy of the United States of America,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457087, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "393\n\n21093\n\nRef. 6 MAY 15 54161\n\nMAY 4 1915\n\nThe American Ambassador presents his compliments to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit herewith, for such disposition as may be thought fit, a copy and translation of Note Verbale No. III of 7051 of the Imperial Foreign Office, dated April 30th, received through the Embassy at Berlin, relative to the German subject Andreas Bune who is reported to have been sentenced at Hong Kong to imprisonment for life.\n\nDr. Page will be glad to transmit to Berlin the substance of any reply received from His Majesty's Government.\n\n \n\nCopy and translation.\n\nLondon, 3rd May, 1915.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457088, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nAuswartiges Amt\n\nNo.IIIe 7051\n\n51972\n\nNote Verbale.\n\n21093\n\nRec'd 309 RES 6 MAY 15\n\nTo stažeroeë clytart 7 mM of adnantiquoo p of second ads and bez zaniaYYa nglezot zot yen az soitin, pih dawa zot „delwoxed tim eladze¥ stok to soitalenant bas yqon stil (002720 mglozof Intraqui mis to idOS • III Syekd 36 vanadui wiż » word# bovinost „d‡os Tåtgå eruƐ seezbră dou¿dan mazzeð við of avitales *# peel gadi da beni stres keeď svad of bedroÇOI .elli xol tasmoosizqui nɛ etseasiɛ of balj od LLkw sza¶ „za sosh bovisoer ziqen yna to sonatadua edź mtized „Jiel teli biƐ „robnod „JEDNUTIAVOŬ alytusþali «IN\n\nAccording to information received by the Imperial Foreign Office, the ship-broker Andreas Bune, German subject born at Flensburg 42 years of age is reported to have been sentenced to penal servitude for life at Hong Kong, the place of his business,\n\nThe Imperial Foreign Office requests the American Embassy's kind intervention to the end, that with all possible despatch, information be procured in regard to the welfare and whereabouts of the above mentioned person, and that, in case of the correctness of the above report, the circumstances under which his arrest took place, and the reasons for his conviction be ascertained. In this latter case it is also requested that the competent American representative be asked to interest himself in the person in question and to see to his obtaining all necessary assistance for the protection of his interests and the alleviation of his position.\n\nThe Imperial Foreign Office would be grateful for information concerning the steps taken and their result.\n\nTo the American Embassy.\n\nBerlin, April 20, 1915.\n\n.noitalanezt besa yqoð", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457125, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "436\n\n22\n\nAnd whereas, the said Convention and Final Protocol have been ratified by the Government of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Governments of China and the Netherlands, and the ratifications of the said Governments were deposited by their respective Plenipotentiaries with the Government of the Netherlands;\n\nNow, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention and Final Protocol, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.\n\nIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.\n\nDone at the City of Washington this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-ninth.\n\nBy the President:\n\nW. J. BRYAN\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n[SEAL]\n\nWOODROW WILSON\n\nINTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION.\n\nHis Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia in the name of the German Empire; The President of the United States of America; His Majesty the Emperor of China; The President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia; the President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the King of Siam\n\nbeing desirous to take one step further in the way marked out by the International Commission at Shanghai in 1909;\n\nresolved to pursue progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine as well as drugs prepared or derived from these substances giving rise or which may give rise to analogous abuses;\n\ntaking into consideration the necessity and the mutual profit of an international understanding on this point;\n\nbeing convinced that they will meet in this humanitarian effort the unanimous adhesion of all the nations interested,\n\nhave resolved to conclude a Convention for this purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:\n\nHis Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Félix de Müller, His present Privy Counsellor, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;\n\nMr. Delbrück, His Superior Privy Counsellor;\n\nDr. Grunenwald, His Counsellor of Legation;\n\nDr. Kerp, His Privy Counsellor, Director at The Imperial Health Office;\n\n23\n\nDr. Rössler, Imperial Consul at Canton.\n\nPresident of the United States of America: Bishop Charles H. Brent;\n\nDr. Hamilton Wright;\n\nMr. H. J. Finger.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin;\n\nThe President of the French Republic:\n\nMr. Henry Brenier, Inspector of the Agricultural and Commercial Services of Indo-China;\n\nMr. Pierre Guesde, Administrator of the Civil Services of Indo-China.\n\nHis Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:\n\nThe Right Honorable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G., Member of the Privy Council;\n\nSir William Stevenson Meyer, K.C.I.E., Chief Secretary of the Government of Madras;\n\nMr. William Grenfell Max-Müller, C.B., M.V.O., His Counsellor of Embassy;\n\nSir William Job Collins, M.D., Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London.\n\nHis Majesty the King of Italy:\n\nHis Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Calvello, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of Japan:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;\n\nDr. Tomoe Takagi, Engineer of the General Government of Formosa;\n\nDr. Kotaro Nishizaki, Technical Specialist attached to the Laboratory of Hygienic Service.\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:\n\nMr. J. T. Cremer, Her Former Minister of the Colonies, President of the Dutch Commercial Company;\n\nMr. C. Th. van Deventer, Member of the First Chamber of the States General;\n\nMr. A. A. de Jongh, Former Inspector General and Chief of the Opium Régie Service in the Dutch Indies;\n\nMr. J. G. Scheurer, Member of the Second Chamber of the States General;\n\nMr. W. G. van Wettum, Inspector of the Opium Régie in the Dutch Indies.\n\nHis Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia:\n\nMirza Mahmoud Khan, Secretary of the Persian Legation at The Hague;\n\nThe President of the Portuguese Republic:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Antonio Maria Bartholomeu Ferreira, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;\n\nHis Majesty the King of All the Russias:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Alexandre Savinsky, His Master of Ceremonies, His present Counsellor of State, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stockholm.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "2\n\nGENERAL.\n\nList of Papers.\n\n(A.) Swiss Minister, January 12, 1915. (File 7018/15.)\n\n(B.) Swiss Minister, January 28, 1915. (File 7018/15.)\n\n(C.) Swiss Minister, February 8, 1915. (File 7018/15.)\n\n(D.) Swiss Minister, February 18, 1915. (File 7018/15.)\n\n(E.) Italian Embassy (Memorandum), January 30, 1915.\n\n(F.) Director of Military Operations, January 18, 1915.\n\n(G.) War Office, February 2, 1915. (File 7018/15.).\n\n(H.) German Embassy (Memorandum), March 5, 1902.\n\n(I) Netherlands Minister, March 18, 1902,\n\n(J.) Law Officers, March 31, 1902. (File 7018/15.) (File 8184/15.)\n\nIn any further communication on the subject, please quote No. 101209/15, and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\nREG 29 JUNE OFFICE\n\nJuly 28\n\nJ 1915\n\n22\n\nReport.\n\nWE are of opinion that His Majesty's Government is justified in censoring letters which in the course of transit from one neutral country to another passed through British territory. We agree with the view expressed by our predecessors on the 31st March, 1902, when reporting on a similar question. It is obvious that a state of war suspends the application of Article 4 (1) of the Universal Postal Convention as between the belligerents themselves, and this shows that it is one of those Agreements which are only intended to operate in their entirety during a state of peace. It would indeed be a ridiculous construction of the Convention to suppose that it bound a belligerent State to make itself the conduit-pipe for communications intended to defeat its own measures of war.\n\nLaw Officers' Department\n\nMarch 31, 1915.\n\nJOHN SIMON. STANLEY O. BUCKMASTER.\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.36148/1915 of the 24th instant respecting the censorship measures to be taken at Hong Kong in connection with the Trading with Enemy Proclamation of June 25th.\n\nSir E. Grey would be glad if the Secretary of State for the Colonies, should he see no objection, would cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be informed that all telegrams to enemy subjects in the countries covered by the Proclamation should be stopped, and all telegrams to British subjects or to allied or neutral subjects in those countries carefully censored and stopped if found to contain anything of a suspicious or undesirable nature.\n\nWith regard to mails, all bags, whether sealed or not, should be opened and carefully examined, all letters to enemy subjects stopped, and all correspondence for British, allied, or neutral subjects stopped if found to contain anything...\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 513, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "OTE VERBALE.\n\nC.O.\n\n47728\n\nRECO\n\n(REGE 16 OCT 15\n\n507\n\nAccording to a report received at this office from a reliable source the transference of the German civilian prisoners from Hongkong to Thursday Island is contemplated if indeed it has not already been carried out.\n\nThe Foreign Office would be grateful to the United States Embassy if the American Embassy in London were requested to ask the British Government for a statement as to whether this report corresponds to the facts. If that be the case it is further requested that definite information may be obtained in a suitable manner as to the question how the prisoners are lodged and treated on that island as also what provision is made to protect them from the unhealthy influence of the local climate.\n\nThe Foreign Office will be grateful to the Embassy for a reply as early as possible as to the result of the steps taken in this matter.\n\nBerlin,\n\nSeptember 20th, 1915.\n\nTo The\n\nUnited States Embassy.\n\nPage III\n\nb. 24235.\n\n[134847.\n\n3\n\nI\n\nlave. TJO\n\n0.0\n\n୧୯୮୮୪\n\na: 100 al 20\n\nTranslation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457817, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 559, "title": "CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Board of Trade,\n\n(Commercial Department)\n\nGwydyr House,\n\nWhitehall,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\n23rd July, 1915.\n\nI am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th June, No. 90533, relative to the employment of German agents in the Far East by British Insurance Companies, and to state, for Sir E. Grey's information, that on receipt of your letter of the 23rd June, No. 79239, enclosing copy of a memorandum on this subject prepared by the Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokio, copies of the memorandum were sent to the Companies represented at the Conference which took place with the Board of Trade last November, with a statement that His Majesty's Government shared the views therein expressed, and that they trusted that the Companies concerned would now part with the German agents.\n\nI am to add that as regards China, the matter has of course been settled by the recent Proclamation prohibiting trade with persons of enemy nationality in China, Siam, Persia and Morocco.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(Signed) H. Fountain,\n\nAn Under Secretary.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nS.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-427 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457941, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "The Colony, these goods should be admitted\n\nCA DRAFT.\n\n4.0.4 Kong 5098 3/15 C. D. R. 1 2 NOV 32 Ind 16 Nov. 905-c915 The A.R. 98. 7.0.\n\n1 Beckett 11/11/15 2. Robinson 12/1/\n\nLii your 1 ... with regard to the 14th Nov. In- \n\nA f 157759/15 relating to a shipment from the German Embassy at Madrid to Hamburg, detained at Rotterdam.\n\nI am to request you to inform Sir E. Grey that the copy is being sent to the Gov. of Hong Kong, who is being requested to state whether he considers that, in the interests of the Colony, these goods should be admitted\n\nE.A.M.\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ.\n\nfor the Under Secretary of State\n\nPage ...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and output only HTML using for paragraphs (and \n only if absolutely necessary) without markdown or code fences, and adhering strictly to the rules:\n\nThe Colony, these goods should be admitted\n\nCA DRAFT. 4.0.4 Kong 5098 3/15 C. D. R. 1 2 NOV 32 Ind 16 Nov. 905-c915 The A.R. 98. 7.0.\n\n1 Beckett 11/11/15 2. Robinson 12/1/ Lii your 1 ... with regard to the 14th Nov. In-\n\nA f 157759/15 relating to a shipment from the German Embassy at Madrid to Hamburg, detained at Rotterdam.\n\nI am to request you to inform Sir E. Grey that the copy is being sent to the Gov. of Hong Kong, who is being requested to state whether he considers that, in the interests of the Colony, these goods should be admitted\n\nE.A.M.\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ. for the Under Secretary of State", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "198166/P/1915,\n\nREC 30 DEC 15\n\n59948 334 REG\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and is directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to transmit herewith for such action as may be possible application for the release and repatriation of the German subject, Dr. Eugen Drouven, which has been received from the German Government through the Embassy of the United States of America.\n\nForeign Office, December 29th, 1915.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458253, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "No. III\n\n32186\n\n193436\n\nNote verbale.\n\nREC 0.0. 342 REG 1 JAN 16.\n\nThe Foreign Office acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the Note Verbale of the 13th ultimo FO. No. 6223 with regard to the position of German prisoners in Hongkong and wishes at the same time to communicate the following to the U.S. Embassy.\n\nThe German Govt. noticed from the above-mentioned note verbale that the question of the maintenance is, not without reason, the cause of many complaints from the interned persons. The German Government has received this same information from other reliable sources.\n\nThe Foreign Office would be very grateful to the Embassy if they would ask the American Consul General at Hongkong to give this matter his particular attention and to press for a satisfactory solution.\n\nThe German Govt. has also received information that one of the interned persons at Hongkong has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for attempting to escape. In accordance with the stipulations of Art. 8 of the Hague Land War Regulations (Landkriegsordnung) a communication is desired as to whether the news of the sentence of one of the interned persons to eighteen months imprisonment is true, who is thus sentenced and whether the punishment is the consequence of an attempted escape only, or of other acts as well, and in the latter case what the other acts were.\n\nFinally the German Govt has reliable information that in consequence of this attempted escape, the German...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "343\n\nGerman prisoners in Hongkong were led through several streets of the town in handcuffs,\n\nIt is gratefully acknowledged here that the American Consul General in Hongkong has already spoken of this to the competent authorities. The Foreign Office would be most grateful if the Embassy would lodge a formal protest with the British Govt against the treatment of German prisoners as criminals and request the Government to issue the necessary instructions to the officials concerned that such a thing shall not occur again.\n\nA communication as to the result of the steps taken in regard to this matter is requested.\n\nTo the U.S. Embassy.\n\nBerlin, 13th December, 1915.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460448, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 581, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Page 578\n\nBritish Embassy,\n\nTokyo, January 17th, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's despatch of the 31st December last with reference to the question of placing firms on the Black List.\n\nI have the honour to point out that the position with regard to enemy trading in Japan, which is an Allied Country and does not herself prohibit enemy trading, is different even from that in China and Siam and that there is nothing in the Trading with the Enemy Proclamations to prevent say a firm in Manchester from trading with a German firm in Japan, much less then with a Japanese or neutral firm which acts as a \"fence\" for an enemy firm.\n\nAll that it is possible for me to do at present under existing Regulations is to draw the attention of His Majesty's Government and Colonial Governments to suspicious cases in the hope that this information may prove of some use.\n\nIn the course of the next few days I hope to be able to send you a list which is now in the hands of the Printer, all Enemy Firms in Japan and of such of their \"fences\" as are known, so that in the event of any restrictions being placed on trade between British subjects and enemy firms in Japan Your Excellency may have the information at your disposal.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) Connyngham Greene.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir F. H. May, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor,\n\nHongkong.\n\nPage 578\n\nCOPY.\n\nInclosure 2\n\nY 9 0 0\n\n. Of\n\n.....ΠΟΤ\n\nAnodynol „TenISVOD.\n\nstodƐ to vinĴOIOSE..\n\n0%\n\nnsTye le T Tongy) to sasudqıraq\n\n(lines with garbled text removed as they appear to be OCR errors without recoverable meaning)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462275, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "## No. 292.\n\nEnclosure\n\nCopy sent to Washington and Hongkong.\n\n**Confidential and immediate.**\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Embassy,\nTokyo.\n\nJune 24th 1916.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch received from His Majesty's Consul at Nagasaki respecting Mr. and Mrs. Schmulling who are reported to be German agents.\n\nThe report that these persons were merely fined in Hongkong for carrying despatches addressed to the German Colonial Office and then released appears to require further explanation and I am accordingly sending a copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hongkong as well as to His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington, June 17th.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest respect, etc.,\n\n(SD.) Conyngham Greene.\n\nThe Right Honourable\nSir Edward Grey Bart., K.G.,\nM.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "**AMERICAN EMBASSY, LONDON**\n\nREAD \n47 \n4199 \nRES 27 JAN 16!\n\nThe American Ambassador presents his compliments to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit herewith enclosed a copy of a letter he has received from the Embassy at Berlin, dated the 10th instant, together with a copy of the Note Verbale from The German Foreign Office, No. IIIa 28303, dated January 7th, 1916, with reference to a reported decree in Hong Kong in amplification of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance.\n\nJanuary 17, 1916.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464785, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# No. 1. A. 9352\n95291\n**TRANSLATION**\n343\n27\n**Note Verbale**\n\nThe Foreign Office have the honour to transmit herewith to the Embassy of the United States of America a copy of a letter dated the 16th instant, which has been received from the Deutsch Asiatische Bank, relative to the procedure adopted by the British Colonial Authorities at Hongkong against the local branch of that Bank.\n\nThe German Government would be glad if the United States Government would communicate as soon as possible, if possible by telegraph, with their Consular Representative at Hongkong to enquire the grounds for which the British Colonial Authorities have decided that a sale by auction is necessary. At the same time the German Government request that the British Government may be informed that the auctioning of the premises of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, which is to take place in spite of the existence of sufficient cash-assets to satisfy the claims of the local creditors, would be considered by the German Government in the light of a violation of German private rights contrary to the provisions of international law.\n\nBerlin, May 24, 1916.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "450\n\nIn my opinion the best solution remains a prohibition on the imports of sugar into the countries of the Allies and their Colonies, if such sugar is not covered by a Consular certificate as explained in my letter of 28th Feb. 1916.\n\nSuch a measure would be decisive and would not give offence to neutral sugar manufacturers.\n\nI have now come to what happened a few days ago, viz., that some Dutch firms have been recommended for the Black List without previous warning on account of their having sold sugar of Crop 1917 to German dealers. A storm of indignation has been aroused amongst Dutch sellers and the help of the Sugar Syndicate has been asked to protect the interests of the sugar manufacturers in Java at the British Embassy in The Hague.\n\nBlack-Listing large sugar institutions has more far-reaching consequences than the simple fact that the Black-listed can sell no more sugar to British firms. The sugar industry is (apart from a portion of its machinery) for manufacturing its grounds and packing of its produce, absolutely dependent upon England and British India. I allude to Sulphate of Ammonia and gunny bags, without which the sugar industry cannot go on.\n\nThe indignation is caused not so much by the fact that neutrals are prohibited in their own country from trading with enemies of the allies, but because this measure \"without previous warning\" was considered to be too drastic and two of the biggest sugar manufacturing companies were suddenly threatened as to their very existence by a step easily to be explained by the irresolution of the British Government regarding the Java sugar trade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466456, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 38, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Copy\n\nCopy to Foreign office, London.\n\nBritish Embassy, Washington, D.C.\n\n37\n\nSan Francisco, Cal.\n\nNovember 17, 1916.\n\nJEC\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your despatch #3648/1916 of the 6th September, I have the honour to report that it has been ascertained that the 2360 cases of rubber which arrived here by the S.S. \"Tjisondari\" on July 2 and which, after various changes of hands, finally reached Eastern Forwarding Co., a German concern, were loaded on the submarine \"Deutschland\", or were stored for loading on another vessel of the same class.\n\nEndeavours were made to trace a shipment of 1500 cases bearing the sand mark (ROMA) which arrived at San Francisco August 4th by the S.S. \"Karimoen\", and it appeared that the cargo was taken over by the same firm here and shipped East.\n\nI think it is reasonable to assume that it has gone to the same destination.\n\nAs these cargoes arrive here in neutral vessels, it is not possible for us to control the disposal of them, and it occurs to me that it might be well for the Agent of the Java-Japan line to be informed as to the destination of shipments made by the \"Rubber Cultuur Maatschappy, Amsterdam\" (ROMA). The Bills of Lading of the \"Karimoen\" cargo read \"Advise Anglo London Paris National Bank, consignees, Java Japan Line, J.D. Spreckels & Co.\".\n\nThe Bank informed me that they had nothing to do with the forwarding of the goods, and did not know why their name had been inserted in the Bills of Lading as they had no connection with it.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Governor-General of Hong Kong.\n\nTONG HONG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475187, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "Io.104.\n\nForeign Trade.\n\nIFFC!\n\n20044\n\nat 8 JUN 17\n\n182\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\nWASHINGTON.\n\n6th May 1917.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith for the information of the Foreign Trade Department copy of a memorandum received from His Majesty's Consul General at New York regarding the New York Patents Exploitation Company recently formed for the alleged purpose of taking over the interests of the German Telefunken wireless enterprises in the United States.\n\nA copy of the memorandum has been communicated to the State Department for such action as they may deem advisable in the circumstances.\n\nI have the honour to be with the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(signed) C. SPRING RICE.\n\nThe Lord R. Cecil, M.P., etc., etc., etc..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485458, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "888\n\n0.0\n\n£2231\n\nRELATION\n\n167..\n\nThe German Chargé d'Affaires has the honour to inform the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that in a letter addressed to the Foreign Office at Berlin and communicated to this Embassy the commercial house of Carlowitz and Company of Hamburg, which has branch establishments in China and Japan, expresses the request that the necessary permission may be obtained for its employees repatriated from Canton to land at Hong Kong on the return journey.\n\nThe said firm had applied first to the British Consulate-General at Hamburg, but was referred here.\n\nHerr von Schubert begs that he may kindly be informed whether the necessary permission can be granted to land at Hong Kong for the journey to Canton and the island of Shameen where the foreign settlement is.\n\nLONDON,\n\n6th April, 1920.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 352, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[F336/336/10]\n\n10602\n350\n\n[January 28]\n\nRec'd Feb 4 MAR 211\n\n## SECTION 8\n\n### No. 1\n\n**Mr. Clive to Earl Curzon**-(Received January 28, 1921.)\n\n(No. 778.)\n\nPeking, November 30, 1920.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIN his despatch No. 530 of the 27th November, 1919, Sir John Jordan forwarded the text of the resolutions passed last year at the conference of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce in China and Hong Kong. I now have the honour to enclose the resolutions of this year's conference, which was held at Shanghai from the 3rd to the 6th November, and at which I was present by invitation of the Associated Chambers, and with your Lordship's consent.\n\nRepresentatives of the British Chambers in all parts of China participated in the discussions, which took place in His Majesty's Supreme Court. In addition to the delegates from the mercantile communities, the speakers included the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Duff, Rear-Admiral Borrett, and Mr. E. F. Crowe, Commercial Counsellor of His Majesty's Embassy in Japan, and the debates were highly interesting and instructive.\n\nIt will be seen from the resolutions that the subjects under discussion covered practically every major question now at issue in China. The treatment of these problems by the Chambers emphasised the peculiarly political-commercial aspect of most of the questions affecting foreign interests in this country, and I was much struck by the knowledge, moderation, and breadth of vision generally shown in their treatment.\n\nThis was my first opportunity of meeting the members of the British mercantile communities, and it was gratifying to note the close relations which exist between the official and mercantile world in China, and the confidence which appears to be placed in the opinions and support of the Legation and the consulates by a body of business men who show great independence of thought and are justly proud of their own accomplishments in administration and public service. The tradition of co-operation with our great mercantile interests in China so firmly established by Sir John Jordan is, no doubt, mainly responsible for this satisfactory spirit, which should prove an increasing source of national strength to us in the Far East.\n\nAmongst the functions arranged in connection with the conference was a reception to the Chinese, including representatives of their chambers of commerce and of the bankers and cotton guilds of Shanghai, where I had the opportunity of meeting and hearing the views of some of the Chinese leaders in commerce, industry, and finance.\n\nThe conference left me with a vivid impression of the multiplicity of problems affecting foreign interests, and of the personal vitality and strength underlying the present political confusion, of which one is apt to grow unduly conscious in Peking. The merchants and industrialists, both British and Chinese, pursue their work of progress steadily and successfully in spite of chronic unrest, recognising that it is useless to hold their hand and await the establishment of order in a country which has an endless history of rebellion against superimposed government and which yet shows a rare stability in its social and economic life.\n\nIn addition to the purely commercial resolutions, dealing with technical questions of trade, recommendations were made in regard to conservancy of the Yang-tsze and the Chibli Rivers, currency reform, legislation for distinguishing the nationality of British companies, tariff revision and inland taxation, aids to navigation, the publication of accounts by the Customs Administration, the Russian and ex-German concessions, copyright and trade-marks, internal disorders, opium and morphia, Crown leases, the famine and the surtaxes imposed for famine relief, the education of Chinese on Western lines, railway administration and standardisation, the mail service between the United Kingdom and China, the consortium, and the extension of the Commercial Diplomatic Service to cover the commercial work of the consulates-general in Hankow, Tien-tsin, and Canton.\n\nThe resolution in regard to the present position at Tsingtao and in Shantung was treated as confidential in view of the political issues involved. The other resolutions were communicated to the press, but the discussions leading up to them will not be published.\n\n[5364 ee]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 497, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Mr. Mounsey (Tien-tsin) said :--\nIt might interest the conference if I tell them that the other day before we held our annual meeting in Tien-tsin we were notified that Major Nathan, who is the General Manager of the Kailan Mining Administration, had expressed willingness to approach the postal authorities in London with regard to the grave irregularities in the arrival of mail if the Tien-tsin Chamber desired him to do so. We accordingly sent him a cable and took advantage of his kind offer and asked if he would see what he could do. We received a report from him to the effect that he had seen the Postal authorities, who had expressed great regret at the irregularity and were intending to do all they could to improve matters. They were unable to hold out any hopes that the time would be reduced very much though they hoped to be able to improve the matter of irregularity.\n\n## MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS\n### Policy of British Merchants in China\nIt was unanimously agreed :-\nThat this Association, being in the main composed of merchants, many of whom, however, are sole agents for some of the biggest manufacturers in Great Britain, desires to place on record its anxiety to co-operate in the fullest practicable way with manufacturers in the advancement of the Empire's commercial and manufacturing interests.\n\nIn moving this resolution on behalf of the Shanghai Chamber, **Mr. J. S. S. Cooper (Arnhold Bros. and Co. (Limited))** said :-\nThe fact that we are gathered together in this conference is proof enough of our interest in British trade, and this motion indicates one way--and, I venture to say, an important way in which British trade may be advanced.\n\nThere are several doors by which a manufacturer may enter the China market by sales to exporters in Great Britain, by establishing singly or with others his own organisation in China, or by allying himself with one of the local merchant firms. Although I hold sufficiently pronounced views as to the relative merits and effectiveness of these various methods, this is neither the place nor the time to give them expression but whatever opinions each one of us may cherish, I am persuaded all will concede that manufacturers have much to gain from the co-operation of the merchants, and that merchants are in no less need of the hearty support of the manufacturers.\n\n\"It may be, in those distant-seeming days when war had not yet caused a revival of patriotic feeling, that British merchants and British manufacturers were not sufficiently in harmony. Since those days a great change has taken place in the spirit of British trade in China-a change for which the various British Chambers of Commerce can take no small share of credit. The most casual acquaintance with the work of any of the Chambers will be enough to demonstrate how far they have carried us from the old environment of indifference, of individualism-even of jealousy. It is very largely due to them and the Association that we owe the new spirit of solidarity and co-operation.\n\n\"Surely, it is not too much to hope that this spirit will bind closer the relationships between the British manufacturers and the British merchant. The interests of the two are so closely bound together as to be almost indistinguishable. Each is equally concerned in supplying the best and in building up the confidence of the Chinese clients. Each is equally interested to secure a maximum share of China's imports for British trade and to present a strong, if friendly, competition to suppliers of other nationalities.\n\n\"All that seems to be necessary is that each party should recognise the true functions of the other-especially that merchants should concede to the manufacturer the right to know for what his products are suited, and that the manufacturer should recognise the merchant's special knowledge of the pitfalls and peculiarities of the China market.\n\n\"It is, unfortunately, true that nothing is easier than criticism, and the merchant is the traditional butt of venerable jibes. Recently, too, the thoughtless use of the word profiteering has caused the association of a certain measure of odium with the most merited profits. And yet even the merchant is worthy of his hire. He fills a definite place in the social mechanism, and renders definite services to both seller and buyer. It is difficult to see just how the China market could originally have been exploited without his mediation. The fact that there now may be some manufacturers, like Kipling's cat, able to walk by themselves, does not, by any means, imply that the day of the merchant is past, or that the mercantile community in China will not always be in a position to be of practical value to the industrial community in Britain.\n\n\"The wording of the motion has tempted me to speak as a representative of a body mainly composed of merchants. But manufacturers, though in a minority at present, form no inconsiderable part of the membership of the Chambers. I am sure I speak for all in saying that I hope that they will develop a membership ever increasing both in numbers and in importance. It is to be hoped that each Chamber will do everything in its power to encourage merchants to become members and that all British manufacturers represented in China will join at least one of the Chambers. They will find a ready welcome, an open ballot, and the fullest opportunity to make themselves heard in our councils.\n\n\"At present trade in China is at the ebb. The flood will follow just as surely as time and tide. Let us use the slack water interval to establish connections and to arrive at a better mutual understanding. Then, when the tide has turned, and when perhaps that trade destroying monster the fluctuation clause has been laid to rest, manufacturer and merchant will start together on the voyage that leads to fortune.\"\n\nIn supporting the resolution on behalf of the Hankow Chamber, **Mr. C. A. Fraser (Messrs. Findlay, Richardson and Co.)** said: It has always been a question of importance and debate as to the best methods whereby British manufacturers can market their wares in China, and I suppose it will always remain so. There are many pros and cons, but one thing is certain, that those who elect to appoint agents and sell to the well-known British firms in China fall heir by the fact of the appointment to many things, i.e., experience which may run to scores of years, selling organisations, the result of much labour and thought, and the use of long names which are household names in many directions, and a guarantee of quality to thousands who might never have heard of the manufacturer's name-famous though it may be in more enlightened trading centres.\n\nBut whether British manufacturers deal direct or through British merchants in China the trade in question is British and as such has the right to have, must have, and does have, the fullest backing of my Chamber. We are not a close corporation for any section of trade, nor have we, I am sure, any desire to be so.\n\nI would like to voice one request to the British manufacturers and that is let the agents, if you appoint them, be British.\n\nWe have had the experience of the German who being agent for a British manufactured article has used that appointment to obtain advice and assistance from British Government officials and British organisations, not, gentlemen, as I need hardly assure you, always for the purpose of pushing that article nor for the furthering of British trade, but for the furthering of his own ends which were usually diametrically opposed to the good of our Empire and the increase of its trading.\n\n**Mr. E. F. Crowe, His Majesty's Commercial Counsellor of Embassy, Tokyo**, expressed the view that the manufacturer could, ordinarily speaking, not have anybody better than the merchant, who had been out here several years, to look after his interests. He himself had advised people to apply to old-established British firms in China or Japan when they were establishing agencies. If a manufacturer had some special article it might suit him to send out an expert who would be attached to the office of that firm, but the British merchant had looked after the interests of the British manufacturer and he thought the British manufacturer could trust the merchant to go on doing this.\n\nSpeaking on a subject discussed at a later stage of the conference, railway standardisation, **Mr. T. R. Johnson, Railway Adviser to the Chinese Government** during the past year, said in part :—\n\"I have only been in China about forty-nine weeks but I have been here long enough to understand that there are great problems in connection with finance which no direct representative of British firms who was here for a comparatively short time could deal with. The two things are necessarily closely associated. But at the same time they can be dealt with apart.\n\n`[5815 c-3]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 737, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## C.2265/21\n\n**GERMAN EMBASSY** \nS.7.1. \n735\n\nThe German Ambassador begs to enquire of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any restrictions exist for Hongkong in regard to the acquisition of certain property rights by Germans, similar to the restrictions of section 11 of the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act, 1919, and more particularly whether any restrictions exist governing the acquisition by Germans of shares in English companies with registered offices at Hongkong.\n\nMr. Sthammer would be grateful if the Marquees Curzon of Kedleston would cause any existing regulations on the subject to be transmitted to him.\n\nLondon; November 29, 1921.\n\nTo:- \nThe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, \nForeign Office, \nLONDON,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 738, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## DRAFT MINUTE\n\nEmmeno 22/12/21\n\nMr. Dixon 22/12/21\n\n1 of ...\n\nMr. Grindle \nSir H. Lambert \nSir H. Read \nSir J. Masterton Smith \nMr. Wood \nMr. Churchill\n\n Craces Y 2, 12 of 1919 \n5 of 1980 \nDudas 445 of ...\n\nI am to ack. the receipt of your letter Ac. No. `C2d7d4/2d724/16`, enclosing a copy of a note from the German Embassy requesting advice of any restrictions on the acquisition by Germans of property in Hongkong.\n\nI am to convey to you, for transmission to the German Embassy, that we are dealing with the subject.\n\nMy Churchill understands that it is not proposed to introduce legislation in Hongkong on the lines of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "## DOH. (COPY)\n\nFrom the Representative of the **Wichsausgleichsamt**. \nÍgb. A. No. 7409.\n\nSir,\n\n**TRANSLATION** \n286 \nLondon, 24 March, 1921.\n\nI have the honour to submit the following: \nGustav Theodor Siemsson, a German national who died on 30th September 1915, left sums of money invested in British Joint Stock Companies in China and Hong Kong. The legatees have heard nothing concerning the sale; on the other hand, the Custodian in Shanghai, Allan G. Mossop, handed an account made up to June or July 1919 to one of the legatees, F. Siemssen of Bergedorf near Hamburg, during his sojourn in China, after his release from internment in a Japanese Prisoners of War Camp. According to this account, the estate amounted to circa Shanghai Taels 80,000. On making a petition to the British Embassy in Peking, Herr Siemssen was paid Taels 3000 to defray the expenses of the return journey for himself and his family. A further application for an allowance for the means of subsistence was declined. The principal legatees of Herr Siemssen, namely his wife, have four children, who are not yet of age. The testator travelled to Germany in the year 1913 with his wife and children on a temporary visit. Their return was prevented owing to the war. Frau Siemssen has only sufficient means for a few months to maintain herself and her children.\n\nI shall be greatly obliged if you can obtain the release of part of the assets.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant, \n(Signature).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. 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Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 460, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "D.B./N\n\n(CONFIDENTIAL)\n\nDear Mr. Clutterbuck,\n\nNew Scotland Yard,\n\n4th June, 1926.\n\nWe have received reliable information that the English branch of Kuo Min Tang, in addition to helping Chinese in England, are endeavouring to link up with the British Socialist Party for world-wide revolution. According to WANG JO I, chairman of the Committee of Kuo Min Tang in Berlin, the Society (presumably German) for helping the strike at Shanghai has held over 200 meetings at which members of the Tang spoke. A meeting held in commemoration of Sun Yat Sen was attended by a strange medley of representatives of Persia, North Africa, German Socialist Party, Nationalist Party, Labour Party, France, German Students, Alliance for Assisting Oppressed Nations, West Africa, Russian Students, German Red Army, Mongolia, Russian Embassy, Turkey, Annam, Siam, India, America and other countries. A common hatred of England seems to have been the link between these elements. The meeting supported opposition to Germany's adhering to the Washington Treaties and distributed 2000 tracts, \"bringing in the stranglehold of Imperial England on Kwangtung and its measures against the National (Canton) Government\".\n\nThere are indications that WANG JO I has tried to get the Workers' International Relief here to arrange a conference with Chinese Associations in London, in order to raise funds for the Canton strikers. We have not yet observed that anything has come of this suggestion.\n\nYours sincerely,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510652, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927", "content_text": "## 61\n\n\n## 62\n\n2\n\narms and ammunition, i.e., we would supply arms only to the Central Government of China and their nominees. At the same time, in view of the fact that other embargo Powers were supplying aeroplanes to the Chinese in spite of our attempts to tighten up the embargo under this heading, we decided not to regard aeroplanes for commercial purposes as coming within the scope of the embargo. It is in view of this last decision that we have recently declined to intervene in order to prevent Messrs Vickers from carrying out an order for aeroplanes for Marshal Chang Tso-lin. The supply of arms and munitions to General Li is on quite a different footing. The question of including aeroplanes in the embargo was a point on which the embargo Powers were not agreed; but the supply of arms and munitions would be in flat contradiction to the Embargo Agreement, and we could scarcely be so cynical as to remain parties to the Agreement, while at the same time supplying General Li with arms. We would therefore have to withdraw from the Agreement. No doubt other Powers would follow our example, but upon us would rest the odium of breaking down an arrangement which, although partially ineffective, has certainly, to some extent, prevented a general scramble to supply the Chinese with arms, and has stood as a visible sign of the Powers' refusal to take sides in the Chinese civil war.\n\nThis brings us to the wider question of neutrality. Marshal Chang Tso-lin has repeatedly approached His Majesty's Minister at Peking for British support in his anti-Bolshevik campaign. His latest appeal is attached hereto (A), together with the reply (B) which it is proposed to send to Sir M. Lampson. This reply reaffirms the policy of His Majesty's Government to refrain from any action which might be interpreted as interference in China's internal affairs, and to observe complete neutrality between all the contesting factions. If we refuse a loan for Chang Tso-lin to pursue his anti-\"Red\" activities, it is clear that we must also refuse to assist General Li with arms. If we supply the arms to General Li, Chang will at once accuse us of giving help to his enemies (for General Li is a Southerner) and refusing it to himself. It would be very difficult to defend our position in such a case, and Chang would be fully justified in accusing us of action unfriendly to him.\n\nFurther reasons for refusing to supply arms to General Li will be found in the draft reply to the Colonial Office, which is attached hereto (C). They are as follows:\n\n| Number | Reason |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1.) | We can have no special confidence in General Li; in China military leaders rise and fall; their professions of friendship are quite unreliable. |\n| (2.) | There is no possible guarantee that the arms supplied will be used solely against the Communists at Canton. General Li's command is part of the Southern army; only a short time ago Sir M. Lampson was anxious as to the possibility of Southern troops arriving before Peking and Tien-tsin; so the arms might very well be used for an anti-Northern expedition. |\n| (3.) | Or they might be used for an attack against British troops in the Shanghai area. |\n\nThe reasons in favour of the supply of arms have been put forward by the Governor of Hong Kong and are strongly supported by the Colonial Office. They rest on a belief that General Li is determined to maintain order and to suppress Communism, piracy and brigandage in Kwangtung Province; and that his proper use of them could be guaranteed by granting only small supplies of arms at intervals and by making each delivery contingent on our being satisfied that he was carrying out his undertakings. The Colonial Office contend that this would be merely supply of arms to the established authority in Canton for police purposes, and therefore outside the scope of the Embargo Agreement. Further, they do not consider it would be a breach of His Majesty's Government's policy of neutrality, since General Li is understood to have been in control of Canton for some months, and appears now to have succeeded in consolidating his position there. They point to the subsidising of the Governor of Yunnan by the French and to the material assistance lent by the Japanese to Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria as precedents for such action. But, for the reasons stated above, the Foreign Office cannot accept so wide an interpretation either of their arms embargo obligations or of their neutrality policy.\n\n## 17\n\nA further suggestion is made by the Acting Consul-General at Canton (and approved by the Government of Hong Kong) that if we ourselves cannot supply arms, we should allow such arms to be supplied through a German firm, and give the Cantonese an assurance that the consignment would not be seized en route under the arms regulations of our Colonial Governments. Further, that he should authorise a British insurance company to cover the risk. This suggestion is approved by His Majesty's Admiralty, but strongly opposed by the Colonial Office, who advocate instead the secret supply of arms to the Canton Government by His Majesty's Government themselves. To the Foreign Office Mr. Brenan's proposal seems to be a half-measure with all the disadvantages that half-measures generally have. It would be no less un-neutral than a direct supply of arms, especially as we have held up and confiscated at Singapore recently a shipment of arms for the Northern leaders. Further, the Germans themselves are beginning to realise that the profits of the China arms trade are hardly worth the invidious position into which they have been getting themselves; and on the 9th May the German consul at Hong Kong handed to the Colonial Secretary the following translation of a communication issued by the German Legation at Peking on the 18th April:\n\n'Association of German shipowners and German East Asiatic Society at Hamburg have decided not to undertake or execute any shipment of arms and ammunition of war which are destined to be used in China from German ports or on German ships.'\n\nThe Foreign Office therefore hold to their long-established policy of carrying out to the fullest extent their obligations under the Arms Embargo and of maintaining strict neutrality in China; they suggest that instructions should be issued as in the attached telegrams to Sir M. Lampson at Peking and to Mr. Brenan at Canton; that the enclosed letter on the subject should be addressed to the Colonial Office; and that the Portuguese Embassy should be informed of their views.\n\nForeign Office, May 16, 1927.\n\n(A.)\n\nSir M. Lampson to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received May 6.) (No. 825.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nPeking, May 5, 1927.\n\nCHANG TSO-LIN called 4th May, and after enquiring what decisions had been reached by the Powers concerning action on Yang-tsze, developed at length, with usual arguments, reasons why His Majesty's Government should assist him in combating Bolshevism in China. He referred to further proof we had recently had, from raid on Russian propaganda headquarters here, of Bolshevik designs to destroy British interests in China. He discounted genuineness of so-called moderate movement of Chiang, which he described as prompted by purely personal motives. We had already, to all intents and purposes, intervened with troops and ships without accomplishing much beyond incurring odium, and we should find it very much more effective and cheaper to secure our objects by supporting him. In any case, it was not a question of intervening in Chinese affairs, but of taking steps to combat world menace of Bolshevism, which, if allowed to take root in China, would spread all over Asia, including India. His troops had now reached the neighbourhood of Sinyang in Southern Honan, but he was now halting their further advance into Hupei until he had ascertained intentions of the Powers towards Bolshevik menace, which he was not prepared to deal with single-handed on the Yang-tsze. He threw out usual hints of his having even to abandon Peking and to withdraw to Manchuria if the Powers would not afford him the necessary support. Referring to Japanese and their double policy of supporting him in the North and Chiang in the South, he said they were still in close touch with Chiang, hoped to replace Russians in the latter's employment by Japanese, and to benefit by destruction of British commercial interests.\n\nI explained to him our policy of non-intervention, but promised, at his urgent request, to transmit his message to you.\n\n(Repeated to Tokyo, Shanghai, Mr. Newton, Hong Kong, Canton and Commander-in-chief.)\n\n[16169]\n\n## 3 \n## B 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-13 Chinese situation- request from General Li Chai-sum for assistance in obtaining arms and ammunition 27-4-1927 - 6-10-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927", "content_text": "60\n\nstaff of the German Ambassy.\n\nSherman J. decided against\n\nhim and he appealed. The Attorney General attended and made\n\na statement on behalf of the Foreign Office in support of the\n\ndefendant's claim. The Court of Appeal (Scrutton and Bankes\n\nL.JJ., Lord Hanworth M.R. dissenting) dismissed the appeal.\n\nScrutton L.J., in delivering judgement, said that he\n\nwas not\n\n\"at all satisfied that the procedure was admissible, still less\n\n\"that it was conclusive. In certain matters, as the status of\n\n\"sovereigns and ambassadors, the Courts were accustomed to seek\n\n\"information from the Secretaries of State as representing the\n\n\"King and to accept a definite answer as conclusive, but he\n\nwas not disposed to enlarge the class of cases coming within\n\n\"the rule of practice. The Crown knew whom they had recog-\n\n\"nized as independent sovereigns and as ambassadors. But the\n\n\"Foreign Office had no knowledge of the internal arrangements\n\n\"of an embassy; as, for instance whether a particular person\n\n\"was a chorister, or a cook, or what exact work he did\". It\n\nmight therefore be necessary to call oral evidence, both as to\n\nthe constitution of the Canton Government, and on the recogni-\n\ntion point. Presumably the Consul General would give evi-\n\ndence on the latter point, as in the Hung Shiu Lun case, which,\n\nby the way, we now know to have been a bogus accusation made\n\nfor political reasons.\n\n4.\n\nI do not think that we have ever entirely dismissed\n\nfrom our minds the possibility of attempting to resume\n\nextradition under the present law, but I think that we should\n\nawait for the present the result of the recent representations\n\nto the Secretary of State as to the amendment of the law.\n\nsd. J.H. Kemp.\n\nAttorney General.\n\n26th August, 1927.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61\n\n \nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-10 Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1927- proposed amendments 14-7-1927 - 2-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 134, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "CATHAY HOTEL, Shanghai\n\nCABLE ADDR \"CATHOTEL\"\n\nE. CARRARD,\n\nGeneral Manager\n\n← NEWEST AND MOST\n\nMODERN HOTEL\n\nIN CHINA\n\n250 ROOMS AND SUITES EACH WITH PRIVATE BATHROOM\n\nCLASSICAL CONCERT\n\nIN THE\n\nGROUND FLOOR LOUNGE\n\n(EVERY MORNING & AFTERNOON)\n\nMR. J. 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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nGENEVA ANXIETY.\n\nALARM LEST COUNCIL SHOULD ABDICATE.\n\nPROBLEM OF MANCHURIA STILL CAUSING GRAVE CONCERN.\n\nJAPAN'S REPLY SENT.\n\nThe atmosphere at Geneva is reported to have become exceedingly tense, as Japan's reply on the latest issues raised has caused \"a painful impression.\"\n\nFurther bombing by Japanese aeroplanes, with railways as the objective, is reported from Manchuria.\n\nAnxiety amounting to alarm is felt lest the League Council carry out its intention virtually to abdicate over the Manchurian dispute.\n\nThe Chinese still maintain their viewpoint that the Japanese must withdraw their troops to the railway zone and agree to indemnify Chinese losses before negotiations can be commenced.\n\nThere is a growing belief in League circles, however, that the Council's committee is weakening in its treatment of the difficulty and is inclined to advise the Chinese to abandon their conditions.\n\nThis policy has produced very deplorable effects in League circles. If persisted in it is feared will have very disastrous effects on the coming disarmament conference and the League itself, which is facing the most serious crisis it has ever experienced.\n\nPAINFUL IMPRESSION.\n\nLondon, Oct. 22.\n\nM. Briand, with a very grave face, descended the stairs first, alone, on the way to his hotel, where he will receive Mr. Yoshizawa.\n\nThe anxiety, almost alarm, felt lest the Council carry out its intention virtually to abdicate over the Manchurian dispute is reflected in the comment of the London morning papers.\n\nHe told Reuter.—\"We are not through the wood yet.\"\n\nOther members of the committee were equally preoccupied, and the atmosphere is tense almost to breaking point. The Japanese reply has evidently created a very painful impression.\n\nThe News-Chronicle appeals to M. Briand and Lord Reading to remain at Geneva to avert the threatened calamity to the League. --Reuter.\n\nTENSION INCREASED.\n\nGravity of Position Owing to Japan's Attitude.\n\nNOT OUT OF THE WOOD.\n\nGeneva, Oct. 22.\n\nDramatic Development. There was a sudden dramatic development in the situation as the result of Mr. Yoshizawa's visit to M. Briand, which lasted exactly twenty-five minutes.\n\nOn leaving, Mr. Yoshizawa told Reuter that the reply from Tokyo was incomplete, and some sections of the communication had still to be received. He might therefore consider it advisable to ask for an adjournment.\n\nThe committee of five is now meeting to consider it.\n\nThe reply arrived in the small hours of the morning, and the staff of the delegation stayed up all night long decoding it.\n\nThe final form of the resolution which will be presented at a full sitting of the Council proving difficult to find, the conversations continued until a late hour last night, in which the Secretary General of the League participated. Various modifications, it is believed, were suggested.\n\nHe then returned to his hotel to consult his colleagues.\n\nOn arriving for an interview at 11.55 Mr. Yoshizawa had told Reuter that the Japanese reply was \"a little reassuring.\"-Reuter.\n\nJAPANESE ACTION.\n\nStrengthening Defences in Manchuria.\n\nIt is rumoured that the Japanese reply to M. Briand's proposals on behalf of the Council is not altogether satisfactory.\n\nThe Chinese attitude is unchanged. Dr. Sze maintains the viewpoint of the Nanking Government that the Japanese must withdraw their troops to the railway zone and agree to pay an indemnity for Chinese losses as a result of the occupation, the amount of which shall be settled later, before commencing direct negotiations with Japan.\n\nSerious Alarm.\n\nA very serious view is taken of the situation in League circles this evening. It is alleged that the Council's committee is weakening in its treatment of the difficulty and it is said the committee is inclined to advise the Chinese to abandon their conditions for direct negotiations, namely the previous withdrawal of the Japanese troops and the presence of neutrals to supervise the evacuation, and thus seemingly leave the Japanese to treat with the Chinese Government under the pressure of a military occupation.\n\nThis feeling has produced very deplorable effects in League circles and it is feared that this policy if persisted in will have a very disastrous effect on the coming disarmament conference and the League itself, which is facing the most serious crisis it has ever experienced.\n\nGeneva Hopes.\n\nAs both the chamber and the temple are in Chinese territory, the Shanghai Municipal Police have not intervened, but are watching both buildings. Should any of the detained men be brought onto a road, police action would follow.\n\n\"The Chinese Government sincerely hopes that active efforts, now in progress at Geneva to arrive at a settlement of the present case in the interests of justice and peace, will soon be crowned with success, which will be conducive to the well-being, not only of China, but of the whole world.\n\nCoolie Robs Japanese.\n\nA Shanghai ricksha coolie burning with the twin urges of patriotism and desire for the better things of this world killed two birds with one stone by attacking and robbing Mr. Bunro Ando, secretary to Mr. Yusuke Tsurumi, Japanese delegate to the Institute of Pacific Relations.\n\nAs Mr. Ando was returning to his hotel during mid-morning, he was pulled into an alleyway near Honan Road where the coolie first administered a beating and then relieved his victim of Yen 56 and $200 in Chinese currency. Despite his bruises, Mr. Ando was able to make his way back to his hotel and inform the police of the incident.\n\nRight of Boycott.\n\nReferring to the boycott in the course of its Memorandum in reply to the Japanese Memorandum of Oct. 9, the Chinese Government, according to the Sino News Service, makes the following declaration:\n\n\"It must therefore be matter of surprise to the world that popular indignation in China has limited itself to the mere refusal to purchase Japanese goods. The freedom to choose one's purchases is an individual right with which no government interferes, and, while it is the duty of every government to protect foreign nationals, it is bound neither by any recognized standard of governance nor by any principle of International Law to prohibit or punish the exercise of an elemental right of citizenship. If there be any responsibility in the matter, it entirely lies with the Japanese Government, which has, by many acts of unfriendliness since the Wanpaoshan incident, created this general prejudice against Japanese merchandise.\n\nCHINA UNITY.\n\nNanking and South To-\n\nManchuria.\n\ngether on\n\nSPECIAL COMMITTEE.\n\nRecent Disturbance.\n\nA Chinese taken into custody on Saturday, October 10, for throwing a stone at a police officer during the disturbance in Yangtze-poo district, when arraigned before the Special District Court received sentence of six months' imprisonment.\n\nMANCHURIAN WAR.\n\nIndependent Movement\n\nDefeated.\n\nRUSSIAN DANGER.\n\nPeking, Oct. 22. Retreating with several thousands of his followers, the Manchu independent leader, Chang Hai-peng, is falling back from Taonan to Hailar, near the Sino-Russian frontier.\n\nThe Heilungkiang Provincial Government has sent envoys to the independent armies advising the opposing troops not to proceed to Hailar, as proximity to Russian territory may lead to further Sino-Russian complications.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 22.\n\nThe impression in French circles here this morning was more favourable than it was earlier.\n\nTokyo, Oct. 22.\n\nIt is learned that the Japanese War Office has decided to despatch additional machine-guns and infantry guns to Manchuria, for the purpose of increasing the defensive power, as the Government is averse to increasing the number of troops.-Reuter.\n\nMR. CHU CHAO-HSIN.\n\nAn Appointment by the Nanking Government.\n\nA telegram announcing the appointment of Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, former Chinese Minister to Italy and vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nanking Government, as one of the commissioners to serve on the Special Committee elected by the Nanking Government to administer foreign affairs and the Manchurian negotiations has been despatched from the Nanking Central Political Council to a prominent Hongkong Chinese merchant, asking him to convey this message of appointment to Mr. Chu Chao-hsin, who was in Hongkong yesterday.\n\nFAITH IN LEAGUE.\n\nPeking, Oct. 22.\n\nAlthough the resolution will provide for an adjournment of the Council for three weeks, it is believed a proviso will be added to the effect that the Council still considers itself in permanent session in order that they could be again summoned urgently, should the situation warrant.\n\nAnother Chinese telegram to headquarters states that Japanese aeroplanes dropped six bombs yesterday near Tahsing, on the Taonan-Angangchi railway, but the damage has not to be ascertained.-Reuter.\n\nExcitement was at fever heat here this morning, as it is felt that some definite development must result from to-day's deliberations. It was decided at the last minute that the meeting of the committee of five should be held at the Secretariat, where it has now continued for already three quarters of an hour.\n\nGENEVA DELAY.\n\nWeakening.\n\n\"DEPLORABLE EFFECTS.\"\n\nMr. Yoshizawa has an appointment with M. Briand at 11.30.\n\npresumably to hand him officially the text the Japanese reply.\n\nGRAVE DEVELOPMENT.\n\nJapanese Reply Considered Unsatisfactory.\n\nLater.\n\nThe Council considers\n\nChina's Reply to Powers Identic Notes.\n\nPOLICY OF PEACE.\n\nNanking, Oct. 21.\n\nThe Waichiaopu despatched to day the following communication to the French, British, German, Norwegian, Jugo-Slavian, Italian, and Polish Governments in reply to their identic notes calling attention of both China and Japan to their obligations under the Kellogg Pact:\n\n\"The Chinese Government feels to her legal as well as moral duty toward human civilization.\n\nThe acting Chairman of the Heilungkiang Provincial Government who was responsible for the defeat of the Independents near Taonan, has telegraphed to Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang suggesting that the Nanking Foreign Office should lodge a strong protest against the supply of foreign arms and ammunition from one of Manchuria's foreign neighbours to the Independents under Chang Hai-peng.\n\nCommander Ma's telegram says that without the foreign imported arms and ammunition there would have been no independent movement. He declares that the movement was deliberately created to harm the prestige of the Central Government in her foreign relations.\n\nYOUNG MARSHAL.\n\nStill Intends to Return to Mukden.\n\nLUGGAGE MYSTERY.\n\nPeking, Oct. 21. It is understood that Mr. Chu Chao-hsin will be leaving for Shanghai on the Empress of Russia this morning.\n\nFour hundred and seventeen effects-cases of household furniture and personal belongings Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and his family, have arrived at Tongku from Dairen.\n\nTen\n\nTHE BOYCOTT.\n\nMerchants Held in Shanghai Temple.\n\nONE PAYS $10,000 FINE.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 12.\n\nThe anti-Japanese boycott committee over the week-end resumed its activities against merchants supposed to be dealing in Japanese goods.\n\nDuring the last few days merchants held in the temple have been released on \"fines.\" One was $10,000. The usual amount demanded is $5,000.\n\nThe merchants are given a preliminary trial in the office of the General Chamber of Commerce, which adjoins the temple, before being confined in the latter building. In all cases the self-appointed tribunal has found them guilty of dealing in Nipponese goods and have been threatened with the destruction of their business if the fines inflicted are not paid.\n\nProtests to the authorities of Greater Shanghai have failed to bring any relief to the merchants, and in some cases the relatives of the men detained have refused to give information under fear of reprisals.\n\nJAPANESE OPTIMISM.\n\nContrasting with the pessimism prevailing at Geneva, Reuter was informed this evening that a more optimistic view prevails at the Japanese Embassy in London in regard to the Sino-Japanese dispute.\n\nIt was said there that there seems to be every sign of a settlement as both sides appear to have made up their minds to bring about an arrangement. Everyone, it was added, seems to be doing his best with this object in view.\n\nMomentous Meeting.\n\nLater.\n\nIt was then the general opinion that the Council would take a strong line.\n\nThe resolution to be submitted at to-morrow's meeting will urge Japan and China to find a mutual settlement of their difficulties within a period which will, most probably, be indicated by some date set for the next meeting of the Council, which, it is understood, will be about the middle of November.\n\nAwaiting Japan's Reply.\n\nLater.\n\nDespite the decisions taken to night by the Committee of Five-which have caused so much adverse comment it appears that everything to a certain extent will be subordinated to the Japanese Reply, which has not yet been received.\n\nThe tone of the Reply will directly influence the wording of the resolution to be submitted to the Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554813, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-11 Sino-Japanese War- political situation 17-8-1937 - 8-3-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-563-11 Sino-Japanese War- political situation 17-8-1937 - 8-3-1938", "content_text": "## F.O. F5893/288/10\n1.9.39\n\nDesires tel. be sent to O.A.3. re arrival & new Counsellor to Embassy.\n\n## F.O. F8880/6727/10\n1.9.37\n\nRef. Berlin Tel 558 of 28.8.34 re German press & British action in respect of attack on Sir Eric Teichman and Knatchbull Hugessen.\n\n27. We have already telegraphed H.K. No need to say more.\n\n28. Put by.\n\n29. To Royes. We can lean it to this line.\n\nTo Gov. Straits Tel No. 112.\n\n$30 To F.O. (`F5801/130/10`) 18/126.\n\n## F.O. F5801/130/10\n15 Aug. Sent to me Berlin 2/8/37, 4/9/37, 2.9.37.\n\nNo objection. Suggests to Jeen. Mr Eastwood would like it to be repeated to manking `53548/35`.\n\nLet me see intout.\n\n6/9 aber (J) Done 18/9.\n\nfer our file of toasted. (4) (15) (31) \n\nTo the P: Rager 6/41.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-11 Sino-Japanese War- political situation 17-8-1937 - 8-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-564-11 Road communications with Canton. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Bridge over Shum Chun River- China. Dated... 20-8-1937 - 18-1-1938", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-564-11 Road communications with Canton. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Bridge over Shum Chun River- China. Dated... 20-8-1937 - 18-1-1938", "content_text": "45\n\nIf German attitude is not modified and if at conclusion of hostilities China does not remain entirely at the mercy of Japan it seems probable that Germany will not only be granted economic concessions but that she will also be asked to continue reorganisation of Chinese army.\n\nA strong German strain in China taking a wide view would probably be advantageous to British interests as a check on Japan but it would in my opinion be a blow to our prestige if we lost our influence with Chinese navy. During the last year both German Embassy and German advisers have evinced some interest in position with regard to Captain Horth's successor as adviser to Chinese navy and a remark let slip recently by a German adviser to a member of my staff to the effect that after conclusion of hostilities China would do well to build up a large fleet of German submarines has made me suspect that Germans may be conspiring to replace us.\n\nThere are already two German naval advisers at Kiangyin barrier. I am accordingly again taking up with Ministry of Marine question of appointment of a British naval adviser to Chinese Central Government. (Please see telegraphic correspondence ending with Peking telegram 319 to you).\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 557 October 11th; repeated to Peking, General Officer Commanding, Commander-in-Chief.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-11 Road communications with Canton. Includes 1 photograph depicting- Bridge over Shum Chun River- China. Dated... 20-8-1937 - 18-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558206, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "84\n\n2\n\ngovernment use imported into China (e.g. Shanghai Embassy telegram No. 620 to me of the 7th July) are the most informative for the purpose of making an approximate calculation of the comparative imports of arms into China from the various countries. I hope therefore that it may continue to be possible for His Majesty's Ambassador to obtain these figures confidentially month by month from the Inspector General and transmit them to me.\n\n4.\n\nI should also be grateful if I could be supplied promptly (when necessary by telegram) with any information which His Majesty's Ambassador may be able to obtain in regard to the scope and effectiveness of the German embargo on arms exports to China. My present information is that, despite the embargo, a large proportion of these German exports continue to be effected via Sweden.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n(SGD) R.L. CRAIGIE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560848, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-571-1 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 10-1-1938 - 24-12-1938", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-571-1 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 10-1-1938 - 24-12-1938", "content_text": "## NO DISTRIBUTION\n\n**Decypher**\n\nSir R. Craigie. (Tokyo)\n\n28th July, 1938\n\nD. 5.20 p.m.\nR. 11.00 a.m.\n\n28th July, 1938.\n\nNo. 909.\n\nXXXXX XXXXX \n54\n\nYour telegram No. 496.\n\nGerman Embassy await confirmation from Hong Kong \nthat formalities have been completed before informing \nJapanese authorities of transfer.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 909 of \nJuly 28, repeated to Shanghai and Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-1 Sino-Japanese War- shipping 10-1-1938 - 24-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561224, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939", "content_text": "# This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\nFrom CHINA.\n\n## Decypher. Mr. Blunt (Canton).\n\n13th October, 1938.\n\nD. By wireless 14th October, 1938.\n\nR. 6.30 p.m. 14th October, 1938.\n\nNo. 85.\n\n**Addressed to Embassy Shanghai telegram 189 of October 13th. My immediately preceding telegram.**\n\nI had a long conversation with Governor Wu this morning. He told me the present attack might be a feint, either as an aftermath of the European crisis (compare last sentence of my telegram No. 183) or in order to draw forces from the Wuhan front. If, on the other hand, the attack was serious, everything was ready; Kuangtung armies, unlike 9 months earlier, were well-equipped and would be assisted from neighbouring provinces and would resist even more strongly than at Shanghai.\n\n2. He suggested that Japanese occupation of Kuangtung would be most harmful to British and Hongkong interests. I agreed. He claimed that the long postponement of the attack had been due to fear of offending the British and that even now an expression of strong disapproval would be effectual and strengthen the hand of the moderates. He said that had the positions been reversed, Japanese would never have permitted us to attack South China. I asked what pressure or bribe he suggested we could offer?\n\n3. In view of disquieting rumours current yesterday, I felt an uneasy suspicion that no serious resistance is contemplated. My conversation with Wu Te-chen gave me a contrary impression, but the suspicion was suggested to me later today by my German colleague, who tells me (as do others) that it is widely current.\n\nRepeated to Hongkong telegram `105`, Commander-in-Chief telegram `76` and Foreign Office telegram `85`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "# F 10102/28/10\n\n**Important.**\n\nSir,\n\n## FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1. 13th September, 1939.\n\n141\n\nI am directed by Viscount Halifax to state that the Counsellor to the United States Embassy in London called at this department on the 11th September, on instructions from his Government, to request that His Majesty's Government should give an assurance that they would do nothing to impede the onward transmission to China of arms and material exported from the United States of America for the use of the Chinese Government. Mr. Herschel Johnson went on to say that these consignments now always pass either through Indo-China or Burma.\n\n## 2.\n\nIn reply he was informed that the Government of Burma had been requested to facilitate the transport of German arms to China even if they had been carried in German ships and that it was unlikely that His Majesty's Government would hesitate to give the assurance which the United States Government desired.\n\n## 3.\n\nI am accordingly to request that the Government of Burma may be informed by telegram of the United States Government's request and that he may be informed in due course of the views of the Marquess of Zetland as to the reply which should be returned to the United States Government so far as the Government of Burma are concerned.\n\n## 4.\n\nCopies of this letter are being sent to the Admiralty, Board of Trade, Colonial Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Burma,\nBurma Office.\n\n(Sd.) N. B. RONALD.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 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": 564066, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 29, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# 32\n\nthat General Abe's son was recently married to the daughter of Marquess Kido, the outgoing Minister of Internal Affairs. There is thus a further close family connexion between the new Prime Minister and circles in close touch with Prince Konoe.\n\n5. The other members of the new Cabinet, in which the Prime Minister will concurrently hold the portfolio for Foreign Affairs, are as follows:—\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Minister of Internal Affairs | Mr. Naoshi Ohara |\n| Minister of Welfare | Mr. Naoshi Ohara |\n| Minister of Finance | Mr. Kazuo Aoki |\n| Minister of War | General Shunroku Hata |\n| Minister of Marine | Vice-Admiral Zengo Yoshida |\n| Minister of Justice | Dr. Chogoro Miyagi |\n| Minister of Education | Mr. Kakichi Kawarada |\n| Minister of Commerce and Industry | Vice-Admiral Takuo Godo |\n| Minister of Agriculture and Forestry | Vice-Admiral Takuo Godo |\n| Minister of Communications | Mr. Ryutaro Nagai |\n| Minister of Railways | Mr. Ryutaro Nagai |\n| Minister of Overseas Affairs | Mr. Tsuneo Kanemitsu |\n\nAs reported in my telegram No. `1132` of the 30th August, the formal installation took place on the afternoon of that date.\n\n6. Vice-Admiral Yoshida was from the outset mentioned as the most likely candidate for the post of Minister of Marine, and it seems that this was actually the case. He is said to have been marked out for his present post for some years; he belongs to the same school as Admiral Yonai, is a man of moderate views, and has, it appears, kept himself free from definite association with any particular faction in the navy.\n\n7. The choice of a Minister of War seems to have caused some difficulty, and the names of Lieutenant-General Kensuke Isogai and, later, of Lieutenant-General Hayao Tada, were at first freely mentioned in connexion with this key post. Both these officers, however, now hold important posts in the Kwantung army, and it appears to have been mainly for this reason that recourse was had to General Hata. From our point of view, it is doubtful whether the choice could have been a better one, for it is safe to say that had he not been in favour in Court circles, he would not have been given, as recently as May of this year, the post of chief aide-de-camp to the Emperor. On the other hand, both General Isogai and General Tada are known to belong to the more reactionary section of the army, and it will be recalled that as Japanese military attaché at Peking from 1935-36, the former was the author of many aggressive statements on the subject of Japan's policy towards China. I may add that the new Minister of War was, it is generally supposed, specially selected to command the Japanese forces in Central China upon the recall early in 1938 of General Iwane Matsui, it being said that he was regarded as particularly suited to this command at a time when it was necessary to restore discipline to the Japanese army of occupation after the excesses accompanying the fall of Nanking.\n\n8. Of the civilian members of the Cabinet, three, namely, Messrs. Aoki, Miyagi, and Kanemitsu, have not previously held a ministerial post. The first two are both Government officials who have served principally in the Ministries of Finance and Justice respectively, over which they are now called upon to preside. Little is known at this embassy of either of them. Mr. Kanemitsu is a politician; he was formerly a member of the Seiyukai, but withdrew from the party upon his appointment in 1937 to be vice-president of the House of Representatives. He will now represent the Seiyukai in the Cabinet, it being understood that he owes his selection to the fact that the party is in the position of a house divided against itself. In this connexion, I have the honour to refer your Lordship to my despatch No. `371` of the 17th May last. There are still no signs of a rapprochement between the \"reformist\" and \"orthodox\" sections headed by Mr. Nakajima and Mr. Kuhara respectively, and the new Prime Minister has thus extricated himself from a difficult position by choosing a representative of the party from neither.\n\n9. The other four members of the Cabinet have all had previous experience in administrative work, two of them, namely, Vice-Admiral Godo and Mr. Ohara, having previously held the portfolios now entrusted to them. Mr. Kawarada has formerly held office as Minister of Home Affairs, and it is interesting to note he is known to have very close connexions with the family of Prince Konoe. Mr. Nagai, who represents the Minseito, and Vice-Admiral Godo are both from the same province as the new Prime Minister, a fact which is not without importance in this country, and one which may have inspired the wish expressed editorially by the Asahi some days ago that an end might be put to the practice of selecting Ministers from personal considerations.\n\n10. As I had the honour to report in my telegram No. `1134` of the 30th August, the new Cabinet has been received by the press without enthusiasm. The Nichi Nichi, for instance, in a leading article in its issue of the 30th August, says that what is required in order to effect a refreshment of the public mind (to the necessity for which Baron Hiranuma referred in explaining his resignation) is to eliminate the anxiety of the nation as to the causes of the frequent changes of Cabinet at a time when it is engrossed upon the China incident. The nation could not be indifferent to changes unless each succeeding Cabinet was stronger than the last. No comparison could be drawn between the administrative ability of the new Prime Minister and that of either Prince Konoe or Baron Hiranuma. The former was immensely popular, and the latter was well known as a statesman close to the throne and as the holder of definite views. From the point of view of practical politics, popularity might not be of great importance, but it was desirable that the Cabinet should be headed by a man who was known to the people and stood high in their estimation. There was, however, no suggestion that the nation would not support the new Cabinet.\n\nThe Chugai looks upon the new Cabinet as yet another continuation of the Konoe and Hiranuma administrations, although it points out that in one respect it has an advantage over that of Baron Hiranuma, since under the latter, the policy of Japan vis-à-vis Europe took shape and this has now been liquidated; The new Cabinet is therefore in a position to make a new start and to show its ability in this direction. The Hochi is openly sceptical of General Abe's qualifications as a statesman; while the Kokumin says that no improvement in politics can be hoped for so long as the system under which members of the outgoing Cabinet interest themselves in the formation of the next continues.\n\nAs stated in my telegram No. `1162` of the 3rd September, I am not personally very favourably impressed with the new Cabinet, and it appears to be the general feeling that it is by no means a strong one. Herein, I think, lies the danger of the present position. The German betrayal of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the Anti-Comintern Pact, has been a rude shock to the country. It has also caused the military party and the reactionary elements who were exerting every effort to force the Hiranuma Cabinet into an alliance with the Axis Powers a serious loss of face. But it would be idle to pretend that this indicates any radical change in their feelings towards ourselves. This is not the case, and I am convinced that a large section of the people of this country are now deeply imbued with a sense of animosity towards ourselves. In conversation with a member of my staff some days ago, a well-known journalist said that although by tradition and upbringing he had formerly been friendly to Great Britain, he now felt it his duty as a patriotic Japanese to regard her as Japan's worst enemy. I fear that similar sentiments permeate many sections of the Japanese people to-day, and it will require hard work, caution, and perseverance if we are to remedy this unfortunate and dangerous situation.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. L. Dodds.\n\n# 33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564086, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 49, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "## 56\n\n3 \n\n2 \n\nof previous assistance to China. In reply to His Majesty's Ambassador's enquiry, the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated on the 24th July that Baron Hiranuma's statement had been quite informal and, in part, incorrectly reported.\n\nIn fact, Mr. Chamberlain made it clear in the House of Commons on the 17th July and again when he announced the text of the formula that there could be no question of a change in British policy at the dictation of a foreign Power and that the formula amounted simply to a recognition of a situation existing in fact. The formula was communicated in advance to the Chinese Government on the 23rd July, together with an oral communication from Sir A. Clark Kerr on the same lines as Mr. Chamberlain's two statements.\n\n243. Agreement having been reached on this point, an energetic start was made with the detailed discussions. At the first meetings of the United Kingdom and Japanese delegates on the 24th July, Mr. Kato put forward the Japanese agenda, consisting of twelve points, eight of which related to police measures and the remaining four to economic questions. The first eight points were referred on the same day to a fact-finding committee, which subsequently reported on the actual situation at Tientsin, and on the detailed respects in which the Japanese would wish to see it changed. Good progress was made at the third and fourth meetings of the conference on the 26th. Private talks between members of the two delegations proceeded concurrently on the questions of the four alleged terrorists, of Ssu Ching Wu and the three other Chinese interned with him, and of Li Han-yuan and other alleged anti-Japanese elements in the British Municipal Police. A provisional solution of all these problems had been reached by the 30th July, in return for which it was understood that General Muto, the principal Japanese military delegate, would be willing to assure that there would be a material improvement in the situation at Tientsin. With the assistance of Mr. Dennis, chief of the British Municipal Police, who had left for Tokyo on the 28th July, it was possible by the end of the month to reach provisional agreement on all points raised in items 1 to 8 of Mr. Kato's agenda, except for one question of detail (subsequently cleared up) regarding the exact number of Japanese gendarmes who were to be stationed in the British Concession as observers. The British negotiators were successful in maintaining the principle that all executive functions within the concession must be carried out by the British Municipal Police.\n\n244. Less satisfactory progress was made with the economic discussions. The question of currency was broached at the afternoon meeting of the 27th July, at which the Japanese negotiators requested a prohibition of the circulation of `fapi` in the concession. On the morning of the 28th, the question of the silver deposited in Chinese banks in the British Concession was discussed, with equally little result, and at the end of the month, His Majesty's Ambassador was still awaiting instructions from the Foreign Office on both subjects.\n\n245. Close contact had been maintained by Sir Robert Craigie with his United States and French colleagues throughout the month. Meanwhile, His Majesty's Government had been endeavouring to enlist the co-operation of the two Governments concerned in regard to the economic issues under discussion at Tokyo. On the 15th July, the United States Government stated in reply to a British enquiry that they must regard the currency question at Tientsin as a local issue connected with the administration of the British Concession and that they could offer no advice on the subject. On the 27th July, the French Government, in response to a similar British enquiry, instructed their ambassador at Tokyo to support Sir Robert Craigie on the currency and silver questions, and they, moreover, informed the United States Government of their action. On the 29th, His Majesty's Government made a further approach to the United States Government, urging them to make clear to the Japanese Government that the question of currency was of concern to them. On the following day, His Majesty's Ambassador, Paris, was instructed to inform the French Government of this approach and to ask whether they would instruct their ambassador at Tokyo to inform the Japanese Government that they were not prepared to agree to an arrangement regarding which they had not been first consulted, a request to which the French Government acceded on the 1st August. Meanwhile, the United States Government, on the 31st July, instructed their chargé d'affaires in Tokyo to continue to show to the Japanese Government their interest in broader phases of the Tientsin question, including the currency issue. They indicated, however, that they were not particularly interested in the silver question.\n\n## Anti-British Activities in Japan\n\n246. The press campaign against Great Britain, led by the **Hochi**, a paper believed to be closely connected with the German Embassy, continued and reached a climax about the middle of the month. There were hostile demonstrations in front of His Majesty's Embassy on the 7th July, the second anniversary of the outbreak of the incident, and again on the 14th, 16th, 17th, and 31st. Similar meetings were organised throughout the country. Attempts were made to intimidate the staff of His Majesty's Embassy and to induce them to leave its service; for instance, the Japanese lady telephone operator was rung up and informed that she ought to be killed, while the press published an interview with the nephew of the embassy gatekeeper, now fighting on the China front, who stated that he was ashamed of his uncle. One Tokyo theatre displayed notices stating that hostile Britons would not be admitted. At the height of the agitation, however, the vernacular papers published statements to the effect that, in spite of everything, the military attaché was still popular in Japan, and they enlarged on Major-General Piggott's fondness for eels and rice, a Japanese national dish.\n\n## Detention of Colonel Spear\n\n247. On the 4th July, His Majesty's Ambassador made further energetic representations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject. On the 13th July, on receipt of news that it was proposed to try Colonel Spear before a military tribunal, Sir Robert Craigie took the question up with the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, complained of the fact that no official notice of this new decision had been received, and requested the necessary facilities for a British language officer, whom he proposed to send to Kalgan to establish touch with Colonel Spear. On the 26th, the question was raised by the military attaché with the Director of Military Operations. In spite of these representations, Colonel Spear was still detained at the end of the month.\n\n## Tsingtao\n\n248. The current anti-British agitation in North China assumed serious proportions at Tsingtao, where there was an anti-British riot on the 11th July, while on the 14th, two bombs were thrown at His Majesty's Consulate. In addition to the general representations made to the Japanese Government on the subject in connection with the Tientsin conversations, His Majesty's Ambassador took up the specific question of Tsingtao in a letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 8th July and again with the Vice-Minister on the 13th. On the 16th, Mr. Acting-Consul Pilcher was despatched from Osaka to assist His Majesty's Consul at Tsingtao.\n\n## Group Captain Bryant's Visit to China\n\n249. In the course of the month, Group Captain W. E. G. Bryant, Air Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy, accompanied by Major Stables, language officer, and other foreign service attachés from Tokyo, made a tour of the battlefields in the territory occupied by the Japanese in China.\n\n## Malaya\n\n## British Empire\n\n250. On the 31st July, two battalions of Indian troops arrived at Singapore. These were understood to represent the beginning of a substantial reinforcement of the British forces in the Malay Peninsula.\n\n## Canada\n\n251. On the 3rd July, the Canadian Chargé d'Affaires made representations to the Japanese Government regarding the bombing of a Canadian Mission building in China.\n\n## United States of America\n\n## Abrogation of Commercial Treaty\n\n252. Anti-Japanese feeling was reported to be rising throughout the United States during the month. After two abortive attempts to pass anti-Japanese legislation through Congress, the first being Senator Pittman's motion of the \n\n## 57", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564087, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 50, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# Japan\n\n## Foreign Affairs\n\nFollowing the introduction in the United States Senate of two resolutions, the first being that of the 11th July for an embargo on exports to Japan, and the second being Senator Vandenberg's motion of the 18th July for the abrogation of the Commercial Agreement of 1911 with Japan, the Administration suddenly announced on the 26th July its own decision to abrogate the treaty by executive action. Despite attempts to explain away this move, the news was received with something like consternation in Japan.\n\n### Nuremberg Congress\n\n#### Germany\n\n253. On the 18th July, envoys representing the Japanese army, navy, and commerce and industry left to attend the Nuremberg Congress on the invitation of the German Government.\n\n### German-Japanese Trade Agreement\n\n254. On the 28th July, a trade agreement between the two countries was provisionally signed in Berlin, subject to formal ratification by both Governments.\n\n### Occupied Areas\n\n#### China\n\n255. On the 10th July, Wang Ching-wei issued a statement urging the desirability of peace between Japan and China. This was timed to coincide with the meeting at Tsingtao of the Joint Commission of the North and Central China régimes. There were rumours that Wang would shortly be asked to become the head of a unified régime in China.\n\n### Military Operations\n\n256. Chungking was again bombed by Japanese naval aircraft on the 6th, 24th, and 31st July, the last mentioned being the tenth raid of the war. The United States Government, on the 10th July, made a strong protest to the Japanese Government regarding damage to United States property in previous raids on Chungking.\n\n257. After the issue on the 16th July of a warning to third-Power nationals, Japanese forces began on the 18th a blockade of Swabue.\n\n258. The Pearl River was closed by the Japanese military authorities for two weeks from the 28th July.\n\n### Foreign Interests\n\n259. On the 11th July, the Kulangsu Municipal Council rejected the Japanese demands for reform of the administration of the settlement. Japanese obstruction of food and fuel supplies to the settlement continued and drew a sharp protest from the United States Government on the 17th July.\n\n### U.S.S.R.\n\n#### Departure of Soviet Chargé d'Affaires\n\n260. On the 6th July, M. Smetanin, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, departed for Moscow, leaving the embassy in charge of the second secretary.\n\n#### Mongolia\n\n261. The fighting on the Mongolian frontier continued. Important Japanese offensives appear to have been launched on the 3rd and 25th July, and in the opinion of competent observers, the Japanese had by the end of the month succeeded in driving back the Mongolian and Soviet forces to the line of the River Halha. There was a continuation of fighting in the air, in which the Japanese, as usual, claimed striking successes. They admitted, however, that on the 16th July, hostile aircraft had succeeded in bombing the important railway centre of Fularki.\n\n### Saghalien\n\n262. Friction continued over the alleged Russian pressure on Japanese oil and coal interests in Saghalien. On the 24th July, the Soviet Government rejected a protest which had been made by the Japanese Ambassador on the subject on the 29th July.\n\n### General Policy\n\n263. Statements of policy were made by Baron Hiranuma on the 6th July to the press, and on the 20th to the Asia Development Committee. The Prime Minister's language was, as usual, inconclusive, but his references to foreign affairs and to the external situation generally were less unfavourable from the British point of view than might have been expected. Reports from confidential sources indicated that he was personally strongly opposed to a military alliance with Germany and Italy. At the same time, there was reason to believe at the end of the month that a further effort would shortly be made by the extremist elements to secure a reconsideration of the alliance proposal.\n\n## Internal Affairs\n\n264. In spite of preoccupation with the conduct of the campaign in China, and with the complex international situation, the Japanese Government are not unmindful of the numerous problems which require attention at home, and consideration is now being given to certain important proposals.\n\n265. In the first place, it seems possible that a scheme for the formation of a separate Ministry of Trade may materialise in the near future. That is not a new idea, as it has been felt for many years past that there would be advantages in combining under one roof the various bureaux or sections devoted to matters of trade now existing in the Ministries for Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Industry, Agriculture and Forestry, Finance, and Overseas Affairs. The complex machinery of trade control which has been brought into being has rendered centralisation more important than ever, and it is understood from press reports that the Cabinet have agreed in principle that something must be done. The Planning Board has accordingly been asked to draw up a scheme, which is now receiving attention.\n\n266. Secondly, it appears that the matter of a thorough reform of the taxation system of the country, both as regards central and provincial taxes, will probably form the subject of discussion at the next session of the Diet. It is felt that the present system of taxation is too antiquated, and that as a result of temporary expedients in the way of increases in taxation, it has become excessively complicated, with the natural result that the burden of taxation is unequally distributed. It is proposed, therefore, to introduce a radical reform with the object of equalising the incidence of taxation among different classes of the people and of giving elasticity to, and simplifying, the system as a whole. A sub-committee of the Taxation System Enquiry Commission is engaged upon an examination of the problem, and it has been stated in the press that their aim is to secure an increase in revenue of the amount of 500 million yen.\n\n267. The Government is also taking steps to put into effect certain provisions for a Law for the Control of the Distribution of Rice, which was passed during the last session of the Diet. The object of this measure is to discourage speculation in rice and to guard against any abnormal increase in price owing to war conditions. The law provides, inter alia, for the establishment of a Japan Rice Company, which will operate markets for dealings in the cereal, these markets taking the place of the existing rice exchanges, which will be abolished.\n\n### Anniversary of the Loukowkiao Incident\n\n268. The 7th July was observed in Japan as a day of self-denial. The people had been urged to shun amusements and to take only the simplest meals. Notices were displayed in the streets with the slogan: \"One soup, one dish,\" and the consumption of alcoholic drinks and smoking were deprecated. Cafés and bars closed for the day, and cinemas and theatres closed at P.M. The brilliant neon lights so dear to the Japanese heart were extinguished, and it is reported that the Yoshiwara was deserted.\n\n269. On the evening of the 6th July, the Prime Minister gave a press interview, in the course of which the Government's aims and intentions for the conclusion of the China incident were restated.\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564095, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 58, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "## Detention of Colonel Spear\n\n205. Colonel Spear, military attaché to His Majesty's Embassy in China, was arrested by the Japanese military authorities on the 26th May in the neighbourhood of Kalgan. Colonel Spear had been travelling in the areas occupied by the Chinese forces and on the 18th May, as soon as it became known that he wished to proceed to Peking, the Japanese authorities had been notified accordingly. Lieutenant Cooper, a language officer who had proceeded to meet Colonel Spear after requesting the necessary passes, was also arrested on the 26th May, but released after some days of detention.\n\n206. On the 1st June the available information was communicated to the Japanese General Staff by the assistant military attaché to His Majesty's Embassy, who received an assurance that he would be given early advice of any reports received on the subject. On the 5th June the military attaché was informed that investigations were proceeding regarding the reason for Colonel Spear's presence in the war zone. The question was taken up on the 10th June by His Majesty's Ambassador, who made an oral statement to the Minister for Foreign Affairs deprecating the unjustifiable allegations of espionage which had been made against Colonel Spear, drawing attention to the strong public indignation which the case must inevitably inspire in Great Britain, and urging that the matter, in view of its wide political implications, should not be left exclusively to the decision of the military authorities in Kalgan. Further enquiries regarding the detention and treatment of Colonel Spear were made of the General Staff by the military attaché and assistant military attaché on the 13th, 14th, 18th and 19th June, while His Majesty's Ambassador renewed his representations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 17th June.\n\n## Anti-British Agitation in Shanghai\n\n207. On the 6th June His Majesty's Ambassador drew the attention of the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs to disorders which had occurred in British-owned mills in Shanghai, to the absence of steps by the Japanese authorities to preserve law and order there, and to the anti-British agitation organised in areas in China under Japanese control. Sir Robert Craigie urged strongly that, if in fact an agitation of this kind was being encouraged in certain Japanese quarters, early steps should be taken to discontinue such dangerous activities.\n\n208. The disorders in question took a more serious turn on the same day when Mr. Tinkler, a British employee of the firm concerned, became involved in a dispute with the strikers, and subsequently with Japanese marines who intervened, and, after threatening the latter with his revolver, received wounds from which he died the following day. The matter was taken up in a letter from His Majesty's Ambassador to the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated the 12th June, stating that His Majesty's Government must hold the Japanese Government responsible for Mr. Tinkler's death, and again requesting early steps to put a stop to the anti-British agitation. In an official note dated the 17th June Sir Robert Craigie protested strongly against the violence and subsequent obstruction and negligence on the part of the Japanese authorities which had resulted in the death of a British subject. The note reserved all rights on behalf of His Majesty's Government, including the right to claim compensation. The Japanese press, however, published statements by naval spokesmen which attributed the incident to the provocative attitude of Mr. Tinkler.\n\n## Anglo-French Defence Conference at Singapore\n\n209. The commanders of the principal British and French military and naval forces in the Far East met at Singapore on the 22nd June to discuss the co-ordination of defence measures in case of need. The conclusions reached during the discussions were not yet known to His Majesty's Embassy by the end of the month.\n\n## The Views of Colonel Hashimoto\n\n210. Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, president of the Dai Nippon Young Men's party, writing in the June issue of the `Chuo Koron`, states that the question of the settlement of the China incident hinges on Great Britain, and that the key to the incident lies in the determination of Japan to deal resolutely with British opposition. This, however, need not involve an armed clash. The ordinary way of British diplomacy goes to suggest that the firmness of resolution and attitude of the Japanese people will cause, in the long run, Britain to give up her interference with Japan's national policy.\" The colonel adds that the Japanese as a nation are now badly in need of a national organisation to train them in accordance with a definite principle, and he has therefore formulated, strictly in accordance with the basic spirit of the Japanese national structure, a principle of his own which is commonly called \"Hashimoto-Kingoroism.\" It is the colonel's firm conviction that not only does this principle strike the key-note of the national ideal of Japan, but that it is also best suited for the Japanese of to-day and of the future.\n\n## British Empire: Trade Agreement between Australia and Japan\n\n211. A commercial agreement between His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia and the Japanese Government was signed on the 27th June, in replacement of the existing instrument, which was due to expire at the end of June. Amongst other provisions, the agreement arranged for the allotment by the Japanese Government to Australian products of at least two-thirds of the total quantity of wool to be imported into Japan from all foreign countries.\n\n## United States of America\n\n212. On the 16th June the United States Chargé d'Affaires protested emphatically to the Japanese Government regarding the American interest in the North China trade in furs and skins, which continued to be subjected to unwarranted interference by agencies and instruments of the Japanese Government. The United States Government were forced to conclude that the Japanese military, by interfering with exports of furs and skins, were endeavouring to stifle competition with the object of driving down prices so that the Japanese might obtain their own requirements at cheap prices and also obtain foreign exchange from direct exports by their own agencies. The United States Government requested the Japanese Government to cause the interference in question to cease.\n\n## Anti-Comintern Pact\n\n213. Evidence from various sources indicated that the Japanese Government were subjected to heavy pressure from German and Italian Embassies at the beginning of the month with the object of inducing them to join the pact. If these reports were correct, the Japanese Government's response must have been negative in substance, since it was stated that they reached a final decision on the 6th June regarding the measures to be taken to give effect to the attitude on which they had determined in the previous month. It was subsequently reported from a foreign diplomatic source that, as a result of the decision of the 6th June, the Japanese Government offered Germany a limited pact, but that the German Government, abetted by the Japanese Ambassadors to Germany and Italy, rejected the offer as inadequate.\n\n## Germany\n\n214. The Ministry of Marine admitted privately on the 7th June that a German ship had been stopped by the Japanese navy. The story was current that the ship contained arms and ammunition for the Chinese Government.\n\n## China: Japanese Policy\n\n215. Concerted oral representations regarding the statement made by the spokesman of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on the 24th May about the foreign settlements in China were made at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on the 13th June by the counsellors of the British and French Embassies. Representations were subsequently made by the United States Chargé d'Affaires on the same subject.\n\nPage 70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564124, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 87, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "## British Shipping\n\n124. Interference with foreign and especially British shipping off the China coast became rapidly worse during April. Interference with the loading of British ships in the Yangtze delta had begun earlier in the year and showed no signs of discontinuance, intimidation being used by Japanese naval and military authorities to prevent Chinese from loading British ships. Between the 23rd and the 26th April, six British ships were detained for flag verification purposes in the neighbourhood of Foochow, the ships detained including some which were well known to the Japanese, and about the British registry of which there was no doubt. On the 8th April, a Japanese prize crew was placed on board the steamship Sagres, which was engaged in loading salt for the Chinese Government off Foochow, and the ship was taken off to the Pescadores. Representations by the commander-in-chief to the Japanese naval authorities to the effect that the ship was engaged in peaceful and legitimate trade failed to secure the release of the ship, but after a fortnight's detention and interrogation, the crew were allowed to return to Hong Kong. The matter was still under discussion at the end of the month.\n\n## United States of America\n\n125. On the 30th March, the United States Ambassador in Tokyo protested formally and emphatically to the Japanese Government against the continued disregard by the Japanese forces of American lives and property in China. Mr. Grew reminded the Japanese Government that, although United States nationals had taken voluntary measures to mark their property in China, there had been no less than 135 instances of Japanese aerial attacks endangering American lives and resulting in damage to American property, which the United States Embassy had had to bring to the notice of the Japanese Government.\n\n126. The U.S.S. Astoria arrived on the 17th April at Yokohama, bringing the ashes of Mr. Saito, late Japanese Ambassador in Washington. The officers and crew of the ship were overwhelmed with hospitality and expressions of appreciation, while the American Embassy was inundated with presents. The visit was exploited to the full in the Japanese press, and the arrangements for the funeral were both efficient and impressive; certain events which occurred at the same time, however, sounded a different note. For instance, Mr. Sumner Welles, the United States Under-Secretary of State, informed the press on the 20th April that he had protested to the Japanese Ambassador in Washington about the continued interference by the Japanese authorities with the movement of United States citizens in China, and the United States Ambassador in Tokyo made a similar protest on the 21st April. The transfer of the United States fleet to the Pacific from the Atlantic, which was announced on the 21st April, also received much notice of a surprisingly hostile kind in the Japanese press.\n\n127. President Roosevelt's message to Hitler of the 15th April received lukewarm approval in Japanese newspapers, which eventually resorted to agreement with the Axis view that the message had been sent to the wrong address.\n\n128. On the 27th April, Senator Key Pitman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a resolution in the Senate which would empower the President to impose certain important restrictions on trade and credit transactions between the United States and any Power violating the Nine-Power Treaty. The resolution has aroused violent controversy in the United States.\n\n## Anti-Comintern Pact\n\n129. A series of meetings of the Five Ministers' Conference were held during April and created the impression that an announcement giving added force to the Anti-Comintern Pact was imminent. However, as in the previous month, nothing definite emerged, and at the end of April, the newspapers had it that no decision would be taken for another month.\n\n## Germany: Visit of German Journalists\n\n130. On the 27th April, a party of German journalists, who are touring the Far East, arrived at Yokohama for a week's visit to Japan. The delegation, which consists of representatives of many leading German news agencies and newspapers, is returning the visit paid by a Japanese delegation to Germany in 1938.\n\n## German Flight to Tokyo\n\n131. A Luft-Hansa aeroplane left Berlin on the 22nd April, piloted by Baron von Gablenz, a director of the company, who is flying in easy stages to Tokyo. The object of the flight is said to be to collect data for the eventual establishment of a German air service between Europe and the Far East.\n\n## Conditions of Life\n\n132. Mr. Ikuta Yasugi, a former member of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow, was quoted in the press as saying that the restaurants in Moscow served better food to their customers than those in Berlin. The necessary correction was made with exemplary promptitude, accompanied by a suitable expression of Mr. Yasugi's indignation at the misunderstanding.\n\n## Italy: Italian Exhibition\n\n133. An Italian exhibition, sponsored by the Italian Embassy, the Italo-Japanese Cultural Institute, and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi newspaper, was opened on the 12th April. The exhibits consisted mainly of illustrations of the extent and achievements of the Roman Empire and of modern Italy. The most impressive feature of the exhibition was a large room containing photographs of the activities of the Italian armed forces.\n\n## Occupation of Albania\n\n134. General Itagaki, the Minister of War, and Prince Kanin, the Chief of the General Staff, telegraphed to Signor Mussolini congratulating him on the annexation of Albania.\n\n## France: Spratley Islands\n\n135. The French Ambassador addressed a note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 4th April protesting against the occupation of the Spratley Islands. The French Government, he said, could not recognise this action and did not regard it as in any way affecting French sovereignty over the islands.\n\n136. On the 10th April, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires left with the Minister for Foreign Affairs a note to the effect that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom were unable to admit that the claim of the Japanese Government had any legal foundation and that they deplored the procedure adopted by them in this matter, as it could only complicate still further the situation in the Far East. In a reply, dated the 13th April, Mr. Arita stated that the Japanese Government found difficulty in understanding the basis for His Majesty's Government's representations, since not only was the measure taken lawful and based on fact and upon law, but it also was a matter which concerned Japan and France. The Japanese Government also disagreed that the measure would further complicate the situation in the Far East.\n\n137. The Official Gazette of the 18th April contained an order signed by the Governor-General of Formosa on the 30th March announcing the inclusion, as from that date, of the Spratley Islands within the jurisdiction of Takao City, Formosa.\n\n## China: Military Operations\n\n138. Much publicity was given to the Chinese so-called \"April offensive.\" This operation, however, was treated with considerable ridicule by the Japanese press, which gave frequent accounts of invariably successful Japanese counter-attacks and costly Chinese losses.\n\n## Japanese Policy\n\n139. In a speech on the 11th April at the opening of a conference of the heads of Liaison Offices in China of the Asia Development Council, the Prime Minister stated that the Japanese Government had no intention of excluding or restricting unreasonably the economic activities and interests of third Powers beyond the extent necessary for Japan's national defence and her existence as a nation.\n\n140. In a further speech on the 13th April, Baron Hiranuma stated that, when the new régimes in China had expanded and were fully co-operating with Japan...\n\nPage 633-2\n105", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 98, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# \n## \n73. India. The Japanese press paid some attention to the signature of the new trade agreement between the United Kingdom and India. Apprehension was expressed lest the favourable terms granted to the British textile industry would have an adverse effect on Japanese trade, and there was some talk of a possible official protest. No such protest was, however, received by His Majesty's Embassy.\n\n## United States of America\n74. Mr. Hiroshi Saito, who had recently retired from his post of Japanese Ambassador to the United States, but was still resident in America, died on the 26th February. The United States Government decided to send Mr. Saito's ashes back to Japan in the `U.S.S. Astoria`. (It will be recalled that when the United States Ambassador in Japan died in Japanese territory in 1925, the Japanese Government acted similarly.) This gesture on the part of the United States was warmly welcomed in Japan. The Minister for Foreign Affairs expressed appreciation in the Diet on the 7th March, and the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in a radio speech to America on the 18th. Appreciation, however, soon became magnified into a thinly-disguised revival of the campaign to separate the United States in the minds of the Japanese public from the other democratic States, and to represent the United States as fundamentally friendly to Japan, Unless, however, the Japanese are prepared to make more concrete contributions to securing American goodwill, it is not to be expected that expressions of appreciation, however fulsome, will make much difference to the American attitude.\n\n## U.S.S.R.\n75. The fisheries dispute still remained unsettled at the end of February and reports from various sources at the beginning of March indicated a considerable movement of Japanese troops towards Manchuria. The impression was given that Japan wished to be ready for emergencies in case it finally proved impossible to reach any agreement and in case the fishery auctions, fixed for the 15th March, should result in the Soviet Government taking over wholesale fisheries to which the Japanese claimed a right. The Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs stated on the 13th March that the Japanese Government were prepared to take \"the most effective and appropriate measures\" in the event of a breakdown.\n\n76. There was some uncertainty for a few days after the 15th March as to whether an auction had taken place, and, if so, how many fishing lots had been sold. It appeared, eventually, that only a small number had been disposed of, and a fresh auction was fixed for the 3rd April. In any case, negotiations proceeded at Moscow between the Japanese Ambassador and the Soviet Government, and it was felt that a settlement would be reached as soon as the Diet had dissolved. Moreover, while the matter was one of urgency, a certain amount of time still remained, due to the interval between the date of the auction and the date on which fishing could profitably begin.\n\n77. On the 31st March the Ministry for Foreign Affairs informed foreign newspaper correspondents that the negotiations, which were nearing completion, had been delayed for a few days by a sudden change in the Soviet attitude, which was \"most unjust.\"\n\n### Anti-Comintern Pact\n78. There were many rumours at the beginning of the month that negotiations were in progress for a strengthening, whether into a military alliance or to some lesser extent, of the Anti-Comintern Pact. On the 6th March, however, the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that Japan, while linked to Germany and Italy through the Anti-Comintern Pact, was not pitted against France, Great Britain and the United States of America. What was necessary was for the latter Powers to be brought to understand the Japanese attitude.\n\n79. The German occupation of Czecho-Slovakia, however, made a considerable impression in army circles in Japan and pressure appears to have been exercised on the Japanese Government by the German and Italian Ambassadors, who, it is believed, urged them to commit themselves to some form of binding alliance. The press reported that a very important meeting of the Inner Cabinet was held on the 22nd March and on the 23rd March the German Ambassador had a prolonged interview with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. However, nothing emerged from all these consultations and the Minister for Foreign Affairs informed His Majesty's Ambassador on the 29th March that no negotiations for the strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact had started yet. None the less, an impression prevails that, in view especially of the attitude of pro-German circles in the army, the Japanese Government may, without going as far as a military alliance, seek in some measure to tighten their relationship with the Axis Powers.\n\n## Germany\n80. \n\n### Czecho-Slovakian Crisis\nOn the 20th March the Minister for Foreign Affairs caused a message to be sent to the German Government congratulating them on \"recent developments,\" which would contribute much to the stabilisation of Europe.\n\n81. In general, certain army circles were much impressed by this further advance of Germany in Europe and the Japanese press on the whole applauded the German action, which was held to be a further set-back for the democracies in Europe. On the other hand, there was a certain undercurrent of disapproval and doubt, which the Japanese Government no doubt took into account when they refused, at any rate for the present, to extend their commitments in Europe.\n\n82. ### Air Attaché\nIt was announced on the 21st March that Lieutenant-Colonel Wolfgang von Gronau had been appointed air attaché at the German Embassy in Tokyo. Lieutenant-Colonel von Gronau is the first full-time air attaché to be appointed to the German Embassy, the work having previously been done by a technical air force officer acting as adviser to the other service attachés.\n\n83. ### Trade\nA Japanese commercial agency was established at Hamburg on the 10th March.\n\n84. There was some talk in the press of negotiations with Germany for a revised trade agreement reaching a conclusion in the near future.\n\n85. ### Propaganda\nA party of German journalists left Berlin on the 28th March on a goodwill trip to Japan.\n\n## France\n86. ### Spratley Islands\nAccording to an announcement which appeared in the evening press of the 31st March, the Japanese Government decided on the 30th March to place the Spratley Islands, in the South China Sea, under the jurisdiction of the Government-General of Formosa. It was pointed out in the official communiqué that the reefs had long been ownerless, but that Japan had undertaken in 1917, before the nationals of any other country, to embark upon the economic development of the reefs. In order to avoid unnecessary disputes, the Japanese Government had taken the step of assuming jurisdiction over the islands, and the French Ambassador had been so informed on the 31st March. (It appears that the French Government gave notice of the annexation of these islands in 1933, but never took adequate steps to make their occupation effective.)\n\n## Italy\n87. ### Cultural Agreement\nA cultural agreement between Italy and Japan was signed in Tokyo on the 23rd March. The agreement provides for an exchange of teachers, students, literature, films, &c., between the two countries, as well as co-operation between their respective youth organisations. The agreement is closely similar to the cultural agreement signed by Germany and Japan.\n\n88. ### International Exhibition\nAccording to a press report, the Japanese Government decided on the 25th March to participate in the International Exhibition in Rome in 1942.\n\n89. ### Cultural Relations\nOn Army Day, the 10th March, the General Staff presented to the Italian Embassy a painting entitled \"Charge\" by Mr. Mukai, who is said to have witnessed several severe battles in the Shanghai area.\n\n## Portugal\n90. A visit was paid to Tokyo in February by Captain Gorgulho, of the Macao Gendarmerie. According to the Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires, the captain came to Japan on a pleasure trip, but the Japanese press asserted that... \n\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 139, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# \n## \n55. On the 22nd February the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, Mr. Togo, had a stormy meeting with Litvinov at which both upheld with some heat their respective standpoints.\n\n56. It is difficult to believe that either side wants war. Rumours of impending hostilities are considerably promoted, however, by the preparations which are obviously being made by both sides to meet any possible emergency.\n\n## Siam\n57. The visit of Sir Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Federated Malay States, to Siam received a certain amount of notice in the Japanese press. The visit, which was the first official visit for six years, was regarded as an overture to Siam. There were rumours, too, that Britain might grant a defence loan to Siam.\n\n## The Diet Session\n### HOME AFFAIRS\n58. Proceedings in the Diet have up to the present been very uneventful, as is, indeed, to be expected in the absence of an Opposition. \"National unity\" has been interpreted by the political parties as implying blind acquiescence in the major policies of the Government and, in these circumstances, the debates have been merely formal. The Diet has failed to obtain any crystallisation of Japanese policy in China, and this fact is being seized upon for criticism by the press and the reviews.\n\n59. The fact that the new Government took office only two weeks before the Diet was reconvened has been responsible for much delay in the presentation of legislation. The Lower House has on several occasions found itself with nothing to do, and actually adjourned for a whole day to pay a visit of inspection at an aircraft factory. There will thus inevitably be a large accumulation of Bills left over for the closing days of the session, on which only the most perfunctory procedure will be taken.\n\n### Military Policy in China\n60. Perhaps the most significant event of the session to date has been a categorical refutation by the Minister of War of the impression, which had grown in the minds of the Japanese public since Prince Konoye's statement of the 22nd December and the subsequent telegram of Wang Ching-wei, that the Japanese forces were eventually to be withdrawn from Central and South China and concentrated in special areas in the north. General Itagaki declared that rumours to this effect were entirely without foundation, and that, on the contrary, preparations were already being taken in hand for the maintenance of Japanese garrisons in China over a long period, including the erection of semi-permanent barracks.\n\n### Prince Konoye\n61. The position of Prince Konoye as Minister without Portfolio continues to be very anomalous. He has appeared in the Diet on only one occasion, and then only in response to a demand from a Seiyukai leader that he should explain the reasons for the resignation of his Government. Nor does the prince ever attend the meetings of the Cabinet. There is no doubt that Prince Konoye is anxious to sever his connexions with the present Cabinet, but the Prime Minister persists in the view that the reasons for his inclusion in the Government have not yet disappeared. Prince Konoye's followers hold that the prince will return to office as Prime Minister in the comparatively near future.\n\n### The Budget\n62. The main budget, which is balanced at approximately 3,893 million yen, was approved without amendment by the House of Representatives on the 13th February and sent to the House of Peers. The Emergency War Expenditure Supplementary budget and two further important supplementary budgets remain to be considered, and these will bring the total expenditure to more than 10,000 million yen as compared with the 8,635 million yen voted for the current fiscal year.\n\n63. The records of the debates in the budget committees have repeatedly been suspended and the proceedings conducted in secret. Mr. Juji Kasai, an independent member of the Lower House, states that he took advantage of one of these interludes to deliver an attack against the pro-German proclivities of the Government.\n\n### National Spiritual Mobilisation\n64. The National Spiritual Mobilisation campaign, which has hitherto been left to unofficial enterprise and which has not produced satisfactory results, is to be placed in charge of a new commission directly under the Cabinet. It is understood that General Araki, the Minister of Education, is to be chairman of the commission, but the Prime Minister is experiencing great difficulty in finding anybody to serve as Director-General. An appropriation of 1 million yen is included in a supplementary budget for the expenses of the commission.\n\n### Projected New Party\n65. The attempt to form a merger of the Social Mass party and the Tohokai (reference paragraph 30 of Diary No. 1) came ignominiously to grief on the 22nd February owing to internal dissensions between the two groups and to differences of opinion over the question of leadership of the new party.\n\n### Control of Rice\n66. A meeting attended by 3,000 representatives of rice-marketing organisations from all over the country, adopted unanimously a resolution protesting against a Bill to place the distribution of rice under the control of a semi-official company, which the Government propose to introduce during the current session of the Diet. The Government are, however, determined to carry through this measure, which is expected to prove to be the most controversial issue during the session.\n\n### Anti-Comintern Congress\n67. According to the press, an association known as the Italo-German-Japanese Friendship Society is to sponsor an Asiatic anti-Comintern Congress composed of representatives of Japan, Manchuria, China, Siam, the Philippines, India, Burma and the Netherlands East Indies during the coming summer. A representative of the Italian Embassy is reported to have attended a recent meeting of the organising committee.\n\n### South Seas Mandated Islands\n68. In reply to a question in the Diet, a spokesman for the Government stated that Japan would continue to submit reports on the administration of the South Seas Mandated Islands in spite of the severance of all connexion with the League of Nations.\n\n### Submarine Disaster\n69. Eighty-one lives are believed to have been lost when a submarine was sunk as the result of a collision during exercises off the coast of Shikoku on the 2nd February. Salvage operations were rendered impossible owing to great depth of water and strong currents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564256, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 219, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# Subject.\n\n## 4. Northern District.\n\n### Failure to restore Northern District of International Settlement to the control of the Municipal Council\n\n**First Representation.** July 18\n\n**Present situation.** Government have stated reasons for their attitude, but have given no undertakings to restore the area in connexion with Municipal Council's memorandum of March 18. Proof has been furnished to the Japanese Government of safe conditions in the districts which Municipal Council control, and the Japanese authorities at Shanghai have expressed approval of the Council's anti-terrorist measures.\n\n## 2. Chefoo. Lighter Association.\n\n**First Representation.** September 25\n\n**Present situation.** The working of British ships has been interfered with as was threatened. Imposition, without consultation of British interests involved, of a Lighter Association controlled by a Japanese concern, and the use of threats of interference with labour supply against firms not wishing to join. Japanese Government stated that controls were established to prevent arms smuggling, and that no discrimination was intended. Evidence has been communicated to the Japanese Government showing that threats of forcible interference with British interests were both made and carried out. In spite of frequent representations by His Majesty's Embassy, and of acknowledgment by the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs that the local arrangement reached by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire could only be regarded as temporary, no appropriate action has been taken by the Japanese authorities.\n\n## 5. Northern District. Buses and Tramways.\n\n### (a) Buses.\n\nChina General Omnibus Company, who bought franchise to operate buses in the Northern District, have been prevented from operating by the Japanese authorities.\n\n### (b) Tramways.\n\nShanghai Electric Construction Company prevented from carrying passengers to and from Yangtzepoo. Permission to take trams for repair granted on March 28 (and to Yangtzepoo Wayside Depot in November) but passengers still not allowed to travel by the tramways, though any military necessity for such preventive measures has long since disappeared. No satisfaction, though any military necessity for prevention has long since disappeared.\n\n## 6. Whangpoo Conservancy.\n\n### Removal and detention by Japanese naval authorities of dredgers and equipment belonging to the Conservancy Board, an international body\n\nDecember 1937 (in Shanghai), July 26, 1938 (in Tokyo)\n\nNo reply before July 26, when reminder was handed to General Ugaki. Further note August 27, emphasising international status of the Board and requesting return of property and resumption of operations. September 28 General Ugaki suggested local discussion; suggestion adopted but so far no result has been reached.\n\n## 1. Chefoo.\n\n### C-North China. Dissolution of Harbour Improvement Commission.\n\nDissolution was carried out by local authorities under pressure from the Japanese Government and in disregard of the International Agreement covering the constitution of the commission. Japanese consul, as representative of the Consular Body, proposed this illegal action at meeting of the commission, without even consulting his colleagues. The plea was made that the municipal authorities would be best able to manage the harbour, but the property and management of it was promptly handed over to the Japanese Navy, who have caused a Chefoo Harbour Office to be set up to manage the harbour. October 6 No reply.\n\n## 3. Chefoo. Seizure of Customs vessel Haicheng.\n\nSeizure on June 30 by the Japanese naval authorities, eviction of foreign officers and intimidation of the Chinese crew by the use of machine guns. July 6 For subsequent developments see North China, paragraph 11: \"Seizure of Customs vessel Hoian at Tsingtao.\"\n\n## 4. Chefoo. Restrictions on Exports.\n\nImposition of restrictions on exports by British ships to Hong Kong and discrimination in favour of similar shipments in a German ship. November 1 No reply.\n\n## 5. Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\n### Ban placed on circulation by Japanese authorities.\n\nRequests that it be lifted and points out that copies are not even delivered to Diplomatic Missions. September 19 Japanese Government requested that prior conditions regarding its attitude should be given by the newspaper. His Majesty's Ambassador informed the Japanese Government that no conditions could be expected before the removal of the ban, especially as the Japanese authorities had failed to find one instance of anti-Japanese articles. Immediate removal of the ban has been requested, and it has been pointed out that not even the instructions to the local authorities to remove the ban on deliveries to Diplomatic Missions have been carried out.\n\n## 6. Tientsin. Concessions.\n\nProtest against the unfounded reasons given by the Japanese military for the order to Japanese subjects to evacuate British and French Concessions. Order makes it more difficult for British authorities to carry out suppression of terrorist activities. September 2 No reply to letter of September 2, nor further to reminder of the 15th. December 3, describes pressure brought by Japanese authorities on Japanese subjects to leave the concessions, and similar exercise of pressure on other individuals and organisations. Requests early explanation of these measures. Still no reply received, and further letter sent on December 19 pointing out that concessions are surrounded, that British subjects are compelled to show passports, and that food supplies are being interfered with. All these measures are being imposed by the Japanese military on inadequate grounds.\n\n258", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 233, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "# 305. \nThe notes, which were similar, but not identical, protested strongly against the continued closure of the Yangtze to foreign shipping (whereas Japanese ships use it freely) and maintained that the original Japanese plea of military necessity no longer held good. Similar, but not identical, replies were received on the 14th November. It was said that the Yangtze was still the scene of military operations, that Chinese guerillas, occasionally laying mines, were active from the shore, that only Japanese military transports used the river, and so on.\n\n# 306. \nIn view of the extremely unsatisfactory nature of these replies (although their tone was polite and restrained) further representations will doubtless be made again soon. But the Japanese military and naval authorities in China issued a joint communiqué on the 29th November to the effect that the Yangtze would remain closed until hostilities ceased, so that, from Tokyo at any rate, the opening of the Yangtze looks as far away as ever it did.\n\n## Reply to the American Note of October 6\n# 307. \nThe long-awaited reply to the American note of the 6th October protesting against discrimination in China was handed to the American Ambassador on the 18th November. It too was unsatisfactory, but again its tone was restrained and conciliatory. The specific charges were neatly evaded and protection taken behind those vague generalisations in which the Japanese mind delights. Japan had not the slightest desire to oppose the participation of America or of any other Power in the work of reconstruction in China; indeed, it welcomed and looked forward to such participation, but any attempt to apply to the conditions of to-day and to-morrow inapplicable ideas and principles of the past would not contribute towards the establishment of a real peace in East Asia nor would it solve the immediate issues.\n\n## Anglo-Japanese Relations\n# 308. \nThe following incident serves very well to illustrate three points: firstly, the present condition of Anglo-Japanese relations; secondly, the attitude of this country towards any sort of mediation in the war; thirdly, the extraordinary leakages from official sources which are constantly occurring, in this case over a matter of a highly confidential nature.\n\n# 309. \nA distinguished Japanese resident in London approached a Member of Parliament and said he was sure that Japan would agree to peace on the following basis:—\n- Complete, but gradual, withdrawal from China.\n- Complete equality of opportunity with other Powers.\n- A Sino-Japanese agreement to which His Majesty's Government would subscribe (without, however, incurring any responsibility for seeing its terms were observed) for the cessation of official Chinese participation in anti-Japanese activities, particularly trade.\n\n# 310. \nThe Member of Parliament passed these terms on to the Secretary of State, who authorised His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo to approach Prince Konoye. A private interview was arranged at which the latter said in characteristic fashion that he would think the matter over.\n\n# 311. \nA few days later the financial adviser was lunching with the notorious Mr. Shiratori, Ambassador Designate to Italy. Mr. Shiratori understood that these peace terms had been put forward formally by His Majesty's Government. He said that they showed a complete lack of understanding of Japan's position and had caused very great resentment.\n\n# 312. \nShortly afterwards these same terms in very garbled form appeared in the Japanese press and occasioned the same strictures on the inconsistencies in British diplomacy in the Far East. We were desperate in maintaining intact our position in the Far East.\n\n# 313. \nWith the cutting of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Great Britain is less in the limelight. Official circles in Japan have long been aware that the British part in the arms traffic has been a small one, but naturally they have not chosen that the people should know this, and as long as ships carrying munitions docked at Hong Kong and the railway was used, then England was the Power behind all Chinese resistance. We are a little less in the limelight certainly—a distinction which has passed to France—but it is impossible to maintain that our relations with Japan have improved. At the present moment, too, the morale of the people is high; the army's prestige, as a result of the military successes in China, is higher than ever; the feeling that at long last the corner has been turned is causing the official attitude, especially towards the rights and interests of third Powers, to stiffen.\n\n## France\n# 314. \nHardly a day passes without some reference in the press to the support which France is giving to the Chiang Kai-shek régime, by the railway to Yunnanfu, by permitting munitions to be landed on Kwangchow Bay, by the overland routes into Yunnan Province, by according refuge to Chinese merchants and banks and firms, by establishing aeroplane factories at Yunnanfu, by boycotts directed against Japan, and so on. The French Embassy has continued firmly to deny that arms are being imported into China through Indo-China.\n\n# 315. \nOne newspaper said in so many words what the others have all been hinting at, namely, that France has usurped Britain's position as the mainstay of Chinese resistance. And yet there is little popular agitation against France. The necessity for it has gone, presumably, now that Japan feels that it has the military situation in China well in hand.\n\n## Germany\n# 316. \nThe second anniversary of the signing of the Anti-Comintern Agreement was the signal for elaborately staged scenes of mass demonstration and flag-waving, arts in whose technique Japan has little to learn from her totalitarian ally. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and the German Ambassador signed a cultural pact for the promotion of their countries' relations in the spheres of sport, culture, science, and so forth. Arrangements will be made for the exchange of even more missions, teachers, and students.\n\n# 317. \nThat this ostentatious propaganda does not achieve all it sets out to achieve may be seen from the following comments of Japanese on Germany.\n\n# 318. \nExactly nine days before the signing of the pact a party of young Japanese, recruited from the Young Men's Associations, returned from a tour of Germany where they had been the guests of the Reich in exchange for the Hitler Jugend Mission which is at present in this country. \"Japan has nothing to learn spiritually,\" said one of the young men. \"The standard of living in Germany,\" said another, \"cannot compare with that of the Japanese. We Japanese, comparatively blessed with material resources, are the people who are happy.\"\n\n# 319. \n...from Germany.\n\n## German Propaganda\n# 321. \nSir George Sansom, Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy, whose Cultural History of Japan is a standard work, has been approached by a German publishing house who wish to publish a German translation of the book.\n\n## Japan and the Jews\n# 322. \nIt was announced on the 30th November that the Japanese military authorities in North China had decided to prohibit any influx of Jews into North China \"in order to maintain peace and order.\" The papers of all Germans would henceforth be most carefully examined.\n\n# 323. \nThe Foreign Office spokesman said that the Japan-German cultural pact would not involve any discrimination against Jews, but in practice, this will doubtless occur, since Japan will only accept those teachers and students who have been officially recommended by the Reich.\n\n## Goodwill Flights\n# 324. \nThe Italian goodwill plane had to abandon its much-publicised flight to Japan, and the Italian eye was firmly wiped by the successful flight of a huge German Condor machine which arrived in Japan on the 30th November from Berlin after a journey lasting 46½ hours. In a speech on the arrival of the machine, the German Ambassador said that he hoped the flight would be the forerunner of a regular service between Germany and Japan in the near future.\n\nPage 483 \n`[483 gg-7]` \nB 2 \nPage 274", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565571, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-578-11 Sino-Japanese War- refugees 17-1-1939 - 5-12-1939", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-578-11 Sino-Japanese War- refugees 17-1-1939 - 5-12-1939", "content_text": "No. 8 9 `59/114/39`\n\nBritish boy, \nBerlin. \n15th July, 1989. \n45\n\nto\n\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit to the ... herewith copy of a statement of various expenses incurred by His Britannic Majesty's Government on behalf of certain Czechoslovak nationals admitted to Hongkong in 1937.\n\nThe sum of $1964 has already been refunded to His Majesty's Government in respect of Mr. and Mrs. Lebenhart and Mrs. Marie Lebenhart and there remains, therefore, outstanding the amount of Hongkong dollars 1964 in respect of the expenditure involved.\n\n2. In bringing the above-mentioned information to the notice of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, His Majesty's Embassy is instructed to point out that the persons in question were admitted to the refugee centres in Hongkong on the verbal assurance in each case that the Czechoslovak Consul-General would be responsible for the expenses incurred. In these circumstances, His Majesty's Embassy has the honour, under instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to request the German Government will take the necessary steps to arrange for the recovery of the sum of Hongkong dollars 1964 for eventual transmission to His Majesty's Government.\n\nMinistry for Foreign Affairs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-578-11 Sino-Japanese War- refugees 17-1-1939 - 5-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566061, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-579-10 Sino-Japanese War- quarterly reports of Japanese activities 25-1-1939 - 1-2-1940", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-579-10 Sino-Japanese War- quarterly reports of Japanese activities 25-1-1939 - 1-2-1940", "content_text": "QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE ACTIVITIES\n\nTHIRD QUARTER\n\n1939\n\n24\n\n1.\n\nDuring the quarter under review there was a distinct lull in Japanese activities in the colony.\n\n2.\n\nTAJIRI, who has acted as Consul-General since December, 1938 is leaving for Shanghai shortly to take up his position as 1st Secretary to the Japanese Embassy there. He is to be replaced in Hong Kong by Katsuo OKAZAKI, who has been acting as Consul-General in Canton since the occupation of that city by the Japanese in November, 1938. OKAZAKI has seen Consular service in Britain, Washington, Shanghai and Amoy.\n\n(ii) ODA, the local Consul, paid a hurried visit to Macau on 11/12.9.39 and left the following day for Japan.\n\n(iii) A new addition to the local Consulate staff is Naokichi KITAZAWA, who describes himself as 2nd Secretary to the Japanese Embassy in Shanghai and states he has come here to assist the local Consul-General. He lives in one of the local hotels and appears to carry on his activities from there without going near the Consulate and instead receives Consular officials daily in his room.\n\n2. The Japanese sponsored English newspaper which was reported on last quarter made its first appearance on 16.7.39 under the title \"Hong Kong News\". At present it is being published once a week but it is the proprietor's intention to make it a daily publication in the near future. Three Europeans are employed on the staff and the paper does not as yet carry any advertising matter. The earlier editions, in addition to adopting an anti-Chiang Kai Shek attitude, seemed to make a point of giving undue publicity to court cases in which British soldiers had appeared and other matters which could be described as being derogatory to the British Army. Since the signing of the German-Soviet Pact, however, the paper has been more moderate in its English sentiments although still carrying on a pro-Japanese and anti-Chiang Kai Shek", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-10 Sino-Japanese War- quarterly reports of Japanese activities 25-1-1939 - 1-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940", "content_text": "www\n\n5\n\n-\n\nis attached to the British Embassy but I am not quite\n\nThe following are\n\nclear as to what position he holds.\n\ntranslations of decoded messages he has submitted to\n\n36\n\nDavid Kung and it is seen he is very much in earnest\n\nto give as much information as he could possibly\n\nobtain not only from the British Embassy, but also from\n\nthe French, German, Italian, Holland and Portuguese\n\n14\n\nEmbassies:-\n\n19 is a translation of a letter, written\n\non British Embassy notepaper, to David Kung. In it\n\nhe submitted the views of the British Ambassador on\n\nBritain's Far East Policy in the event of an\n\nEuropean war (referring to September 1938).\n\nHe\n\nmentioned that the Ambassador had confidence in him\n\nand that if he (David Kung) required anything from\n\nhim (MA KI LEUNG) he would deem it a great pleasure,\n\nnot only for friendship but also as a duty to the\n\ncountry (China).\n\nHe ended by saying that in order to\n\nwork conveniently in Shanghai he had abandoned his\n\n73 27\n\nname of TO NAP.\n\n20 is a coded message from MA KI LEUNG\n\ndated 8.10.38 and it appears he has been given\n\ninstructions to photostat Embassy documents, but he\n\nis not quite sure, and asks for further details.\n\n21 is dated 17.10.38 and was also in\n\nsecret code to David Kung. He says that the British\n\n38 Ambassador will proceed to Hong Kong on 18.10.38 per s.s. Empress of Russia and that he (MA) will accompany\n\nhim. It is mentioned that the Ambassador had received\n\ninstructions from London to proceed to Hankow and\n\nmake enquiries about the Chinese Government's view\n\ntowards peace. MA said he would report the rest to\n\nDavid personally.\n\n22 is the translation of notes written on\n\npaper bearing the letter-head of the Hotel Nathan,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940", "content_text": "6\n\n41\n\n(No.232) Copies of correspondence between Carlowitz & Co. (address not stated) and the Central Trust of China re \"Barrel Explosions on 27.5 cm Bofors A.A. Guns\" dated 19.4.39.\n\n(No.224) Copy of telegram from T.T. Shen, Haiphong dated 18th September 1939. In French.\n\n(No.231) Copies of correspondence between D.F. Myer, Technical Adviser, Central Trust of China, Chungking, and Mr. L.K. Kung, re use of Charcoal Producer Gas for Motor Trucks. (May 1939)\n\n(No.1311) Code System for 1937-1939.\n\n(No.1305) Letter from Freiherr von STEIN, adviser, Salt Revenue, Tuyan, to Mr. L.K. Kung, 4 Hart Avenue, Kowloon, dated 20.3.39, re re-organisation of Salt Revenue Guards.\n\n(No.1001) List of \"Friends of China\" in England, China and U.S.A.\n\nSTEEL CABINET NO.2\n\nSecond Drawer. (No.4309) Letter from O. CUEVAS, The International Corporation, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York to Central Trust of China, Room 7, Hongkong re Shipment of 81 mm Trench Mortar and 500 rds. amm from New York to Rangoon by SS. DEEBANK (Dated 19.7.39)\n\n(Unnumbered) October 1938; Papers re German Barter Agreement 1934 Agreement by German Govt. to extend credit of 100 million Reichsmark to Central Bank of China to be replenished by shipment of raw materials from China to Germany.\n\n(401) Copies of telegrams to \"Sinohand Herlin\" in code (1938-1939)\n\n(No.333a) Copies of correspondence between KUNG LING KAI, Hongkong and Chinese Embassy, Washington D.C., re Financial arrangements for purchase from U.S.A. of aeroplanes and parts. (Dated 1938-1939)\n\n(No.316) Copies of correspondence between KUNG LING KAI, Central Trust of China Chungking, and MIX & GENEST, Far", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-579-7 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 4-1-1939 - 9-6-1939", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-579-7 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 4-1-1939 - 9-6-1939", "content_text": "LOSURE NO. 1 IN CANTON DESPATCH NO. 93 to EMBASSY, SHANGHAI of 9/5/39.\n\n32\n\nRE-OPENING OF PEARL RIVER.\n\nMeeting the Japanese Consul-General at the German National Day reception on May 1st, I enquired what were the prospects of the re-opening of the Pearl River. Mr. Okazaki replied that there was none in the near future. I asked him what was the real reason for this continued failure to re-open the river, to which he replied that he would tell me on some less public occasion.\n\n2. I returned to the subject in my office, where he came to see me on other matters, on May 2nd, when we discussed this matter at length. The net substance of our conversation was that his own personal opinion remained unchanged, i.e. that the balance of advantage to Japan lay in the continued closure of the Pearl River. However, in the first place, it was admitted by everybody that sooner or later the Pearl River must be re-opened. Secondly, he and his colleagues of \"the triumvirate\" (Special Service Section), i.e. Major General H. Nakano (who succeeded Col. Miyasaki), Captain Ugaki and himself felt strongly that there could be no rehabilitation of Canton until the river was opened and were therefore in favour of the immediate re-opening of the Pearl River. To them was opposed a body of opinion, who argued that the primary object of the military occupation of Canton had been to stop supplies of all kinds reaching General Chiang Kai Shek. Undoubtedly if Canton were open, supplies would filter through in both directions.\n\nMoreover, and more important, the moral effect on the Chinese forces, that Japan should herself facilitate trade with the interior, far out-weighed any advantage to Japanese trade or revenue through the rehabilitation of Canton. If there were a few people of influence...\n\nPage 32\n\n(... text would continue here if available ...)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-7 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 4-1-1939 - 9-6-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 11, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "sense\n\n>>\n\n2\n\nhimself on not knowing Chinese, he has a very thorough knowledge of every personality of importance in Chinese politics. He started life as a journalist in Australia and later became a correspondent in China for some of the most important English and American newspapers, but he has had no experience of politics in England or America, or, indeed, anywhere outside of China, and consequently has not the broad background necessary for a general political adviser. He has, however, a sense of what is right or wrong for China, which I think is often correct. His advice on the whole is probably more negative than constructive. He is in no sense an intriguer nor is he self-interested, though he naturally likes to maintain his most interesting position. He is, I am convinced, perfectly straight and honest, making nothing out of his position and doing his utmost with Madame to fight against all forms of corruption in the Administration. There is no doubt that he is a powerful factor in Chinese politics, and many people, especially foreign advisers, ambassadors and some of the anti-corruption Chinese elements, go to him to try and get things done by the Generalissimo. He describes himself as the channel for all complaints. This irregular and anomalous position that he holds naturally antagonises a number of the Chinese, amongst them T. V. Soong, with whose position I will deal later.\n\n5. It might here be appropriate to deal with the position of Madame in China. She naturally holds a very special position as the wife and confidante of the Generalissimo and as his English interpreter on all important occasions. She is a most attractive and intelligent woman with considerable drive and energy, and she has especially identified her activities with the New Life Movement in Chinese Politics. She is genuinely anxious to clean up the Administration and to make honesty and efficiency the criterion of service. She is accused by some of hypocrisy, since she has not accomplished or ordered the changes that she has recommended in her series of \"Resurgam\" articles. I have copies of these for anyone who would care to read them. These articles contain the most remarkably frank discussion of Chinese administration and have had a wide publicity in China itself. The proofs for them were corrected by the Generalissimo, who is thoroughly in sympathy with the ideas contained in them. When, however, it comes to carrying the necessary changes of personnel into effect, there is sometimes a sharp division of opinion between the Generalissimo and Madame. The former is basically influenced by the traditional feudalism of China though he is anxious to see the new China grow up with better standards, whereas Madame wants immediate and drastic reformation. She is constantly exhausting herself in this struggle and threatening to give it up as it is of no use to continue. On the last occasion on which I saw her in Hong Kong, where she was resting, she told me of all her difficulties with the Generalissimo, and said: \"You must never forget that he has a truly oriental mind.\" This means that he is prepared to agree for politeness' sake with propositions he has no intention of carrying out, that he will not get rid of old associates who are loyal to him, and that the longest way round may often seem to him to be and may, in fact, be the shortest way home.\n\n6. There is one special difficulty that affects both the Generalissimo and Madame, and that is the Soong family relations; Mme. Sun Yat-sen is in sympathy with the Communists, who are hated and feared by the Generalissimo, and she has not been allowed in Chungking in the past. Mme. Kung, the other sister, lives in Hong Kong, and is generally accused throughout China of having made herself a multi-millionairess by speculating with special knowledge in foreign exchange. T. V. Soong also lives in Hong Kong, and associates rather with Mme. Sun than with the other sisters. Mme. Chiang's one completely blind spot is for the Kung family. However much she sees and fights corruption elsewhere, as far as they are concerned her family loyalty prevents any criticism. I should say that on the whole she is a very good influence for China, though her actual powers to get things done are, I believe, overestimated. Her attitude to Great Britain, while not being one of hostility, is apt to be rather bitterly critical in the light of recent events. The only other member of the Soong family who is actively engaged in Chinese politics is the brother, T. L. Soong, who is in charge of Stores and Transport at Peiping and of whom many unsavoury stories are current.\n\n(1) Since writing the above the three Soong sisters have together gone to Chungking and made a tour of the western areas and the front lines. This is an important political rapprochement.\n\n3\n\n7. I return to the scope of my enquiry. While in Burma I was able to discuss Sino-Burmese relations with the Governor and some of his leading politicians. I was fortunate in being able to get Donald to stay one night with the Governor in Mandalay, and we had a long and useful discussion together on the situation. There has hitherto been an almost complete lack of contact between the two countries so far as the ruling powers are concerned, and this has led to a certain amount of misunderstanding and difficulty over such matters as the through road and railway. Now that the air service and road are available between the two countries, it is most desirable that a closer contact should be maintained. I have done what I could to encourage this and the Chinese are certainly prepared to do all they can to create a more friendly relationship. I think that it is most important for the future that visits should be exchanged between the important personalities in each country as soon as possible.\n\n8. The most important matters between the two countries at the moment are the questions of the Burma-Yunnan Railway and the Bhamo-Yunnan road, with which I will deal later under the Transport section. The only other outstanding matter is the question of the delimitation of the boundary over a comparatively small section in the Southern Shan States. Its importance is that the railway would pass through this area unless an unnecessary deviation were made to avoid it, and there seems to be no reason why this boundary should not be delimited forthwith and thus any present or future difficulty could be removed.\n\n9. From Mandalay we proceeded by road to Lashio, and thence we drove in a convoy of cars provided by the Chinese Government up the Burma-Yunnan Highway, visiting the Sino-American aircraft factory at Loiwing on the way. We spent one day in Paoshan and another in Talifu with Mr. Tan, the extremely capable and energetic manager of the Yunnan-Burma Highway Administration. We visited the headquarters of the Yunnan-Burma Railway construction just beyond Shia-Kwan and then flew into Kunming from Yunnan-Ni in the Generalissimo's plane which he sent for us. We inspected the training school for military aviators under American instructors at Yunnan-I.\n\n10. The whole of the aviation south and east of Chungking is under American influence, that north and west under Russian instructors and influence. The only other operating company is the Eurasia, which is half German and flies from Chungking to Hong Kong (sharing the service with the C.N.A.C.), and also to Hami, in Sinkiang, where it joins the Sino-Russian service to Moscow.\n\n11. We stayed in Kunming for five days, during which we inspected a great number of factories and other institutions, including the universities, and also interviewed the Governor and many other important people. A provincial reception committee looked after us and arranged for us to see everything we wanted to. We were provided with reports at most of the factories describing their initiation and activities. From Kunming we flew to Chungking and remained there for about three weeks, during which I spent five days in motoring to Chengtu, via Nikiang and Tseluchan, with a special view to seeing something of the Chinese Industrial Co-operative movement and also some factories along the route.\n\n12. I was fortunate enough to establish very friendly contact with the Soviet Ambassador in Chungking, with the result that I obtained a visa to visit Russia, via Sinkiang. I was particularly anxious to see something of the latter place and ascertain what was happening there. We were the first non-Chinese, other than Russians (excepting the consul at Kashgar), to visit the province for several years, and I will devote a special section of this report to that province.\n\n13. I had many opportunities for long talks with the Generalissimo, Madame, all the Ministers, many other prominent Chinese, including T. V. Soong, as well as the British Ambassador and his staff, the American Ambassador and Mr. Peck, the counsellor to the American Embassy. I also met all the prominent British commercial representatives both in Kunming and Chungking, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and many of the Canadian and American missionaries, especially at Chengtu, where the West China University is situated. I saw a great number of the young Chinese administrators and technical staff, and also a multitude of principals of universities, professors, &c. In the provincial towns I saw the Governors and their staffs and also provincial administrators, mayors, &c. As far as possible I saw everyone who was in any way concerned with the new China, and each one of them was only too anxious to give me all the information they could.\n\n[21258]\n\nB 2\n\n12", "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": 568657, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 42, "title": "CO129-582-22 Visit of Sir Stafford Cripps to China 13-12-1939 - 4-7-1940", "content_text": "2 \n\nhimself on not knowing Chinese, he has a very thorough knowledge of every personality of importance in Chinese politics. He started life as a journalist in Australia and later became a correspondent in China for some of the most important English and American newspapers, but he has had no experience of politics in England or America, or, indeed, anywhere outside of China, and consequently has not the broad background necessary for a general political adviser. He has, however, a sense of what is right or wrong for China, which I think is often correct. His advice on the whole probably more negative than constructive. He is in no sense an intriguer nor is he self-interested, though he naturally likes to maintain his most interesting position. He is, I am convinced, perfectly straight and honest, making nothing out of his position and doing his utmost with Madame to fight against all forms of corruption in the Administration. There is no doubt that he is a powerful factor in Chinese politics, and many people, especially foreign advisers, ambassadors and some of the anti-corruption Chinese elements, go to him to try and get things done by the Generalissimo. He describes himself as the channel for all complaints. This irregular and anomalous position that he holds naturally antagonises a number of the Chinese, amongst them T. V. Soong, with whose position I will deal later.\n\n5. It might here be appropriate to deal with the position of Madame in China. She naturally holds a very special position as the wife and confidante of the Generalissimo and as his English interpreter on all important occasions. She is a most attractive and intelligent woman with considerable drive and energy, and she has especially identified her activities with the New Life Movement in Chinese Politics. She is genuinely anxious to clean up the Administration and to make honesty and efficiency the criterion of service. She is accused by some of hypocrisy, since she has not accomplished or ordered the changes that she has recommended in her series of Resurgam articles. I have copies of these for anyone who would care to read them. These articles contain the most remarkably frank discussion of Chinese administration and have had a wide publicity in China itself. The proofs for them were corrected by the Generalissimo, who is thoroughly in sympathy with the ideas contained in them. When, however, it comes to carrying the necessary changes of personnel into effect, there is sometimes a sharp division of opinion between the Generalissimo and Madame. The former is basically influenced by the traditional feudalism of China though he is anxious to see the new China grow up with better standards, whereas Madame wants immediate and drastic reformation. She is constantly exhausting herself in this struggle and threatening to give it up as it is of no use to continue. On the last occasion on which I saw her in Hong Kong, where she was resting, she told me of all her difficulties with the Generalissimo, and said: You must never forget that he has a truly oriental mind. This means that he is prepared to agree for politeness sake with propositions he has no intention of carrying out, that he will not get rid of old associates who are loyal to him, and that the longest way round may often seem to him to be—and may, in fact, be—the shortest way home.\n\n6. There is one special difficulty that affects both the Generalissimo and Madame, and that is the Soong family relations; Mme. Sun Yat-sen is in sympathy with the Communists, who are hated and feared by the Generalissimo, and she has not been allowed in Chungking in the past.(2) Mme. Kung, the other sister, lives in Hong Kong, and is generally accused throughout China of having made herself a multi-millionairess by speculating with special knowledge in foreign exchange. T. V. Soong also lives in Hong Kong, and associates rather with Mme. Sun than with the other sisters. Mme. Chiang's one completely blind spot is for the Kung family. However much she sees and fights corruption elsewhere, as far as they are concerned her family loyalty prevents any criticism. I should say that on the whole she is a very good influence for China, though her actual powers to get things done are, I believe, overestimated. Her attitude to Great Britain, while not being one of hostility, is apt to be rather bitterly critical in the light of recent events. The only other member of the Soong family who is actively engaged in Chinese politics is the brother, T. L. Soong, who is in charge of Stores and Transport at Peiping and of whom many unsavoury stories are current.\n\n(1) Since writing the above the three Soong sisters have together gone to Chungking and made a tour of the western areas and the front lines. This is an important political rapprochement.\n\n7. I return to the scope of my enquiry. While in Burma I was able to discuss Sino-Burmese relations with the Governor and some of his leading politicians. I was fortunate in being able to get Donald to stay one night with the Governor in Mandalay, and we had a long and useful discussion together on the situation. There has hitherto been an almost complete lack of contact between the two countries so far as the ruling powers are concerned, and this has led to a certain amount of misunderstanding and difficulty over such matters as the through road and railway. Now that the air service and road are available between the two countries, it is most desirable that a closer contact should be maintained. I have done what I could to encourage this and the Chinese are certainly prepared to do all they can to create a more friendly relationship. I think that it is most important for the future that visits should be exchanged between the important personalities in each country as soon as possible.\n\n8. The most important matters between the two countries at the moment are the questions of the Burma-Yunnan Railway and the Bhamo-Yunnan road, with which I will deal later under the Transport section. The only other outstanding matter is the question of the delimitation of the boundary over a comparatively small section in the Southern Shan States. Its importance is that the railway would pass through this area unless an unnecessary deviation were made to avoid it, and there seems to be no reason why this boundary should not be delimited forthwith and thus any present or future difficulty could be removed.\n\n9. From Mandalay we proceeded by road to Lashio, and thence we drove in a convoy of cars provided by the Chinese Government up the Burma-Yunnan Highway, visiting the Sino-American aircraft factory at Loiwing on the way. We spent one day in Paoshan and another in Talifu with Mr. Tan, the extremely capable and energetic manager of the Yunnan-Burma Highway Administration. We visited the headquarters of the Yunnan-Burma Railway construction just beyond Shia-Kwan and then flew into Kunming from Yunnan-Ni in the Generalissimo's plane which he sent for us. We inspected the training school for military aviators under American instructors at Yunnan-I.\n\n10. The whole of the aviation south and east of Chungking is under American influence, that north and west under Russian instructors and influence. The only other operating company is the Eurasia, which is half German and flies from Chungking to Hong Kong (sharing the service with the C.N.A.C.), and also to Hami, in Sinkiang, where it joins the Sino-Russian service to Moscow.\n\n11. We stayed in Kunming for five days, during which we inspected a great number of factories and other institutions, including the universities, and also interviewed the Governor and many other important people. A provincial reception committee looked after us and arranged for us to see everything we wanted to. We were provided with reports at most of the factories describing their initiation and activities. From Kunming we flew to Chungking and remained there for about three weeks, during which I spent five days in motoring to Chengtu, via Nikiang and Tseluchan, with a special view to seeing something of the Chinese Industrial Co-operative movement and also some factories along the route.\n\n12. I was fortunate enough to establish very friendly contact with the Soviet Ambassador in Chungking, with the result that I obtained a visa to visit Russia, via Sinkiang. I was particularly anxious to see something of the latter place and ascertain what was happening there. We were the first non-Chinese, other than Russians (excepting the consul at Kashgar), to visit the province for several years, and I will devote a special section of this report to that province.\n\n13. I had many opportunities for long talks with the Generalissimo, Madame, all the Ministers, many other prominent Chinese, including T. V. Soong, as well as the British Ambassador and his staff, the American Ambassador and Mr. Peck, the counsellor to the American Embassy. I also met all the prominent British commercial representatives both in Kunming and Chungking, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and many of the Canadian and American missionaries, especially at Chengtu, where the West China University is situated. I saw a great number of the young Chinese administrators and technical staff, and also a multitude of principals of universities, professors, &c. In the provincial towns I saw the Governors and their staffs and also provincial administrators, mayors, &c. As far as possible I saw everyone who was in any way concerned with the new China, and each one of them was only too anxious to give me all the information I\n\n[21258]\n\nB 2\n\n61", "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": 580541, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 232, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "245\n\nOpposition was nevertheless strong in K.M.T. Left Wing Circles, and the Chinese in the Philippines are particularly active in fostering anti-British Imperialism agitation. Chinese politicians had to take all this into account in their public speeches. There was a lot of manoeuvring for political influence, but Kuo seemed to be confident that a liberal British attitude, if firmly expressed, would meet with an understanding and liberal attitude. That was the feeling of Chang K'ai-shek and of all intellectual leaders. Opposition was confined to ultra-nationalists and partisan politicians and could be overruled if we played our hand well.\n\nRegarding Hong Kong University, its development on a scale which would prove really helpful to China, as well as to British prestige, could be a fine \"bridge\" and a great offset to political disappointments. It could be \"played up\" and could drown a lot of discord. But even here, approaches should be carefully made. Hu Shih is set on making a success of the re-establishment of the Universities of Central China and Kuo tells me that he and other old Professors now in Government Service are being assured of a welcome by Hu Shih if political changes force them to leave. The Chinese Ministry of Education and the Professors would all welcome a high-grade University of Hong Kong, where Kuo says roundly only the Faculty of Medicine was up to the highest standard. But here again, approach is tricky. Dr. Chu Chia-hua, the Minister of Education (a German-educated, incisive man, brainy and a good administrator) would probably favour co-operation. But he belongs to a different wing of the K.M.T. politically and if co-operation was initially and too warmly sponsored by Yang Shih-chieh, and Fan Li-wu, who are notably pro-British, Dr. Chu (who is primarily an Elder Statesman of the K.M.T. and a Party Leader) might, from political perversity, and egged on by the Filipinos, come out in opposition.\n\n7\n\nNevertheless, Mr. Sloss tells us that he was much encouraged by Chu Chia-hua and my own recollection of him is that of a really big man outstanding among his colleagues for directness and force of character, tinged however by Prussian rigidity and Political Warfare.\n\nKuo volunteered the hope that Hong Kong would develop a Chair for the study of Economics and International problems in the Far East in the U.N.O. spirit, for which he said there was great need (a similar suggestion was made in one of our Reports).\n\nTo sum up, I am tending to the opinion that although we should be well advised to go ahead as soon as possible in repairing existing buildings, equipment and collecting staff and students in Hong Kong to bring the University up to local pre-war level (and I gather this would take two years), no really ambitious plans on the scale advocated by some of the HKUAC members should be publicly ventilated until we find out whether they are likely to be encouraged or opposed in China. If the Foreign Office shies off, why not depute Sloss, plus a colleague, to explore the ground, with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the Embassy in China to whom the kudos could go if the exploration were successful, or would affect indifference, if the amelioration at the...", "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": 580544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 235, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "Opposition was nevertheless strong in K.M.T. Left Wing Circles, and the Chinese in the Philippines are particularly active in fostering anti-British Imperialism agitation. Chinese politicians had to take all this into account in their public speeches. There was a lot of manoeuvring for political influence, but Kuo seemed to be confident that a liberal British attitude, if firmly expressed, would meet with an understanding and liberal attitude. That was the feeling of Chiang Kai-shek and of all intellectual leaders. Opposition was confined to ultra-nationalists and partisan politicians and could be overruled if we played our hand well.\n\nRegarding Hong Kong University, its development on a scale which would prove really helpful to China, as well as to British prestige, could be a fine \"Bridge\" and a great offset to political disappointments. It could be \"played up\" and could drown a lot of discord. But even here, approaches should be carefully made. Hu Shih is set on making a success of the re-establishment of the Universities of Central China and Kuo tells me that he and other old Professors now in Government Service are being assured of a welcome by Hu Shih if political changes force them to leave. The Chinese Ministry of Education and the Professors would all welcome a high-grade University of Hong Kong, where Kuo says roundly only the School of Medicine was up to the highest standard. But here again the approach is tricky. Dr. Chu Chia-Lua, the Minister of Education (a German-educated, incisive man, brainy and a good administrator) would probably favour co-operation. But he belongs to a different wing of the K.M.T. politically and if co-operation was initially and too warmly sponsored by Yang Shih-chieh and Han Li-wu, who are notably pro-British, Dr. Chu (who is primarily an astute Statesman of the K.M.T. and a Party Leader) might from political perversity, and egged on by the Filipinos, come out in opposition.\n\nNevertheless, Mr. Sloss tells us that he was much encouraged by Chu Chia-Lua and my own recollection of him is that of a really big man outstanding among his colleagues for directness and force of character, tinged however by Prussian rigidity and Political warfare.\n\nKuo volunteered the hope that Hong Kong would develop a Chair for the study of Economics and International problems in the Far East in the U.N.O. spirit, for which he said there was great need (a similar suggestion was made in one of our Reports).\n\nTo sum up, I am tending to the opinion that although we should be well advised to go ahead as soon as possible in repairing existing buildings, equipment and collecting staff and students in Hong Kong to bring the University up to local pre-war level (and I gather this would take two years), no really ambitious plans on the scale advocated by some of the HKUAC members should be publicly ventilated until we find out whether they are likely to be encouraged or opposed in China. If the Foreign Office shies off, why not depute Sloss, plus a colleague, to explore the ground, with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the Embassy in China to whom the finishing touches and the kudos could go if the exploration were successful. They could affect indifference, if the exploration were unsuccessful.", "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": 580959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "114 \n\nOpposition was nevertheless strong in K.M.T. Left Wing Circles, and the Chinese in the Philippines are particularly active in festering anti-British Imperialism agitation; Chinese politicians had to take all this into account in their public speeches. There was a lot of manoeuvering for political influence, but Kuo seemed to be confident that a liberal British attitude, if firmly expressed, would meet with an understanding and liberal attitude. That was the feeling of Chiang Kai-shek and of all intellectual leaders. Opposition was confined to ultra-nationalists and partisan politicians and could be over-ruled if we played our hand well.\n\nRegarding Hong Kong University, its development on a scale which would prove really helpful to China, as well as to British prestige, could be a fine \"Bridge\" and a great offset to political disappointments. It could be \"played up\" and could drown a lot of discord. But even here, approaches should be carefully made. Hu Shih is set on making a success of the re-establishment of the Universities of Central China and Kuo tells me that he and other old Professors now in Government Service are being assured of a welcome by Hu Shih if political changes force them to leave. The Chinese Ministry of Education and the Professors would all welcome a high-grade University of Hong Kong, where Kuo says roundly - only the School of Medicine was up to the highest standard. But here again the approach is tricky. Dr. Chu Chia-Lua, the Minister of Education (a German-educated, incisive man, brainy and a good administrator) would probably favour co-operation. But he belongs to a different wing of the K.M.T. politically and if co-operation was initially and too warmly sponsored by Yang Shih-chieh and Han Li-u, who are notably pro-British, Dr. Chu (who is primarily an Elder Statesman of the K.M.T. and a Party Leader) might from political perversity, and egged on by the Filipinos, come out in opposition.\n\nNevertheless, Mr. Sloss tells us that he was much encouraged by Chu Chia-Lua and my own recollection of him is that of a really big man outstanding among his colleagues for directness and force of character, tinged however by Prussian rigidity and Political Warfare.\n\nKuo volunteered the hope that Hong Kong would develop a Chair for the study of Economics and International problems in the Far East in the U.N.O. spirit, for which he said there was great need (a similar suggestion was made in one of our Reports).\n\nTo sum up, I am tending to the opinion that although we should be well advised to go ahead as soon as possible in repairing existing buildings, equipment and collecting staff and students in Hong Kong to bring the University up to local pre-war level (and I gather this would take two years), no really ambitious plans on the scale advocated by some of the HKUAC members should be publicly ventilated until we find out whether they are likely to be encouraged or opposed in China. Why not depute Sloss, plus a colleague, to explore the ground, with the blessing of the Foreign Office and the Embassy in China - to whom the finishing touches could go if the exploration were successful. They could affect indifference, if the exploration were unsuccessful.\n\n/Personally", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]