[ { "id": 239243, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "202\n\nthey\n\nbuildings\n\nLA\n\nof\n\nought to be in the same range as the Court. The Judges' Chambers are in Serjeants' Inn, near the Courts at Westminster and Guildhall. As for Colonial Judicatures other than that of this Court, we know nothing. For ourselves, we would beg leave to disclaim any discontent with the present arrangements, nor are we sensible of the \"immense inconvenience\" to which we have been unwillingly subjected. The books of reference required in matters heard in Chambers are generally very few and can always be taken there without inconvenience in turn by the Clerks.\n\nWe hardly think it necessary for us to remark on the alleged notorious insalubrity and unsheltered state of the road leading to the private residence of your Excellency.\n\nThere is one other point included in this second head of complaint, namely the hour at which the sittings of the Court are held. Two of our number consider the hour of 12 and that of 10 to be preferable. Whether it is altogether inexpedient, nor can we see in what manner \"it is unfair to the suitors, to the witnesses, to the professional advisers and the Prisoners.\" The suitors and witnesses are, we should imagine, well able to attend to their several matters of business in the morning.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288835, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "206\n\n812\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH. [Nov. 18, 1872]\n\nNOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence. Whatever is intended for insertion must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.\n\nA REGISTER is kept of the addresses of all persons connected with the FAR EAST and reference can be made to the same by personal application at the Office or by letter.\n\nAny Information required by Subscribers in reference to Commercial or general matters in CHINA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, and other parts of the Far East will be supplied on application at the Office, where files may be seen of the Journals published in those Countries.\n\nLONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS is published weekly on the day of departure of the mails, and contains a summary of English, Continental, and American News, Commercial and Shipping Reports, &c. Subscription, £2 8s. per annum.\n\nThe LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH is published weekly on the arrival of the English and French mails. Subscription, £2 2s. per annum.\n\nJAMES WEST, PUBLISHER,\n\n2, COWPER'S-COURT, CORNHILL, LONDON.\n\nThe London & China Telegraph.\n\nLONDON: MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1872.\n\nCEYLON AND ITS COFFEE.\n\nIt is a remarkable circumstance how frequently those most accustomed to the commerce of a country are apt to be deceived, and to deceive themselves as to the probable out-turn of the year's operations—the more especially if the commerce in question be the result of agricultural enterprise. This, we presume, is not more the case as regards Ceylon than other countries. But as it is the Cinnamon Isle, as it was formerly called,—it should be the Coffee Isle now—with which we have at present to deal, a few words on the fallacies which generally prevail till the season closes will not be out of place.\n\nThe coffee crop of the past season was very deficient; like every other growing crop this one depends much on the weather, first at the blossoming and afterwards during the filling of the bean. A very good blossom may blow and set, exciting high hopes of a splendid crop, and yet too much wet immediately after setting may perish it, while too much drought may do the same.\n\nAgain, when the berry is filling, chiefly from June to August, a long drought may prevent the filling, and thereby greatly diminish the crop. A cursory observer, passing through a coffee district during the flowering time, seeing every plantation white with its jessamine blossoms, retires possessed with the impression that there are to be magnificent crops. This idea he hugs and believes because, as he thinks, he has seen the crop on the trees. Sad delusion! It must not only be fairly set, but the bean well filled, before a blossom can ever be reckoned on as safe.\n\nNow both the drawbacks above named—a loss of blossom from unseasonable weather in the spring, and a loss of crop from the failure of the monsoon rains in their season—have fallen to the lot of the Ceylon coffee planter this year, and of course he cannot help crying out.\n\nBut will any one believe him? No. The Colombo merchant first, and the London merchant afterwards, rebut the assertion, and think he is only crying \"wolf\" to suit his own purpose, and to force the market up—and they employ all their influence as a counter lever to press the market down.\n\nNo doubt there is a difficulty in arriving at a certain estimate of the crop of a country like Ceylon, where interests are so divided, dispersed, and detached; where also a considerable quantity of crop is raised by natives, some of whom keep no accounts, while others decline to supply the necessary information.\n\nTHE CASE OF THE \"DOLPHIN\" AT BANGKOK.\n\nTHE Government of the United States and its representatives have generally been so conciliatory and moderate in their intercourse with the nations with which we have relations in the Far East, that it is with no less surprise than regret that we observe the singular deviation from this principle in the case of the Dolphin.\n\nThis vessel, an American schooner, commanded by Captain T. S. ANDREWS, was detained by the Siamese Government in consequence of the non-payment of the firewood-tax, on entering the Patlak Cro-k.\n\nAfter careful perusal of the case, as reported in the Siam Advertiser, we are unable to come to any other conclusion than that the commander of the Dolphin wilfully disregarded the signals of the native tax-collector to stop.\n\nIn his evidence Captain ANDREWS says that he could not have stopped her because of her headway and the strength of the tide—a statement which contrasts strangely with the fact that the Siamese (only five or six in number) boarded her, and did actually stop her, and anchor her there and then.\n\nNo sort of violence seems to have been used on either side. Even Captain ANDREWS, who represents himself as being so very much aggrieved by the \"seizure of his ship, and who went on shore at once, \"intending to go to the United States Consul,\" did not carry out that reasonable intention, but stopped at a rice mill, from which he returned on board his own ship with two gentlemen and a lady!\n\nThus reinforced, Captain ANDREWS—this is his own statement—secured the officer who had boarded his vessel, and then went to his house and asked for his wife, who was, fortunately for her, from home.\n\nThis, as we have mentioned, is Captain ANDREWS's own statement. The charge against him, we should also state, was that he attempted to seize and carry off the officer, his wife, and children.\n\nThat he had recaptured his ship, which was seized for firewood-tax, was another and separate charge.\n\nIt is also matter of dispute whether the United States flag was flying on the schooner at the time she was summoned, and stopped.\n\nIt is however clear that no serious inconvenience was caused to anybody—though it is not explained why the wood-tax was not accounted for—and we are therefore greatly surprised to find that the United States Government should have despatched the corvette Iroquois to Siam for \"an explanation.\"\n\nOf course we all know what this means—and the Siamese Government, under pressure of this very convincing reason for giving way, tried the case, and condemned themselves, or their officials, to pay $100 to Captain ANDREWS who, we may presume, congratulates himself on a small triumph.\n\nSuch, however, we think our readers will agree not exceed 500,000 cwt., while others believed it would at least be 800,000 cwt.\n\nThe highest of these, however, would be still 200,000 cwt. below the average of the past five years, or just 20 per cent. But all were agreed that they would be short.\n\nStill it appears not to have been believed in London—for reports continued to come out to Ceylon, \"Large shipments from Brazil,\" \"Fall in Continental markets,\" \"Reduce limits,\" \"Price down 2s. to 3s.,\" &c., &c.\n\nNow this seems to be a species of short-sighted suicidal policy which always defeats its own end.\n\nThe season is finished now, and no doubt a good many fingers are itching for the profits that could have been made had they gone in boldly and bought at the market figures a few months ago.\n\nSo far back as August last, while the London market was being borne down, we warned buyers that the crop would soon close; and that we doubted then if it would exceed 750,000 cwt.\n\nThe commercial season ended on 30th September, and the total export did not exceed 758,000 cwt.! This is very nearly a quarter of a million hundredweights under the average production.\n\nOther coffee-producing countries were also proportionally short, as the following figures show:—\n\nBrazil deficiency ... 1,000,000 cwt.\n\nJava deficiency ... 800,000 cwt.\n\nCeylon deficiency... 250,000 cwt.\n\nTotal 2,050,000 cwt.\n\nThis is without reckoning India, which was also short. It is also irrespective of the West Indian colonies, which are likely to have suffered from the same influences as those that affected Brazil.\n\nThis is a lamentable deficiency, and the fact is deplorable as regards those who must be the chief sufferers—the growers of the article.\n\nIt is a fact, nevertheless, which must be looked in the face, and should be kept steadily in view by those who contemplate investing either in the produce in question, or in the description of property that yields it.\n\nThe removal of the duty in America, too, ought to advantage the grower and the exporter; for, although the abolition of that duty extends only to coffee imported in American bottoms, still America must have a certain quantity of coffee; and even if she import this quantity all from Brazil, and does not take an ounce of Ceylon coffee from Europe, whatever quantity she so receives, relieves the European market to that extent.\n\nWe understand that the appointment of Mr. ALBERT COATES, a partner in the firm of Messrs. KER and Co., as acting Consul at Manila, during the absence of Mr. Rickett, has been approved by the Foreign-office.\n\nThe Consulate at Saigon is still represented by Mr. HAUSCHILD, a partner in Messrs. W G. HALE and Co., and no appointment for a fixed paid Consul can be made, until the cost has been passed in the next estimates.\n\nAs the non-receipt at Brindisi of letters from England, often causes annoyance to passengers proceeding to the East by the Italian route, we think it well to notify that, although the India and China mail does not leave London until Friday evening, letters intended to catch passengers at Brindisi should be posted for the Wednesday evening mail.\n\n813\n\nIt need hardly be said that the British Colonies have never received any immigrants from Macao, but always obtained them, under proper restrictions, from Hong Kong or the Treaty ports.\n\nThe Macao traffic, although it promised to be one of the best correctives of the evils complained of, had to be abandoned, while the Macao traffic is still vigorously carried on.\n\nThe following fact illustrates the working of the immigration.\n\nOn the 4th of September last the steamship Exmore left British Guiana, with over 600 immigrants (including children) on board, returning to their native country, India or China.\n\nThey carried with them property in cash and jewellery, which, divided among the adults, shows an average of more than £50 sterling per head.\n\nNow these people came to the colony as indentured immigrants, and were employed in agricultural labour.\n\nWhen their first contracts ran out, they either re-engaged or employed themselves in other ways by which they could make money.\n\nAt the end of ten years the Indian coolies became entitled to a free return passage, and they went back, not destitute and miserable, as when they found themselves on board ship bound for the colony, but independent and manly in their bearing, and possessed of an amount of wealth that the English agricultural labourer rarely obtains after a whole lifetime of painful toil.\n\nThe British Consul at Havana writing on the subject says:—\n\nChinese labour has not been altogether a success in Cuba. On some small sugar estates, and among the tobacco-fields, the Chinese coolie does well enough; but he cannot work as hard as the negro, nor indeed as the Indian coolie used to work on Jamaica estates.\n\nMost of the Chinese brought to Cuba are at the lowest and feeblest type of the inferior races, such as swarm about Macao, Batavia, and Singapore, &c., and they are rarely of sinewy frame, nor much physical strength; nor have they the endurance of the Indian coolie.\n\nChinese immigration, as it is carried on here, is so faulty that it can never lead to a successful colonisation of Cuba.\n\nThe mistaken policy of the Government, as exhibited in the treatment of these colonists, must end in their refusal to come here.\n\nThe condition of obligatory and continuous servitude to which they are now subjected, if they desire to remain in Cuba, after the completion of their primitive contract, is tantamount to slavery; and it is contrary to common sense to suppose that free men will voluntarily submit to it.\n\nThe Chinese emigrant, therefore, to be induced to come here, must either do so in a fit of desperation, or he must be imposed upon; and a traffic which is based upon deceit, and which subjects him to life-long drudgery under the worst of systems, can scarcely be designated by any other name than that of Slave Trade.\n\nTHE Japanese Ambassadors with their suite, accompanied by General ALEXANDER, Sir HARRY PARKES, and Mr. ASTON, returned to London on the 9th, too late, however, for the banquet at Guildhall, to which they had been invited.\n\nThey will take their leave of Her MAJESTY next week, and leave for Paris, making a tour through France, and thence proceed to Germany and Russia.\n\nTHE report in China that the steamers of the Messageries Company were likely to call at Naples, on their way to Marseilles is incorrect; the statement that the steamers of this company and of the P. and O. Company would call at Nagasaki is also incorrect.\n\nThe Time-tables for 1873 will shortly be issued.\n\nADMIRAL DUPRE, Governor of Cochin China, who, as stated in our last issue, has left France on his return to Saigon, is the bearer of a letter from M. THIERS to the King of SIAM, in reply to the congratulations of the latter to the President of the Republic.\n\nVISCOUNT BRENIER DE MONTMORAND, formerly Consul-General for France at Shanghai, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili.\n\nTHE COOLIE TRADE.\n\nIt cannot be denied that proper regulations, which will prevent vagrancy, and which will organise labour, are absolutely necessary in Cuba, where there are labourers of distinct races and conditions; but these regulations should all have a decided tendency towards preparing these classes for speedy and complete emancipation.\n\nThe law of 28th June, 1870, does not hasten the freedom of the slaves in this island.\n\nIt virtually postpones emancipation for twenty-two years, and, in the meantime, it closes the door to any feasible arrangement for the introduction of free labourers.\n\nThe Chinese under contract here are, with, perhaps, a very few exceptions, treated pretty much as slaves, and with the compulsory engagements now before them, or the sorry alternative of seeking a home elsewhere, there can be no inducement for them to come here.\n\nIf they are treated in such a manner when everything should be done by the Spanish Government to further free emigration to Cuba, it would appear as if no means were left untried to render such emigration unpalatable and repulsive.\n\nBy the mail just received from the West Indies we have the account of another departure from Demerara of time-expired coolies.\n\nThe Rohilla, of London, was embarking 257 men, 79 women, 31 boys, 23 girls, 16 infants—total 406; Chinese, 21 men, 22 women, 6 boys, 6 girls, 3 infants—total 58; grand total, 464.\n\nThe money deposited by the coolies in the Immigration Office for transmission to Calcutta amounted to £47,642.64.\n\nBesides this there was the usual quantity of personal jewellery, amounting in value to a considerable sum.\n\nSIAM.\n\nTHE Committee of the Diplomatic and Consular Enquiry had before them for examination Mr. HENRY ALABASTER, who served for many years in the Consulate at Bangkok as Interpreter, Vice-Consul, and for a short time as Acting Consul, and in the latter capacity he so displeased the Foreign Office in his conduct towards the Siamese that he is now practically discharged from the service.\n\nThe Secretary of the West India Committee has addressed a letter to The Times, in which he says:—\n\nThe stoppage of Chinese immigration in 1866 requires a word of explanation.\n\nIt occurred, not because the Chinese Government withdrew its permission, or was dissatisfied with the treatment of the immigrants, but because it was induced to impose certain provisions which would have greatly increased the expense of the immigration.\n\nIn his evidence he states that the Staff at Bangkok is unnecessarily large, that a Consul, a Vice-Consul, at from £500 rising to £800, and one Assistant, at £250 rising to £400, would be a sufficient staff without Student Interpreters.\n\nThat a medical officer was not now necessary, although very essential in the early days of the Consulate.\n\nSir CHARLES DILKE, one of the Committee, asked:—\n\n1101\n\nNov. 18, 1872.\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "I beg to trouble Your Lordship with a repetition of what I then wrote, but I would crave permission to refer to my promise letter and venture to support my present application, on the grounds therein set out.\n\nWeary of comparative idleness (for, though I duly went through circuit and _dossiers_ and attended Westminster and Guildhall, I need hardly say I was not overburdened with work) and also feeling the necessity of canvassing some addition to my perennial means - after seven years' sojourn in England, I made a precipitate start and returned here last March. I submit, however, that my long absence is more in my favour than the contrary, as it has given me the advantage of such additional experience in the study, practice, and administration of the law, and it has also greatly served my local connections.\n\nI have submitted testimonials from A. E. Fletcher and I can also refer Your Lordship to a gentleman of high reputation, well known at the Foreign Office (and doubtless Your Lordship also) as having been Roundell Palmer's colleague at Geneva - Mr. Arthur Cohen of the Home Circuit - for his opinion.\n\nMy call to the Irish Bar in 1850 and that to the English Bar in 1868 are testimonials to my capabilities.\n\nI have the honour to be \nYour Lordship's \nhumble Obedient Servant \nM. M. Aming... \n\n## Page 274\n## Page 137", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "378 \n\nJust send them. I think consideration on face is not possible that I delivered a letter which I kept them as a suggestion to the Twentymen. I have been kind enough to make changes of arrangement. \n\nFor instructions on how to proceed subsequently sent me a letter which I enclose. It appears I was requested to go to the Guildhall where I went over Sanfield schools and attended the Conference on the latest methods in schools. Accordingly I went to Birmingham where I called at the Board...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390966, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "POOLEY v. WHETHAM,\n\nJuly, 1880.\n\n12\n\nCHANCERY DIVISION AND COURT OF APPEAL\n\nL.R. 15 Ch. Div. (1880) 435; 30 L.J. Ch. 236.\n\nOn 20th September, 1879, an attachment was issued by the High Court against Pooley for disobedience of an order of the Court in a civil action. On 27th September a petition in bankruptcy was filed, and Pooley was adjudicated bankrupt on 22nd October, and he soon afterwards left England. On 13th May, 1880, the trustee obtained permission to prosecute Pooley for offences against bankruptcy law. Pooley was arrested in Paris on 1st June on a warrant issued on 22nd May. On 7th June an order was obtained to lodge the writ of attachment with the Governor of Newgate, and that Pooley when released from the criminal charge should be handed over to the Governor of Holloway Prison until he had purged his contempt. On 28th June, Pooley was discharged by the Guildhall Magistrate in respect of the charges in the warrant, and he was then taken to Holloway.\n\nCHANCERY DIVISION.\n\nHe applied (9th July) to Vice-Chancellor BACON to discharge him. The motion was refused with costs.\n\nCOURT OF APPEAL.\n\nFrom this order he appealed; and the Court, after hearing evidence, Held: Disobedience of an order of the High Court of Justice in a civil action, though a contempt of Court, is not an \"offence\" within the meaning of section 19 of the Extradition Act; and Pooley was therefore not entitled to his discharge until his contempt had been purged. If a warrant under the Extradition Act is obtained, not for the bona fide purpose of punishing a person for a crime, but with the indirect object of making him amenable to an attachment in a civil action, it will be an abuse of the process of the Court, and the attachment will be set aside.\n\nR. v. JACOBI AND HILLER.\n\nGermany.\n\n3rd March, 1881.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH: Pollock, B., and STEPHEN, J.\n\n46 L.T. (N.S.) 595, footnote.\n\nOn 23rd September, 1880, prisoners sent from Amsterdam a letter to Heininger & Co., Mayence, ordering furniture to be sent to Amsterdam. Heininger's agent called on them, and prisoners made certain alleged false statements. Furniture was supplied, sent by ordinary carrying agents to Amsterdam; it was not paid for, but was removed to England, and prisoners absconded to England. Warrants were issued at Mayence in December for the arrest of the prisoners, setting forth that they were \"suspected of fraud\" by having, with intent to procure illegal pecuniary profit, and by a promise of payment given in writing falsely and in bad faith, induced Heininger to forward furniture, thus causing pecuniary prejudice to the said firm.\n\n13\n\nThey were committed for extradition for \"obtaining goods by false pretences\"; and on application for rules nisi for writs of habeas corpus, it was\n\nContended: That if any offence had been committed it was in Holland and not in Germany; and that the German warrant of arrest was bad for insufficiency, as it did not state upon its face that the crime charged was the extradition offence of obtaining goods by false pretences, but set out a mere fraud which could be substantiated without proving a single false pretence for which they could be indicted in England; such mere fraud was not an extradition offence in the treaty.\n\nHeld: That the offence was committed in Germany, the property being actually parted with at Mayence: and that (referring to ex parte Terraz) the warrant was sufficient.\n\nPer POLLOCK, B.-It seems to me that upon all the sound principles the course of dealing of the prisoners was an obtaining of the goods in Mayence under false pretences: and the Magistrate decided upon evidence contained in those letters, which clearly show that there was false pretence, and that under those circumstances the offence was committed.\n\n(See ex parte Terras, L.R. 1 Ex. D. 63; 48 L.J. Ex. 214; 14 Cox C.C. 153; 39 L.T. (N.S.) 502; 27 W.R. 170; and R. v. Nillins, 53 L.J.M.C. 157; and In re Arton, L.R. Q.B.D. 1896 (1) 509; 65 L.J.M.C, 50; 18 Cox C.C. 277; 60 J.P. 132.)\n\nR. v. LAVAUDIER AND OTHERS.\n\nBelgium.\n\n24th August, 1881.\n\nQUEEN'S BENCH: CAVE and KAY, JJ.\n\n15 Cox C.C. 329.\n\n(Head note in Cox's Reports: \"To satisfy a Magistrate in committing a prisoner charged with an extradition crime, under section 10 there must be some evidence that the prisoner committed such crime within the jurisdiction of the country seeking extradition.\")\n\nOn the night of the 3rd-4th June, 1881, a burglary was committed in Brussels. These prisoners had been seen before the 3rd June in London with the person who subsequently brought the stolen goods from Belgium, who had been seen in Brussels at the time of the commission of the burglary. These prisoners pledged the stolen goods in London. They were committed for extradition for receiving and being accessories after the fact to the burglary.\n\nHeld: That there was no evidence at all to show that the accused were guilty of receiving these stolen goods in Belgium, though there was strong evidence of receiving stolen goods in England, and prisoners were discharged.\n\n(See R. v. Nillins, 53 L.J.M.C. 157; and R. v. Jacobi and Hiller, 46 L.T. (N.S.) 595, footnote.)\n\n513", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391211, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 172, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government)\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n168\n\n[June 4.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 12.) My Lord,\n\nConsul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received June 4.)\n\nCanton, April 29, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copy of a despatch which I have this day addressed to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking regarding a proposal to invite French co-operation in suppressing the Kwangsi rebellion.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1,\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General Scott to Mr. Townley.\n\nCanton, April 29, 1903. I HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a telegram which appeared yesterday in the \"Hong Kong Daily Press,\" according to which it would appear that the Governor of the Province of Kwangsi, feeling himself unable to repress the rebellion in his district, proposes to invite the assistance of the French military forces.\n\nI have made confidential inquiries into the truth of this report; and to-day the Viceroy has assured me that no such intention has ever existed. French military co-operation has, however, been proffered, but always courteously declined.\n\nWhatever the situation may be, it is well known that recently the French have been strengthening their native levies in Tonking by additions of European troops from Saigon.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nTelegram from the \"Hong Kong Daily Press.\"\n\nA MASS meeting of Southern Chinese was held here yesterday, and a committee meeting at the Canton Guildhall to-day, to protest against Governor Wang's reported intention to invite the French to assist in repressing the rebellion in Kwangsi.\n\nShanghae, April 26, 1903.\n\n[2020 d-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394261, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "not... \n\n• 3 \n\n* \n\nའ་ \n\n249 \n\nground \n\nd that the vessel is \n\ncarrying \n\ncontraband of wa \n\nam however to invite \n\nhis Lordship's attention to the \n\n\" \n\ncase of the Chittenham \" ( a report \n\nwhich appeared in the Time \n\nof the 10th instant ) viz Mr Alderman \n\nBout See 19756 General \n\nas to decision of High Court, on this case- \n\n50 \n\nSmallman at the Guildhall Police \n\ndamages \n\nbourt, upheld a claim for damages \n\nmade \n\na member of the crew of \n\nby o \n\nthe captured vessel, on the ground \n\nthat the Owners should have \n\ninformed the crew that the vessel \n\nwas \n\ncarrying \n\ncontraband \n\n89 \n\nof war, and \n\nthat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394654, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nThe Secretary for Justice,\n\nAttorney General's Office,\n\nHongkong.\n\nMerchant Service.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nStubbs, Registrar,\n\nCollies 187.\n\nMr. Antrobus,\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nMr. Lucas.\n\nMr. Graham,\n\nSir M. Kennaway.\n\nThe Duke of Marlborough.\n\nMr. Lyttelton.\n\nWB & L-6000-12-01.\n\nDraft.\n\n43094.\n\nGuildhall.\n\n640.\n\n30 Dec 1902.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant with regard to the composition of the Court of the Marine Magistrate at Hongkong.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 150, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "10\n\nthe schools. The ceremony lasted till the afternoon. Admittance was by tickets, of which only 200 or 300 were issued.\n\nSHANSI.\n\nOpening; English Missionaries take part in Ceremony. The provincial assembly was opened at Tai-yuan-fu on the 14th October, with considerable ceremony, in a special building, the erection of which was still uncompleted. The foreigners, mostly English missionaries and professors resident in Tai-yuan-fu, were invited to be present, and were formally introduced to the eighty-six members, who are favourably commented upon as men of education and standing. The president, Liang Shanchi, a Han-lin graduate, has a high reputation in Shansi, and his tendencies may be judged from the fact that he has sent his son to study engineering in the Birmingham University.\n\nSpeeches of Governor and Treasurer.-After the assembly was declared open by the governor in a formal address which was read for him, the provincial treasurer (who is now the governor as a result of the moves caused by Tuan-fang's downfall) made a carefully prepared speech, the object of which appeared to be to impress upon the members the limited nature of their powers. Congratulatory speeches were then made by Dr. Edwards, an English missionary, and a Japanese professor, and these were followed by a tactful address from the president inviting attention to the importance of the occasion in the political history of Shansi and China, thanking the Throne for the gift of popular representation, and specially recognising the debt A dinner of due to England \"the friend of China and the mother of Parliaments.\" forty covers closed the proceedings.\n\nDebates; Opium Question; Conflict of Opinion between Provincial and Central Governments.-The debates of the Shansi assembly are said to be conducted well and intelligently. One attended by some foreigners towards the end of October was on the opium question, in regard to which a difference of opinion had arisen between the province and the central Government. The thorough enforcement of the opium prohibition in Shansi by the provincial Government had caused a serious falling off in the revenue derived from opium, and the local bureau affected brought influence to bear upon the Board of Finance in Peking to overrule the provincial legislation against the importation of opium from other provinces. This, it seems, the Board of Finance attempted to do, and the province naturally hold that if they are forbidden to cultivate, it is unreasonable to ask them to keep an open market for opium from other provinces. The assembly and the provincial Government are at one in opposing the action of the Board of Finance.\n\nSHENSI\n\nPreliminary Steps; First and Second Elections, and Opening Ceremony.-A memorial from the governor appeared in the \"Official Gazette\" of the 5th November, reporting on the opening of the Shensi provincial assembly in Hsi-an-fu. According to this an organisation office was opened in November 1908 under the direction of the provincial treasurer, lists of electors were drawn up by May 1909, the first election of delegates took place in July, and the second election of the members, sixty-three for the province and three for the Manchu garrison of Hsi-an, was completed in August. In September the members collected in Hsi-an, and the assembly was duly opened on the 14th October. The president is a graduate who was formerly a district magistrate in Chihli, and the two vice-presidents are also graduates.\n\nGovernor's Speech.-The governor reports that he opened the proceedings in person, supported by the Tartar general of Hsi-an, and the provincial officials, and read the Imperial decree of the 13th October, which had just arrived by telegraph. He concludes by stating that he impressed upon the members the necessity of strictly confining themselves within the limits of the powers confided to them under the rules.\n\nKANSU.\n\nPreliminaries; Viceroy advocated Delay in opening Assembly; Removal of Viceroy.- According to a memorial of Sheng-yün, Viceroy of Shensi and Kansu, which was published in the \"Official Gazette\" of the 16th April, 1909, the preliminaries were modelled on what was being done in Nanking and Wuch'ang. He explained that the establishment of the organisation office was delayed by the necessity of sending officers to the Yang-tsze to make enquiries, and it was not till the 13th December, 1908, that this office was formed and the preparations for the elections commenced.\n\n11\n\nIn the course of the preparations Sheng-yün appears to have come to the conclusion that the convocation of an assembly in Kansu in 1909 would be premature, and he applied for permission to come to Peking to give his reasons to the central Government. This permission being refused, he asked to be relieved of his post, and in a decree of the 23rd June he was censured and removed from office for dereliction of duty in regard to the preparations for popular representation.\n\nNo Information of Opening of Assembly yet received.-No information of the opening of an assembly at Lanchou has yet reached us.\n\nKIANGSU.\n\nThe following is taken from a report by Mr. Goffe, His Majesty's consul at Nanking\n\nOpening Ceremony at Nanking-The assembly was duly opened on the 14th October at 9 o'clock in the morning, when 112 deputies were present. The great majority of them belonged to the seventh, eighth, and ninth ranks (gold buttons), a few to the fifth and sixth, and a very small number to the third or fourth; two or three wore no buttons, indicating that they had no official rank. The deputies were each provided with a number, and were seated at desks facing the presidential chair.\n\n\"The proceedings opened punctually at the appointed hour, and after being called to order, the deputies filed out of the hall, as their numbers were called out, to be presented to the Viceroy. After a short interval they returned, and the Viceroy and the governor of Soochow, accompanied by most of the high provincial officials, took their seats on the dais, to the left and right of the president respectively. The president rang his bell, and three speeches, suitable to the occasion, drafted respectively by the Viceroy, the governor and the president, were read by the secretaries. The assembly then adjourned till the 18th October, when the regular session began.\n\nForeign Consuls Invited.-\"The foreign consuls were invited to be present at the ceremony, and were afterwards presented to the president; they are also allowed to attend the sittings and listen to the debates.\n\nProceedings; Debates.\" The proceedings, which were conducted in an orderly and impressive manner, were held in the Manchu guildhall, which will be utilised for the meetings of the deputies until the assembly house, which is now in course of erection, is ready for use. It is hoped to eventually make mandarin the language of the assembly; but, for the present, the deputies are allowed to speak in any dialect they please. Any deputy, however, who wishes to bring any proposal before the assembly must first deposit with the officials, in writing, a résumé of its leading features; this document will then be printed and circulated amongst the deputies before the subject comes up for discussion.\n\nDebates Reported in the Press. The assembly meets every day at 1 P.M., and the sitting is continued until 5 or 6 o'clock; the press is allowed to report the proceedings, and a summary of the debates is appearing in a Nanking daily newspaper which has been published since the 20th of October.\n\nThe following subjects have been submitted by the Viceroy and governor respectively for the deliberation of the assembly:-\n\nBy the Viceroy---\n\nProgramme of Government Business Control and limitation of the coinage of copper 10-cash pieces and the extended use of silver coins to replace them.\n\n\"Census: The most effective method of taking it.\n\nDredging of the Huai River and the repair of its banks.\n\n\"Extension of the Nanking City Railway to Wuhu: In this connection the Viceroy states that the City railway has proved a most profitable undertaking, and that there are good prospects of an extension to Wuhu, a distance of some 200 li, which would pass through T'ai Ping-fu and many busy marts, proving equally remunerative. He regrets that the authorities have no funds at their disposal to undertake this work, and he recommends it to the earnest consideration of the merchants and gentry. The Viceroy states that the foreign manager of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway has claimed the right to build this line, as the railway agreement gives the company the option of constructing all railways within 100 li of the Shanghae line. But he dismisses this claim as inadmissible on the ground that the line in question is 200 li in length, and does not come within the sphere of the company's agreement.\n\n148\n\nPage 150\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "I agree with regret. (d) because the financial position of Hongkong renders generosity improper (^) I think it is most undesirable because it encourages unofficial members to interfere in such matters.\n\nCouncil\n\nBU 1914.\n\nI agree. We cannot brand the Pandian - it would be unfami- li- ar. Corporation of London.\n\n267\n\nAC 12/1\n\nIt is a hard case entirely beyond the pension regulations.\n\n12/1 Memo\n\nwith respect to the (ren- This Jeans business is difficult but...\n\nPUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, GUILDHALL, E.C., 22 DEC\n\nSIR,\n\nI have to inform you that your candidature for the appointment of Inspector of Nuisance Works has not been successful, as stated in my letter under LGB.\n\nPerhaps.\n\nAnd am, SIR, Yours obediently, JAMES BELL.\n\nC 18.1 Mr. A. Catter\n\nIt is very hard. Can nothing be done?\n\nJ. 76.1. 73.1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## Testimonial from the County Engineer, Middlesex County Council\n\n**COUNTY ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT,**\n**GUILDHALL,**\n**WESTMINSTER, S.W.,**\n**22nd October, 1902.**\n\nDEAR MR. PERKINS,\n\nI have pleasure in complying with your request, and in stating what is due to you with regard to the way in which you have discharged your duties whilst you have filled the important position of Divisional Surveyor to this Council. Your general conduct has been most exemplary, and your professional work has been carried out to my unqualified satisfaction.\n\nI have always found you attentive, painstaking, most obliging and pleasant to work with, and the heavy work entrusted to you has always been carried out with credit.\n\nIt will be with regret that I shall hear of your success in the appointment you are seeking, but at the same time I fully recognise and appreciate the feelings that prompt your endeavours to attain that promotion I am confident you deserve.\n\nYours faithfully,\n**H. T. WAKELAM,**\n**M. Inst. C.E.,**\n**County Engineer, and Past-President County Surveyors' Society.**\n\n488", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442366, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## COUNTY COUNCIL OF MIDDLESEX\n489\n\nCounty Engineer & Surveyor's Department,\nGuildhall, Westminster, S.W.\n\nMarch 30th 1904.\n\nDear Mr. Perkins,\n\nAs you are leaving the Department today to take up your official appointment in Hong Kong I take the opportunity to express the unqualified satisfaction I have had in connection with your services during the time you have been in the employment of this Council under my supervision. I regret exceedingly to lose your assistance and I trust that in your new office you will find more scope for the undoubted professional ability you possess.\n\nBelieve me,\nYours very truly,\n**(Szd) H. T. WAKELAM**\n\nT. L. Perkins Esq.,\nAssoc.M.Inst.C.E.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456940, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 256, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "2\n\n44\n\nCK\n\nattack on the Japanese consul produced some effect, and recently there have been marked indications that Chinese opinion at Canton is veering round to the other side.\" Mr. Jamieson, moreover, expresses the opinion that the German campaign did nothing to injure British or to maintain German trade, and that the latter is suffering severely. At Foochow the German campaign has been more successful, thanks to the activity of the German consul and the pro-German tendencies of his intimate friend, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and His Majesty's consul reports that Germany is obviously regarded as the nation which is to rescue China from the wolves which are tearing her to pieces.\" At Amoy on the other hand, where, as at Foochow, fears of Japanese aggression might have been expected to assist a German propaganda, the general feeling among the educated classes is a fear as to the effect of the war on trade, and the possibility of China being embroiled, while the masses feel an amused satisfaction that the Powers, who, they are told, are always united at China's throat, should now be grappling with each other.\" An attempt to stir up a pro-German feeling by the dissemination of highly-coloured pamphlets has met with no success. At Tsinan-fu the Japanese proved themselves the more skilful organisers of a press campaign, and they received effective support from His Majesty's consul, who showed great initiative and energy in obtaining the dissemination of Reuter's telegrams. Mr. Pratt's account of the general situation in Shantung during the past quarter is of special interest, and is therefore enclosed in extenso. In Yunnan, where mutiny and rebellion have been so common for years past as scarcely to excite comment, stories of mutiny in India are readily believed, though His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu has been at pains to deny them.\n\nVarious circumstances have contributed to the success of the German press campaign in Western China; the withdrawal of the French missionaries recalled to the colours has naturally given rise to a crop of rumours, and the German scientific expedition, which is now travelling in Western Szechuan, has industriously spread every kind of story, while the two German professors at Chengtu have spared no effort to disseminate glowing accounts of German victories in Europe. In the attack on Tsingtao an analogy has been found to the violation of Belgian neutrality, and it is freely argued that China should declare war on Japan for the same reason that Belgium is fighting Germany. There is no doubt that it would require no official encouragement to make an anti-Japanese policy on the part of the Government extremely popular.\" On the other hand, the command of the Dalai Lama that prayers should be offered throughout Tibet for the success of the British arms has had considerable influence on the frontier tribesmen. It is satisfactory that His Majesty's consul-general should be able to report that the local authorities at Chengtu have shown every desire to adopt a reasonable and impartial attitude. At Pakhoi the German campaign is in the hands of the Keeler Mission, which issues a broadsheet every week. Mr. Toller reports that \"normally it is a religious tract pure and simple, but since the outbreak of the war it has become a local edition of the \"Ostasiatischer Lloyd.\" Its editing would seem to leave room for improvement: Saturday's issue can often be bought on Thursday, and occasionally it appears with such items of news as :- \"The Germans have defeated the ... Or the German ship has sunk the ... ship named ...,\" the task of filling up the blanks in the stereotyped formula having escaped the missionary's notice.\" At Chunking the unfortunate Chinese are asked to believe that \"the British fleet has been swept off the seas by the German warships.\" At Hankow the interest taken by the native population in the war is stated to be about as great as that which would be taken in a Tibetan border affray, and the same must be true of many other parts of China, as the subject of Chinese opinion or sympathies is not even mentioned in many of the quarterly reports.\n\nRecently, however, the Germans appear to have decided that China is a suitable field for an active campaign. The two or three Chinese papers published at Peking, which are known to be partly or wholly German owned, have published many virulent attacks on Great Britain, a favourite theme naturally being the contrast between the attitude she adopted towards the violation of Belgian and Chinese neutrality. However, even these papers publish the official British telegrams and Reuter's telegrams, but in less prominent type than the German and with impertinent comments.\n\nIt is difficult to see what results it is hoped to achieve by this campaign. Chinese sympathy could only show itself in a practical form by an attempt to massacre Germany's foes, and in such a massacre the Germans could not hope to escape. As is pointed out in some of the consular reports, from the commercial point of view, the Chinese are confronted with the concrete fact that German trade has almost ceased to exist. They are therefore compelled to trade with those who can trade with them, whether or no they believe that Germany's foes will at some future date be swept off the face of the earth.\n\nAt the same time there is a possibility, which cannot be entirely disregarded, that the many factions in opposition to the President (who is known to lean on British support) may think the moment a favourable one to rebel, and hope to gain adherents from the fact that the educated classes have been led to believe that the President's main prop among the European nations is a broken reed.\n\nThe actual news issued by the \"Ostasiatischer Lloyd\" is a curious study. Occasionally this agency obtains information—notably in the case of the engagement off the coast of Chile two or three days before it is received from other sources; in other cases the news has every appearance of being Reuter's telegrams suitably \"decked out\" and expanded or minimised. Many of the \"telegrams\" which appear under a heading \"New York, November 1; Peking, November 3,\" almost must have been drafted here, but they do little credit to their author's intellectual capacity, and in some cases even reveal a deplorable ignorance of geography. Another remarkable point is that the \"Ostasiatischer Lloyd\" news bears little resemblance to that issued by wireless from Germany as reported in \"The Times.\" It is only occasionally that news is issued by the German Legation, and it has been observed that in cases where the statement is unusually inaccurate, the copy posted at the Peking Club sometimes bears the signature of the German Chargé d'Affaires. Reference has been made in the London press to the removal from the \"Peking Gazette\" of the English editor, Mr. Woodhead, for taking a too partial view of the war, and it may probably be traced to German influence, though it is impossible to speak with certainty. When the paper was founded rather over a year ago, a Mr. Eggerling, a British subject born of German parents in Scotland, informed Mr. Woodhead that he was the sole proprietor, and that the paper was in no sense under German influence. Subsequently shares were acquired by Chinese, of whom the most prominent is one Eugen Chen, an able man, who is on the roll of English solicitors, but cannot on that account be regarded as a friend; he has, indeed, on one occasion made a violent personal attack on His Majesty's Minister in another Peking paper. Prior to the outbreak of the war the editor had on several occasions criticised the policy of the French, Russian, and Japanese Legations with more vigour than discretion, and the general view held in Peking was that the paper was directly or indirectly under German influence. As the war progressed, Mr. Woodhead adopted a steadily more anti-German line, with the result that he found himself in conflict with Mr. Eggerling, who had not relinquished his position in the German Bank, and probably found himself subjected to considerable pressure. Mr. Woodhead, however, refused to change his tone, whereupon Mr. Eggerling transferred his interest in the paper to Eugen Chen, who promptly dismissed Mr. Woodhead on the ground that a strongly partisan attitude towards the European conflict cannot be held to be in conformity with the avowed policy of upholding the present régime in China and of maintaining an independent attitude towards the Governments of other Powers. This incident has been regarded by the German community as a marked success, but hitherto Eugen Chen, who has undertaken the editorship himself, has given no indication that he intends to run the paper in the interests of Germany, and indeed his comments on Mr. Asquith's Guildhall speech would not have excited adverse criticism had they appeared in any London paper.\n\nHe has, however, only been in control for three weeks, so that it is too early to judge whether he will really act on his public announcement that the paper will henceforth be conducted with the sole view of supporting Chinese interests and will discuss and report European questions in a perfectly impartial spirit. As regards the attitude of the official classes it is impossible to generalise more than to say that the President and his entourage have more sympathy with us than with our enemies, whereas the military classes who have come to some extent directly under German influence incline to the other side. Otherwise local conditions are the determining factor. With the fall of Tsingtao there is little danger of further serious violation of China's neutrality. During the past months many incidents have conclusively proved her inability to defend it, but whenever this Legation has called the Government's attention to any particular case, some serious effort has been made to meet our views, and we have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which the Chinese Government has interpreted the duties of neutrality.\n\nThe general situation in the provinces, as portrayed in recent consular reports, has to some extent improved. Brigandage on a large scale has received a check in the disappearance of \"White Wolf,\" though small bands continue to flourish in most districts; mutinies of the troops have been less frequent in spite of the fact that the provincial authorities frequently enrol brigands in the army, even when they have been caught with arms in their hands. The only serious outbreak occurred at Kalgan and ...\n\n251\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458328, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 421, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Detective Division,\n\nApril 9th, 1915.\n\nGuildhall Station\n\nSir,\n\n417\n\nI have the honour to report that on the 9th inst. at 11.30 a.m. this date Mr. Swinburne, Director of the Post Office Telegraphs in this Town, called at this office and stated that on Monday, the 5th inst., a telegraph boy on his way to the Kings Dock, when he was stopped by a strange man, who appeared to be of Japanese, or Chinese Nationality, who asked him to hand in a telegram for dispatch at the Head Office on his way back to Town.\n\nThe lad accepted the telegram from the man, who gave him a shilling, sixpence for his trouble and sixpence for the telegram.\n\nOn resuming his way to Town the boy forgot to hand in the telegram and did not think of it until to-day, when he handed it over to his superiors.\n\nIn consequence of the peculiar wording of the telegram, and the suspicious circumstances under which it was given to the telegraph boy, it has been censored, and the Director of Telegraphs would be pleased if you would communicate with the Chief Constable of Liverpool, with a view to ascertaining who resides at 69, Park Lane, Liverpool, and, if possible, the purpose of the unaddressed copy of telegram sent.\n\n...\n\nPage 0.\n\n0.\n\nrta\n\n \n \n\n \n\nIt appears that the original text was heavily corrupted due to OCR errors. Here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nDetective Division,\n\nApril 9th, 1915.\n\nGuildhall Station\n\nSir,\n\n417\n\nI have the honour to report that on the 9th inst. at 11.30 a.m. this date Mr. Swinburne, Director of the Post Office Telegraphs in this Town, called at this office and stated that on Monday, the 5th inst., a telegraph boy on his way to the Kings Dock, when he was stopped by a strange man, who appeared to be of Japanese, or Chinese Nationality, who asked him to hand in a telegram for dispatch at the Head Office on his way back to Town.\n\nThe lad accepted the telegram from the man, who gave him a shilling, sixpence for his trouble and sixpence for the telegram.\n\nOn resuming his way to Town the boy forgot to hand in the telegram and did not think of it until to-day, when he handed it over to his superiors.\n\nIn consequence of the peculiar wording of the telegram, and the suspicious circumstances under which it was given to the telegraph boy, it has been censored, and the Director of Telegraphs would be pleased if you would communicate with the Chief Constable of Liverpool, with a view to ascertaining who resides at 69, Park Lane, Liverpool, and, if possible, the purpose of the unaddressed copy of telegram sent.\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format requested, here is the revised output:\n\nDetective Division,\n\nApril 9th, 1915.\n\nGuildhall Station\n\nSir,\n\n417\n\nI have the honour to report that on the 9th inst. at 11.30 a.m. this date Mr. Swinburne, Director of the Post Office Telegraphs in this Town, called at this office and stated that on Monday, the 5th inst., a telegraph boy on his way to the Kings Dock, when he was stopped by a strange man, who appeared to be of Japanese, or Chinese Nationality, who asked him to hand in a telegram for dispatch at the Head Office on his way back to Town.\n\nThe lad accepted the telegram from the man, who gave him a shilling, sixpence for his trouble and sixpence for the telegram.\n\nOn resuming his way to Town the boy forgot to hand in the telegram and did not think of it until to-day, when he handed it over to his superiors.\n\nIn consequence of the peculiar wording of the telegram, and the suspicious circumstances under which it was given to the telegraph boy, it has been censored, and the Director of Telegraphs would be pleased if you would communicate with the Chief Constable of Liverpool, with a view to ascertaining who resides at 69, Park Lane, Liverpool, and, if possible, the purpose of the unaddressed copy of telegram sent.\n\nPage 0.\n\n0.\n\nrta", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466901, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 483, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "TELEPHONE\n\nNF4397 (LONDON WALL TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, ARUNDO, LONDON. Box $1 EDITION,\n\n35624\n\n1, GUILDHALL CHAMBERS,\n\n482\n\n31, BASINGHALL STREET,\n\nREG\n\nLONDON E.C. 27th July\n\n19.16\n\nREG 28 JUL 16\n\n:\n\nSir,\n\nWe are acting for the personal representatives and trustees\n\nof the Will of the late Joao Francisco Braga, of whose Will Probate\n\nwas granted from the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on the 31st January\n\n1916. The duty on the Probate became payable on the 23rd February\n\n1914, and under the provisions of the Stamp Ordinance 1901 sec. 24\n\na penalty of treble the Probate duty was incurred on account of\n\nthe delay for a period of more than one year in obtaining the\n\nProbate. The delay was due to the son of the deceased, who had\n\nthe management of the estate in his hands in this country, having\n\njoined His Majesty's forces immediately on the outbreak of the War\n\nand being unable to attend to matters connected with his father's\n\nestate, and also to the difficulty of communication with Hong Kong,\n\nwhere the properties were situate.\n\nThe parties petitioned the Governor-in-Council in Hong Kong\n\nfor a remission of the penalty, and after considering the said\n\npetition, the Governor-in-Council granted a remission of half the\n\npenalty duty.\n\nWe are informed that a petition has been sent to you asking\n\nfor the remission of the whole of the penalty in the circumstances.\n\n-1-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "A further important advantage to be gained from such suggested procedure would be that no Colony or Protectorate, with important commercial interests, would then be able to feel that its views had been ruled out except after adequate hearing and consideration and it seems hardly necessary to point out that written representations, sent in by the different Colonies and Protectorates separately, in ignorance of the views of the Dominions and of other Crown Colonies and Protectorates are not so likely to lead to a successful solution of post-war trade problems from an Imperial point of view, as if such problems were threshed out in the Conference.\n\nWith regard to the second of the above two points namely, the claim of Hongkong to be represented on any Imperial Council Parliament or Association, to be formed as part of a scheme of Imperial Federation or Unity, we would respectfully urge the importance of Hongkong as a great shipping junction and as the chief depot for the distribution of goods to the Southern part of China, and generally as the centre of British influence in the Far East, and we do not doubt that, in the case of numerous other Crown Colonies and Protectorates, equally strong pleas could be put forward for them also to be represented on the Trade Conference and on the Imperial Council or Parliament.\n\nMoreover, on behalf of the claim of the Crown Colonies and Protectorates generally to such representation, we would urge that collectively they are of considerable importance to the Empire in shipping, trade, population, area and resources.\n\nIf it be said that we are trying to establish new precedents, we would beg leave to quote in reply the words of the Prime Minister at the Guildhall, when he received the Freedom of the City of London:-\n\nPage 483", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "## W G.HUMPHREYS & CO\n## AND AT HONG KONG.\n\nSir,\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, ABEONA, LED, LONDON. TELEPHONE, AVENUE 2942.\nC.O Grree Houses \n338 \n18-20, Creechurch Lines \n9785 indon: 2.0.3.\nPE 2 FEB 18 \n25th February 1928.\n\nAt the end of December the only partner resident here - I. Humphreys - was before the Guildhall Tribunal for exemption from Military Service, & it was then stated by the Military Representative that the War Office & The Colonial Office were in constant communication with the Governor in Hong Kong in respect to our partner's contention that a Military Service Act had been passed by the Legislature there.\n\nMr Humphreys' contention was that as the partners out East are on Military Service & under Military control, it was impossible for us to secure the release of one of them for despatch to this Country to replace the resident partner here; but on the last appearance of Mr Humphreys - in early January - the Tribunal gave him up to the 24th March to enroll - without, we submit, considering the aspect of the position detailed.\n\nWe have appealed against this decision, & the case is to come before the House of Commons Appeal Tribunal on the 28th inst, & in view of the urgency of the matter we shall be extremely obliged to receive some indication of your reply on the subject.\n\naction of the local court... will undertake to pay the cost of the tops will inquire Cable of the foregoing by letter whether the Col. fort. has objection Cay this electro in order that the be before Lla facts way Ribenal, but that he cannot of course. any Pudied as explen ponibilege of carrying des Their London breviers without the harsher ins Question a the malleo is not die on has any which tu any official in forestin And ask whether than styto of their At brand is the that of the London travel. \n\n26.46 \n26.2.15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559941, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "202\n\nthey\n\nbuildings\n\nLA\n\nof\n\nought to be in the same range\n\nthe Court. The Judges' Chambers are in Serjeants' Inn, near the Courts at Westminster and Guildhall. As to Colonial Judicatures other than that of Hong Kong, we know nothing. For\n\nwould beg leave to disclaim\n\nourselves we\n\nany discontent with the present arrangements, nor are we sensible of\n\nthe \"immense inconvenience\" to which\n\nconvenience\n\nit would appear we have been unwillingly subjected. The books of reference required in matters heard in Chambers are generally very few and can always be taken there without inconvenience in turn by the Clerks.\n\nWe hardly think it necessary for us to remark on the alleged notorious insalubrity and unsheltered state of the road leading to the private residence of your Excellency.\n\nThere is one other point included in this second head of complaint, namely the hour at which the sittings of the Court are held. Two of our number consider the hour of 12 and that of 10 to be...\n\nneither is altogether inexpedient, nor can we see in what manner \"it is unfair to the Bar, to the witnesses, to the professional advisers and the suitors, to the Prisoners.\" The Bar and Witnesses are, we should imagine, well able to arrange their morning business accordingly.\n\n事", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939", "content_text": "103\n\nW 753\n\nWeekly London Letter.\n\nBy Andrew Blackmore.\n\nThe King's Impression of his tour.\n\nThe King and Queen were the guests of the City of London at a luncheon given in their honour at the Guildhall within twenty-four hours of their return from their recent historic tour of Canada and the United States of America. They were received with unbounded enthusiasm by a brilliant gathering, whose affectionate regard for the Royal guests was expressed by the Lord Mayor in his speech of welcome.\n\nThe most important and impressive contribution to the ceremony was the King's speech in reply. With moving simplicity he said that the first, and deepest, impression of the journey was that, even in this age of machines and mass production, the strength of human feeling is still the most potent of all the forces affecting world affairs. As a North American historian has written, \"Over all nations is humanity.\" In the country from which he had just returned the King had found an object lesson of mutual tolerance and understanding, which might be studied with advantage by the nations of distracted Europe.\n\nMen of almost every race, of many creeds, and of divers political faiths live within the geographical limits of the United States of America; \"yet first and foremost they are human beings - over them all is humanity.\" They live together in peace and amity, composing whatever differences there may arise among them in the light of reason instead of by the arbitrament of force.\n\nTo the \"gradual weaving of that fabric of humanity\", Great Britain can claim to have made some contribution. The political institutions of both Canada and the United States, of which the fabric was woven, were \"British in their origin, British in their slow and almost casual growth, and grounded root and branch on British faith in liberty and justice.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943", "content_text": "# Secretary of State\n\nWe have now reached a point in the negotiations with China in reference to the draft Treaty on Extra-Territorial Concessions, at which it is necessary to take a firm decision regarding their request to include the \"New Territories\" in the proposed agreement. I understand that the matter will probably come before the War Cabinet on Monday, and I think that Mr. Edmonds should arrange for you to be summoned to the meeting. I think that we have no alternative but to accept the so-called face-saving device reported at 'Q' in 174. This will recognise that the New Territories are not concerned with the matters now under negotiation but will agree that the question can be raised later on at a more appropriate time. In earlier Ministerial discussions, it was suggested that the whole question of the future sovereignty of Hong Kong should be left open for discussion after the war. This line, however, was not approved by the War Cabinet, and the discussions took place before the recent victories in Africa and before the Prime Minister's Guildhall speech. It is possible that the Cabinet may wish to take a firmer line. On the last paragraph of Mr. Gent's minute, I am personally averse to expressing a willingness to include the whole Colony of Hong Kong instead of only the New Territories in any discussions with China when victory is won. It is true that Hong Kong without the New Territories would be in a thoroughly unsatisfactory position, but I see every advantage in leaving the scope of the discussions to be considered at a later date. I cannot comment further until we see Mr. Eden's memorandum, but you may wish to discuss the position with Mr. Gent and myself when you have seen the memorandum.\n\n19.12.42\n\n| Code | To | Reference |\n|------|----------|--------------|\n| 177 | % | |\n| 178 | Burma | til 943 of 16/12 |\n| 179 | D.O | til D559 of 17/12 |\n| 180 | Chungking| 1601 of 18/12 |\n| 181 | \" | 1602 |\n| 182 | \" | 1603 |\n\nPage 20 \nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]