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        "content_text": "\nCHINESE \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nThe Government have resolved that should a Chinese immigration into the West Indies be LABOURERS. permitted, the people should for the present only be hired and shipped at the British settlements \n\nin the Straits of Malacca. \n\nEncl. 2 in No. 12. \n\nIf the colonies would pay the whole expense as a bounty, and leave the labourer quite free after arrival, this would be the simplest course. But failing this, such of the above questions as contemplate individuals repaying themselves by stoppage out of wages are inserted, and at \n\npassage any rate the colonies could hardly be expected to make a free gift of the home, \n\nEnclosure 2 în No. 12. \n\nMEMORANDUM respecting Chinese Immigration into the West Indies. \n\nboth out and \n\nBlackbrook, Monmouth, September 1, 1843. \n\nTHE Chinese within the Straits settlements, that is, Singapore, Maland, and Penang, amount probably in all to about 50,000, but to these must be added those in the Dutch settle- ments of Rhio, about 60 miles from Singapore, and who, as far as emigration is concerned, are just as available as those living under our own rule, for there is a daily uninterrupted inter- course between the parties, and in fact no distinction. I do not think these are fewer than 20,000. These Chinese settlers are not, as represented in the extract of a letter, all from Amoy, that is from the province of Fokein or Hokein; but from this province and that of Cantou, and the great majority from the latter. They were of course chiefly from the maritime ports of these provinces. A good many are from the island of Hainan, a poor but populous place. From the localities from which they issue, a great proportion are boatmen and fisher- and the kind of agricultural labour that the emigrants have been used to in their own country is the rearing of culinary vegetables and the culture of rice. The artizans among them consist in general only of carpenters and blacksmiths. They become hucksters, shop-keepers, and merchants only as colonists, and I fancy few of the emigrants have been of this class in China. Nearly all of them can read and write, and many are expert accountants with the aid of the San-pan. I know one very enterprizing merchant who had been for years a common porter. Having lived handsomely he died the richest man in Singapore. \n\nmen; \n\nChildren and women never leave China, in fact never leave their own localities, even when the men emigrate from one province or district of China to another. All the men are in the prime of life. No man brings capital any more than Irish labourers coming to England. Most of the emigrants come by the junks, and I have known a single junk bring 800. The number of junks which arrived at Singapore (they never go to Penang or Malacca) from the 27th of December to the 20th of April, 1843, and this embraces the whole season, was 111 of 17.000 tons burthen, and they brought 6,391 immigrants. Eighty-eight junks of 14,580 tons had the year before brought 6156 immigrants. Now these junks come from no less than 19 different ports of China, and nearly every one brought passengers, which indeed constitutes the most valuable part of the outward investment. European vessels occasionally bring \n\n16 Chinese immigrants, but the number is inconsiderable. In my time, some \n\nyears ago, the number of junks coming from China was about 12. The great increase has taken place since our occupation of the island in the bay of Amoy. \n\nThe Chinese settlers form matrimonial connexions wherever they go, and whenever they can, and in those countries to which they have been long accustomed to resort, as Java, Siam, and Cochin-China, a very considerable mixed population has been the result. These in the Malay language are called Peranakan, the nearest translation of which, although not quite a correct one, is Creole.\" All the Creoles are brought up as Chinese, and intermarry either with Creoles or genuine Chinese. They are considered as somewhat less industrious than the true Chinese, but over those they have the advantage of knowledge of locality, and the pos- session of two languages. \n\nAt Prince of Wales Island and Singapore there are a few sugar plantations in which the Chinese are the labourers; but to get labourers who will cultivate the cane, manufacture sugar, and distil rum, will not be a matter of the smallest difficulty, for the Chinese may be described as a sort of ambidextrous people who can turn their hands to anything. The provinces from which the immigrants chiefly come, Canton and Fokein, are the chief sugar producing ones of the Chinese empire. Besides this, the large sugar cultivation of Java, of Cochin China, and of the Phillipines, is understood by them. In Siam, and, I suppose, in the other places also, very high wages are occasionally given to foremen skilled in claying sugar, as much as 1000 dollars a-year, that is 2251. In the Straits' settlements generally, the culture of pepper is wholly in their hands; and at Singapore and the Dutch settlements the culture and manufacture of gambir, that is, a kind of terra japonica, which is largely produced for a masticatory among the eastern islanders, and of late years still more largely for exportation to this country to be used for tanning and dyeing. The same may be said of the manufacture of sago in the shape in which this article is now brought into the European market. Indeed, pearl sago was the discovery about twenty-five years ago, of a Chinese of Malacca. Now the cultivation and preparation of every one of these three articles is unknown in China, and they are consequently acquisitions made by the Chinese as colonists. In the same way they have become miners of gold to a large extent in Borneo, and of gold and silver in Tonquin; and both miners and smelters of tin in the Archipelago, of which last article the annual produce is at present probably equal to that of the mines of Cornwall, while it is a good deal better in quality. \n\nFrom the teeming population of China there can then be no difficulty in getting labourers in the prime of life, unencumbered by families, and fit to turn their hands to any employment, and this to any extent. But then comes the most difficult part of the subject; how their ser \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nvices are to be secured and remunerated. In the \"Extracts of Letters \"* their character is very correctly represented. They are a sober, diligent, industrious, intelligent, and money-loving people, without being a miserly one. From all the inconvenient prejudices of Hindostan they \n\nare wholly free. They like to make money, but they have not the faculty of hoarding it that distinguishes the penurious Hindoo, for they live more comfortably, and, when they can, more luxuriously than any other Asiatic people that I am acquainted with. They must be paid the full value of their labour, or otherwise there will be no making anything of them. In a word, they must be treated with the same consideration as any class of British labourers; if they are not, they become inevitably discontented, disorderly, and roguish. \n\nIn Singapore a Chinese labourer will earn as much as two natives of Coromandel, as three Bengalese, and as four Malays. In my time the wages of a Chinese day labourer, finding everything, used to be about 15 Spanish dollars a month, which, at 4s. 4d. per dollar, is 65s., or 321. 10s. a-year. But the labour market is now far better supplied, and wages are consi- derably lower. I shall suppose that good labourers may now be had at 10 dollars a month, which is equal to 211. 2s. 4d. a-year. Can the West Indian planter pay such wages? By one of the agreements contained in the \"Extracts of Letters,\" I perceive that a Chinese labourer engages to serve for two years at the average wages of 5 dollars a month; this is about 137. s. 4d. But we have to add lodging, suli fish, salt, and 45 lbs. of rice a month, with 20 dollars of passage-money and loss of labour during sickness. But all this is for the Mauritius, and not for Guiana or the West India islands, three times as far from the Straits of Malacca, and where the principal article of subsistence, rice-must be higher priced. \n\nI confess I entertain considerable doubts of the expediency of hiring Chinese labourers for the colonies, on the principle of an apprenticeship. My notion of the Chinese is, that they are industrious and diligent only when they are working for themselves, and see profit in the face at every \n\nhour of their labour. An experience of their character in this respect, hinders them from being employed on fixed daily or monthly wages in the Straits settlements, wherever it can be avoided. The Chinese labourer, who, working on his own behalf, or by job work for another, would earn 15 dollars a-month, I am confident would not produce to an employer 10 dollars a-mouth on day wages. But the experiment has been tried, or is under trial in the Mauritius, with 1000 labourers, and the result will be worth all the opinions on the subject that ever can be given. \n\nThere is another drawback against the employment of the Chinese in the colonies, or at least one that will exist for a number of years,--the want of a common language for commu- nication, and the necessity for employing interpreters. There are two distinct languages spoken by the Chinese ordinary colonists, not mutually intelligible. These are the languages of Canton and Fohkien, and in our courts of justice in the Straits settlements we must have two interpreters. These are always Creole Chinese, and communicate with us through the easy Malay, a language known more or less to all resident foreigners. In the West Indies there can be no such channel of communication, and until the Chinese shall have acquired a smattering of English, as they have at Canton, the expense and incumbrance of interpreters cannot be got rid of. \n\nI perceive by the Extracts of Letters\" that the cost of an emigrant's passage from the Straits of Malacca to Guiana is estimated at about 127., which is about 57 Spanish dollars. Now, to the best of my recollection, the cost of a passage in a Chinese junk from Canton or Amoy, which in the right season is usually made for the one in seven or eight, and from the other in ten or twelve days, is not above five dollars. It is evident therefore that the Guiana planter in some shape or other, must pay the difference. Filial attachment is one of the most laudable qualities of the Chinese; indeed it is a religious and political duty. All those who quit China as emigrants, do so in hopes of returning to their families, and to the tombs of their fore- fathers, although but a small proportion do so. In all the countries in which they have here- tofore settled, they have the easy means of doing this, of hearing from their families, and of remitting funds to them through the junks. Of those facilities they must necessarily be deprived in the West Indies. \n\nThe Commissioners are of course aware that the experiment of Chinese labour was once tried at Trinidad about 30 years ago and failed, but this was during the period of slavery and in war time, when it was impossible that the experiment could have had in any respect a fair trial. Chinese labour was then much higher than it is now, and the means of procuring labourers not comparable to the present. \n\nI \n\nagree entirely with one of the opinions which seems to be implied by the Commissioners in their queries, that by far the most eligible plan will be for the Colonial Governments to take the matter wholly into their own hands, paying the passage money of the emigrants and leaving them on their arrival in the colony at perfect liberty to engage in any kind of labour, and on any terms they think proper. It is not necessary that the whole expenditure made on this account should be sacrificed. Each emigrant before embarkation may be called on to sign a personal bond payable within a reasonable stated time, for reimbursement of at least a portion of the fund advanced for his passage. As to the Government or private parties paying for the return passage, I think such an arrangement, except in very peculiar cases, will be inexpedient. The Chinese will certainly in great numbers, should the project as a labour scheme succeed, settle permanently in the West Indies, and a passage-money of 101. or 12. \n\n* Letters submitted by the West India Committee to Lord Stanley. \n\n† When pepper was extensively cultivated on Prince of Wales Island, the European owner of the land had the forest cleared by contract, and the vines planted by contract, and when the vines came into bearing, the plantation was farmed to the Chinese from year to year, on payment of a specific quantity of pepper. Any other plan would have ruined the capitalist.. \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nH",
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        "content_text": "22.\n\nI then proceeded on, and hove to off the entrance of Junk's channel, but having no pilot on board, the place being surrounded by sand banks, and there being no junks in sight with whom I could communicate, I did not conceive it prudent to remain there in Her Majesty's steam vessel under my command; and the island mentioned in Mr. Taylor's letter being no less than 25 miles distant from any spot where I could with safety anchor, I was unwilling to send a boat up the channels to make inquiry, as I imagined such a proceeding would be attended with too much danger. I therefore steamed slowly down the coast of Hainan, speaking, as opportunities occurred, with such of the fishing vessels as lay in my course, and from all of them I obtained precisely the same information as had been previously afforded me by the junks communicated with off the Taya-Islands.\n\nThere did not appear to be the slightest sign of habitation along the entire coast.\n\nEarly on the morning of the 10th instant, I arrived off Tinhosa Island; but I found this place, like the other part of the coast, entirely uninhabited; there being neither any junks in sight; nor, after looking well into the bay without anchoring, anything, which could have conduced to the furtherance of this object in view.\n\nI judged it my duty to return to Hongkong.\n\nI had intended on my passage back to this port to have touched at Tien-pak, with the view of ascertaining whether the piratical fleet were still at anchor there; but at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 11th instant, several of the tubes commenced to give way in the",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure. No 1 in. Despatch.\n\nN 155 of 1849.\n\n294\n\nHER MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, CHOKUM, Cocon-Chinsa, 23 October, 1849.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the satisfaction to report to Your Excellency the great success of the expedition you did me the honour to place under my command. 58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 Guns, and with crews of 3000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire; and, by the blessing of God, without the loss of One life of the Officers and Men under my orders.\n\nAfter leaving Hongkong on the 8th October, I searched the Harbours of Concock, Sattei, St John's, Mong, Mance, Sungyue, and Tienpak, and proceeded to Now-chou. From information received there, I determined to proceed to Hoi-how in Hainan, inside the shoals, and through the Junk passage, for I found good pilots, and junks with 14 ft. draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 ft.; moreover Shap-ng-tsai had boasted he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor General (Ho) whom I visited at the Capital, in great fear of the Pirates, and with a most friendly feeling to the English nation. He immediately ordered a Mandarin named Wong to proceed with me, taking with him 8 War Junks, and I gave him a passage, to prevent delay, on board the Fury.\n\nOn the 16th we reached Chook-shan, which the Pirate Fleet had left 5 days before, and we found the same sad story of towns destroyed, men murdered, and women taken away, that mark his track along the Coast. We fell in with one of his look-out Vessels, which having got into shallow water, was overtaken by the Phlegethon, and destroyed by her boats under the command of Mr Simpson, 1st Officer.\n\nOn the 19th we reached Hoo-nong, his reported haunt, and found he had gone about 12 miles further, and I feared we had lost him; but that invaluable Officer Mr Daniel R. Caldwell impressed me so strongly with the correctness of his information, that I decided on a reconnaissance in the Phlegethon in spite of our shortness of fuel; and proceeding into Chokeum for that purpose, on Saturday morning the 20th, saw 37 of the fleet under weigh. From 7 until 4 P.M., like terriers at a rat-hole we hunted for the Channel. Then a pilot managed to escape from the shore. I proceeded in Phlegethon, with Fury astern, Columbine in tow, over the Bar 14 ft. (mud), and at 4.40 had the pleasure of finding all the ships warmly engaged. At 5.5 Shap-ng-tsai's Junk blew up with a tremendous crash, and at 5.30 they had ceased firing. Before 8 o'clock 27 were in flames, and the squadron in position to blockade the river.\n\nOn the 21st October, the Steamers and Boats destroyed 24 more; and nine of them gave Lieutenant George Hancock in a Paddle-box boat of Fury, assisted by Captain Moore, R.M. and Mr Close, Acting Mate, with Mr Leao, an opportunity of distinguishing himself. Two large Junks turned to bay, to defend the retreat of the rest, but Mr Hancock so handled his boat and her gun, that after an hour and twenty minutes he had beaten them from their guns, and carried them by boarding without loss, and then pursued and destroyed the other 7.\n\nMr Hancock's boldness in attacking, and correct judgment in managing this affair, are worthy of the highest praise; and Captain Moore, R.M., Mr N. N. C. Leao, a Brazilian Lieutenant, and Mr F. A. Close, Acting Mate, gave him the greatest assistance.\n\nOn Monday the 22nd, I proceeded in Phlegethon and Boats to destroy all that were left. We found that the Mandarins had destroyed 4, and we finished 2 others. The low flat islands at the mouth of the river were at times covered with men deserted from the Junks, yet afraid of the Cochin Chinese, who had assembled in great numbers to attack them. The Ships' boats and small-arm men harassed and destroyed many by constant fire of shell and grape, whilst the Cochin Chinese destroyed and captured the rest.\n\nFrom the best information it appears that the Fleet consisted of 64 Vessels of War, which may be classed as follows:-\n\n  \n    Class\n    No.\n    Guns\n    Crew\n  \n  \n    1st\n    1\n    42\n    120\n  \n  \n    2d\n    16\n    28 to 34\n    75 to 80\n  \n  \n    3d\n    42\n    12 to 19\n    40\n  \n  \n    4th\n    5\n    6\n    30\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    64\n    1224\n    3150\n  \n\nOf these, 2 small of the 3d class and 4 of the 4th have escaped with Shap-ng-tsai, but without much ammunition; and the Mandarin assures me he will shortly destroy him—now an easy prey. He took with him about 400 men, so that 1700 having been killed, about 1000 more remain to be finished by the Cochin Chinese, who have already sent some prisoners to the Mandarins.\n\nI shall now proceed to Hongkong with all despatch. I have the pleasure of mentioning the exceeding good conduct of the Officers and Men during these laborious and hazardous operations. Their unanimity, willingness, and cheerfulness have made it a most pleasant service, and no plunder, rapine, or misconduct, has tarnished their honour.\n\nMajor General Wong, the Mandarin, proved himself a gallant, active, and efficient ally, and I trust his own Government may reward him for his good services. To have Commander Willcox with me, is, I feel, to have success. As a friend and an officer he is unequalled, and his ship is in such good order that I believe there is nothing he could not do. His judgment and gallantry are on an equal footing.\n\nMr Niblett of the Phlegethon has handled his ship in a bold and determined manner, and has given me every assistance. As I was frequently obliged to be in the Steamers, the command of this Sloop has devolved upon Lieutenant J. H. Bridges, Senior Lieutenant, and he conducted her in action on the 20th with much ability.\n\nLieutenant Darnell, Senior of the Fury, in command of her boats, has also rendered good service. Captain Moore of the Hastings's marines has assisted me most materially in command of that body. Lieutenant Hancock, and Mr Chambers, Acting Mate, in command of the respective detachments of Hastings's men, have given me much satisfaction, and Mr Rathbone, Midshipman of the Fury, has brought himself into notice for his zeal.\n\nI have also to notice the name of Mr Algernon Wootton, Midshipman, a most promising young Officer, who has acted as my Aide-de-Camp, and been very useful on every occasion.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a List of the Officers employed in the boats*, who I have no doubt would equally have distinguished themselves if they had had the opportunity.\n\nI enclose a Journal of my Proceedings since leaving Hongkong, together with some Hydrographical Remarks compiled by Mr Thomas Kerr, Acting Master of this sloop, which will, I trust, be of service to commerce and navigation in the Gulf of Tonquin, hitherto so little known. Mr Kerr, during all this very hazardous navigation, has proved himself a careful and judicious Officer.\n\nMr D. R. Caldwell of the Police Force has again proved his talent as a linguist, his intimate knowledge of the Chinese character, and the thorough correctness of his information. To him in a great measure our success is to be attributed.\n\nMr Soames, Master of the Hongkong Company's Steam Vessel Canton, did his work well as Pilot, as far as he was acquainted with the Coast.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nJOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.\n\nHis Excellency Rear Admiral Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c.\n\n* See next page,\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG, 7TH JUNE, 1853. did not dare to attempt a landing. One lorcha got into the midst of the river, but no armed prizes. They \n\nSIR GEORGE BONHAM'S VISIT TO NANKING. (From the North China Herald, May 14 and 21,) The Hermes started on the 24th April, with His Excellency on board, and having in tow the Chinese river craft, under the charge of Mr E. A. Reynolds, in which it had at first been arranged Mr Meadows should proceed alone,\n\nOn the 26th April, the difficulties of the intervening navigation having been overcome, the Taoutae's fleet of lorchas and square-rigged vessels was passed at anchor, about 12 miles on this side of Chin-keang. At about 1 A.M., the Hermes anchored off Silver Island, where both mandarins spoken to the day before and fishermen in the immediate vicinity declared the Insurgents had an outpost. Mr Meadows, on landing in the Chinese boat, found in the temples only a few priests, who, however, stated that certain junks, lying opposite the heights of Chin-keang about a mile farther up, were manned by the Insurgents. To these vessels Mr Meadows repaired, but found them unarmed, and occupied only by two or three men in each, who declared themselves to be the original trading crews, compelled after their capture to lie at that spot. In the meantime the steamer weighed anchor and followed the China-boat; and a great bustle was observed on shore. One or two armed boats on the beach began firing guns, and the Insurgent troops were seen running to man the stockades both there and on the heights above. The cause of all this was soon found not to be merely the appearance of the Hermes, but the approach of the whole of the Taoutae's lorchas, &c., which had weighed anchor and closely followed her; and which appeared to have been sooner descried from the heights than had been done from the steamer, owing to a thick fog on the river which only then began to clear off. The lorchas had all red flags that at a little distance were not to be distinguished from a faded British red-ensign, and after the false proclamations that had been issued about steamers, the Insurgents naturally took the Hermes for the first of an attacking squadron. They accordingly opened a fire on her, and as the lorchas were rapidly nearing and a general action imminent, no course was left but to steam on at once to Nanking, which was done, after a note explanatory of the circumstances had been handed to a boat-man for delivery to the Insurgent Commanders. The Hermes continued to be fired at from junks and stockades on both sides of the river till she had passed Kwa-chow; and we are told that the occasional whizzing of round shot close over the awning of the quarter-deck by no means detracted from the excitement of the singular and highly picturesque scene there. As she had appeared in very suspicious company, and it had become still more necessary than before to convince the Insurgents of our neutrality, she did not even prepare to return the fire directed against her.\n\n...jaground at Silver Island, and had to signalize for assistance; whereon one of her fellows returned, into which her crew, after an hour or two, was transferred. The priests of the adjoining temples said it was then about dark, and that they retired to their dormitories for the night, but were soon roused by a loud report and found the vessel in flames. This account was corroborated by the Insurgents, who said they had not approached her, and that she must have been fired by her crew before being deserted. We are informed that the Mandarins are bound to pay $10,000 for every lorcha destroyed; also that this particular vessel was reported as having on board, when lost, a sum of three or four thousand dollars recently sent up as pay for the fleet. The success of that day is therefore likely to prove an expensive one.\n\nSo far as could be ascertained or perceived by the Hermes on her return a week after, the attack had had no other effect on the Insurgents than to make them dispose their grain junks in a position more protected by their batteries, and to mount more guns in, and make material additions to, the latter.\n\nAfter leaving behind her the fight at Chin-keang on the 26th April, the Hermes steamed on till dark, when she anchored about ten or twelve miles below Nanking. During the night, several large timber-rafts passed her on fire. In the forenoon of the 27th, she anchored off the northern angle of Nanking, below the first battery planted by the Insurgents to defend the entrance to two creeks running under the walls, and in which lay an immense number of large river junks. A great bustle was observed on shore, and a gun or two in the battery began firing at the Steamer, but ceased when two people (that had been taken the preceding day out of a junk) landed with a letter explaining that she had come with no hostile intentions. Shortly after, some eight or ten of the Insurgents came alongside in a small boat, the first to appear on the deck being a good-looking young man, an officer, in a close-fitting red Chinese jacket, who, from his long hair, was evidently a genuine \"rebel\" of old standing, and who, as the first specimen of these much-discussed people met with, was viewed and questioned with some interest by our countrymen. Other boats speedily followed, in one of which Mr Reynolds took a passage on shore, where he met with a civil reception from a leader in charge of the stockaded battery that had just been firing. In the meantime, a reply having been received to the note despatched on arrival, His Excellency sent Mr Meadows on shore to open a communication with some more influential leader. Mr Meadows, who was accompanied on the occasion by Lieut. Spratt, desired on landing to be led to the highest authority to whom immediate access could be obtained. He was in consequence brought, after a walk of about half an hour, into the presence of the two leaders known as the Northern and Assistant Princes, from whom he had a strange reception, followed by an equally extraordinary and very interesting conversation. The two gentlemen returned to their boat, surrounded, as in coming, by numbers of the armed crowd, but meeting with neither molestation nor insult.\n\nDuring the 28th, 29th, and 30th of April, the Hermes lay off the entrance to the creeks aforementioned, only occasionally shifting her position to avoid the fire-rafts sent down nightly by the Imperialists, in the hope, it was believed, of setting fire to the Insurgents' junks. On the 30th, Mr Meadows rode into the city in charge of a despatch, and was joined by a party consisting of Captain Fishbourne, Lieut. Burton, and Mr Woodgate. They were conducted close to the Tartar or Imperial Citadel, to a large private house occupied for the present by the four leaders next in rank to those bearing the title of Prince.\n\nOne of these exercises the functions of Criminal Chief Justice; and when our countrymen arrived, they found him just giving judgment in a case, declared by the females concerned to be one of rape, and for which two men were then condemned to death.\n\nDuring which they were received by the four occupants of the place and other officials, the approach of evening compelled the party to return to the steamer; previous arrangements for proceeding up the river on the next day forcing them to decline a pressing invitation to dine and sleep there that night and be introduced to the Princes in the morning.\n\nThis portion of the Yang-tsze must at all times have much interest. Out of the wide expanse of channel through which the turbid waters of the third river in the world roll rapidly towards the Ocean, rise at the distance of two or three miles from each other two high islands, covered with temples and wood. Between these, known to foreigners as Golden and Silver Islands, the heights of Chin-keang, a high promontory, likewise capped with temple and pagoda, overlooks the stream from its southern bank. The islands were not occupied by the Insurgents; but the heights and large portions of the river-banks underneath had been fortified by stockades. Past Silver Island and up into this scene the lorchas now advanced, and, sailing close in-shore, opened a vigorous and well-sustained fire on the stockades and on the armed boats on and near the beach. There were few guns in the latter, but these the Insurgents, nothing daunted by the sudden attack, coolly manned and discharged on their advancing enemy. In the meantime, the noise of the cannonade was bringing down numbers of their comrades from the city, the officers on horseback and the men running along on foot. Many of these bore banners, a few had matchlocks, but the great majority were armed only with swords and spears. Yet they came rapidly down and planted themselves on the beach in the face of the heavy fire, with a boldness that excited the admiration of our countrymen.\n\nAt day-light on the first of May, the Hermes got under weigh and proceeded up the river.\n\nWhen about 8 miles above Nanking, some 15 or 20 river craft of the Canton build and rig (centipedes) were observed ahead, getting their sails up and going off as if in flight. They were at once perceived to be the Imperialist upper flotilla. The rearmost was soon seen to be proceeding quietly to the steamer and seeing the latter stop, doubtless comprehended there was no hostile intention, and therefore thought proper to fire a gun, which sent its shot over the bows of the Hermes. The boat that had been called alongside was sent on to tell the others that there was no occasion either to fire or to move, as the Hermes had come merely to get information as to the state of affairs. She proceeded on this mission very leisurely, and as two more shotted guns were fired by vessels she had spoken to, Captain Fishbourne ordered the ports to be dropped and the guns prepared. After this, there was no more firing.\n\nPage 310",
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        "content_text": "The Chief Justice, & the Secretary. How, under such control, can the barristers obtain local Court satisfaction, conducted? In this case it seems to me Dr. Bridges' observation in Court might profitably be taken into consideration as to whether he was obnoxious, and if so, it was irregular, but I cannot truck the sense, if I face it was, involved such letters as Mr. Darley Morgan properly to 28802.\n\nI have lists at hand of no use of any for Official having \n\nExplication of the manner in which Dr. Bridges discharges his duties to Colonial Secretary... that the Office was not sought for by Mr... I that if he is one of the five Drivers out of \n\nby Mr. Phillipps I Lear\n\nThe Governor with \n\nintolerable that \n\nme of such frequent \n\nof again in quarrels amongst the principal opposite of the place - and if Mr. Decoley, who is always... Mr. Merivale. D is, I think, becoming \n\nCoupled in these quarrels, is not told disputes he will be Hong Kong should be the \n\nremoved. I fear these news, will be any peace come the place. At this that if \n\nDit on Shear \n\nJuin it very \n\nRuffinto to \n\n{\n\nreplace \n\nhim. \n\nSEL \n\n7172.3 \n\nbeta \n\nNUAL SECRETARY, \n\nSUPPLEMENT \n\nTO THE \n\nOverland China Mail, No. 141. \n\nHONGKONG, 10 JUNE, 1857.\n\ndays at lecture. \n\n251 \n\nCommander Torever \n\nSHAMEFUL SCENE IN COURT.\n\nawern testimony, independently of the way of being supplied, for the laaiting mow in Re, which hopt within reach of them for the upper end of the Town first, and so on 7168 ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE ACHING COLO- ! disallowed Ordinance. He also rennded course of erection user the superintens of \n\nlang time; and Cxplain Edgell brings to myliu sucressian, to enable our Boats to get the Rev. Mr Beocher will be as well suited for a She court of cases where is Louis Lecture room; na for a Seamen's Clapet; and antice the beltaviar aud cast arurate fire i Luk. Wa are sorry to have to contradict had so ruled during the present Attorcy \n\nassured that for such, it down, aur by Mr Hudson, Acting Mate, in the place towards our rear, at the Battery at the abrys be town opens. Should thy pject be sccne witnessed in the Supreme Court amining the cusco in question, asid that it carled out, to want of visitors wit be found, latter. The chase was constitued by this lower end of the Town, where most of the at the Criminal Sessionz on Monday last. was so, and that he was of opinion the either on Slays at pulle west, or on week! division, which accompanied, for or 14 casualties occurred. \n\nwas there must active and useful, and on two As no reporter for the press was present, present conviction was correct;\"--bat at \n\nmiles above the pice where the Steamers we give the circumstances na degeriled to the same time hinted in his own quiet but the public in your elias, and thereby oblige at the are having been excessive, I decided with small parties of Marines, under Lieut- Will you not endly bring this subject before had grounded, when, the work for the mesoccasions landed in a very galiant pamer us the same evening by a perfectly dis- firm way to the Attorney General, that, many busidum \n\n10 ar bak, but with the view of getting utauti, L. Blake, ., charged some twe interested eyewitness; but the facts con since he had been aware of the circum- \n\ntise Junko which we still had in sight, at a hundred well-arcied uses, and drove thei casily be substantiated by reference to the sauce, it was his duty to have informed \n\nfuture time by another passage, \n\nLegund in eutankyupis, officers of the Court, súd doubs the Court of the disallowance of the oven the Chief Juanice bintself will readily Oriinance, and at all events clous Amve pers bear testimony to their treth. What ob-witted on (the Chief Justice) the exercise ject is to be gained by the attempt which of its privilege. \n\nThas been made to distors faris, expl Suc is a true statement of the case. \n\nTHE WRITER. ---China Mill, May 20. \n\nTithe Billor of the \"China Mail.\" \n\nkonekana. Si funr. 1817. DEAR Sha, Aernesncleation in your ieste of last week, ideately announces the fact, that \n\nfor \"Seamen?: Chupel\" \n\nThat is too good news to be true, \n\nis rather pacature. \n\n7. Near the point at which we turned, sh 16. An attempt was made to tow dawa the rage of Tseen Trome, we found the ¦ On the Wor Jo be already noticed, but whe Lovely Funnyma, which was captured fast accidentally aught fire, and she was there \n\nThat being December, while in tow of the eteamer fore degroyed with the others, Thistle. I must her. \n\nazcomplished the Boats returned down the 8. On getting back to the Ganbeats at Creek. night, I found that Commander Corbett, who \n\nthe more gratification of personal spicen, Mr Bridges did not rise in the hench speriadening the erection of a building \n\n17. This again was a severe day's work; we cannot profess even to guess. \n\nreserved for the Legislative Council,\" nori It would be observed that the Garnid he interrupt the Court in the manner! \n\nhad very properly remained with the Staruch | offices and men behaved uduniably, mel It is cre thans i would cost gladly to unpage: on her grosiding-tu uber Commanders i with the greatest split. 1 beg la regiarz, 19. ment Gazeite of Saturday last contained a dermibed by those who were not precast, in ach duty, and, Providence promising notification of the disallowance by the land who therefore have been mishel as to us to be ; but the announcement above noticed \n\nhaving gone on had sent the Taflexible's ↑ you be able assistance. I reunived from Cap home government of Ordinance No. 15 of what actually took place; nor indeed would not crerzet su unimpeetart an error, \n\npaddle bos Boat after a Junk that tried to tain Edgell, and from Connraanders Forsyth, escape down & Creek to the right, and cap- Corbett, and Tammur, during the two days\" 1856,—* An Ordinance for amending the did he speak loud enough to be heard by were i aut continually died & Where in pune tured her. Commander Forsyth had return-perations. Their seat and antivity the last Law of Evidence and Triat by Jury, any one bat the Chief Justice; and, as Chapel lucated!\" A very aggravating question, ed with his party, and Lieutenant Deul, dey (as before) was exulated by the Officers The Fourth Clause of which is as follows: we sail before, the false accounts which by the way. It is like waking an old Earheler assisted by the Olheurs of the other Gunboats, of all ranka urder them, freie Lientenant \n\nIV. A Heather Withus, in any tour, or Lave been given of the occurrence can to be able to sewer the question. Beside this, Chinese having reruried to one of the Junks Cadet \n\nwhere a wife is, when he would give the world, bed secured or destroyed all the prizes. The Nares, the Senior Lieutenant, to the Javier before any porsan eupowered to administer an only have had their origin in spite or call, shall not be sworn either before er upon jealousy. \n\nstlecribers to the enterprise must wonder that below, she was recaptured by Mr Motioy, 18. Captain Edgell brings to my notice. giving his testimony, unless the said Court or \n\nthey have not been estigulted, according to the seed Master, with the Starting's and the active share taken by Livatenant Stanis Ju will be soon that though we defend rms of sulsoription. person shall third: fit so to direct; în which case the said winess shall be sworn according to his Dr Bridges from a false accusation, (and conscience, But every flatiren Witness shall, we should assuredly not attempt to de- butor the taking of his said evidence, baby, er ferd him were he in the wrong,) we have by the order of, the said Court or Person, duly refrained from any remarks on the style warned to speak the bruth, and informed of the of Mr Anstev's address, which, not lacing and worthy of being well carried cat. Hong-nsists of one beary Gun in the Baw, each day as a Volunteer, and made himself \n\npenalties to which, in case he whall not speak \n\n18 imply, therefore, to ease my own mind Hongkong's Bois. Lienterant Dent brought forth in the bone's Barge; and the sur- vices of Mr Hudson, Acting Mate of this to my notice the conduct of that Officer. and that of subsetilmes, that I trespass tuon your columns, and corect si error. \n\n9. lo all, 27 heavily armed Stake Borte Soip, 1 beg parisearly to notice. \n\nLieutenant Rd. Cox, of the 38th Regiment Their Armonétr Madras Risles, accompanied the expedition \n\nvery useful, \n\nin gnestini, 1 fiely Padors. 16 le a good idea, oupured or destroyed. \n\nThe mala idea suggested by the communication Celonging to the Admiral a Hay) were \n\nalways a more Shipping Fort. There ja to be a \n\nis not what it was five, or even two, yenas generally a fong 32 or 24-Peunder, with fum on the five years to sinne ty be expected to 6 fighter Guus; wol Vessel pulls about vell Bates change. This is not to be 40 nors. This servies was fortunately ac \n\ncity, here, miroving in numbers, but in fasellectual extrano; sand in is quite tinte tak one of the resued amusements suggeted by \n\nThe Waiter shoult to intradusal. \n\nthe truth, he will become liable; it being herely been present, we did not bear, bat which declared and enacted, that the pensities of Fer our informant states to have been highly jury stall be denied and taken to apply to False utbecoming, to say the very least of it\" Testimony given by any such witness, whether Sach violent ebullitions : a Court of Jus-jace and refined & vissy, a constantly improvize Botngslished with the loss of two men only sworn sworn, in any use where, if it as tice are disgreefel to all concerned, and given the same upon walk, ho would by law ! hare thereby becoine lisad to the same. \n\nought to he put a summery stop to by An inexcusable oversight, it seems, was the Chief Justice; and if how officers for \n\nget themselves, and use language aule- committed by the local government, in caring their official character, it is high Seatnen's Cliapol,\" I have an objset iu view caser (but not severe) of sun strike occurred \n\nUne or twa \n\nwonended. The day was excessively not, and I can speak ton highly of the spirit with which the men stuck to their ears, through a harder day's work than I have ever before Of course, in labouring be the stridslunent of witnessed under a tropical sun. \n\nbigher and an re important that suggested in the Gunboats. \n\nla commaneation of your last wack's co- alge hat hond, to his would picase we respondeur; but as Keligion tudi true Refinement \n\nnot having officially notified the Attorney General of the Ordinance having been time they were reminded of it, if not disallowed; but that Mr Anstey was aware utherwise, through the columns of the of it through the Gazette, he did not profom public press. We have witnessed to to dony. Notwithstanding the disalloway such recriminatory barangues Tat-mi dan tind she combined in my enter auce, he proceeded to try the case without terly, such as ne barrister, we feel assurul, piso. Respectfully, I am, Sir, swearing the witnesses a course in which would youture apen before the judges in | \n\nus will be shown, he was justified by the terms of a subsequent ordinues. Bat now for a description of what really did Denur in Court. \n\nEnglaud, and such as should not be per- witted bero. \n\n-China Mail, May 20 \n\nEVENING AMUSEMENTS.\n\nImmediately before the evidenes was closed, or at all events before the jury had We have mock pleasure in nesking room returned their verdict-our informant is for the following communication, and hope not certain which the Acting Colonial the proposal will meet with the courage- Secretary called to him the Crown So-mout it deserves:- \n\nlicitor, and pointed out that the Attorney To the Editor of the \"China Mail.\" General Lad, in not swearing the witness, overlooked the disallowance of the Ordi \n\nHosure, 28 May, 1857. \n\nJ. C. BEECHER. -China Maži, June 4, \n\nGAZETED NOTICKS, \n\nBar Haakons Cureras Garde, Func E. J \n\ntions more in detail. \n\n10. At daylight next morning the Steamers and ten pelas in tow, and attached with the proceeded down the frecks with the Boats Syble, the Second Bar. \n\n11. Further Arrangements were now made to follow up the War Boats that had o | away. I had already, the previous day \n\ntard to strengthen Commander Forsyth's \n\nSigned, \n\nTrae Extracts, \n\nC. ELLIOT, Commodat \n\nTien. S. MORRISDN. \n\nReturn of the Force engaged in the Brenpo Creek, on the 35th of Say, at the Capture ami Datraction of Chinese War Veste. Steam Tender Bunghong, Lieut. EL T. Dent. |trandat \n\nChili. Spain Tender Fir C. Forbet, „ Vine. fort Gunboat Startin \n\nVilliers. Siunach, \n\nWildman. Sybille. Launch-Lieut. E. Nee; Livut, Blake, a \n\nMr Price, Midaluperar. Borge, Mr A. 4. Brooke, Midshipman. Piankee-Mr. K. Hudson, Asing Mate \n\nGatter,—Mr W. Ht. De Burgly Midshipman. \n\n* \n\nhreat. Swale, n.. \n\nRaleigh. \n\nH \n\nCar-Commander Turner: Mr J. Forhess Assistant Solgeon; Mr Pilkington, Mid- shipman Launch,-iros. Goodenough; Lord Charles \n\nSet, Mulshipnot Pinnaco, Lieut. Grabara; Mr Dupries, Mil- \n\nskipman. \n\nTribune. \n\nGig-Capt. Tidgell; Mr E. Elwyn, Naval Cadet ; \n\nMe Childers, Midshipman \n\nBarge, Liat. Saniforth; Lieet Boyle; Me Harvey, Surgeon; Lieut. A. Ozxari, Volunteer, Lieut. Hichord Cox, 34th Regi- men: .N.I. \n\nshipman; My Rowe, Assistant Paymaster; My Hawkins, Naval Cadet, Cutter, Mr Yest, Midelima. Mir R. \n\nVerry, Gopurk \n\nstationed the Tribuné off Sawshee Chamel, ļaud 1 now moored the Inflexilie abreast of the Second Bar Creek, dowa which her Guð uld then range. From the knowledge I Exacts from a Despatch from Commodore now possessed respecting the various treels honourable C, G, J, 3. BLLC. from Escape Creek downwards, à considered dated wh May, 1857, to the addrees of, it possible to guard all outlets to the His Excellency Rear Admiral Rifer, and with a force of Bosts to sour Mona Sernions, K.C.B. \n\nSpottie, ED BAR, CARTON RIPER there wither to meet that fave or cetize th 4th May, 1867. wards the main River. Commander Forsyth Sia--It is a frequent subject for remark, that 1. 1 bad the honour to report to you \n\nwith his division tools up his station in Escape mance, and that a verdict ander the viral.ough there boarge uber of residents yesterday, that Her Majesty's Gauboats, Greek in the evening. cumstances would be illegal, and weight loud is this Colony fully capable of appreciating and į Tenders, and Ship Boats, captured or des- | 12. At daylight the 27th I proceeded the escape of the prisoners. Mr Cooper enjoying hitelary entertainments, there are no frayed about 40 Mandarin Junks (Suake up the Saws Channel as previously ar Turner thereupon crossed over to they may be destred. With the exeption of our big w to report the nature of the upitra-ers for 10 or 12 miles, 1 then sent the Bos Pintave, Livul. Normate; Mr Barker, Mid- suell emergituents to be enjoyed, however acheals) on the 25th and 27th Instant, 1anged, the Boats being towed by the Stean- Anstey, and told him what Dr Dridges had ceanna Ball, (from which andemment many said Mr Anstey, however, took no are restrained by Jack of invitation, utud others further notice of it, but on the verdict of by principle,) there is nothing to breast in upo 2. The Fleet of Juuks which formerly relivision, and desired Lieutenant Dent in the guilty being returned, instantly, as is in pleasure. In the cities of our native laude, navod to a position about five or six miles Pine, and go a short distance up the the dull Fouding of business and ucharrowing mained near the main euch of the tiver had unploy to false with him the Inferible's -Saraton, left the Court Dr Bridges then there are always relaxations to be fand in the up the Cree. As it was very doubtful; Sieoud Bar Creek (he succeeded in passing \n\nwork up to the Registrar's desk, and said form of Lesturda, Concerts, and such Wke, which whether our small Steemers mid to completely through into Escape Creek, and Gig-Commander Forsyth. emmething to the Chief Justice, in 50 real pleasures, and yet which at the samne \n\nthem, it was upeessary to have a sufficient \n\net Commander Forsyth.) Casting off from time, R. A. Deown, Acting Mate low tone as to be unbeard by our time tend to improve the said, and refine the Boat foren to follow up the Creek, iade the Steamers, the Beats pulled up ite Saw-Cutter-Lieut. Brock, Honourable A. Denison, informant, but which would appear to juller man There is rule which works bath \n\npendent of Ganhoat support. \n\nshore Channel, and we anon beard from the \n\nAnting Mate. have been of the same tenor no the mea ievestiors bebokens increasing refinement in the ways. While sa enlarged interest in such re- \n\n3. At daylight on the 25th, our Force was that foar of Sin Hop's retreating Squadron natives (who showed us every good feeling) sage delivered to Mr Anstey through recamanity, the encunmaging and fostering such in the Creek, and soon afterwards a Mandarin had on the 25th gone up to Tang Kons, Turner, for His Lordship sent for the interest, is one of the surest manus of bringing Fleet of about 40 Junks was observed moored and that there were other Mandarin Juuks Attorney General, and explained to him about an elevated public suliment. The mind what had been said. Mr Anstey there else the finer elepients will natally dissolve, and of a community, as well as the body, must be fed, upon expressed great indignation at the \n\ngrosser exuberatu enlund of the Evecative government, as represented by Dr Bridges and that they hud ant deigned to show him the despatiu disallowing the Ordinance, or even to commonlaste its tenor, except through the government notice open to all. Mr The peculiar organization of our society does within good tuge, she opened fire, and was Anstey further intimated the atunst con- pot were like me on supported by the Bustard and Starting Roman, and served the mastheads of the Return of the Force exprged on the 27th May, ut and denied the right of the Acting Culminature, that Ettle advantage is gained either—in others being at distant range. The War Junks. The Boats now gave way with tempt for the technical quibble started- \n\nBerad. \n\nJafazibie. \n\nStarboard Pale-Box Boat, Lisa Hanson fig,--Commander Crebert \n\nMr Barkle, Mid-biptnan. \n\nPort Pedule-Box Bat-Me . Sukee, Mid- shipman Me Magrudi, Assistant Surgeon, \n\nin good order across the stream. The tide there (I beg here to mention the very for the Juuke to escape, and although it made fter. Skinned Beal, Chaplain of this ship, who Finaceout. Bacon; Mr Teliasis, Mil- was a strong ebb, which rendered it less easy great assistance I have received from the \n\nwas good enough at my request to accom. pany me each day us Chiurse Interpreter; are in a great degree doe, as I had failed to to his aid the successes of the expedition \n\n1: is imprasible for human nature to thrive thread the way amongst the shoals \n\nnur progress slow, iz enebied us this better to \n\ndessert. The day demily of business, do not tend the leading Steuses as they approached, 4. A heavy fire from the Janks opened upon \n\nmigh & Bil. bo served up wokthly by way of i mn Book-keeping, Beefstenks, and Beer, even \n\na test men's heads, and surely the wist desails, but at too great a distice to tell with effect. \n\nof late dinners can have no such tendency \n\nand what is of this is so its \n\nShortly afterwards, as the Hoogkang got \n\nobtain an interpreter from Hongkong) \n\nBAI MAL \n\nPary \n\nPaddle-Box Boat,-Lient. Smith; Mr. Mayary, Assistant Surgeon; Mr Hayes, Midshipman. Punae, My Smith, Acting Mite! \n\n13. About 10 miles from where the Steam- Total Force of Boats with game-13 Cutters \n\ners were left, we opened the City of Tong \n\na will; and though the Junks were in sight \n\nand Gigs 7. \n\nthe Fedruction of Chinese War Boats at to those who visis or thuge who are visited: and, fire from the Junks then slackened, and they Secretary to appear in that court. If he Hence it occurs, that falls seven-tenths of our gut aulerweigh; some were soon afterwards \n\nTeung Konan. and his friends, said Mr Anstey, think me population are as entirely destitute of evening abandoned, and the rest plying their arsy two miles off, they succeeded in taking \n\nSplitte. them completely by surprise; the Bous, as unit to fall my functions, cere 19 another intent, na though; carb one wear ande resident endeavoured to escape op the treek. \n\nBarge,-Lieut. Naces; Mr Brooke, Midship- pon upon the island, Robinson Crusoe, Phillip \n\nthey dasked in, firing into a standi battery \n\nmare; Lieut. lake, R.M. before which they ear cito me, tribunal \n\na. The Stoners followed, thongh very Qar, or other more of all be survey slowly on account of the shoal wafer; the War Funky, eased them to be immediately \n\nwhich camanded the River, and into the pin Hudson, Acting Mate; Lieut gad les them there do their word! The \n\nNow tie ought Get so to he is a state of \n\nSwale, K.M. learned gentleman referred to cases report things sliko derimented to five rolny as a whole, Charles Forbes and Staunch grounded abandoned. The Jooks lay scattered along Cutter, Mr De Burgh, Midshipznali. \n\nely, then the Starling, and eventually the the whole length of the Town through which Hongkong ran ashore. The signal was 10- the River runs, and preparatious ware Bow and a general chase took place. The Junk mediately made for the Boats to go ahead, nede in destroy them with the exception of Cutter Commander Tour: Mr Forbes, Assistant Surgeon Mr Pilkington, Mid- one, the finest and heaviest grined War Junk ! force divided, the main body of about 15 non- I have seus in China, which I hoped to be Pisser-Lie Gralas; Mr Duries, Mid- \n\nshipmana. tiquing up the main channel were followed i uble to take away. by the Boats, doi by Captafa Edgell, who \n\nTribune. \n\n| cul in the Hangkang Register for Decom- | anod to the individuat elamuter of those who com \n\nber, 1851, and January 1832, and sou- \n\nprise it. The rond with feed on something, and tended that the court had power under there be no larless recreations to satisfy the if it cannot have wheat, it must take chat. If Ordinance 5 of 1858, § 4,* to admit un demand, then grosser indulgencies will be sought fun, which delar the character a surely as the * Every Court, \n\nor Officer \n\nGundide to take Adidas le 23 ant \n\nlet, Crli ur Orinatra”, where my porson concjælent to ) \n\nformer serve to elevate it. \n\nIs it not desirable, ches, to supply, so far \n\ngive pekline or make fidavit their shall refrs to¡ possible, some social entertainments, which may \n\nwarn fleista, may, at his reton, peralt floor intuest as we as elevate-which all appeal to \n\ncalthy appetite for wholesome and \n\nThere is els at talent, should think, f \n\nliar tu berku sa en Bueratina, or Staterof the better nature of murselves, and give na a his or her Farbbowonge by Una salat mračket, which sate Declarou or Hatement shall thenceforth leave the vanie force and affect in all repeat? usdila ne mer Hops * or Adavit (as the cause war vel to the live pur sworn to lài tho usual way, would save Bul: But no such permiator shall be granted in a person Who shall not have been fire, by the rail Court, Magli Hale, Commissioner, or Officer, duly warmer to speak \n\n15 Prath, and ladoled of the Fesultis, which lie m \n\nthe sunny, to carry through a rise of Lycan Lectures, which would be a credit to the place, and prove a saree of pleasure to our fellow citizens; and beside those wow pinong as, there \n\ndetached four Pines a Crook to the Chinese Tramps were not going quietly to 14. Et soon became apparent that the \n\nshipman. \n\nRaleigh. \n\nMr J. Phillipps, Ayting 24 Master, \n\nte fallone the sadler -ision: Com sabrnit to this proceeding without farther Gig-Capt. Figril; Ms W. Flwyn, Naval Cadet ; matcher Pureyth devonanied these Pires, resista ce, and the reck being arrow with Barge Lieut. Stanforth; Liest Ozcan, which suceredeit in capturing thasa all (ten Houses on either wids, they had every facility \n\nin amber). Commander Forsyth speaks to pick off war men. As we find passed up. | \n\nBanett, Acting Assistant Surgeon \n\nVownther, Lieut. Cox, 38th Regiment M.N.1. \n\nbighly of the gallant way the Horacf's Pin- only a few gingalls and matchlocks opened; Pinnace,--Hest. Norman; Air Barker, Mid- have, wnder Me R. A. Brown, Acting Minte, these increasing in number, presently gare! dashed in, wasupported by the other Boats, considerable ayaner, and it was necessary, which she fund distanced, against three of to keep up a continued tire with some of these heavily armed Janks which struck to the Bear's Guns, fresketry, and from the Tribune's Rucket Bost, which did good \n\nthe will ineste by making a False Fierlaan 544 345ly passing, bansient visitors, travel \n\ncat unor this risauce and furar, who shold of every part of the veld, who world her. floss he or she shali kuppen on he a busddigno) hare; gladly aid to entertain us by their obervations; \n\nWhat tlie \n\nsaid Court, Magidrato, Comeliner and at that is required would soon! to i Terved front a Religious or Contentious Bell that Beaking of a Vata is unlawful, \n\nellip; Mr Hawkins, Naval Cadet. Cutter-Lieut. Slowtherd; Mr Mangon, Mid- \n\nshipman My Verey, Gwner. \n\nInflexible. \n\nGig-Commander Corbett ; Mr W. Burney. \n\nbe a euit- 6. The main body, followed by Captain service, while other parties were employed | Starboard Uadille-Box Dou Lieut. Dacou: Mr that his or her Objection to take the Oath Ute all in which to hold such meetings Even Ragell, were soon beyond range of all, exept destroying the Junks, which compied some Buckle, Midshipman; Mr Magrath, Assistant \n\nthis desideratone, I ano gled to say, is in a fa, the Hornet's Rocket, Boat and Sybille's Pil- time, as it was cressary to burd' those at [ \n\nSargcom.",
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        "content_text": "# Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. June 10, 1857.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n**(No. 181.)**  \nMy Lord,  \n\nSir J. Bowring to the Earl of Clarendon.-(Received May 31.)  \nHong Kong, April 14, 1857.  \n\nI send your Lordship a report from Mr. Chinese Secretary Wade, giving an account of sundry documents seized on board a mandarin junk by the expedition commanded by Commodore Elliott, the successful issue of which I reported in my despatch `No. 179`, dated the 11th instant.  \n\nThese papers seem to connect the Imperial Commissioner, the mandarins, and the Canton Associations, with the atrocious acts of incendiarism, kidnapping, and assassination, which have menaced, and continue to menace, the Colony. They contain, moreover, satisfactory evidence of the efficacy of the precautions taken hitherto for the preservation of the persons and property of Her Majesty's subjects; precautions which I hope will conduct us safely through our perils.  \n\nAs there is no time to forward a copy of these documents to the Colonial Department, may I hope your Lordship will kindly cause this despatch and its inclosures to be communicated to Mr. Labouchere?  \n\nA digest of the contents of the documents above referred to is under preparation by Mr. Wade, but it is far too voluminous to be forwarded by the present mail.  \n\nI have, &c.  \n**(Signed) JOHN BOWRING.**\n\n## Inclosure 1.\n\nMr. Wade to Sir J. Bowring.  \nChinese Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, April 14, 1857.  \n\nI have the honour to inclose to your Excellency the Memorandum prepared by your desire of the contents of certain papers recently seized on board a mandarin junk by a party under the orders of Commodore Elliot. From the original pile, which was of considerable bulk, I selected between fifty and sixty papers having reference to recent events in and near this Colony; of these I have to lay before your Excellency rough translations of twelve, and in the accompanying Memorandum will be found, as nearly in order of time as I have been enabled to arrange them, all the items of intelligence contained in the whole collection of papers that appear to me deserving of record.  \n\nThe papers prove to be the correspondence of Chan-tsze-tin, the younger brother of Chan-kwei-tsih, President or Chief of the Committee of Hostility in Sau-on, the district on the coast of which Hong Kong is situated. The latter is a graduate of the degree of doctor, and formerly held office as a subordinate member of the Board of Revenue. His brother is a graduate, and the pupil of Su-ting-kwei, a member of the Han Lin College, one of the most important of the Canton gentry, and apparently the channel of communication between these brothers and the Governor General Yeh; by whose desire they repaired to their...  \n\nPage 406  \nEn 52426/57",
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        "content_text": "# The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n## SEPTEMBER 11, 1858.\n\n27th August. In the morning before leaving Lingting, a Chinese who had been taken by the pirates some days before, came on board in one of our boats; his description of the atrocities committed by the Pirates was dreadful to hear. Mr. Caldwell, the Registrar General, on board of us, having gained information at Lingting that two Pirate Junks, with a cargo Junk of Cocoa-nuts, had only left on the 25th for Coulan Bay, a stronghold and favorite resort of the Pirates, we proceeded by the Ladrone Islands to Tylon, and anchored the `Magicienne` and `Inflexible` at 5 P.M. on the south side in 4 fathoms water. I immediately proceeded in the `Plover` with all the Boats of the `Magicienne` armed, under Lieutenant Soady, and the boats of the `Inflexible` in tow of the `Algerine`, under Commander Brooker; landing the Marines under Lieutenant Tuson, R.M.A., with pinnace in charge of Lieutenant Hill, on the south side. Upon our opening Coulan Bay, we discovered a squadron of five piratical fighting Junks, with two captured cargo vessels. Upon our hearing them, they fired one gun, and ran their vessels aground, the crews jumping overboard and swimming ashore. The fire of the `Plover`, `Algerine`, and rocket-boats was admirable. Anchoring the Gun-boats in position at sunset, we took possession of the Pirate Junks mounting in all 62 Guns, the two cargo Junks being one laden with cocoa-nuts and the other with rice. We had to destroy the Cocoa-nut vessel (being on the rocks), but liberated the Rice Junk, putting on board of her the people found in the former, the united crews amounting to 24 men. At 10 P.M. I started with `Magicienne's` and `Inflexible's` first gigs, accompanied by Commander Brooker, Lieutenants Soady and Wynniatt, on a reconnoitering expedition. Up the Creek, we discovered and set fire to four Piratical fighting Junks, one of 12 guns, the others having had their guns removed; whilst destroying the Junks and some smaller vessels, occasional musket-shots were fired at us, which we returned. As we were burning the third Junk, great guns opened on us, at about 1,700 yards from inland, many of the shot reaching alongside the gigs at that distance. Favored by the moon (occasionally obscured), I determined to land; so with Commander Brooker, Lieutenants Soady and Wynniatt, and ten men, we pushed on as well as we could find our way guided by the spirited fire of the guns at the stockade, which continued until we got within pistol-shot, up to which time we had reserved our fire. Giving a volley, we pushed on; the enemy ran, ourselves being brought up for a minute or so by the entrance of the stockade being staked; clambering through mud, water, and over embankment, we got possession of the 14-Gun stockade, spiked the guns, destroyed the ammunition, fired volleys where at times we heard the enemy, and returned on board by 2 A.M., with no loss on our side. Although the shot came over our heads, the Pirates appeared to be firing at where the vessels were burning in the Creek, and not to be aware of our movements ashore, nor the smallness of our force, until we were close upon them. For, having to advance in single file, in a narrow pathway, several of the guns being placed so as to completely sweep away everything approaching, we would have required a considerable force to have attacked it in the day time, and I have little doubt that we should have sustained some loss. The guns were similar to those in the Piratical fighting Junks.\n\n28th August.-Lieutenants Sharpe and Bevan were employed getting the guns out of the Junks captured in Coulan Bay into deep water, and then setting the vessels on fire. Landing a large party under Commander Brooker, Lieutenant Soady, and Acting Mate Brabazon, I had 30 piratical fast-boats destroyed, and marched up to the stockade to destroy the guns more effectually and burn the houses in the vicinity; the same having been effected, all hands re-embarked and proceeded down to the ships, weighed and steamed down on the South side, to Sandy Bay, St John's Island. Mr. Caldwell going down on the North side, with `Plover` and `Algerine`, where all re-anchored by dark.\n\n29th August.-At daylight, having despatched the `Plover` and `Algerine` to search Samtong Bay, I proceeded with Mr. Caldwell and Commander Brooker, in `Magicienne's` and `Inflexible's` 1st gigs, to search the small rocks and coves in Sandy Bay, St John's Island; extreme end of one of the bays we came suddenly upon a piratical Junk of 10 guns, all on one broadside, and 38 men all at their guns, pointed for the entrance between the rocks. As he evidently intended disputing our entrance, and it would be impossible to board him on account of his being high and dry on the mud, I had the gig's crews landed on the rocks with their rifles. Upon our opening fire, the Pirates immediately fled, many being killed; on board we found two women, who had been prisoners for upwards of two months, whom we liberated. In the forenoon, seeing some junks to the Westward, I despatched Commander Brooker in the `Inflexible` with the Boats of the `Magicienne` under Lieutenant Soady to examine them, remaining at anchor in `Magicienne` to superintend getting the Pirate Junk out to where we were at anchor off Hawchuru Bluff. The `Plover` and `Algerine` came upon six Piratical Junks, upon which they made a spirited attack, doing much credit to Lieutenants Wynniatt and Arthur; after an exchange of shot for several minutes, the Pirates jumped overboard, upwards of 190 being killed or drowned, 36 taken alive, 22 people rescued, and 80 guns destroyed; the `Inflexible` with `Magicienne's` boats coming in very opportunely to prevent any escape, and to give a finishing stroke to an affair so ably executed by Lieutenant Wynniatt. For the particulars, I must refer you to the letter written by Lieutenant Wynniatt, enclosed herewith.\n\n30th August --At 4 P.M. hearing a gun fired from the Northward, I had the `Plover` ready with the `Magicienne's` Cutter under Lieutenant Soady, and `Inflexible's` Cutter under Lieutenant Bevan, and started at daybreak, with Mr. Caldwell and Commander Brooker after four vessels for the land.\n\nUpon our getting within gunshot, the crews of the two larger junks took to their boats and made for the shore, ourselves opening fire with musketry and great guns, destroying the greater part of them.\n\nThe vessels turned out to be one Pirate Junk mounting 5 guns, on board of which we found a Chinese woman, who had been made a prisoner with 7 men, some days before, near Macao; her vessel, the second large one, having been kept by the Pirates to form one of their squadron. The remaining two were fishing vessels, one with five men, the other with four on board, whom we liberated. The other two vessels I had taken into deep water, set fire to, and guns thrown overboard. The woman I had sent to the `Magicienne`.\n\nWeighing with the ships at 8 A.M., we proceeded to Wong Chow, where leaving the `Magicienne` and `Inflexible` at anchor, I proceeded at P.M., with Mr. Caldwell in the `Plover`, taking in tow all the `Magicienne's` Boats under Lieut. Soady, Commander Brooker going in `Algerine` with `Inflexible's` Boats. Proceeding up for Tywoo shan, at 3 P.M., we discovered two Junks; and on giving chase, one lowered her sails and anchored, turning out to be our old friend the Rice junk, who had been again captured by another Pirate (the vessel ahead), who was sailing away with a good breeze, and pulling with all her oars to escape up to the Fort of Tywoo-shan. As soon as we came up within range, we opened fire, the Chinese villagers on shore following her up, so as to slaughter anyone attempting to escape by swimming from her. At 4.10 P.M., the Pirate opened fire upon us, and continued so doing until she was taken. The `Plover` having got within canister distance, did great execution, as did the `Algerine` and all the boats. Pushing off in the boats at 4.40, the Pirate still sailing and pulling, gave us a hard chase: my gig being light, consequently got within pistol-shot distance before the other boats could come up. I cannot speak too highly of Mr. Brabazon, Acting Mate, and Mr. S.G. Anstruther, Midshipman, who came with me, or of the whole Boat's Crew, as, out of nine men, eight were wounded by the Pirates; Mr. Brabazon with the two Marines keeping up a most effective fire with their rifles; Mr. Anstruther most gallantly jumped overboard after T. Mills, Ordinary, one of the gig's crew, who in consequence of a stinkpot having exploded upon him, had to jump overboard to save himself, but being unable to swim, was fast sinking, when Mr. Anstruther rescued him; Mr. Anstruther's strength was also exhausted when assistance came to him. At 5.30 P.M., the boats having come within canister distance, as well as the `Plover` and `Algerine`, the Pirate grounded in a sinking state; those on board of her not killed jumped overboard, the few escaping us being immediately slaughtered by the villagers ashore.\n\nOne Chinese, who had been taken prisoner by the Pirates and rescued by us, informed us that this junk was commanded by the Pirate Chief Cheeppoo, who was killed shortly before the vessel grounded; also that she mounted 9 guns, having a crew of upwards of 65 men, not one of whom escaped. The coolness displayed throughout the expedition since leaving Hongkong by all on board, the accuracy of the fire from the `Plover` and `Algerine`, also from the boats of `Magicienne` and `Inflexible`, do great credit to all on board; and I take this opportunity of recommending to your favorable notice, as I have done in my covering letter, particularly Commander Brooker, Lieut. J.C. Soady, Lieut. Wynniatt, Lieut. Arthur, Lieut. Bevan, Acting Mate Brabazon, Midshipman Anstruther. The conducting of the `Plover` and `Algerine` through such intricate channels reflects the greatest credit to Mr. John Phillips, Acting second Master, and Mr. H. Swainson, second Master.\n\nI enclose herewith a list of casualties, in which I am happy to say are none killed.\n\n31st August. Marching the various creeks, we found two junks with no guns on board, but as they answered the description given to Mr. Caldwell, I had them destroyed, meeting with no resistance with the exception of one gingall shot. Before high water, I had the `Plover` and `Algerine` placed in position before the battery of Tywoo-shan, in which were two heavy long guns besides smaller ones; sending a boat in under Lieut. Soady, to set fire to a large junk, which had been used as a Pirate, but whose guns had been removed, our firing of the previous day giving them timely warning. We remained opposed to the battery until the vessel was burnt to the water's edge; however, as no shot was fired, I did not feel myself authorized in acting in any way against it, although it is well understood that the Hakka tribe, living there always, give protection openly to the Pirates, the Mandarins never yet having been able to take the place, although they have tried with a large force; the Hakka tribe being in open rebellion against them. There being nothing more to complete the destruction of, I returned with the vessels and boats to where the `Magicienne` and `Inflexible` were at anchor.\n\n1st September. Proceeded with Gun-Boats in tow to Mamee, when sending for the Mandarin, I handed over to him 22 Pirates for his disposal.\n\n2d September-Proceeded to St John's Island, searching the nooks and corners, finding nothing.\n\n3d September.-Proceeded at 4 A.M. for Tylon Island, where, at 11 A.M. anchoring the `Magicienne` and `Inflexible` on the south side, I started with Commander Brooker and Mr. Caldwell in `Plover` and `Algerine` with ships' boats to Coulan Bay. Finding I had been too lenient on the former occasion of visiting this place, in sparing the houses and many boats, as the accounts given by prisoners taken from Pirates, and from all parties enquired of, agreed that every person and article thereat were piratical, and had been for some years, also from Mr. Caldwell's previous knowledge; and as the Mandarin authorities had long since denounced it as such, I desired Commander Brooker to land with his division of boats and with those under Lieut. Soady, to search well the different lots of houses about the creek, to burn and destroy everything that he could find; which he most ably executed, having which only a few gingall shot fired at his party, which was returned, without any loss on our side, the Pirates having 4 or 5 killed. The houses were nothing more than magazines of powder and ammunition, explosions after explosions taking place. Seven more guns were discovered and destroyed, cargoes of Betel-nut and other pirated stores set fire to, as were also two piratical Fighting Junks with guns removed, 1 Cargo Junk, and about 40 Boats nearly all Fast-boats. With the `Plover` I started in chase of a Fast-boat pulling sixteen Oars, which we did not get possession of until after the crew had got ashore. She was well armed and provisioned, mounted a 6 pounder in the stern. Two other Piratical Fast-boats were likewise discovered and set fire to. The destruction of their favorite stronghold with loss of powder and Ammunition will I trust prevent the Pirates fitting out any vessels of consequence for Piratical purposes for some time.\n\n4th September-Proceeded by Kypong Islands, Sammoon and Ling-ting, where we now are.\n\n## H.M.S. “Magicienne,” off Lingting Island, 4th September, 1858.\n\n**NICHOLAS VANSITTART, Captain.**\n\n## Return of Piratical War Junks, &c., captured by H.M.'s Ships \"Magicienne,” “Inflexible,” “Plover,” and \"Algerine,\" on the undermentioned dates, with the number of Cargo Junks and Prisoners retaken from the Pirates, and Casualties in the crews of H.M's Ships.\n\n| DATE | PLACE | Piratical War Junks damaged and burnt | CAPTURED OR DESTROYED | Pirates killed or drowned | Prisoners taken alive | Recaptured from Pirates | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1858 |  |  | Piratical War Junks | Guns spiked or sunk into deep water | Cargo Junks rescued |  |  |\n| Aug. 26 | Lingting Islands, | 2 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Culan Bay,..... | 9 | 30 | 74 |  | 27 | Under the Pirate Chief Momema. Upwards of 120 Pirates on this Island. An armed stockade of 14 guns was captured and destroyed by a night attack. |\n| 28 |  |  |  |  |  | 25 |  |\n| 29 | St John's Island, | 1 | 10 |  |  |  | Under the Pirate Chief Kowkung-hung. The crews of the Piratical War Junks escaped to shore; many killed. |\n|  | Off Hawcheun Bluff, | 6 | 80 | 36 | 190 | 22 | Under the Pirate Chief Lowcumfat. |\n| 30 | St John's, | 1 | 9 |  |  | 3 |  |\n|  | Teywoo-shan....... | 1 | 12 | 65 |  |  | Under the Pirate Chief Yaongkong-poo, |\n| 31 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Under the Pirate Chief Tunghai. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Under the Pirate Chief Cheepoo, who was killed in the affair. This vessel offered resistance for upwards of an hour, wounding with stinkpots, gingalls, &c., 8 of the 9 men in `Magicienne's` Captain's Gig. |\n| Sept. 4 | Coulan, | 2 | 7 |  |  |  | Recaptured-the same liberated at Coulan. Guns removed-Pirates warned by the fight of the previous evening. |\n| Totals, |  | 22 | 148 | 74 | 255 | 78 |  |\n\n**NICHOLAS VANSITTART, Captain.**\n\n## H.M.'S GUN-BOAT Plover, SANDY BAY, 29th August, 1858.\n\nTo have the honour to acquaint you, that in obedience to your orders, I proceeded with the `Plover` and `Algerine` to Samtong Bay where nothing was met with beyond a few fishing and trading boats, but from whom I gained information of pirates having been there on the previous evening, but had left during the night in the direction of Gunjavar Channel; upon which I considered I should not be departing from my instructions in following them up, which I did, searching the whole of the western shore of Hawchen Island, without seeing anything suspicious until we arrived at Hawcheun Bluff, when we suddenly opened fire on six piratical Junks standing in line towards the shore, which from their appearance as to tonnage and cut of sails, quite agreed with the information we had received at Samtong. As we approached within gun shot, fire was opened immediately on both sides, Lieutenant Arthur in the `Algerine` taking the right extreme of the line, while the `Plover` took the left, to prevent their reaching the shore, firing continually on both sides for many minutes, when the men jumped overboard from the Junks and made for the shore, a few escaping in their small boats, leaving us in possession of the Junks, which were as speedily as possible anchored, guns thrown overboard, and set fire to, in which we were very much assisted by the joining of the `Inflexible` and `Magicienne's` boats under Lieutenant Soady, as every assistance was given by Commander Brooker in destroying the Junks, which being completed in obedience to instructions from Commander Brooker I proceeded with the `Algerine`, to examine Namoa Harbour and the channel leading between the Islands of Hawcheun, Wasp, Cricket, and Dipachou, when I rejoined the `Magicienne`. I am happy to say that the captures were effected without a single man being wounded on our side, though the fire at times was heavy. As far as I am able to learn, upwards of eighty guns were destroyed.\n\nIn conclusion, I beg to bring to your notice, the very cordial co-operation I received from Lieutenant Arthur in the `Algerine`, and the brisk and accurate fire kept up by the Gun-boats reflects the highest credit on both men and officers.\n\nI further think it my duty to bring to your notice Mr. John Phillips, Second Master of the `Plover`, who conducted the vessels through most intricate channels in a manner which showed great judgment and ability. The Interpreter sent by Mr. Caldwell, Registrar General, proved of great value in obtaining information and making himself generally useful.\n\nHoping that our proceedings will meet with your approval,\n\nI have, &c., &c.,\n\nTo Captain N. VANSITTART, C.B.,\n\nH.M.'s Ship `Magicienne`.\n\n**True Copies,**\n\nH. F. HANCE.\n\n**ROBERT WYNNIATT, Lieutenant Commanding.**",
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        "content_text": "Ditches, boundary stones, &c.\n\nR. \"Laon-moo-kaon.\"\n\nMandarin civil.\n\nNot allowed to proceed up\n\nHostile demonstration.\n\nthe\n\nTiver.\n\nReconciliation.\n\nNight review.\n\nTrucks laden with timber.\n\n14\n\nWith regard to the ditches said to exist near Tien-tsin, they say it is not the usual custom to divide their fields in this way, as they use boundary stones; but these ditches exist in places near the river banks, where they irrigate the land by means of them.\n\nAugust 12th.-Having discovered entrance to the \"Laon-moo-kaon,\" entered the river with two gigs, leaving a gun-boat anchored at the mouth. We were met near the mouth by a Mandarin, with a party of Tartar Cavalry, but were able to get little or no information about the upper part of the river. They were unarmed. The Mandarin told us that he was in command at the mouth of the river, but that his superior officer was a short distance higher up.\n\nThat it would be as much as his life is worth to allow us to pass his post, and he begged us not to attempt it.\n\nWe told him we wanted water for the ships, and also wished to purchase sheep and vegetables. He was very civil in his manner, but guarded in what he said. There were two men aides-de-camp to the Commander at the Great Wall, who had come down to him on business, and these men appeared rather to watch him.\n\nAfter conferring with him we said we should sail up a little higher, to see if the water would there be clearer than at the mouth of the river. He begged us not, but we sailed on in spite of him. They rode along the bank; and, on our passing the village, they all seized their arms, matchlocks and bows, and crying out to fight, they rushed behind a breastwork and levelled their pieces, and declared they would fire if we advanced.\n\nWe remonstrated, and asked them what they could mean by such threats; we did not wish to hurt them, and did not care about their river, if they were much opposed to our ascending it; they were our friends, and we did not wish to outrage their feelings. The Mandarin said he was full of the most friendly feeling for us, but he would be disgraced if he allowed us to pass after the orders he had received, and he could not risk such a thing by giving way to his affection for us.\n\nWe then landed and had tea with him, and were presented with a fan cach. Before leaving, I expressed a wish to see the bow used. He sent for one, and the man seemed to go a long way for it on horseback.\n\nSome remark was made about the time he was absent, to which the Mandarin replied, \"He has to go a great distance to fetch it; would it be proper to have warlike implements near, when such dear friends as you are with me.\" Meanwhile the boat's crew found about 40 or 50 jingalls and spears hidden in the sand close by.\n\nThat night heavy guns were fired in the direction of the river and jingalls, and several lights were noticed from the ships. On being asked next day what it meant, the Mandarin answered that his superior had had a review, but that now he was informed what intimate and dear friends were at hand, such a display would not be proper, and therefore we should not hear it again.\n\nMany of the junks in the river were laden with pieces of round fir timber about 6 to 10 feet long, and from 1' 6\" to 2 feet diameter. He told us they were for sawing up into planks, but the lengths appeared too short; several pieces were seen laid upon the beach at intervals, as if a boom was being formed. However, they might merely have been floated up thus. (Afterwards found to be for coffins).\n\n350\n\n15\n\nThe river opposite the village is about 400 yards wide, with flat low banks, Description of and has a narrow channel of deep water, in which there would be about 10 feet at low water. The water appears, however, gradually to shoal, and an anchorage could be seen about 1 mile above where we landed.\n\nriver.\n\nThe village at its mouth is composed to a great extent of houses for accommodating discharged cargoes, and it is therefore probable that the river is not navigable for junks higher up. There is a very rapid current.\n\nThe mouth of the river is closed by a bar of sand, having over it only 3 feet at low water, and as the tide rises only about 4′9′′ at springs, the river would not be available except for vessels of very light draft, and with a high tide. The country to the S.W. is flooded at high tides, and would appear impracticable Country to the but for the fact of cart-tracks being seen over the sand.\n\nA creek runs in from the sea a little below the river, and a road leads from it towards the N.W., which is protected by an old breastwork and battery for 3 guns.\n\nGreat mirage exists all down this coast, which may perhaps give an idea of more water than actually exists.\n\nS.W.\n\nHowever, the country appears extremely unfit for military operations at Country unfit for military operations. the very best; the shoal nature of the coast, and consequent large surface of land influenced by the tide, must render both landing and marching very difficult.\n\n\"Laon-moo-Kaou.\"\n\nThe water of the Laon-moo-kaon, though very thick, settles rapidly with Water good in the application of a little alum, and is very good. With an ebb tide it is perfectly fresh at the mouth.\n\nAugust 16-Arrived at the \"Ching-ho.\"\n\nThe country from the Laon-moo-kaon to this is all flat. Mud plains extend inland to a very great distance; they are covered at high tides. After walking inland for about 3 miles over this mud, a sort of cactus plant is met with, which marks probably the extreme high water boundary; but beyond this no cultivation is seen, and the rows of trees appear as far off as when seen from the beach.\n\nR.\" Ching-ho.\"\n\nThe mirage, which is constantly very great, prevents me forming a very Mirage. correct idea of distance, or whether the intervening space is water or not. The whole ground looks like a lake, and the dry sand has just the appearance of water. I believe, however, it is occasionally flooded, as is evidenced by the sca-shells and crab-shells, and general appearance of the mud. There is also in places an incrustation of salt, which places the fact of an occasional flooding beyond doubt.\n\nAbout 9 miles below the Laon-moo-kaon there is a small river, but shallow, having about 8 feet at high water at the mouth, but this lessens higher up. I believe it to be a branch of the Ching-ho. There is no fresh water here, Fresh water defi- as I saw a junk come and anchor, and a cart was driven down from the country with water in it to fill her.\n\ncient.\n\nWhen there is any wind a heavy surf breaks over the bar at the mouth of \"Ching-ho\" Bar. the \"Ching-ho.\" At low tide there is from 2' 6\" to 4 feet of water over it. The Chinese say there are 9 feet over with high tides.\n\nA north wind makes it shallow, and a south wind makes it deep. Within the bar there is a deepish channel from 8 to 24 feet, though not often above 10 or 12.",
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        "content_text": "360\n\nJunks very numerous laden with wood.\n\nCorn depot.\n\nMoved on to the \"Sha-lin-tien\" Banks.\n\nR. \"Peh-tang-ho.\"\n\nK.“Che-haon.ho.”\n\nBar.\n\n16\n\nAbout 3 miles from the mouth is an old 3-gun battery, with a breastwork for musketry. This commands 3 passages, viz., the main river, another passage from the seaward, apparently not much used, and, probably, too shallow for loaded junks, and a third shallow passage, only available for boats. After passing this battery the river becomes very narrow, in places not more than 50 yards at low tide. The channel is rather difficult to find.\n\nThere appears, however, to be 8 feet of water at high tide all the way up to the Corn Stores, which are about 6 miles up the river on the left bank, and are of considerable extent.\n\nHere the junks unload, and the goods are carried inland. The junks, of which we saw great numbers, possibly 100, were principally laden with corn, or large fir timbers, some of very large diameter. The larger timber usually the shortest, probably on account of the difficulty of transporting more than a certain weight overland without timber carriages, which I have not heard of the Chinese having.\n\nIt is said that there is a town called \"Laon-ting-shien,\" about 30 le higher up, and near the great road, and from this tower you can go by roads to any place.\n\nThe distance to Pekin is said to be 400 le, and to Tien-tsin 200 le. The river is said not to be navigable for junks above the Corn Depôt, which is about 6 miles from the mouth Here we met the two aides-de-camp of the District General, the same men we met at \"Laon moo-kaon.\" They asked us where we were going next, and are evidently following us down the coast. Their presence prevented our obtaining any information.\n\nIn consequence of the Mandarin's following us we determined to move to \"Sha-lin-tien,\" and correct rates of chronometers, and then move southwards, where it is important that we should land and get some information.\n\nThe Mandarin would lose sight of us, and if, on hearing of our being there, he moved down, we should probably have finished our work, and could up again ourselves, and give him the slip.\n\nReached Sha-lin-tien on 21st.\n\nAugust 22nd.---Leaving Cruiser\" with the chronometers to take sights, went down in Forester\" until we sighted the Pei-ho Forts, as we wished to communicate with the Americans, if they were there. Found they had left.\n\nBoarded a sea-going junk. Heard they had left 3 days ago, having been 20 days at Pekin.\n\nThe river at which they landed is called the \"Peh-tang-ho,\" and the bar is not passable by junks, except at high water. Could get no news of our lost vessels. Returned in afternoon, and sailed next morning, and anchored off the mouth of a river.\n\n23rd. Went up the \"Che-kaon-ho\" in boats. It is a tolerably deep river (12 feet); but with a bar across the mouth, and a narrow channel.\n\nThe bar has from 5 to 9 feet at high water; the latter only at springs. There were 7 feet at this time. H. W. at 3 P.M.\n\nPulling up to within about a 4-mile of the village of \"Che-kaon,\" which is on the right bank we found a creek on the left bank, narrow, but with 5 feet of water in it, the tide being at the time low.\n\nWe pushed the boat in and landed.\n\n17\n\nThe mud is hard, and supports the weight of a man well. The river is Nature of banks. here, at low water, about 300 yards from high-water level. The ground here is quite flat, and covered with a coarse sort of grass, and in spots (more particularly near the shore) corn is grown. This ground, apparently, is occasionally covered at very high tides. The ground in-shore looks flat and damp, but this is probably partly the effect of mirage; there are numerous cart-tracks leading Inland community. inland, so it is certain there must be inland communication.\n\nAbout three miles up the coast is another village, called Ma-ping-kaon.\" \"Ma-ping-kaon.” There is a dry road to it along the sea-shore, except in one place, where a creek about 160 yards wide has to be crossed. It is quite dry at low water, and never probably more than 2 feet deep; the bottom being very flat carts are driven over this; the country inside is flooded by this creek to a certain extent.\n\nWe were told at \"Che-kaon,” that after traversing 20 le of this flat (which they say at very high tides is sometimes covered), you reach a good road by which you can go to “Tien-tsin” or “Tung-koo.” They appear to exaggerate Reported distances. the distances, calling it 400 le to \"Tien-tsin,\" and 200 to the \"Pei-ho.\"\n\nFlats of hard mud run out from this river, and are dry at low water for a Extensive flats of distance of about 4 miles from the shore. The fishermen walk about on the mud and sand. mud with ease.\n\nNear the mouth of the river, on the flat where we landed, is a great ridge of shells thrown up, and quite hard and dry, affording a very good spot to form men, or place temporarily stores or guns. There is perhaps a mile of this ridge, and 50 feet wide.\n\nChe-kaon-ho\" not \n\nboats.\n\nI don't think the river would be available for gun-boats, but there would be no difficulty in landing a light column with mountain artillery to recon- practicable for gun- noitre; and I believe the route to the Pei-ho Forts\" would be found practicable for any force.\n\nShould the mouth of the river be defended, the hard nature of the banks would allow of men being thrown on shore to turn the works. We were told that the river was not deep enough for boats for more than 20 le higher than the village, also that by going higher up you got further distant from the road. We were told that no river exists between this and the \"Pei-ho.\"\n\nFurther information, which we got next day on board a junk, is much more credible. The distance to the Pei-ho\" is said to be 100 le, and a small river intervenes, which is called the \"Yen-ho,\" or Salt River, and receives its R. \"Yen-ho.\" water from the \"Pei-ho.\"\n\nMeasured a base of 2 miles on shore for survey of river mouth.\n\nAugust 26th.-Sounded in gun-boats, saw no means of approaching within or 4 miles of the shore. The villagers have no boats and the fishermen inva- riably walk out to their nets sometimes 3 or 4 miles.\n\nSteamed up to within 3 or 4 miles of the \"Pei-ho\" Forts; found there is no river of any size intervening, fancied we saw the \"Yen-ho,\" alluded to above.\n\nForts.\n\nThe Forts were manned, and numerous banners hoisted on our approach.\n\nAugust 27th.-Moved the vessel up to within about 6 miles of the \"Pei-ho'\n\nThe coast appears quite the same.\n\nMeasured a base.\n\nM\n\n13\n\nF\n\nS\n\n28th. Waded on shore. Boats can not approach nearer them than 600",
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        "content_text": "361\n\nYen-ho.\n\nSand hard and fit to walk on.\n\nR.\" Pei-ho\"\n\nObstacles, &c.\n\n18 yards, even at high tide. Found the place called the \"Yen-ho,\" it is merely a portion of the beach about 200 yards wide, which is lower than that on either side, and through this passage the water flows at high tides, flooding to a depth of a few inches the country inside.\n\nThere appears to be a beach dry at all times the whole way from the \"Che-kaon-ho\" to the \"Pei-ho\" Forts. There may be occasional places like this \"Yen-ho\" to cross, but nothing of any consequence.\n\nThe sand appears hard and quite fit to land men on, should it be desirable to throw a force on shore here; it would be quite practicable at high tide; the men might have to wade half a mile, but on a hard bottom. Flat bottomed boats (paddle-box) should be used, however, and these convey 100 men each.\n\nField Artillery might be floated to within range at high tide upon rafts, and on the tide falling they might be dragged up high and dry.\n\nAugust 30.-A gale of wind from the N.E. prevented our work,\n\n31st. Went into the \"Pei-ho,\" to see the state of the forts, &c. The gun-boats anchored about 1 mile from the forts, and we pulled in, in boats.\n\nThe river was much crowded with junks. The position of the iron stakes appeared to be rather changed, and the booms temporarily partly opened.\n\nOn arriving abreast of the Centre South Fort we were met by a Mandarin Chinese inquiries in a boat who asked us what we wanted? We said we had heard that they had English Prisoners at \"Tien-tsin,\" and were come to ask if it was the case. They answered, they had had one, but had given him up to the Americans, as he belonged to that country, and they had no more. They asked what we were doing, and we said, making a map of the ocean, as was the English custom. They hoped we should go, as, by visiting their coasts, in the way we did from one end to the other, we caused them to \"Eat Misery.\"\n\nForts unchanged.\n\nWrecks unmoved.\n\nR. \"Peh-tang-ho.\"\n\nObserved no change in the Forts except that they were all repaired and in good order. It is possible they may have put an outer coating to the wall between the embrasures, just to thicken the old wall, but no material difference exists.\n\nWe saw the wrecks of the vessels. The tide being high, we saw but little, only the top of the \"Cormorant's\" funnel, and some of the upper timbers of the others. They appear to have small floats attached to the \"Lee,\" and a large stake appeared to have been driven on either side of her, as if to keep her in position. Many large junks were lying all around them, and one junk of war. Counted about 172 junks near the mouth of the river.\n\nSeptember 1st.-Shifted berth, and anchored off the \"Peh-tang-ho,\" the river where the Americans landed to commence their overland journey to \"Pekin.\"\n\n2nd. Attempted to get into the river in a gun-boat, but could not find more that 8 feet of water.\n\n3rd. Sent boats in to sound the channel out from the deep water under the forts, whilst I proceeded in a gun-boat, and surveyed the coast for about 9 miles to the N.E.\n\n19\n\n4th. Completed the work at the \"Peh-tang-ho.\" I attempted to land with the interpreter at a village about 3 miles N.E. of the river, in order to see the nature of the country.\n\nOur boat was observed by the \"Tartars,\" and 25 men, armed, came down to the beach. Landing opposed.\n\nBeing unable to get the boat within 300 yards of the shore, we got out to wade, taking two men with a sack to cut grass for the sheep on board, as an excuse for landing. However, the \"Tartars\" were not to be taken in, and made ready to fire on us. Expressing great surprise at their want of courtesy and strange objections to so harmless an employment, we were forced to return to the boats.\n\nI, then, with Commander Bythesea, pulled into the river, and got up above the southern forts, and managed to sketch them without opposition; but just as we left, a large number of mounted men came down on both sides of the river, but too late to prevent the object being attained.\n\nThe bar at the mouth of the river has at least 4 feet over it at low water, Bar and channel. The rise and fall is about 10 feet; and after crossing the bar, the channel, which is easy, has 12 feet at low water up to the forts.\n\nAccounts appear to agree to the effect that the river is not navigated very far. So far as one could see, the course of the river appears to be north-easterly, River apparently and I do not think it runs into the \"Pei-ho,\" as pretended by the Chinese,\n\ndoes not join the\n\n\"Pei-ho.\n\nforts.\n\nThere is a fort on either bank of the river, both firing down the channel, Description of the and at the same time partially supporting each other.\n\nThe southern fort consists of two earthen mounds, similar to those of the South. \"Pei-ho\" forts, about 30 feet high, and having 3 embrasures each, all in the front face. They are connected by an earthen curtain about 18 feet high, and containing 4 embrasures.\n\nOn the proper right of the southern bastion, a curtain containing two embrasures runs up to the houses of the town.\n\nOn the proper left of the southern bastion, there is a similar short curtain containing 1 embrasure, and at its extremity the wall is returned apparently by a thin battlemented mud wall for musketry, which appears to close on the houses at this end, and in this manner form an enceinte for the work\n\nThe whole length of the fort is not more than about 200 yards. Each embrasure is closed by shutters. The parapet on the top of the mound does not appear above 4 feet thick, and the embrasures are without genouillières,\n\nThe northern point of the battery is not more than 40 yards from the river, but the line of the work runs obliquely from it, so as to enfilade the approach up the river.\n\nThere is a ditch of some sort in front of the southern part of the fort, as I saw a junk there.\n\nThe usual landing-place appears to be close to the northern part of the Landing place. fort. This ditch or creek, in front of the southern part, is sure to be very muddy, and a great obstacle.\n\nAbove the fort there is a good deal of broken ground on the southern bank, which would form admirable cover for an enemy's infantry.\n\nIt would be possible to land troops on the spit, at a long range from the forts, even by laying a vessel alongside, the water being so deep; but I should fear the nature of the ground, and the mud on the banks of the ditch. Should...",
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        "content_text": "77\n\nin\n\nthat neighbourhood after having destroyed two Portuguese lorchas at the port of Lamyt, belonging to Macao.\n\nthis\n\nwe were informed that they\n\nthe\n\noff\n\nwere\n\npiratical village of Pootou (formerly described to me by Leew as a nest of pirates) and having arrived at the latter in a fog\n\nwe found\n\none\n\nlarge and two\n\nsmall junks hauled up behind\n\na rock near some 20 fishing boats.\n\nLew landed and brought off two of the Elders of the village who admitted that half the villagers lived by piracy and the rest by fishing, that the large junk\n\na prize considered too clumsy\n\nwas\n\n301\n\nfor piratical service and that those we were in quest of were cruising in the Formosa Channel. Lew requested me to burn the junk but before it could be done the fog suddenly cleared and two junks\n\nwere observed\n\nstanding into the bay which the Elders confessed to belong to this\n\nJunk\n\nbut\n\nthey lacked wind and\n\nseeing us chased but making\n\nthe crews landed before\n\nfor the\n\nthe shore\n\nwe could\n\ncome up and ran over the hills towards Pootou. The junks shewed ample evidence of piratical character; to a stranger they appeared ordinary traders but the gunwales were made to unship, leaving ports 15 feet",
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        "content_text": "Lient : Mainwaring, A. N., to Senior Naval Officer, Hongkong #5\n\nCopy\n\nLetter of Proceedings.\n\nSir,\n\n207\n\nH. M. Gun Boat Haughty\n\nHongkong, December 30th 1864\n\nI have the honor to report for your information that I cleared up the Tai Kok Tau Channel.\n\nOn the morning of the 29th and anchored in the afternoon off the Village of Mau Kok about 6 Miles above Black Point, where the informer said his junk had been taken to and cargo transferred to another one. I learnt from a fishermen that a junk answering the description of the latter had gone up in the direction of Sai Wan.\n\n18. Senior Officer\n\nStonghing\n\n \nbecomes \nLient : Mainwaring, A. N., to Senior Naval Officer, Hongkong #5\n\nCopy\n\nLetter of Proceedings.\n\nSir,\n\n207\n\nH. M. Gun Boat Haughty\n\nHongkong, December 30th 1864\n\nI have the honor to report for your information that I cleared up the Tai Kok Tau Channel.\n\nOn the morning of the 29th and anchored in the afternoon off the Village of Mau Kok about 6 Miles above Black Point, where the informer said his junk had been taken to and cargo transferred to another one. I learnt from a fishermen that a junk answering the description of the latter had gone up in the direction of Sai Wan.\n\n18. Senior Officer\n\nStaonghing \n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format:\n\nLient : Mainwaring, A. N., to Senior Naval Officer, Hongkong #5\n\nCopy\n\nLetter of Proceedings.\n\nSir,\n\n207\n\nH. M. Gun Boat Haughty\n\nHongkong, December 30th 1864\n\nI have the honor to report for your information that I cleared up the Tai Kok Tau Channel.\n\nOn the morning of the 29th and anchored in the afternoon off the Village of Mau Kok about 6 Miles above Black Point, where the informer said his junk had been taken to and cargo transferred to another one. I learnt from a fishermen that a junk answering the description of the latter had gone up in the direction of Sai Wan.\n\n18. Senior Officer\n\nStaonghing",
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        "content_text": "45.\n\nso\n\nI steamed up the river anchoring for the night 4 Miles below the town.\n\nOn the 2nd I weighed but got on shore on a mud bank (not marked on the Chart) about half a mile from my former Anchorage. I then went up in the boats to the town, and boarded a large junk leading to it.\n\nOne of the crew of informant's junk recognized her as the one Cargo had been transferred to, and on Searching they found several articles of Clothing (but no Cargo) belonging to them.\n\nI mustered the Crew, one of which identified as a man who had assisted in the capture of the Military Contractors' junk. I regret to state he escaped, but I have brought the Super-Cargo and two of the crew with me to Hong Kong.\n\nI tried to get the Junk off the shore but could not, and being three miles from the Ship, and evening coming on, left her.\n\nTwo China men in Hong Kong named Wong-Ping (a rope maker) and Lan-qui-chine (the owner of an eating house) are part owners of her, and from what I have since learned from one of the Crew of the Junk implicated in this affair are.\n\nI found the Soundings in the river to have considerably shoaled since the Survey in 1861, and the deep channel with eight feet in it stalled across (otherwise) I should have taken the Gun Boat up to the town.\n\n(Signed) K.H. Mainwaring Lieutenant and Commander.\n\nForwarded for the perusal of His Excellency.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "76 \n\nbegged me to be good enough to hand over to the Mandarin at Kowloon. I retained these Pirates on board, and today, on my return to Hongkong, delivered them with the witnesses against the said Mandarin together with thew.\n\nReturning today from Plover Cove, and when just as the entrance of the Tolo Channel, 2 suspicious looking junks appeared beating in, directly they observed the Gun Boat, they ran to the nearest Junko shore. I endeavoured to out them but before I could do so, they reached near the beach, and escaped enough to some by swimming, excepting 2 whom I took prisoners.\n\nBoth of these junks had been captured from traders, the one first Mured the other, and on board were portions of the original crews, who had been kept prisoners. I am informed by the Italian missionary, that at a village called Sa-tan-Nest (Starling Jules) the head man of a numerous Pirate gang resides, and the owners of the re-captured junks inform me, that his junk was fitted out as a Pirate, and manned from the village; he states that 43 men were on board when it was taken there and moreover, that 9 other junks were ...",
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        "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 1965\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nthe acting Attorney General formally presented the case.\n\nTUM\n\nWows Arurdwand Cunniline. How critic, wither be rug use, RACANY to 1 Quorem wede ja abia cenu!\n\nby amann othut Jerice, if the tenny, which Re very touch dobe, die He is to colon se wire Bosk\n\n'To Lei.\n\n2713 omdat psico. Spratly or in Waltres special two-storied Godorum Hiland on the Primu close for Monate. 1. Hupy, outer was perf M\n\n21 Best of Meesce Gibb, Livingst, & 60,\n\nAppl\n\nENFORD & O\n\nFor Sale.\n\nEXORATOR. PARLARE.\n\nnines Sail Femmes B. Wii U of James Tuila\n\nHenty, in Hid by Axrorud Skin i. Bile, the inlene hran\n\nAda |\n\nmil\n\nFor Sale.\n\nWALL PAPER, of different patterns\n\nLAMMERT ATZINGON A GE\n\n9 Bengkong, 11th July. D5665.\n\n-- NEW CALINIURIATMOATS,\n\nWhite Male Barille. Ladis Fashivele li Rehner, is at Clack\n\nMuk Estic Kit Glowny, de vente per mišri\n\n1758 +2, 26 July, 1966,\n\n--16, 20\n\nsaid Wong Strong our fa Alyce Builder 150 Tipping, Cure, 15.\n\ngigin ritused on a basin, sive credetion of angi\n\n********* + LIST OF HOLD... the virus of af every hid the Sint ser inte bereof to pruce Lier theic clits TOMIZAM she is by be done the Lot of word and PARINIC LOT NO. 185 siteated esraw the lindore of the portusing by tee Jo-band ef 5 Cibany Sector 1 orang, Print, Fenuraga 120 rive? the whole political pond foaring Lo Mucker and over aantal interest 50,70 feet\n\nFor Paris, noply to 1619 Qllion in the Ren, 2nd find grafite these! paw wing vờ là\n\nhat no Tube 38, at 67-. This was like sivon, em ciment met\n\nCethi pendest bande? io. Prit you! That Watdhere wither art i Let of Gora) REK İTEMİnce will be and par roRRIL Pmmixas |\n\nalimevine\n\nLased the ith day if June, I HÃN,\n\nPI MAZELAND, Crown Poikat, Sprazse t'bars Floșua\n\nponte Exeggut te themid Deerce This the ice an the slatamine published in presidente für mühital leuinney, we pretend that Noch 13ton Berlin B'ame of Monday Topky. The joint Sind of political peristirauzito mmsplate and ¦\n\n2 was a (bimargan, angazed at se merah pez ¦ soarchive sa propustion to the politimil Indagine Death a thin was te-fer hia do we e-the time of the safetcher, at mental. Ens while of the wrath. I was in tay chân, whaết kho minit facturilting these are al maaż, when pha sirrak. ↑ End vermeintó en deck; the roles of aperosive latimay, that the tmekih 13:15 25. The chief officer was no desk at hammaitišs of the ouso require at it the na The Hon. When we strups the tide we zonningthilation of the political influrane of the thin\n\n3. Beat the only offices in of the sumption facty, me tepress var ATE: Watts on the month lard of the & Worked hope that the Ararins ument may CITORAGS may la bed in das fun GRA Tha pink shann? The answer. The gone bey the men da to this malier in mak sut maruple to 98, 12) SITS MODOWY8, under Mesen, Bowrat\n\nsom, the hewing thracht went snerul et following tin bail example vs have int & Cela Oker, Janga Weste\n\nPD-\n\nbesar 9 miles W, of Gutaki lemn, met in Gris the gunichaorac, of pic\n\nhow pur ai the Engelsolent. & alaleak in the lived disquitostira thers Du\n\nWe at 1.55 cm. The ah 1116 removal is tim allenal, spīdenda splinting\n\nwas wete aking at the sloan. Wie we sterke, Kér, Dariu rad Kr. Menjanin ko sāc ammalanandirm\n\nJ 1351\n\nStorage.\n\nBORAGE,\n\npartia moyle to\n\nLANTATION ♣ tìu. Broky, Jely, 13\n\n***** UNINTERAGE AND STORAGE. ****\n\n8 Bndervigovt will modertake to lush Cut j 1.\n\nWhon et druck. That would fart ways of Mr. Langeln, or 018 in the ing of the bar Badets and kar rodine phth the sama te fuit heas vary strutiva, opal Not/lem eius-Tat there be red for thema I that on his plane thart Werk the punish it fairly found elty, their own to see the rai e. The rate was thiet all that night with petuity patentined in fun. But logs in fascines that dunsæirnal clear intervala. We pay the four Fight in 4-4-one pic lead slow, abrose who wreck.\n\nthe Actions overnement vinafoxtet are its tale carme. power god ite plamenes, hitherty na elemolly short throughout this m\n\npilate\n\nBORT. & WALKER $ 20. Prae. 4th and 1863\n\nK. Serið vit of the India Rock, sid: to such us as the iTEAGE, ona be bus in Grantle Unde\n\n1GA\n\nandling Huntington How Long love foto dhe i orchellaity of Quar's Road 11\n\nPombe given the the fut\n\nut\n\nApply\n\nABSINBBOY MATHABLOY A UV.\n\n£ *ing ffomplete. 1716 May, 196\n\nBoad,\n\nAered in a central puition in law's like forme kugejaten ErdalwooA, Apply\n\nty to\n\nGIRS LIVINGSTON 4. US,\n\n981 Bobek, tand there. 18,\n\nEVOKE ASH COAL 2.41 sal!\n\nAndesit tho moha un cha\n\nand CDs Cur Festraller has 1' intues\n\nRon. Liz Houghnan, 2741 they. 15.\n\nand\n\n-- 200 Cod Nagar\n\n20 Bamenda Shil' Better\n\nPlate He\n\nhot napros\n\nEn fiscu\n\nFrant Roses, furs.\n\napply w\n\nNULLER I OLAFSSES.\n\ndegli utes the risin 125 Banglang, 2716 demon. Is\n\nBrant Fair. Apple\n\nAWUTH ARCHEN A. UO.\n\n1973 Hongkong. Via duly, 1968,\n\nPOR SALE\n\nCourt the Boone\n\nFor Sale\n\nFanted,\n\n12 invica of White Wine, ventining\n\nA\n\nPlayer.\n\nBLiu=Äiryihu:r.\n\nHolder\n\nSing Kn\n\nLAY & Cu\n\nJes\n\n1 1997 Strugkong. With fun. 1786,\n\nRoyal Traning of stooty-bound S\n\neating of\n\nblood's Memorite.\n\nSugar Talie Twis\n\nIT W\n\nFrank Polar\n\nMaurice you\n\nPur Surin Hres\n\nHär july's Meilė.\n\nfred Mytaty.\n\nMislandReMAG.\n\nSasha Buy.\n\nH\n\n1. Ma\n\nRuban Mill.\n\nhalshei\n\n16.\n\nStambe\n\nkcjuesin\n\nMand, & Rym of Honma Storrien, Porst, d'incert. Tipuram, Sr. An\n\nYHO HET A to.\n\na mekong eth Mey, G.\n\nREAL ILAVANA USUA 155 dealing art s\n\napezio ya AYANA, w picast uppisis. Peopren of de ret d'Bauge.\n\nHongkong, 3rd October, 1\n\nA BRIDAN Tap uggies and Harney.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.\n\nASTELLÀTE JURNYCHEN.\n\n1802\n\nHEY, Appelt. z. 1.1-%PNER, Royanini. A EL or Coste\n\nAug 11th 75 Beleinet............. \n\nbridgwa\n\nChristine Matana.\n\nHaish A White's Horaitors and Car\n\nBar\n\nUcpb-towding Carblown and Car-\n\nNow Halas\n\nJahn Kerchwoni's Lagaay,\n\nseals.\n\nwilgen.\n\nand e fal aviv slu.\n\n11\n\n30 barrels Ty DEKAT\n\nSark Pictionary\n\n109 Bargond's Cebuan.\n\n100 pana, Clavul,\n\nBranty.\n\nWap-asi los 11 Tow Shipbone ol Opera,\n\nFor in When\n\nmut, Selz July, căni,\n\nAT THE MAMLS, AND LAVITE GIRA23 NICHOL\n\nGinkley Heart, ita 3\n\nDear Ms Papa'\n\ndie Spri Gazdag, suitabin fur jumtheshaver oriolum in zạn vừw the whole busbuat.\n\napply to\n\n1. NOW HOJEK\n\n:bout to 1$ (), a. Un mm (16h, July 1965.\n\ntrendition of this ufen, had dintainen fumust be the Free Consul at duties and dug Eve-aghaimile of comeings sirength. Mr. Unik Shea pot in the praizng dễ an beroditzes prieve The whose children met set up e claim re they seep-\n\nwing of the Lelie Garth. I hid tifant. I was on lesk when the prank. for obesen mitte). That is as siguture. migaie kurky wann whim pátek.\n\n2nd I hank self at about th Inet vant nf the Soud T\n\nCow be limo hits The Heuring witter benciagani? tem, and gas balwynn Të fal, and a falla. The¦unan háu arvid Hera Togstd in Las parta Seve silat won deck armyding a Getin mhaft of me\n\nnxise\n\nnil sevic1950 kerak.\n\nUeberal\n\nBULAT A DO\n\nFind t\n\nALISHMENT.\n\nstock of fusion fraus nad ellers nat\n\nmi tyllawz si ¡Curta CleNu, 2 in Lance ni falan napki\n\n-N. 2 Marila\n\nCh-2\n\n-N\n\nin the Qera's Hond\n\n| Qubules then, thh thosher, L. HOUKE at Wis corner Polynomialund atau and Alerter Sets SF Orgas sa bounties of as juh\n\nApply\n\nBAY 4 C\n\n778 voksing, sech Juno, Elñ\n\ndis B\n\nA. DE AXEVEDO Slary 6, 1955.\n\nAwacasion can be given all tema.\n\nApplyin\n\nchai, bering Yes fromag\n\nk 100,000 pecula to Uranics Gran, The night who think, met dienend un att was Amasened, a cinne frapriyononang for two gene\n\nwon to hit Lion\n\nLoft for Farm' were her half a male art. Fruta se ne in a heavy within them lepity ficha was 112,000. 34.00 time befel riu sil alteratione ta iñe rovran | fiammdias felines. As for General Yes, we front 1 (9,000 and 10,000 phula vapecity. mens synde lap the risk. The chorus per mat chekje in not bear that be in likely to ba zied. It may\n\nApply arate hueyproendor of the lan to was this the\n\nYADONIU & fo\n\nsedež josed the Falls Hankh be a refellss of big surrender reccted; thazine. 29th Art, 1803.\n\nFAME Marr add-I belang is the firm is only senda military tribanals. Has it will Mat, Mass & Co. Mao nútilin Gaita Punkk's de su fátalu mistake for this Amarjan Garen. pilte had been in the Mieszank for more. Rest aliand is seem to kmak na handcrabin msbeslan i\n\nin druik dievny these\n\nvor. The Captain winloyed the pilot on raiding, ang de Bu\n\nafo de Bic Amil B\n\neranon dating of the gramadore has with its who will have Burping Hut Orneral Ice in 4- name of the few, Sua loka Anet and black cepting thatarem profereal him by General Grant.\n\nThe meter to the Zing wakunellen that run bison Anti den on there\n\ncha vile was concretant to take charge. Captia | Kich of the Government at Washington. Voitib\n\nHard.\n\nROYAL HOTEL.\n\nSMACAO.\n\nat studenty Mutal, mitad\n\nPraja Buče, and convsiolog, mors airy\n\nF\n\nHO TEIK SHEN, in the Juda house, Elgin Stewk ja 1, od Zum, test.\n\n*** Reserved a Frat Jendea of\n\nwerd eer and timp Works\n\nBOWRA & (3.\n\n4 1804 Wenzhong Lakh July 18th,\n\n\"BOUND and well stances PORT FIE\n\nOperior seality as 80 per dora.\n\nApply to VAUCHER A tio.\n\nU15 Fong, 1415 March, 1BUS\n\nPOF BALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED. *** Anke aru platz.\n\nPet Tiber and Marks.\n\nKidgenore de én,\n\ndil\n\nBaler Pinas mul. Päristä. Naila, wote kiza.\n\ntar\n\nGURPIEN MEARD A Q\n\nHongkong, 17% July 1805 Just landed ex St, Lowi,\"\n\nMothern arzivnie Latizo.\n\n160TR PADIES. HE Dric and beak! THAT Bri\n\n¡D SOLA\n\nX N, Q's harp RACKAY NUES Cakes vad Ixora Bun\n\ningerlag. Apply to\n\nATKA.\n\nTANG ALOR 77 Huge, A. Parte 16.\n\nA. BOTER\n\nCantenas! 105% Mouse, tark Juos, ¡nus.\n\nAN 13055, abreast WHARPAGH AND HODOWNA, * \n\nA WARTHI WHARU, with or wilboat\n\nof the Throw comparish where elabor\n\ncan te bied word change.\n\nmis might bir karm busier klippa hamurable understuives cadetin et socity ramon dark, eta arra le not her. elves, will be 21 true policy for Mr. Febo monded for its aculation. to invalide and don't know the pilti\n\nCar Ren, temi me feel at the Averaged and seality outrea the pilota. The head pi'ne www uzat no bound by is Government, Borisave won kirs to mine wat!\n\nIggy's Cabina),\n\nthe war, and the uthet was gut by Mr. bagi inipla in, and\n\n30MITTEY\n\nST facin $25 Apr 1929\n\nRIFTE ROTEL\n\nQURENS GOAD, VIIST.\n\nTesme Moderate\n\nMarried Couple; jam No25- Single\n\nThe the Hot was in sharps I 5d 10\n\n10 sena webus pelasimlas, with fewer inoltant at chitty bility, and well mit have thunght of fotorfaring and rage mi the pros of tha vinkors than nay whe with Min. priniet in thick visher Ines ia lürtme can akon, ertad by a palies a sur pela for ship, an lạp xy a gapeval charge tonin Shan vished ordinary pliuy as of the omare more ziwa by the pilot, dan obair porce to tom pang than the purpos enland and and it had ben many bandingy victor-it onto y p elter the conrea in tan vaidle wares, je i den gammle populue Omenomana (muling the way yue half a print or a prane. I should me have meninisty and levity, suis already od tamil cited.\n\nthe www in fentilado Bourage, that we earnished\n\n| Scent the Amazingas pomis to do all to their por\n\nA ducho made to beater providing\n\nany longue iban two punthe\n\n6. P. BENSOWA 1. SHAS\n\nApply to\n\nBig Couple 244 Blends, 1858.\n\nGarter of Wellingen wel 19 Aguilar Straps,\n\nHAB juive by late Mail tim blowing\n\nundicia...\n\nPrinted Musline for Salvarer Danm\n\nWe do plain for Ju\n\n901 Onch and Cerradict\n\nRizet elly Tuse Headete,\n\nBook Silk Monties\n\n45 Ledion and Children\n\net fashion,\n\nTHE OFFICE and Emad Sues and other\n\nnar of Welingt and herd Street Parsle\n\nWeak ire\n\nCharmi EN\n\nPoudel Vares,\n\nChanna Mug\n\nLes Diun\n\n11-1\n\nan Etnice of Cruysa & Blackwelle Dilaware Store\n\n$1 Overland Nail Shokes, and Sweda,\n\nPARK & va 15ay Dongsong, 6th July, 1858.\n\nDEVOLVER B, and\n\nP\n\nTE\n\nYusibor Accoutmupants. for Fates, Áu\n\nSeit lieth, (bow great..\n\nCut Mag, 1.3, 1. 9. nad 1 fret, vivo.\n\nAu Lovaine of Bell-bangirqa\n\nTel. 20, 12, 36, 40, nuð ák le. figlio, veli\n\nfi.\n\nKing, sith Bayon\n\nBerulating Hill Chebures.\n\nSim Pattern Spacial Ki\n\nDouble Navy Cabins, Swivel Beds from L'ali.\n\naber Torry.\n\nLOWRA & Or.\n\n1 162 Tongkang, bra July, 1665.\n\n¿Murein in quarts and its\n\nFNGLISH NO\n\nA larga smartment of Breakfast Clazzes, Vilau- Ikan Jerawat Sur Suluan\n\nBased from vintage of Mayaia of Hur!\n\nچھا کھا کر رہے لیئے\n\nLAMMERT, ATKINSON & C\n\nા 99 hu to 24 Yra sud\n\nJust resaved, wire B\n\nIN OLD PALE BRANDY\n\nAle poz\n\nJ. Kudaan & On,'n Brundy. $10 per Ona.\n\n| Olies khljarnan, g? per daa.\n\nULARETS.\n\n| Breasturi ask, er de\n\nMerays Morina, $44 par Que\n\n8. Raton St. Kilim and 9 Zoophe, do naci\n\nTená a presont le dba eccnpzion of Merera In a teremy Hole gee. in Mont Reuseres and Want Hare,\n\n$0.\n\n¦ Pastekaoter zud Server.\n\n150\n\nFar purtiem apply in\n\ny\n\n10.\n\n16 litung, 7th\n\n- \n\nThe Aperatura Large and bity, and wih\n\n· H\n\ni vozy embora Casa, containing & Bass\n\nBa\n\nAapry as face of die Paper,\n\ndoves and cathcurex, compridog Xt!\n\nThis our coins their wich thick weather it or in formints Bhis shasan ghatween and maket van Sally supplot well az dejo. Stridine.for three ones, a citruse!\n\nwould hawa horn wore prudent to bere anchored • centick with a eley m genervus thus it may he\n\nBut the washer alerted, no tad having fees deth fan and makeling mo at their foes. The be froix\n\nlogone a Lighterḥing and ship bara malind is soe vespesitta was so interprys thin\n\nwas beat through an areas in pigment, augen Cretinem. 14: them interprat le triba as weak allece un barb Teen site for the amnge heatating veira whiring a\n\nbene, 17h Jaly, 1865,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL,*****\n\nSHANGHAI. subed in S\n\nses of heat ce- North Daily Herityisil insscert in Ho Chi Mi\n\nwhich shall and only induta lie aver Frasines 6\n\nThe Treatment of the Hovalva Kiviky\n\nthe Nock.\n\nthe even give, Se the beamediate gregent, my\n\nfirst-ime furile Sokol in pomurgnased,\n\nPaged in it own graurők, it in po-\n\nmuch frein so be without expiry comfort and trenians\n\nLiis altres her for those who have selenjing in this clar. opptareve, to thons aan band julierly healthy and need in hinggis role Chemian, advice in the aut i hon fielding for the wine of the apparent,\n\nLinea, and it is so much adrien uocally esen 6igatop wita ma-The per\n\nHas an in. Fadi popot so batus of ananasam\n\npertama severance of the wal genities of te\n\nstaro otrained hithuria from bowl. ; \n\ning the crowd of patienter sansellore of America, !\n\nIf hazar, the people : shri United Statan will i\n\nfun to 2 Kegljah is at all, they may GOVERNMENT. LEGAL AND\n\nach a gun to that of\n\nwho here brid verunt'y tu sbale mocno while t\n\noch vill meantzinicý sad zarten! ignaming co\n\nAn o, xd who Yuma Yujulani la tènir m\n\ncer ble lagt need the\n\non with for rikiuly ma tome sited the tank!\n\n6. fur cost be too hip nt all degran, in f\n\npating in war plea for aderatiza in victory a\n\nrols which so fitta mule appro-i Arion\n\npriate the tenet that ir, fees faire sored ise svanging it\n\nbeing four content?\n\nPan, the hollowness of whide thr\n\ndomusdur tili azt flizeugh in a mout\n\nCONSULAR NOTICES\n\nIN THE SOPREME OVOR OF\n\nTONGLONG.\n\nCileriyent Pousasutus, Praag,\n\nrd\n\nof Hype Huracany Uma\n\ntending wider the\n\nand 12. Okka asp Öpmeyne tot Frudunt.\n\n11\n\nBEREAR an Aativus murdin\n\nIn in place, shen, we got urge de\n\nte\n\nthe Coat Ribe it the ke s\n\ny l'hom-bhoy alnut za\n\ne bloed |\n\nAmands of forteren te tus of langlich preesdens. Kyzurine Safranur Gal rowing an Enced\n\nRazmik, aut Lastris base basen witów die land for to project the age of Frosinoned by\n\nin\n\nEine Apartacuse are Medios and away Furnisho The Table waily up), and the\n\nle, all ughed with the choice Win a\n\n| Spirte-impratā dienņa.\n\nflat\n\nkobani ka for Ezard by the munch on\n\nMajas sash Carringe on Livogy and lera. Jason Camper mia plese pixies, 40-\n\nutiectulio lbs Hol\n\nBaiba cirnos pimey.\n\nThe Somehow fridge in kolom 4: Baudega,\n\nしてMATS\n\n.. MADON\n\nProprietor\n\n.6bu Unike is mades the dreador of Caspariancad Kronal excke.\n\nblondes-hurge $100 Fblic Dates and Tali Numers smppbel of 1264 27.4 Shanghai, 2nd March, 1965,\n\nOTEL DES COLONIER\n\nHONAM, CANTOS.\n\nar 1070 Benchng, 16h Tang, 1885, BUTO ZA LET DE SOLD\n\nSTAR HUUSK God 2000WNE, at perut soupled by Howwes, Junday & tal Apply to the Manager af Ban Bane of Hirla. t+.. \n\n198 Hoogkung, 25dı May, juos,\n\nThe Prop OWN \"ALI; Ph...\" hay. | ng Fans of Righty these foot at Wengin Rodag hitters and of on andret and foca. A burunea at coming parfarini kamu vs alone kutua aquesta featu\n\nAantal Bread (ma 21233.6.\n\nFor Pristine purligabuen uppelz ko\n\nTHE LIVINGTON D #beng Wih Priruary, 1964.\n\n***NOTICE OF RIGÓVÁL\n\ntybine kod Calerud Cicamel.\n\nColer things in Tel.\n\nThread Socks, Erst quality,\n\nLim Shirts and Cullers!\", \n\nTreatief Ardy Hate,\n\nwed\n\nRemchid Eugliah Peglunes. Trailing Bag\n\nAlse\n\nper do\n\n¡ Chataan Palmer and Tašken, $10 pử Jez.\n\n: Chau,pagan, satin, in quarte au pines.\n\nOlagte to wood.\n\nS. Jumilion, Juliem, apuk 154. Besophis,\n\nApply\n\nlike Hongkong, 5th Marril, bang\n\nA well bleed furnies de Blame\n\nEthertona. 3rd April, 1962.\n\nHandül\n\nNEW GOODS\n\nnext!\n\nEX \"TARFIX\" \"BANIAN \"EATHS. 73.s?:Y?LDS\"\n\nSew Bucks, weil selecta.\n\nTitle and Floor Hoe be the vizele\n\nOCT\n\nPany Car\n\na\n\nDany Baturajand\n\nCite! Wy\n\n||JA_BOUSTELA, has removed in Sianlay\n\n1 street, two lanes from Fastinger Street. În\n\nFear of iba tornaertiul Buck\n\nIf 1815 Hongkong Jacz le\n\nTHE Busine of the Melis B and Seat\n\nWater Mufiny c\n\nrevamped to the upparit fit of the Road,\n\ntl coupled v Messrs HotAY, Wase & Co., natriu Muzeju. Trucar & Co. and Mentre, BILET & Co.\n\n17 Honghena, a June, 1995. THE HOUSE, in the Gun Road,\n\nABAY 1.ANDANG BER eined and theat it Menarik kebilder, Wise & Ch\n\nti\n\n1323\n\nis Premis is enver\n\nTURVER & C Hongkong. Si Kay. I milă,\n\nNE\n\nCatriski Tom Chasin\n\nMemalise in iyon, Briting, Des\n\nPauta and S\n\n신디오XT 살리고,\n\nJellip\n\ncncbair.\n\nfaper Hangings, reckly chatur.\n\nPlaner Vand thiet Butle\n\nShine Histor\n\nMala Gas\n\nPild til i TUZON.\n\nLANG, CRAWFORD & U\n\n* 1956 Tow Song. 17ta Jun 1865,\n\n11TERN Hops of all sizes.\n\nBrigit artik\n\nVerma.\n\nkai de, str. Casa. Mikill and phrase: „Pranck's juegos Espuelli\n\nTE DANIJA Shapine.\n\nZia Au\n\nCAMMER, ATKINSON &\n\n40 (gong, 1ých Juan, can. DAVID. \"Ohrine and thus. Cum Hard Ter\n\nJ'aimky, Linment GI! and Purpentine\n\nyou say never wiha mubal lesdner. Cho anty loved and friars and Why Gout, for dying to Toe die Public Part she had changel precedent the ac mau yukidnon, is any anan meen 1 mages for managerpaing certain there: the my that of Hate! iso findings. For\n\nhipones parties, witch we can pleach, is Horeban; and Statua\n\nComm-tip 5.5. azove stablishment with almars be kept with our fastment in the brzo of the Potato-Gapittel, tarpainst\n\nfree in Ch 13 the anal dacis shit squforts. Not indick of\n\nmachine Eng Toure be Baba in Iran. Al these the eye of Defends what mid shaver sus Eefendant be actasun will be shared in the faute d'itheadhan ratus Bodine u\n\nAnauce, that is in totally need to Hape. padaltem is ev slight that the prunedenk juny he! or actes Sena de Vinili se pridjor flares. to boost nasies in disc sējam directivul. A varral¦ Os prlos shareef; and time raulay paid by 'ibo Bear in attenten on arrival at Herer Stemmer ndvatur his autor for Henry, willak wid korenitor\n\nfar netenden at talmát ábree num, proposing to disopter it me Plaintiff for t\n\nat Iris\n\ntear Ball Bea; de chavez Phuseneste ta the Hotel, tree of sEnego, and soul fatima mokier. De $25 per viomac fr nespreted Mr. Sinis O'Brien for the Pole-incere far te bere izen by the Kadome Lasne will aka Silke Beariera \"st. Stanger anil $29 for? szer.\n\nT. HARINY Garden Rebellion, what pandant should we | Pole the Thement of my tue from the moderato luxion. late indicted on him if he`trat, ben er agminasful | Plažati to the Defendant: nad it being alleged¦ Mr. Jetorean Ladis — monii pot field an un- that the mht Bycunjee Hormujee Deuna dega mot t\n\nPendeng in Judia w roeide wishin this folyad na je de\n\nTHE P\n\nVAL LANDINE,\n\nKaroger.\n\nSM SWAT Frogs fiz okresent struth asi matiunny. ! Writ of Yonaga áthassants, ) Fra 2016 Couten, 27th July, 1850.\n\nLavio jasued\n\nTHE EASTERN PRIVATE\n\nFAMILY HOTEL.\n\n142 enge, Jetli Awil, 1005.\n\nFor Sale.\n\n'UNE STRİNEERS 1657\n\nsapoys and exccasid valanez bositation a webus torvable nu slík firem any of dupsi arah, stone-i\n\nvilian retoma ather she rabellion had ingejin Zestonjeo kapuciiarýni Neris of Vlabria, in Ben the Peas simture. Az example, the deliny on Brezhong. Marchet, and withic nets a low waste. Y e In Faring Hand and there arly lead of the places Fadies. dba, bulerardengs nes dartsinly not kerplamikdo į same plate, alarphanie, sky Canisters,\n\nJ\n\nour Propria fe how this BOOK JOANNES 1857, Cams of\n\nà vishing this Pet and the poshte semenity, the br\n\nSPARKLING WELLS KOMPA\n\nBOOK EHRYSPREITEIN. CALE, in Cush\n\nthan the man of the Bouth. Again aut noly were Notes is hereby given thareut and testbed his prins uppste e tuls the bars of the Reach pepelin 1945 cases time hefte nje in akis, unto the forcibly to the thousan Club, bad then, but new last and to beat code só pranja Rocca Care, darurier Boss in the viraniay of 11.X. of 1 arzon. hlari Enst Mehon 204 Mr. Hallam, shhör;anid, or say too on bẩy beha) w give the\n\nBead Ford (juven's Food, Eat. The Ronna absolutely justify one intimate their bidu ja Pavony i zamurity and miljer mod file the sapretencë e” piem í of the bayering za judiamus. Ailer the groak bejuteve ny thin Ordnance of thận dictio Finach war, hee heen ramulis pad ont in led An Uzitsuer to provide facile expenas buvo kompared in were he for acantemporary, Land, d'arthronyl din vce merupli\n\nces in Actions Live agvities porn kentut Frandow, Bush of a destly lives vu tu pro\n\ntance his bug that haploon will be devas the tolong, the at anche m\n\n하\n\nTech] vt og França, blid as rebel uthe Dinoinen, dewward and exreated, and wax only dentaʻul of\n\nthy wisins of this course bruauen he dought it\n\nKain wharbre it would taarl to lexicutiva\n\nwith adeintertainty. Is may be mid «bot if a gonze vabullion in Ireland were now w break 12 sustained for indz barn, we emrinialy shod na burg, the useful anders alik tu! wa hope not, has we contesa ven Sunt very Bes\n\nnotave advent or friends\n\non to who mighards, what clapeceriă-nts ¦\n\ncamily in print are, on the arbete, zo very itide in ganzdanas min bai hepthooke\n\nNet veze the American oran\n\nDabad this 15 dag er lag, vu. 16,\n\nF. C. R. OVEN\n\nil Honghont, 2846 Suty, 1905.\n\nmultica Bam strange igen wlish, Relm me prevalent, wat all canaing for\n\nMetota zgre e\n\ndisainioston rebellion and only in\n\nthe South ledths the energ\n\nmar, the asing of the delito extendun. I\n\nriseer in the fate) SALT\n\nIN TAN SORAME COCKT OF BOSAKOND.\n\n• riktad with antico now\n\ntre altringe shacagimas, me to pay no\n\nEides the wine listing teams Fan Town Pipes\n\nTable d'lium et ull hwch. Tama moderne.\n\nApply k\n\nREYJULIA &tio.\n\nisan ungling, 10th June, 1904, tANNE), (036, (ia Ling-brads) todella mit\n\nHuosobit parfe\n\nGEORGE HOTELIXELMORA,\n\nHeunge and Propriece\n\nChammer i\n\nChanapar in\n\nde d\n\nSeantech\n\nfeet, and\n\nSets, Fue\n\nApply to\n\n12m 1974 Hoogk veg, Vuk Juna. 1962,\n\nconclude, in 3 doors, camın,\n\nFEED, T. SMITH,\n\n6pkan, \"Hi Jasonery. 1863,\n\nManil\n\nVivian's drug and Sees Slow Me!\n\nand patio Nais. Tourism M\n\nSOLD & Co lungo, but Now, 18,\n\n1Jght thedra F\n\n7062 Gari Makra\n\nHigh Barden Mara.\n\nLight Sebie Forks pic\n\nLight Garden Spader.\n\nContbrug'n Boer Guns, Herman Mackin\n\nSOWKA (. \n\nTin loi khen nhing, ach July, 194\n\nAN Ince of \"terated Wan\n\nJA\n\n! \n\nGRERURY & SA\n\nPUGHT W\n\nBugg, thing,\n\nPBLIC TOISES \"Gura Bed\"\n\nto Con\n\nThis Pess.\n\negnng, 18th July, 15%.\n\nUN; FOR SALMI\n\nCAMILANA man dah party Thar porannes YOCOYSAD Lo Frears, and White su mi beitehing Splab Berd\n\nFurthering Sew Sight Cowered Hockeklu Twowane, the Osvinge is van Polve and tw: pairs of i\n\nShames of double 15 mana\n\n\"Apply t\n\nBrakes darrers dann, wanau, Housos, Lands, Tenements, de, Wiki,\n\nTKY MANOR,\n\n2. Tikai\n\nsau, Wiz\n\nJa rank WH\n\ntably tention the Hiɲlk.\n\nhe firm of JARGIR, Here\n\nG3MPANY Pkalabif's,\n\nJoey Manny Porci\n\nha\n\nda\n\nthecate, or fires of les P Sam Lnfanduma,\n\nde court al the veil of chen sinte\n\nTO LET\n\nEw to Becek. A\n\nTDE lower part of the Previze wind by\n\n|| \n\nWhite Pigs And Varjoile Wa\n\n2.06.\n\n' Club,\n\nדי ריח\n\nБаром\n\nBokkie, curd Ple Meram. I. Mazur, & tra Torgan. Tucs, and Beck and Doors Aprons\n\nALLES & CLAUSSHN Rosis patira in the same Bilding\n\nLANG vs. 24th Hwch, thu5.\n\ntientars, syple 15\n\nC. DAVID, My blessing Seal, from 14 to 3d ca\n\ntf 1956 Hongkong, 24th July 1955, mj........ \n\neping on the age of His returning prufiga Resas ar Adon hub carenced rises to 2 and S. Ten Staviti sladusent | Nothing can be. We do but to my\n\nAlly\n\n18ng, Juan 12 18415,\n\nPesa Pangong Pir Maker\n\n13. this walk is mar (granen of the stars Jacifios. Ja sall, Juma che i cones Contato and der 500,000) Pak and Berú trag\n\n13+ and 250 win\n\n-- TEENS RAPDV DONGKONG.\n\nAt Cheap essay.\n\nthe Penisy Port.\n\nKry\n\nChurcia, Greakfast and Pieter,\n\nPapolis, vintaga täna., \n\nArded Tigur\n\nPurane.\n\n3 wit\n\nBeauty (Ougima).\n\nChablir,\n\nSewer\n\nAwes\n\nKindly\n\n15 Honglung, 25ch February, Tauð,\n\nNeonora Druse & Hinckwell.\n\nPUSENJE Cauliomis\n\nHorse Ma\n\nT\n\nFrench and Spanish Diam\n\nPraits in So\n\nin Seyrand Birmaly\n\njuter, in engural finalen\n\ned, and Twine.\n\nGist White Impe\n\nLinand Di\n\n14.\n\nIran Boller Pinces and sheets, True) að a\n\ndivacion, in caster whine and vary,\n\nThi\n\nAir\n\nBerriro Klant\n\nBURNOG & tr. Peru's Whart\n\nHong, 153 May, 1836.\n\nPERER DETON KUTTER, in begs of 12\n\nSant Wilk Crators,\n\nPickled Cabbage (Singochami) za jara Danch Curry Stent Rotden (Wyuan :Parbiak.)\n\nBitless Reeserantine Spiritmes.\n\ndise;\n\nPer read\n\n4 van fartion of Berelvets with sout\n\nKai attached, neu kucesine,\n\nAVAAN. BETHEUS & SK, \n\nFAANDUYA\n\n3 making, 1919 Jejuny, 1395\n\n† CAT KRORIYBO, vid Fry Nrie by the\n\nCurlersigued.\n\nSharp's Ourlinen. Sartridger and Primer, Pools Lamplvera\n\nKorkbod Wren's Havelters. (Bian haecalled\n\nsilver plate.) \n\nDESUVAR A 12,\n\n28: Hongkong, 29 Macuh, 1800.\n\nANTEMRIOR PRINTING PAPER, in vuriuka\n\nSKSSE ULLERA & Ca\n\nrapon Himgiring, Bist July, Jan.\n\nTESTADA. Syable uram.\n\ning from 5 set, ta do mar,\n\nBAY 4\n\nbongkeun. 199th June, Tams.\n\nUde zopired by the gezurizued- 360 for matc\n\nAn astmoul of Confection in Torvides of time, f, and boo\n\n142_55 par god below, tóm market prius, a\n\nVruitia Cherplsia\n\nFivefingar, tin Ch\n\nCe\n\nPagri\n\nP\n\nwilevice Mangalent\n\nPioklys, Lumina, Tutt\n\nSobique. Opferd nan Gamesonge Surges,\n\nin\n\n\"T4TH FS 6.4.0.\n\njul IANA MOJ bany, Beh dhir, |Rajh\n\n- TE\n\nCARA MAIGN. Szennina Muke) \n\nU\" Dag de Murtikale.\n\nLurace Nei, he panels are Pte.\n\nJenterar à 03.\n\nCart Blanket Dani Pinin,\n\nBurgen liegt.\n\nFrau de Grene, ir. Qaside and Pints. Lienaine Buck.\n\n1837. Det\n\nkan warIPS & OM 1 - July, 1\n\nVALJARLY 15 AT TORPOTEN\n\nLOW OF GROUND, steprising almus 24. ALES. Finner at of the maliy Encautios Putolous, Trolig bal Fio of the Hurrading Smery, sad Bayonining other Spice ta thi, tavržen there. of Ke of Thron Bungalow, Broken, unig 3121 por Šante\n\nestinoria of way\n\nHuco Vercheni Taich, in skin.\n\nPusher Ektoms.\n\nc.prizing-- \n\nPrint Wine Event Leather BOOTS\n\nK\n\nCall JOTS\n\nTel\n\nFou\n\n해\n\nSi\n\n- BTS\n\nCalf SHONY.\n\nDouble SHOES,\n\n/Xo!o Eiding_kkis,\n\ni Shoes, A\n\nguzleð kirola.\n\nOpkomnes veliking the Coung of Hongkang si Food tray\n\nother Brun That,\n\nand italt shoes 1 sist sie die waer\n\nactiuter\n\nBy ldalon Persian\n\nVOTORIA SXCHAÑON.\n\nPRALOCK, q qurat poctivate w TOS, he hadle of this\n\nCoy is ted and place Mwick of My Dracena the flimpïve andun\n\nHANDY DREA\n\nSi huge walvis, 30 to 30 prouts que pode Poles. Cort Arsantren, 21 586 por Tickle Mix Glute A2 in at Singa\n\nthe Rilling Kabis. Plains Mulajen, in laygro wapinday.\n\nMALINS 30 French Fried Acuez, 25 behin pure. de\n\n2 min. 33 werdet for gir\n\nsriginal price 50 Dunte\n\nThe above in met missy in find at Po a trates muck of his bangk Ubogazin, SE\n\nPer dir\n\nLolizam\n\nAjgilz\n\nLevastik\n\nBOWRA .\n\nP Hongkong, Sur Sarch, 1865.\n\nPROVOU VILIANO, Tom &\n\nis plan mynted and Figured.\n\nDUESS HAKIKO\n\nI move the inwangement of the claws Doors\n\nMake fuck hy kan desal. having\n\nAris dans Gun, Culte alle exere in large Ents, ni\n\nApply un\n\nARNEMANN 4\n\n4132 Hungring 16 May, 1844\n\nHONGKONG\n\norder\n\nrecht so fize will be really and Hougang 10 July, 1955,\n\npred\n\n·MARKETS\n\nthe tick Jelly --- \n\nEniet othe\n\n2.40s. Wilt Shirkog\n\nb. Grcy Shielangs\n\nPri she above we are now for Holiday. Wine & iu 1795 169 own? Amie Bounce, War and\n\nTROMAS UNT & de\n\nJeweler\n\nPrime 220\n\n10 1ngking Apr. 195) \n\nJAYITAMIN KRANDY BUT 190, OHAME\n\nSUDREY Y\n\nPORT\n\n414\n\nBULLY A\n\nMagt jose kandež os si\n\ncitation. Facinaren everywhere spak ma il | drow, fierbert Si. Loger Marrige, Velius Ken is were a bites desapalatinos to dana to find cink, and Edsall Whiteall, trading as aforesaid, rants Reoma, und Ukaitanto, having a Depactes i jab duck up o lat iulier one mat, termed rebeliion voce nest, crazyding is the aber Tarand dahi bareng Purpia, * 15 1ા મમત store al lago into perse nun sanity. Do they \n\nvreuliug në uformaid, to recuror the sum at Miner\n\n#upport than the of thờ kiuď vogli bove boru; The and heren Hundent paltarlar bioves\n\nتا نا نیام در ایه \n\nJ. 2. FOR RENKLOS.\n\nFraght without adinal didapata në voglat prime pad by the Phinish wed for the Redes. It new! Hangkang, 80th July. Pasa,\n\nke, nové that that radical difference will destas ! dene qe his request and the money mos ng she jam\n\npeas within clot? There is no queries in Doen and the inlets TEB in Rabins Was. Iemelawly | Ahut in uldlar mary but dixinal werkstangy fee from dis Defined on the Platati\n\nJa the Averman, allow the sad thorne et jazera by the Priest\n\npakiti 15 of the the Bates to be fond stity requel and for unty fun\n\naqua Nia more intacters which jus be ou fecam the Dubzidays ca un Palujte! governed them\n\nTo\n\n| \n\nmit the mat. dry badlew be vight ang with e great grin or sunt stated beson shem; and bein leg there with John Mariat Punto Enez Ju\n\ncombining dir\n\nIYA FTL & Co\n\n4\n\nFaran, Hama,\n\nSet of this Athics.\n\nFor parientes, apply to\n\nFasa\n\n5th Jetz, 1896.\n\n70\n\nONE SET.\n\ncambo nk komen; noul, adtes vietas, to leh tus aveda treslila ucărie shim belyden ja Joycedente 1 of diced he trackpen, afzend wizzled by a show, Weis of Foreign Attachment is hiền sưmund te | Donmakinar Stara tag in lint in the 1st aya temp for the purees of tuneteen the S\n\n·Samrih day of\n\ndiets and hewan lés, suply in Willen Bur\n\nof ruk girara! \n\n1. Was the pth and event of sine mesi\n\nNearer the zhip even\n\nCain and Burgoede Uriends Ransely pint by them, albo 2. C\n\nAir\n\nNAWROJEY\n\ndagawiwjng Mela, ut Hongyoug. Merabunt, Aus Bize all wieght we mag wecution, that there Barles Beard, of in sum Hot\n\nza pipeady buen oder Choker\n\nthued wear a trended Free State Onrried.\n\nthere too on the Coin, and that in dieci wish held Musica heretg gian thereof and what it extime in ape thy with y te ako anal judgment in Action dha rotalon white is lastel, and of course in and Jehu Yutres is 355\n\nthe things were read. Is the bebull will va size security arise and wants or plea verdited by the di-\n\nww\n\nFinalists dowy ( refired a rote when of this Salad intituled and\n\nJa kivan nat O'ERINTY MUJAN to the rebelikon\n\n5. Bintly shwer had advised the preside for and regelves Job\" Bessili\n\nNe party in Married in-thes mahtinas persoas Cru the\n\nie withou\n\ntucco, in Byftient selvm] \n\nvation weak - og Beted the 2d Jay of July, 4.9. 16,\n\nsiniz: neten die water prículo, giving jurge\n\nmajozition pary where for inquineis úti eyein\n\ntocked with the wit regime, if thick be pro-\n\ndolly allowed sint wit cards recebus slavery\n\nR 1% 8. UKER\n\nLitointiglia Kiliman\n\nSu Kang, 294) July 7865\n\nSown\n\nefect Tesk Kinder. Plus | \n\nRards. Cool tlich up 14 techniques.\n\nBUR SPARS-rea whes to 21 initum; \n\n#par\n\nŠHIPS ENRE pieces izoma 15 15 16 inches\n\nFor Male to Suit at the\n\nNOTES YARD,\"\n\nStrayer Thway.\n\nAps & BERGEN & Bosa\n\n360changani Cozu\n\nTESUUR\n\n! Pay!\n\nFORLEANS\n\nLASTS, RAWFORD & 4%.\n\nethering that pow T de. Parth who began at\n\nBirty & Co.\n\n3 08\n\nI\n\n200 asured Fartings\n\n| Funk hig kong\n\n** the L'atang.' \n\ni bunso C, Tinted\n\nea.30\n\n? warg\n\n121 Bangkang 22rl. June, 12495.\n\n1.605\n\n409\n\nRhrers Eil Bhil\n\nYoru\n\n| €15,00\n\nTye-shire-we\n\n1 on pes. 2-4 na. Pray Bridge\n\n130\n\nmag-m-Laong\n\nx5\n\ndazivno, 35, an\n\n12.\n\nમ\n\n-1\n\n20.\n\nClu\n\nNG\n\n| fvek-bing-hunk\n\ni\n\n10\n\nCheong-bong\n\nk.\n\n30.00 yu-shing-wo\n\n1.\n\n12.00\n\ntiger deg. Harab-qu\n\n21 50\n\nParker lied Shirtings\n\n3.24\n\nleis are\n\nYETU\n\n110.00ascon Karham\n\n31\n\n24\n\n3.\n\n22.0\n\n1024\n\nAc\n\n130.00\n\nGewerchan\n\nlouratio\n\ntialum\n\n20.10\n\n26.25\n\nTin-wa-oberg\n\n31.C\n\njworg-buce s\n\n4.-17\n\n245\n\n2.\n\nForely\n\ng-bu fa\n\nST Tunin\n\nTrueline B.\n\nJuha Pright,\n\napply\n\nLANNERY, STRIXSON & Ga\n\nIf 168 Torghan, The Jans, 1968.\n\n2413' (or Durga Marie\n\nChange, petent les ad homes. To triedy and Be Pittings, Michael Sol\n\nste v\n\nMy 50 PAD. Gut. Often 1874 Hengzung 1 day 1815.\n\nFase of us wider to ban s\n\nMajce, Jokana à 116 Chi\n\na tha Putpu X, babarza Munata\n\nÁ do\n\nCali- \n\norquays Ropish Had Kreno Preement on \n\n- Tuilet, Deanor Breakfas \n\nzuht sa] Yorgungen by Dan, Disarm- 3 22:46, Kuat Mersin, and Thegara Ip: As Brandier, Jus ita in Cangre.\n\nis Barth, 1945. 20'er\n\nBAHLMANN & dig, \n\ngkung, 1th July, 1866 \n\nDosen's Blood Court foo \n\nor Dwelling an \n\nPrata \n\nAMM \n\nINSON & C \n\ngloog, the Hay, 0. \n\nProna Yok Emiliefire Über.. \n\nJuru tandı) Jur bulu \n\n.. Walker of tin \n\n--beg \n\nLegall, Stijl & 12% \n\nSamyang 192 \n\nPaonian & 130. \n\nSorrahjen & Co. \n\nWing-clock \n\nTHURAS The retine A28. Merchant \n\nFARMENT, ATKINSON & DA. \n\nLese Hengene. 14th June, 145. \n\n50 \n\nBars New AMB PK. \n\nAily in \n\nLANNUT, ATKISHON & 1709 Hongline, 20 June ish \n\nWho-is-long \n\n60. \n\nWashing-doing \n\nwith. Kanny & Co. Kwang-y-luk \n\nPralon de \n\n2004, e intere \n\n195 \n\nAd Cletu \n\nhangbai Cheat \n\n4] plm, #gi°2 cce \n\n3,0ewekwang, Tele Pr \n\n4 bursima The \n\n1.000 es No. 1- Iran Na Rad \n\n240 \n\n•pla. Black Pepper \n\nJ. Am Merchant \n\nSHANGHAI LATEST QUOTATIONS \n\nWejdy, renting, 2001 July, 1949, \n\nwo Jen diradi, « ma, No 3ja per Tir \n\nse for fries/every Orucite 5ANILA GUERGO, LISANS VGBANGK-Lututionament: Race, e. vs. e. a Cocrate, & 10f2 Run. 1.97 \n\npline agosto de59955 \n\nBLACKHEAD & Bo. \n\nned travele ve- of 10 Xue \n\nlegs bond the Stora Ship \"N-: \n\nBands Bour \n\n2. GARRITA, ! Honghong, Is Noveller, 1801, ARRAY, P. Memile, Chassagne, las \n\nH \n\n! telt.\" (lats\" People' \n\n505 \n\n42 CM. Todel & feather's Park Sherry and Hardy. \n\napply on \n\nIBR, LEVIX497UN 3. \n\n1994 Vengkang tich July 1960. \n\nis Deements, \n\nUn Port-dila je Fig. 7.4 per \n\nthe Paiteta \n\n4. \n\njülla Ansonicat, 345. Re. 15. \n\nInflatabog, strand, sin\n\nHuskongan Ball: 217 pg Jince. Hvirale 15 e 291 901 w26 dinch Heck, and Brass, Alp Bra Fate ALMON 73.25. Carlos-7.42. Cal Blues, disco Tim. 66. Bar Silver, Lin, Bles Back mud barking.\n\nApply to\n\nSXV & io.\n\nlong+60) \n\n111 Capper Cali. 1,225 p OPICH-utum, Nor. In 132, DOVOD\n\nArt Ke Te 30 £16.24, Pik, 23.30 pet Yin of så fre\n\n¡FREIGHT 2 Milk, 61 poron of short.\n\nTap.\n\nI's Ney Turk\n\nAttending veiving Inadravšiegs to nocain Mr. Poland, A. Drying Heizwer decked and Crgy,...... Acinding Mr. Polland reurcuith... \n\n1 \n\n} \n\n3 \n\nJeding 26. Peifend fixing Cumarie-so tang Pascallado as Cnread with Mr. Foliard also a Chanel joining Istine Jacky demateris sud vaporta ve! \n\n10 \n\n260 \n\n1 base bere . . . Cond \n\nP. Puted prin fre... \n\nCe \n\nJuice, 24th Jalan Sovata laying her mominj See the Appritet uticaling Mr. Fabj jant hath apa ciaria, Crocolitis, į Aveng (inmal zi Coursiu mna jur \n\nvastag bremsest, and Opinions delivered! 5 Til Hr Polled his B....... \n\nUG",
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        "content_text": "410\n\nin different directions.\n\nLeaving a boat's crew on board the first, I chased the largest of the others and as no resistance was offered I went on board, when though I could bring no proof against the vessel I strongly suspected her of piracy; as the Captain said he was fishing, and going to I decided on bringing her in; for this purpose I sent half her crew (12 in No) to the *Gumbrat* and took her in tow.\n\nThe first junk was large and mounting a heavy armament. I hauled her into deep water, threw the guns overboard and burnt her.\n\nI now proceeded with the junk in tow to search for the remaining two which I took and burnt in the entrance of Tolo channel, the crews making for the shore, as was escaping to come up.\n\nOwing to the towing hauser having parted while I was chasing the last two vessels, the one I was bringing to Stonecutters was left about two miles astern, and no sign of her my persisting to look for her again I found the crew had been taken: I suppose by fishing boats, and later in the evening I found a trading junk in a small inlet where I was told the junk I had in tow was a pirate, and had robbed that vessel about two weeks before, and one other before, and the Captain offered to come and...",
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        "content_text": "guns, small arms, stink pots and other articles, and proceeded to Macao, whence the following morning, Monday, I sent the wounded persons (to Hongking) by the Mail Steamer, where they were extremely well treated by the crew and passengers, and their passage money declined. \n\nOn quitting the \"Opossum\" the officer in Command left on my table a document, which (with translation is enclosed). \n\nHaving remained the whole of Monday the 19th to search tribes &c., I left Macao at midnight, and, by the advice of the Chinese Merchant, searched Sandy Bay (St. Johns Island) and the adjacent islands, anchoring for the night at Samting. At daylight on Wednesday the 14th we proceeded towards Ty-ho-moon, which lies some distance up a small river, and by the aid of a pilot procured at Macao by the Merchant, were taken over about 15 miles up about noon, unsounded flats, where, at the Gun Boat, the tide was falling, we were grounded, and obliged to remain till the following day. At about this time, the weather became too hazy for objects moderately distant to be accurately distinguished, when a junk standing down the River towards the Gun Boat, which had grounded on the edge of the channel, was declared by the merchant to be his...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]",
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        "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]",
        "content_text": "How Dry\n\nA-169. 52. April, 1867.\n\n2.3.\n\n+\n\nJes Putterbad Herest TC. 2.3.\n\n4. Ms. Amisté Pénipotentiary-\n\nDoris Kony\n\nLight houses and Seneous mat\n\nRepruta and Suggestion as to. off Master Commander Pack, RN. briction of Light Bonus beyoush\n\nJurisdiction of homimyrstaų For\n\nriasou skla.\n\nIncloure be in verm dir Puchark Graves Maconnetti Despatch A 267 of 13 foril, 15\n\nLYDON\n\nCONTIN\n\nTAILDO ON JUNK\n\nWhite Packe\n\n03\n\nSetrend\n\nLANA\n\ndodan\n\nring Fangting\n\nGregorjas\n\nMarigi.\n\nAhau\n\nGNfl\n\nبرای همراه\n\nHONG KOZO\n\nthe\n\nISLANDY\n\nTani channel.\n\nLidle deurve disease Me mypast lighten van Hock would be resible F/2\n\n..\n\n21 8\n\nBAY\n\nSpindel xoja\n\ngoniter\n\nshowing the distance che proposed light on Hoylan. would be gentle ris Mumia\n\nPROPOSED POSITIONS\n\nLIGHTHOUSES, BEACONS &c\n\nin the neighborriccod' of\n\nHONG\n\nKONG\n\nCepede in Jenigen Zevents Offere\n\n229",
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        "document_key": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868",
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        "content_text": "what particular water the Chinese junk was seized \n\nR. Macdonnell \n\nby the Chinese factors (cruiser, as Sir F. Handmall states in his despatch of 14.1867) that it was considerably within 3 miles from the shore of Hongkong, as in another part of the same despatch, says that the Junk was anchored nearer to the Chinese than the English shore.\n\nThat it would appear, therefore, from comparison of these statements that the Junk must have been anchored somewhere in the narrow sea which separates the Island of Hongkong from the Chinese mainland, in no respect of which it has been laid down that the mid-channel must be taken to be the divisional line between British & Chinese territorial jurisdiction.\n\nI consider that a Chinese Junk anchored on the Chinese side of the mid-channel would be amenable to Chinese jurisdiction in all matters of Chinese Customs Regulations, & that the Governor of Hongkong is not, therefore, justified in demanding that any such junk seized at such anchorage by the Chinese Authorities should be given up to him; on the ground that her seizure was unlawful.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]",
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        "content_text": "323\n\nsignals. They certainly did not think on board that the Oneida had been dangerously injured. They seemed to think on board that it was simply a question of repairs. They did not say anything about any man on board the Oneida having been injured. I went down into the saloon with Captain Eyre. I was talking with lady passengers, who told me that the shock was like a slight grazing, like running on a rock easily. The ladies were Lady Parkes and Miss Binns. Lady Parkes told me she was in the saloon; and that when she felt the collision, she had run out. She said she had run outside the saloon, thinking that if they had struck on a rock, she would have a better chance for a boat. She did not say anything about having seen the other vessel. The other lady did not say anything to me. I was talking to Lady Parkes. Captain Eyre told me that he did not seem to have sustained much damage, because his anchors were hanging at his bows all right. Afterwards he told me they had found a spar through the stem. The impression I had was, that he had discovered it while I was on board. I did not hear anything about what quantity of water the Bombay had made. Mr. Henderson, the midshipman, was present on deck while I was talking to the Captain.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG--It was chiefly from the way in which I was told that I thought that the Oneida had not sustained much damage. I did not go on board again that night. I believe Mr. Fanshawe and Mr. Gough both went on board the next morning.\n\n(Signed) THOMAS H. LEVENTHORPE.\n\nHUGH GEORGE GOUGH, Sworn, states:-I am a sub-lieutenant on board H.M.S. Ocean. I was officer of the watch when a boat came alongside on the morning of the 25th ultimo with the Doctor of the Oneida, at about a quarter past five o'clock on that morning. An officer who told me he was the Doctor of the Oneida came on board and said: \"that about seven o'clock the night before the Oneida had been run into by a steamer and that he had reason to believe that she had since sunk.\" He told me that he had got away in a boat with some sixteen men, and chased a junk to try and get her to come back to their relief; that he could not catch the junk and turned to go back to the ship but couldn't see her anywhere; he then pulled for the shore and walked to Yokohama, took a native boat and came on board the Ocean. I reported it to Captain Tinkler, who told me to have some other officer called and to send to the Sylvia to get up steam at once. Meantime, an officer came from the Idaho and told me just what the Oneida's doctor had previously related to me. Captain Tinkler told me to ask him to take me on board the Bombay, and that I was to request the Captain of the Bombay, as he was the only ship in the harbour with steam up, to go down to where the accident took place and see what he could do. I went on board and asked for the Captain; when he came out of his cabin, I gave him Captain Tinkler's request; he replied, \"I can't; I've got a hole in my bows.\" I asked him if that was his answer, and he sent for his chief officer; he asked the chief officer how much water there was in the hold or compartment? and the officer answered about nine feet: the Captain then said: \"do you hear that?\" I said yes, and that I wanted an answer, yes or no. He then said, \"no, I can't.\" I then went away.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG--I did not go from the Ocean to the Agent's house.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD--All I remember Captain Eyre saying is, \"no, I can't,\" when he heard there were nine feet of water in the hold.\n\n(Signed) HUGH E. GOUGH.\n\nARTHUR DALRYMPLE FANSHAWE, Sworn, states.-I am a Lieutenant of H.M.S. Ocean. I went on board the Bombay at about 20 minutes past seven on the morning of the 25th ultimo, in accordance with orders from my commanding officer, to entreat the Captain of the Bombay to go out at once, to the assistance of the Oneida, and to represent to him that he was the only ship in the anchorage with steam up; which message I delivered to the Captain of the Bombay on arriving on board. His reply was, \"will you tell your commanding officer that I have 9 feet of water in my foremost compartment, and 18 inches in my second compartment; and that I should not have gone out had I not received a message from my agent; but that now I am getting under weigh to go out immediately.\" Giving me to understand that the reason why he should not have gone out was on account of his having 9 feet of water, or was on account of his ship not being fit to go. I then left the Bombay; and noticed when about a hundred yards from her, that she was already under weigh.\n\n(Signed) ARTHUR D. FANSHAWE.\n\nThe answers to the questions addressed to the gentlemen who were asked to examine the bows of the Bombay, were read and marked Nos. 1, 2, and 3.\n\nALFRED STEELE PERKINS, Sworn, states.--I am the doctor of the Bombay. To my knowledge I have not said that I could see into the saloons of the vessel, into which the Bombay ran. I could not see into the Oneida's saloon. I saw her passing us after the collision. I merely saw the dark mass of a ship and the glimmer of a light, as far as I could judge. I saw no person or persons on board the Oneida. I saw no portion of her interior through a hole or breach in the Oneida. I only saw a light or glimmering, and could not see where it came from.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG--I have seen Lieut. Clements before. I had a conversation with him but whether on the 24th or 25th, I cannot say. I cannot state what I said to him, having no distinct recollection of what I said. I certainly did not say to him that after the collision I could see the lights in the other vessel's cabins; nor did I hear Captain Eyre make such a statement. The other vessel passed so quickly, that I really could not describe what I saw, further than that I saw the glimmer of a light at the side of the ship. I would see no distinct outline of the hole through which the light came, as she passed by us so quickly. I did not hear the other vessel's whistle. I did not hear the report of any gun from her. I did not see the flash of any gun. I heard a hail from her deck. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" once only. I fancied I saw something in the sea floating by the side of our ship; but I cannot swear to it; it was too indistinct to form any opinion of its size. I was standing just outside the saloon door near the break of the poop.\n\nI did not communicate to Captain Eyre, or to any of the officers of the Bombay what I had seen. I did not see anything like a man, a table, or anything else through the light on the other ship. I did not hear any order to shorten sail on board the other vessel. I cannot say how long the other ship remained in sight. I was in the saloon at the time of the collision. I then ran out and looked over the side, then I went into the saloon again. I went up on the poop and it was then that I heard the hail. She was then, I should say, 20 or 30 yards astern of us: but I could not judge the distance. I should say she remained within my sight from 2 to 3 minutes after I went up to the poop.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD--I never heard Captain Eyre say to anyone he could see into the cabin or saloon of the other vessel.\n\nTo the COURT--The effect of the collision upon me in the saloon was nothing. I was sitting down and scarcely felt the shock; the vessel did not seem to stagger after the shock, from what I felt. I thought she had run into some junk or fishing boat. I thought so because of the slightness of the shock. There were some ladies in the cabin, at the time of the collision. They appeared to be rather startled, but not very much frightened, and Captain Eyre came down from the bridge, after the collision a little before we got into harbour to speak to the ladies. I did not take note of what he said to them. Those in the cabin jumped up and made toward the door after the collision; only the two ladies and I were in the cabin at the time of the collision. After the collision the ladies resumed the game they were playing, either backgammon or something, I don't know what.\n\n(Signed) ALFRED STEELE PERKINS.\n\nAdjourned till 9 A.M. to-morrow.\n\n## SIXTH DAY\n\n### WEDNESDAY, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1870\n\nProceedings resumed at 9 A.M. on Wednesday, the 2nd February, 1870.\n\nCapt. EYRE, allowed to say a few words before the next witness was examined, states that he was worried and anxious at the time the officers of the Ocean came on board; and he exceedingly regrets, if he made use of any discourteous expressions. Mutual apologies for any show of feeling were then exchanged between Capt. Eyre and Mr. De Long; the latter gentleman stating that he was not influenced by any feeling of revenge in the conduct of this inquiry.\n\nGEORGE WILLS, sworn, states.-I reside at the International Hotel. I was in the bar-room of that hotel on the evening of the 24th of last month. Captain Hütz and Mr. Curtis and I were sitting at the stove. I saw Mr. Hamerton, the 3rd officer of the Bombay, standing at the bar, at about 10 or 11 yards distant from us. I am an Englishman. I did not hear Mr. Hamerton make any statement relative to the collision. I heard the steward say something, I cannot exactly remember what. I know the conversation occurred; but I heard the chief steward say he had been below washing his face, when he felt a kind of a shock. He said he hardly stopped to wipe his face, but ran on deck where he met the carpenter, and inquired of him what was the matter. The carpenter informed him there had been a collision, and that a hole had been made in the other ship, large enough to look into the cabin. Mr. Curtis was sitting at the stove and remarked \"oh, there is a job for the carpenters there.\" The steward then walked toward the bar where Mr. Hamerton was. As he was walking toward the bar, Captain Hütz called out to him, \"did you not stop?\" Mr. Hamerton answered \"no.\" Captain Hütz then said, \"why not?\" Mr. Hamerton made answer, \"I cannot say, that's where the mistake is,\" or words to that effect. Afterwards I heard some conversation going on, as to whether the ship's hull was of pine or oak; that is all I heard.\n\n(Signed) GEORGE WILLS.\n\nJAMES CAVANAGH, sworn, states.--Between 6 and 7 P.M. on the 24th ultimo, I was at Kanonsaki. This is to the best of my knowledge about three miles from the buoy on Saratoga spit. On that night I heard the report of four guns. I heard them one after another. I thought there was a minute between each. I thought the mail steamer was on the spit perhaps. I have been a pilot about ten years in Japan. I have never piloted any mail steamers into the harbour. Steamers generally steer mid-channel after passing Kanonsaki, except you want to make the buoy. N. by W. half W. will fetch the buoy on the starboard side. This course will make the buoy about fifty yards on the starboard side. This would be the course by day or night.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD--If I saw three lights half a point on my port bow, I should port my helm. I should put it either \"hard a port\" or \"hard a starboard,\" to keep clear of her. If I saw a red light on my starboard bow, both ships would give way. It would be my duty to give way as well as the duty of the other vessel. I have taken ships up and down the channel, both before and after the light-house was erected. In piloting a vessel in or out, I never look at the chart. I should not take bearings of the light by the chart. The light-house is of use on a dark night to show vessels the way in. I am not aware that in navigating a channel it is customary to keep to the starboard side of such channel. If it were two steamers, it would not make any difference to me which side of the channel I went. If in rounding Kanonsaki, I saw another steamer coming down from the harbour, I should think it my duty to port my helm so as to give her a wider berth. In going down Yedo bay, it is usual to steer for Perry's Island until you pass Saratoga spit. In proceeding from Kanonsaki to Saratoga spit, I should judge my distance from the spit by the lights at Yokoska. On a dark night, I think I could judge my distance from Yokoska lights sufficiently well to give the Saratoga spit a close berth without taking the bearings of the light-house. I should judge Saratoga spit to be clear to the North when Perry's Island bore W.S.W. In going out of the harbour, if I saw a steamer's lights, I should imagine that she was coming end on or nearly end on. I don't know what the other vessel would do. I should port my own helm, or else starboard it.\n\nTo the COURT--I was on shore when I heard the guns. I did not carry a watch. I think it was about 40 or 45 minutes past six that I heard those guns; that was about the time as nearly as I could guess. The clock in the light-house had stopped. I should think it to be now 3 past 10 or 11 o'clock (N.B. It was seven minutes past ten.) I saw the mast-head light and the port light of the mail boat from Kanonsaki. I should think it was about five minutes past six when I saw her about three-quarters of a mile off Kanonsaki. I did not see the lights of any ships coming down the channel. I was in a house when the first gun fired; and by the time I had my boots on, the fourth gun had fired. A friend of mine saw the flash of the fourth gun; and I immediately thought that the mail boat had gone on to the spit. I saw no rockets fired nor blue lights burned. I had not my boat with me. I could have got a Japanese fishing boat. I thought I would wait till daylight to go and see what it was, as there were only two Japanese in a small boat; and I could not see the mast-head lights of the steamer when I heard the gun. I imagined that the ship from which they were fired was in danger. I did think it worth while to go to her; but did not wish to force the Japanese to go off to her. I did offer them ten boos to take me off to the ship from which the guns had fired. They did not ask me any fixed sum, for which they would take me off. I think it was three boos that I paid the boatman for taking me from the Plymouth rocks to the light-house. Had they taken me on board the mail steamer, I should have given them five boos. I offered them ten boos to take me where the guns were fired from. I stopped at the light-house because the boat would not take me farther on that...",
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        "content_text": "## SEVENTH DAY, THURSDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1870.\n\nThis led down to the Captain's cabin, to which there was a moderately broad staircase. In the cabin, there was a table, which was covered with a red cloth the last time I saw it. The cabin had air ports, about four inches in diameter. In the first place, the poop cabin was entirely carried away by the collision; it was swept entirely into the sea; then I saw that the whole starboard quarter and stern were cut off. I was not down in the Captain's cabin, and cannot say how large a breach was made in it, or can I describe the breach. I should think the breach must have extended the whole breadth of the ship. I suppose the staircase leading to the Captain's cabin must have been cut off, as the Oneida was struck forward of that. I don't know how the Captain got on deck. I did not go and look over to ascertain the extent of this breach in the Oneida's stern. I think the Oneida ran about two miles after the collision before sinking but, after reflecting again, I have no means of judging the distance run. I cannot say how far she had run. I should judge that her propeller must have been injured, but I don't know. I should think her engines were not injured. I should like to say that I don't think the Oneida went two miles after the collision. I don't know how far she went, and had no means of judging. The wheel was cut away by the collision. The wind was from N.N.E. to N.E., principally N.E., force from 4 to 5; the Kanonsaki light bore one point on the starboard bow from the time of sighting it to the time of the collision, except when I altered course by reason of the ship sagging, when it was brought up nearly ahead. At no time before the collision, did it bear upon my port bow. It is a rule of the U.S. Navy, when the officer of the watch alters course, that he informs the navigating officer and the Captain of it, but on this occasion, I understood the Captain was not to be disturbed. I did notify the navigator and he came on deck. He stayed on deck about 10 minutes. When one of the U.S. Navy vessels is in a dangerous place, the navigator's post of duty is on deck. When any danger from a collision is apprehended, his post is also on deck, and if he considers it necessary, he can take charge of the ship. When I first saw the Bombay's light, it was a little to the left of Kanonsaki light, then it went to the right of the light. As it was rounding the point, I saw the starboard green light of the Bombay; it bore one point on the starboard bow. Twenty of the officers of the Oneida were lost and ninety-five men. The Oneida arrived on the China station at the end of 1887. The Bombay was one mile off when I noticed her heading for the Oneida. I could not have avoided her then by putting our helm aport. When you see the mast head and green light of an approaching steamer, the rule is to starboard the helm in order to give the other steamer a wide berth; this I did when I first saw the Bombay's lights. As far as I know, the helm was starboarded at the time of collision; at least, I had given no orders to change it.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. The name of the lookout on the starboard forecastle is William Brittany, ordinary seaman; the man at the weather wheel is named Albert Rugaart, seaman; those are all of the lookouts who were saved. I was in charge of the deck when we first saw the Bombay's lights as officer of the watch. I was in charge of the ship at the time of the collision. We passed within three cables' length of the light ship, I should think. When I took charge of the deck, we were steering for Kanonsaki light--for a moment, that light was brought to bear almost right ahead. I don't know if Perry Island was in sight at that time. I did not know Perry's Island. I am unacquainted with the land in that locality. I am not supposed to know the land; as officer of the watch, I am supposed to know the course but not the peculiarities of the land. I thought the ship was sagging only from the fact of bringing the light more ahead, not from the position of the land to westward.\n\nI thought we were approaching the land to the westward. I could see the land, and the general outline of it. At that time, I should think the land to the westward was something between 4 or 5 miles distant. I was aware that we could approach it pretty close. I was at that distance when we sighted the Bombay's lights; we made the lights one point on the starboard bow; the other vessel was steering up toward Yokohama, her course would have taken her somewhere up by the lightship. I imagined that vessel was going to pass on the starboard side, because she was so far in toward the western shore, and we were some way out. We left Yokohama about 5:15 P.M., and came into collision with the Bombay at 6:45 P.M. Our time would have been the same as H.M.S. Ocean's time. When we saw all three lights of the Bombay, we were about a mile off. We were so close together, and approaching so rapidly, that I thought that if we ported our helm, we should collide; we were approaching each other at the rate of seventeen miles an hour, I should judge. Under the circumstances, our mizen and gaff topsails would be against our port helm; it is doubtful whether we should have had time to get them in before the collision. Allowing the vessel had no canvas on, and in fine weather, without canvas, and under steam, I don't know how long it would have taken the Oneida to turn round. When I saw the Bombay's green light, it did not occur to me that her red light must be just on the point of opening.\n\nThe Oneida usually went about seven and a half knots; the boilers and engines were out of order. When the speed was reported to me, it did not occur to me to doubt whether we were going so slowly. I didn't have the log heaved the second time, as I didn't think it necessary, as I took the word of the midshipman, and didn't wish him to think that I imagined he didn't know how to heave the log; that was the first time he had ever heaved a log on board our ship. It is possible and even probable that he might have missed a knot under those circumstances. I thought the Oneida might be going seven and a half knots, no more. The engines were not going fast, and there wasn't much wind. The engines did not turn so fast after six o'clock as they did before. I am not aware that it is usual for vessels to keep on the starboard side in a narrow channel. It did not occur to me that the Bombay might be too close to the western shore, and wanting to come out. Our engines were going but not very rapidly at the time of collision. No change was made in speed. I did not hear our hail answered. My purpose in ordering them to shorten sail was to decrease the ship's headway, knowing that we ought not to be under sail after collision. It was not very long, say five minutes after the collision, that we first discovered that the Oneida was making water dangerously; her sails were clewed up within the five minutes. I hadn't found out that the rudder was damaged at the time that the order was given to shorten sail; it was about two minutes after this that I found all the steering gear was out of order. The chief engineer must have reported that the ship was making water. Steps were taken to head the ship off to the western shore. I don't know that it occurred to anyone to beach the vessel on the Saratoga Spit. I believe that Mr. Moldaur thought we were below the spit. I didn't know; I hadn't seen the buoy. Our standard compass was on the poop, underneath the spanker boom, amidship. I think the navigating officer knew where he was with regard to the Saratoga Spit; he must have taken the bearings, he was always taking bearings when we were under weigh. I don't know whether he took the bearings of Perry's island or not.\n\nThough seeing only one light, I judged that the Bombay was running nearly parallel to us; immediately before the collision, I know that she must have starboarded her helm, as I could plainly see the Bombay's head go to port. The Bombay was running across our bows, and the Oneida was not running across the Bombay's bows. I don't want it understood for a moment that I admit that I crossed his bows. There were no flash-lights, blue lights, or any kind of signals on the bridge--it would not be as easy to get a rocket ready as to get ammunition from the magazine, as the rocket would have to be fastened to the stick. I don't think the rockets could have been got ready as soon as the gun was ready for firing. The Oneida's proper complement of boats was six, which I consider would be sufficient to save all hands; some of them would have carried provisions and some not. When we left Yokohama, we had not that complement; we were short three serviceable boats. I should judge that the launch and the 2nd cutter would each carry, say 45, and that the 3rd cutter would carry over 30; if we had had our proper complement of boats, we could not have carried the whole ship's company without the gig; with all the boats, we might just have saved all the ship's company. We carried spare booms all lashed outside; none were lashed inside; no order was given to cut away spars or to prepare for wreck. The order to take to the boats was not given till, say, 12 minutes after the collision. I didn't hear it given myself.\n\nI believe the order was given to the lifeboat's crew to clear away the lifeboat. If the Oneida had struck on a rock instead of coming into collision, we might have saved more men, as we might have had the gig--the third cutter also would have held more men than she had. I did not hear Captain Williams say, \"you have the Admiral to thank for this.\" I heard that Captain Williams said, \"I have asked for boats and can't get them.\" I couldn't swear to anyone having been wounded on board the Oneida; I heard that the orderly at the cabin hatch had his nose cut off, and that the man at the lee wheel was killed--there were two men at the wheel at the time of the collision, besides a quartermaster. The Oneida carried two Surgeons. I don't think that the Surgeons knew that the men were hurt; I didn't know it. I only heard of it afterwards--the doctor of a vessel not being an executive officer is not supposed to go away in charge of a boat unless by special authority; in the event of a boat being sent away on duty, one of the line officers is always supposed to go in charge. I suppose we were about ten minutes by the wreck before we pulled away. I did not see the Doctor's boat during that time; the doctor pulled off to a junk. I cannot tell whether he might have saved any men had he stayed by the wreck. There was no order given to the Doctor to leave the ship that I know of. Our spanker boom was fastened to the mizen mast by a goose neck of iron.\n\n## Proceedings resumed 9 A.M. Thursday, 3rd February, 1870.\n\nExamination of Isaac Yates, master U.S.N., resumed.\n\nTO THE COURT. I cannot say whether any bearings were taken at 6 P.M.; they would have been entered in my log at 8 P.M. I suppose that Mr. Moldaur had taken bearings. When I altered the course to S.E. and by S., it had nothing to do with the approaching steamer; we headed up to that point slowly and then headed back slowly. I should think this took altogether about 5 minutes. Mr. Moldaur remarked that we could not go any more to port, as he thought we were as close over to the eastern shore as he thought it safe to go. There is no rule of the road in our service, to my knowledge, that in passing a narrow channel, a vessel keeps on the starboard side. Having a ship on my starboard side, I am aware that it is my duty to keep out of her way. I saw her three lights when about a mile distant, 3 points on our starboard bow. I did not port because she was well on the starboard bow, and I thought for an instant and saw that I could not port my helm. I could not port because I thought we should have struck end on--besides she was on my starboard side, and the rule is to starboard your helm. I had previously seen the green light only; and by the steamer opening out three lights, I was aware that she was porting her helm. There is no impression on my mind that I should have ported my helm then as she was on our starboard side, and should have kept to starboard--the starboard lookout man is saved and also the man who had the weather wheel. The leadsmen are not saved. The magazine of the Oneida is in the forward part of the ship; the shell rooms are also forward; the signal lights were kept, I believe, in the signal quartermaster's room. Our signals were patent signals of different colors. I cannot say where the signal quartermaster's room was. I know it was somewhere forward. After the collision, there was nothing to prevent our getting up signal lights for making a signal. The key of that room was kept by the signal quartermaster; the rockets, however, were under charge of the gunner's mate. I don't know where they were kept; they were not kept in the shell room. The only store rooms aft were in connection with the paymaster department. The tiller was carried away; everything shaft the wheel was cut off; the mizen mast was standing. The wheel was forward of the poop; I did not myself see that the tiller was gone, but I judged that the head of the rudder was gone also. This I know: that the ship was unmanageable. We had a tiller on the spar deck and another within the Captain's cabin. We did not try to steer by the second tiller; the Captain's cabin was all smashed up, and we could not get there; the Captain, I believe, was lifted up by two men. I did not try to go down to the Captain's cabin and steer by the second tiller. The Boatswain was told to try and get the relieving tackle shipped. He is saved. Had I been able to steer the ship, I should have tried to bring her up on the spit. I cannot say where the water first came in from. Just before I saw the ship was heading E. by N., I saw the lighthouse on our starboard beam. The signal quartermaster is not saved. The steam whistle was not blowing when we hailed; all was silent on our ship.\n\nI have been a master since the 25th of March last; I was 23 last November. I have had charge of the deck at sea ever since I have been in the Oneida. I have always taken my regular turn. When I first joined the Oneida, I was an ensign. I joined the Oneida on the 6th August 1868 at Nagasaki. I first saw the Bombay's light to the eastward of Kanonsaki light; after that, I saw it to the westward; my ship was heading up to S.E. by S. when I first saw the Bombay's light on our starboard bow. It was still on our starboard bow when we got on our course S. by E. 1/2 E. I did not see the Bombay's light on our port bow the whole time; when I got on our proper course, the Bombay's light was to the westward of Kanonsaki light. She was on our starboard bow, a long distance off, and close into the western shore. I should judge that she went round Kanonsaki and then steered in toward the shore. I can't exactly explain how she could have been in towards the western shore. When I first saw her green light, she was a point on our starboard bow. When I saw all her lights, she was three points on our starboard bow; the navigating officer was down below for his dinner.\n\nI can't say why we fired the lee gun instead of the weather gun. I don't know if the Bombay could have heard the weather gun better; perhaps she might, but I think she ought to have heard it anyway. We were short of the launch, which we carried in the cradle at the starboard waist; the second cutter, which we carried on the starboard quarter, hoisted up abreast the main rigging; the dingy was quite useless. I came away in the first cutter, which was carried on the port side. The doctor came away in the cutter, which was carried on the port quarter. No other officer who was on duty at the time was saved except the boatswain. The port binnacle was forward of the wheel, so that a man standing at the wheel could look right into it. The wheel was situated just forward of the cabin hatch. I think that Mr. Stewart hailed immediately after the collision had taken place, and that the whistle was blown directly after that. The whistle was not blown before the collision took place. The Oneida's steam whistle was a large one, and of a very loud tone. I could not distinguish any figure on board the Bombay. I could see a good many lights on board her. I was standing on the starboard side of the bridge at the time of the collision. I was looking over my right shoulder to see how she was going to strike us. When I looked over my shoulder, I saw lights on her deck, but I did not see either of her side lights; the side lights are not allowed to show aft. It was such a short time that I cannot say how long it was after I lost sight of her green light that she struck us. After we had opened all the Bombay's three lights, we lost her red light.\n\nWhen I saw all her three lights, I gave the order to starboard our helm. I have not at any time stated as follows, viz: that I first saw the Bombay's bright and red light a little on the port bow, and that I gave the order to port the Oneida's helm, but that Captain Williams came on deck immediately afterwards and said; \"no, no, starboard your helm, always starboard,\" and that in my opinion the Oneida was altogether in fault with regard to the collision. I did not make use of my speaking trumpet to hail the other vessel. The shock of the collision was severe; it was not lighter than I had anticipated. I could have given the order to stop the engines. It did not occur to me to stop the engines when I saw the collision was inevitable, as I wanted if possible to get by. At no time before the collision did I want to stop the engines. I did send for Mr. Moldaur when I saw the vessel heading for me--all her three lights. I saw him on the bridge ladder just as the ships were striking. I told the boy to tell Mr. Moldaur that I wanted him. I did not tell the boy to tell him that we were in danger of colliding, as he always came up night or day when sent for. When I saw the Bombay's three lights, I knew that she kept porting, but, nevertheless, I kept starboarding as that was the rule of the road. Even when I see another ship making a mistake, I consider it my duty to abide by the rules, and not to use my own discretion.\n\nThe main topsail, main trysail, spanker, and gaff-topsails were all set, and would act against the port helm, so that she would not have felt her helm so soon as if she had had no sails set; on the other hand, these sails would act in favor of the starboard helm. The Oneida's peculiarity was that you always had to keep a weather helm, when the aft sails were set, as she had an inclination to come up to the wind. Even with the wind on her quarter, there would be some difficulty in keeping her off the wind; she would carry some weather helm whenever the spanker was set. She carried a weather helm when we altered course to S.E. by S. I didn't touch the braces at all; the sails were all full then; the wind was pretty aft on our quarter; we always had to keep the yards braced well in, in order to keep her off on her course. The port tacks were hauled on board. I didn't think it prudent to have the spanker and gaff topsail set, but I didn't like to go against the orders of the navigating officer. I don't know that the main supply of signal lights were kept in the...",
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        "content_text": "## Appendix No. 2.\n\n**Memo. of Casualties to the Shipping in Hongkong Harbor on the Typhoon of the 23rd September, 1874, between the hours of 12.30 and 4 a.m.**\n\n## Appendix No. 3.\n\n**MEMO of Casualties to Junks, during the Typhoon of the 23rd September, 1874.**\n\n| Probable No. | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- |\n| 355 | 20 |\n|  | 100 small Boats broken up on the beach; 20 Junks were on shore, but have since been got afloat. A number of Boats supposed to have been blown out to sea & nothing heard of them. 1 Steam Launch, 3 European Lighters, and a Water Boat wrecked. |\n|  | 90 Junks and Boats missing. Driven on Shore. |\n\n| NAME OF SHIP | Official Tonnage | FLAG & RIG | NO. OF CREW | No. SAVED | Missing | WHERE CASUALTIES HAPPENED | REMARKS | Place of Casualty | Loss of Lives from Junks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sea Bird | 64,116 | Brit. schr. | 5 | 4 | 1 | Near Lane, Crawford & Co.'s Pier. |  |  |  |\n| Flamer, B.M. |  |  |  |  |  | Near Commissariat Wharf. | Stranded, is now afloat. |  |  |\n| Lizzie II. |  |  |  |  |  | Government Pier. | Casualty, Repairable. |  |  |\n| Leonor |  |  |  |  |  | Do. | Total Loss. |  |  |\n| સામા |  | Am. barque | 16 | 16 | None | Do. | broken up. |  |  |\n| erdeen | 52 |  | 5 | 1 | 4 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 408 | Span. str. |  | 80 | 48 |  | & 95 Chinese Passengers |  | 160 |\n| Bunk | 64 |  |  |  |  | Do. | (Capt. drowned) |  |  |\n| ba-ki Wán | 45 |  |  |  |  | one Cutters' Island |  |  |  |\n| Stanley |  |  | 2 Eu. & 4 Chinese |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Albay | 200 |  | 51 | 27 |  |  | None. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | Do. | Do., raised. |  |  |\n| Maury | 389 | Ger. b'que | 13 | 12 | } | N. N. W. 2 miles from Green Island. | Do., (Capt. drowned) |  |  |\n| Victoria |  |  | 12 |  |  | itish Kowloon |  |  |  |\n|  | 319 |  | 15 |  |  | FJunks & 50$ Jenks & 300 Boots. |  |  |  |\n| Mindanao | 23,956 | 426 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Brit. barque | 22 | 21 | 1 | Pacific Mail Wharf. | Do, raised. |  |  |\n| Courier | 47,084 | 385 | 16 | 10 |  | South side of Sulphur Channel. | Do. (Capt. & Mate drowned |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | raised, |  |  |\n| Total |  |  | 28 | 455 | 157 |  |  |  | 672 |\n| Imogen | 58,122 | 383 | 21 | 21 | None | West Point, | Do., raised |  |  |\n| Afalvern | 20,782 | 410 | 14 |  | None. | 15 | A was on board), raised |  |  |\n| Aldebaran | 905 | Geria, 'que | 19 | 11 | 2 | N. N. W. 2 miles from Green Island, | Do., raised. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | Quarter mile North of Do., (All lost, Captain's wife |  |  |  |\n| Seaforth | 311 | Siam. barque | 39 | 32 | M | Smaller Green Island, | Went to pieces. |  |  |\n| Dudu | 322 |  | 24 | 20 |  | Near Green Isl. Lt. House. | Do. |  |  |\n| Amoy | 262 | Slam, brig | 28 | None. | 28 | Do. | Do. |  |  |\n| Lowtoe | 575 | Siam, schr. | 41 | 8 | 33 | { On Cheung Chow Ching 24 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 1. miles W, of Green Isl. |  |  | 21 |\n| Muesa | 603 | Peru, ship |  | 15 | 16 |  | & 10 Chinese Passengers |  |  |\n| Hue |  |  |  |  |  | Off S.W. Point of Chung Sunk, broken up. |  |  |  |\n| Everhard |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lizzie & Rosa | 59,538 | 682 | 980 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Germ, b'que | 18 | 16 | Nono. | N. E. Point of Lantao. | Stranded, do. |  |  |\n|  | 922 | Brit. barque | 22 |  |  | West Point. |  |  | 73 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | is now afloat. |  |  |\n| Blue Bell | 64,098 | 27 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Brit, str. | 6 | 6 |  | Belcher's Bay. | Do., do. |  |  |\n| Alaska | 4,012 | Am. str. | 110 | 110 |  | (800 yards W. of Aberdeen Docks. | Do.. do. |  |  |\n| Early Bird | 64,103 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Burra Norfol |  | 16 Brit. str. | 6 | 6 |  | Not known, | 31 |  |  |\n| Sauk | 300 | Siam, barque | 40 | 40 | 11 | Sulphur Channel. | Dismasted. |  |  |\n| A. E. Vidal | 339 | Germ. d'que | 14 | 14 | 27 | Off S. end of Chung Buc. | Do. |  |  |\n| Talee | 335 |  | 14 | 14 |  | In Harbor. | 32 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 20 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Do., and Hull badly damaged |  |  |\n| Carmelita & Ida |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Morning Light | 421 |  | 14 | 14 | 23 | Off W. end of Stone Cutters' Island. | Do. |  |  |\n|  | 34,980 | 2,377 | Brit. ship | 42 | 42 | In Harbor. | Do. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12 |  |  |\n| Pawtaxet | 280 | Am. str. | 12 | 12 | Du. | \" | Do. |  |  |\n| Ardent | 58,100 | 358 | Brit, barque | 11 | 11 | Do. | Do. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 31 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | and Stern damaged. |  |  |\n| Charlotte Audrews | 44,927 | 350 | 144 | 14 | \" | Off W. end of Stone Cutters' Island, | Do. |  |  |\n| Courier | 9,528 | 320 | 14 | 14 |  | Near Cow-ee Chow. |  |  |  |\n| Da |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Radama | 700 | Fr. ship | 20 | 20 |  | In Harbor. | 15 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Do, |  |  |\n| Matilda Atheling | 18,584 | 676 | Brit. barque | 16 | IG | Off Chung Hue. | Stern damaged. |  |  |\n| Maria y Vicenta | 384 | Span. barque | 18 | 18 |  | Belcher's Bay, | Stern stove in. |  |  |\n| Ellon Castle | 16,378 | 330 | Brit. barque | 13 | 13 | In Harbor. | 11 |  |  |\n| Falcon | 27,000 | 793 |  | 22 |  | Do. | \"2 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | うち |  |  |\n| Amog | 68,490 | 814 | Brit. str. | 35 | 35 | Do. | 17 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Do. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Rudder aud Stern damaged. |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Propeller broken. |  |  |\n| Lathley Rich | 1,927 | Am. ship | 18 | 18 | 50 | Do. | Loss of Bowsprit, &c. |  |  |\n| Total | 87 Vessels. |  | 959 | 760 | 200 |  |  |  |  |\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, &c.**\n\nHongkong, 14th October, 1874.\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, &c.**",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nstreet is all but impassable from the depth of mud, but near the fort shingle has been strewn on the road, which is a little improvement upon the usual state of things.\n\nHaiphong is the highest point to which vessels drawing fourteen feet can ascend the Cua-cam, and for the present is the shipping port of Hanoi, the capital of the Province, which is situated upon the Songkoi or Red River, about 60 miles distant in a direct line, and 145 by the water route. From the extensive works under construction, it appears as if the French intended it to be the anchorage for foreign vessels; but the Red River, which debouches into the sea about twelve miles to the southward of the Cua-cam, is a fine stream, with a rise and fall in the freshets of from twenty-six to thirty feet, although at this season of the year it is very low; in fact it reminded me of the Yangtze Kiang, bars and sandbanks blockading its approaches from the sea. When well surveyed, I can imagine no greater existing difficulty in its navigation to Hanoi than the Yangtze offers to Hankow, and we know how well that has been overcome. I do not therefore see the utility of the works now being prosecuted at a great expense at Haiphong, but there may be reasons for it unknown to me.\n\nHaiphong is connected with Hanoi either by the River Cua-cam or by canals, the most available of which I have mentioned as having its entrance at that place. After proceeding about twenty-three miles by this route, boats turn into another canal, and, after going some seventy-seven miles, enter the main river, the Songkoi or Red River, and so on to Hanoi, distant about forty-five miles. The water in these canals at this season is very low, and rises but little with the tides of the two rivers which feed them. During the summer freshets they are deep enough for steam launches or small steamers drawing four or five feet, or perhaps more.\n\nAt Haiphong there was little to be seen and not much to be learned, for what business there is is done at the capital, Hanoi, where the natives and the Chinese merchants reside. At one time I almost despaired of being able to reach the latter, for of native passage boats there are none, decked or covered over at least, and the distance was too great to attempt it in the \"Egeria's\" small steam-cutter. I found, however, a trading steam-launch called the \"City of Whampoa,\" which I succeeded in chartering, for I felt, unless I reached the capital, the object of my visit to Touquin would fail. I was therefore glad to hire her, indifferent as her accommodation was.\n\nCaptain Castle, the commander of Her Majesty's ship \"Egeria,\" and myself were most kindly and hospitably received by M. Turc, the French Consul at Haiphong, the Commandant of the fort, Major Dubeaux, and M. Gres, the Director of Customs. The former gave me all the information I required respecting the trade of the country, and its resources; but frankly said it was still in an incipient state, and in the hands of Chinese at Hanoi; and whether it would develop into importance depended chiefly on the communications with Chinese Yunnan being re-opened. He furnished me with a list of the principal articles of merchandize imported and exported viâ Haiphong, and a return of the exports therefrom from the 15th of September, 1875, to the 12th of April, 1876, showing a value of 198,914 t. 4 m. 6 c.; of imports there being none. Copies of these documents you will find annexed to this Report.\n\nThe Customs at Haiphong are under the control of a French officer, M. Jules Gres, with the title of Inspector; but there are three or more Annamese, calling themselves Inspectors and sub-Inspectors of Customs. I called on these officers at the Custom-house, and was most politely received; but they gave, or could give but little information regarding the trade of the country, but expressed their desire to see English merchant-vessels come to the port. I replied, that it depended a good deal upon the Annamite Government, for if merchandize or produce, either import or export, was saddled with heavy interior duties, as I believed was at present the case in Tonquin, the prospects of a trade were bad, for no merchant would come to an unprofitable market; that a large trade was good for the Government and people of a country, as it brought money into it, and increased the Customs revenue; and that without perfect freedom no great results could be anticipated.\n\nThey replied, that as regarded inland duties, it was true they at present existed, but would shortly cease to be levied, in accordance with the terms of the French Treaty; but they had been farmed to a Chinese firm, and the agreement had yet a year to run.\n\nI replied that I was glad to hear it, and advised them to keep out of Chinese hands, and to look to foreign merchants for the interests of trade; for the Chinese, from their bribing propensities, disorganized the local officials, in order to secure a more advantageous position than foreigners, who would not do this. I had reason to believe afterwards, that they referred to the inland duties on the Yunnan route, and not to those of the interior generally. Their names were:-\n\nLuong van-tan, Sub-Inspector of Customs.\n\nLo tue, Director of Customs.\n\nNguan van-sze, Sub-Director of Customs.\n\nPetrus Trueong Vinhky, Interpreter.\n\nOn the 10th instant, accompanied by Captain Castle, I left in the steam-launch for Hanoi.\n\nThere was but little to be seen of the country, the banks of the canal being too high; but from what I saw, it appeared to be fertile, and planted with maize and sugar-cane, sweet potatoes, and other products of these latitudes. On debouching, however, into the main stream, the Songkoi, or Red River, a better view was obtained; and here the bamboo and other trees, with villages and fields, made together a scene of much natural beauty, and gave evidences of a high state of cultivation. I had been informed that little or no boat or junk traffic would be seen, but I found a fair amount of it; and from the stake-nets and boats employed, there is evidently a large supply of fish; rafts of wood and bamboo were frequently met; and altogether there were fair evidences of a contented and well-to-do population.\n\nAt this season, taking from December to May, the Red River (Songkoi) is at its lowest, enormous stretches of sand-bands lining the stream, and points of them jutting almost into the centre. About May the melted snow and ice from the mountains of Upper Tonquin and Yunnan come down and the river rises rapidly, attaining a height of thirty feet, and very frequently carrying away the banks, and flooding the country, to the great destruction of life and property. We passed some extensive works being prosecuted to repair an immense breach which last year's freshets had made, and all along the river and the canals preparations were being prosecuted by banking up and supporting the bunds. Annam evidently labours under the same mistake as China in the treatment of her rivers. Instead of dredging the channel, which year by year fills up with alluvial deposits, sand and clay brought down from the highlands, the authorities bank it up, and so in the course of time the bottom of a river is raised above the level of the adjoining land, and if it makes a breach in the bund during the freshets, the whole country is inundated and becomes a vast lake. Such is the cause of the inundations on the Yangtze, and notably that of the Yellow River in China, and evidently also of the Songkoi, or Red River, in Touquin.\n\nThe approach to the city of Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, is very fine, a turn of the river, which is here from bank to bank about a mile or more in breadth, brings into view the Town and the French Settlement which is under construction like that at Haiphong, with the barracks and Consular buildings under erection thereon. The city rises gradually from the river, and embedded in trees and foliage and seen on a bright and sunny day, has a charming appearance. We anchored off the landing-place at 10:30 A.M., on Monday the 10th, and went on shore at once to call upon the Comte de Kergaradec, the French Consul, who lives in the Annamite Examination Hall, at least a mile and a half from the river, but finding it impossible to get palanquins for hire, Captain Castle and myself called at the house of the Bishop, Monseignor Pergenier to borrow them. Here, while talking to him, M. Aumoitte, Chancelier of the Consulate came, saying that M. Turc, the Consul at Haiphong, had sent a message overland to inform Comte de Kergaradee of our intended visit, and the messenger had arrived only an hour before us, and chairs were coming to take us to the Consulate. These duly arrived and we went on.\n\nOn reaching the Consulate I was received by M. de Kergaradec with great courtesy, and found he had prepared rooms for us.\n\nDuring the forenoon I had a long conversation with M. de Kergaradec regarding the condition of affairs in Tonquin, which he very frankly explained. He said the political Treaty of the 15th March, 1874, concluded with the Annamite Government was fairly good, but the commercial one of the 23rd of November of that year was a failure. No provision having been made to regulate the transit dues on produce destined for the open ports, with the exception of those en route to and from Yunnan, consequently the Annamite Government, when called upon to act in accordance with the Commercial Treaty, replies that it is prepared to do so as soon as the frontier route to Yünnan is cleared of the Chinese bandits who hold it and levy black mail upon all that passes, but as regards the provinces the Treaty does not apply, and rest their argument upon the last section of the IInd Article; that it was certainly an oversight on the part of the framers of the Treaty, if the intention was to equalize the transit...\n\n227",
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        "content_text": "9\n\n230\n\n!\n\n8\n\nRiver, but called here the Ho-ti-kiang. Below Manghao, on the banks of the river, in Annamite territory, is situated the town of Laokay, two days' journey from the Tonquin capital, Hanoi. The Song Koi, or Red River, divides into various branches; the two southern ones meet above Hanoi. On one of them stands the town of Niuh-brinh; on the other, that of Nam-diuh and Hung-yen. These two branches communicate by canals, on one of which is situated the town of Fouli. Another branch of the Song Koi is the Thai-binh River, which passes by Hai-duong. Between it and the Hanoi branch of the Song Koi, or Red River, runs the Longchi Canal; and a third and very important branch to the north of the above named is the River Cam, which passes Haiphong; the mouth of the Cam is called the Cua Cam. The three northernmost mouths by which the Song Koi falls into the sea are called Dai, Lak, and Balat. The distance from the mouth of the river to Manghao in Yünnan is as follows:--\n\nFrom the mouth to Hanoi\nMiles\n110\n\nIlanoi to Soutay\n\"\n32\n\nSoutay to Annamite advanced posts\n\"\n87\n\nLackay to Manghao\n\"\n115\n\nAnnamite camp to Laokay\n\"\n70\n\nMiles from the sea to Manghao\n\n414\n\nIt is necessary to give this detail of the river communications through Tonquin in order that the position of affairs may be better understood.\n\nThe borders of Tonquin and Yunnan have for a long time been in a very disturbed state, being in possession of two clans or bands of Chinese distinguished as the Black and Yellow Flags. The men comprising them were originally under the Chief Tienti, the head of the Kwangei rebellion, and, having escaped into Tonquin, captured the town of Laokay, on the Red River; but the two Chiefs having quarrelled, they separated, and one portion took possession of Ko-yang, a tower lower down on the Red River, which places they still occupy, but are at war with each other, and each levies black mail upon all boats and goods passing into Yunnan, and thereby stopping the lucrative trade that had existed between Hanoi and that province.\n\nIn 1864 there resided at Hankow, in China, a M. Dupuis, who was engaged in the business of selling arms and ammunition to the Chinese then engaged in suppressing the Mahomedan rebellion in Yünnan. The distance, however, was long and the road difficult, and he was impressed with the idea that a shorter and better route could be found. He started for Yunnan, but the disturbed state of the country prevented him from following the course of the Song Koi, or Ho-ti-kiang, as it is there called, into Tonquin; but later on, in 1870-1871, he was more successful, and found the river was navigable from Manghao; and having ascertained that fact, he returned to Yunnan, and obtained large orders for arms and ammunition, which were to be brought viâ the Song Koi through Tonquin.\n\nIt was necessary, however, to obtain permission from the Annamite Government to cross Tonquin with these arms and ammunition, and Dupuis' Agent, M. Millot, explained his plans to Rear-Admiral Krantz, the Chef de Cabinet of the Navy Department, who obtained for him an audience from the Minister, Vice-Admiral Pothuon. Dupuis requested, as there was no regular communication with Annam, a passage to be given him in a gun-boat to Hué, to obtain this permission, and after some delay he received, under date the 9th April, 1872, a letter from the Directeur des Colonies, saying he had written to the Governor of French Cochin China to comply with his request if compatible with his duties, and MM. Dupuis and Millot having returned to Saigon, it was arranged that the despatch-boat \"Bourayne,\" Captain Lencz, should go to Tonquin to afford them protection. Two condemned British gun-boats---the \"Firm\" and the \"Cockchafer\"---had been purchased at Shanghae, and put under the French flags under the names the \"Hoong Kiang\" and the \"Lao Kay.\"\n\nMr. Dupuis left Hong Kong on the 26th of October, 1872, with the \"Hoong Kiang,\" towing a steam-launch, and the \"Lao Kay,\" towing a Chinese junk with coal and artillery. Including Messrs. Dupuis and Millot, the expedition numbered twenty-three Europeans and ninety-six Asiatics, Malays, Chinese, and Japanese.\n\nOn the 9th of November, they arrived at the Cua-cam River, in Tonquin, where the \"Bourayne\" was, but Captain Lenez had gone to Hanoi. Dupuis then went to the southernmost mouth of the Song Koi, but was recalled by a note from Captain Lenez, requesting him to return as soon as possible to be introduced to the Royal Commissioner Li, who had military command of the Provinces of Quang yen, Hai dzong, and Hung yen. On the 19th Li arrived, and the object of the expedition was explained, and the official Chinese documents were shown to him; but he said, though all was in order, he must refer to Hué for instructions. On the 4th of December no answer had been received from Hué, and Li hinted that none would be received for several months. Dupuis then decided not to wait any longer, and he wrote to Commissioner Li that, as the waters of the Cua-cam were very bad, he would go up the river.\n\nAfter several attempts to find a channel, the way to the Red River was discovered, which the expedition entered on the 18th of December, with a salute. Their proceedings were detailed to me by a very intelligent man called Captain George, a Greek by birth, who was with the expedition. The Annamites were greatly excited, and large bodies of troops were out. An attempt was made to erect a barrier across the canal, flanked by a fort, which opened fire upon the vessels; but that was soon silenced, and they arrived at Hanoi on the 22nd of December without further opposition. There the Mandarins promised to assist them up the river, but, in fact, prevented M. Dupuis hiring the boats he wanted; and on discovering this he determined to continue the journey, but was unable from want of water. Finally, he succeeded in hiring four boats, and on the 18th of January, 1873, he started with three of them, the steam-launch, and a Chinese interpreter, leaving the remainder of the expedition with M. Millot at Hanoi, and taking with him altogether twelve Europeans and twenty natives.\n\nOn the 1st of February, the expedition passed the last Annamite camp, reaching the head-quarters of the Yellow Flags on the 10th. Here he was entertained by their Chief Hoang Tsong-yu, and after leaving his territory he entered, on the 20th, that of another Chief, Lun vinh-pline, the Black Flags, who lives in the city of Lao Kay; and on the 25th he left this-the last town in Tonquin-and finally arrived at Manghao, in Yunnan, on the 4th of March, and leaving his material behind, he reached Yunnan-fu on the 10th. Here he found he had arrived too late with his arms, for the Mahommedan stronghold of Tali-fu had been surrendered to the Imperial troops on the 8th of January, and Ma, the Chinese Commander-in-chief, did not require them, and said, moreover, he had not the means of paying for them, but there was a quantity of tin from the mines which he might have, and which Dupuis accepted, but was able to remove but little of it for want of means of transport; and finding his expedition a commercial failure, he returned to Hanoi, which he reached on the 10th of April, and found the Annamites preparing to attack the Expedition, having closed two branches of the Song Koi and barricaded the river above Hanoi to prevent its escape. By mistake, however, the Longchi Channel, which begins a little above Hanoi, and runs into the Phai-binh River, was left open, and Dupuis, who had enlisted about 100 Chinese, was able to make good his retreat, though occasional skirmishes took place.\n\nThe Ministers of Tuduc, the King of Annam, seeing no means of getting rid of M. Dupuis, wrote to Admiral Dupré, who sent him, through the Annamite authorities, an order to leave Tonquin at once, saying that his presence in the country was a source of annoyance, and if the command was not obeyed, he (Admiral Dupré) would not consider himself responsible for the consequences. In reply, M. Dupuis stated that he had neither coal nor funds, and could not leave the country. M. Millot, however, arriving at Saigon on the 13th of July, with a relation of the Titu of Yunnan, and a Mandarin named Li (whom the Viceroy of Canton told me he would behead if he could get hold of him), called on the Admiral, and so represented the matter that he suggested a delay of three months, and assisted M. Millot in obtaining a loan from a bank under the guarantee of the Colonial Secretary. M. Millot then returned to Hong Kong and purchased a small steamer, and named her the \"Manghao,\" and a junk, which he called the \"Lao Kay,\" and sent them, with ten men from Hupih, to Tonquin.\n\nAfter the departure of M. Millot from Saigon, Tuduc, the King of Annam, sent two Envoys to Admiral Dupré (August, 1873) to tell him Dupuis refused to obey his order. To this the Admiral replied by telling them they ought to have expelled him themselves. They answered they were unable to do so, and requested the Admiral to send a man-of-war to Tonquin to assist them.\n\nThe action of Admiral Dupré in this matter was calculated to mislead both M. Dupuis and the Annamite Government. He certainly gave assistance to the former both by steamers and money, and at the request of the latter he recalled Dupuis from Tonquin, and when the Envoys sent by the King Tuduc requested the fulfilment of his order, he hesitated to enforce it; and it was this hesitation which brought about the complications that resulted in grave responsibilities to the French and loss of independence to the Annamites. I may here mention that, during the interval which\n\n[608]",
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        "content_text": "## \nA petition to the following effect: \n\nYou Sam, who put in a petition on account of a junk called \"...chung\" and carrying goods, things, and passengers, states that all went out comfortably without any interruption, but that unexpectedly, after loading 18 live pigs and starting, piracy occurred which caused loss of both lives and property. He prays for the immediate grant of strict search and for an order for arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators to clear the sea from the evils of piracy, to wit.\n\nThat the humble Petitioner had a boat called \"Ja-Hing Lung\" of the style called \"ha-hau\" (clipper built), able to carry over 140 piculs of cargo, and that it was used to run between Sha ü Chung and Hong Kong. On the god day of the intercalary month of K (15 to 7 P. M. on the 26th day, 1881) the boat had reached the Bay called Leung Shun Wan and passed through the channel called So Shi into the open sea when suddenly a piratical craft with more than ten pirates fired muskets and attacked with swords. \n\nThe Petitioner states that the boat was called \"Hing Lung\" and was of the ha-hau (clipper built) style. \n23 \n2",
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        "content_text": "(4)\n\nSo much as regards the general conditions of the Trade of the Colony which evidence the grave misrepresentations contained in the Nottingham address, but in order to show conclusively, by official returns on matters of fact, the groundlessness of the specific accusations made by Sir John POPE HENNESSY, your attention is invited to the annexed copies of correspondence, with its enclosures, between the Colonial Government and the Committee of this Chamber.\n\nIn response to the request of the Committee, the Acting Colonial Secretary under the direction of His Excellency the Administrator has furnished the Chamber with the following documents, viz.:\n\n1. Extract from a Report by the Colonial Treasurer and Registrar General upon the Opium Trade of the Colony.\n2. Return from the Harbour Master, showing the character of the native vessels engaged in Opium Smuggling and the number of cases of alleged smuggling brought before the Marine Court since April, 1877.\n3. Return from the Captain Superintendent of Police, showing the total number of attacks and seizures made by Customs Revenue Cruisers in the neighbourhood of the Colony and reported to the Police since 1st January, 1877.\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer's Report on the Opium Trade for 1876, confirms the figures of the approximate estimate made by this Chamber from independent sources and given above, as to the probable quantity of Opium smuggled into China from this Colony.\n\nThe Harbour Master's Return shows that there is no special class of vessels fitted out in the Colony and heavily armed for the purpose of Opium smuggling, as alleged by Governor HENNESSY, and in the 5 cases cited in the report which comprise the whole number brought before the Marine Court in the course of five years, it will be seen that the quantity of Opium found in the vessels charged with being engaged in illicit trade was so inconsiderable, as to make it obvious that the concealment of Opium took place in each case in an ordinary trading junk. It is also clear from this Return, that nothing is known in the Harbour Master's Department of the armed organisation for the purpose of Opium smuggling which is stated by Governor HENNESSY to carry on a chronic war with the Empire of China.\n\nThe return from the Captain Superintendent of Police dealing with the entire number of cases reported to the Police Authorities during the years 1878 to 1882 (inclusive) of seizures by Chinese Revenue Cruisers and affrays between the Cruisers and Native vessels on the neighbouring China Coast, is instructive.\n\n| Year | Cases | Connected with Opium Trade | Value of Opium Seized |\n|------|-------|--------------------------|-----------------------|\n| ...  | 23    | 6                        | $3 to $800            |\n\nThe number of cases is 23, but of these only 6 are reported to be connected with the Opium Trade and the value of the Opium seized varies from $3 in one case to the maximum amount in another of $800, showing, in confirmation of the Report by the Harbour Master to a similar effect, the comparatively unimportant character of the Opium smuggling which prevails in these waters, and the absurdity of the allegation that there is a large contraband trade conducted in heavily armed junks fitted for the purpose in this harbour.\n\nThe remaining 17 cases of seizures by Revenue Cruisers during 5 years do not appear by the returns to have been connected with Opium; 7 of them were Salt junks, 1 Sulphur and Saltpetre, 3 General cargo and 2 Sugar. In 4 cases the particulars of cargoes are not stated.\n\nThe return shows the numbers of casualties with fatal results reported to the Police as having occurred in affrays between Native vessels and the Revenue Cruisers during the period of five years under review. Such casualties have been 8 in number, but not one of them appears to have had any connection with Opium smuggling, or to have arisen out of any case of contraband trading with which this Colony was concerned.\n\nIn August 1878, a fisherman on the Hongkong shore was accidentally killed by a shot fired by a Revenue Cruiser when pursuing a junk ultimately seized for some breach of Chinese regulations with general cargo on board.\n\nIn May 1879, 3 men of a Revenue Cruiser were killed in an affray with a junk carrying Salt. As Salt is not produced or prepared in this Island, this affray was not generated in the Colony or within Colonial waters. The preparation of Salt in China is conducted as a very strict monopoly by means of Government licenses, and trade in it other than by duly authorized persons is contraband.\n\nSerious affrays between Salt smugglers and Revenue Officers are well-known to be common throughout the Empire, they are frequently alluded to in the Peking Gazette, and in the case referred to in the Police Report, the junk must have been passing from one part of the territory of China to another part outside British waters.\n\nOn 28th November 1881, a man was killed in a boat which was conveying two gentlemen of this Colony who were returning from a shooting expedition on the mainland. Passing by a Customs Station on the Chinese side of the channel the boat was ordered to heave to, not doing so promptly musket shots were fired at it and one of the crew was most unfortunately killed. In this case, there appears to have been no smuggling attempted.\n\nIn April this year a man was killed on board a rowing boat in the narrow channel separating Hongkong from the mainland, and in June last 2 men were killed outside British waters in a trading junk carrying Sulphur and Saltpetre which are contraband articles of trade in China. In neither case does it appear that Opium was concerned.\n\nWith reference, therefore, to Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY's allegations which were to the following effect:\n\na. That this Island is the base of operations for a class of desperate men who carry on a large contraband trade in Opium with China,\nb. That, for the purpose of carrying on that trade, junks heavily armed with cannon are fitted out here and wage a chronic war with the neighbouring Empire,\nc. That these junks engage, within sight of the Island, in naval battles with the Chinese Revenue Cruisers resulting in large loss of life on both sides,\n\nthe facts are:\n\na. There is no large contraband trade in Opium carried on between this Colony and the China Coast. On the contrary the Opium smuggled, considering the extent of the trade, is inconsiderable and for the most part is carried into China in small quantities, portable and easily concealed, just as parcels of tobacco are smuggled into the United Kingdom.\nb. That within the knowledge of the Harbour Master and the Colonial Police Authorities no armed junks have been fitted out in this harbour during the last five years for the purpose of Opium smuggling. Smuggling of Opium, when attempted at all otherwise than by passengers in the various steamers trading to the Coast of China, is carried on in ordinary trading junks or in rowing boats dependent for success in their illicit trade upon their swiftness and small size.\nc. No such contests as those referred to in allegation c. have taken place within the last five years,\n\nand no loss of life in connection with Opium smuggling during the same period has come under the notice of the Police. Any serious affrays attended with loss of life which have occurred in the neighbourhood of this Colony between Native vessels and Revenue Cruisers, have been in connection with contraband traffic in other articles on the adjacent China Coast with which, so far as is known, this Colony has had no concern. The only instance reported by the Police in which Revenue Officers have been injured, was the case of the Salt junk referred to above and shown to be a purely Chinese affair.\n\n(5) \n## Page 100",
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        "content_text": "## 1.20\n\nJade and other precious stones which the Chinese say are to be found, may or may not exist. Tin undoubtedly does. The country is rugged and precipitous almost beyond belief, and the population is scanty, the whole province having been devastated during the Mahommedan rebellion. Still, its mineral wealth in tin and copper alone is sufficient to supply a thriving export trade, and, no doubt, the carriage of native opium to other parts of China will give plenty of employment to land-carriers, and to vessels afloat.\n\nKuangsi, on the other hand, is a province rich in vegetable productions, and is notably populous and wealthy. Of the mineral wealth of the province I know nothing, except that no minerals produced in Kuangsi appear among Pakhoi exports. There are districts in the province producing tea and silk. The route which can attract these articles will assuredly make a profit.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of a cutting from an article in the \"China Mail,\" signed \"Pamuge,\"* who writes from Tien-tsin. I am able to identify the writer, but he writes as though he had a knowledge of his subject, though I do not know to what he refers when he speaks of \"the jealousies of the foreign ministers in Peking.\" I quite agree with him that if Kuangsi can be properly opened, its shipping port will secure a lucrative trade.\n\nPakhoi has one advantage over any of the Tonquin ports, viz., the good approach to its harbour, which can be entered at any time of the tide in a 5-fathom channel. No pilots are employed. At Haiphong, on the contrary, pilotage on a small steamer inwards and outwards amounts to 60 dollars and upwards.\n\nWith regard to the latter clauses of the VIth Article of the Treaty I have not much to say. The regulations regarding the sale and transport of munitions of war call for no remark. The special clause of the Trade Regulations affecting the import and export of opium will, I venture to predict, concern the export of opium more than the import. Kuangsi will take but little Indian opium, and to import it into Yünnan would be \"carrying coals to Newcastle.\"\n\nThe question of the coasting trade may be of great importance. As it is, a large portion of the coasting trade between this and Hong Kong and Macao is done by junks, which pay duty at the native Custom-house, and are granted a discount which enables them to compete on favourable terms with steamers. These junks belong to the Macao Guild. They are allowed a discount of 9 taels on the duty of 30 taels per chest on all opium they carry, and aniseed oil, which is charged 5 taels per picul at the foreign Custom-house, only pays 1 tael at the native Custom-house when it is exported by junk. I sincerely hope and trust that the French will never allow junk-borne cargo a favourable differential scale of duties, and, further, that they will do all in their power to break the monopoly of the Macao Guild, which hampers and obstructs the development of trade on this coast.\n\nTo sum up, I hold that\n\n1. That Pakhoi, under present conditions, is in no position to develop her trade with Kuangsi and Yunnan.\n2. That her trade with the neighbouring districts is scarcely worth the expense of a foreign Custom-house, a Consulate, and a vessel of war.\n3. That it is perfectly possible, by means of lighter duties, observance of transit dues, and still more, by the construction of roads or railroads, to build up the trade of Pakhoi into one of great value.\n4. That if a trade route from Tonquin into Kuangsi and Yunnan is established and developed, while nothing is done here, Pakhoi must remain the port of the immediate neighbourhood (a poverty-stricken country), and of the Yu-lin district only, which would be equivalent to a collapse of all our hopes and expectations.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) CLEMENT F. R. ALLEN.\n\nPage 450  \nPage 451\n\n* Not printed.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n632\n\nS..\n\n17565\n\nPROPOSALS FOR REGULATION OF TRAFFIC, &c., AT HONGKONG, IN TIME OF WAR.\n\nIP: 2\n\nIn the event of hostilities having broken out, and the Mine Fields established, the anchorage for vessels wishing to enter the Harbour would be, for the Western Entrance, as follows:-\n\n(\n\nNORTHERN LIMIT-A line from South point of Green Island to South side of Cowe Chau Island.\n\nSOUTHERN LIMIT.--A line from upper Belcher's Battery to North-east summit of Chan Loong Island.\n\nEASTERN LIMIT.-A line from West side of Green Island to North-east end of Lamma Island, (Boulder Point).\n\nWESTERN LIMIT.-A line from West side of Chung-hue Island (South-west point) to West point of Lamma Island.\n\nLimits of proposed Anchorage for Junks near Green Island,\n\nEAST LIMIT.-The East limit of the Green Island Light, (Lighthouse bearing S.S.W.).\n\nSOUTH LIMIT.-A line from Belcher's Battery clear of smaller Green Island.\n\nNORTH LIMIT.-An East and West line drawn through the position of the Light Vessel on Kellett's Bank.\n\nWEST LIMIT-The West limit of the ships' anchorage.\n\nFor the Eastern entrance to the Eastward of a line drawn from the Eastern point of Sywan Bay through Junk Island, in about seven to nine fathoms of water, (7 to 9 fathoms).\n\nNo vessel will be permitted to enter the Mine Channel until she has been boarded by the Officer in charge of the entrance, and her papers examined, when she will be instructed to hoist the usual signal for a pilot.\n\nSignals to be used by the Ships by day at Fore Top-gallant Masthead, after the pilot is on board, to be kept flying until ship has passed the Mine Fields,--\n\nSUNDAY, 37 J.\nMONDAY, 15 W.\nTUESDAY, B. 17\nWEDNESDAY, } 39\nTHURSDAY, S. 12\nFRIDAY, \" C.\nSATURDAY, 33 \"\n多N.\n\nBy night the same signals will be used on Sundays, Tuesdays and Saturdays, namely, a green light hoisted under the steaming light, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, a red light will be hoisted under the steaming light. These lights to be displayed in addition to the usual navigation lights.\n\nSpecial facilities will be accorded as far as possible to all English Steamers, especially Mail Steamers, for entering the Harbour with as little delay as possible. If the above named instructions be not complied with, the forts will open fire, and the mines will be connected up.\n\nSo soon as the Boarding Officer has given permission for the Steamer to enter the Harbour, the usual signal for a pilot should be hoisted.\n\nMen-of-war should also hoist the permissory signals for entering the Harbour.\n\nSailing Ships will not be allowed to enter the Harbour at night except under special arrangements.",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nTHE CHINA REVIEW.\n\na wash for the feet. It is also applied to ulcers of the face, in convulsions of children and in prolapsus ani.\n\nIn the official medical records of Hong Kong, the first mention of Datura is made by Mr. Hugh McCallum, in the analytical section of the Colonial Surgeon's annual report for 1882.1 Mr. McCallum, the then Government Analyst, has obligingly placed at our disposal some notes of the investigations made by him which led up to the discovery that a Solanaceous plant and possibly Datura alba was a common stupefying agent amongst the Chinese in Hong Kong. He states, that during the years 1880-1882, cases of alleged drugging were frequently before the courts, and nearly always connected with robbery; the victims being in most cases returned emigrants. An impression seems to have pervaded the minds of the Magistrates and the Police that the complainants were either drunk from alcohol, or that the cases had simply been trumped up by some evil-disposed person for the sake of revenge. In June or July 1882, a Chinese female child was brought late one evening to the Civil Hospital, by the Police, in a narcotised condition. The girl had been stolen, and was found by the Police in a junk about to leave the harbour. When roused, the child was most vicious, and the temper displayed by her pointed to madness. The pupils of both eyes were widely dilated. Left alone the child soon fell asleep, and next morning, beyond displaying great stupidity, was quite well. The pupils were still dilated.\n\nMr. McCallum then proceeded to examine a bundle of flowers reputed by the Chinese as a stupefying drug, an extract of which acted as a powerful mydriatic, both when administered internally and when applied locally to the eye. Some of the extract was given to a small monkey, and the effects produced by it were similar to those observed in the case of the little girl. The flowers were submitted to the Director of the Botanic Gardens, and identified as those of Datura alba.\n\nShortly after this, and while the Datura investigation was still being conducted in the Government Laboratory, a second instance of mydriatic poisoning was brought to the notice of the Civil Medical authorities. Mr. McCallum's note of this case runs as follows: A Chinese barber in good health, but old and anemic, soon after the beginning of his evening meal, felt himself getting giddy, and shortly afterwards became unconscious. He was found by the Police next morning still stupid and talking a lot of nonsense.\n\nWhen brought to the Hospital at 11 a.m., his gait was unsteady; he trembled and looked very foolish. The pupils of both eyes were widely dilated, and he complained of a pain in his throat. Next day he recovered; the pupils were, however, still dilated, and he complained of feeling giddy. In his official report, Mr. McCallum remarks that unfortunately it was impossible to prove what particular plant was used in either of these cases, but no doubt it was a Datura, and most probably the variety known as D. alba.\n\nSince 1882, there have been several cases of poisoning by Datura. We shall, however, only allude to a particular case which came under the notice of one of us, wherein it was conclusively proved that the flowers of Datura alba had been employed.\n\nAt about 5 a.m., on the 8th of May 1885, two adult females (Ch.) and an adult male (Ch.) were brought by the Police to the Civil Hospital suffering from a mydriatic poison. As the police version of the affair was so confusing, it was decided to defer making enquiries, until the patients had so far recovered as to be able to remember the early details of the occurrence.1\n\nOn the morning of their discharge from the Hospital, the elder of the women stated, that about ten o'clock on the night of the 7th, she saw the third patient put a small bundle into the utensil which contained the evening meat. When she enquired why he did this, he replied that it was good medicine. Later on, she saw him remove the bundle, and observed that he threw it into a corner of the kitchen. The woman, who gave her evidence in a very straightforward and intelligent manner, was requested to proceed at once to her home, make a careful search for the supposed drug and bring it at once to the Civil Hospital. In half an hour she returned, bearing in her hand a bundle of flowers, which, although somewhat mangled, were easily recognized as those of Datura alba.\n\nThere is no record at the Hong Kong Civil Hospital of a single case of Datura drugging terminating fatally.\n\nThe symptoms, as displayed by the Chinese, appear to vary but little. Soon after the administration of the drug, the victim suffers from dimness of sight, and staggers as he attempts to walk: he chatters away in an unintelligible manner, and laughingly grasps at imaginary objects. This latter is perhaps to the ordinary observer the most striking feature in Datura poisoning. The patient sits up in bed and picks at the bed clothes as though to catch some passing object, and will amuse himself by attempting to draw out imaginary threads from the ends of his fingers. If the case is a mild one, the patient will, if left alone, fall asleep, and after several hours' rest be practically well. In severe cases the patient acts more like a maniac. He recoils with a shriek from anyone who comes near him, and offers the most violent resistance to medical treatment. In all cases the pupils are dilated, and mydriasis will remain for some time after the other symptoms have subsided.1 The effects of Datura are usually produced in about fifteen minutes after the administration of the poison, but the activity of the herb would have to be in a liquid form to act so rapidly as this.\n\nThe reader is referred to Dr. Norman Chevers' Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for details of cases of poisoning in India by Dhatura (the Hindustani name for a species of Datura), and for an interesting account of the professional poisoners or Dhaturepas.1\n\nPharmacists ought not to experience much difficulty in obtaining in China a good quantity of this plant for medicinal uses. Even if the supply of the wild variety fails, any number of plants could on demand be grown from seeds in the south of China. In the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens may be seen some very fine specimens raised in this way. The leaves and seeds are included in the Pharmacopoeia of India (p. 175); and preparations of them are in constant use for a variety of disorders.\n\nPARTS USED AND DESCRIPTION.-The fresh entire plant. The leaves vary considerably in size, the largest are about 8 inches long and 5 inches broad, very unequal at the\n\n1Hongkong Govt. Gaz., Vol. XXIX., p. 662.\n\n1Dr. Chevers states that persons who have been drugged by Dhatura should have more than a week allowed them to recover their memory.2 ({Med. Jurisp. for Ind. (1870), p. 210).\n\n1In the annual report, for 1885, of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, the following occurs in the Toxicological section (par. 877, p. 43); 'The symptoms in most pointed to some variety of stramonium or datura, administered in the form of decoction or infusion, but the quantities sent for examination have generally been too small from which to extract any of the alkaloids.' We are of opinion that if the enquiry is directed into the proper channel, no doubt it will be found that Datura alba is in use for criminal purposes in Singapore just the same as in Hong Kong and the Kwangtung province of China. Singapore is more a Chinese than a Malay Colony. In Hong Kong we believe the flowers are generally employed by the criminal: this will probably account for the fact that the majority of cases of Datura drugging are not very severe. The violent resistance offered by the victims to the use of the stomach pump and their determination in refusing all liquid emetics render it almost impossible to thoroughly empty the stomach; so that unless the analyst makes a direct search for atropine, there is danger of his missing the poison in the small quantity of material saved. If the food has been drugged, no difficulty should be encountered in detecting the poison, if a fair quantity of the meal has been left.\n\n5\n\n135",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA FINANCES.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 69.) My Lord,\n\nSir C. MacDonald to the Marquess of Salisbury-(Received July 19.)\n\nPeking, June 3, 1897.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copy of a report by Mr. E. H. Fraser, late Her Majesty's Acting Consul at Canton, on a voyage he made in Her Majesty's ship \"Tweed\" up the West River to Wuchou, one of the ports opened to trade by the recent Agreement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMr. E. H. Fraser to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\n(Separate.) Sir,\n\nWuchou-Pu, May 14, 1897.\n\nBEGGING reference to your despatch, Separate, of the 21st April, I have the honour to report my arrival here yesterday forenoon in Her Majesty's ship \"Tweed,” which was substituted for Her Majesty's ship \"Rattler\" owing to the reported shallowness of the Broadway.\n\nWe left Hong Kong at 6 A.M. on the 3rd May, drawing 9 feet in fresh water, and, despite our having a junk pilot, at 3:30 P.M. we ran on a shoal opposite Ballast Island, where we remained for five hours. The channel by which we entered showed only 10 feet in several places, and our pilot, whose junk runs regularly to Kongmun, was positive that there was no deeper passage. In that case the river-mouth has shoaled greatly since 1861.\n\nAs no sounding less than 13 feet was met with in the main channel above this point right up to Kong-kên (nor, indeed, all the way to Wuchou), a careful survey of the Broadway, and, if necessary, of the junk entrance, would seem to be desirable if, as reported, regular coasting steamers are to frequent Kong-kên.\n\nSeven hours' steaming on the 4th instant brought us to the mouth of the Kongmun Creek by way of the south side of the island; but next morning the fall of this tide, which was considerable, had left us ashore. The southern approach to this calling-station is, in fact, available only for vessels drawing 7 feet or less, ships of greater draught having to go round by the head of the island and moor, stem to stern, well above the mouth of the Kongmun Creek.\n\nSome 2 miles up the creek, which is possibly 6 feet deep at high tide, lies the town, a very busy place. Several Hong Kong junks were lying off it, besides other native craft and timber and bamboo rafts. The chief exports are, apparently, timber, bricks, and bamboo fans and furniture; the main import, rice.\n\nAt noon on the 6th May we anchored off the Ho-k'ou Customs station at Samshui. As stated above, there were at least 13 feet all the way up, and the navigation presented few difficulties, except on the east side of Kongman Island, where 24 fathoms were found only in a narrow channel, perhaps owing to the state of the tide.\n\nThe passage from Kong-kên to Samshui proved to be shallower than it was in March, and, in consequence, the vessel grounded while attempting to leave the port on the 7th instant a little past the spit marked \"B\" on Mr. Ross' plan. The rise of the tide was very slight, and it was only with great difficulty that, after twenty-four hours' rain, the ship, which had been lightened as much as possible, got off on the evening of the 9th May.\n\nThe harbour needs careful survey, and measures must be taken to regulate the movements of the numerous rafts from the West River, which at present often block the fairway.\n\n[1552f-1]",
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        "content_text": "We left early on the 22nd May, and, after finding that there is a fair channel south of Kuang-lee Island, anchored at Kongkên, where we remained till the 27th. The frontage between Kongkên and the village marked Sun-hû on Mr. Ross's map has been bought up to a large extent by Chinese speculators, but the Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Company and another English Company have secured fair sites. I ascertained that the hill marked \"F\" is owned by two men, who would sell the whole or a part on condition that the existing graves were not interfered with, and, if only a portion were wanted, would agree not to sell the remainder to anyone. The price demanded is, however, very high, being 300 taels per mou.\n\nThe river rose some 9 feet during our stay here, otherwise it is extremely doubtful whether the \"Tweed,\" drawing 9.4 feet, could have passed through the inner channels between Ma-ning and Canton.\n\nHaving found that there was considerable depth of water inside Kum-chuk Island, we proceeded by the Ma-ning entrance, Junction, Tailung, and Tamchau Channels, and anchored at Essex Point, beyond which our native pilot's knowledge did not extend. The country is rich, rice-fields surrounded by dykes planted with mulberry covering the low ground, which is continually being added to at the expense of the creeks. The towns are prosperous-looking and the junk traffic considerable.\n\nOn the 28th we felt our way through the Saiwan Channel, where only 10 feet or even less were found in places, and up Hill Passage into the Canton River, anchoring off Shamien at 7.15 P.M.\n\nThe general conclusion to which I came is that the trade on the West River beyond Kongkên is by no means enormous, and it is probable that at first steamers plying to Wuchow will have to depend to a great extent on their passenger receipts, but I have little doubt that increased facilities will lead to a great expansion of trade, provided that it is not strangled by the imposition of burdensome taxes and by that syndicate system to which this provincial Government is so partial.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\nE. H. FRASER.\n\nPage 360\n\n \nPage 360\n\nPage 360",
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        "content_text": "# TONKIN ROUTES\n\n## (a.) Black River Route\n\nThis route to west Yunnan is navigable for small boats to Mong Nhe, but large junks cannot ply beyond Laichau. Its sinuous course and the great number of rapids above Tuenquan render it impracticable for trade. The river is almost valueless as a waterway, and it will not justify the works necessary for steam navigation. Rocher says that the routes between the Red and the Black Rivers, which are separated by a watershed of 8,000 to 10,000 feet, are commercially unimportant, while between the Red and the Mekong Rivers the people are sparse and poor, the country difficult, and transport expensive, so that commerce would not be remunerative. The French, he adds, must utilise the Red River and not be diverted to other routes.\n\n## (b.) Red River (Songkoi) Route\n\nIt is this route which gives the French an important position in Yunnan. The French territory extends north to 25° 20′ and marches with China as far as the Mekong, which forms the west boundary of French Laos. This route became unsafe for foreign trade during the Mohammedan rebellion, and later through robber hands, and troubles between the French and Chinese. For years it was abandoned to Black Flag filibusters by the Chinese Government, and the borderland is still infested by brigands, whose attacks on Red River traffic the mandarins are alleged to encourage.\n\n### Opinions about this route\n\nThere is practical unanimity among authorities as to the superiority of this over all other ways of penetrating Yunnan. Richthofen spoke of it as the most favourable route and the only navigable water route to the Yunnan frontier. General Mesny calls it the shortest of all land routes to Yunnan-Fu, all other routes thither from the highest point of navigation being longer by one-half, and no better off in respect of conveniences for travellers and merchants. M. Rocher says this is indisputably the most natural route to Yunnan, and the best in economy of time and in cheap and convenient transport. It is surer, easier, and quicker than other routes. Consul Jamieson, who has recently traversed this route, speaks of it as by far the best and speediest to Yunnan. Mr. Colquhoun thinks this route will attract the trade of south-east Yunnan and of central Yunnan up to Yunnan-Fu, physical obstacles rendering it difficult for the trade to penetrate east or west.\n\nOpinions differ greatly as to the importance of south-east Yunnan. Mr. Bourne, Mr. Colquhoun, and others describe it as poor and unproductive and capable of but little commercial development. Rocher directly denies these assertions, and contends that south-east is richer than south-west Yunnan, having a more fertile soil, a richer subsoil, and more numerous and more civilised population. M. Leroy-Beaulieu has recently described the provinces bordering on Tonkin as the poorest in the Chinese Empire, very mountainous, inhabited in great part by aboriginal tribes, and devastated and depopulated by rebellions.\n\n### Red River trade\n\nThe progress of Red River trade has been great since Mengtsz was opened to Tonkin trade under the Convention of 26th August 1887. The imports from abroad (including Hong Kong) and the exports to foreign countries as registered at the Mengtsz Customs House for the last seven years were as follows:\n\n| Year | Imports (Hk. Taels) | Exports (Hk. Taels) | Total (Hk. Taels) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1890 | 635,000 | 461,000 | 1,096,000 |\n| 1891 | 946,000 | 683,000 | 1,529,000 |\n| 1892 | 1,150,000 | 736,000 | 1,885,000 |\n| 1893 | 1,524,000 | 735,000 | 2,259,000 |\n| 1894 | 1,242,000 | 943,000 | 2,185,000 |\n| 1895 | 1,809,000 | 1,033,000 | 2,842,000 |\n| 1896 | 1,627,000 | 850,000 | 2,477,000 |\n| 1897 | 2,394,000 | 1,058,000 | 3,452,000 |\n\nIf the Haikwan tael be taken at 3s. for 1896 the value of the total trade for that year was equivalent to £371,550, or less than the Burma-China trade in 1896-97. But the China trade with Tonkin itself (as distinguished from the transit trade) is much smaller, the imports in 1896 being Hk. taels 86,000 and the exports Hk. taels 134,000, while in 1897 the figures were Hk. taels 74,000 and Hk. taels 191,000. Imports from Hong Kong in 1897 aggregated 97 per cent. of the total imports. The commercial members of the Blackburn Mission state that nine-tenths of the foreign goods imported into Yunnan now follow the Red River route, but this seems much too high an estimate.\n\n### The difficulties that have hampered Tonkin trade\n\nFirst, the traffic by the Red River cannot easily ascend beyond Laokai. A regular weekly service of steamers ascends the Red River from Haiphong on the Tonkin Gulf to Hanoi and Yenbai, but they can ply for nine to ten months only, though they could run all the year if the channel were improved. At Yenbai goods are transhipped to a smaller boat. The rapids render navigation difficult and dangerous between Yenbai and Laokai; nevertheless, for seven months in the year navigation is possible to Laokai. It is usually stated that Laokai is five days up from Hanoi, and two days down, but Consul Jamieson says that in January 1898 he took seven days from Yenbai to Laokai, and was congratulated on making almost a record passage. Cargo steamers could not get up to Laokai during the greater part of 1897, and Chinese merchants continued to send cargo in small boats from Hanoi to Yenbai, and thence by junks to Manbao. Junks are preferred, taking the year throughout, because they ensure more regular delivery. There is now a fine military road between Yenbai and Laokai.\n\nBeyond Laokai the rapids become worse and the river is shut in by high, wooded mountains, but Dr. Pichon holds that in flood season light-draught steamers might reach Longpo and even Manhao, though the rapids are, between these places, very dangerous. According to a member of the Lyons Mission, the future of Tonkin depends on French steamers being able to ascend freely to the Chinese frontier, that is, to Laokai. The steamer service that exists between Hanoi and Laokai consists of boats with but small cargo space, and it is restricted to such an extent by shoals and rapids that the boats make only a few trips each season. The rapids are so dangerous that the losses from wrecks of junks are estimated at 16 per cent. annually. M. de Lanessan considers that, in spite of works, the navigation of the Red River will always be inconvenient.\n\nThe frontier trade practically ceases from May to September. Complaints are made of the injury done to trade by excessive charges for freight both by junk and by steamer, and it seems probable that with lower freights and better constructed steamers trade would increase much faster. The boycotting of French steamers by Chinese merchants, whose customary arrangements for regulating trade have been interfered with by the steamer service, has also hindered expansion of trade. Again, French merchants are charged with deficient enterprise both in obtaining information and in providing capital, as well as in neglecting to suit the tastes and pockets of the people.\n\nThe comparative poverty of north Tonkin and the absence of railways may help to explain the present comparatively small trade. Prince Henry complains that the Government does not improve navigation or facilitate trade, and he recommends a reduction in the opium and other duties. The import of opium into Tonkin is prohibited under Treaty of 1885, as the French Government have granted a monopoly to a private person, who is allowed 10 per cent. on the sales. He buys only a small quantity of Yunnan opium to mix with Indian. Hence little except contraband opium enters Tonkin from Yunnan. This is a serious drawback to trade, for the imports of Yunnan must depend closely on its exports, of which tin and opium are the most important. Consequently, Dr. Pichon and others argue that Tonkin should be a free market for opium, or that a low duty should be levied, predicting as the result a steady growth of frontier trade.\n\nOn the other hand, the Chinese Government forbid the importation of salt into Yunnan, because it would interfere with a monopoly. Prince Henry, however, asserts that the Chinese Government's contracts with Yunnan merchants, under which this prohibition takes place, have expired. Trade on the Red River is much impeded by the unhealthiness of Laokai, which has made little progress for several years. The climate of Manhao also is notoriously bad. By the Convention of 20th June 1895, the port of Hokou, opposite Laokai, was opened as a treaty port in substitution for Manhao. By this change the French aimed at opening up a more direct route for commerce into Yunnan.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 1.\n\n18\n\nSecretary, Chamber of Commerce to Colonial Secretary:\n\n21st September 1899\n\nTHE CHAMBER TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\nHongkong, 21st September, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI am instructed to beg you will be good enough to lay before His Excellency the Governor a statement of the manner in which the privilege lately secured by Sir Claude MacDonald of the navigation by foreign steamers of the inland waters of South China has been practically nullified by the interpretation given to the Steam Navigation Inland Rules and Regulations by the Inspector-General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\nA lengthy correspondence on this subject has already passed between the representatives of the Steamboat Companies, the British Consul at Canton, H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires, and Sir Robert Hart. The latter, referring to the Inland Rules and Regulations, lays it down that, owing to the hybrid character of the West River, being from one point of view a continuation of the sea and a highway leading to the two open ports of Samshui and Wuchowfu, and from another an inland water, there are two kinds of trade to be regulated, viz., inter-port and inland water trade, for which different sets of local circumstances have to be provided. Thus, the foreign steamers plying between Hongkong and Canton and Wuchow must be debarred from inland water privileges and those engaged in the inland trade could not be allowed to touch at the ports they pass en route.\n\nForeign steamers are also handicapped in competition with Chinese-owned launches, which can be used for the towage of lighters; the latter carrying the cargo, the former merely supplying the means of propulsion.\n\nAs Mr. Mansfield has clearly pointed out, in one of his despatches to Mr. Bax-Ironside, the ruling of the Inspector-General is in direct contravention of paragraph 1 of the Steam Navigation Inland Rules and Regulations, which runs as follows:-\n\n\"The inland waters of China are hereby opened to all such steamers, native or foreign, as are specially registered for that trade at the Treaty Ports. They may proceed to and fro at will under the following regulations, but they must confine their trade to the inland waters and must not proceed to places out of Chinese territory. The expression 'inland waters' is read with similar meaning to that given for places in the interior (nei ti) in the fourth article of the Chefoo Convention.\"\n\nMy Committee are of opinion that the British Minister, when negotiating for the opening of the inland waterways to foreign trade and navigation, had in view the unrestricted freedom of foreign steamboats to proceed from port to port along those waterways, and not for the navigation to be divided into separate classes, namely, interport and inland.\n\nThe Steamboat Companies have a further serious grievance in the fact that some little time after the concession was granted it was allowed to include the right of calling at way ports for passengers, but this privilege was, a few months ago, withdrawn without any reason being given, and the so-called opening of the Inland Waterways of South China has thus been narrowed down to a point which has rendered it a mere farce.\n\nIn consequence of this action of the Chinese Authorities, the Steamboat Companies, who had been induced by this supposed concession to construct boats specially adapted for the trade, now find themselves compelled to withdraw some of the vessels and, in effect, to retire from a trade which they had hoped to create by the provision of better facilities for more rapid communication.\n\nThe appeal of the Steamboat Companies to Her Majesty's Representative at Peking has been without effect, but the matter is one of such great importance to the trade of the Colony that they have now requested the Chamber to bring it to the attention of Her Majesty's Government through another channel. The Committee therefore trust that His Excellency the Governor will have the kindness to lay the question before the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who is known to take a lively interest in all that appertains to the progress of British trade.\n\nAs that progress has been checked and thwarted not alone by this open attempt to mis-construe the terms of an agreement but also by the effort to divert trade from foreign steamers by the grant of preferential duties on junk-borne cargo and by the grievous failure of the Kwang-tung Authorities to maintain order on the West River and in the district watered by it, no resource is left to the Chamber but to place the circumstances in the possession of the Government in the hope that Sir Claude MacDonald will on his return to Peking come armed with definite instructions to take the necessary steps to render this concession a real benefit instead of a hopeless sham.\n\nA copy of the memorandum on this question of inland waters navigation addressed by the Steamboat Companies to Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires is enclosed for the information of His Excellency the Governor-\n\nI have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nW. CHATTERTON WILCOX.\n\nSecretary.\n\nH. Bax-Ironside, Esq.,\n\nH.M. Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.",
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        "content_text": "Inland Waterways of South China has thr been narrowed down to a point which has ren dered it a mere farce.\n\nIn consequence of this action of the Chinese Authorities, the Steamboat Companies, who had beon induced by this supposed concession to construct boats specially adapted for the trade, now and themselves compelled to withdraw some of the vessels and, in effoot, to retire from a trule which they had hoped to create by the provision of better facilities for more rapta communication.\n\nThe appeal of the Steamboat Companies to Her Majesty's Representative at Peking has been without affect, but the matter is one of such great importance to the trade of the Colony that they have now requested the Chamber to bring it to the attention of Her Majesty's Government through another channel. The Committee therefore trust that His Excellency the Governor will have the kindness to lay the question before the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who is known to take a lively insterest in all that appertains to the progress of British trade.\n\nAs that progress has been checked and thwarted not alone by this open attempt to mis- construe the larms of an agreement but also by the effort to divert trade from foreign steamers by the grant of preferential duties on junk-borne cargo and by the grievous failure of the Kwang- tung Authorities to maintain order on the West River and in the district watered by it, no resource is left to the Chamber but to place the circumstances in the possession of the Govern- ment in the hope that Sir Claude Mao Donald will on his return to Peking come armed with definite instructions to take the necessary atops to render this concession a real benefit inatend of a hopeless sham.\n\nA copy of the memorandam on this question of inland waters navigation addressed by the Steamboat Companies to Her Britannic Ma jesty's Chargé d'Affaires is enclosed for the ia- formation of His Excellency the Governor. I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nW. CHATTERTON WILCOX\n\nBaronside d'Asire Pelag\n\nSecretary\n\nHAM\n\n30",
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        "content_text": "# Correspondence regarding 13320 Passenger Traffic\n\n## THE CHAMBER TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce,  \nHongkong, 1st September, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI am instructed to beg you will be good enough to lay before His Excellency the Governor a statement of the manner in which the privilege lately secured by Sir Claude MacDonald of the navigation by foreign steamers of the inland waters of South China has been practically nullified by the interpretation given to the Steam Navigation Inland Rules and Regulations by the Inspector-General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\nA lengthy correspondence on this subject has already passed between the representatives of the Steamboat Companies, the British Consul at Canton, H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires, and Sir Robert Hart. The latter, referring to the Inland Rules and Regulations, lays it down that, owing to the hybrid character of the West River, being from one point of view a continuation of the sea and a highway leading to the two open ports of Samshui and Wuchowfu, and from another an inland water, there are two kinds of trade to be regulated, viz., inter-port and inland water trade, for which different sets of local circumstances have to be provided. Thus, the foreign steamers plying between Hongkong and Canton and Wuchow must be debarred from inland water privileges and those engaged in the inland trade could not be allowed to touch at the ports they pass en route. Foreign steamers are also handicapped in competition with Chinese-owned launches, which can be used for the towage of lighters; the latter carrying the cargo, the former merely applying the means of propulsion.\n\nAs Mr. Mausfeld has clearly pointed out, in one of his despatches to Mr. Bax-Ironside, the ruling of the Inspector-General is in direct contravention of paragraph 1 of the Steam Navigation Inland Rules and Regulations, which runs as follows:-  \n\"The inland waters of China are hereby opened to all such steamers, native or foreign, as are specially registered for that trade at the Treaty Ports. They may proceed to and fro at will under the following regulations, but they must confine their trade to the inland waters and must not proceed to places out of Chinese territory. The expression 'inland waters' is read with similar meaning to that given for places in the interior (nei) in the fourth article of the Chefoo Convention.\"\n\nMy Committee are of opinion that the British Minister, when negotiating for the opening of the inland waterways to foreign trade and navigation, had in view the unrestricted freedom of foreign steamboats to proceed from port to port along those waterways, and not for the navigation to be divided into separate classes, namely, interport and inland.\n\nThe Steamboat Companies have a further serious grievance in the fact that some little time after the concession was granted it was allowed to include the right of calling at way ports for passengers, but this privilege was, a few months ago, withdrawn without any reason being given, and the so-called opening of the Inland Waterways of South China has thus been narrowed down to a point which has rendered it a mere farce.\n\nIn consequence of this action of the Chinese Authorities, the Steamboat Companies, who had been induced by this supposed concession to construct boats specially adapted for the trade, now find themselves compelled to withdraw some of the vessels and, in effect, to retire from a trade which they had hoped to create by the provision of better facilities for more rapid communication.\n\nThe appeal of the Steamboat Companies to Her Majesty's Representative at Peking has been without effect, but the matter is one of such great importance to the trade of the Colony that they have now requested the Chamber to bring it to the attention of Her Majesty's Government through another channel. The Committee therefore trust that His Excellency the Governor will have the kindness to lay the question before the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who is known to take a lively interest in all that appertains to the progress of British trade.\n\nAs that progress has been checked and thwarted not alone by this open attempt to mis-construe the terms of an agreement but also by the effort to divert trade from foreign steamers by the grant of preferential duties on junk-borne cargo and by the grievous failure of the Kwangtung Authorities to maintain order on the West River and in the district watered by it, no resource is left to the Chamber but to place the circumstances in the possession of the Government in the hope that Sir Claude MacDonald will on his return to Peking come armed with definite instructions to take the necessary steps to render this concession a real benefit instead of a hopeless sham.\n\nA copy of the memorandum on this question of inland waters navigation addressed by the Steamboat Companies to Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires is enclosed for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,  \nYour most obedient servant,  \nR. CHATTERTON WILCOX.  \nSecretary\n\nThe Hon. Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 245",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure to China Letter No.385 of 14th May 1900\n\n## Extract\n\n### Letter of Proceedings, H.M.S.\"Tweed\", 1 May 1900\n\n74  \nC.O  \n| 20850  \n**RE**  \n*RECEIVED 2 JUL 1900*  \n\nOn April 17th, I anchored about one mile from the Northern entrance of Sailam Channel, and remained there three days and then proceeded down the Channel and anchored half a mile above the junction leading to Sekki. At the junction I found five Chinese Gunboats anchored. Four of these vessels were about 200 tons, and one rather larger.\n\nThese vessels left on Friday 20th, but returned again on Sunday 22nd, and have, so I am informed, remained there since. They appeared to be very active, and had boats and parties of men away in all directions. Every junk passing was searched, and all the steam launches and river steamers hailed, and their names demanded, and in some cases stopped.\n\nOn Tuesday 24th I proceeded to Sekki in the steam cutter. This place, I am informed, is considered by the Chinese authorities to be the headquarters of the pirates in the district. Sekki appears to have a population of about 30,000 and a large trade. The town stands at the side of the creek about five miles from Sailam Channel.\n\nI found two small gunboats anchored at Sekki, and as I left three large junks full of soldiers arrived.\n\nI left Sailam Channel on Tuesday 24th, and proceeded to Chu-tai-shan, where I have since remained. Chu-tai-shan I consider is the most convenient anchorage on the River, as it is the most central place and nearly all the traffic on the river passes it. On Friday 27th at 8 o'clock an execution was carried out, one man being beheaded. The execution...",
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        "content_text": "776 \n\n: \n\n2 \n\nThe people were curious about us and collected in great crowds, as indeed they did in all the places we passed.\n\nAbove this town for some distance the hills sink into the plain or recede to a considerable distance. The country is apparently sparsely populated and only partially cultivated. It consists largely of undulating grassy downs, which look like excellent grazing land, but which at present lie unused. Ta Huang Chiang (75) is a prosperous-looking little town prettily situated at a bend of the river, with high hills in the background. It imports a considerable quantity of foreign goods, and there is a daily steamer passenger service to Wuchow.\n\nFor the following 20 or 30 miles the river is enclosed by high, sloping banks, which afford splendid pasture, but scarcely any cattle are seen. 15 miles further on is the Prefectual city of Hsün Chou (98) which has a population of some 30,000 or 40,000 and is situated at the foot of high, sloping grass-covered hills. It was devastated by the Taipings, and has not yet recovered. The principal products of the district are silk and rhea. The aspect of the country continues much the same up to Kuei Hsien (153), a town of some 30,000 inhabitants. Two steam-launches run between it and Ta Huang Chiang. I was told that rifles and revolvers were being freely sold in the town.\n\nThe land in the neighbourhood is generally flat, broken by ragged limestone hills and ridges of rocks a few feet high, which suggest that a part of the country was once the bed of a river or lake.\n\nAbout 18 miles distant, at San Ma Shan, there are some mines of silver, gold, and lead worked by a Chinese Company registered in Hong Kong, under the superintendence of a native engineer educated in England. Some 400 people are employed, but there is a lack of skilled labourers and experienced overseers. The capital of 300,000 dollars has all been spent, and an attempt is now being made to raise more money. The establishment is provided with American machinery, and large offices built in foreign style.\n\nOn leaving Kuei Hsien the river contracts to about a quarter of a mile in width, and the country seems better cultivated. A broad fertile plain extends on both sides, and there is everywhere evidence of a sufficient and industrious population. The principal products are maize and rice.\n\nAt Wu Sun-po (178) we anchored for a week for the water to rise to enable us to get over the rapids a mile or so farther on. These rapids are the most dangerous on the river, and during our stay six junks were wrecked there out of a total of four or five that passed every day. The danger lies not so much in the want of a sufficiently deep channel as in the difficulty of making the sharp turns amongst the rocks. The pilot was of opinion that a launch of 4 feet draught with narrow beam could get over if she were fitted with sufficiently strong steering gear. It being often said that where a junk can go a steamer can also go, it is well to point out that the junks are fitted with very large rudders and are also steered from the bows by means of an immense car.\n\nAs the water continued to fall, and information reached us of the critical state of affairs in the north, we went back to Kuei Hsien, where orders were received to return to Wuchow.\n\nWe met with no accident during the journey, and I think Commander Carr is to be congratulated on taking his step safely through so many hidden perils.\n\nThere is no doubt that the navigation above Wuchow is dangerous, and is only possible with a most thorough knowledge of the river. It seems probable that shallow draught steamers could run all the year round as far as Kuei Hsien (153), that is about half-way, but beyond that for not more than three months, subject, even then to liability to delay by a temporary fall of the river, a not infrequent occurrence. Even if it is possible for specially-constructed steamers to run to Nanning the whole year round, they would probably be of such a kind as to be fit only for towing purposes. The best method, I think, would be to run two sets of towing launches, one to the rapids above Kuei Hsien, and the other from above the rapids to Nanning, leaving the tows to be tracked over.\n\nI am of opinion, however, that the volume of trade is at present not large enough to attract foreign capital, especially under the Regulations now in force, which would prevent a Wuchow-Nanning steamer from calling at places en route, and would prevent a steamer plying from Wuchow to inland places from entering Nanning.\n\nThere is no town up to Kuei Hsien of 50,000 inhabitants, and the rural population is, for China, very sparse.\n\nUntil the mineral wealth of the province is developed and the population and production largely increase, there is not likely to be much scope for profitable steam navigation. Moreover, the inducements the native authorities would be sure to hold out to merchants to ship by junk must be kept in view. The duties on steamer cargo are fixed and immutable, whilst the duties on junk cargo may be lowered at the will of the authorities. For instance, at present scarcely any cassia is shipped by steamer because the native Customs levy a much lower duty on it if shipped by junk than would be levied by the foreign Customs if shipped by steamer. It seems impossible to prevent this kind of preferential treatment unless a certificate of payment of duty to the native Customs be accepted by the foreign Customs as freeing the goods covered thereby from further charges.\n\nNanning was declared a Treaty port more than a year ago, but it still awaits the establishment of a foreign Custom-house before it is effectively open to foreign trade. A considerable quantity of goods is already sent there from Wuchow under transit pass, and the only advantage the opening of the port is likely to bring is that foreign goods for consumption in the port will pay only the import duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem, instead of import duty and transit duty (7 per cent.).\n\nGoods distributed from Nanning will, for the most part, be in the same position as regards payment of duties as when distributed from Wuchow. As Nanning itself is probably not a very great consumer the gain thus accruing will not be of much value. Against this advantage, too, would have to be set the expense of maintaining agents there for putting merchandise through the customs, which would probably more than balance the saving of the transit duty of 2.5 per cent. on goods actually consumed in the port.\n\nIt is possible that the interport trade may benefit by the foreign Customs competing with the native Customs, but even so steamers are not likely to gain much, for the native authorities will doubtless find means of favouring the junk-borne trade as they do now in the lower part of the river. Moreover, unless steamers run to Nanning, or the Yang-tsze system of chartered junks be adopted, merchandise will not come under the Treaty Tariff levied by the foreign Customs, and the opening of the place does not take effect. In any case I am of opinion that in the present state of the country and under the conditions now obtaining, no benefits of great value will accrue to trade from the inclusion of Nanning amongst the Treaty ports.\n\n(Signed) H. A. LITTLE.\n\nSamshui, July 6, 1900.",
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        "content_text": "## Channel \nRoch \n\n3 \n(Ego) R. V. Stelle \nDale Major \n31-11-00 \nXL.% \n\n**COMPASS SKETCH OF GROUND TO NORTH**\n\n| Location        | Heights from Chart | Remarks                     |\n|-----------------|--------------------|-----------------------------|\n| DEVILS PEAK     |                    | Contours 100' V. I. (Approximately only) |\n| QUARRY POINT    |                    |                             |\n| ROCKY PEAK      |                    |                             |\n| YAU TONG        | 83                 | Huts                        |\n| Lau Fau Shan    |                    | Village                     |\n| Chang pang      |                    |                             |\n| JUNK BAY        |                    | Black Hill                  |\n| CHONG LUI       |                    |                             |\n| DEVILS PEAK     | 725                |                             |\n| LYEM UN         |                    |                             |\n\nScale 4ins to One Mile \n\n| 100 | 500 | 1000 | 1500yds |\n|-----|-----|------|---------|\n| 0   |     | 1    | 1       |\n|     | Mile|      |         |\n| 0   | 1/2 | 1    | 1 1/2   |\n\nExisting Military Reserve. Existing Admiralty Reserve \nSuggested Military Reserve \nNew Batteries. \nProposed Site for Barracks. \nProposed site for Musketry Camp \n\nSad. L. J. Brown \nMajor \nR.E. \non the Staff \n\"January 1901 \nC.R.E. in China",
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        "content_text": "## COMPASS SKETCH OF GROUND TO NORTH OF LYEMUN PASS\n\n|  |  | Heights from Chart. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | **PEAK** | 650 |\n|  | YAU TONG |  |\n|  | Village |  |\n|  | **YILS PEAK** | 500 |\n|  | Village |  |\n|  | **QUARRY POINT** |  |\n|  | Siuchang Wan |  |\n\nScale 4 ins to One Mile\n500 | 1000 | 1500 yds\nyds | 100 | Mile\n3/4\n\nWe have:\n- **L. A** \n- **Channel Rock**\n- **DEVILS PEAK**\n- **Chong Lut**\n- **JUNK BAY**\n- **Maun chau**\n\nLand to be Acquired by W.D.\n- **New Batteries** \n- **Proposed Site for Batteries** (FF)\n- **Proposed Site for Musketry Camp** (C)\n- **B**",
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        "content_text": "that His Excellency is not likely to be provided in the near future. I consider that it is a question of this alleged importance that when the lights are ready this should be brought to notice. This deficiency cannot be made good.\n\nA case for 4 tin Esquimaux Voterikus who are 1 officer and 39 men under Colonel Nicholson, and this as most of the Engineer Volunteers are experts in their own branches in the Employment of the Dock Companies they would be required by this new form of work outlined by the war.\n\n5. The question of Port Warren Signal Stations is under consideration here, (my 1.48/04 of the 6th May 1904) both by the Naval Commander in Chief.\n\n6. The Pranchio, has been bought and notification to meet the scheduled requirements is now drawn on the treasury. They have been compared with reference to the approved scheme for gum lights. At the present Entrance Channel position of Green Island and Kellet Bank obstructs the navigation in such a difficult part of the channel can be worked independently on the other, His Excellency's junction of the lures occurring in shallow waters when ships cannot go. The difficulty of planning the huts de shown keeps ripples around the lighted area obstructing navigation nights.\n\nbeyond this 483\n\n7. The local defence Committee has before them this question \"whether it is advisable in the interests of Harbour to close the western entrance to the Harbour of Hong Kong often have in time of war\", and they came to the conclusion that it would be advisable. It appeared to them that it would in no way impede or hamper trade, but they thought that it would be advisable to keep open the portion of the entrance to the North of Stonecutters for the use of Junk traffic only. So this would have to be through the Lyemun Pass, which would reduce the navigation channel's requirements to this channel with the Exception of that for the junk traffic North of Stonecutters, when a steamer makes Gap lock, which is about 36 miles from the Harbour it is found no easy task for it to make the Lyemun Pass.\n\n8. Another point that Committee has before them was of recent events \"caused by the proximity with the Conveyance of the Harbour rapidly being within striking distance of action of torpedo boats in these waters\" The committee were unable to come to any decision without the advice of Experts and as the question is to be considered connected with Harbour defence, I think the opinion of the Naval Commander-in-Chief should be drawn on the subject.\n\n9. As to the provision of a refuge for women and children, it is generally agreed now that this can be accommodated easily and protected by special Constables who would be employed.\n\n10.\n\nI would call attention to the rapidly increasing Chinese population on the Island and the situation in consequence as regards:-\n\n(i) A possible demonstration or riot.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\n\n(S.H.)\n\nMajor General\n\nCommanding in South China,",
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        "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]",
        "content_text": "Enclosure No 3\n\nof\n\nSecret dispatch of\n\nSeptember 19041\n\n486\n\nCopy of\n\n&\n\nLetter from Messrs. A. Hewett & Company\n\nto\n\nHis Excellency Sir Matthew Nathan\n\n13th September 1904\n\nIn continuation of my conversation with Your Excellency regarding the probable effects upon the trade of Hongkong were the western entrance to the harbour blocked, I have made inquiries of some of the leading British Shipping Agents on the subject.\n\nI find that we are practically agreed that considerable inconvenience to say the least would be caused to the shipping were such a scheme carried out.\n\nI have seen Mr. A'Grefsen, Mr. Law, Mr. Wheatley (of Dodwell & Co.), Mr. Arbuthnot (Hepworth & Co.), Mr. Kingston (2), Mr. Arnold (Canton Steam Boat Co.) (2), and generally Mr. Craddock of the Canadian Pacific Line, but I find the question is not one which concerns them (i.e. the C.P.R.).\n\nIt seems to be as well to give a summary of the various objections brought forward against the proposal.\n\nAs I have already explained to Your Excellency, it is a convenience for large deep-loaded vessels entering the port to have the choice of either the eastern or western Channel1,2; to enable them on leaving to proceed straight to sea in the direction in which they happen to be heading at the moment, whether a stiff breeze is blowing, or the currents are running strong, which is frequently the case. It is difficult for a steamer to turn in the harbour and swing to the often crowded state of the vessel anchorages; this manoeuvre can only be carried out with considerable risk of collisions. The Lyemoon Pass has its distinct disadvantages and alone is not sufficient for the traffic. Even in its present state it is often crowded with fleets of junks tacking in and out and also at certain times of the year often dangerous to navigation on account of fog.\n\nThis pass therefore cannot be considered adequate for the whole traffic of Hongkong.\n\nIt is presumed that the blocking to which Your Excellency referred would be by submarine mines.\n\nIf this is the case, in view of the fact that ships have frequently drifted through such mines getting adrift or out of position, the result may be to deter vessels from visiting the port. While I think we may safely count on severe premiums for insurance being demanded on ships and their cargoes coming to Hongkong. I am correct in supposing that by \"blocking\" mines are intended to make a mined port. If I am right, the passage will also presumably be closed to junks. The greater part of the enormous junk traffic of Hongkong passes through this channel of the harbour.\n\nIf this traffic be diverted and forced to take the passage round Stone cutters Island, that passage will probably be so choked as to render the navigation extremely difficult for those shallow-draught vessels and the whole of the Canton River and Macao junks, which will have to make \"way\" for it.\n\nFurther, it would be necessary to have the passage round Stone cutters Island properly lighted. This would be more than ever necessary for inward-bound vessels from Canton or the western ports, as in thick weather or at night, unless this were done, they might easily miss their course and thus enter the dangerous waters.\n\nSuch a scheme as it was feared that some of the opinions expressed were only advice to the effect that the western entrance to the harbour being blocked not only would this cause inconvenience to shipping, but also would...",
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        "content_text": "As the French are about to resume railway construction on the frontier, and with the continuation of the Tonquin main line from Hanoi to Lungchow and Nanning, the Province of Kuangsi will inevitably be brought under French influence, and the French authorities will undoubtedly endeavour to arrange with the Chinese Government for special facilities for rail-borne cargo crossing the frontier. Under these circumstances, the presence of a British Consular officer at Nanning might perhaps prevent any serious steps being taken to the detriment of British trade; he would, in any case, be able to obtain early information as to what was going forward.\n\nAs regards the future competition of the French railway system with the West River trade route, and the substitution of Hanoi for Hong Kong as the distributing centre of South-West China, I do not think the latter port has anything to fear as long as the Chinese Government continue to grant reasonable facilities to foreign trade on the West River and the shipping Companies of Hong Kong continue to maintain and improve their steam-boat services. What is now being done in this direction I shall briefly refer to in the next section, but I would here venture to call attention to the vital importance of the West River to the trade of Hong Kong. We have here one of the largest rivers in China, second only to the Yang-tsze in commercial importance, traversing and, with its tributaries, draining the whole of the Provinces of Kuangtung and Kuangsi, and parts of Yunnan and Kueichow, to join the ocean in the waters of a British Colony. To-day steamers and steam-launches are taking passengers and cargo from Hong Kong, Canton, and all the principal towns in the delta, to Samshui, Wuchow, Nanning, and even Posé, distant 750 miles from the coast. By means of this service, assisted by native shipping, foreign goods can reach by water all the principal markets in South-Western China - to Shaokuan and Nanhsiung (Namheung), on the borders of Kiangsi; to Kueilin, on the borders of Hunan; to Posé, on the borders of Yunnan; to Lungchow, on the Tonking frontier.\n\nIt is surely to the interest of the Chinese Government, as well as the British, to develop the natural advantages of this wonderful network of waterways, and prevent its growing trade being diverted to the artificial channels of the French railway system.\n\nPage 2\n\nThe site selected by the Chinese authorities for the foreign Settlement at Nanning is on the right bank (city side), distant about a mile down river from the South Gate. It consists of an oblong tract of high ground - the highest ground in fact in the neighbourhood - and has a frontage of about 970 yards, with a depth of 390 yards. Not more than a quarter of this area is at present available for building purposes; the remainder consists of ponds which will have to be filled in, presumably at the expense of the Chinese Government. The proposed site is, in my opinion, open to two serious objections. In the first place, I do not think that a foreign Settlement is required at Nanning at all. As I have said before, it is extremely unlikely that foreign merchants will ever settle at Nanning; they will be represented by Chinese agents who will, of course, live in the city, where they will be in touch with the native hongs. At Wuchow there is no foreign Settlement and, after an experience of seven years, the necessity for one has not - as far as I am aware - made itself felt. The only foreigners who are likely to reside in Nanning when the port is opened, are the officials of the Imperial Maritime Customs and the foreign Consuls; these will have no difficulty in securing suitable building sites in such positions as they may find most convenient. In the second place, the proposed site is too far removed from the business centre of the city to be suitable as an anchorage for steamers and a landing-place for passengers. At Wuchow, the Customs, when the port was first opened, acquired land for the Custom House and offices below the town in much the same position as the site proposed at Nanning; this ground has never been built on, the Customs' offices are located on hulks, locally known as \"páis,\" moored in the river about half-a-mile above the Customs' property, and as the shipping trade of the port is obviously centring at the junction of the two rivers, it is an open question whether the Customs would not be well advised in removing their offices to the corner of the Fu Ho, where they would be in a position to easily control the steam traffic, both up river and down river. The conditions at Nanning are similar in many respects; launches will load and discharge their passengers and cargo alongside \"páis\" moored off the business suburb of the city, and the Customs, at any rate in the beginning, will doubtless find it convenient to locate their offices in the same neighbourhood.\n\nI ventured to express these opinions to the Taotai, and I added that should it become necessary to open the port at an early date I did not think the demarcation of a foreign Settlement area need be considered as an indispensable preliminary. I instanced the case of Yochow, where, I understand, the Chinese Government went to considerable expense in laying out a foreign Settlement, the necessity for which the trade of the port has not hitherto justified.\n\nThe Taotai concurred in my views, but gave me the impression that the provincial authorities were anxious to set apart this tract of ground as an international Settlement in order to prevent the French railway administration obtaining exclusive control over it at some future date. The proposed site for the railway terminus is, however, on the other side of the river.\n\nPage 3\n\nSection III - Steam Navigation on the West River above Wuchow.\n\nI will preface my remarks in this section by a short description of the waterways above Nanning. At San Chiang kou (Sam kong hau), about 25 miles beyond, the river again divides into two branches, the southern, called Tso Chiang (left river), leading to Taiping and Lungchow; the northern, called Yu Chiang (right river) to Posé. Lungchow is distant from Nanning 100 miles, but only 30 from Tong Dang, the present terminus of the Tonquin Railway. No steam-launches have yet succeeded in reaching the port, but I believe an attempt was to be made with a light-draught launch shortly after our visit to Nanning. The river is shallow, and obstructed by rocks and rapids. I understand, however, that the clearing of a channel suitable for light-draught steamers presents no engineering difficulties, and the merchants of Lungchow and Taiping would doubtless contribute liberally towards the expense of a work which would place them in regular steam communication with Nanning. The Posé branch, although the longer of the two, is reported to be navigable at high water for light-draught launches; in fact, a launch left Nanning for Posé while we were there, but was recalled at the instance of the Commissioner of Customs at Wuchow, as her owner had not obtained the necessary permit to run on inland waters hitherto unvisited by steamers. I am informed that the Po On Steam-launch Company, owners of a fleet of inland water launches on the river, applied for permission to run to Posé over a month ago, but no reply has yet been received from the Minister of Commerce. As the high-water season is now far advanced, this praiseworthy enterprise will have to be deferred to another year. Article 7 of the Additional Rules for Inland Water Navigation appended to the new Treaty says that in the case referred to the Chinese authorities shall at once give their approval.\" The present Report is, perhaps, not the place in which to discuss these new Regulations; I would, however, point out that both Articles 7 and 8 contain clauses which, if literally interpreted, will cause Launch Companies on the river considerable inconvenience. The referring, for instance, of applications to ply on inland waters exclusively to the Chinese Government - if by that term is meant the Ministry of Commerce - will seriously interfere with the launches at present plying between up-river ports, which must vary their runs according to the state of the river, and are constantly being withdrawn for repairs.\n\nDuring the high-water season, lasting from about April to September, launches drawing not more than 4 feet can reach Nanning. Four vessels, of which three are under the British flag, have been running regularly during the past summer.\n\nAs a typical example of the type of vessel employed, I give the dimensions of the \"Choyfat\": length, 75 feet; beam, 12 feet; tonnage (registered), 17; draught, 3 feet. These launches stop at all recognized passenger stations en route, and are invariably crowded with passengers. They make the journey from Wuchow to Nanning, under favourable circumstances, in four days, as against four weeks taken by a junk. So far, the launches carry hardly any cargo, nor do they tow cargo boats, the passenger trade is sufficiently remunerative. As steam towage is rapidly increasing on the lower river no doubt it will come into vogue on the upper river when the launch tonnage increases.\n\nBetween Kueihsien and Wuchow a regular daily service of passenger launches is maintained during about nine months in the year; at Konghau, the Kueihsien boat transfers her passengers to a larger boat for Wuchow. The Wuchow-Konghau launches run practically all the year round. To show the rapid growth of this passenger traffic during the last six years I append the following Table:\n\n  \n    [2156 3-4]\n  \n  \n    B 2\n  \n  \n    608\n  \n\nPage ...",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[3103]\n\n### No. 1\n\n327\n\n[January 28]\n\n#### SECTION 9\n\nC. O.\n\n7655\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey**.-(Received January 28, 1907.)\n\n(No. 517.)\n\nPeking, December 11/1908 FEB 07.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 454 of the 5th ultimo, I have the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of the second quarterly report of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n**Whangpoo Conservancy Board to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nShanghae, November 9, 1906.\n\nIN accordance with the stipulations of Article 4 of the Agreement signed in Peking on the 27th September, 1905, regarding the establishment of a Board of Conservancy for the Whangpoo River, and with reference to our despatch of the 25th July on this subject, we have now the honour to state as follows, for the information of the Consular Body, regarding the period 1st July to 30th September, 1906 :-\n\n1. **Appointments to Conservancy Staff**-On the 20th August the Agreements were signed of Messrs. Van der Veen (Dutch), Assistant Engineer; Brand (Dutch), Superintendent of Works, and Utne (Norwegian), Assistant Surveyor; and on the 24th September that of Mr. J. Smedley (British), Technical Secretary to M. de Ryke.\n\n2. **Work accomplished**. The main work in hand during the quarter has been the defence of the right bank of the ship channel above Telegraph Creek, seriously threatened by wave action, wash of steamers, and violent currents. The defence consists in dumping bags, filled with clay and stones, in ridges secured by piles, along the undermined banks below low water level. The damage has been much lessened. Piling work was abandoned as too expensive when compared with results.\n\nSix works, or groynes, have been built between Telegraph Creek and a distance of 600 yards above it; thence to Taiking Creek, for a length of 2,400 yards, the shore is being badly undermined, owing to the extraordinary discharge of water from the Whangpoo, due to heavy rain and high water in the Yang-tsze; the largest in seventeen years, it is said.\n\nAs soon as the wood-cutting season commences, about the middle of October, and fascines are obtainable, defence work on a larger scale must be commenced. What is now being done, however, trains the personnel and workmen at a small cost. For strengthening the frontage of the groynes a lighter is being built, to be ready early in October, on which heavy \"gabioni\"--long bamboo cylinders, filled with stones, covered with brushwood, fastened on with wire--can be carried into position in the stream and sunk. The want of this protection has caused damage to the groynes, but they, in their turn, have somewhat saved the banks.\n\nThe extraordinary ebb from flooded lagoons and long continued high water in the Yang-tsze, beating back the flood tide, has had a bad effect on the junk channel, the proposed future fairway, causing it to silt up; while the ship channel, which will, later on, be gradually shoaled, has deepened; this, it is feared, means increased expenditure at a future date.\n\n3. **Details of Work**,-\n\n| Work Done | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bags filled | 16,000 |\n| Bags dumped | 14,000 |\n| Bags laid | 1,100 |\n| Piles driven | 326 |\n\n4. **Survey work** has been steadily proceeded with by Mr. Müller, the recently-taken-over surveying launch \"Lee Chi\" proving an excellent boat. Triangulation has continued from Pootung Point to the Shanghae native waterworks, and all stations (twenty-four) have been marked by stones or iron pegs, excepting on wharves, where holes were bored in the planks. Tide gangs have been placed at Yang Ka Du, Tung... \n\n[2310 ee--9]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[3103]\n8374\nRec\nREG 6 MAR 07,\n[January 28.]\n\n### SECTION 5\n\n#### No. 1\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received January 28, 1907.)\n\n**(No. 517.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, December 11, 1906.\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 454 of the 5th ultimo, I have the honour to forward to you herewith a copy of the second quarterly report of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nSir,\n\nWhangpoo Conservancy Board to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nShanghae, November 9, 1906.\n\nIN accordance with the stipulations of Article 4 of the Agreement signed in Peking on the 27th September, 1905, regarding the establishment of a Board of Conservancy for the Whangpoo River, and with reference to our despatch of the 25th July on this subject, we have now the honour to state as follows, for the information of the Consular Body, regarding the period 1st July to 30th September, 1906:\n\n1. **Appointments to Conservancy Staff**-On the 20th August the Agreements were signed of Messrs. Van der Veen (Dutch), Assistant Engineer; Brand (Dutch), Superintendent of Works, and Utne (Norwegian), Assistant Surveyor; and on the 24th September that of Mr. J. Smedley (British), Technical Secretary to M. de Ryke.\n\n2. **Work accomplished**. The main work in hand during the quarter has been the defence of the right bank of the ship channel above Telegraph Creek, seriously threatened by wave action, wash of steamers, and violent currents. The defence consists in dumping bags, filled with clay and stones, in ridges secured by piles, along the undermined banks below low water level. The damage has been much lessened. Filling work was abandoned as too expensive when compared with results.\n\nSix works, or groynes, have been built between Telegraph Creek and a distance of 600 yards above it; thence to Taiking Creek, for a length of 2,400 yards, the shore is being badly undermined, owing to the extraordinary discharge of water from the Whangpoo, due to heavy rain and high water in the Yang-tsze; the largest in seventeen years, it is said.\n\nAs soon as the wood-cutting season commences, about the middle of October, and fascines are obtainable, defence work on a larger scale must be commenced. What is for now being done, however, trains the personnel and workmen at a small cost. Strengthening the frontage of the groynes, a lighter is being built, to be ready early in October, on which heavy \"gabioni\"-long bamboo cylinders, filled with stones, covered with brushwood, fastened on with wire-can be carried into position in the stream and sunk. The want of this protection has caused damage to the groynes, but they, in their turn, have somewhat saved the banks.\n\nThe extraordinary ebb from flooded lagoons and long continued high water in the Yang-tsze, beating back the flood tide, has had a bad effect on the junk channel, the proposed future fairway, causing it to silt up; while the ship channel, which will, later on, be gradually shoaled, has deepened; this, it is feared, means increased expenditure at a future date.\n\n3. **Details of Work**.\n\n| Work Done | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bags filled | 10,000 |\n| Bags dumped | 14,000 |\n| Bags laid | 1,100 |\n| Piles driven | 326 |\n\n4. **Survey work** has been steadily proceeded with by Mr. Müller, the recently-taken-over surveying launch \"Lee Chi\" proving an excellent boat. Triangulation has continued from Pootung Point to the Shanghae native waterworks, and all stations (twenty-four) have been marked by stones or iron pegs, excepting on wharves, where holes were bored in the planks. Tide gangs have been placed at Yang Ka Du, Tung...",
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        "content_text": "## 17. Goods may be repacked for carriage on the Wuchow-Nanning line under Customs supervision.\n\nIn case of damage to cargo en route and consequent need of repackage, a report is to be made to the nearest official or barrier, who will inspect the damage done and superintend repackage, entering a suitable note on the certificate, with date and seal, at the same time reporting the occurrence to the Custom-house at port of departure and of arrival. This permission to repack only applies to goods damaged en route, and does not affect the repackage rules of 1866.\n\n## 18. Duties\nGoods pay import and export duties according to the Treaty Tariff. Goods will pay duty or be exempted from duty as the original covering documents provide.\n\n## 19. Native produce purchased at Wuchow and shipped from Wuchow to Nanning pays a full export duty at Wuchow and a coast trade half duty at Nanning.\n\n## 20. With the exception of goods which have paid transit dues, all native produce on application for export has to produce a Tung Shui receipt.\n\nGoods exported from Nanning will pay a full export duty at Nanning and a coast trade half duty at the port of destination. Goods intended for export abroad will be dealt with by the Customs at the port of reshipment in accordance with the Treaties and Port Regulations.\n\n## 21. All steamers, registered lighters, and registered native boats, are to pay tonnage dues according to the Treaties; chartered lighters and chartered native boats are to pay port dues at the rate of 3 mace per ton every four months.\n\n## 22. Miscellaneous\nVessels subject to the Maritime Customs may only anchor in such places as the Customs may direct.\n\n## 23. In certain sections of the river, to be hereafter ascertained, where the channel is narrow or rapids exist, lighters and native boats under Maritime Customs control must form single file with the ordinary Chinese junks, and must not endeavour to pass each other.\n\nAfter due notification of the localities concerned, any disregard of this rule will entail full responsibility for all the consequences on the vessel infringing it, whether foreign or Chinese.\n\n## 24. All changes in charter or ownership, laying up of vessels, &c., are to be reported to the Custom House; in the case of foreigners, through the Consul concerned, in order that certificates or registers may be cancelled or amended, and the flag deposited or surrendered as may be required.\n\nWhen a native boat is being withdrawn from Maritime Customs control and reverts to native taxation, the name and number are to be erased from her bows, and the superintendent will be informed that she has become amenable to local junk regulations.\n\n## 25. All foreign-owned and chartered vessels must report to the Customs and take out Customs papers before proceeding, under pain of confiscation.\n\n## 26. The flag to be flown by registered vessels is to be red in colour and triangular in shape, measuring 4 feet in width, 8 feet in length at top, 6 feet 9 inches at bottom, and bear the following raised Chinese characters in white:\n關式某商自備船隻旂職第枲號\n\n## 27. The flag to be flown by chartered vessels will be blue in colour, triangular in shape, measuring 4 feet in width, 8 feet in length at top, 6 feet 9 inches at bottom, and bear the following raised Chinese characters:\n關式某雇用船隻旂職第葇號\n\nThe flags to be flown by both registered and chartered vessels will be provided by the Customs.\n\n## 28. Steamers, lighters, and native boats trading under Maritime Customs control must report, clear, load, and discharge cargo in the same manner as steamers at other Treaty ports along the coast, and in accordance with the West River Regulations.\n\n## 29. The Customs officials will be at liberty to seal the hatches and holds of vessels under Maritime Customs control, and seals must not be broken before the vessel reaches the port. Any vessel falling in with a revenue cutter or Customs boat is to produce her papers for inspection if required, and Customs employés may be put on board vessels to search them, or accompany them, for the purpose of surveillance.\n\n## 30. Infractions of Treaty stipulations and Customs Regulations will entail such penalties as Treaties and the Regulations provide for steamers.\n\nThe above Regulations are supplementary to the Regulations of Trade on the West River, and are open to revision when, and if necessary.\n\n**Custom House, Nanning, January 1907.**\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Consul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 13.) Sir,**\n\nCanton, April 4, 1907. I HAVE already forwarded to you Mr. Consul King's despatch No. 6 of the 23rd ultimo on the subject of the opening of Nanning. A copy of the English version of the Customs Regulations inclosed therein had reached me a few days previous to the receipt of Mr. King's despatch, from an outside source; and I am strongly of opinion that these Regulations, objectionable as they are in many respects, should not have been published and publicly sold in Hong Kong until they had first been referred to me for submission to you for such action as you should have deemed fit.\n\nConsideration of Mr. King's despatch, and of the Regulations themselves, leaves no doubt as to the fact that the main question is what constitutes the \"Treaty\" port of Nanning, which, as I understand, was first opened to international trade by Agreement between Sir Claude MacDonald and the Tsung-li Yamen in 1899 in the same way as Yochow and other ports. There can, however, be no question but that the Chinese Government do not consider Nanning a Treaty port, and that they even go a step further and draw a distinction between the city of Nanning and the foreign Settlement, situated three-quarters of a mile below the eastern or lower end of the business quarter of the city. There are two points which make this perfectly obvious; one is that (vide the Wuchow Consul's despatch) the Nanning Taotai takes the stand that the Kut Hing firm cannot remain the permanent representatives of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., since they are established in the city of Nanning itself, and not in the foreign Settlement; and I should here state that the Regulations which Mr. King is awaiting are seemingly the Customs publication forwarded in the former's despatch. The second point is to be found in the Chinese version of these Regulations. If a comparison is made between Articles XIX and XX, it will be seen that in the first it is distinctly stated that goods purchased on the spot (`LIT`) in Wuchow pay a full export duty at Wuchow, and a coast trade half duty at Nanning; in the second, on the other hand, which refers to Nanning, the characters `MER` are missing. The conclusion to which I have come on the general information which has reached me, and in the light of the Nanning Taotai's ruling as to the Kut Hing firm is that purchase on the spot in Nanning city proper, and export through the foreign Customs established in the foreign Settlement without the production of evidence to show that transit dues or \"t'ung shui\"-compound inland taxes-have been paid, is impossible. I should here add that temporarily the custom-house, since arrangement of the Settlement is not yet completed, and landslips are anticipated, is situated on the other side of the river, opposite to the Settlement site. Of course, if the foreign merchant buys his goods up country for export via Nanning, irrespective of city or Settlement, since Nanning is an open port-either he pays transit duty or “tung shui.”\n\nI will now deal with certain of the Regulations seriatim.\n\nRegulation 2, read in conjunction with section (a) of Regulation 1.-Reference to the Chinese text makes it clear that a vessel holding inland waters papers can trade to Nanning and inland places under the Inland Navigation Rules, unless she elects to become a Treaty Power steamer (), and engage in an interport trade, trade, i.e., between Wuchow and Nanning, calling at the passenger stations enumerated in Regulation 13, in which case she surrenders her inland waters papers for cancellation.",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n## Whangpu Conservancy Board to M. Siffert.\n\nOffice of the Whangpu Conservancy Board, Shanghae, July 31, 1907.\n\nSir,\n\n**IN** accordance with the stipulations of Article 4 of the Agreement, signed in Peking on the 27th September, 1905, regarding the establishment of a Board, and with reference to our Report of the 20th April and previous Reports on this subject, we have now the honour to write as follows for the information of the Consular Body regarding conservancy matters for the period 1st April to the 30th June, 1907 :--\n\n2. **Appointments, &c., to Conservancy Staff.**—(a.) Foreign Staff-Mr. E. A. Smith (British) was appointed storekeeper from the 1st May, 1907; M. G. Frederickson (Swede), overseer from the 1st June; also M. G. Kipke (German).\n\n(b.) Native Staff-Mr. Kuang Han Kuang was appointed to the Pay Department from the 1st April; Mr. Shao Wei Tang, head tracer, resigned from the 15th June on account of ill-health; Mr. Y. T. Fon, survey clerk, from similar reasons, was replaced by Mr. K. S. Pai. There were a few other unimportant changes.\n\n3. **Land purchased at Gough Island.**-Fifteen title-deeds, representing mow 607.0.7.9 of land purchased at either end of Gough Island for 18,212:37 Shanghae taels, were sent by the Taotai to the Conservancy Office and deposited in the Secretary's safe.\n\n4. **Tenders for Large Works.**-On the strong recommendation of the Engineer-in-chief, M. de Rijke, it was decided to accept the tenders of the Dutch firm, Messrs. Ten Bokkel Hainink, Korthals Altes, van Thiel de Vries and Co., for the construction of the large training jetty at Woosung, to cost about 2,000,000 Shanghae taels, and for dredging purposes to expend a similar amount.\n\n5. **Work accomplished, &c.**—The following details are from M. de Rijke's Report to the Conservancy Board for the June quarter:---\n\n(a) Shore defence above Telegraph Creek.-Though gabbioni dumping preventing undermining by currents, the high water bank fell away in places on account of the wash of steamers. In order to prevent this, ballast stone was thrown, so as to form moles above low water. This stone can be recovered and used elsewhere when the route of the shipping is directed to junk channel.\n\n(b) Shore defence at Bar Mark-Here the under shore has been fortified by dumping 164 gabbioni in tiers over a shore length of 300 feet; 20 of these gabbioni in the lowest tiers are 30 feet long instead of the usual 24 feet. The slope above low water has been dressed with brush-wood and stone. Although the receding of the Pootang shore is much less than last year, it is found that more defence works will be necessary before the stream along ship channel can be sufficiently restrained.\n\n(c) Shore defence lower end of Gough Island. During April, for a length of 150 feet, the shore had to be dressed with brush-wood and stone to stop caving caused by wave action.\n\n(d) Shoals below Gough Island.-Dumping the gabbioni, which form the edges of the parallel dams, and of the six cribs on junk channel side, was completed by the end of April.\n\n(e) Sink Work. The sinking and placing of the bottom layer of brush-wood (\"zinkstuks\") in the long parallel dam was commenced on the 19th April, and had since continued uninterruptedly. By the end of June, 17,830 square yards of \"zinkstuks\" had been sunk, covering a length of 1,150 yards from the island to about 210 yards from the end of the dam. The breadth of the bottom layer is 45 feet, the usual measurements of the \"zinkstuks\" 120 by 45 feet. It is very satisfactory to note that a large part of the brush-wood has already silted up and become indestructible.\n\n(f) Crib Work on the South Side of Junk Channel.-The large training work below \"Duke End\" consists of three cribs, connected with a parallel dam, and having an aggregate length of nearly 1 mile. Dumping gabbionis for the bottom layer of this was commenced early in May with three pontoons, and completed in June. In order to check the currents in this (the wrong) direction, which are still tending to increase, dumping gabbionis on the top of the bottom layer has been vigorously continued. The proper and economical method of raising the crib works would be with layers of \"zinkstuks\" along the gabbioni, but this is impossible till the twelve sinkworkers engaged in Holland arrive. They are due in August. For the two double cribs at and below \"salient,\" gabbioni dumping commenced early in June; the bottom layers are nearly completed.\n\n(g) Gough Island Dyke and Store Places.-The new dyke from one end of the island to the other is now complete to its full height of 17 feet above low water. At the upper end of the island, inside the new dyke, a space of ground, occupying an area of about 15 mow, has been raised from 8 ft. 5 in. to 15 feet above low water for storing materials. The large bamboo shed and materials in store near Telegraph Creek have been brought here and new supplies of brush-wood landed. At the lower end of the island a much smaller space has been raised for similar purposes. Great difficulty is experienced in the Gough Island reach in landing and storing materials on account of the shoals, and because the land lying so low is flooded by high tides. No materials that float can be stored on the Pootung side of the island till the land is raised. Four culverts were built underneath the dyke in order not to interfere with the drainage of the cultivated land on Gough Island.\n\n6. **Houses, &c.**-The dwelling-house and office near the Woosung forts will probably be ready by the end of July. The Messageries Maritimes Company having granted us permission to build on their property near Woosung Station, as well as giving us a new lease for five years on very liberal terms, estimates have been made, and a contract drawn up for building a large house for the staff on this side.\n\nIn this connection it may be mentioned that the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Directors have kindly consented to establish a flag station at this junction instead of the present station, which is, we understand, to be done away with.\n\n7. **Plant.**-Two more pontoons have been built and fitted for dumping gabbionis, so that we have now five pontoons regularly at work. Two launches, the \"Chun Pao\" and a hired one, are daily in use transporting materials and coolies and towing \"zinkstuks\" to where they are sunk. The small launch \"Lee Chi\" is steadily at survey work. Eight hired cargo boats were at work in April, twelve in May, and sixteen in June, besides sampans.\n\n8. **Survey Work.** A new survey of junk channel, lately commenced, will soon be ready and mapped out, but from the soundings it is clear that the stream along junk channel, especially during the flood, has increased, but not in the desired direction between the normal lines, where, on the contrary, more silting is perceptible. As no dredgers are yet available, all that can be done to remedy this is to dump gabbioni in the dyke end crib work, where, as noted above, three pontoons are daily at this work.\n\nMr. Muller's quarterly survey report states the survey of the river has been completed from the arsenal to 3,400 feet above Lung Hua Pagoda Creek, a distance of 2 miles. The shore line from Pheasant Point to Fisherman's Cross remeasured and sounding lines run 400 feet apart from Pheasant Point to Kajow Creek.\n\nThe zeros of all tide gauges (15) have been fixed to permanent marks on shore. Two lots of land outside Woosung Lighthouse and two between signal station and limit beacon have been remeasured. The normal line has been marked outside the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha property below Yangking Creek. The Ocean Steam-ship Company and China Navigation Company properties above Yangking Creek were measured to ascertain the area of reclaimed land to be gained by building out to 50 feet inside the normal line.\n\nThe land between the native waterworks and French waterworks was measured and levelled.\n\nTwo sounding lines were run three times between the cribs outside the dyke end station (junk channel) to learn the effect laying gabbioni has had. A survey of the land between Woosung Lighthouse and Woosung Fort was completed and plotted. The large scale (1:500) maps of the whole survey-Woosung outer bar to above Lang Hua Pagoda Creek, a distance of 19 miles--have been reduced to a scale of 1:16,000, and can now be printed.\n\n9. **Detail of Works.**-Workmen employed during the quarter-coolies, boatmen, watchmen, fascine workers, &c.--represented :-\n\n| Month | Days' Wages |\n| --- | --- |\n| April | 4,997 |\n| May | 5,476 |\n| June | 7,217 |\n| Total | 17,690 |",
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        "content_text": "25\n\n6\n\nThere is little chance for further trouble in this district with so many soldiers, unless rebellion breaks out, when we believe the troops would join the insurgents.\n\nThe provincial Judge Kiang is an able and just man, and is trying to settle things on a permanent basis. The Roman Catholics may not agree with his measures, but we feel that he is taking the right course—not ruthlessly and indiscriminately wiping out the place, but demanding that the gentry shall deliver the offenders or be punished as criminals themselves. This thing has all happened by the connivance of these men; now the responsibility is put on the right shoulders.\n\nShould write you more fully, but time fails. Thank you for kind letters of love and sympathy.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nRev. W. S. Horne to Consul Werner,\n\nChina Inland Mission, Kanchow, November 15, 1907.\n\nI am sorry not to be able to send a better report of the progress of restriction of opium. Every official is throwing his weight into the anti-Boxer crusade.\n\nWe thank you most heartily for what you have done for us from the beginning. We have all been caught napping in the end. The Nankang Magistrate is largely to blame for the whole movement; his anti-foreign attitude gave strength and speed to the Boxer uprising. Judge Kiang has afforded Mr. Marshall and myself every protection, and got all the foreigners out safely except the French—or, rather, Italian—father. He has acted the perfect gentleman throughout; we are deeply grateful to him for the speedy and satisfactory settlement so soon reached after the subsidence of Boxerism. He is still the only man who is doing anything to restore order in the district. Had it not been for your request that he should remain to suppress the movement everything would have been lost, and few foreigners would have escaped alive. He was the only man of any use both during the riot and after it. Even now these men sent by capital and from Nanking are not in it with him. He has better abilities and is ever so much more sincere; one can place confidence in him, which is more than one can say for those otherwise appointed. He is now in Tsongi district, over 200 li from Kanchow, following up dispersed Boxers. His methods of restoring peace commend themselves to all, foreigner and people alike. Rebellion was the ultimate aim of the Boxers, but they lacked organization and leadership. They rather depended on a simultaneous uprising all over, thus overwhelming officials. Just how near we were to that we do not know,\n\nThanking you again for timely help, yours, &c.,\n\n0\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. S. HORNE.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[3388]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 31.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n0.\n\n7780\n\n4 MAR 081\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 31.)\n\nRec2 (No. 5.) Sir,\n\nPeking, January 1, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 584 of the 20th December, 1907, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter which the Directors of the Huangpu Conservancy Board have addressed to the Senior Consul at Shanghae, forwarding the comments of Mr. de Rijke, Engineer-in-chief to the Board, on the Memorandum of the German shipping firms, which formed Inclosure No. 2 in my above-mentioned despatch.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nWhangpoo Conservancy Board to M. Siffert.\n\nOffice of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, Shanghae, December 6, 1907.\n\nIN reply to your letter of the 19th ultimo, inclosing copy of a Memorandum, addressed to His Imperial German Majesty's Consul-General by shipping firms at Shanghae, regarding Conservancy work, we beg to inclose herewith, for the information of the Consular Body, a few comments on the said Memorandum which, on our suggestion, Mr. J. de Rijke, Engineer-in-chief to the Conservancy Board, has drawn up.\n\nWe have, &c. (Signed) LIANG YU HO,\n\nHOBSON,\n\nDirectors of the Conservancy Board.\n\nA few Comments on the Memorandum of the German Shipping Firms, dated October 26, 1907.\n\nIn this paper it is said that the Whangpoo, in its present fairway from the Arsenal to the Yang-tsze, has throughout a depth of at least 18 feet at lowest water. Lowest water in the Lower Whangpoo is equal to the zero of the gauge at the Woosung Signal Station. Depth throughout must include that in the passage over the Woosung inner bar. The Harbour-master can tell exactly the depth there at lowest low water all during the summer and up to the present day, but I believe it must have been about a fathom less than 18 feet.\n\nThat in later years the Kajow bar has disappeared is quite true; at present the depth there and that of the ship-channel lower down is not much different from the surveys of 1893 and 1887.\n\nIt is also true that the junk-channel has shallowed, as I reported to the Board. In a river with a bottom so heavy, mobile, and shifting as that of the Whangpoo such changes are not so singular; and yet, notwithstanding these changes in the Gough Island reach, I am following the principle expressed in my Report of 1898, paragraph 36, which says \"that in case this section of the river has to be improved by regulating works, by which to form one uniform channel instead of the two, that channel must be the junk-channel, and not the other, the ship-channel.\"\n\nThis is Plan (B).\n\nBut in the Lower Whangpoo the plan (B) of 1898 is not the same as the plan (B) of 1906 now in execution. The works proposed last year to guide the stream over the\n\n[2818 hh-2]",
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        "content_text": "26\n\n2\n\nouter bar are quite different from those in the earlier plan. For the Gough Island reach also an entirely new plan has been made after first re-surveying the whole field. Only the above-mentioned principle is maintained; the general course of the new uniform channel is again through the junk-channel, but on account of the changes in the bed of this shifting stream, the new plan (B) is much different in details from the old one.\n\nThe direction of the normal lines is not the same. The depth of water at and above the upper end of Gough Island having much increased, the training works there, already before regarded as rather difficult (see my pamphlet of 1902, p. 14, below), have since grown more difficult; but of the front screen there, connected with Gough Island's upper end, the foundation is now made to a height of from 10 feet to 12 feet above the bottom, and has proved to be, and is, safe against the strongest currents, so that I dare say that the worst of the difficulties here have been overcome already. As to the increased silting in the junk-channel, I need not repeat what I said and wrote to the Board about enforced dredging thus rendered necessary.\n\nWith this enforced dredging, for which adequate measures have been taken, I dare say, not to feel apprehensive about the ultimate results of the plan in execution in the Lower Whangpoo, i.e., the new plan (B). My idea was, and remains unaltered, that the fairway in the Gough Island reach must be along one uniform channel, and so that the flood tides are forced to run up along the same track as the ebb tides do downward, and vice versa\" (Report of 1898, paragraph 58). And my opinion remains just the same as in 1898 (Report, paragraph 36), \"that channel must be the junk-channel,\" and this for the simple reason that such a uniform channel along the other way, the ship-channel, would be impracticable, even if not prohibitive in cost.\n\n(Signed) J. DE RIJKE, Engineer-in-chief.\n\nShanghae, December 3, 1907.\n\nDEPTH at Low Water on the Woosung Inner Bar from January 1, 1907, to Date, Calculated from Low Water Datum.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[5166]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 6.]\n\nSECTION\n\nC. O.\n\n7780\n\nRec\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, February 6, 1908.\n\nIPMS 4 MAR 08,\n\nMr. Wedgwood,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the results of the system of taxation of land values in the German Colony of Kiao-chau, he will consider the advisability of adopting a similar tax in the Colony of Wei-hai Wei, in order to make up the annual deficit of 7,000, and so relieve the charge upon the British taxpayer.\n\nAnswer.\n\nThere is already a land-tax in Wei-hai Wei, and I am afraid that the circumstances of Wei-hai Wei are so different from those of Kiao-chau that there is little prospect of obtaining any substantial increase from taxation of land in the former.\n\n[28107-1]\n\n  \n    Date\n    Depth\n  \n  \n    January 1\n    Ft. in.\n  \n  \n    February 26\n    13\n  \n  \n    May 1\n    \n  \n  \n    May 27\n    \n  \n  \n    June 1..\n    \n  \n  \n    June 24\n    \n  \n  \n    June 29\n    14 ↑\n  \n  \n    September 12\n    13 6\n  \n  \n    October 31\n    13 0\n  \n  \n    November 15\n    12 6\n  \n  \n    November 30\n    12 0\n  \n  \n    Date\n    Depth\n  \n  \n    \n    Ft. in.\n  \n  \n    11 B\n    11 0\n  \n  \n    11 €\n    Q\n  \n  \n    12 6\n    \n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nWM. CARLSON, Harbour-master.\n\nHarbour-master's Office, Shanghae,\n\nDecember 7, 1907.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nfirms should be sent to the Huangpu Conservancy Board with the letter, copy of which forms Inclosure 8 in this despatch.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nALL we know about the works for improving the Wangpoo is-\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n1. The project put forward by M. de Rijke in 1898-that is, nine years ago; 2. An article in the \"North China Daily News\"; and\n\n3. The Quarterly Reports of the Conservancy Board.\n\nThe project of 1898 must be called obsolete, as the river has in the meantime changed very much. A mere glance at the line of 18 feet depth (see the annexed sketches) shows the great alterations that have taken place. Whereas at the time of the putting forward of the project the continuous line of 18 feet depth from Shanghae down-river did not extend to the Kao Chiao Creek, it runs at present, according to the soundings of 1906, right through as far as the inner bar. I believe I am not mistaken in assuming that even the inner bar has been disappearing more and more, and that therefore there is 18 feet of water at low-water as far as the outer bar. This point, however, will be referred to again later on. Just now I only wish to emphasize the fact that a depth of 18 feet at low water, which it was intended to create by De Rijke's project for the Whangpoo, exists beyond doubt to-day from the arsenal to the inner bar. In spite of these changes in the river, which are also borne out by the Quarterly Reports, nothing has been heard of a remodelling of the original project.\n\nThe project is obsolete also, inasmuch as it is not founded on the financial base which was established by the Agreement, only lately concluded between China and the Powers. A project, with estimate of costs, is, however, required to prove that the proposed works can be carried out technically and within the limits of the available means. And, lastly, it should be mentioned that De Rijke's project extends up-river only as far as the Point (Point Hotel), whereas, by the Agreement, China is obliged to improve the Whangpoo from the arsenal to the mouth of the river.\n\nThese three points-changed river, new established financial base, extension of the project as far as the Arsenal-should suffice by themselves to justify the call for a new project.\n\nI will now try to describe briefly the chief points of De Rijke's project-closing the ship channel and dredging the junk channel. The annexed sketch shows the \"normal lines.\" It appears from them that the Whangpoo is to flow only through one arm, namely, the junk channel. Actually, even to-day it flows only through one arm, but it is the ship channel-not the junk channel-in which there is scarcely any current. The project therefore intends nothing less than to turn the mighty river from the ship channel into the junk channel, to deflect an entire river of the force of the Whangpoo. Should this extremely dangerous and exceedingly costly undertaking be successful, what will be the result? The curve at Pheasant Point will have become a little flatter. This curve, it is true, is at present rather short, but wherever I inquired of English and German captains, I have never heard of difficulties for navigation. One must not forget that in the narrow Suez Canal there is a curve of only 1,130 metres radius, whereas the radius at Pheasant Point measures 1,700 metres, and the river at that place would show a navigable width of 1,000 feet.\n\nBesides, in case, the protruding point of Pheasant Point would have to be dredged away, as has always been proposed by M. de Rijke.\n\nThe advantage of flattening the curve at Pheasant Point must therefore be regarded as too inconsiderable to justify the deflection of a river-the ship channel ---which in all its parts already has the depth the project intends to bring about.\n\nThe author of the project expects much from the working of the flood tide. A glance at the chart shows that the flood tide has produced nothing but a short stretch of deep water at Woosung, whereas the continuous depth of 18 feet water from the Arsenal to the inner bar at least is entirely the work of the ebb tide. Nor could anything else be expected, for in the first place the flood tide runs on an\n\n* Not printed.\n\n3\n\n3 hours 40 minutes, the ebb tide, on the contrary, 6 hours 50 minutes, that average is nearly double the time, and in the second place the flood tide carries most of the sediments into the river and deposits them where the ebb tide is weak, whereas the equable ebb current carries the sediments into the Yang-tsze. This is very clearly seen in the junk channel. In the latter the flood tide has deposited its sediments because the ebb current passes through the ship channel. Naturally the improvement of the bed of the ebb current in the ship channel has carried with it an increased silting up of the junk channel. It would, therefore, for this reason also appear to be more advisable to pass through the ship channel with the ebb tide because the nature of things affords security that the navigable course, as soon as determined within its banks, will always be preserved. The inner bar need scarcely be taken into account; even if most of it has not already disappeared, it is certainly decreasing. This pleasing fact is due to a measure of M. de Rijke's, which was, it is true, most likely taken with a different object in view. It had been found out, as was, in fact, known before, that on the lower portion of Gough Island cross channels had formed, through which the incoming flood tide partly ran into the ship channel. In order to compel the flood tide to run through the junk channel the future navigable course, the cross channels were closed by a long dam. The consequence was not, indeed, an improvement of the junk channel, but of the ship channel, for whereas formerly also part of the ebb water was able to run through cross channels into the junk channel, the ebb current in the ship channel was now constrained by the new dam, and had to pass with its full force the inner bar, therewith, however, the inner bar lost its raison d'être—that is, it is disappearing. In spite of this extremely favourable condition of the river in the ship channel the latter is now to be given up at enormous expense and exceedingly great danger to navigation.\n\nThe question of expense need not detain us long. Of course, even where the configuration of the river is very simple, it must be very much more costly to dig a new river bed, and to divert a river into it, than to retain an old bed with a sufficient depth of water. To what a vertiginous height the expenses of improving the Whangpoo will mount will perhaps be clear when one considers that, at the very spot where there is a most powerful current, a dam is to be built right across the river in order to block it. From the chart it is seen that at the upper end of Gough Island the new portion of the river leaves the junk channel and crosses the ship channel, the new right bank of the river, closing the ship channel in a concave line. Assuming that they have succeeded in building this new bank across the river, then as at present proposed, it will have its foundation on the present river bottom, that is, at a depth of 18 feet. The river gives evidence in all its concave banks of a strong inclination to scoop out its bed to a depth of 30 feet to 40 feet, which means that the new bank would have only a short lease of life and soon fall in, its foundation being undermined. Then the river will divide anew, perhaps, in two equal arms, which, on that account, are useless for navigation, not to mention the difficulties caused by the remains of the dams.\n\nBut the greatest difficulty would be the construction of the dam itself.\n\nAt present they are busy pushing forward the dam from the upper end of Gough Island. This will go on right enough so long as they are not in the main current, but as soon as the latter will have been reached the river, made still more furious by the constraint put upon it, will with all its weight resist the intrusion. Behind the end of the dam whirlpools will form, which will tear up the river-bed and cause the dam to fall in; besides, the river, forced by the dam of Gough Island, will seek to still more undermine its right bank. How great the technical difficulties caused by the strong current will be may be estimated by the fact that nearly all the defence works in the ship channel (see Quarterly Reports of the Conservancy Board,\" Shore Defence Works\") have fallen in, and have apparently for the present been given up; and this notwithstanding their being called in August 1906 \"the most urgent work which is now occupying M. de Rijke's attention.\" If the mere defending of an old bank causes difficulties, what is to become of the new concave lines?\n\nAnd now, in conclusion, let me say a few words on the great danger to navigation.\n\nTo dredge the junk channel without leading through it the water of the ship channel is technically impossible. M. de Rijke is of the same opinion, and intends, therefore, to begin by making the ship channel lower by means of dams of sink-work, \"which will help to kill the tide in that part of the river.\" Then he continues: \"These dams will be put down in eight or more places, and by degrees the current will be deflected towards the junk channel.\" Accordingly, they will begin dredging\n\n75",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nin the junk channel, and at the same time diminishing the water in the ship channel, It is highly probable that the time will come when the ship channel is no longer navigable, and the junk channel not yet open. It may be assumed that Shanghai may will be cut off from the sea for about a year. On the other hand, what is to become of the river if, in spite of the proposed dams or sink-works in the ship channel, the ebb current should not be deflected towards the junk channel, but should circumvent the dams or sink-work laterally, only still more tearing down its bank? We all know how easily the alluvial soil in those parts is moved and dissolved. If a harder obstacle is placed in the river, the latter will circumvent it, as it has done with the defence works, and will turn against its banks. In case that should happen, we should for a very long time have a disturbed navigable course, for to get the \"zinkstuks\" heavily loaded with stones out of the water again will certainly not be an easy task.\n\nIn the article of the \"North China Daily News\" of the 27th August, 1906, it is said, under \"Restraining Works\"; \"The ship channel is, of course, far deeper than the bars, and the restraining works for the purpose of turning the stream gradually into the junk channel will not in any way impede navigation.\" That is to say, the ship channel is first to be filled up to the height of the bar. We should then have a bar of the length of the ship channel. It is quite possible for steamers to pass a short bar at a favourable time, but it is impossible to pass so long a stretch of river; with so little water underneath, a ship would no longer obey the helm, and injuries to ships would be unavoidable. But what of the whole question, after it has been found that the inner bar has disappeared or is in course of disappearing? To-day, therefore, there would no longer be any question of filling up to the height of the bar, but only of creating an entirely new and long bar. If to-day the outer bar is removed, then the way as far as Shanghai will be free for large vessels until the completion of this work,\n\nFrom what has been said it appears necessary that M. de Rijke should give a more detailed explanation, so that it may be possible to see what shape his project has taken on at present, and whether the assumptions on which the foregoing remarks have been based, and which take into consideration the information hitherto available, will hold good also in future. If that is the case, or if the answer does not show that a fundamental alteration of the original project removing the doubts advanced above has taken place, or if it is not possible to obtain an answer without delay, it appears best, in view of the doubtful success, the exceedingly high expenditure, and the steadily improving navigable course (of the ship channel) for the present only to remove the outer bar, and to cease working on Gough Island until all apprehensions shall have been cleared away. By this temporary stopping of the work on Gough Island the result of the whole undertaking will, technically, in no way be jeopardized or prejudiced.\n\nBut if these things are allowed to go on, a good navigable course will, without the least immediate gain, be unnecessarily exposed to the greatest danger—a navigable course the perfecting of which would be feasible within the limits of an expenditure by no means unreasonable.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nH. SCHNELLHOSS,\n\nMemorandum by German Shipping Firms at Shanghai.\n\nWE, the Undersigned, representing the largest German shipping interest in Shanghai, respectfully beg to submit to the Imperial German Consulate-General the following:\n\nThe chart of the Whangpoo River, published of late by the Whangpoo River Conservancy Board, and the Quarterly Reports of this Board, as well as recent soundings, show that the Whangpoo River during the last few years has continually improved, and this, indeed, to such an extent that the so-called \"Inner Bar\" has almost disappeared, and that there is to-day from the arsenal to the mouth of the river a uniform depth of at least 18 feet at lowest water level; in other words, the result which the work now commenced by the River Conservancy tries to achieve is already almost in existence.\n\nM. de Rijke's scheme, as far as we know, intends to close up the present fairway—the so-called \"Ship Channel\"—and to open in place of it the \"Junk Channel,\" which is at present entirely silted up. If we now compare the opinion and inferences given by M. de Rijke in his earlier Report with the findings given in the Quarterly Reports about the present state of the river, there is, no doubt, reason for grave misgivings, viz., that by the execution of the present scheme the shipping on the Whangpoo might possibly be endangered most seriously.\n\nWe beg to give some extracts from M. de Rijke's Report and the Quarterly Reports referring also to the new chart:—\n\nExtracts from the Report to the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce on the Water Approaches to Shanghai, by J. de Rijke. Dated, Tokio, the 10th January, 1898.\n\nShip Channel Decreasing.\n\n§ XXXV.\n\nPage 12. \"The Ship Channel, through which every sea vessel has still to pass, is decreasing very perceptibly, as can be seen from the cross sections.\"\n\n§ XXXVI\n\n\"It is plain that the Ship Channel at its upper end has everything in its favour for the ebb current to enter it, but by the increasing deposits in its lower end the ebb cannot make its way through...\n\nPage 13. \"The greater quantity of ebb water flows down along the much wider and more capacious Junk Channel.\n\n\"The passage (over the inner bar) might still be kept open for another period, but it should be borne in mind that all the while the general deterioration of the river is going on at an increased rate, and that the Ship Channel is steadily losing in depth and width and in power to maintain itself.\n\n\"So much is now perfectly clear that in case this section of the river has to be improved by regulating works, by which to form one uniform channel instead of the two, that channel must be the Junk Channel, and not the other, the Ship Channel.\"\n\nPage 43. To regulate properly the barrier reach between Kajow and Pheasant Point to one uniform channel, i.e., without interfering too much with the present navigation, and what is of still greater importance, without causing further obstructions to the tide, is not at all an easy work, nor can this be done in a hurry; there is, however, one thing that promises to facilitate this greatly, viz., the natural tendency, already existing, of the main currents to follow the Junk Channel.”\n\nExtracts from the Quarterly Reports of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, showing the present state of the Whangpoo.\n\nThe Depth all along Ship Channel has much increased, Junk Channel is blocked by increased silting.\n\n(See Quarterly Reports of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.)\n\nNovember 9, 1906.\n\n\"The extraordinary ebb from flooded lagoons and long-continued high water in the Yang-tsze, beating back the flood tide, has had a bad effect on the Junk Channel—the proposed future fairway, causing it to silt up, while the Ship Channel, which will later on be gradually shoaled, has deepened; this, it is feared, means increased expenditure at a future date.\"\n\nJanuary 26, 1907.\n\n\"The depth of water in the river generally has greatly increased owing to the heavy rains, remarked on last quarter, washing out the channel (Ship Channel), and consequently defence work has proved more difficult. Gough Island reach, where some of the largest works have to be made, has grown much deeper, and the shallowing of the Ship Channel will be much more expensive than at first estimated.\"\n\nApril 20, 1907.\n\nEarly in January, when the flood tides entering the river were regaining strength and finding Junk Channel blocked by increased silting.\n\nsome increase of depth on the inner bar are very satisfactory,\n\n\"A resounding of Gough Island reach shows that the depth all along Ship Channel has increased, while Junk Channel has shallowed.\n\nCompared with previous surveys, the general conditions of the river's mouth and the outer bar is much better than before.\"",
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        "content_text": "Page 17. As last year the stream in Junk Channel was evidently increasing, I have much hope that a new survey would show a better situation and less work for dredgers.\n\nShip Channel Becoming Impassable. Kajow Ship Channel better than ever.\n\nBar.\n\n§ XLV.\n\nPage 16. \"After having proceeded thus far in my Report, I received further soundings\n\n\"These soundings give additional evidence of the fact that before long the Ship Channel—the present fairway—must become entirely impassable for the deeper craft still calling at Shanghae. Owing to\n\nthe increased diversion of the stream from the main channel above Gough Island to the Junk Channel, a new bar is making itself more and more conspicuous just in front of the Kajow Creek.\n\n\"It may be taken as certain that this bar has come to stay and, no doubt, to grow higher.\n\nThere is no doubt that on the other hand the inner bar will feel more and more the influence of the new one.\"\n\nAdvantage of the Kajow Bar.\n\n$ XLV.\n\nPage 17. \"Although the swallowing up of the Ship Channel and the formation of a new bar at the upper entrance is attended with a general increase in the power of the river, yet the bar at Kajow has one great advantage, viz., that it diverts the main stream during ebb tides to the much more desired direction, that is, to the Junk Channel. If the river is to be improved by regulation, a series of works, forming a new concave shore on the right shore would have to be made, by which to shift over to the left the main channel from a distance above Kajow.\n\n\"The forcing over of the main stream of a river like this, without causing new impediments, and without much interrupting navigation, is often found to be a very difficult task, even when using numbers of men skilled in such work. It becomes all the easier when, as is now the case, the whole of the stream tends to flow that way.\"\n\nBar.\n\nNo Kajow\n\nCompare with the new chart of the Whangpoo River published by the Whangpoo Conservancy Office, which shows that where there formerly has been the Kajow Bar there is very deep water now. But the Dries' in the upper part of the Junk Channel have become regular islands covered with green.\n\n\"As there is no longer a Kajow Bar which diverts the main stream to the Junk Channel, but, on the contrary, the whole of the stream tends to flow through the Ship Channel, the opinion of M. de Rijke, which still holds good, must now be read as follows, viz: The forcing over of the main stream of a river like this, without causing new impediments, and without much interrupting navigation, will be a very difficult task, even when using numbers of men skilled in such work.\"\n\nThe present state of the river as described in the Quarterly Reports shows that the surmises on which the scheme of 1898 was based have not been verified. Exactly the contrary of M. de Rijke's surmises has happened, viz., the depth of the junk channel has not increased and the ship channel has not shallowed, but the depth of the ship channel has increased and the junk channel has entirely silted up. The scheme intended to make use of the junk channel because it was believed that the natural tendency of the river would be to flow through the junk channel. From the above comparison, based solely on observations published by the River Conservancy Board itself, it is obvious that exactly the contrary of what was generally expected has happened. The Whangpoo in its present fairway from the Arsenal to the Yang-tsze has throughout a depth of at least 18 feet at lowest water, the Kajow bar has given place to deep water, the ship channel in its whole length has improved very considerably, the inner bar is not only gradually decreasing (and that since a time when according to former statistics it ought to have been in its worst state), but is to-day only a short narrowing of the deep fairway.\n\nFrom the foregoing we can only draw the following conclusions, and the following questions must necessarily arise:--\n\n1. According to M. de Rijke's own words: \"The forcing over of the main stream of a river like this, without causing new impediments, and without much interrupting navigation is often found to be a very difficult task, even when using numbers of men skilled in such work.\" The Kajow bar which would facilitate this \"forcing over\" has entirely disappeared, and there must now be a certain danger if it is tried. Is it under these circumstances advisable to run such an incalculable and enormous risk? Or what security does M. de Rijke's scheme give that in the course of its execution shipping will not be seriously hampered or even interrupted?\n\n2. The expense of the ship channel's closing up under the present conditions will be—as admitted by the Quarterly Reports—much higher than at first estimated. Will this amount there are at the disposal twenty annual rates of 160,000 taels each.\n\nunder all circumstances suffice for the complete execution of M. de Rijke's scheme?\n\n3. If these two questions cannot be answered with certainty, might it not be taken into serious consideration to make use of the natural tendency of the river, choosing the present fairway (ship channel), by improving and strengthening it? It is quite obvious that thereby the shipping can in no way be hampered and moreover the expenses will be considerably smaller.\n\nWe, the Undersigned, now respectfully ask the Imperial German Consulate-General to take such steps through the proper channels as will have the effect to elicit from M. de Rijke an exhaustive answer to the above questions.\n\nWe would like to mention that our misgivings are shared by experts.\n\nIn conclusion, it seems absolutely necessary that until our questions are satisfactorily answered no work is to be commenced which might unfavourably influence the ship channel fairway.\n\nAs this matter does not only concern the shipping, but is of vital importance to all Shanghae we have addressed the \"Deutsche Vereinigung\" and have requested the same to forward a translation of our Petition with the request of kind co-operation to the Chamber of Commerce and all Shanghae Associations interested in this question.\n\nSir,\n\nShanghae, October 26, 1907.\n\nMELCHERS AND CO.\n\n(Signed) Hamburg-Amerika Linie,\n\n(Signed)\n\nK. OLDOERP. SIEMSSEN AND Co. CARLOWITZ AND Co..\n\nPer pro. Diederichsen, Jebsen, and Co.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nJOHANN JESSEN. MEYER AND Co.\n\nPer pro. Sander, Wieler, and Co.,\n\n(Signed) FRIEDRICHS.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nShanghae Branch of China Association to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\nNovember 18, 1907. WITH reference to the letter addressed to the Consul-General for Germany by the German shipping firms, and supported by the \"Deutsche Vereinigung\" regarding\n\nPage 7\n\nD - [2846 h--5]\n\n77\n\nPage 17",
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        "content_text": "5\n\nSuch a course of action I venture to submit is likely to prove by far the most satisfactory, both for the general interests of international trade, and for British interests in particular, and I venture to suggest that an objection to the fixed bridge should be made through the proper official channel at the earliest date possible, in order that a decision may be arrived at before the Japanese plans have further matured.\n\nFailing this and as a second but less desirable alternative it is to be recommended that before the commencement of the construction of the bridge the question of obtaining suitable accommodation for British shipping interests below the bridge from the Japanese should be at once taken up, as when once the bridge becomes a fait accompli there will be much greater difficulty in obtaining favourable terms.\n\n(Signed) W. R. M. RUSSELL.\n\nAntung, December 4, 1907.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Baron Hayashi.\n\nMy dear Colleague and Minister,\n\nPeking, December 18, 1907. WITH reference to our conversation of the 16th instant in regard to the proposed railway bridge across the River Yalu at Antung, I beg to formulate the reasons which in my opinion make it desirable, in the interests of the commercial development of Antung, that this bridge should take the form of a drawbridge instead of a fixed structure, and that it should, if possible, cross the river above the native city instead of below it, as is at present proposed. I may add that my American colleague fully concurs in my views.\n\nThe present anchorage for steamers and other vessels commences some 500 yards above the site indicated for the bridge, and ends at the line of the proposed bridge which at present forms the lower harbour limit.\n\nThe native city and the site of the proposed general foreign settlement are above the proposed bridge and any structure across the river which interferes with free navigation will exclude junks and steamers from the higher anchorage, and be detrimental to the commercial and shipping interests of the port.\n\nThe land on the Chinese side of the river below the proposed bridge has for a distance of over 2,000 yards been acquired by the Japanese for railway and settlement purposes, and the effect of a fixed bridge would be that Japan would obtain a virtual monopoly and control of junk and steamer commerce.\n\nI feel sure that such a consummation would be opposed to the well-known desire of the Japanese Government for equal commercial opportunities in China to all nations, and am confident that they will, in the interests of the commercial world in general, either decide in favour of a drawbridge, or bridge the river at some point above the native city and proposed foreign settlement, to which no objection can be found.\n\nI should be much obliged if your Excellency would be so good as to submit these considerations to the Imperial Government at Tokio, as soon as possible, for I am given to understand that it is intended to commence building the bridge during the coming spring.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n293",
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        "content_text": "*\n\n463\n\nthat some Japanese had come down to Prates from Formosa, and had been, a few days later, with their junk blown back by a typhoon up the Formosan Channel to Amoy, Mr. Newman's agent at Hong Kong sent a Japanese expert named Hasébé Tetsunosaké to see if any of his countrymen remained there, if the flag and cairn still stood, and to prospect and report generally.\n\nHasébé found the Island untenanted, though the flag had disappeared, whilst the cairn remained untouched. He returned very shortly to Hong Kong, with some 5 tons of Phosphate and a fair quantity of shell. Mr. Newman was at this time absent from Hong Kong, being down in the Gulf of Tonkin.\n\nA second expedition of Japanese from Formosa reached the island about the month of June, where their junk was wrecked and the crew marooned till taken off by a Japanese steamer detailed for that service.\n\nAs the result of the reports brought back to Formosa",
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        "content_text": "operations which are being carried out on behalf of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, I have the honour to state that, in a letter from the Secretary of the Board which appeared in the \"North China Daily News\" of the 12th instant, it is explained that the reason why the dredged material is not measured on shore but in the barges is that the contractors did not quote tenders for pumping the mud from the dredgers direct into special reservoirs, in which case the quantity would have had to be measured on shore, but only for the alternative method permitted by the dredging contract of discharging it into barges to be measured therein and then dumped.\n\nThe system in operation is therefore absolutely in accordance with the terms of the contractors' agreement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. E. WILKINSON.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC. O.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n132\n\n[October 14, 1908]\n\nSECTION 3, 2 NOV 08\n\n[35631]\n\n(No. 423.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 14.)\n\nPeking, September 21, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch No. 384 of the 1st instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae regarding the criticisms which continue to be passed upon the Whangpoo Conservancy scheme by German experts.\n\nAlthough M. de Rijke is encountering greater difficulties than he anticipated in the prosecution of his task, and his efforts have not yet succeeded in opening the Junk Channel to steamer navigation, the Conservancy Board retain full confidence in his capacity to carry through the undertaking, and he himself continues to be sanguine of final success.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n(No. 88.) Sir,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nShanghae, September 14, 1908. I HAVE the honour to inclose a translation by the \"North China Daily News\" of an article in this week's issue of \"Der Ostasiatische Lloyd,\" in which the present scheme for the conservancy of the Whangpoo is again subjected to severe criticism.\n\nThe writer of the article, who, it is generally assumed, is M. Schellhoss, the German engineer whose previous strictures on M. de Rijke's scheme were the cause last November of an agitation for an inquiry on the part of the German shipping firms at Shanghae, maintains that the report of the Conservancy Board for June quarter is further evidence that, as has been maintained all along by German experts, not one of the predictions of the Chief Engineer is being fulfilled. In other words, that the attempt to direct the ebb stream which now runs through the Ship Channel into the Junk Channel by means of dredging and training works has proved a failure, since, in spite of all efforts, the Junk Channel keeps persistently silting up, and that in consequence there is considerable danger that the Ship Channel will become closed before the Junk Channel can be used.\n\nThe writer also contends that the present scheme is proving too costly to complete and maintain.\n\nThere can be no doubt that M. de Rijke is encountering more difficulties in carrying out his scheme of diverting the ebb stream from one channel to the other than he anticipated. When, as Sir Pelham Warren had the honour to report to you on the 3rd ultimo, His Majesty's ship \"Cadmus\" passed through the Junk Channel on the 9th July and found no less than 19 feet of water at half tide, it was generally understood that the new channel was from that date open to steamer navigation. Although the Junk Channel could, even now, be used by most steamers visiting Shanghae, experience has shown that to allow it to be so used would interfere very seriously with the dredging operations which are being carried on. It has therefore been closed again to steamers, and the official opening is not expected to take place until next spring, or possibly even later, as, in consequence of the recent scandals in connection with the dredging operations, work is no longer carried on, as formerly, at night. The end of the present year was, however, the earliest possible date by which M. de Rijke anticipated that the Junk Channel would be open to steamer navigation, so that the delay cannot be considered\n\n(1982 - 31\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "# Conclosure 1. (B.)\n## Damages done afloat during Typhoon of 19 October, 1909\n\n### To Government Property\n\n| Location | Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | Steam-launch \"Victoria\" slightly damaged. |\n| Quarry Bay | Government Dredger \"St. Enoch\" stranded. Should be floated today. |\n| Harbour Office and Gunpowder Depots | Temporary piers destroyed. |\n| Green Island Lighthouse | Small damages to roofs and outhouses; Pier damaged. |\n| Gunpowder Depot | Small damages to roofs and outhouses; Sea Wall damaged. |\n| Cheung Chau | Pier damaged; Beacon in channel bent over; small damages to roofs and outbuildings. |\n|  | Slight damage to quarters. |\n|  | \"Stanley's\" buoy broke adrift moorings on the bottom. Buoy recovered today. |\n\n### To Private Property\n\n| Location | Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colony | Nearly all bamboo wharves demolished. |\n| Eastern French Yail | Moorings: shackle of buoy broken by \"Miyasaki Maru\"; moorings on the bottom-buoy adrift. |\n|  | Four-masted Barque \"Lyndhurst\" dragged down and fouled S.S. \"Hongkong Maru\", damaging both vessels slightly. |\n| Yaumati | Three dirt boats sunk off Police Station. |\n|  | Two wooden wharves damaged. |\n|  | Two fishing junks sunk near head of Bay. |\n| Sanshulpo | One small steam-launch sunk. |\n| Chung Sha Wan | One night soil boat sunk; One junk damaged. |\n| Laichce Kok | One sampan broken up on beach. |\n| Stonecutter's Island | Two junks cast high and dry on beach in North Bay. |\n| Green Island | Two junks stranded. |\n| Tsimshatsui | One cargo boat, two sampans damaged and water logged at Police Pier. |\n| Wanchai | All yachts and one steam launch on their beam ends on Ah Ying's Slipway; probably damaged more or less. |\n| Quarry Bay | One launch sunk. |\n| Cape Callinson | One sampan lost; Five men rescued (One injured); one life lost. |\n| Kap Shui mun | One junk sunk. |\n| Pillar Point | One junk sunk. |\n\nNo reports yet received from Kirs and Deep Bays.\n\nHongkong, 21st October, 1909.",
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        "content_text": "289 \n\n2 \n\n\"Manchurian flour has appeared on the market here as well as anywhere else in Manchuria, and that very much so. The Japanese mill in Tiehling are selling, here in Dalny, at 10 sen cheaper than the Americans, and their stuff is much liked by the Chinese. Shan Cheong and other dealers in American flour are complaining that through this new competition they are having a very hard time of it. The Russians in Charbin are nowhere although they could beat the Japanese hands down, if they only had a somewhat decent organization and were a little bit livelier.\" \n\nI venture to hope that this précis may be of some little use, if only for purposes of comparison with our own Reports.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n**HAROLD G. PARLETT** \n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1 \n\n## Report on North Manchuria \n\n### General Remarks \n\nNORTH Manchuria, which comprises the Viceroyalties of Kilin and the Amur, has an area of well over 300,000 square miles. Four-fifths of this are occupied by mountains, forests, lakes, deserts, and townships, the remaining fifth is certainly suitable for agricultural purposes. Of this fifth about 19,000 square miles are actually under cultivation.\n\nThe population of the territory is probably about 7,700,000 (Kikin, 5,200,000; the Amur, 2,500,000). Originally the Manchurians proper congregated mostly in the Kikin Viceroyalty and Mongolians in the Amur; but of recent years there has been a tremendous influx of Chinese, owing to the development of the country consequent on Russian undertakings. The result is that the Manchurian is gradually disappearing.\n\n### Industries \n\nAgriculture is the industry of North Manchuria, all others are subordinate to and dependent on it. The average production is about 23-24 bushels per acre and the total for the whole country something in the vicinity of 177,000,000 bushels.* The richest districts are the Sungari Valley and the neighbourhood of Changchun and Kilin. Development in these regions has been very rapid of late years owing to Russian expansion and to the war. The former, represented by the railway, attracted vast numbers of Chinese settlers, while the needs of the Russian troops created markets; the war itself increased these numbers by fugitives from the south.\n\nThe chief exports are naturally agricultural products; imports are represented mainly by cotton cloth, cotton yarns, and raw cotton.\n\nAgricultural products are wheat, flour, beans, and bean-cake, with cereals generally. Flour, which is produced by the Russians along the railway line, is at present used mostly by the settlers and the troops, though a very fair quantity has found its way into the Amur Province. Japan's import of bean-cake, which once travelled by way of Newchwang, now goes through Vladivostock. Imports of cotton goods, &c., come mostly via Newchwang, and there are signs that Japan is driving her American and other foreign competitors out of this trade.\n\nIn addition to cotton goods there is quite a demand for the cheaper forms of Japanese earthenware and for matches. The fancy and miscellaneous goods trade is mainly in the hands of the Germans; Russian goods are only seen along the railway and in the Russian settlements.\n\nAmong mechanical industries the only ones worthy of notice are flour-mills, distilleries, breweries, and bean-cake mills. There are about twenty flour-mills, almost all Russian owned and in the neighbourhood of Kharbin. Their total maximum output for twenty-four hours is estimated at 73,000 pouds. The flour itself is of good quality.\n\nBreweries and distilleries, Russian as distinct from Chinese, are small in size compared with the flour-mills, the demand for spirits being mostly in the neighbourhood of the railway settlements.\n\nExperiments have been made in the cultivation of the sugar-beet with such excellent results that there is talk of establishing a large beetroot sugar factory.\n\nAmong native industries bean-oil mills and distilleries are the chief. The sale of spirits is by law limited to the area within the palisade of the three eastern provinces, but such is the demand among the Chinese that there is no town or village of any pretensions without a distillery. Bean-oil mills are run by individual enterprise, the oil itself being either used for local needs or exported to the south. Native grain-mills, generally managed in connection with some other farming enterprise, have suffered a good deal from the establishment of the Russian flour-mills, and now no longer do more than supply a purely local demand.\n\n### Communications \n\nCommunications are naturally mostly by river or road. The Sungari River, with its tributaries, is the chief waterway; but as its course is very winding, in many places obstructed by shallows and sandbanks, and as the stream itself varies in volume, being at times in some places only 2 feet deep, it is obvious that many improvements will have to be made if full advantage is to be taken of the river.\n\nBy the Aigun Treaty of 1858 China and Russia alone were allowed the right of navigation on the Sungari. The result was the placing by the Russians of steamers on the river. For a time these did quite a good business in the transport of building material, provisions, &c.; but the war, and the subsequent unwillingness of Russian merchants to have anything more to do with this part of Manchuria, has resulted in the decay of the water-borne trade. Of this the Chinese have been quick to take advantage. Not only have they numbers of junks on the river, but many of the steamers also are in their hands; and, not satisfied with the navigation of the Sungari alone, they have pushed on to that of the Amur. It is believed that on the Sungari and its tributaries there must be a fleet of 600 or 700 Chinese junks.* Nevertheless, it is unlikely that the junk trade will increase very much; the winding nature of the river and its actual unsuitability for junk traffic cause too many delays in the transport of goods ever to make junks successful.\n\nThe most important channel of communication by road is of course the Chinese Eastern Railway. It is no exaggeration to say that to it alone is due the recent rapid development of Manchuria. There is, in fact, not a single branch of industry which has not been favourably affected by its existence.\n\nNext to the railroad as a means of communication comes the Manchurian country cart. It is of universal use, and, if Russian figures are credible, there must be about 53,000 of these vehicles in the country.\n\nThe chief high roads are from--\n| Route | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Sanchan, via Paivangmu, Pinchangting, to Harbin. |\n| 2 | Pinchangting, via A-shih-ho, Shuangchengpu, Nangngancheng, Changchun, Mukden, &c., to Newchwang. |\n| 3 | Petanlintzu, viâ Hulan, to Harbin. |\n| 4 | Hulan, viâ Tsitsihar, to Aigun. |\n| 5 | A-shih-ho or Shuangchengpu, viâ Lalin, to Kilin. |\n| 6 | Kilin, via Omoso, to Gunchun. |\n| 7 | Kilin, via Ninguta, to Poltauka. |\n| 8 | Kilin to Petune. |\n| 9 | Kilin to Mukden. |\n| 10 | Tsitsihar, viâ Petune, to Changchun. |\n\nFor the transport of foreign goods Nos. 1, 2, 3, 9, and 10 are most important; the others are local trade routes. All alike are virtually impassable during the summer rains and when the thaw sets in in spring, but good in autumn and winter.\n\nThe only industry in Manchuria which is in any sense of the word developed is agriculture. All others are in their infancy and await improvement. Particularly is this the case with mining, which, unless a few gold mines be taken into account, virtually does not exist. But when things are on a satisfactory footing we may expect to see a complete revolution in the Far-Eastern economic world.\n\n* There is some discrepancy here. If the yield be 23 bushels per acre the total for 19,000 square miles should be about 290,000,000 bushels.\n\n* From Russian statistics. Mr. Kawakami's own estimate on p. 16 is very different.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN\n\nbeing devoted for the present to the regulation and improvement of the lower river only.\n\nM. de Rijke is, of course, correct in saying that it was not by him that the estimate in the Conservancy Agreement of the probable cost of the scheme was arrived at, but he is nevertheless responsible to some extent for the miscalculation that has been made. In the Report on the subject which he made to the Shanghae General Chamber in 1898, he estimated the cost of improving the lower approaches only of the river at 8,000,000 taels, and it was on his figures that the Chamber based its estimate of the annual revenue that would have to be raised to carry out the scheme. As we see now from the statement of the Conservancy Board's finances, the cost will in all probability be very nearly double M. de Rijke's original estimate, so that the balance left for other improvements will not carry the Board very far. At the same time it is only fair to M. de Rijke to state that, since his estimate was made, the conditions in the lower river have changed very considerably for the worse, and that he has always maintained that it was impossible for an honest man to give an estimate of the cost of carrying through the whole of the scheme from the Kiangnan Arsenal to the mouth of the Whangpoo.\n\nThe fact, however, remains that the question of raising further revenue to enable the scheme as stipulated in the Conservancy Agreement to be carried to a satisfactory conclusion must before long engage the attention of the Chinese Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)  \n**PELHAM L. WARREN**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n### M. von Buri to M. Siffert\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nShanghae, December 15, 1908.\n\n**REGARDING** the conservancy of the Whangpoo, you will oblige me by circulating the following Memorandum, so that the matter may be discussed at the next Consular meeting.\n\nAccording to previous Quarterly Reports of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board (cf. Reports of the 9th November, 1906; the 26th January, 1907), the expenses for carrying through M. de Rijke's scheme are higher than at first estimated.\n\nMoreover, the Dutch Acting Consul-General has mentioned in his Memorandum of the 23rd July, 1907, that it seems quite certain that a few more millions will have to be invested in improvement works before the river will be in good condition. This two-fold additional expenditure, anticipated by the Quarterly Reports and by the Dutch Consul respectively, is liable to be still further increased by unforeseen expenses.\n\nIn the last Report of 1907 it was stated that the first cutting through the Junk Channel will be about 500 feet wide and 15 feet deep at low water, and that it \"may be through by next March\" (1908). As may be seen by the last Quarterly Report, there has so far not been much progress made in dredging this cutting, for a depth of 12 feet throughout the Junk Channel has not yet been achieved.\n\nAccording to the last two Reports, this is due to constant resilting, and much work still has to be done over again.\n\nThe repeated dredging of the same masses of soil in Junk Channel from March last until a further date, to-day not yet known, means therefore repeated unforeseen increase of cost.\n\nIf under these circumstances it should happen that some day before the completion of the works the sum of 9,200,000 taels set aside by the Chinese Government (under the Whangpoo Conservancy Convention of the 27th September, 1905) for the purposes of the conservancy of the river should be used up, the conservancy works would come to a standstill.\n\nIf this should occur at a moment when the operations have brought the river into a critical state, from the point of view of navigation, there might be fatal consequences to the shipping of Shanghae.\n\nTo prevent the works being stopped at, perhaps, such a critical moment, and on the other hand, to secure the completion of the improvement of the whole course of the Whangpoo from the Kiangnan Arsenal to the mouth, it becomes imperative to deal now with the financial part of the scheme.\n\nI am therefore of the opinion that the Consular Body should ask the Conservancy Board\n\n1. To show by a full statement of accounts the total amount of money spent up to the end of the current year, in order that it may be clearly seen how much is still available for the conservancy scheme.\n2. If the 9,200,000 taels stipulated under the Whangpoo Conservancy Agreement of the 27th September, 1905, are sufficient for carrying through the whole conservancy scheme from the Kiangnan Arsenal to the mouth of the Whangpoo.\n3. If not, on what further funds the practicability of the scheme is based or how else revenue and expenditure are to be adjusted.\n4. To furnish the Consular Body, for their information, with copies of M. de Rijke's scheme of the Whangpoo conservancy from the Kiangnan Arsenal down to the mouth of the river with a detailed estimate based on the latest experiences.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **P. VON BURI**,  \nConsul-General for Germany.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n### Mr. Hobson to M. Siffert\n\nSir,\n\nWhangpoo Conservancy Board, Shanghae,  \nFebruary 4, 1909.\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 26th January asking, on behalf of the Consular Body, for details of the state of Conservancy funds at the end of 1908, also for details of M. de Rijke's scheme of Whangpoo conservancy, I now send you inclosed copy of a Memorandum prepared by the Board's Secretary with regard to the state of the funds and copy of a letter from M. de Rijke in reply to the other questions.\n\nThe letter of the 5th March, 1908, referred to in M. de Rijke's reply, simply alludes to the mud-bank in front of the Chinese city bund; that of 6th June covered a Report sent to the Consular Body on the 18th June, 1908, on the subject of bunding.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **I. E. HOBSON**,  \nDirector of the Conservancy Board.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n### Mr. Carruthers to Mr. Hobson\n\nShanghae, February 2, 1909.\n\nThe state of Conservancy finances at the end of the year 1908 was as follows:-\n\n| Item | Amount (Shanghae taels) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Annual revenue of 480,000 Haikwan taels for twenty years | 9,600,000.00 |\n| Expended up to December 31, 1908 | 2,911,665.70 |\n| Due, interest on loan of 4.4 million taels | 340,034.74 |\n| Due, unpaid balance of dredging contract | 1,375,000.00 |\n| Due, unpaid balance of Fort Jetty contract | 1,182,030.48 |\n| **Total** | **8,808,730.92** |\n| Balance | 1,440,069.08 |\n\nThus at the end of 1908, reckoning all sums for which we are pledged as paid (i.e., Fort Jetty and dredging contracts, interest on and principal of 4.4 million loan), we have 1,440,069.08 Shanghae taels left, available for payments of salaries, training works, under our own Administration, and all other expenses, which in 1908 amounted to 690,788.25 Shanghae taels, or roughly, funds for two years. To our assets must be added the interest account kept by the Taotai in native banks, of which I only know that, in July 1907, Jui Taotai wrote it amounted to 116,854.90.",
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        "content_text": "# 523 \n**C.O.** \n20471 \n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** \nR.19 JUN 09 \n\n## CHINA TRADE. \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n[20114] \n\n### No. 1. \n[May 29.] \n\n#### SECTION 1. \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received May 29.) \n\n**(No. 148.)** Sir, \n\nPeking, April 9, 1909. WITH reference to my despatch No. 583 of the 31st December last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Mukden reporting that Mr. Hughes, the British civil engineer in the employment of the Manchurian Government, has recommended the construction of a weir at the entrance of the Shwang-tai-tze Canal on the Liao River, and that work will be begun as soon as possible. \n\nThe maintenance of the Liao River in a proper condition of navigability is, as you are aware, a matter of the highest importance to the port of Newchwang, to the commerce of Manchuria, and to British interests. Newchwang is the natural outlet for Manchurian produce, and unless steps are taken to improve the watercourse of the Liao, which has been allowed to fall into a condition quite unsuitable for the large junk traffic, it is probable that such traffic will cease in the near future and produce will be diverted to Dalny—a contingency which it is highly desirable to guard against, both in the interests of British enterprise, which has much at stake in Newchwang, and of Manchurian commerce, which can ill-afford to lose so valuable and cheap a mode of transport. \n\nMr. Hughes, in his survey of the Liao, found that the situation was more serious than had been anticipated. In his opinion the whole course of the river requires treatment, but in any case there are a few places at which it is urgent that something should be done, and of these the point of junction of the Liao and Shwang-tai-tze Rivers claims immediate attention. The two rivers were joined some eighteen years ago by a small cutting, and the Shwang-tai-tze has now grown to be a bigger river than the Liao itself. As this process of absorption is still going on, there is every reason to fear that the Liao in a short time will change its course to the bed of the Shwang-tai-tze, and Newchwang would then be quite cut off from inland navigation. \n\nAccording to Mr. Hughes, the best remedy for this state of affairs would be to close the Shwang-tai-tze branch altogether; but its waters are necessary for the irrigation of the adjoining district, and he has therefore recommended the above-mentioned plan of building a weir which will contain the waters of the Liao until that river has sufficient for its own use. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**J. N. JORDAN.** \n\n### (No. 11.) Sir, \n#### Inclosure in No. 1. \nConsul-General Fulford to Sir J. Jordan. \n\nMukden, March 29, 1909. I HAVE the honour to inform you that Mr. W. R. Hughes, the British civil engineer alluded to by you in your despatch No. 41 of the 29th December last, has recently recommended the Manchurian Government to construct a weir at the entrance to the Shwang-tai-tze Canal in the Liao River. \n\nMr. Hughes more than supports the previously existing opinion of the disastrous effects to the Liao River caused by the diversion of a large proportion of the river water to this channel. He goes so far as to say that the lower Liao will probably be unnavigable by junks this year unless remedial measures be taken. A large shoal has apparently formed just below the canal entrance. He is of opinion that closing the canal altogether would be better and cheaper than constructing a weir, but in deference to local prejudices has put forward his present proposal. \n\nThe weir designed will prevent any water flowing down the canal till the Liao has sufficient for navigation requirements. The cost estimated is 54,531 dollars. \n[2274 -1]",
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        "content_text": "## \nand in addition two Priestman dredgers, costing about 9,000 dollars each, will be necessary for clearing away the shoal before mentioned.\n\nMr. Hughes informed me on the 27th instant that the Viceroy had authorised the Taotai of Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture to proceed with the construction of the weir, and that he intends to make immediate preparations to commence the work as soon as the relaxation of the frost permits. I telegraphed to you to this effect on the 27th instant.\n\nIn this connection I may mention that Mr. Hughes has submitted another scheme to the Manchurian Government with reference to the conservancy of the Liao River further inland. In view of the large number of shoals requiring attention in the Liao (in his report he has specified 162 places) between Tung-chung-tze and Newchwang, and the enormous task involved in keeping this length of river in order, he suggests an alternative: this is to cut a straight canal from Tung-chung-tze to Newchwang, or some place on the Liao or Hun Rivers which may be found most suitable. This canal would be fed by the Liao River, leaving flood or surplus water to run along the old channel, and would serve as a junk waterway. The distance from Tung-chung-tze to Newchwang by this canal would be about 150 miles. The estimated cost would be 1,763,470 dollars.\n\nThis scheme has been deferred for future consideration by the Viceroy on account of the financial stringency in Manchuria.\n\nI have, &c.\n**(Signed)**\nH. E. FULFORD\n\n| Office or Individual | Foreign |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 1909 |\n|  | 16 June |\n\nLast Previous Paper: `77912`\n\nPage 526\n\n| Category | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| DOMESTIC | `204:12` |\n| C.O. | `20472` |\n| REGD | `2210 JUN 00` |\n\nChina Trade ... Cumoris ... B Stubbs ... \n| File/Reference | Annotation |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1750--4. & F. W.—20062/27-- 25000--11-08 |  |\n| Sun Hword | AB 2276 |\n|  | 526.4. 6. |\n|  | 23.6. |\n| TMs to | 23.6 |",
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        "content_text": "## M. Müller, who proposed an amendment, copy of which is to be found in the minutes of the 30th April, enclosed in this despatch.\n\nAt a general meeting of the whole consular body held on the 11th May, the German acting consul-general's minority report was adopted, instead of the majority report of the committee, by eight votes to three, four members being neutral. M. Ratard, the French consul-general, was unable to be present; otherwise, he would have voted for the committee's resolution.\n\nAt the time, I strongly opposed the adoption of M. Müller's amendment and pointed out that I considered that the consular body were over-stepping their authority by trying to dictate to the engineer in the way proposed by the amendment. Article 11 of the Whangpoo Conservancy Convention of the 27th September, 1905, only gives the consular body a right to protest to the Conservancy Board if the works are not executed with diligence, care, and economy. It certainly could not be interpreted as allowing the consular body to bring in a scheme totally opposed to the engineer's report.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**PELHAM L. WARREN**\n\n## WHANGPOO CONSERVANCY SCHEME AND ESTIMATES\n\n### Minutes of Meeting held April 30, 1909, at 15 o'clock at the Senior Consulate, by the Committee instituted under Item 6 at the Sixth Consular Meeting.\n\nAll members of the committee are present:\n\n| Member | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Pelham Warren | Consul-general for Great Britain |\n| M. Ratard | Consul for France |\n| M. de Zeppelin-Obermüller | Consul-general for the Netherlands |\n| M. M. Müller | Acting consul-general for Germany |\n| M. D. Siffert | Consul-general for Belgium and senior consul |\n\nM. J. de Rijke, engineer-in-chief to the Wangpoo Conservancy Board, is also present.\n\nIn answer to a question put to him, M. de Rijke states:\n- That the contractors will have finished the present contract of dredging in the junk channel at about the end of July or middle of August of this year.\n- That the amount of supplementary dredging in the junk channel will be of 1,200,000 cubic yards, so as to get a channel 18 feet deep, 600 feet wide on the whole length, for final opening.\n- That the approximate time required for this supplementary dredging will be about one month.\n- That if taken into account, the 500,000 or 250,000 cubic yards to be eventually dredged gratis by the East Asiatic Dredging Company might be deducted from the above 1,200,000 cubic yards, but that it will do no harm to have a reserve of dredging.\n- That he considers necessary and advantageous for the Whangpoo Conservancy, and in consequence for the public benefit, to have this dredging done with the least possible delay.\n- That he thinks that a reduction of 10 per cent on the present contract cost of dredging will be obtained from the East Asiatic Dredging Company for the supplementary dredging in question.\n- That for this supplementary dredging, he could:\n  (a) Ask for tenders in eight days,\n  (b) Get tenders by the end of June from contractors having a plant in the East.\n  (c) That he does not consider either possible or probable that tenders would be received from contractors further away, from Europe, for instance.\n  (d) That a new contractor could only commence work in the middle of September and finish it by the middle of October.\n- That harm would result to the river improvement from any delay in this supplementary dredging, as he wants dredging matter for dumping on his mattresses for solidification in the ship channel.\n\nM. de Rijke then receives the thanks of the committee and withdraws.\n\nThe committee therefore considers the motion submitted to the last consular meeting by MM. de Zeppelin and Siffert, which, after some discussion, is adopted by 4 votes against 1 (M. M. Müller), in the following modified form:\n\n\"To write to the Conservancy Board that, in the consular body's opinion, the dredging of the 1,200,000 cubic yards should be done without interruption between the present dredging work and this proposed extra dredging by the present contractors at a cheaper cost per unit to be agreed upon by said contractors, and the Whangpoo Conservancy Board to write to the diplomatic body in Peking, suggesting that the other works proposed by M. de Rijke in his last report of scheme and estimates should be proceeded with, and that the Chinese Government be approached to devise means and ways to raise the necessary funds for said works.\"\n\nIt is understood that this resolution shall be presented to the consular body, M. Müller being at liberty to present the following motion (see No. `285 VI`), which the committee did not see its way to adopt.\n\nThe committee then takes cognizance of the letter (No. `277`) from the Whangpoo Conservancy Board in reply to their inquiry as to the publication of No. `251`, and decides to conform to its contents in sending the report of M. de Rijke to the Chamber of Commerce, under the express understanding that it will not be published, in order to abide by the wish expressed to them in writing by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.\n\nThe meeting adjourns at 17 o'clock.\n\n**D. SIFFERT**\nSenior Consul and Chairman of the Committee\n\n## (285 VI.) Motion presented by M. Müller\n\nTHAT it be decided:\n- (a) To write to the diplomatic body in Peking suggesting that the Chinese Government be approached to devise means and ways to raise the funds necessary for the completion of the Whangoo Conservancy.\n- (b) To write to the Conservancy Board that, in our opinion, in accordance with article 3 of the Peking Agreement of 1905, public tenders would have to be invited for the undertaking of any dredging work which will still be left to be done after the expiration of the dredging contract with the East Asiatic Dredging Company, the present contractors, or, if account is taken of the 200,000 cubic yards to be dredged free by the East Asiatic Dredging Company, as proposed by the consular body, after the expiration of the said contract and free extra dredging of these 250,000 cubic yards.\n- (c) To write to the Conservancy Board that, in our opinion, in the case of tenders being invited for the dredging of 1,200,000 cubic yards, which, according to M. de Rijke's report, would have still to be dredged to make the junk channel fit for a final opening, all dumping of dredging matter into the shipping channel should be abstained from as long as the means and ways to raising the necessary funds for the further Whangpoo Conservancy works will not have been secured, in order to avoid all risk of interfering with the present fairway without having at the same time the means at hand for a permanent opening of the junk channel.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nChina Association, Shanghae Branch, to Sir P. Warren.\n\nShanghae, May 22, 1909.\n\nThe committee of this association learns from the minutes of the Chamber of Commerce, published on the 27th April last, that it has been decided to approach the Institution of Civil Engineers in London with regard to the selection and appointment of an engineer to proceed to Shanghae and investigate the present condition of the river approaches thereto, and the likelihood of the conservancy scheme, which is now being carried out under M. de Rijke's supervision, being brought to a successful conclusion.\n\nMy committee feels sure that the Chamber of Commerce, in coming to the above decision, had no intention of delaying M. de Rijke in his work of carrying out such scheme, its only desire being to devise some means wherewith to reassure those, to whom the recent agitation raised in connection with M. de Rijke's work might possibly have appealed, that no anxiety need be felt as regards the ultimate success of such work.\n\nMy committee, recognising that such was the object of the Chamber of Commerce, and that the decision come to by it was a fit and proper one under the circumstances, at the same time desire to place on record their very high appreciation of the work and results already achieved by M. de Rijke, and their confident expectation that he will bring such work to a successful conclusion. Bearing in mind that M. de Rijke's scheme was not accepted until it had been very carefully considered and approved, my committee is confident of its soundness, and being assured by those responsible for carrying it out that the work is being well done, have no reason to doubt that it is so, and that M. de Rijke will successfully carry it through if he is not interfered with.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. A. C. PLATT, Chairman.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nM. Rutard to M. Siffert.\n\nM. le Doyen et cher Collègue,\n\nShanghai, le 15 mai, 1909.\n\nJ'ai sous les yeux votre projet de lettre au Conservancy Board concernant \"the dumping of dredging matter in the ship channel.\"\n\nLa décision du corps consulaire de demander au Conservancy Board d'interdire à son ingénieur de continuer son travail de fermeture du \"ship channel\" me paraît outrepasser d'une façon très grave les pouvoirs qui nous sont conférés par convention de 1905; d'un autre côté, les conséquences de l'arrêt des travaux imposé par une assemblée de gens qui, comme nous, sont absolument dénués de toutes les connaissances et études techniques et de toutes les qualifications nécessaires pour pouvoir prendre une telle décision en parfaite et pleine connaissance de cause, me paraissent constituer un grand danger pour l'avenir maritime du port de Shanghai.\n\nGuidé par ces considérations, j'ai l'honneur de vous prier de bien vouloir soumettre, en mon nom, à mes collègues à notre plus prochaine séance la proposition suivante :\n\n\"Que la Chambre générale de Commerce, représentant plus particulièrement les intérêts économiques généraux du port de Shanghai, soit consultée pour émettre son opinion touchant la décision ci-dessus prise par le corps consulaire, et que son avis soit joint à notre délibération pour être soumis, le tout ensemble, au Conservancy Board et à l'appréciation du corps diplomatique à Pékin.”\n\nLa responsabilité du corps consulaire est trop gravement engagée dans cette affaire pour que nous puissions refuser de nous entourer de toutes les opinions ayant un intérêt majeur à se faire entendre dans une question aussi importante pour le monde commercial de Shanghaï.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nM. Müller to M. Siffert.\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nShanghae, May 16, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to refer to the first part (a.) of the resolution concerning the Whangpoo Conservancy Scheme and Estimates, adopted in the consular body's last meeting, being worded as follows:-\n\n\"To write to the diplomatic body in Peking suggesting that the Chinese Government be approached to devise means and ways to raise the funds necessary for the completion of the Whangpoo Conservancy.\"\n\nThe wording being such, firmly established and adopted, I beg to draw your attention to the fact that the letter to the doyen of the diplomatic body, draft of which you kindly circulated for the approval of your colleagues, will need a slight alteration, before being dispatched to its address, to be made as closely as possible conform to the above resolution. Instead of the words-\n\n\"pour se procurer les ressources requises pour l'exécution de tous travaux prévus actuellement dans le dit rapport ou qui seraient ultérieurement reconnus nécessaires à l'amélioration définitive du cours du fleuve,\"\n\nthe following words would have to be inserted, which, I might rightly suggest, reproduce exactly part (a.) of the resolution-\n\n\"pour se procurer les ressources requises pour accomplir tous travaux nécessaires à l'amélioration définitive du cours du fleuve,\"\n\nTrusting that you will find the suggestion only in accordance with a principle quite usually adhered to, I beg to thank you in anticipation for your kindly causing this necessary alteration to be made in the wording of the letter in order to avoid an inaccuracy which certainly has escaped your notice.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nM. MÜLLER.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nM. Müller to M. Siffert.\n\nSir and dear Colleague,\n\nShanghae, May 18, 1909.\n\nWith reference to our colleague M. Ratard's motion, circulated by you under 328 VI, dated the 15th instant, I have the honour to put the following on record :----\n\nThe consular body's decision concerning the dumping of dredging matter in the ship-channel is based upon the fact :—\n\n(a.) That after the moment, which is now quite imminent, when the funds put aside for the Whangpoo Conservancy work will be exhausted, there is no guarantee, and no certainty at all, that the further funds for the continuation and completion of the work will be at disposal, or, at least, if such funds should be forthcoming, that this will not be the case but after a long delay;\n\n(b.) That if and as long as the necessary funds will not be secured, a permanent opening of the junk-channel is impossible, as is clearly evidenced from the engineer-in-chief's statements in his own reports and also from the additional statement enclosed herewith, because in this eventuality there will be no funds ready, neither for further...",
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        "content_text": "## 4\n\nDredging in the junk-channel nor for further raising of the upper part of the ship-channel, the work, according to M. de Rijke's reports, of foremost importance for a permanent keeping open even of a finally opened junk-channel, at the same time a work causing naturally especially heavy expenses: that in the case of lacking funds the result must therefore be that the junk-channel, even finally opened, is bound to a gradual and probably rather fast resilting, i.e., to soon becoming again closed and useless for navigation;\n\n(c.) That in this case it is naturally indispensable that, may this fact be considered desirable or not desirable, the ship-channel has to remain the fairway; that therefore, as long as the necessary funds for a permanent opening of the junk-channel are not at disposal, it must appear at least useless and undesirable to form in the upper part of ship-channel a kind of new bar of a very firm and unremovable nature, even if at the time of exhaustion of funds the bottom of the upper part ship-channel might be left still about 20 feet deep at low water spring tide (conservancy l.w.)\n\n(d.) That this raising of the upper part of the ship-channel, which is, naturally, and according to M. de Rijke's reports, intended to serve the purpose to diminish the increase of volume of water running through the ship-channel in favour of the water volume running through the junk-channel must, the more it fulfils this purpose the more favour a gradual silting of the ship-channel's bottom, and first of all a rising of that part of the ship-channel which lends itself best to this settling, viz., the inner bar at the lower end of the ship-channel, a result not only undesirable, but fatal for the traffic, because in consequence of the diminution of the strength of water in the ship-channel, although this may be a diminution, which, in case of the junk-channel, owing to the lack of funds, resilting may later on prove only to be matters are bound to settle on temporarily an increasing amount of sinking on the inner bar, the more so as by and during the dumping of the dredging matter, as intended by M. de Rijke, into the upper part of the ship-channel a great amount of sinking matter in excess of the amount which is normally carried by the river through the ship-channel will be introduced into this channel.\n\n(e.) According to the above considerations, after the now very near moment of the funds being exhausted, and as long as the necessary further funds are not secured beyond doubt, in case of raising the upper part of the ship-channel, although only to about 20 feet low water, the following serious result is to be apprehended :-\n\n(A.) Resilting and unnavigability of the junk-channel;\n\n(B.) Formation of a kind of new bar at the upper end ship-channel, and deterioration of the inner bar at the lower end of the ship-channel, i.e., the risk of a seclusion of the port from the access to sea, or at least certainly not an amelioration, but probably a considerable deterioration of the traffic condition on the river, compared with the present state of things.\n\nAll these foregoing considerations are based exclusively on the until now undisputable fact of it being quite uncertain whether and when the funds further necessary for the conservancy work will be put at disposal, and, as far as any technical points are touched, on a perusal of the information contained in, and derived from the engineer-in-chief's own reports and statements, and they are not based, apart from that, on any technical knowledge which the majority of the consular body would pretend to possess by their own.\n\nIf in accordance with the consular body's decision the dumping of dredging matter into the ship-channel is abstained from as long as the means and ways to raising the necessary funds for the further Whangpoo conservancy works will not have been secured, the result might be that the stream is not diverted in an increasing degree to the junk-channel, that the resilting in the junk-channel might start earlier and advance more rapidly, and that in case of the necessary and now lacking funds being put at disposal at any uncertain future time, some amount of labour might or probably would have then to be done or redone, which, if the funds were now available, could be performed at once, or would even—a portion of them—prove unnecessary, with also probably saving some costs; but all this remains mere theory as long as the funds are not secured, and the disadvantages and even enhanced costs just mentioned, regrettable as they may be, cannot be avoided, and must appear in proportion insignificant compared with the serious risks and very grave responsibilities, also of a financial kind, connecting with the raising of the ship-channel without the further funds being secured.\n\n## 5\n\nThe above considerations, on which the decision of the consular body's majority is based, as far as the material side of the question is concerned, may be opened to a revision if and when the further necessary funds be secured.\n\nAs to the formal side of the question, it is to be pointed out that a due and careful regard of the above described risks and responsibilities forms merely a natural and essential part of the diligence to be used in the performance of the Whangpoo conservancy works as a whole, that any setting aside of this due regard and of diligence at this state of things cannot be retroactively remedied, but that the remedy in this case can only be prophylactic, and that therefore the majority of the consular body will certainly regard their decision as thoroughly within the competence conferred on the consular body by Article 11, sentence 50, of the Peking Convention of September 1905.\n\nIt is not doubtful to me that the majority of the consular body regard themselves entitled to assume that the decision, which was in a thoroughly correct way adopted in the last consular meeting (resolution under \"c\") may be now communicated to the Conservancy Board without any delay not foreseen by the decision. On the other side, I suppose it goes without saying that in the next consular meeting the question may be discussed and decided upon whether the Shanghae General Chamber of Commerce would have to be officially informed of the consular body's resolution and of the communication made accordingly to the Conservancy Board, as also of the reasons underlying this resolution, and whether eventually the Chamber of Commerce would have to be asked for their opinion; and also whether the resolution with its reasons, and eventually the opinions expressed by the Shanghae General Chamber of Commerce, might be communicated to the diplomatic body in Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nM. MÜLLER,\nActing Consul-General for Germany.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**Statement of M. de Rijke**\n\nThe depth of water to be found in the junk-channel at the day of final opening must be 18 feet at low water over a width at least 600 feet, in some places 900 feet, as stated in my report dated the 9th April, 1909.\n\nWithout further restraining and stopping the stream of the ship-channel I do not believe that the new fairway along the junk-channel, to a depth and width as stated above, could be fully maintained without more or less continual dredging. Therefore from that time, i.e., the day of final opening, all the seven damworks in the upper part of ship-channel must be raised gradually higher to about the level of low water, which is essential for shoaling up ship-channel.\n\nShanghae, May 1, 1909.\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\n**Doyen of the Diplomatic Body to M. de Carcer**\n\nJOR DE RIJKE.\n\nExcellence,\n\nShanghai, le 19 mai, 1909.\n\nJ'AI l'honneur de vous confirmer ma lettre du 27 avril, vous communiquant copie d'un rapport où M. J. de Rijke, ingénieur en chef du Whangpoo Conservancy Board, indique les différents travaux qu'il juge encore nécessaires pour l'achèvement de l'œuvre entreprise et évalue les dépenses à prévoir de ce chef à 6,619,765 dollars; auxquels il faut ajouter le montant des appointements du personnel, frais de bureau, &c., que le secrétaire du Whangpoo Conservancy Board estime devoir s'élever à 1,470,000 dollars; soit 8,089,765 dollars.\n\nEn sa dernière réunion le corps consulaire a décidé de demander au corps diplomatique de bien vouloir presser le Gouvernement chinois de prendre telles... \n\n`C[2391 i-6]`\n\n426",
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        "content_text": "## Sea-dyke\nBase work completed to the end, as also the rows of piles driven through the base. Of the outer stone slope the greater part is finished. A ridge of stone with clay on the inside is now raised over the whole length to above high water. Of the stone thus deposited the sea-wall will be built according to the plan after the work is well settled.\n\n## Work-harbour bunding\nIn progress over the whole length.\n\n## Reclaiming around the work-harbour\nPartly with matter dredged from the harbour and partly from junk channel, the space has now been raised by pumping the matter over the bunding to an average height of 10.5 feet.\n\n## Plant in use at Woosung Fort\nBesides the plant in use at the end of December last, one big pontoon for stone transport.\n\n## Labour\nIn the contractor's service the same as in December last, only increased by twelve carpenters and foreign controllers for the stone dumping:\n\n### Day wages (native)\n- January, 7,936\n- February, 7,168\n- March, 8,835\n\n### Materials used in the work this quarter\n| Workable days | 19 | 204 | 22 |\n\n## Quantities Deposited\nThese quantities are deposited as follows:\n| Category | (1) | (2) | (3) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Pumped on shore | 532,339.85 |  |  | 532,339.85 |\n| Dumped in mass | 322,438.25 | 1,522,450.27 |  | 1,844,888.52 |\n| Total |  |  |  | 3,653,163.94 | 5,498,052.46 |\n\n## Matter Pumped on Shore\nMatter pumped on shore in places as follows:\n| Location | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| At Kajow | 118,664.11 |\n| Upper Gough | - |\n| Woosung Fort, reclaiming | 151,801.03 |\n| Lower Gough | 263,874.71 |\n| Total | 532,339.85 |\n\n## Materials Used\n| Material | Quantity | Unit |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Brushwood | 73,059 | lb. |\n| Stakes | 1,137 |  |\n| Laths | 1,208 |  |\n| Ballast stone | 58,000 | lb. of 10 |\n| Piles, 40 to 50 feet long | 890 |  |\n| ... | 890 | ... |\n\n## Dredging\nThe above by dredging was done by:\n| Dredger | (1) | (2) | (3) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| \"Cyclops\" | 299,313.83 | 2,305,422.30 |  | 2,604,736.13 |\n| \"Canton\" | 238,026.02 | 815,401.79 |  | 1,053,427.81 |\n| Total | 532,339.85 | 3,120,824.09 |  | 3,653,163.94 |\n\n## Dredging Work\nContract No. 2 with the E.A.D. Company continued by the:\n- \"Shanghae\" all the time in junk-channel.\n- \"Rhenenia\" all the time in junk-channel.\n- \"Colonia\" from the 11th January to the 14th February in the work-harbour at Woosung Fort and for the remainder of the quarter also in junk-channel.\n\nBy the suction dredger, \"Canton,\" matter dredged from the work-harbour and from junk-channel was pumped over the harbour bunding into the space to be reclaimed from the 13th January to the 18th March, when she was removed to Kajow to pump matter on shore there.\n\nThe total dredging in the work-harbour, as previously calculated and agreed with the contract, was 119,360 cubic yards. This total was reached on the 29th January, when (from the 11th) 41,853 cubic yards was dredged. What was done after this date to the 14th February was not measured for payment.\n\nNo doubt dredging the work-harbour, at the expense of the contractor, will have to be done again afterwards. That a part of it was filled up so soon was not caused only by natural silting but mostly by matter, yet liquid, flowing out from the reclaiming over and through the bund before this was made sufficiently solid with clay for retaining the matter.\n\nThe suction dredger pump, \"Cyclops,\" was almost all the time at work pumping up matter on shore at Lower Gough.\n\nThe quantities thus far, dredged and deposited, as measured in barges and according to the contract, are in cubic yards:\n| Location | (1) This quarter | (2) Previously | (3) Total up to the 1st April, 1909 |\n \n\n## Matter Dumped in Mass\nMatter dumped in mass by self-discharging barges in places as follows:\n| Location | (1) | (2) | (3) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Woosung Fort on zinkstuk base and behind jetty | 30,827.39 | 256,418.78 |  | 287,246.37 |\n| On sinkstuks, Lower Gough | 2,110.61 | 83,278.78 |  | 85,389.39 |\n| Upper Gough dyke end | 1,677.62 | 715.33 |  | 2,392.95 |\n| Kajow | 7,889.86 | 13,886.73 |  | 21,776.59 |\n| Mud deposit, Lower Gough |  | 500.84 |  | 500.84 |\n| Behind dam |  | 1,756.26 |  | 1,756.26 |\n| Between works' salient | 93,149.96 | 3,432.88 |  | 96,582.84 |\n| Along shore salient |  | 98,149.96 |  | 98,149.96 |\n| Between works' dyke end |  | 83,278.78 |  | 83,278.78 |\n| Above \"A\" crib, dyke end | 112,008.72 |  |  | 112,008.72 |\n| Between works, Upper Gough | 70,418.18 | 156,793.70 |  | 227,211.88 |\n| Behind par. dam, Upper Gough | 104,619.86 | 76,408.18 |  | 181,028.04 |\n| Between works, Kajow | 97,050.08 | 529,447.88 |  | 626,497.96 |\n| On zinkstuks dame, Upper Gough | 99,167.96 | 244,138.00 |  | 343,305.96 |\n|  | 10,936.25 | 22,315.18 |  | 33,251.43 |\n|  |  | 219,018.11 |  | 219,018.11 |\n| Total dumped | 1,522,450.27 | 1,844,888.52 |  | 3,367,338.79 |\n\n| Dredger | (1) | (2) | (3) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| By the \"Colonia\" | 55 | 214,031.60 |  | 214,086.60 |\n| \"Rhenenia\" | 331,209.63 | 89,0536.87 |  | 1,220,746.50 |\n| \"Shanghai\" |  |  |  | ... |\n| Total | 854,778.10 | 4,643,274.36 |  | 5,498,052.46 |\n\n## Preparative Works\nThe new mud deposit for dumping at Kajow has been completed, while the one at Upper Gough, for raising the matter enclosed to above the highest tides, may be completed before the middle of April.\n\n## Plant in Use\nAbout the same as before.\n\n## Labour\nThe same.\n\n## Workable Days\nThis quarter seventy-two.\n\nPage 9 \n[2391-6]",
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        "content_text": "# 429\n## 10\nWorks under own Administration.\n\nGabbioni Dumping.-This quarter:—\n\n* Lower Gough, in crib I e\n* Salicut, in crib D\n* Dyke end, in crib C\n* Kajow, in triple cribwork, crib C\n* Pheasant Point parallel work\n\n| Location | Pieces | Together | Previously | Total, 1st April |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Lower Gough, in crib I e | 227 |  |  |  |\n| Salicut, in crib D | 111 | 460 | 3,742 | 80,211 |\n| Dyke end, in crib C | 252 |  |  |  |\n| Kajow, in triple cribwork, crib C | 339 | 1,954 | 390 | 42,953 |\n| Pheasant Point parallel work |  |  |  |  |\n\nAgain, as during the last quarter the gabbioni work has been much interrupted by want of the stone required to fill them, the Chinese contract again and again failing in the delivery.\n\nSinkwork.--Zinkstuks sunk and placed this quarter:\n| Location | Sq. yds. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Salient, parallel work | 5,488 |\n| Dyke end, crib C | 2,650 |\n| Upper Gough, parallel dam | 18,826 |\n| Kajow, parallel work | 16,319 |\n| Upper Gough, dams across ship-channel | 18,780 |\n| Pleasant Point, parallel work | 280 |\n| Upper Gough shore protection, junk-channel side | 4,293 |\n| Total, 1st April | 66,631 | Together | 338,019 | 404,650 |\n\nLaagwork.This quarter.\n| Location | Sq. yds. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dyke end, crib C | 899 |\n| Kajow, in crib C | 182 |\n| Upper Gough shore protection | 814 |\n|  | 2,195 |\n|  | 42,680 |\n| Together | 44,875 |\n\nBallast stone used in the works this quarter (besides the stone used as ballast for sinking and for filling gabbioni). For raising higher different cribs and dam works in the Gough Island reach- together, 8,218 tons; of this quantity 3,343 tons were taken from the conservancy's own stock, thus far used as platforms on which to store brushwood in places on shore overflow at high tide, and 4,905 tons supplied by the contractor. In the interest of the works, more especially in that of the new fairway through the junk-channel, the latter quantity should have been more than ten times as much. The reason why no more stone arrived is that nearly all the stone junks available delivered in the Woosung fort jetty, sometimes 3,000 tons per day.\n\nCargo Materials---\n|  | (1) In stock the 1st January | (2) Arrived and accepted this quarter | (3) Used in this quarter | (4) In stock the 1st April, 1909 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brush wood bundles | 813,395 | 1,300,363 | 792,000 | 678,000 |\n| Stakes | 879,958 | 12,049 |  | 169,500 |\n| Reeds | 5,424 | 392,790 |  | 15,200 |\n| Bamboo baskets | 25,972 | 19,347 | 14,800 | 1,800 |\n| Ballast stone | 1,884 | 1,116 |  |  |\n| Poles of different length | 9,782 | 21,958 |  |  |\n|  |  | 24,296 |  | 247 |\n| Native rope, 2-thread, 1-in. | 27 | 41 |  |  |\n| Galvanized iron wire | 2,271 | 2,230 | 10,382 | 28,750 |\n|  | 55,500 | 29,142 | 4,990 |  |\n| Seizing wire | 1,400 |  | 43,075 | 30,240 |\n|  |  | 12,991 | 60,324 |  |\n\n## 11\nPlant in use.-As before. Workmen employed (Chinese).-Boatmen, fascine works, carpenters, watchmen, foremen and coolies:---- \nIn January, average 325 men, or 9,761 day wages. \nIn February, average 348 men, or 9,750 day wages. \nIn March, average 361 men, or 10,529 day wages.\n\nWorkable days this quarter, together sixty-two days.\n\nProgress in the works of the Gough Island reach cribwork at Kajow. This triple crib, with a depth of water in front of over 30 feet at low water, is one of the most exposed to strong currents, especially the north side, crib C, nearest to the Kajow Creek. This C crib is now raised to above low tide over its whole length to the normal line (557 feet), and its head, made entirely of strong zinkstuks, has been completed. The top of the head is 160 feet long. The other two cribs, A and B, built out with gabbioni, are also raised to about low water. The head of A raised with layers of zinkstucks to about 15 feet low water. The parallel work in the normal line between A and B raised to 15 feet low water, and between B and C to above 10 feet; all with gabbioni on a flooring of zinkstuks. Sufficiently for the present to ward off the main stream from this shore, this important work had to be left for a while incomplete because of more urgency with the dam works in the upper end of ship-channel.\n\nDamworks at Upper Gough cross the stream of the ship-channel.\n\nDam I-The two feet of zinkstuks on either side of this dam have been raised all over to an average height of 23 feet below low water.\n\nDam II-A double layer of zinkstuks has been sunk in the lower foot of this dam about 120 feet in the deepest part on the Pootung side.\n\nDam III-A single layer of zinkstuks has been sunk in either foot of this dam over about 250 feet on the Pootung side.\n\nParallel dam along the normal line.-Bottom layer of zinkstuks, 120 feet wide, extended to 2,405 feet stream upward from mark-pile No. 2, that is, from the end of the high dyke enclosing the mud deposit. Second layer, 84 feet wide, extended to 1,720 feet from mark-pile 2. The dam of zinkstuks previously raised to above low water has now been further raised with stone to 6 feet above low water to 875 feet from mark-pile 2.\n\nShore protection at Upper Gough, junk-channel side.-Both high and low water protection against the stream along this concave has been extended to 620 feet below the Upper Gough station.\n\nParallel dam, Lower Gough.-The lower end of this dam near the passage over the inner bar was being raised to above the low water level, but by want of stone little could be done, so that still too much of the stream during flood-tide flows over it into ship-channel.\n\nCribwork, left side of junk-channel.--Raising higher and levelling up the works bere and there was continued this quarter.\n\nProgress in the fairway through junk-channel.-Lower part, in cross-sections VIII to XIV, where the new channel or fairway runs along the left shore, which is slightly concave. The following is from a survey made in the beginning of this month of April-\n| Cross section | Breadth of channel in feet | Depth at low water in feet deepest |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| XIV, 229 feet | 600 | 18 |\n| XIII, 20-1 | 310 | 17 |\n| XII, 17.7 | 1,040 | 15 |\n|  | 360 | 12 |\n|  | 1,130 |  |\n|  | 1,500 |  |\n|  | 840 |  |\n|  | 1,110 |  |\n|  | 270 |  |\n|  | 1,060 |  |\n|  | 1,190 |  |\n\nIn this is not counted a depth to over 18 feet found a little outside the regular track but within the 15-feet curves.",
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        "content_text": "## Breadth of channel in feet.\n\nThe following table is made from the ship-channel survey made in November 1908, and compared with that made in March last or four months later:—\n\n| Cross section | Depth at low water in feet | Breadth of channel in feet |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| XI | 18.5 | 150, 380, 700, 1,230 |\n| X | 18.5 | 230, 370, 730, 1,050 |\n| IX | 18.1 | 130, 230, 650, 1,080 |\n| VIII | 20.0 | 500, 620, 830, 1,360 |\n\nThese figures speak for themselves; the only dredging done during the quarter in this part is a little on the edge of the shoals opposite to widen the channel just above Ó.U. base, cross-section XII; so that any increase in depth and breadth of the channel is almost entirely owing to scour.\n\n## Upper part.-Cross-sections I to VIII.\n\nThis includes the \"passage\" from concave to concave, or from the left to the right shore. It should be borne in mind that the ultimate breadth of the new channel between the normal lines—here about 2,000 feet apart—is calculated for the whole of the Whangpoo stream at low water, whilst as yet a considerable part flows the other way through ship-channel.\n\nAs explained more than once, the transfer of stream has to be done gradually so as to prevent any tide killing. Now in this upper part the stream along the \"passage,\" not guided on the one or other side, and, of course, training works between the normal lines being out of the question, naturally must be liable to shiftings, especially in a stream-bed like this. The only possible way left to force the stream in the direction desired, i.e., in that of the leading marks already placed by the harbourmaster, is dredging, and lately it was necessary to have all the three powerful dredgers at work in this part.\n\n| Cross sections | Cross section area. Sq. ft. | Greatest depth. Feet | Cross section area. Sq. ft. | Greatest depth. Feet |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| About 900 feet below Fisherman | 27,289 | 38.0 | 26,167 | 30.0 |\n| 2,800 feet lower down | 27,351 | 42.6 | 25,862 | 26.5 |\n|  |  |  | 25,170 | 38.5 |\n| 2,000 feet lower down | 25,289 | 37.5 | 24,905 | 30.0 |\n| Opposite Lower Gough |  |  | 24,312 | 37.5 |\n|  |  |  | 23,344 | ... |\n| 1,700 feet lower down | 23,686 | 29.5 | 26,277 | 25.6 |\n|  |  |  | 23,940 | 36.0 |\n|  |  |  | 24,018 | 31.0 |\n| At Taiking Creek | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Just below Lower Gough mud deposit | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| November 1909 | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| March 1909 | decrease 1,072 | ... | ... | ... |\n|  | increase 1,489 | ... | ... | ... |\n|  | 1,330 | ... | ... | ... |\n|  | decrease 977 | ... | ... | ... |\n|  | 1,561 | ... | ... | ... |\n|  | 2 | ... | ... | ... |\n\nFrom this we may conclude that, though not much, natural silting has commenced over the whole length of ship-channel, mainly by narrowing of the channel. Fisherman and up to the Kajow Creek, before an open space of water, the depth of water increased with from 2 feet to 3 feet in these four months. This has been caused by contracting the stream between the works made there. For the same reason the depth of water over the inner bar is now marked more than it used to be.\n\n## Opening junk-channel\n\nThe opening of junk-channel for most of the shipping would relieve much the sinking parties now hard at work in the upper end of ship-channel. As to depth of water no difficulties would be met with except for the deepest ocean steamers, but on account of the shiftings above-mentioned—it being found necessary to have all the dredgers at work in the upper part of junk-channel, and these with their spread of anchors just in the line of the new fairway—it is considered better to postpone such an opening yet for a while.\n\nJOHS DE RIJKE.\n\n| Cross section | Depth at low water in feet |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| VII | 19.2 | 440, 680, 1,190, 1,380 |\n| VI | 19.4 | 760, 800, 870, 1,600 |\n| V | 25.4 | 310, 500, 860, ... |\n| IV | 29.3 | 560, 530, 1,100, ... |\n| III | 27.4 | 300, 570, 1,160, ... |\n| II | 26.8 | ... | ... | ... |\n| I | 28.3 | 500, 870, 890, 1,010, 970, 1,080 |\n\nAll the cross-sections are 1,200 feet apart, the fourteen together thus a length of stream of 16,800 feet.\n\nTaking the new river over its whole width between the normal lines, I can say that also in this upper part not any silting has been found. But the latest soundings show a loss in depth here and there in the route indicated by the leading marks in the \"passage,\" as also a narrowing of the channel once formed along the concave at and above Upper Gough. This has been caused by shifting, or matter replaced during high flood tides running strongly over the flats left of the old junk-channel bank. The flats on the left side, with less than 9 feet of water at low water still extend downward to about 1,300 feet below Upper Gough section, and, I fear, will cause more or less trouble yet for some time.\n\nThe only remedy besides enforced dredging is by going on vigorously in restraining the flow along the ship-channel, and thus diverting more and more of the ebb tide into the junk-channel.\n\n## Stream along the ship-channel\n\nThe ship-channel may be taken as commencing from the upper end of Gough Island, as it was in 1907. We know about how much the stream along the junk-channel has increased already by dredging and training and, as a matter of course, the stream along the other way—the ship-channel—must have decreased. The capacity of a stream is determined by the wetted perimeter of the channel and the velocity. That the velocity has decreased in a marked degree is found in preceding reports, but from this does not follow at once a decrease in cross-section. The latter means silting, and with the very fine matter in suspension, as here the velocity must decrease considerably before any settling can be expected.\n\nShanghae, April 23, 1909.\n\n## Survey\n\nJunk-channel was sounded three times during the quarter. Lines run 300 feet to 400 feet between the normal lines. In January from storm to signal, in February from storm to half-way between salient and limit, and in March from storm to Pheasant Point; besides this eleven lines of soundings were run at salient and two lines between salient and limit. Fourteen lines were run from the shore to the normal line between Dyke End and storm, and eight lines of shore soundings were taken 300 feet apart from Dyke End Crib. Twenty-five lines of soundings were run into deep water from the two Dolphin poles at the inner bar. That part of the river between Signal and Joss House Jetty was sounded. Lines 300 feet to 400 feet apart, and sweeps (fifteen lines) taken at Princes and Fort Jetty station. Twenty lines, 80 feet apart, were run around Woosung Spit buoy.\n\nThe shore line was surveyed from Pheasant Point to two stones, and the land from Woosung Creek to Joss Range was surveyed from the shore to about 500 feet inland. Forty-seven lines of shore soundings were taken between Kajow Creek and the Standard Oil Company's wharf.\n\nThe grass line between Black Creek and the Flour Mill point was measured, and fourteen lines of shore soundings, 750 feet apart, were run into deep water. The ship-channel was sounded from Telegraph to Kajow Creek, lines 400 feet to 500 feet apart.\n\nShanghae Harbour.—The bund line between Birts wharf and Soy Chee cotton mill was checked. The frontage of B.C. Lot No. 2,703 was measured to ascertain the area of land to be reclaimed.\n\n## Office Work\n\nAll the above surveys have been plotted on the standard maps, and various tracings were prepared for the engineering department.\n\nH. CHR. MÜLLER.\n\nPage 430",
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        "content_text": "# \nBut it was not sufficient to add to this calculation the 8,000,000 dollars required by M. de Rijke and ask the Chinese Government to supply the difference. It was necessary that we should have a complete financial plan to present to them, and we could not draw one up until we knew such essential details as the dates upon which the extra sums would be required, the amount which it was estimated would probably be necessary for conservancy work after the period of five years, during which period M. de Rijke hopes to complete his present scheme, the funds available from 1911 for the repayment of the loan of 4,500,000 taels, &c.\n\nThe diplomatic body approved of my views and authorised the dean to write to the senior consul at Shanghae for a statement in this sense.\n\nM. de Carcer accordingly submitted a draft letter, copy of which I have the honour to inclose. Although it appeared to me that this letter did not explain sufficiently what was required, I have not pointed this out, but have written a despatch to Sir Pelham Warren, copy of which is also inclosed, in which I have asked him to see M. de Rijke and set forth the exact position and the nature of the financial plan which is desired.\n\nThe manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank at Shanghae has written the inclosed letter to Mr. Hillier, which that gentleman has kindly communicated to me. I have written privately to Sir Pelham Warren, authorising him to discuss the proposals therein contained with Mr. Hunter, and I hope, at the next meeting of the diplomatic body, to be able to make some definite proposal for a loan on this basis for the acceptance of my colleagues and presentation to the Chinese Government.\n\nCopy of a despatch from Sir Pelham Warren, transmitting a report by M. de Rijke on the urgent necessity of closing the ship channel, is also inclosed for your information.*\n\nI have, &c.\nM. le Doyen,\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n### M. von Mutius to Doyen of Diplomatic Body.\n\nPékin, le 14 juin, 1909.\n\nMe référant à la circulaire No. 88, concernant la correction du Whangpoo, je me permets, par ordre de mon chef, d'attirer l'attention du corps diplomatique sur les inquiétudes qui se sont prononcées parmi les commerçants de Shanghaï et dans le corps consulaire au sujet de l'œuvre entreprise par M. de Rijke.\n\nUne grande somme a été dépensée pendant les dernières années sans que le résultat obtenu soit de nature à rassurer complètement sur l'efficacité de l'œuvre de M. de Rijke.\n\nIl me semble sous ce rapport très significatif que la Chambre internationale de Commerce à Shanghai, tout en exprimant sa confiance en M. de Rijke, s'est décidée à faire des démarches pour une revision du projet Rijke par une autorité technique indépendante.\n\nD'autre part, le corps consulaire de Shaughaï a résolu dans la session du 11 mai, par une majorité de 8 contre 3 voix, d'exprimer vis-à-vis du Conservancy Board le désir que le \"ship channel,\" qui sert actuellement de communication entre Shanghai et la mer, ne soit détérioré sauf sous garanties que le \"junk channel,\" qui, d'après le projet Rijke, lui sera substitué, soit mis en état de le remplacer complètement.\n\nBien que cette résolution ait été annulée par une autre majorité dans la session du 25 mai, elle peut servir de document pour les appréhensions d'une minorité considérable du corps consulaire de Shanghai.\n\nIl me semble indiqué que le corps diplomatique, au moment d'approcher le Gouvernement chinois pour obtenir de nouveaux moyens, devrait tenir compte de la situation susmentionnée. Je me permets donc de mettre en discussion s'il ne serait pas utile d'exprimer dans la réponse à donner au corps consulaire de Shanghai que le corps diplomatique considère comme désirable:-\n\n(1.) Une revision du projet Rijke par une autorité technique indépendante.\n(2.) Conservation du \"ship channel\" dans son état actuel jusqu'au moment où la somme nécessaire à l'achèvement des travaux sera assurée.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\npour\nG. VON MUTIUS.\n\n## Remarks on above by Sir J. Jordan.\n\nI regret that I cannot concur in the proposal made by M. Mutius on behalf of his Excellency the German Minister.\n\nBritish shipping and commercial interests generally are, so far as my information goes, quite satisfied with the progress of the conservancy work, and have full confidence in the ultimate success of M. de Rijke's scheme. The Shanghae Chamber of Commerce seems to share these views, as they state that their object in taking the steps to which M. Mutius refers \"is not due to any want of confidence in the carrying out of his scheme by M. de Rijke, but rather that the good work done by him may be confirmed by a competent expert.\"\n\nI do not see, therefore, the necessity for adopting the first suggestion made by M. Mutius, and, as regards the second one, I venture to think that the diplomatic body are scarcely in a position to issue instructions respecting the technical execution of the work.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n31.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n### M. de Carcer to M. Siffert.\n\nLe corps diplomatique, à qui j'ai soumis votre lettre du 27 avril écoulé, après avoir considéré la demande de 8,089,765 dollars pour l'achèvement des travaux à faire dans le Whangpoo, me charge de vous dire qu'avant de présenter une telle demande au Gouvernement chinois, il désire être en possession d'un plan financier détaillant la façon dont le Conservancy Board veut recevoir cette somme, beaucoup trop considérable pour la demander d'une seule fois, c'est-à-dire, dans combien d'annuités et leur montant, afin que le corps diplomatique puisse le faire savoir au Wai-wou-Pou.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\nDE CARCER.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n### Sir J. Jordan to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\n(No. 48. **Confidential.**)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, July 18, 1909.\n\nThe question of the conservancy of the Whangpoo was discussed at the last meeting of the foreign representatives held on the 9th instant. M. de Mutius, in the name of the German Minister, withdrew the proposal that the plans of M. de Rijke should be submitted to the examination of experts, and there therefore only remains the question of the provision of funds for the work contemplated. In this connection I pointed out that it was not sufficient merely to ask the Chinese Government to supply the lump sum mentioned by M. de Rijke, namely, 8,000,000 dollars odd. The financial situation of the Conservancy Board was not quite clear to me, and I did not yet understand, from the statements of the receipts and expenditure which I had received, how the money was to be raised, at what dates it would be required, and how provision was to be made for the repayment, not only of the loan, which presumably would have to be contracted, but also of that of 4,500,000 taels, repayment of which begins in 1911.\n\nYet it was absolutely necessary that these details should be known before we could approach the Chinese Government, and that we should be in a position, not merely to ask for a particular sum, but to present to them a regular financial scheme, indicating the dates on which the money would be required, and suggesting, if possible, the manner in which it might be raised.\n\nThe foreign representatives approved my views, and the dean of the consular body in Shanghae will shortly receive a vote asking for information from the dean of the diplomatic body here. I have, however, seen a copy of this draft note and I do not think that it contains a sufficient indication of what is required. It would therefore be an advantage if you could inform M. de Rijke of what is really wanted,",
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        "content_text": "433 \n\n4 \n\npresent and future (financial you could gain from that gentle, namely, a full statement covering dates of payment, position, mode of repayment of loan, &c., and if man a statement in that sense and forward it to me.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1, Mr. Hunter to Mr. Hillier.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n5 \n\nWith a profitable loan in sight, German commercial interests would endeavour to get over German political schemes. A loan of this kind could be issued privately in small lots to suit the work, giving a better price to the Chinese and more profit to those issuing it. Will you consider the matter and talk it over with Sir John Jordan? It is really very important, and no time should be lost.\n\nYours very truly,\nH. HUNTER.\n\nMy dear Hillier,\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Bank, Shanghae, July 12, 1909.\n\nWHANGPOO Conservancy. The other day I attended the opening of the junk channel. De Rijke evidently understands his work, and with the exception of the Germans, the whole mercantile community are satisfied that it is the right thing, and as you no doubt know, De Rijke himself welcomes the proposal of the Chamber of Commerce (made to endeavour to satisfy all, even the Germans), that an outside expert from Europe should come and report upon the scheme. Landale tells me that there is no difficulty about getting an English engineer to report, as De Rijke is recognised as the first expert in this kind of work. We should therefore have great confidence in De Rijke.\n\nIf the work is to be finally a great success, it is very important now that it should not be stopped by the influence of German adverse criticism or want of money. As you probably know, the following happened:— When tenders were called for, the German tender was very much the lowest; it is generally thought that they could only tender at such figures with some extraordinary strength behind them, say the German Government, with a view to obtaining a hold on the port of Shanghae, and, knowing their ambitions, this is not an extravagant opinion to hold, but one deserving of a great deal of consideration by the English, considering the great importance of our trade.\n\nThe German Government engineer, Captain Schelhoss, held a minor appointment on the Kiel Canal, and his opinions should not be allowed to carry weight against those of a known expert like De Rijke, from a country famed for its water engineers. The work having been entrusted to De Rijke, German opposition to a scheme they were willing enough to approve of if given to them to do, at once started. It was all wrong, and meant the closing of the river instead of improving it to steamer traffic, and finally they were loud in their denunciations in touching the ship channel until the junk channel had been made deep enough. Now that the junk channel is deep enough, they are using all the influence they possess to still stop the junk channel being a confirmed success by the necessary filling in and silting up of the ship channel until money is set aside for the completion of the whole work.\n\nDe Rijke estimates that 8,000,000 dollars, or 6,000,000 taels, will be required for this, spread over a term of years (I don't think De Rijke has fixed an exact time). It seems probable that the Chinese (and the Germans know it) would not require much encouragement to stint the supply of funds, and so very probably undo everything that has been done, or chuck De Rijke and take up a cheaper offer by the Germans, who would then go on with the work and take up a very strong position here politically, and no doubt do their best to upset big British wharf and engineering interests, and suit the scheme to the special improvement of German frontages, whereas De Rijke's scheme is good for everybody.\n\nIt is to be devoutly hoped that Sir John Jordan will resolutely support the carrying out of the Dutch work. Money, no doubt, must be found. Why not a loan? There is the revenue from tonnage dues, which is supposed to be used for lighting the coast and similar work. It is therefore very suitable it should be used for conservancy work. Nobody, I believe, knows what these tonnage dues amount to, but they must be very considerable. It is also not known how much of them is used for the special work assigned to them, but it is reasonable to suppose, knowing Chinese methods, that there is a big leakage, or a surplus used otherwise.\n\nIf the tonnage dues could be shown to be good security for a loan, and the Germans had a share in it, their opposition would probably disappear, and their support be gained.",
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        "content_text": "303\n\n2\n\nAccording, therefore, to Mr. Hughes's calculations the cost of the entire conservancy scheme will be as follows:---\n\nDeepening the bar and otherwise improving the approaches to the port\n\nProtecting Duck Island Bend\n\nDredgers for the upper river\n\nTotal\n\nDollars.\n\n482,974\n\n44,000\n\n150,000\n\n676,974\n\nTo which sum must be added the annual working expenses of the dredgers on the upper river, estimated at about 28,000 dollars.\n\nIn his despatch, a copy of which I also enclose, covering Mr. Hughes's report, the taotai points out that, by extending the period of collection of the proposed taxes from ten to twenty years, a loan could be raised which would amply cover the whole of this expenditure. It would in that case be unnecessary, he says, to ask for further financial assistance from the provincial Government, which, in its present impoverished condition, it was quite unable to afford. The improvement of the upper river, the cost of which it was proposed should be met by his Government, was, as we all knew, quite as essential to the prosperity of Newchwang as the deepening of the bar, a work which would be of little use if the river above the port was unnavigable. He therefore proposed that the period during which the taxes were to be collected should be extended to twenty years, and the entire cost of the conservancy scheme met out of the revenue they would produce.\n\nBoth Mr. Hughes's report and the taotai's despatch have been carefully considered at two meetings of the consular body which have been held for the purpose. The report is regarded as a satisfactory one in every respect by all my colleagues, but the taotai's proposals have been the cause of much fruitless discussion. The difficulty is that Mr. Ohta, the Japanese consul, claims to have explicit instructions from his Government to withhold his consent to any scheme by which Japanese trade pays any portion whatsoever of the cost of the upper river improvements, which will be detrimental, it is held, to the interests of the South Manchurian Railway. Nor is the Japanese Government even willing, he tells us, that the trade of the port should bear the entire cost of the bar and Duck Island works, of which, in its opinion, the Chinese Government should also pay a share. In fact he moved a resolution, which, however, was not pressed, that, to prevent the possibility of a surplus, the proposed taxes be reduced by one-half. We all, I need scarcely say, agree with the view that it would be unfair to burden the trade of the port with the entire cost of the conservancy works, by which the rest of the province, and particularly the Chinese Government, have even more to gain than the port itself, yet it appears to me and my other colleagues that, unless some compromise can be arranged between the views of the taotai, who represents the provincial Government in the matter, and those of the Japanese Government, there is every danger that the whole scheme will be shelved.\n\nAt our first meeting no solution of the problem presented itself to us, but at the second, which was held on the 16th instant, I was able to suggest a compromise, which meets to a great extent the views of both parties.\n\nThe gist of this compromise is that, while the taxes collected by the Imperial Maritime Customs are to be devoted entirely to the bar and Duck Island works, those collected by the Native Customs may be expended on the upper river improvements. As the Native Customs deals only with the junk trade, which is a purely Chinese trade, this arrangement does not conflict with the Japanese view that their trade is to contribute nothing towards the cost of the upper river works. I also propose that the tax of 1 per mille on the imports and exports of the port be levied, not on the actual value of the goods passing through the customs, but by adding an equivalent percentage to the duties. By adopting this system of collection, which is by far the more convenient and inexpensive of the two, the amount raised from the tax by the Imperial Maritime Customs—I have taken the figures of 1908, a normal year, as the basis for my calculations—will average about 25,000 taels per annum, whereas, if collected on the actual value of the trade, the gross revenue from it would be nearer 45,000 taels. In this way, without actually agreeing to the Japanese consul's proposal that the taxes be reduced, I met his views on the point as far as it is practicable to do so. In explanation of my figures I should mention that the value of the trade in 1908 was 41,336,000 taels, and the duties collected, including those on goods brought up from Shanghae under exemption certificate, 1,097,600 taels. Imports,\n\n3\n\nit would appear, pay little more than 3 per cent. ad valorem and exports than 2 per cent. I have estimated the annual amount that will be raised from the tax at 25,000 taels instead of 22,000 taels, which is what 1 per cent. on the duty actually represents, because the levy on the coast trade portion of it will be considered, and the tax will also be collected on duty-free goods, of which no small quantity enter and leave the port.\n\nIf we add to this 25,000 taels the dues on shipping, which should produce another 15,000 taels, we have an annual income from an Imperial Maritime Customs of 40,000 taels, on which, if we agree, as I suggest we should, to an extension of the period of collection to twenty years, there should be no difficulty in raising a loan which will amply cover the cost of the bar and Duck Island works. At the same time if, after the satisfactory completion of the two works, the revenue produced by the taxes permits the repayment of the loan before the expiry of the twenty-year period, the loan is to be paid off and the collection of the taxes to cease. The contribution of the provincial Government to the work, another sine qua non of the Japanese Government, is to be the services free of charge of the Government engineer, Mr. Hughes.\n\nFor the upper river improvements there will then be available the entire revenue from the native customs, which should amount to anything between 10,000 taels and 15,000 taels a-year, a sum which, under economical management, will be almost sufficient to pay the working expenses of the dredgers. The value of the junk trade in 1908 was 11,000,000 taels and the number of junks engaged in it nearly 5,000.\n\nIf my proposals, therefore, are agreed to all the additional assistance needed to enable the entire scheme to be carried out will be a contribution from the provincial—or, if its resources do not permit, from the central—Government of 200,000 dollars for the purchase of the dredgers required for the upper river and for preliminary expenses—a sum the provision of which should not present any insuperable difficulties.\n\nThe compromise I have suggested appears to me to be an equitable one, and one against which the Japanese should find it difficult to raise any objection. The Japanese consul himself is not unfavourable to it, but in view of his instructions he informed us that he could not accede to it without reference to Tokyo. It would be about a fortnight, he thought, before he could receive a reply. My other colleagues will all support it.\n\nI have also discussed the matter privately with the taotai, who, though naturally not entirely satisfied with my proposals, tells me that as long as the central Government can be persuaded to make the contribution of 200,000 dollars required there will be no opposition from his side. If the Viceroy, however, is called upon to find the money the scheme will make no progress, as his Excellency will most certainly insist on his inability to do so. The taotai also reminded me that the deepening of the bar would be of no benefit to the junk trade, but rather detrimental to it, since Mr. Hughes's scheme involved the closing of the west channel, which was the one ordinarily used by native shipping. Therefore, unless the improvement of the upper river, the necessity of which was fully realised by everyone, was put in hand at the same time as the other two works, a very strong protest against the proposed taxes would be made by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, whose views nowadays could not be ignored.\n\nI am also enclosing with this despatch two copies of the chart referred to by Mr. Hughes in his report. The Admiralty were good enough last year to express an opinion as to the merits of Mr. de Rijke's scheme for the conservancy of the Whangpoo, and it is possible that they may again be so kind as to furnish you with their views on Mr. Hughes's proposals for the deepening of the bar at this port.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nF. E. WILKINSON,",
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        "content_text": "According, therefore, to Mr. Hughes's calculations the cost of the entire conservancy scheme will be as follows:--\n\nDeepening the bar and otherwise improving the approaches to the port\n\nProtecting Duck Island Bend\n\nDredgers for the upper river\n\nTotal\n\nDollars.\n\n482,974\n\n44,000\n\n150,000\n\n676,974\n\nTo which sum must be added the annual working expenses of the dredgers on the upper river, estimated at about 28,000 dollars.\n\nIn his despatch, a copy of which I also enclose, covering Mr. Hughes's report, the taotai points out that, by extending the period of collection of the proposed taxes from ten to twenty years, a loan could be raised which would amply cover the whole of this expenditure. It would in that case be unnecessary, he says, to ask for further financial assistance from the provincial Government, which, in its present impoverished condition, it was quite unable to afford. The improvement of the upper river, the cost of which it was proposed should be met by his Government, was, as we all knew, quite as essential to the prosperity of Newchwang as the deepening of the bar, a work which would be of little use if the river above the port was unnavigable. He therefore proposed that the period during which the taxes were to be collected should be extended to twenty years, and the entire cost of the conservancy scheme met out of the revenue they would produce.\n\nBoth Mr. Hughes's report and the taotai's despatch have been carefully considered at two meetings of the consular body which have been held for the purpose. The report is regarded as a satisfactory one in every respect by all my colleagues, but the taotai's proposals have been the cause of much fruitless discussion. The difficulty is that Mr. Ohta, the Japanese consul, claims to have explicit instructions from his Government to withhold his consent to any scheme by which Japanese trade pays any portion whatsoever of the cost of the upper river improvements, which will be detrimental, it is held, to the interests of the South Manchurian Railway. Nor is the Japanese Government even willing, he tells us, that the trade of the port should bear the entire cost of the bar and Duck Island works, of which, in its opinion, the Chinese Government should also pay a share. In fact, he moved a resolution, which, however, was not pressed, that, to prevent the possibility of a surplus, the proposed taxes be reduced by one-half.\n\nWe all, I need scarcely say, agree with the view that it would be unfair to burden the trade of the port with the entire cost of the conservancy works, by which the rest of the province, and particularly the Chinese Government, have even more to gain than the port itself, yet it appears to me and my other colleagues that, unless some compromise can be arranged between the views of the taotai, who represents the provincial Government in the matter, and those of the Japanese Government, there is every danger that the whole scheme will be shelved.\n\nAt our first meeting, no solution of the problem presented itself to us, but at the second, which was held on the 16th instant, I was able to suggest a compromise, which meets to a great extent the views of both parties.\n\nThe gist of this compromise is that, while the taxes collected by the Imperial Maritime Customs are to be devoted entirely to the bar and Duck Island works, those collected by the Native Customs may be expended on the upper river improvements. As the Native Customs deals only with the junk trade, which is a purely Chinese trade, this arrangement does not conflict with the Japanese view that their trade is to contribute nothing towards the cost of the upper river works. I also propose that the tax of 1 per mille on the imports and exports of the port be levied, not on the actual value of the goods passing through the customs, but by adding an equivalent percentage to the duties. By adopting this system of collection, which is by far the more convenient and inexpensive of the two, the amount raised from the tax by the Imperial Maritime Customs—I have taken the figures of 1908, a normal year, as the basis for my calculations—will average about 25,000 taels per annum, whereas, if collected on the actual value of the trade, the gross revenue from it would be nearer 45,000 taels.\n\nIn this way, without actually agreeing to the Japanese consul's proposal that the taxes be reduced, I met his views on the point as far as it is practicable to do so. In explanation of my figures, I should mention that the value of the trade in 1908 was 47,336,000 taels, and the duties collected, including those on goods brought up from Shanghai under exemption certificate, 1,097,600 taels. Imports, it would appear, pay little more than 31/3 per cent. ad valorem and exports than 2 per cent. I have estimated the annual amount that will be raised from the tax at 25,000 taels instead of 22,000 taels, which is what 2 per cent. on the duty actually represents, because the levy on the coast trade portion of it will be 4 per cent., and the tax will also be collected on duty-free goods, of which no small quantity enter and leave the port.\n\nIf we add to this 25,000 taels the dues on shipping, which should produce another 15,000 taels, we have an annual income from an Imperial Maritime Customs of 40,000 taels, on which, if we agree, as I suggest we should, to an extension of the period of collection to twenty years, there should be no difficulty in raising a loan which will amply cover the cost of the bar and Duck Island works. At the same time, if, after the satisfactory completion of the two works, the revenue produced by the taxes permits the repayment of the loan before the expiry of the twenty-year period, the loan is to be paid off and the collection of the taxes to cease. The contribution of the provincial Government to the work, another sine quâ non of the Japanese Government, is to be the services free of charge of the Government engineer, Mr. Hughes.\n\nFor the upper river improvements, there will then be available the entire revenue from the native customs, which should amount to anything between 10,000 taels and 15,000 taels a-year, a sum which, under economical management, will be almost sufficient to pay the working expenses of the dredgers. The value of the junk trade in 1908 was 11,000,000 taels and the number of junks engaged in it nearly 5,000.\n\nIf my proposals, therefore, are agreed to, all the additional assistance needed to enable the entire scheme to be carried out will be a contribution from the provincial—if its resources do not permit, from the central—Government of 200,000 dollars for the purchase of the dredgers required for the upper river and for preliminary expenses—a sum the provision of which should not present any insuperable difficulties.\n\nThe compromise I have suggested appears to me to be an equitable one, and one against which the Japanese should find it difficult to raise any objection. The Japanese consul himself is not unfavourable to it, but, in view of his instructions, he informed us that he could not accede to it without reference to Tokyo. It would be about a fortnight, he thought, before he could receive a reply. My other colleagues will all support it.\n\nI have also discussed the matter privately with the taotai, who, though naturally not entirely satisfied with my proposals, tells me that, as long as the central Government can be persuaded to make the contribution of 200,000 dollars required, there will be no opposition from his side. If the Viceroy, however, is called upon to find the money, the scheme will make no progress, as his Excellency will most certainly insist on his inability to do so. The taotai also reminded me that the deepening of the bar would be of no benefit to the junk trade, but rather detrimental to it, since Mr. Hughes's scheme involved the closing of the west channel, which was the one ordinarily used by native shipping. Therefore, unless the improvement of the upper river, the necessity of which was fully realised by everyone, was put in hand at the same time as the other two works, a very strong protest against the proposed taxes would be made by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, whose views nowadays could not be ignored.\n\nI am also enclosing with this despatch two copies of the chart referred to by Mr. Hughes in his report. The Admiralty were good enough last year to express an opinion as to the merits of Mr. de Rijke's scheme for the conservancy of the Whangpoo, and it is possible that they may again be so kind as to furnish you with their views on Mr. Hughes's proposals for the deepening of the bar at this port.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nF. E. WILKINSON,\n\nPage 337",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nC\n\n[March 14, 1912]\n\nD\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nRec'd 7 APR 1910,\n\n[8841]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n(No. 55.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 14.)\n\nPeking, February 21, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 12 of the 9th ultimo respecting the conservancy of the Liao River, I have the honour to report that the negotiations which have been proceeding locally have now been brought to a conclusion, and that a scheme which meets with the approval of all concerned has been forwarded by the senior consul at Newchwang to the dean of the diplomatic body for submission to the foreign representatives.\n\nThe chief obstacle to agreement lay, as pointed out in my despatch above mentioned, in the objections entertained by the Japanese consul to any scheme involving Japanese contribution to the cost of the upper river improvements. To meet this difficulty Mr. Wilkinson suggested that the sum necessary for these improvements should be contributed by the native customs. The compromise has been accepted, and the scheme is, therefore, briefly as follows:—\n\nA weir is being built to regulate the water of the Shuang Tai Tzu channel, the cost of which will be defrayed out of the sum of 100,000 dollars which, as reported in my despatch No. 355 of the 28th September last, had been raised by the taotai upon the security of a special tax upon native boats. There remains to be raised the money required for the other works, amounting, according to the estimate made by Mr. Hughes, to 676,974 dollars, under the following heads:\n\n  \n    Deepening the bar and otherwise improving the approaches to the port\n    Dollars.\n482,974\n  \n  \n    Protecting Duck Island bend\n    44,000\n  \n  \n    Dredgers for the upper river\n    150,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    676,974\n  \n\nTo this should be added the working expenses of the dredgers, estimated at a sum of 28,000 dollars a-year.\n\nIt is proposed to levy a tax of 1 per mille on all imports and exports, which should produce an annual revenue of about 25,000 taels. A tax of 24 candareens per ton on the registered tonnage of all vessels visiting the port, whether native or foreign, and of 1 candareen per ton on steamers plying under inland steam navigation rules is expected to yield 30,000 taels, of which 16,000 taels will be furnished by the native junk traffic. The total sum realised by the taxes will, therefore, be approximately 55,000 taels a-year. The consular body have agreed with the taotai that the money collected by the Imperial Maritime Customs shall be devoted exclusively to the improvement of the bar and the protection of the bend at Duck Island, leaving the yearly sum of 16,000 taels collected by the native customs available for the upkeep and running expenses of the dredgers. The taxes are to be collected for twenty years and should be sufficient for the repayment with interest of the loan required.\n\nThe Provincial or Central Government are to be asked to grant a sum of 200,000 dollars (not taels as stated in my despatch No. 12 above mentioned) for the purchase of the dredgers and initial expenses. I am afraid that it will be no easy matter to obtain this sum either from the provincial or central authorities in their present impoverished condition, but I intend to give the scheme my whole-hearted support, when it comes up for discussion, as constituting the most practical solution of a question which it is of the highest importance to see taken in hand.\n\nI have, &c.\n(For the Minister),\nW. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[2675 o--1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nopposition to the Rijke scheme. Seeing that it was no use pursuing the subject further, I contented myself with pointing out that such an international commission would only involve further expense and delay.\n\nThe upshot of the whole discussion was that the Dean was authorised to address the note, copy of which I have the honour to enclose, to the Wai-wu Pu,* requesting as a first step to be furnished with a copy of the report of the Chinese commissioner in order to ascertain what were the intentions of the Chinese Government in regard to continuing the work on the Whangpoo.\n\nOn the 15th June I received from Sir Pelham Warren a copy of a report on the Whangpoo Conservancy by Mr. Merrill, Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, and translations of the memorial to the Throne of the two Viceroys, Jui Cheng, ex-Viceroy of Nanking and Special Commissioner, and the present Viceroy Chang, and of a set of twelve regulations drawn up by them.†\n\nIn transmitting these documents, copies of which I have the honour to enclose, Sir Pelham Warren expressed the opinion that the memorial was too vague in its references to the works \"planned\" and \"completed\" to be taken as a definite statement of Chinese policy, and he drew my attention to the fact that only the first seven of the regulations are to be strictly carried out,\" as if the memorialists were aware that the remaining five must be subject to the views of the foreign representatives. Mr. Merrill's memorandum he qualified as being about as good a presentation as can be made of the case against the provision of further funds by the Chinese Government.\n\nThe documents were considered by the consular body, who decided to take no action with regard to the Viceroy's memorial, while as to Mr. Merrill's report, they determined, before expressing any opinion on his proposals, to ask Mr. Merrill to allow it to be submitted to M. de Rijke for his official opinion.\n\nMr. Merrill in his memorandum lays stress on the success that has attended the execution of the two principal features in M. de Rijke's scheme, viz., the closing of the old ship channel and the deepening of the Junk or Astraea Channel, and the building of the jetty where the Whangpoo flows into the Yang-tsze, and he holds that the great results achieved fully vindicate the wisdom and soundness of M. de Rijke's main plans. He then proceeds to deal with the necessity of providing for the preservation of the work done, and the best and most economical means of securing that end, pointing out that the fate of Shanghai as a commercial metropolis is bound up with the maintenance of the navigability of the river. He enumerates what he considers the most necessary additional works mentioned in M. de Rijke's report of the 15th April, 1909, which should be carried out as the funds available may permit, viz., the training work on the right side of the river below Pheasant Point, to be followed by the cutting away of Pheasant Point; the construction of protective cribwork above the Kajow Creek to check erosion of the banks; and dredging in the entrance of the Soochow Creek. The execution of any or all of these works depending on the provision of the necessary finances, Mr. Merrill goes into a detailed examination of the estimated expenditure and receipts of the board up to the 30th September, when both the dredging and the jetty contracts are expected to be completed, and he finally comes to the conclusion that the total maximum funds at the disposal of the board for future work after the 30th September, 1910, will be roughly 650,000 taels, out of which he recommends the purchase of a dredger and dredging outfit for 500,000 taels, the remainder to be used so long as it lasts for the maintenance of a greatly reduced staff and for carrying out the most important parts of the works of maintenance and improvement as set forth above while waiting for the arrival of the dredger.\n\nMr. Merrill then turns to the question of the provision of further funds, and he estimates that with an additional sum of 300,000 taels a-year an adequate staff could be maintained, a dredger kept at work, and further works of maintenance and improvement carried on. He holds, however, that the Chinese Government, having fulfilled the condition of the 1905 agreement as to supplying funds, cannot be expected to contribute further, and that therefore resort must be had to special taxation of the trade and shipping of Shanghai. He suggests that the necessary sum might be raised by a levy of 2 per cent. on customs duties, which would bring in 180,000 taels and a levy of tonnage dues of 13 candareens per ton on shipping entering the port, which would produce 135,000 taels; but he clearly foresees that the consent of the foreign representatives to such taxation could only be obtained by conceding some measure of foreign control of the proceeds of the taxes; he suggests foreign representation on the conservancy board, which has proved so successful in the case of the Haiho Conservancy Board.\n\n•\n\nThe memorial of the Viceroys is not half so satisfactory or reasonable. The whole tenour of this document is that, whether the work is finished or not, the Chinese Government cannot, under any circumstances, be called upon to incur any more expenditure when once the whole amount stipulated in the agreement of 1905 has been exhausted. The Chinese duties and obligations are then at an end, and the conservancy board should then be abolished, the engineers and employés discharged, and the Shanghai taotai entrusted with the maintenance of the works.\n\nThe twelve regulations appear to call for no special comment, as they are clearly inacceptable if the work at present completed is to be preserved, let alone the execution of the unfinished portions of the de Rijke scheme.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n477",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 225.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 2.)\n\nPeking, July 13, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 212 of the 28th ultimo relative to the Whangpoo Conservancy scheme, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of M. de Rijke's observations, which I have received from His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai, on the memorandum of Mr. Merrill which formed Enclosure No. 2 in my above-mentioned despatch.\n\nIn regard to the two principal works, M. de Rijke is of opinion that the jetty works at Woosung forts will probably be completed by next September, and that the work in connection with the diversion of the stream from ship-channel to junk-channel may also be said to be nearing completion. He considers that the most urgent work now requiring to be done is the dredging of the Pheasant Point convex and of the Astra Channel, and this he recommends should be done by contract, as at present, but at the same time he is not opposed to steps being taken by the board to obtain a dredging outfit of its own for the future maintenance of the waterway. In regard to Mr. Merrill's statement that \"the main part of the conservancy work is completed,\" he points out that of the 17 nautical miles of river, only the lower 7 miles up to Black Point have thus far been taken in hand, and he describes some of the improvements which will require to be effected in the upper reaches of the river, which, for a distance of 10 miles, has never been touched at all.\n\nM. de Rijke has some pertinent observations to make in regard to provision of the fund for carrying on the work, which, he considers, can and ought to be completed within the next three years. He criticises Mr. Merrill's proposed distribution of the additional annual sum of 300,000 taels as being disproportionately allotted to the staff, on the one hand, and to improvements and dredging on the other. He evidently thinks that the work would drag on interminably owing to the insufficiency of funds, and that it would be preferable, if the money required is not forthcoming from the central or provincial Governments, to raise a loan, wholly or partly secured on trade and shipping taxes, and even, if necessary, on taxation of land values in the international settlement at Shanghai.\n\nI refrain from offering observations of my own on the subject of M. de Rijke's memorandum, which for the most part deals with engineering technicalities outside my competence.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nP.S. Since writing the above I have seen the despatch written by the senior consul, in the name of the consular body of Shanghai, to the doyen of the corps diplomatique, forwarding copies of Mr. Merrill's memorandum, the memorial of the two Viceroys and of M. de Rijke's remarks.\n\nIn transmitting these documents the senior consul writes as follows:- \"M. de Rijke maintient ce qu'il disait en son propre rapport du 10 avril, 1909, dont j'eus l'honneur de vous envoyer copie le 27 avril de la même année. Le corps consulaire partage entièrement sa manière de voir, et me référant à mes lettres du 19 mai, 20 août, et 23 septembre, 1909, je prends la respectueuse liberté de demander à nouveau, en son nom, au corps diplomatique de vouloir bien user de toute son influence pour amener le Gouvernement chinois à accorder les fonds nécessaires à la continuation des travaux et à la conservation des résultats acquis.\n\n\"Au cas où le Gouvernement chinois se trouverait dans l'impossibilité de se procurer la somme requise, nous ne pourrions que renouveler la proposition contenue au dernier paragraphe de ma lettre du 23 septembre, 1909, tendant à l'émission d'un emprunt garanti par une partie des droits de tonnage perçus dans ce port.\"\n\nW. G. M. M.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nChapter XII, sections 118--120.\n\nChapter XIII, sections 122, 123, 133, 134, and 139. Chapter XIV, section 140.\n\nChapter XV, sections 147-157.\n\nChapter XVI, sections 158-162.\n\nChapter XVII, sections 163–165.\n\nI regret that I have not received any copies of the drawings referred to in section 8.\n\nThe considered opinion of three such eminent engineers as those who sign this report ought to go far to convince all impartial readers as to the wisdom of the scheme that has been adopted under the direction of M. de Rijke to improve the deep-water approach to Shanghai. There has, as you are aware, always been a considerable amount of criticism of M. de Rijke's scheme and, as the work was proving far more costly than was originally anticipated, it was clearly of the greatest utility to have this independent judgment thereon before a final decision was reached in regard to additional funds for carrying through that portion of the conservancy scheme which still remained untouched. The consulting engineers fully endorse the judgment contained in the enclosed note from the Wai-wu Pu as to the excellence of the work executed by M. de Rijke and, after carefully considering the various criticisms of that gentleman's scheme, they are able to state as their deliberate opinion that that scheme as carried out is the best that could have been adopted and that there is every probability of its being permanently successful. In regard to the rival channels for selection as the permanent fairway, they are of opinion that \"the right course was adopted in the decision to improve and develop the Junk Channel\" and they clearly explain the grounds on which they have arrived at that conclusion.\n\nIn Chapter IX, after giving some figures proving the satisfactory results already achieved in the improvement of the navigable channel, the consulting engineers mention the names of various persons interested in the shipping and general trade of the river whom their delegates, Messrs. Wilson and Matthews, interviewed in Shanghai, including the local agents of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Company and Captain Schellhoss, the technical attaché to the German consulate-general. These gentlemen were practically unanimous, the report says, in their approval of the works already effected by M. de Rijke and in the hope that the works in progress would be completed.\n\nFinally, in section 139, we read that the results produced by the works already executed appear on the whole to be of an entirely successful character.\n\nWhen, however, we turn to the chapter dealing with the further works included in M. de Rijke's scheme, but not yet commenced, we find that the consulting engineers are no longer in complete accord with M. de Rijke, though they are at evident pains not to hurt his feelings unduly.\n\nIt will be remembered that in April of last year M. de Rijke put forward a detailed estimate for the completion of the conservancy work involving an expenditure of something like 9,000,000 dollars over and above the sum already allocated by the Chinese Government. This scheme naturally met with considerable criticism and was rejected by the Chinese Government when presented to them by the diplomatic body. M. de Rijke, however, as will have been seen from his memorandum, which I had the honour to enclose in my despatch No. 225 of the 13th July, never modified his opinion as to the necessity of carrying out his scheme in its entirety. In Chapters VIII and XV the consulting engineers first describe the various further works included in M. de Rijke's scheme and then proceed to discuss the question of their urgency or necessity.\n\nThe only works which they describe as essential and urgent are (1) the final closing of the old Ship Channel; and (2) the completion of the present dredging contract of 1,200,000 cubic yards. These two works are, I presume, completed by this time, or anyhow will shortly be so, as should also the construction of the jetty at Woosung.\n\nUnder the heading of works of importance, for the construction of some of which at all events, the necessary funds should be provided as early as possible, they mention the whole of the training works proposed by M. de Rijke on both sides of the river between the upper end of the Astræa (Junk) Channel and Cosmopolitan Dock, and the training works on the right bank of the river below Pheasant Point opposite Woosung. But even as to these latter works the consulting engineers state that they are not convinced of their desirability or necessity, which future experience alone can prove, and they condemn the proposed dredging on the convex side of Pheasant Point as unnecessary and unlikely to have any permanent result.\n\n3\n\nUnder a third heading the report mentions the works which for the present need not be proceeded with, though ultimately some of them will be required. These works include the dredging opposite Cosmopolitan Dock, the cutting back and dredging at Pootung Point, and the dredging near the native city. The total of the dredging work proposed by M. de Rijke, but not commenced, amounts to about 7,500,000 cubic yards, and it appears from the present report as if the major part, if not the whole, of this costly work could be spared.\n\nIn Chapter XIV the consulting engineers deal with the paramount importance of providing for the careful maintenance of the new works. On this point I shall have the honour to address you further, when I have received the minutes of the meeting of the diplomatic body of the 1st instant, at which were discussed the steps to be taken in order to convince the Chinese Government of the urgency of continuing the conservancy work on the lines laid down without any interruption; the question of the provision of funds for upkeep and for any new work that might be found necessary, and finally, the possibility of a conservancy board on the lines of the Haiho Conservancy Board at Tien-tsin.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nWai-wu Pu to M. de Kuczynski,\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\ndu\n\nPékin, le 15 juillet, 1910. (Traduction.)\n\nÀ la date du 3 janvier, 1910, votre Excellence a bien voulu m'écrire au sujet de la Whangpoo Conservancy. Mon département avait alors reçu un décret Impérial chargeant le Gouverneur du Kiang-Sou de se rendre à Shanghai pour examiner la question. Comme à ce moment le rapport au Trône de ce haut fonctionnaire n'était pas encore parvenu à Pékin, je n'étais pas en mesure de vous donner une réponse immédiate.\n\nActuellement vous voulez bien me faire savoir que les représentants des Puissances à Pékin sont désireux d'être mis au courant de ce que le Gouverneur du Kiang-Sou a rapporté au Trône, et vous me demandez de vous donner à ce sujet des informations détaillées.\n\nLe Gouverneur du Kiang-Sou a fait savoir qu'il s'est rendu en personne à Shanghai sur le champ des travaux, et que, accompagné du Taotaï des Douanes de Shanghai ainsi que d'un ingénieur spécialement engagé pour l'inspection, il a examiné en détail ce qui a été fait. Depuis l'accord spécial conclu au sujet du Whangpoo Conservancy, le prix des travaux avait été évalué à 9,200,000 Haikwan taels, cette somme comprenant l'intérêt de l'emprunt et les frais d'entretien.\n\nDans le contrat conclu par la suite avec l'ingénieur en chef, de Rijke, on fixa un terme de quatre ans pour l'achèvement des travaux, et on décida en conséquence que les sommes nécessaires pour lesdits travaux seraient intégralement versées en quatre ans. Les plans et le contrat furent alors sanctionnés par le corps consulaire et les travaux commencèrent.\n\nRien, donc, n'a été omis dans l'ensemble des travaux à exécuter; leur coût total a été, après évaluation, arrêté à la somme ci-dessus, les fonds ont également été versés chaque année. Actuellement huit à neuf dixièmes des travaux sont terminés.\n\nIl y a quelque temps, un groupe de fonctionnaires et de marchands de toutes nationalités sont allés les visiter à bord d'un vapeur, et n'ont pas tari d'éloges. L'ingénieur spécialement engagé les a également examinés et les a déclarés très satisfaisants. Ceci pour les excellents résultats qui ont été obtenus.\n\nIl reste encore à exécuter un ou deux dixièmes de l'ensemble; le Taotaï et le Commissaire des Douanes ont mission de veiller à ce que les travaux qui restent à exécuter soient rapidement poussés.\n\nQuand la somme prévue aura été complètement versée, quand les travaux seront complètement achevés, la Chine aura rempli toutes les obligations qu'elle avait contractées par l'accord spécial. Tout sera donc terminé, l'ancien chenal doit être bouché, afin d'empêcher l'apport de vase et de sable et de protéger les travaux exécutés.\n\n395",
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        "content_text": "398\n\n8\n\nChina might obtain a loan for such sum, and that the interest on the same should **form part of the 9,200,000 taels to be provided**.\n\nAppointment of M. de Rijke.\n\n26. After the creation of the Conservancy Board as finally constituted in 1905, M. Johannes de Rijke was invited by the board (acting for the Peking Government) to undertake the duties of engineer-in-chief for the purpose of carrying out the necessary improvements in the river. The appointment of the officer to occupy this position had, under the convention, to be approved by the foreign representatives, and M. de Rijke was adopted by them as having a large experience of river problems and as possessing considerable knowledge of the Whangpoo River.\n\nIII—THE TRADE OF SHANGHAI.\n\n27. It will be of advantage if we here give some statistics showing the great extent of the trade of Shanghai, from which will be apparent the paramount importance to the city, of maintaining a good channel from the sea, for the accommodation of ocean-going vessels.\n\n28. The following figures were kindly compiled for us, from the official returns of the Imperial Customs, by the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.\n\n  \n    TOTAL Collection of Dues and Duties by the Imperial Maritime Customs for the years 1903-8 inclusive\n  \n  \n    1903\n    1904\n    1905\n    1906\n    1907\n    1908\n    Haikwan Taels\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    9,924,890\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    10,328,433\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    12,080,135\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    12,823,817\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    11,007,454\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    9,613,526\n  \n\n  \n    TONNAGE Dues only collected by the Imperial Maritime Customs for the years 1903-8 inclusive\n  \n  \n    1903\n    1904\n    1905\n    1906\n    1907\n    1908\n    Haikwan Taels\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    603,997\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    666,381\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    712,275\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    895,801\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    897,914\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    816,855\n  \n\nWe may here remark that, at the commencement of the year, the value of the Haikwan taels was about 2s. 8d.\n\n  \n    \n    TOTAL Number and Tonnage of Vessels Entered and Cleared at the Imperial Customs, 1903-8\n  \n  \n    \n    1903\n    1904\n    1905\n    1906\n    1907\n    1908\n  \n  \n    STEAMERS and Sailing-vessels Entered\n    No.\n    4,677\n    4,711\n    7,692,207\n    26,032\n    24,104\n    22,255\n  \n  \n    Tonnage\n    6,179,554\n    6,076,279\n    \n    8,550,508\n    6,668,541\n    8,769,348\n  \n  \n    STEAMERS and Sailing-vessels Cleared\n    No.\n    4,553\n    4,728\n    35,765\n    35,787\n    34,900\n    2,973,434\n  \n  \n    Tonnage\n    6,162,891\n    6,105,519\n    7,887,103\n    8,816,454\n    \n    $2,588 9,048,566 + 9\n  \n\n28. From 1905 are included in the above table the number and tonnage of the inward steamers, towed passenger boats, and cargo junks.\n\nIn addition to the foregoing there are, on the average, 5,000 junks entered and cleared yearly at the native customs, besides about 700 steam launches running between Kiangpeh and Chekiang to Shanghai, the yearly tonnage amounting to about 150,000 tons entered and cleared.\n\nIV. TOPOGRAPHY OF THE RIVER, WITH FORMER OBSTRUCTIONS TO NAVIGATION.\n\n30. The principal defects in the river, working upwards from the mouth, before the inception of the training works, were generally as follows:--\n\nOuter Bar\n\n31. At the confluence of the Whangpoo with the Yang-tsze a bar, known as the Outer Bar, had always existed in a greater or less degree, subject to variations from time to time both in extent and in the depth of water available over it.\n\n32. As will be apparent upon reference to drawing No. 2, the tidal currents naturally followed for some distance from the Outer Bar the western or Woosung shore, which is concave, but a portion of the flood current making up the Yang-tsze has always had a tendency to open a second channel on the opposite shore. At times such a channel has actually been formed, and on these occasions the main deep-water channel has considerably deteriorated. As an example of this action, it appears from a comparison of charts of different dates, that in 1871 there was a single channel only on the western, or Woosung, side of the entrance, having a minimum depth of 22 feet at low water, whereas in 1877 there were two channels, the greater available depth being 15 feet. Generally, however, there has been a single deep-water channel near the left bank, with an extensive area of shoal water extending from the right or southern shore,\n\nPheasant Point.\n\n33. About 2 miles above Woosung Forts, the river makes a turn around a promontory called Pheasant Point, from which a large shoal extends outwards, thus considerably reducing the width of the river. This conformation tends to diminish the inflow of tidal water—a matter of great moment with regard to the tidal development in the upper reaches of the river.\n\nGough Island Reach,\n\n34. Almost immediately above Pheasant Point, and about 2 miles from Woosung Forts, the Whangpoo divides into two branches, passing respectively to the north-east and south-west of Gough Island, reuniting above the latter a little below Kajow Creek. The channel to the northward and eastward of Gough Island, has hitherto been known as “Ship” Channel, from the fact that until the works which have been recently carried out had considerably advanced, it was the main navigable channel to and from Shanghai; whilst the wider channel passing to the southward and westward\n\nChannel.\n\nof Gough Island, in which there was less depth, was known as “Junk\n\n35. M. de Rijke determined to improve and develop the Junk Channel, and it is in connection with this decision that most of the criticism of his proposals has been based. This important question will, however, receive due consideration at a later period herein.\n\nInner Bar.\n\n36. Where Ship Channel joined Junk Channel at the lower end of Gough Island, a bar called the Woosung Inner Bar, existed for many years across the first-named channel, and formed a great impediment to navigation. Up to the year 1843, no mention was made of any Inner Bar, and the first authentic record of the depth upon it was in 1856, when Lieutenant Bable, United States navy, stated that “the depth of water on the Outer Bar at the lowest spring tide is 24 feet, and on the bar above Woosung it is about 12 feet.” From a paper prepared by Captain Bisbee, coast inspector, recording the results of observations made by him during the period 1872-1893, it also appeared that the depth of water over this Inner Bar was constantly fluctuating, the least recorded depths at spring tides being 6 ft. 9 in. in September\n\n[2958 hh-1]",
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        "content_text": "10\n\n1879, and 6 ft. 3 in. in December 1892. The greatest depth was given as 14 feet in April 1890, the average of the annual maximum depths over the whole period being 11 ft. 3 in., and 9 ft. 1 in., these occurring in April and September respectively in each year. It will be noticed that the least depth occurs in the autumn, after the Yang-tsze floods, and the greatest depth in spring, when that river is low. The depths above recorded refer to Customs datum, which as already stated, is 2 feet below Conservancy datum.\n\n37. The effect of Pheasant Point, taken in conjunction with the sharp bend into the Ship Channel, was a serious drawback to navigation during the time that the latter channel was the main navigable course, inasmuch as the flood tide naturally clung to the Woosung shore for some distance past the turn into the Ship Channel, and consequently vessels attempting to enter this channel were sometimes swung round by the current acting on their port quarter and driven ashore either on Pheasant Point or on the flats below Gough Island. Captain Gregor and Captain Evans, in the interviews which we had with them there, both laid great stress on the difficulties experienced at this turn when the Ship Channel was the main river course.\n\nPoint Bank.\n\n38. Still proceeding upwards, the next defect in the river to which attention should be directed is the wide reach between Black Point and [] Point, where the difference in direction of the flood and ebb currents has led to the formation on the left side of the river of a bank of considerable extent, covered at low water, and having a shallow, partially formed channel in-shore used by small craft. Throughout this reach, however, there has existed for many years a well-defined main channel near the right bank of the river, and it cannot be said that the condition of the stream here is such at present as to give rise to anxiety, although it is manifestly desirable that the flood and ebb currents should be directed over the same course.\n\nPootung Point.\n\n39. From the last-named reach to Shanghai, where there is a very sharp turn at Pootung Point, the river may be said to be generally in a satisfactory condition. In the neighbourhood of Pootung Point there has always been, at certain periods of the tide, a considerable area of chow-chow water, i.e., strong whirlpool eddies, due to the sharp bend in the river and the confluence of the Soochow Creek, which here joins the main stream on the left bank.\n\n40. The depth of water opposite Pootung Point is very great, reaching at one spot to upwards of 100 feet below low water, but there does not appear, as might have been expected, to be any tendency to scour alongside the wharves and buildings on the concave shore. On the other hand, dredging has to be resorted to in order to maintain sufficient water alongside the Hongkow wharves, on the left bank immediately below Soochow Creek.\n\n41. The sharp bend in the river at this point, besides exercising an injurious influence on the tidal development, is especially unfortunate, inasmuch as it occurs in the centre of the most crowded part of the harbour, necessitating great care in navigating vessels to their berths through the mass of European and native shipping.\n\nBank at Native City.\n\n42. The presence of a very considerable mud flat on the left bank of the river, for the most part dry at low water, along the front of the Chinese city (see drawing No. 1), constitutes another serious obstacle to the tidal flow of the Whangpoo, which is aggravated by there being at all times an immense fleet of junks and small craft lying on or near the left bank.\n\n43. This evil is a growing one, for the bank is being increasingly used as a site for storing timber and as a general deposit ground for the refuse and garbage of the native city, which has approximately a population of 1,000,000. On this site is also permanently located an immense number of \"beggar boats\" used as dwellings by the poorest class of Chinese, the people inhabiting these boats being estimated at many thousands. The entire refuse from this population is thrown overboard from the boats into the river, or on the mud bank, thus further obstructing the river flow and increasing the general insanitation of the locality.\n\n11\n\nAbove the Native City.\n\n44. Above the native city the condition of the river rapidly improves, and after a few miles becomes excellent, the reaches being broad, deep, and straight, with easy turns and strong banks. In place, however, injury is caused by the reckless throwing of waste materials of all kinds into the stream, and by the obstruction of fishing stakes and water-nut plantations, but, speaking generally, it may be said that the main channel of the river above the Chinese city is satisfactory in its present condition, and that no remedial works in connection therewith are necessary.\n\nSubsidiary Creeks.\n\n45. The condition of the subsidiary creeks connecting with the Whangpoo has an intimate bearing on the régime of the main river. From our information it appears that they are very much obstructed in the manner mentioned in the last paragraph, and also, in many cases where there are bridges, by banks being projected from the sides with a view to reducing the width to be spanned. A very serious check is thus given to the amount of tidal water passing to and fro. It is too much to say that, in any instances, these creeks would probably have closed altogether had it not been for the practice of the agriculturists of digging out the bottoms of the creeks to form a dressing for the fields.\n\nV. PREVIOUS REPORTS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE WHANGPOO RIVER,\n\n46. The vital necessity of maintaining the Whangpoo in a good navigable condition has for many years, as we have already explained, been urged in the strongest manner by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, and at various times reports have been procured by the chamber and other bodies with regard to schemes most likely to effect the required result. Other reports have also been prepared by various persons for particular interests. In addition to such reports general criticisms have at frequent intervals been passed on the schemes and more particularly on the recommendations of M. de Rijke.\n\nReport of 1876.\n\n47. The first reports to which reference need be made by us are those prepared by M. G. A. Escher and M. J. de Rijke in 1876, addressed to the members of the consular body of Shanghai. These reports, which should be considered together, consist of a joint report by both engineers on the Woosung Inner Bar, and two separate reports upon the best method of dealing with it, M. Escher favouring the improvement of the Ship Channel-at that time the navigable track-whilst M. de Rijke preferred the opening out of Junk Channel for deep-water navigation.\n\nReport of 1898.\n\n48. Nothing was done to improve the condition of the river, as a result of these reports, with the exception of an ineffectual attempt, between 1888 and 1891, to deepen the inner bar by dredging. At the invitation of the Chamber of Commerce, however, M. de Rijke, in 1897, again visited Shanghai, and in January 1898 presented his second report upon the river.\n\n49. In this last-named report M. de Rijke showed, in considerable detail, that the river had deteriorated since his previous visit in 1875, and strongly urged the great importance of immediately carrying out works for the improvement and regulation of the river, if an efficient waterway to Shanghai was to be maintained. This report was the last prepared by M. de Rijke, and it was on the lines then recommended that the works which were commenced in 1907 were carried out.\n\n50. It may be stated generally that M. de Rijke proposed to confine the Whangpoo to one channel throughout its entire course from Shanghai to the Yang-tsze, by means of training and regulating works which he described, and that he again selected for improvement the Junk Channel. The cost of the necessary works was approximately estimated by M. de Rijke at 3,000,000 taels. He pointed out, however, that a proper survey of the river was essential before a reliable estimate could be prepared.\n\n399",
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        "content_text": "13\n\n12\n\nan alternative to the 51. In the same report, M. de Rijke suggested, as improvement of the river below Upper Gough, the cutting of an entirely new channel from this point to the Yang-tsze. Whatever may be the engineering aspect of this proposal, it was abandoned as impracticable, in consequence of the opposition which was anticipated from the Chinese authorities, to the removal of the mouth of the river from the neighbourhood of Woosung, where forts had been constructed and custom-houses established, and also on the ground that, by the adoption of the project, Woosung, itself a treaty port and important native town, would have been cut off from the sea.\n\nMessrs. Franzius and Bates' Report.\n\n52. In 1902 a German engineer, M. Ludwig Franzius, in conjunction with an American engineer, Mr. Lindon W. Bates, submitted a general report on the river, and put forward, as an alternative to M. de Rijke's scheme, a proposal for the development of the Ship Channel as the main navigation track to Shanghai. One of the principal contentions in this report was that the Ship Channel could be improved and maintained at much less cost than the Junk Channel.\n\nVI—FINAL SCHEME OF IMPROVEMENTS.\n\n53. As already stated (paragraph 26), it was not until 1905 that it was definitely decided to improve the river, and that M. de Rijke was appointed engineer-in-chief. An entirely new survey was proceeded with, it being found, in some reaches, that great changes had occurred.\n\n54. M. de Rijke was not requested to submit a general plan of the works to be constructed prior to the same being commenced, nor was an estimate of their cost prepared, the improvements being carried out generally on the lines laid down in his 1898 report, no modifications of any magnitude or importance being considered, by reason of such changes in the river as had taken place in the meantime.\n\nCommencement of Works.\n\n55. The works were commenced early in 1907, those portions which appeared at the moment to require priority in attention being first taken in hand, the most important being the training works at Woosung and those at the lower end of Gough Island.\n\nThe latter were necessary for the maintenance of Ship Channel and the depth of water over the Inner Bar as then existing, until the time arrived for opening the Junk Channel for navigation. Other subsidiary works for confining or enlarging the channel were also designed at Pheasant Point, Pootung Point, and the Chinese city at Shanghai, as well as many small protective works to the banks at threatened places.\n\n\"Normal Lines.”\n\n56. From the upper limit of the river near Kiangnan Arsenal to the Yang-tsze \"normal lines\" were laid down by M. de Rijke, the width between the same being based on that of the stream in Black Point Reach, which was considered to be the best naturally maintained portion of the river below Shanghai. M. de Rijke's proposals included the cutting back or bringing forward of the low-water margin to confine the stream as far as practicable within the \"normal lines.\" These lines have been adopted by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, and all structures such as wharves erected in the river, have rightly to be carried out in conformity with the same.\n\nVII—DESCRIPTION OF WORKS ALREADY MENTIONED.\n\n57. The works referred to in this section are shown upon the accompanying drawings Nos. 1 and 2, those coloured green are entirely or almost entirely completed, those coloured red are further proposals considered essential by M. de Rijke but not yet commenced.\n\n58. It should here be mentioned that in the following description the term 'parallel work\" is applied to any structures lying longitudinally with the axis of the stream, whilst the expression \"crib\" is used for any structure at a right angle to the river bank. A \"crib work\" is a combination of a length of \"parallel work\" with one or more \"cribs.\"\n\n59. Generally speaking, the whole of the training works have been carried out on the Dutch system of mattresses loaded and protected with rubble stone. The various forms of fascine work comprising \"zinkstuks,\" \"gabbioni,\" \"laag work,\" referred to in the following paragraphs are described in detail in the appendix to this report.*\n\n60. We propose, in the first instance, to describe the works mentioned above and coloured green, being those which are already either completed or well in progress.\n\nWoosung Fort Jetty.\n\n61. The works at Woosung consist of a training pier known as \"Fort Jetty,\" commencing at the shore lines on the left bank of the river and projecting for a length of about 4,500 feet towards the Yang-tsze, on a curve of 75,000 feet radius. The object of this work is to confine the tidal flow over the site of the outer bar, and to cause the currents to have a true lead into and out of the Whangpoo. At the inner end of the jetty a small \"work harbour\" has been formed for the accommodation of craft engaged in connection with the improvement works. The jetty has also been extended up the river on the \"normal line\" a short distance above the \"work harbour,\" where it is connected with the shore, at its upper end, by a strong crib. A considerable area has been reclaimed at the root of the \"Fort Jetty,\" between the latter and the original shore-line northward of the \"work harbour\" by means of dredgings from the Junk Channel deposited there.\n\n62. Both the jetty and the walls of the \"work harbour\" and sea dyke are built upon \"zinkstuk\" mattresses. The upper part of the jetty is composed of a stone covering, finished with a protective coating of 5-ton concrete blocks. Six rows of piles are driven longitudinally on the line of the jetty which serve to keep in place the stone covering and the concrete blocks.\n\n63. The \"work harbour\" is still being dredged, but the deposit of silt within the enclosure is so rapid that the contractors are experiencing difficulty in providing the required depth of 6 feet at low-water ordinary spring tide simultaneously over the entire area of the basin. The shore-line up-stream of the \"work harbour\" on the concave, or Woosung, side is protected as far as the new railway bund, by Chinese pile and timber work having a stone apron.\n\n64. The whole of the foregoing works, which were practically complete at the commencement of this year, were carried out under a lump-sum contract by the East Asiatic Dredging Company, the price being 1,997,798 Shanghai taels. To this sum must be added 23,326 Shanghai taels for extra works, making the total cost 2,021,124 Shanghai taels.\n\nTraining Works at Gough Island.\n\n65. The works at Gough Island, especially those at the upper end, constitute the most important feature of the improvements which have been carried out on the Whangpoo. The main object of these works was the closing of the Ship Channel and the radical improvement of the Junk Channel by concentrating the whole energy of the tidal movement in the latter.\n\nLow Gough Works.\n\n66. To effect these objects a parallel work of training-bank has been formed at the northern end of the island, on a foundation of \"zinkstuks,\" stretching towards the Yang-tsze for a distance of 5,400 feet. Extending up-stream from the mainland near Pheasant Point, a second parallel work has been constructed, also formed mostly of \"zinkstuks\" and joined to the shore by a crib. The opening between the ends of these two main parallel banks is 1,400 feet in width, and whilst these works are of assistance in directing the tidal flow into Junk Channel, the considerable width of the opening between the ends of the banks permits, for such time as is desirable, of the easy ingress and egress of tidal water into what is now a cul-de-sac, formerly the site of the old Ship Channel, which under existing conditions will in course of time naturally silt up.\n\n[2958 hA--1]\n\n* Not printed.\n\nF\n\n400",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nUpper Gough Works.\n\n67. At the upper end of Ship Channel the main parallel or longitudinal training work starts from the eastern bank at the lower side of Kajow Creek, crosses obliquely the upper end of the old Ship Channel, and continues along the western margin of Gough Island for a length of about 900 feet, following the \"normal line\" laid down for this bank of the river. It consists of a parallel dam of strong \"zinkstuks\" construction, the stone brought up to about low-water level, and covered with a stone bank.\n\nThe work was, at the beginning of this year, brought up to high water for a distance of 3,200 feet from the upper end of Gough Island, up to low water for a further 300 feet, and up to 11 feet below low water over the remainder of its length. The formation of the upper portion of the work to high-water level was being actively prosecuted, and, we understand, at this date is practically completed.\n\n68. A portion of the main parallel dam at Upper Gough has been backed with dredged material to the extent shown by green colour on the drawings, the dredgings having been pumped into an area enclosed for the purpose by retaining dams of \"zinkstuks\" and two cross dams, into three parts, and the dredgings were pumped up to a level of about 17 feet above low-water ordinary spring tide.\n\nDams across Ship Channel.\n\n69. In addition to the reinforcement of the main dam by the backing of the lower length as just described, M. de Rijke's scheme provided for the construction of a series of six cross dams athwart the Ship Channel near its upper end with a view, as described by himself, of \"subdividing the fall\" of the water flowing over them, and thus avoiding the scour of the bottom adjacent to the main dam by reason of an unbroken overfall of the water.\n\n70. During the construction of the works the foundations of only two of these cross dams have been deposited, two others have been omitted altogether, whilst the remaining two have, we are informed, been brought up to low water within the last few weeks.\n\nKajow Crib-work.\n\n71. The work at Kajow consists of three strong cribs, connected at their outer ends by a parallel work 1,350 feet in length, composed of zinkstuks, finished above low water with a bank of rubble stone. The object of this structure is to initiate the diversion of the ebb current by leading the same clear of the upper end of the main parallel dam at Upper Gough.\n\nSubsidiary Works.\n\n72. Further works have been constructed, in this reach, on both sides of the river, consisting, as shown by green colour upon the drawings, of cribs of varying dimensions, terminating with lengths of parallel work constructed on the \"normal lines.\" These works are, for the most part, built with a foundation of zinkstuks and a superstructure of gabbioni and laagwork, the surface being protected with a covering of rubble stone. The parallel works are in almost all cases brought up to a level slightly above low water, the object being to retain the low-water flow within the \"normal lines\" without diminishing the tidal capacity of the right bank of Ship Channel. During the construction of the works required for the opening out of Junk Channel, a few light revetments and other works were constructed, but these subsidiary works are not shown upon the drawings.\n\nDredging in Junk Channel.\n\n73. The opening of the new deep-water track through Junk Channel was mainly accomplished by means of dredging. Bucket dredgers only were employed in the channel itself, as the material was found to be of too fine a nature to be deposited into barges or hoppers by sand pumps, and the depositing grounds were not so placed as to admit of the use of shore delivery pipes. One pump dredger was, however, specially equipped for reclaiming purposes by being adapted for pumping out hoppers which had been filled by the bucket dredgers.\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n15\n\n74. The quantity of material dredged, and in process of being dredged at the commencement of the year, is as follows, the measurement being computed in hoppers :-\n\n  \n    \n    Cubic yards.\n  \n  \n    Original contract\n    6,666,700\n  \n  \n    Extra work\n    25,400\n  \n  \n    New contract (in execution)\n    1,200,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    7,892,100\n  \n\n(Say, 8,000,000 cubic yards.)\n\nVIII-DESCRIPTION OF WORKS PROPOSED BUT NOT YET EXECUTED.\n\n75. It is necessary that we should now refer to the works, shown by red colour on the drawings, which are considered necessary by M. de Rijke, for the full completion of his scheme for the improvement of the Whangpoo, but which have not yet been commenced.\n\nTraining Works opposite Woosung.\n\n76. The works proposed to be constructed at the mouth of the Whangpoo, on the right bank, have for their object the further directing of the tidal flow across the site of the Outer Bar, and also, more especially, the prevention of the development of a separate flood channel, close inshore, to which reference has already been made in paragraph 32. As previously described, such a channel has at various periods developed from natural causes, to a greater or less extent, but manifestly to the detriment of the depth on the Outer Bar. At the beginning of the year there were indications of this inshore channel again opening.\n\n77. The works proposed, in order to counteract this tendency, consist of a curved parallel bank 5,000 feet in length, to be constructed along the \"normal line\" at the mouth of the river on its eastern side, and connected with the shore by four cribs. The character of construction would be substantially the same as that of the corresponding works on the left shore, but without the concrete block-work protection. M. de Rijke, for purposes of economy, proposes, in the first instance, to carry out only the cribs and two short lengths of parallel work, relying on the same to break the inshore flow of the flood to which reference is made above.\n\nCutting Back of Pheasant Point.\n\n78. After the training works described in the last section have been carried out, it is proposed to dredge the accumulation at, and in the vicinity of, Pheasant Point, to the extent shown on the drawings. We understand it is not intended to proceed with this dredging until the training works, described in the preceding paragraph, are completed, as otherwise it is considered that full advantage of the dredging would not be obtained, inasmuch as one of the alleged main causes of the accumulation at Pheasant Point, viz., the inshore flood current charged with silt from the Yang-tsze, as already described, would not have been cut off. The dredging proposed by M. de Rijke amounts to a total of 2,650,000 cubic yards, and would be removed in three belts, having depths of 9, 15, and 18 feet respectively, at low-water ordinary spring tide.\n\nTraining Works at Point.\n\n79. Above Gough Island, training works are proposed for the left bank as far as Point, consisting of long cribs stretching from the shore out to the \"normal line,\" connected at their outer ends with lengths of parallel work. The object of these structures is to confine the low-water flow to the main channel, and to prevent the further development of an inshore flood channel which already exists, with a depth of about 9 feet at low water.\n\n80. On the right bank, between Kajow Creek and Cosmopolitan Dock, small cribs are proposed with lengths of parallel work on the \"normal lines,\" for the preservation of the river bank which over this length is in places very insecure.\n\nAccumulation opposite Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\n81. Above Point and opposite Cosmopolitan Dock, there is a considerable accumulation forward of the \"normal line\" as shown on drawing No. 1,* which\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n401",
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        "content_text": "# 18\n\nEffect on the Navigation of the River.\n\n96. In order to ascertain as far as practicable the general opinion of those principally concerned in the improvement of the Wangpoo, Messrs. Wilson and Matthews, when at Shanghai, interviewed several gentlemen interested in the shipping and general trade of the river, who courteously afforded them valuable information.\n\n97. Amongst these gentlemen were Mr. Merrill, Commissioner of Customs, and one of the members of the Wangpoo Conservancy Board; Mr. Landale, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and local manager of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.; Mr. Marshall, agent of the P. and O. Company and chairman of the Shipping Conference; Mr. Wright, deputy chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire; M. Michelau, of Messrs. Melchors, agents for the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-America Shipping Companies; M. de Thuy, agent for the Messageries maritimes; and Captain Schellhoss, technical attaché to the German consulates in China.\n\n98. In addition to the gentlemen above named, Messrs. Wilson and Matthews had several interviews with Captain Carlson, the harbour-master, who at all times readily furnished such information as was desired from him, also ship-masters and pilots of the P. and O., Norddeutscher Lloyd, Messageries maritimes, Ocean Steamship, and other companies. It is gratifying that the agents and pilots of the Norddeutscher Lloyd and Messageries maritimes companies were good enough to furnish such information on the spot, seeing that, as already remarked in paragraph 3 we have unfortunately not been successful in meeting the representatives of these companies in London.\n\n99. Although it is not necessary to follow in detail the opinions expressed by these gentlemen, we may state that, with regard to the broad question at issue, they were practically unanimous in the opinion that the Astrea Channel is greatly superior for navigation purposes to the old Ship Channel, both on account of its straighter course and its greater width of dead water. They also earnestly hoped that the works in progress would be fully completed. Whilst putting forward the foregoing views and opinions, we should also remark that M. de Rijke's scheme has on other grounds been the subject of much adverse criticism, to which reference will be made hereafter in section XI.\n\nX. THE COST OF THE UNDERTAKING.\n\nWork Fund.\n\n100. As already described (paragraph 25) the cost of the whole of the works had, by the convention of 1905, to be borne by the Chinese Government, the amount being estimated at twenty annual instalments of 460,000 Haikwan taels, or a total of 9,200,000 Haikwan taels. This sum may therefore be taken here as the work fund.\n\n101. In order to prosecute vigorously the two main portions of the undertaking, viz., the Woosung Jetty Works and the opening of the Junk Channel, it became necessary at the commencement of the undertaking to arrange for a fund of 4,500,000 Haikwan taels for immediate contracts.\n\n102. There was, however, as already pointed out, a reservation in the convention that if a greater sum of 460,000 Haikwan taels was required in any one year, China might obtain a loan for the same, interests being defrayed out of the capital sum of 9,200,000 Haikwan taels. The result thus came about that a loan was obtained for 2,998,235 Haikwan taels, being fixed as representing the total interest to be paid on the same. The effective sum forming the work fund was thus reduced to 6,201,764 Haikwan taels. This last-named amount has, however, since been augmented by the addition of 300,000 Shanghai taels, specially granted last year. This total work fund, therefore, stands as follows:-\n\nOriginal capital sum9,200,000\nLess interest on loan2,998,235\nTotal net sum6,201,764\nSpecial grant300,000\nTotal net work fund7,208,765\n\n19\n\nContract Work.\n\n103. Contract No. 1, for the construction of the Woosung jetty and contingent works, amounted to 1,997,798 Shanghai taels, to which must be added a sum of 23,326 Shanghai taels for extra work, making a total of 2,028,124 Shanghai taels. Contract No. 2, for dredging in the Junk Channel, amounted to 2,000,000 Shanghai taels, to which must be added 7,614 Shanghai taels for extra work, making a total of 2,007,014 Shanghai taels. Contract No. 3, for further dredging in Astræa Channel, amounted to 264,000 Shanghai taels. These three contracts therefore necessitated a total expenditure of 4,292,738 Shanghai taels.\n\n\"Own Administration\" Work.\n\n104. The sum expended on \"own administration\" work (i.e., work carried out departmentally by the board under M. de Rijke) amounted at the 31st December, 1909, to 2,132,833 Shanghai taels.\n\nTotal Expenditure on Works.\n\n105. It will be seen from the foregoing that at the end of last year, including both “contract\" and \"own administration\" works, a total sum of 6,425,571 Shanghai taels has been expended, leaving an available balance of only 783,194 Shanghai taels out of the total net \"work fund\" of 7,208,765 Shanghai taels referred to in paragraph 102.\n\n106. Our information regarding the financial aspect of the works was obtained through Mr. A. G. H. Carruthers, secretary to the Whangpoo Conservancy.\n\nXI-CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT.\n\n107. Whilst at Shanghai Messrs. Wilson and Matthews obtained, as far as it was practicable to do so, particulars of the grounds on which the criticisms of M. de Rijke's scheme and the operations in connection therewith were based, and in many cases had the advantage of bearing the objections directly from their originators.\n\n108. They were fortunate in having several interviews with M. Michelau, whose firm, as already mentioned, are agents for the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-America Shipping Companies, and also with Captain Schellhoss. These gentlemen courteously received them, and afforded the fullest information as to the objections raised by the German community and the reasons for the same.\n\n109. In the first place, M. de Rijke was severely criticised for having commenced the works in 1907 on lines practically corresponding with those which he had laid down in 1895, notwithstanding that in the meantime great alterations had taken place in the river; this in particular reference to the selection of Junk Channel for improvement rather than Ship Channel.\n\nMemorandum of the \"Deutsche Vereinigung.\"\n\n110. In November 1907, some months after the present works were commenced, we understand, a copy of a memorandum, addressed to the German Imperial consul-general and supported by the German Association (\"Deutsche Vereinigung\") of Shanghai, was forwarded by that association to the chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, with a letter dated the 5th November, 1907.\n\n111. The memorandum supported the contention that Ship Channel should be adhered to as the permanent navigation route, and stated that, although at the date of M. de Rijke's report of 1898 the Ship Channel was shoaling, in 1907, when the works were about to be commenced, the same channel was again deepening and the Junk Channel shoaling.\n\n112. In support of the latter statement the memorandum quotes the following from M. de Rijke's quarterly report, dated the 26th January, 1907:\n\n\"The depth of water in the river generally has greatly increased, owing to the heavy rain washing out the channel (Ship Channel), and consequently defence work has proved more difficult. Gough Island Reach, where some of the largest works have to be made, has grown much deeper, and the shoaling of Ship Channel will be much more expensive than at first estimated.\"\n\nPage 403",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nM. de Rijke's quarterly report, dated the 20th April, 1907, is also then quoted, as follows:-\n\n\"A resounding of Gough Island Reach shows that the depth all along Ship Channel has increased, while Junk Channel has shallowed.\"\n\nThe memorandum further states that at that date-\n\n\"the so-called Inner Bar has almost disappeared, and there is to-day, from the arsenal to the mouth of the river, a uniform depth of at least 18 feet at lowest low-water level; in other words, the works which the River Conservancy tries to achieve are already almost in existence.\"\n\n113. The memorandum, in summarising the conclusions arrived at, contains the following:-\n\nAccording to M. de Rijke's own words, the forcing over of the main stream of a river like this, without causing new impediments and without much interrupting navigation, is often found to be a most difficult task, even when using numbers of men skilled in such work.\" The Kajow Bar, which should facilitate this 'forcing over,' has entirely disappeared, and there must now be a certain danger if it is tried. Is it, under these circumstances, advisable to run such an incalculable and enormous risk? Or what security does M. de Rijke's scheme give that, in the course of its execution, shipping will not be seriously hampered or even interrupted?\n\n\"The expense of the Ship Channel's closing up under the present conditions will be--as admitted by the quarterly reports-much higher than at first estimated. Will this amount, under all circumstances, suffice for the complete execution of M. de Rijke's scheme?\n\n\"There are at the disposal twenty annual votes of 460,000 taels each.\n\n\"If these two questions cannot be answered with certainty, might it not be taken into serious consideration to make use of the natural tendency of the river, choosing the present fair-way (Ship Channel) by improving and straightening it?\n\nIt is quite obvious that thereby the shipping can in no way be hampered, and, moreover, the expenses will be considerably smaller.\n\n\"We would like to mention that our misgivings are shared by experts.\"\n\n114. We have made these quotations from the memorandum of the \"Deutsche Vereinigung,\" for the purpose of focussing attention on the main points where difference of opinion existed between the advocates of the Ship Channel route and those who favoured the scheme for the development of Junk Channel.\n\nCaptain Schellhoss's further Criticisms.\n\n115. Captain Schellhoss also explained, at an interview, that in his opinion the Jetty Works at Woosung were of a much heavier section than required, and pointed out that owing to the large expenditure upon them and on the great works, previously described, which were required to divert the river from its normal course at Gough Island, it had been necessary to raise a large loan, with the consequence that there had to be paid away in interest a sum amounting to one-third of the total available work fund. He considered that all the improvements required might have been effected at the rate of 460,000 Haikwan taels per annum, in which case almost 3,000,000 Haikwan taels more would have been available for productive expenditure.\n\n116. Captain Schellhoss also questioned the necessity for the series of six cross dams behind the main longitudinal dam at Upper Gough, and the introduction in nearly every case of two cribs, connecting the shore with the various parallel works, instead of relying on one only.\n\n117. Criticisms were also expressed by Captain Schellhoss and some others with regard to the administration of the works. This matter does not, however, appear to us to have a direct bearing upon the main question which we are called upon to investigate, viz., whether or not in the scheme, as carried out, is the best which could have been adopted, and also whether there is a probability of its being permanently successful.\n\nXII.-M. DE RIJKE'S VIEWS GENERALLY ON THE FOREGOING CRITICISMS.\n\n118. Taking first the points raised in the memorandum of the \"Deutsche Vereinigung,\" it will now be conceded that the fears formally expressed with regard to cutting off Shanghai for a time from the sea, or of increased difficulties in the navigation during the construction of the works, have been proved to be unfounded.\n\n21\n\nReasons for the Selection of Junk Channel.\n\n119. M. de Rijke answered the foregoing criticisms in writing, and also explained his views to Mr. Wilson and Mr. Matthews; his replies on the question of the selection of the Junk Channel for improvement rather than the Ship Channel may be summarised as follows:--\n\n(a.) That a much straighter and better course is thereby obtained, both for tidal development and for navigation.\n\n(b.) That owing to the sharp concave bend in the Ship Channel and the action of the tidal currents thereon, the defence works on the right bank would require to be almost continuous, and, having to be constructed in deep water, would, of necessity, prove very costly to carry out in the first instances, and would entail heavy maintenance charges in the future.\n\n(c.) That in consequence of the insufficiency of the cross-sectional area of the Ship Channel branch of the river, either very heavy dredging work would have been necessary along Gough Island shore, or else a portion of the Junk Channel must have been left open, which might have resulted in the continuation of the Inner Bar, and would have defeated the whole object of training the river and the creation of a single waterway for the flux of the tides.\n\n(d.) That the training works extending from the left bank, below Gough Island, which would be required to divert the flood currents into the Ship Channel would have to be carried across deep water, and be of exceptional strength on account of the abrupt angle around which the stream would have to be turned.\n\nAt the same time the development of the flood tide would have been seriously injured by being forced around so sharp a curve.\n\n(e.) That works of a similar description, though of a less substantial character, would have been required from the left bank, above Gough Island, in order to divert the ebb currents into the Ship Canal.\n\n(f) That a channel of the full section required, and with good curves, could be more readily obtained through Junk Channel, and, moreover, the training works necessary, apart from the main parallel dam at Upper Gough, could be constructed almost entirely in shallow water.\n\nCross Dams at Upper Gough.\n\n120. With reference to the series of cross dams behind the main parallel dam at Upper Gough, and the system of double or treble cribs, connecting the shore with the various parallel works, M. de Rijke considered a provision of this kind essential, on so soft a bottom as is here experienced, in order to subdivide the fall of the stream over the works in such a manner as to reduce scour at the foot of the dam, and to facilitate the deposit of silt between the cribs. Although he had allowed for the six upper dams in his estimate of April 1909, in case they might all be required, he proposed only to construct such of them as experience might find to be necessary as the works proceeded.\n\nXIII.-OUR OPINION WITH REGARD TO THE WORKS EXECUTED BY M. DE RIJKE.\n\n121. We have thought it desirable to describe fully the works which have been proposed and those which have been executed, and have referred at length to the reasons which led to the adoption of the design of the works which have been carried out, and also to the views which are entertained generally at Shanghai with regard thereto. It now becomes necessary that we should express our opinion, which we do after most careful consideration, with reference to these important matters.\n\nPreference for Junk Channel Route.\n\n122. Dealing first with the principal controversial point, viz., as to whether the Ship Channel or the Junk Channel should have been selected for improvement; we are strongly of opinion, after mature reflection, that the right course was adopted in the decision to improve and develop the Junk Channel.\n\n[2958 kh-1]\n\n404",
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        "content_text": "22\n\n123. The following may be taken as the objects which have been aimed at and attained, and which we have kept in view in forming our conclusions ----\n\n1. The improved facility for the propagation of the tidal wave up the river. 2. The better direction of the ebb currents.\n\n3. The improvement effected from a navigation standpoint.\n\n124. The first of these points requires little explanation since, as is clear from an inspection of the plan, the tidal wave is now propagated through a single comparatively straight channel instead of through two channels, the deeper one of which was sinuous. In this connection it must be borne in mind that, at the date of the commencement of the works, the curvature of the Ship Canal was rapidly increasing, under the eroding influence of the tidal currents, and the disadvantages due to such curvature were becoming correspondingly accentuated.\n\n125. The second point, viz., the better direction of the ebb currents, is also a matter of the greatest importance. Under the scheme as carried out, the ebb currents, after rounding the curve at the upper end of Gough Island, pass directly along the Astræa Channel to the Woosung curve, their energy being thus preserved and concentrated on the river outlet, instead of, as formerly, being largely dissipated in the mischievous erosion of the concave bank of the Ship Channel and in traversing the sharp reverse curve and the old Inner Bar. This sharp training and directing of the ebb currents should have the best possible effect in improving the Astræa Channel and in maintaining and increasing the depths already obtained at the Outer Bar.\n\n126. From a navigation standpoint the advantages of the Astræa Channel over its predecessor are very apparent. The new reach is now one of the easiest in the whole river for navigation, and ocean-going steamers, which previously experienced such difficulties and danger from confused currents and ebb tides, at the low turn into the Ship Canal, can now pass up the river with perfect ease.\n\nRelative Cost of Ship and Junk Channel Routes.\n\n127. The chief ground on which those who favoured the Ship Channel, as the principal route for the river to and from Shanghai, based their arguments appears to have been that, by its adoption, a considerable saving in expenditure would have been effected. We have looked into this aspect of the question and cannot find that there would have been any substantial reduction in the quantities of the work to be executed, had the Ship Channel route been adopted, basing the calculation on the condition of the river as it existed at the time the operations were commenced---- in 1907.\n\n128. By the adoption of the Ship Channel course it would no doubt have been practicable to have prolonged the period for the execution of the works, and thereby to have reduced, to some extent, the sum which was paid for interest, consequent on the raising of a loan for the more rapid carrying out of the Junk Channel works, speed being essential for the successful accomplishment of the latter undertaking.\n\n129. We consider, however, that even in the cost of the works so involved in the opening out that and formation of the Astræa Channel were somewhat greater than that necessary for the development of the Ship Channel, the superiority of the former route fully justifies the additional outlay.\n\nCross Dams at Upper End of Ship Channel.\n\n130. With regard to the exception which has been taken to the number of cross dams at the upper end of Ship Channel, as shown on drawing No. 2, the present state of progress of which has been referred to in paragraph 70, M. de Rijke has explained that in constructing the main parallel dam required for closing the Ship Channel he was extremely anxious lest damage or accident should occur in consequence of excessive scour at the foot of this dam, during construction, and the more so having regard to the exceedingly soft nature of the bottom. In order to obviate this scour, which might have endangered the safety of the dam, he considered it advisable to provide the series of cross dams as shown on drawing No. 3, their object being, as previously described by M. de Rijke, to \"subdivide the fall of the water,\" and so diminish the scour.\n\n131. We think this view was a sound one in principle, but apparently M. de Rijke does not now consider, in the light of experience, that all the dams which he proposed will be necessary. Thus only four out of the six suggested have been commenced, and of these four, it is, as we understand, proposed to complete two only, known locally as I and C, and so indicated on drawing No. 2. In this decision we concur.\n\n132. We fully appreciate his anxiety for the safety of the main parallel dam, during the difficult and delicate operations of diverting the course of so large and important a river as the Whangpoo, in constant use by ocean traffic to and from one of the largest shipping ports in the world. Any accident to the dam might have led to such disastrous results, that we consider the magnitude of the interests at stake fully justified the precaution which was adopted.\n\nPage 23\n\nWoosung Fort Jetty Works.\n\n133. We understand that before proceeding with the Fort Jetty works at Woosung M. de Rijke made careful inquiries with regard to the wave-stroke to which such works would be exposed, and that he designed the cross-section of the structure accordingly. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Matthews, when at Shanghai, were informed by the harbour-master that, in addition to typhoons, which occasionally occur, considerable \"seas\" were sometimes experienced at the entrance to the Whangpoo, and that lightering operations in connection with vessels lying in the roads had in consequence to be frequently suspended.\n\n134. Having regard to these facts, and seeing that the \"fetch\" in the Yang-tsze, at high water, is very considerable, we can fully realise that the work may at times be exposed to a heavy wave-stroke, and therefore we cannot endorse the criticisms which have been raised with regard to there being any excessive strength in the Fort Jetty.\n\nThe Mode of Construction adopted for the Training Works.\n\n135. During the progress of this investigation we have been much impressed by the successful manner in which various forms of fascine work have been employed in the construction of the training banks, cribwork groins, and other similar structures,\n\n136. By the employment of zinkstuks, gabbioni, and corresponding forms of construction in the training works, M. de Rijke has been enabled to carry out his proposals with a rapidity and economy which would have been quite impracticable by the adoption of any other method.\n\n137. In illustration of the rapidity of construction, we may observe that, from the commencement of the training works in February 1907 to the end of 1909, a period of thirty-five months, about 60,000 lineal feet of works had been put in hand, and well advanced, or on an average, say, 1,700 lineal feet per month. These figures, no doubt, include a large number of shallow cribs, of a light character, constructed across mud flats, but combined therewith heavy structures such as Fort Jetty, the main dam at Upper Gough, and the training works at Lower Gough and Kajow, have also been carried out.\n\n138. In the appendix hereto we give, in detail, a description of the mode of construction which was adopted in forming the different types of fascine work to which we have referred, and of the procedure which was observed when placing the same in position.\n\nThe Effects produced by the Works Executed.\n\n139. We have already described, in section IX hereof, the results which have been produced by the works already executed, and which appear, on the whole, to be of an entirely successful character. The accumulation of silt between the cribs, which extend from the \"normal lines\" shorewards is, we understand, very noticeable, and forms a satisfactory feature in the undertaking.\n\nXIV. THE NECESSITY FOR CAREFUL MAINTENANCE OF THE WORKS.\n\n140. It is necessary that we should here allude to, and emphasise, the absolute necessity for the due and proper maintenance of the works after completion. During the progress of the undertaking there has been no difficulty in keeping a watchful eye on the various works which had been previously constructed, but we are strongly of opinion that provision should be made for systematic and periodical maintenance.\n\nPage 405",
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        "content_text": "The river presented no serious obstacles as we proceeded, though at one point it narrowed between limestone boulders, impassable: but, as we neared, it was apparent that there was a narrow winding channel through the limestone ridges which jutted across the river from either bank. The Fu-po-t'an or Ta-t'an is a succession of three bad rapids separated by lesser rapids, with a total length of about 3 miles. This rapid forms the greatest danger to navigation on the West River for steamers or junks during the low-water season. In the lowest rapid, called 'The Ploughshare' from its shape, the peril is the rock known as Kua Tai, so called presumably because the rudder hangs round the bank. The channel is 24 feet wide. In the middle rapid the Ch'a Lu rock is the danger, and our boat actually struck this a slanting blow which stove in a plank. In the upper rapid there are two channels, the right-hand being the easier. Steaming our best—9 knots—and with six of the crew poling their hardest with long bamboo shoulder poles we just, but only just, ascended it.\n\nAt the top of the Fu-po-t'an stands the Drum Rock in the stream. Just above on the left bank is the fine temple, Fu-po-miao. We saluted the temple with three blasts, and received a salvo of five crackers in return, while the boat's crew bowed politely in certain anticipation of favours to come. It is curious to relate that descending in December 1909 by native boat, the strong wind drove us against the Ch'a Lu rock. The stern grounded with our bows still in the channel of the furious current. The skill of the pilot and the coolness of the crew extricated the boat from a seemingly hopeless position. Two special pilots, at 4d. each, had been taken for the run through the rapid. It has been proposed to improve the Pan-t'an and the Ta-t'an.\n\nMr. Eldridge, of Imperial Maritime Customs, was sent up to survey and report. I understand that he believes the Pan-t'an could be made safe by the expenditure of 100,000 taels. He appears to be doubtful about interfering with the Ta-t'an, unless the Provincial authorities are prepared to spend a large sum of money. Bearing in mind the fact that it is hazardous to interfere with \"living water,\" I believe that the upper parts of the Ta-t'an could be improved by some blasting. The lower and most dangerous bit—'The Ploughshare'—would undoubtedly cost a very large sum of money, as it requires blasting over a wide area, and embankments would be needed in order to train the channel, which might otherwise silt up.\n\nTwenty-seven miles above Nanning is the Kam-ling rapid, which is difficult to pass, with this exception, the river presents no serious difficulties to steam navigation, in so far as rapids go, although at dead low-water season (January) the channels are narrow and shallow, in many places 2 feet deep only. It is very probable, however, that a small motor boat, 60 feet long, could run with profit and little risk from April to December. High speed is unnecessary anywhere along the West River. I estimate that the rate of the fastest rapid between Wuchow and Pose at any time of the year does not exceed 9 knots. It does not follow, however, that a boat doing 12 knots could surmount this rapid. The rapids are generally formed by the narrowing of the river-bed by rocks and shingle banks. The surface of the water is forced into a tongue. The greatest speed is at the tip of the tongue or lower end, but it is the base or upper end which the steamer finds so difficult to ascend. The reason is, I think, because the tongue is an inclined plane of water, and, should the stretch above the rapid be wide and deep, the volume of the water pouring down the rapid is sufficient to check the passage of any craft trusting to speed alone. What is required is a lifting power to raise the boat up the inclined plane of water. This would be supplied either by a hawser fastened to a rock above the rapid or to a point on shore, or if the water be sufficiently shallow to allow of them by shoulder poles pushed by the crew on board.\n\nIn the West River the water is comparatively shallow. This explains the use of the narrow platforms running all round the boats. In the Yang-tsze rapids the water is deeper, and the boats do not therefore carry the platform. Generally speaking, the rapids on the West River, with the exception of the Ta-t'an and perhaps the Pan-t'an at dead low water, are nothing like as formidable to negotiate as the worst rapids on the stretch between Ichang and Chungking.\n\nNanning, the most important town in the province of Kuanghsi from a commercial point of view, lies on the north bank of the river 330 miles (1,105 li) above Wuchow. The town was formally opened to trade and a branch of the Imperial Maritime Customs established there at the beginning of 1907. During my visit in January 1907 work was in full swing on the new settlement located about a mile below the city. The business quarter is above the city. The ground had been levelled, roads marked out and sites ready for apportionment; 600 coolies were busily engaged in building the bund. The location of the settlement was chosen on the advice of the Imperial Maritime Customs. The situation, however, is unfortunate, not only on account of its distance from the business quarter, but also on account of the attacks of the river at high water. As a matter of fact, the ancient town stood much in the position occupied by the settlement and appears to have been removed on account of the subsidence of the river banks. In August 1907 the bund collapsed. It has been temporarily patched up again, but it is doubtful if it will stand the attacks of the river for any length of time. The Chinese Settlement Land Office has been built and there is a flimsy mat-shed erection of a Chinese theatre. There are no other buildings in the settlement. The Commissioner of Customs lives in the Land Office. Last summer he found some difficulty in procuring an adequate supply of tubs in which to catch the rain-water as it leaked through the roof. The treasurer of the province who, during his secret investigations of the secret societies at Nanning, was temporarily occupying the ground floor complained that the rain, which had soaked the upper floors, dripped on to him below; 120,000 taels is the sum mentioned to me as having been frittered away on the scheme. The total absence of Chinese merchants is a melancholy illustration of their want of confidence in their own officials.\n\nThe trade of Nanning has slowly but steadily increased during the last three years, and there appears reason to hope it will develop more freely.\n\nLungchou.—Lungchou, the treaty port on the Kuanghsi-Tongking frontier, appears to be an absolute failure from a commercial point of view. I was assured by a competent authority that there is not sufficient trade to keep one junk in constant employment between Lungchou and Nanning. Lungchou is on the Tso-chiang, the southern branch of the West River. The journey is about ten days by junk. The port was visited in 1908 by a British and subsequently by a German gun-boat. The junction of the Tso-chiang with the West River is at San-chiang-k'ou. A Chinese fort is being erected at this point. It is proposed to station 250 men there, ostensibly as a guard against pirates but really, extraordinary as the idea may be, as an advanced post of Nanning in case of a sudden inroad of French troops.\n\nThe foreign trade of Nanning, and the native, too, except that of a local and petty description, is in the hands of the Cantonese merchants at Nanning. The Chamber of Commerce is very influential, and controls public opinion. A recent meeting of this body presided over by the taotai and attended by all the officials, will serve to show that Nanning is becoming Cantonised. A young Cantonese merchant, in reply to the taotai's speech, which contained suggestions for the development of commercial prosperity, declared openly that the best method was for the officials to leave the merchants alone. Everyone knew, he said, that the aim of the officials was to get office, and fill their money-bags at the expense of the merchants and the people. The meeting broke up in some confusion. It is tolerably certain that three years ago no Nanning merchant would have dared to have been so presumptuously outspoken. In the Chamber of Commerce a scroll has been hung in a conspicuous place. The scroll is inscribed with the text of the governor's telegram repudiating the action of the magistrate, a Cantonese, in having compelled a Cantonese merchant to kneel before him. The magistrate was transferred, and the Nanning Chamber of Commerce called upon other Cantonese to disown him as a fellow-provincial. It is noteworthy that a telegram received from the Tien-tsin Chamber of Commerce urging steps to be taken to assist in the redemption of the foreign indemnities did not even come up for discussion in the Nanning Chamber of Commerce. The merchants appeared to be unwilling to withdraw capital from their provincial trade in order to finance a loan the interest on which would be repaid to them by means of additional burdens on trade.\n\nTrade. The principal exports of Kuanghsi are essential oils (aniseed and cassia), oil (groundnut, tea, and wood), hides, star aniseed, groundnuts, cattle and pigs, indigo, raw silk, and timber.\n\nThe principal imports are cotton yarn, cotton piece goods, kerosene oil, sugar, and Chinese tobacco.\n\nThe increase in the cultivation of groundnuts and mulberry trees is very marked, especially in the country between Nanning and Wuchow.\n\nThe ruined towns on the banks of the West River testify to the flourishing trade before the Taiping rebellion, and the Mahommedan rebellion in Yünnan.\n\nTin mines to the west of Wuchow are doing well, and if only the officials will abstain from interference, Chinese capitalists at Hong Kong and elsewhere will proceed to develop other mines. There are gold mines near En-lun-hsien.\n\nThe increased security of life and property along the river route, together with the increase in population and cultivation combine to improve the future prospects of the West River route. I was impressed by the marked improvement in the efficiency...\n\nPage 431",
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        "content_text": "As the situation in the immediate vicinity has remained unchanged with a policy of inactivity, and the Sanitary Department is now threatened with the complete suspension of the Conservancy Service, I feel compelled to request your assistance in sending a Gunboat to the scene if possible. The Commander should consult beforehand with His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nThe moral effect of the appearance of a British Warship would, in my opinion, be sufficient to deter the pirates from attempting further outrages and bring the Chinese Authorities and the Commanders of the Pirate Resisting Troops to a sense of their duties.\n\nIt is unfortunately difficult to give accurate particulars of the whereabouts of the pirates' headquarters. Mr. Tratman, the Head of the Sanitary Department, attempted to identify the position of Wang Lin on the chart. He conferred with one of the junk-masters, who is, of course, ignorant of English and unable to read a chart, and came to the conclusion that Wang Lin is entered on the chart in error as Wang Li, and that the route taken by the junks is via \"Tai Chan, Tiger Island, Sai Wan Channel, Ho Kau, and Brick-kiln Creek\". The only pirate stronghold en route that could be identified was Tai Nai, where a large gang operates.\n\nMr. Tratman and one of the junk-masters would be prepared to accompany the Gunboat and assist the Commander in ascertaining the exact situation of the localities concerned.\n\nI have, etc.\n\nSd.\n\nF. H. May\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481",
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        "content_text": "473\n\n: ont test bus atsod ni vĹžnatunoo troda antvom bus obods\n\nantirewoq to boneɑeną niert TO STAWAM redźle stew atopa{[ty\n\nFædd timerit tortons revisament fostorą nadd sтom ob of\n\nto wiemną odź jambea di,tom ene ajalt saert\n\nezomwo setпsade doly to jud jel·l verd dołtw naon ae\"affiv eð\n\nbert STs anotaviživo -ledT .040e\" bee motmed rå paivir\n\n003 Vino ene odw‚E:Alo tuorooq bne tɛewol edt to Brimodal\n\nNOŽBENE OF azebuetam saødt etelitomos mas vert ti Ivinadt\n\nIsem sort a matt daoo\n\ndeario est to shuttede eft Xnift I efort ert no\n\nDISK SNJ nerw omit a ni „boltijauj, et inloq aint no steal170\n\n-DOXO VI iwe naam of effølt et airs beareoli to notnananoq\n\nBiroja cozalltv Istpt(votiga tad bernagio ad of jon el 31,25lt\n\n-Ittwe avotto tand 10 diviert griezeg tostory of Berfezradi mis\n\n-mørt æene![ly oft mort astetiq oɗt quod of moldoændte trato\n\n.edvica\n\nemda mi jet noimigo to me I skit omes et SA\n\n-netzi paerit to stotesitant toonib odd erTA 9078[liv oft er:35\n\nof wovicarer · toa vodat tost mt jed) ¡õi ̃^s** Kałw soon812t\n\n.redt BODEsq taxt onladyrove mor\" [[o]\n\n#orot buy new ad? Bft Ndiw Gras erit pidator al alt\n\n(adrado Belt mo na lep boltan} ma' BED .otte edo prow\" CLBX\n\n*now* *s* fa−bo z'rovi\" eft of suolo str[[ły ostal try a at\n\n. (højdete teha) erleoggo erode ent of wavly emer oft að þeND\n\nmacore\" ) \"star\" [good\" 12 bernan taod brein s si STOʻT\n\nbicq bas archum mwo sioďt mor? anslit▼ edt yď betteroOT BUTAIS\n\nTo Digong end dart avelled exotararić donaro I\n\ntood yonevznero\" and to moltmetab silt to encwe don etów naw 9:2\n\nsnow vaca ti rand no enefity or to abray, berbaud wet a nirishw\n\ndiw ombel at jon snow bre zosmię to consaeng edit to smere\n\nno .net bestoætis even portob Moɑ mi tom Birow yedd\n\ntu\" out to abser et tot met RED TË HOOI Bivore I visitnoɔ dift\n\n*eetaniq \"-moll I =** bra \"ano'T\n\n&rore h\n\nAlthough he was not prepared to accept our\n\nposition with regard to the villages, Mr. Ts'oi stated that\n\nvigorous measures were being taken to make this waterway safe\n\nagain. He said that several hundred troops and a number of\n\ndetectives had been sent into the district and that the water-\n\npatrols had been strengthened by the addition of four armed\n\nvessels. It was also, he said, proposed to erect block-houses\n\nat intervals along the lonely parts of the channel.\n\nThese block-houses would be 20 to 30 feet high and large enough to\n\naccommodate 40 soldiers. They would each be supplied with a\n\nfast canoe of the \"dragon boat\" type which would enable the\n\ngarrison rapidly to reach any threatened spot.\n\nEach block-house would be in sight of that on either side of it.\n\nIt was hoped that this chain of look-outs raised\n\nabove the level of the surrounding country would put a stop to\n\nthe device by which many pirates now avoid detection, namely that\n\nof retreating into the mulberries on the appearance of troops,\n\nhiding their arms and claiming to be peaceful cultivators.\n\nMr. Ts'oi complained, not without reason, that\n\nthe pirated junks had never attempted to make their plight known\n\nto the patrol launches and it was suggested that each junk should\n\nbe furnished with a special \"Help\" flag and a flare for night use.\n\nNeither side, however, placed much confidence in this device as\n\nit seemed very improbable that the junkmen would have the courage\n\nto use either if the pirates were near at hand.\n\nIt was also proposed that the Conservancy Junks\n\nshould always travel in parties under escort. We may be\n\nobliged to adopt this as a last resort, but it will mean\n\nconsiderable outlay on the part of the Contractors.\n\nAfter the conference was ended, both ships proceeded\n\nup the Sha Wan (Sai Wan) Channel. All the places at\n\nwhich interference had occurred were pointed out to Commander\n\nDixon and myself by the junkmaster and by us to the Officers\n\nin the \"Kong Hon\". The latter also pointed out to us several\n\nlaunches.",
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        "content_text": "で\n\n384\n\n(v.) The Port will be closed at night, viz., 15 minutes after sunset to 15 minutes before sunrise, or in foggy weather, during which time no Merchant Vessel will be allowed to enter the Port.\n\n(vi) No Vessel carrying powder or other explosives will be allowed into the Port of Hongkong during war, unless such vessel be on Government Charter.\n\nDistinguishing Signals of Examination Steamer.\n\n(d) By Day the distinguishing flags for the Examination Steamers will be a special flag (white and red horizontal, surrounded by a blue border) and a Blue Ensign. Also three red vertical balls if the Port is closed.\n\nBy Night the Examination Steamers will carry :-\n\n(1.) Three Red Vertical lights if the Port is closed.\n\n(2.) Three White Vertical lights if the Port is open.\n\nThe above lights will be carried in addition to the ordinary navigation lights, and will show an unbroken light all round the horizon.\n\nSignals Indicating Port Closed\".\n\nWhen the Port is closed, i.e., when entrance to the Port is prohibited, three Red vertical balls by Day or three Red vertical lights by Night will be hoisted at the following places in addition to being hoisted in the Examination Steamers :—\n\nEastern Entrance................. Cape D'Aguilar.\n\nWestern Entrance,.................Ma Wan Custom Station and Green Island.\n\nPosition of Examination Anchorages.\n\n(e.) The Examination Anchorages are as follows :—\n\nVessels are to proceed to them and anchor, unless met by Examination Steamer who will direct them as to the procedure to be followed.\n\nEastern Examination Anchorage-Is Marked on Admiralty Charts in Chung Kwang in the space enclosed by the following boundaries :\n\nNorth: A line drawn from Maun Chau S. 63° E. (true) for a distance of 11 cables.\n\nSouth-A line drawn from Lyeman Point S. 63° E. (true) for a distance of 12 cables.\n\nEast: A line drawn N. 38° E. (true) joining the extremities of the above two lines.\n\nWestern Examination Anchorage as laid down in Admiralty Charts is to the westward of Stonecutter's Island in the space enclosed by the following boundaries:-\n\nNorth-line drawn from 10 foot rock off S.E. point of Chung Hue S. 63 E. (true) to Stonecutter's Island.\n\nEast-A line drawn from the part on Stonecutter's Island where the above line meets it S. 27 W. (true) for a distance of 10 cables.\n\nWest: A line drawn from 8 foot rock off South point of Chung Hue S. 27° W. (true) for a distance of 4.4 cables.\n\nSouth-A line drawn S. 63° E. (true) joining the last two positions.\n\nRestrictions on Vessels in Examination Anchorage.\n\nThe following instructions are to be strictly observed:-\n\n(i) No person is permitted to leave the ship, no boat is to be lowered and no communication with the shore whatever is permitted from Merchant Vessels proceeding to either of the Examination Anchorages, nor when they are anchored in either of the Examination Anchorages, without permission from an Examining Officer,\n\n(ii) Merchant Vessels are not to work cables nor to be moved after they have anchored in either of the Examination Anchorages, without permission from an Examining Officer.\n\nAt Night. Fog.\n\n(iii) No Merchant Vessel is under any circumstances to proceed inwards beyond the Examination Anchorages between 15 minutes after sunset and 15 minutes before sunrise, nor during foggy weather, while the Examination Service is in force.\n\nBad Weather.\n\n(iv.) Should the weather be too bad to allow of Boarding being carried out, Merchant Vessels must remain in the Examination Anchorages until boarded.\n\nWireless Telegraph Communication Forbidden.\n\nVessels\n\n(v.) Wireless Telegraph communication is forbidden from ships in the Port. fitted with Wireless Telegraph Apparatus are to lower their aerial on arrival within the precincts of the Port. The Wireless Telegraph House will be locked and sealed under the direction of an Examination Officer, whose permission is to be obtained before the seal is broken on departure.\n\nSignalling Forbidden.\n\nany\n\n(vi) Merchant Vessels are not permitted to communicate by means of signals of any kind whatsoever from or to the shore, or to other vessels or craft of any description, whilst at the Examination Anchorage.\n\nRestrictions on Junks and Native Craft.\n\n(f)-(1) Junks on passage from one Port to another are not allowed to pass through the harbour of Hongkong, but must go south of Hongkong Island.\n\nOnly Junks having trade with the Port will be allowed to use the Port.\n\n(ii) Junks wishing to enter the Harbour are to proceed to the Examination Anchorages for Junks, and anchor there.\n\nJunks after having been passed by the Junk Examining Officer, will leave the Examination Anchorage in tow of an Examination towing-steamer which will fly the special signal for Examination Steamer. They will be towed over the Harbour boundaries before being slipped\n\nNo Junk will be allowed to enter the Harbour in any other manner.\n\n(iii) No Junk carrying powder or any other explosive will be allowed to enter the harbour, unless such Junk be on Government Charter.\n\n(iv) Junks entering from the Westward are to proceed to the Western Examination Anchorage, either by the Lamma Channel or by the Western Kap Sing Mun. They must not attempt to cross an imaginary line joining the western extremes of Stonecutter's Island to Green Island, nor to use any of the following:-\n\nSulphur Channel,\n\nThe Channel to the North of Ma Wan,\n\nThe Channel to the North of Chung Hue,\n\nall of which will be closed to traffic.\n\nJunk Examination Anchorages.\n\n(v.) The Junk Examination Anchorages are as follows:-\n\nEastern Junk Examination Anchorage :\n\nIs in that portion of Chung Kwang O (Junk Bay) north of a line drawn from Maun Chau N. 87° E. (true) to Pak Sin Kok.\n\nWestern Junk Examination Anchorage :—\n\nIs the same as for other vessels.",
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        "content_text": "385\n\n(vi.) The restriction for vessels in the Examination Anchorages also apply to Junks.\n\n(vii.) The taking of Pilots is optional.\n\nPilotage.\n\nPort Dues.\n\n(4) Merchant Vessels anchoring in Examination Anchorages, but not wishing to enter the Harbour, will not be charged Port Dues.\n\nPART II.\n\nMOVEMENTS WITHIN THE PORT.\n\nControl of Movements within the Port.\n\n(a.) The Local Authority for controlling all movements within the Harbour will be the Senior Naval Officer.\n\nThe Water Police will provide the force and carry out the duties necessary to ensure that the regulations are complied with.\n\nThe Harbour Boundaries are:-\n\nWest: A line joining Western end of Stonecutter's Island and the Western end of Green Island.\n\nEast: A line across the Lyemun Pass.\n\nRestrictions on Vessels within the Port at Night.\n\n(b.)-(i.) No Vessel, boat or craft of any description, except Government Vessels and those mentioned in paragraph (c), shall be under weigh at night (viz., from 15 minutes after sunset to 15 minutes before sunrise) without a special permit; such permit is to be obtained from the Officer-in-charge of the Examination Service, (through the Colonial Harbour Master at the Harbour Office), and such permit shall only warrant the doing of any act set forth therein.\n\n(ii.) In thick or foggy weather, no Merchant Vessels or craft of any kind, except Government Vessels or craft shall be under weigh.\n\nPublic Ferries.\n\n(c.) All Public Ferries will cease to run at night, (viz., from 15 minutes after sunset to 15 minutes before sunrise), except the Kowloon and Yaumati Ferries which may continue till midnight.\n\nApproach to Government Establishments Prohibited.\n\n(d) Approach to Government Vessels or Establishments is prohibited without special permission from the Senior Naval Officer. Any Vessels or craft infringing this order are liable to be fired upon.\n\nPatrol of Harbour.\n\n(e.) The Harbour will be patrolled by Steamboats manned by Water Police, and such other Naval Steamboats as the Senior Naval Officer may direct.\n\nRegulation Lights to be Shown at Night.\n\n(f) All craft having permission to be under weigh at night are to show the necessary Navigation lights, as laid down in the Regulations for preventing Collision at Sea.\n\nPART III.\n\nVESSELS LEAVING THE PORT.\n\nPermission to be Obtained before Leaving.\n\n(a.) Merchant Vessels will be permitted to leave the Port at any time by day under the following conditions:-\n\n(1.) Application must be made to the Officer-in-charge of the Examination Service, through the Colonial Harbour Master at the Harbour Office.\n\n(2.) Proposed time of departure is to be stated.\n\n(3.) Application is not to be made till the day of sailing.\n\n(4.) Instructions as to what signal will pass the vessel through the defence will be given to the Master together with a written pass, signed by the Officer-in-charge of the Examination Service.\n\n(5.) Without this pass no vessel is to attempt to leave.\n\n(6.) Vessels must leave at their scheduled time, otherwise a fresh pass must be secured.\n\n(7.) The Eastern Passage (viz., Lyemun Pass) is the only one to be used by outgoing vessels except River Craft.\n\nJunks.\n\n(b.)-(i.) During the hours of daylight, (viz., 15 minutes before sunrise to 15 minutes after sunset), river and junk traffic may leave the Port by any channel except:-\n\nEastern Kap Sing Mun.\n\nChannel North of Chung Hue and Sulphur Channel.\n\n(ii.) Junks may not be under weigh at night, (viz., from 15 minutes after sunset to 15 minutes before sunrise).\n\nPilotage.\n\n(c.) There are no special Pilotage regulations for outgoing vessels.\n\nNight Tables.\n\n(d) A Table showing the Period of \"Night\" as defined for the purpose of these Regulations is attached. (See PART V.)\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Time.\n    Date.\n    Time.\n    Date.\n    Time.\n  \n  \n    Aug. 3rd,\n    7.13 p.m.\n    Aug. 11th,\n    7.08 p.m.\n    Aug. 19th,\n    7.02\n  \n  \n    4th,\n    7.12\n    12th,\n    7.07\n    20th,\n    7.01\n  \n  \n    5th,\n    7.12\n    13th,\n    7.07\n    21st,\n    7.01\n  \n  \n    6th,\n    7.12\n    14th,\n    7.06\n    22nd,\n    7.00\n  \n  \n    7th,\n    7.11\n    15th,\n    7.05\n    23rd,\n    6.59\n  \n  \n    8th,\n    7.11\n    16th,\n    7.05\n    24th,\n    6.58\n  \n  \n    9th,\n    7.10\n    17th,\n    7.04\n    25th,\n    6.58\n  \n  \n    10th,\n    7.10\n    18th,\n    7.03\n    26th,\n    6.57\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    27th,\n    6.56 p.m.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    28th,\n    6.55\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    29th,\n    6.54\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    30th,\n    6.54\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    31st,\n    6.53\n  \n\n3rd August, 1914.\n\nC. W. BECKWITH, Commander, R.N.,\n\nHarbour Master, &c.",
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        "content_text": "## PORTS AND HARBOURS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE\n\n### Question 10. What was the gross revenue for the last completed financial year?\n\n### Question 11. (1) Can the depth of water \n(a) at the entrance and in the approach channel, \n(b) in the case of enclosed docks, at the entrance lock, if any, of any important dock or docks, \n(c) at the principal berths \nbe deepened to 40 feet at L.W.O.S.T. (in the case of the berths at enclosed docks, H.W.O.N.T.), and can accommodation be provided for vessels 1,000 feet in length, and of 100 feet beam? \nIf not, to what extent can deepening be effected, and for vessels of what dimensions (length, draught, and beam at that draught) can accommodation be provided?\n\n### (2) In what period? \n### (3) At what approximate cost \n(a) for the entrance and approach channel? \n(b) in the case of enclosed docks for the entrance lock, if any, of such important dock or docks? \n(c) for the principal berth?\n\n## INDIA AND THE EASTERN COLONIES\n\n### Aden\nNo.\n\n### Hong Kong\nThe gross revenue of the Harbour Department for 1914 was derived from boat and junk licences, light dues, &c. There are no port dues.\n\nThe eastern channel already provides a depth of 40 ft. (L.W.). Vessels of 1,000 ft. in length and of 100 ft. beam could swing at their moorings in the eastern part of harbour in not less than 36 ft. (L.W.).\n\nThe bottom channel has a depth of 10ft and over to within a short distance of Hall Wharf, which has a depth of 30 to 40 ft. by extending the wharf now drawing 25 ft. It is assumed that the harbour to be the need minimum depth of no future might have to be dredged. It was recommended by the P. Facilities Committee in their 2nd report dated March 1914 that a very careful examination should be made into the possibilities of river training. The question has not as yet been sufficiently examined to state what results may probably be anticipated.\n\nBerths - It is not possible under present conditions to dredge to greater depths alongside the jetties than to 30 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) without endangering the safety of the structures. Greater depth could, however, be obtained either (1) by extending the jetties further into the river or (2) by supporting the toe of the slope of the river bed along the face of the jetties with a row of interlocking steel sheet piling, thus making deeper dredging safe. By the former method, an extra depth of 1 ft. would be obtained by every 2 ft. extension, and by the latter method, it is estimated that the increase in possible depth would be from 4 to 7 ft. No greater depth than at present can be obtained in the existing docks as the walls were constructed so as to permit of deeper dredging.\n\nThere are now moorings in the stream having a depth of 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.).\n\nThe channels are in places narrow and winding and a vessel of 1,000 ft. could not be brought up the river. The maximum length under existing conditions may be taken as 600 ft., and this maximum is likely to be permanent unless river training works are carried out with success.\n\n(2) Two more dredgers can be obtained within two years. It is impossible to say how long training works would take to construct as the matter has not been sufficiently examined. The provision of a greater depth of water at the jetties by either of the methods mentioned above would take some years as it would be necessary to work on one berth at a time in order to avoid excessive inconvenience to the shipping.\n\n(3) The cost of two more dredgers may be taken as 186,667, and the cost of working them at 14,933 per annum. The cost of extending the jetties into the river by 15 ft. is estimated at 281. 8. per lineal ft. of jetty. No estimate has been prepared for a greater extension. It is estimated that the second method above referred to would cost 91. 18. per lineal ft.\n\n### Singapore\nThe approach channel is already 40 ft. and upwards in depth (L.W.O.S.T.) and the scheme of reconstruction of the Main Wharf, at present in course of extension, will provide a considerable amount of wharfage with 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) with accommodation for vessels 1,000 ft. long and of 100 ft. beam.\n\nIf the present dredging scheme is carried out, Kowloon Wharfs have a quantity of 1,728,000 cub. yds, which is required to be dredged; this would take about four years to complete. If the smaller area of 107 acres was deepened to 40 ft., quantity of 746,000 cub. yds. would only have to be removed. The additional time required would be about two years.\n\nThe approximate cost of dredging in the larger area would be 109,000l., assuming that the new moorings would be sufficient for this depth, and that of the smaller area of 107 acres would be 44,800l. It is anticipated that the works now in hand will be completed by the end of 1918.",
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        "content_text": "84\n\nQuestion.\n\n10. What was the gross revenue for the last completed financial year?\n\n11. (1) Can the depth of water (a) at the entrance and the approach channel; (b) in the case of enclosed docks, at the entrance lock, if any, of any important dock or docks; (c) at the principal berths be deepened to 40 feet at L.W.O.S.T. (in the case of the berths at enclosed docks, H.W.O.N.T.), and can accommodation be provided for vessels 1,000 feet in length, and of 100 feet beam? If not, to what extent can deepening be effected, and for vessels of what dimensions (length, draught, and beam at that draught) can accommodation be provided?\n\n(2) In what period?\n\n(3) At what approximate cost?\n\nPORTS AND HARBOURS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE:\n\nAden.\n\nThe gross revenue for the year ended 31st March 1915 was Rs. 5,47,764 (£36,517 12s.).\n\n(1) (a) The particulars have not yet been ascertained.\n\n(b) No docks.\n\n(c) See answer to question 11 (1) (a).\n\n(2) and (3) (a) See answer to question 11 (1) (a).\n\n(2) and (3) (b) No docks.\n\n(2) and (3) (c) See answer to question 11 (1) (a).\n\nBombay.\n\nThe gross revenue for the year ended 31st March 1915 was £684,879.\n\n(1) (a) The depth of water at entrance and in the approach channel can be deepened to, say, 32 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) (present depth 24 ft. 9 in.) to accommodate vessels of any length and beam with a maximum draught of 30 ft. at L.W.O.S.T. (this depth will provide 40 ft. at lowest high water). To secure this depth it would be necessary to dredge for a distance of 7,000 lineal ft. from the existing channel proper.\n\n(b) The depth of water cannot be deepened at the entrance lock or at the principal berths except at an enormous cost, the bottom being rock.\n\n(2) The work of deepening the approach channel would occupy several years, as there is rock in a portion of the channel, which would have to be drilled and blasted.\n\nCalcutta.\n\nThe gross revenue for the financial year ended 31st March 1915 was Rs. 1,44,50,349 (£963,356 12s.).\n\n(1) Channel.-The bars in the river channel cannot be deepened to a depth of 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.). There are at present two suction dredgers employed in controlling the river channels. One more is now (August 1915) under construction, and a further one will probably be purchased in the near future. It is anticipated that with four dredgers, vessels having a draught of 30 ft. will be able to navigate the river with as little delay as vessels now drawing 25 ft.\n\nBerths. It is not possible under present conditions to dredge to greater depths at the jetties without endangering the safety of the structures. Greater depths could, however, be obtained either (1) by extending the jetties further into the river, or (2) by supporting the toe of the slope of the river bank along the face of the jetties with a row of interlocking steel sheet piling, thus making deeper dredging safe.\n\n(2) Two more dredgers can be obtained within two years. It is impossible to say how long training works would take to construct as the matter has not been sufficiently examined.\n\n(3) The cost of deepening the approach channel would be probably about 20 lakhs of rupees (£133,333) including the removal of rock.\n\nColombo.\n\nThe channel and harbour could be deepened to 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.). The dredger last acquired is so designed as to be capable of dredging to 45 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.).\n\n(1) There is at the present time mooring accommodation for two vessels of 1,000 ft. in length and of 100 ft. beam in the area of 107 acres near the Island breakwater, with an average depth of 33 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.).\n\n(2) Assuming the harbour to be deepened to 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) over the 36 ft. area which has been sanctioned, a quantity of 1,728,000 cub. yds. would require to be dredged; this would take about four years to complete.\n\n(3) The approximate cost of dredging in the large area would be £109,000, and that of the smaller area of 107 acres would be £41,500.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nThe gross revenue of the Harbour Department for 1914 was $579,443 = £53,552 derived from boat and junk licences, light dues, &c. There are no port dues.\n\nThe eastern channel has a depth of 40 ft. and over (L.W.O.S.T.) to within a short distance of Holt's Wharf, which has a depth of 32 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.). By extending this wharf a further 50 ft., a minimum depth of 40 ft. might be obtained.\n\nKowloon Wharves have a depth of from 23 ft. to 27 ft. 6 ins., one of which is to be deepened shortly to a minimum depth of 30 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.).\n\nNo wharf or dock could at present take a 1,000 ft. vessel of 100 ft. beam, but Holt's have one under consideration which will fulfil these requirements.\n\nSingapore.\n\nGross revenue for the year ended 31st December 1914, $5,529,594.\n\nThe approach channel is already 40 ft. and upwards in depth (L.W.O.S.T.) and the scheme of reconstruction of the Main Wharf, at present in course of extension, will provide a considerable amount of wharfage with 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) with accommodation for vessels 1,000 ft. long and of 100 ft. beam.\n\nIt is anticipated that the works now in hand will be completed by the end of 1916.\n\nPage 85",
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        "content_text": "83\n\nPORTS AND HARBOURS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE:\n\nNOTES.\n\n145\n\nAden. The harbour is controlled by a Board of Trustees appointed under Bombay Acts Nos. 5 of 1888, 1 of 1835, 1 of 1911, and 4 of 1914. The Trustees consist of a Chairman appointed by the Government of Bombay, two ex-officio members, and four other members appointed by the Government of Bombay. The revenue consists mainly of port dues, tolls, and wharfage and pilotage receipts. The annual estimates are submitted to the Government of Bombay for approval. Loans may be raised in the open market under the Indian Local Authorities Loans Act, with the sanction of the Government of India. Such loans, unless special sanction is given, must be in rupees, not in sterling. Sanction for sterling loans is only given after previous consultation with the Secretary of State for India in Council.\n\nBombay. The harbour is controlled by a Board of Trustees appointed under the Bombay Port Trust Act of 1879, as amended by various Acts, of which the last is No. 6 of 1914. The Trustees consist of a Chairman appointed by the Government of Bombay, 9 nominee trustees appointed by the Government of Bombay (of whom 1 must be a military officer serving in the Bombay Brigade and not less than 3 natives of India residing in the City of Bombay), and 7 elective Trustees, of whom 3 are elected by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, 1 by the Native Piece Goods Merchants Association of Bombay, and 1 by the Mill Owners' Association of Bombay.\n\nThe revenue is derived principally from wharfage and dock fees, port dues, and pilotage receipts. The annual estimates are submitted to the Government of Bombay for approval. No expenditure can be charged to capital without the express sanction of that Government.\n\nThe Government of Bombay may advance money to the Board of Trustees, with the previous consent of the Government of India, or may sanction the raising of money by the Board by means of debentures or stock, subject to certain conditions as to sinking fund. Loans of over 5 lakhs of rupees or for more than 30 years' duration require the sanction of the Government of India. Sanction for sterling loans is only given after previous consultation with the Secretary of State for India in Council.\n\nCalcutta. The harbour is controlled by a Board of Commissioners appointed under the Calcutta Port Act of 1890 and subsequent Bengal Acts, of which the last is No. 1 of 1912. The Board consists of a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and 5 Commissioners, all nominated by the Government of Bengal, and of 9 elected Commissioners. Of the latter, 6 are elected by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and 1 each by the Corporation of Calcutta, the Calcutta Trades Association, and the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce (representing the native mercantile community).\n\nThe revenue is derived principally from wharf and dock fees, from receipts from the docks railway, rents from land and buildings, and river dues. The annual estimates are submitted to the Government of Bengal for approval.\n\nThe Board of Commissioners are empowered to borrow money from the Government of India for new works. The Commissioners may also, within limits fixed from time to time by the Government of Bengal, and with the previous sanction of the Government of India, borrow in the open market by means of debentures or stock, subject to certain conditions as to sinking fund, &c. Unless special sanction is given, loans are to be contracted in India, and are to be in Indian currency. Sanction for sterling loans is only given after previous consultation with the Secretary of State for India in Council.\n\nColombo. The harbour is controlled by a Harbour Commission established by Administrative Act of the Ceylon Government in 1913. The Commission consists of 12 members: of these, 6 are official members (1 being Chairman) appointed by the Ceylon Government, and 6 are unofficial members. Of the latter, 5 are nominated by the Colombo Chamber of Commerce, and 1 is nominated by the Governor of Ceylon to represent native interests.\n\nThe revenue of the Commission consists mainly of dues and pilotage receipts, and of rents.\n\nAs regards the cost of new works, it is intended to finance the first series of works during the first five years of the existence of the Commission, i.e., till 1918, from surplus balances of the Ceylon Government. The matter will then be reconsidered.\n\nHong Kong. The harbour is controlled by the Harbour Department, which is a Department of the Colonial Government. The Chief Officer of the Department is the Harbour Master, appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThere are no port dues, the revenue being derived mainly from boat and junk fees and light dues. Any works of improvement are financed by the Colonial Government.\n\nSingapore. The harbour is controlled by the Singapore Harbour Board established under Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 5 of 1912. The Board consists of a Chairman, who is also General Manager of the undertaking, and of not less than 4, or more than 8, other members, all appointed by the Governor of the Straits Settlements. The revenue is derived mainly from wharfage and harbour dues (the rates of which have to be approved by the Governor-in-Council); a small sum is derived from the sale of electric power and the rent of properties.\n\nThe annual estimates require the approval of the Governor.\n\nUnder Ordinance 5 of 1912, the Governor of the Straits Settlements in Council is empowered to lend money to the Singapore Harbour Board for the purpose of new works. Interest on such advances is at such rate as may be agreed upon between the Board and the Government, and sinking fund at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum is also payable after 10 years, if the money lent has been raised by means of debentures or stock.\n\nDOMINIONS ROYAL COMMISSION,\n\nSCOTLAND HOUSE,\n\nVICTORIA EMBANKMENT,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\n53709\n\n19 November, 1915.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 44791/15 of the 12th October forwarding a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong covering an amended print of particulars with reference to Hong Kong Harbour.\n\nI have been through the amendments carefully and also the Memorandum by the Director of Public Works, forwarded by Sir F.H. May. The amendments, and portions of Mr. Chatham's Memorandum, have been incorporated in a fresh section of the print, eight copies of which are enclosed herewith.\n\nThere are one or two points in connexion with the print as now amended on which I am still in doubt, and I would ask that the Governor of Hong Kong may be further consulted with regard to them. These points are as follows:-\n\n(1). The answer to Question 1 as furnished by the Hong Kong Government states that the approach to Sulphur Channel shallows seawards to 60ft. (L.W.O.S.T.). As the depth of the entrance itself is given as 54ft. (L.W.O.S.T.), the word \"shallows\" in this connexion seems a little inappropriate, but I think it is probably best to leave it as it stands as the meaning is quite clear.\n\n(2). In answer to Question 3 no information is given as to the rise of ordinary neaps above L.W.O.S.T. It would make the Return more complete if this information could be supplied.\n\n(3). 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        "content_text": "# CHUKIANG OR CANTON RIVER\nC.O.N° 49.\n\n## FOR CORRECTION AND RETURN\nIN ADVANCE OF ANNUAL REPORT  \nCircular of 4th February, 1915.\n\n### HONG-KONG, KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.\n\n114\n\n| Place Names          | \n|---------------------|\n| Piang-ti            |\n| Shak-kai            |\n| TUNGK' WAN          |\n| Liong-tu-ho         |\n| Lung-kong           |\n| Tong-lak            |\n| Hain-hi             |\n| Sa-talang           |\n| Vo Tai-Tong-tu      |\n| KUI                 |\n| Wu-shak-ngam        |\n| Shak-kong           |\n| 7S HAN              |\n| T'en-tau            |\n| Tong-poi            |\n| BIAS                |\n| Chong-hang-kang     |\n| Fuk-yun             |\n| A po-kai            |\n| Long-hey            |\n| Lung-fa             |\n| Hip-hi              |\n| Yong-tai-shan       |\n| Wang-kong           |\n| Pan-tem             |\n| Li-Iong             |\n| Tai-mo-chun         |\n| Ma                  |\n| Pak-abak-lung       |\n| Pu-kak              |\n| Sai-Houng           |\n| NAM-TAO             |\n| Mai-lim             |\n| M 1                 |\n| Ki-chun             |\n| Shong-tung          |\n| Keichung            |\n| Sa-ng-chung         |\n| TAI-PUNG-SAN        |\n| Sha-tac             |\n| Yam-ten             |\n| Wong-muo            |\n| Tipfuk              |\n| Pa-kong             |\n| Tieum-kai           |\n| Ha-trai             |\n| TAI-CHAM BAY        |\n| Ping Chang          |\n| Tai-san             |\n| Kwaimiao            |\n| Ma-shau             |\n| Wan-had             |\n| HSIN NGAN           |\n| Len-tong            |\n| Lofong              |\n| (SUN-QN)            |\n| Sam-chun            |\n| Lungtsui            |\n| Kato                |\n| Crooked I.          |\n| Sha-tau             |\n| Chak-wan            |\n| DEEP BAY OR HAU-HOI |\n| Shukwan tou         |\n| k-yan               |\n| Lim-chun            |\n| LOON                |\n| Kam-tin             |\n| Un-iu               |\n| She teu-kok         |\n| Song-chau           |\n| Crescent I.         |\n| Kuk-p               |\n| Harbour             |\n| Wo-hang             |\n| Bluff Hd            |\n| Wang-ling-tau       |\n| Tin-koko            |\n| Shon-wan            |\n| AV                  |\n| No                  |\n| Hash                |\n| Pang-ohav           |\n| Namo                |\n| Pit-chau            |\n| Plover Cove         |\n| TOLO HARBOUR        |\n| Whity               |\n| Tolo Channel        |\n| Port Island         |\n| Grass I.            |\n| Tap-mun             |\n| Tan-ka-wen          |\n| Mirs P              |\n| Kak-ten             |\n| Samun               |\n| Lin-tin             |\n| Tai-ahui            |\n| Shui-lou            |\n| Ko-tong             |\n| Chak-Hang           |\n| Shak-hang           |\n| Taishui-hang        |\n| Pet-kong            |\n| Tai-long            |\n| Haiwan              |\n| PChin-hang          |\n| Fung Head           |\n| Fung Bay            |\n| Stan-nai-wan        |\n| Ping Pt             |\n| Tylo                |\n| Lung-ku             |\n| Chin-shan           |\n| Pot-long            |\n| Nam-long            |\n| Sa-shau             |\n| Tui-lam-chung       |\n| Ma-war              |\n| CNT-hue             |\n| Chung               |\n| Tai-mo-shan         |\n| Tain-wan            |\n| Lok Lo H            |\n| Lai Chi Kok         |\n| Kau                 |\n| Sham-Shui-Po        |\n| Stogepu             |\n| Teland              |\n| Ping-chau           |\n| Green               |\n| Silver Mina         |\n| Tai-zu-chau         |\n| Shatig              |\n| Jung th             |\n| ROAD                |\n| Sai-kung            |\n| Yam-tas             |\n| Jak-e wand          |\n| She wa              |\n| High                |\n| KOWLOON             |\n| Shelter             |\n| Tai-pu-tsai         |\n| -Hwan-0.            |\n| Che                 |\n| -Ping-ong-wan       |\n| Town I.             |\n| A                   |\n| Beseit I.           |\n| tong                |\n| Junk Bay            |\n| He-yong             |\n| Chau                |\n| Yau!!               |\n| HONG-Kong           |\n| Sha Taul            |\n| Hung-homon.         |\n| Seval Nav           |\n| KandyUNG LIGHT      |\n| MARKE               |\n| VICTORIA            |\n| Shau-ki-warb        |\n| Pokfulam            |\n| Aberdeen            |\n| HONG-KONG           |\n| 52wan)              |\n| Shippi              |\n| Grai-tapaltuk       |\n| Lam-tong i          |\n| Ninepin             |\n| ✔ Group             |\n| Chu-Ju-bank!        |\n| Tung chung          |\n| LAN-TAO (TAI-U SHAN) |\n| Cheung-Char         |\n| S-A-Chau            |\n| Tai-Chan V          |\n| Lap-amp-mi          |\n| Aplishaz            |\n| Tai-wand            |\n| Lamma               |\n| Shak-ku-wan         |\n| (Pok-Liu            |\n| AST LAMMA           |\n| CHAN.               |\n| Ta-ton              |\n| Chan                |\n| Bey                 |\n| c.'Agritar          |\n| Lo-shav             |\n| Wong-ma-kok         |\n| Fury                |\n| Roska               |\n| Wag-lan             |\n| Sun-kong            |\n| Lighthouse          |\n| Putoi               |\n| 220 N. LAT.         |\n| LEMA                |\n| (Chi-obau I?        |\n| CHANNEL             |\n\n## NOTE\nTerritory under Convention of 1800  \nBoundary under Convention 1998  \nEnglish Miles (0-10 m-9′′)  \n310  \n416  \n\nOrdnance Survey Office, Southampton. 1915.",
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        "content_text": "## 281\n\nThe packages in question, escorted by a guard of Portuguese soldiers, were placed in a junk and towed by a Portuguese Government towboat and duly shipped on board the \"China\" which was anchored in Chinese waters about 2 miles to the N.W. of Chung Chao (Luang) Island. The Customs officer in charge of the cruising launch \"Paktou\" then went on board the \"China\" and asked the Captain to give a receipt for the 132 chests of Prepared Opium. This he refused to do, the Chief Officer saying that the contents was not opium but Imitation Opium which had been shipped. As my officer then got suspicious he asked for a case to be opened, which was done by the Chief Officer of the \"China\" himself. The contents was a brown mixture in tins which was supposed by my officer to be opium but he had had no experience of the drug. The Captain then gave a receipt for 132 cases of Chinese merchandise and the ship sailed for America, via Shanghai. But on arrival at that port the Captain of the \"China\" informed the Commissioner of Customs there that but for the supervision of the shipment by the Lappa Customs cruiser he would have thrown these 132 packages overboard in the Formosa channel. That he received them on board his ship on the instructions from the Hongkong Agents of the steamer, and that he gave no receipt to the shippers or a Bill of Lading for them. He was unable to say who the shippers were and knew nothing of their contents or the reason for which they were to be thrown overboard. The cases contained tins more or less full of a sticky mixture resembling molasses, but no opium at all. The Manifest, signed by the Captain, read \"132 packages Chinese Medicine. For discharge on the High Seas\". In other words to be thrown overboard.\n\nOn the 8th ultimo the above information was given by me to His Excellency the Governor of Macao who at once caused an enquiry to be made by the Colonial Secretary and the Chief Justice. The Attorney General, I believe, is now preparing a case for prosecution against the Opium Farmer.\n\nTwo sample cases of this so-called opium have been received by me intact from the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, and on the 12th instant these cases were opened in my office in the presence...",
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        "content_text": "## Publicity\n\nThe primary disability we labour under at present is that few shipping people at Home have any real idea of Hongkong's capacity for shipbuilding. This was particularly in evidence during the war when, with all the crying need for ships, it was with the greatest difficulty, and only in the latter part of the war, that sufficient shipbuilding material was obtainable to keep the yards fully employed. Since then, officials of shipbuilding firms at Home and in America have inspected the local yards and have been very favourably impressed.\n\nThe possibilities of getting ships built and repaired in Hongkong should be kept very prominently before shipping people in Great Britain, America, Canada, Australia, and the Colonial Office should be well advised of the work done here and the capabilities of the local yards. When the Colonial Office was informed, towards the end of the war, practical results accrued.\n\nThe capabilities of Hongkong as a shipbuilding centre were also brought strongly before the Home Authorities in 1917 when a Hongkong-built vessel was docked in Liverpool for inspection and a number of experts were asked to express their views, which were very favourable.\n\n## HARBOUR IMPROVEMENTS\n\nThis matter is one of the utmost importance to the Colony. The idea held by those most vitally concerned is that the harbour is our only asset and that we should not play with improvements suggested by amateurs. Local experience gained by masters of merchantmen using this port is quite sufficient to enable us to indicate the position in which new buoys and lights might be placed with advantage; also to indicate where fog signals, or diaphones, should be made use of and the nature of such signals. Granted that the harbour is our principal asset, it is maintained that we require expert advice and properly constituted Port Authorities. There is already a tendency at other places in China (Dalny, Tsingtau, and Shanghai) to lay out scientifically constructed harbours, and we are convinced that, in view of possible developments, it is necessary that the matter should be thoroughly investigated, in order that the Colony may prepare itself for all possible developments. This must be done if our harbour is to maintain its position of supremacy in China waters.\n\nThe following improvements are recommended:\n\n| No. | Improvement |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | An occulting red or green unwatched light, visible from 5 to 10 miles, should be placed on the Tathong Rocks in the East Entrance to facilitate navigation in and out of the harbour at night. If a light on Tathong Point is not sanctioned, the light on Cape Collinson should be increased in power. In any case, Cape Collinson should have a red sector showing into Junk Bay to guide ships into the anchorage. The red sector showing over Lye-mun Pass can be dispensed with and white shown instead, or if it is not advisable to alter the red sector over Lye-mun Pass, a green sector can be substituted for red showing into Junk Bay. |\n| 2 | The revolving light on Gap Rock should be converted into a group flash, thereby being visible in thick weather at greater distance than the present light. |\n| 3 | An unwatched light on an iron tripod on Hongkong Chow Island, North West of Tai Ta Ming channel, visible at 12-15 miles. |\n| 4 | The Bokhara Rocks should have a lighted buoy placed on them for navigation around Cape D'Aguilar in the Shung Shi Mum channel. If possible to combine the two, it is recommended that an automatic whistling buoy as a warning in foggy weather be provided. |\n| 5 | The Rambier Shoal and Belcher Ridge should be dredged deeper; vessels of deep draft cannot at present navigate over them, and both shoals are nearly in the Fairway; or remove Belcher Ridge. |\n| 6 | Unwatched light on the East end of Lighting Island. Steamers bound south, or from the south, alter course off Lingting Dap Rock or Green Island, as the case may be. |\n\n7. DIAPHONES should be erected. They have proved of inestimable value in Canadian waters, and the far more crowded waters of this Colony, equally subject to dense foggy weather, should be similarly supplied. Diaphones are held to be the best system of fog signal in existence, as they have been proved to neutralise, to a very great extent, the areas of silence so often encountered. They would consequently be of inestimable value on Gap Rock and Waglan. When in the vicinity of these stations, it is by no means unusual for the report of the fog gun to be inaudible at two miles when you have previously heard it at five miles.\n\nThe Sub-Committee are endeavouring to ascertain the cost of and expense in connection with Diaphones, also wireless position finders, which the Government have stated have been found impracticable, as apart from the expense, the necessary power is not at present available.\n\nIn this respect, the Secretary has addressed a letter of enquiry to Mr. Wallace, Manager C.P.O.S., who has promised to obtain as much information as possible from the Canadian Authorities through the good offices of the C.P.O.S. Official in Canada concerning these two instruments.\n\nFurther enquiries are being made with regard to fog signals, and a special report on this important question will be forwarded to Government in due course.\n\nDREDGING on a substantial scale is essential. All parts of the harbour which may be navigated by large steamers, and which have only a depth of 4½ fathoms, should be increased to the 35 feet mark. There should be more than one deep-drafted fairway in the harbour in preparation for larger ships, but it is futile for us to put forward anything but the most elementary suggestions as to dredging until we know what form the new defences of the Colony are to take and the alterations to tides and currents which they may entail.\n\nThe following are the suggestions as to dredging:\n\n| No. | Suggestion |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Deepen the water off Kowloon Point. It is not necessary to dredge the West Lamma Channel as the East Lamma Channel could be used, the least water in the Channel being 11 fms., with the exception of the Lamma Patch (rock), which has 5 fathoms over it and could be buoyed or removed by blasting. If the East Lamma Channel is used, instead of dredging the West Lamma Channel, an unwatched light would be required on the East end of Lamma Island (Wong Chu Kok). |\n| 2 | Dredge the Western end of the Northern and Central Fairways to a suitable depth and lay down heavier moorings as the moorings are only suitable for coasting steamers. If the Western end of the fairways are deepened, a deep water channel would also require to be dredged to Sulphur Channel, in which there is plenty of water. |\n| 3 | To increase the harbour accommodation for ships drawing over 30 feet, the harbour should be dredged to a depth to be hereafter decided on: (a) from the Northern Fairway to a line drawn East and West from the Southern entrance of Mong Kok Tsui typhoon refuge until it meets a line drawn south through the Fairway Buoys, or (b) dredge that part of the harbour to a suitable depth between a line drawn South from the West end of Stone Cutters Island to the Fairway buoys and a line drawn South from White Pt. Stone Cutters Island to the Northern Fairway. |\n\nThe Man-of-War anchorage is a good position for deep draught ships, but it would probably be asking too much to suggest removing the men-of-war from their present anchorage to, say, Kowloon Bay.\n\nPiers or Jetties might with advantage add to the facilities for handling of cargo.\n\n**E. V. D. PARR,**\n**Chairman,**\n**Shipping & Shipbuilding Sub-Committee.**\n\n333",
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        "content_text": "## \n025\n\n31 dining to si \nfus \"a Inega orig. Trah dua hiz \nstajemy od Viver ver Zeit mo spoil teste \n\nAVER LET 21 \n· \nya na gist ums \n\n(b)\n\n751 \ninolesura Ho. \n4 in Tulon despatch To. \nof natober, \n15 \n1921.\n\n**VERK U PUBLIO OF MINA.**\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs. \nCanton, October 14, 1921.\n\nJ.W.JAMÍNKm, Esq., \nBritish Deputy Consul-General, Canton.\n\nDear Mr. Edwin,\n\n1. I have carefully considered your letter of the 4th. You suggest arbitration in respect, not of the question of what the water boundaries are, but a *modus vivendi* with regard to the harbour waters and the regulations governing junk visiting Lappa (71^, your letter to me of 30th ult.). In our view, according to the rules of international law and practice, the matter is one decidedly *sui generis*, hence on the principle that the boundary line between international waters should lie in the mid-channel or on the principle that the rights granted to another nation should be interpreted strictly in favour of the grantor (not to embark on the name of *mare clausum*). Whatever may be the acceptability of arbitration on the question of permanent delimitation of boundaries, to resort to it merely to arrive at a temporary *modus vivendi* seems hardly worth while. And even to arrive at such a *modus vivendi* it is not possible without going to a large extent into the matter of port and water boundaries and indeed that of permanent land boundaries all. As illustration, I have already formally pointed out to you that in a despatch a few years ago you yourself while making an *sottise* on behalf of \"Anna\" that Warshai was within the whole of Lappa was disputed territory. While, of course, such a claim can only be described as fantastic and preposterous as you yourself in a recent letter to me said that Lappa was \"undoubtedly Chinese\", yet it serves to show that an arbitration to arrive at a *modus vivendi* would be almost tantamount to an arbitration as to delimitation of boundaries.",
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        "content_text": "25th June. 641k Junk. 14.\n\n28th June – DP YH.\n\n455,006\n\n8,000 6,000\n\n6.30% 8,000\n\n3,000\n\n$85,000.\n\n23 81lk junks more pirated at Junction Channel by Chinese dumbest- 80 rifles, 12 mauzers and 4 machine rifles taken »\n\n4,000. 8.7«J» plying between Canton and Lang Long. Pirated at Tung Ngon by some Chinese gunboats »\n\nGainome Military Transport pirated at Pasig Claunts •\n\nK«P.J. plying between Kong Mun and Suez Fui pirated at Tung lap.\n\n27th June. HAI DI (8 tasser).\n\n37. 15,000 20,000\n\n17,000\n\n9,000\n\n30th June. HING XP.\n\n12. 30,000 17,000\n\n8,000 5,000\n\n6,000\n\n8,000\n\n5th July. LEX CHUMO. 14. 4,000 6,000\n\n8,000 2,000\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\n2.P.J. Pirated at Tung Kaning. 14\n\n5th July. FAI OZ.\n\n6,000 30,000\n\n15,000 5,000 30,000\n\n10,000\n\n28th July. TIN SHING . 12. 4,000 6,000\n\n8,000 3,000\n\n4,000\n\n$5,000\n\n8th Aug. 1280 NITO.\n\n18,000\n\n18,000\n\n9th Aug.\n\n3,000 2,000\n\n4,000 8,000 1,000\n\n8,000\n\n11th Aug. LESE ON.\n\n27\n\n8,000 25,000\n\n800\n\n2,000\n\n1,000\n\n13th Aug.\n\n2,000\n\n5,000\n\n1,500\n\n800\n\npassengers kidnapped and arms taken »\n\nPirated at Ling Ting by three armed junks, everything taken looted •\n\nPirated at Cho Chow. She carried about $20,000 worth of cargo from Canton to Kong Mun- 70 passengers kidnapped.\n\n§ »J.Pirated at Pok Ngon. Compradore and most of crew kidnapped -\n\nB.F.J. Being towed by British Launch from Tung Koon and Tai Ping. Both pirated at Kien Tong by 200 pirates.\n\npassengers kidnapped.\n\nK.F.J. Pirated at Shah Tau Kok, Stopped by armed launch who took away $3,000 worth of goods.\n\nCargo Boat. Pirated at Shek O.",
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        "content_text": "28\n\nfor on her capture she was placed in an iron cage and paraded for several weeks through the districts near her one-time stronghold. The pirates took pains to make it clear that resistance to their attacks on river craft did not pay. Quiet surrender would only involve the removal of the well-to-do for ransom. Resistance might mean the extermination of the remaining crew and passengers. In August, 1924, over 300 men, women and children were slaughtered as a punishment for resistance by guards in the leading junk of a Canton-Kongmun tow, which the towing launch, in collusion with the pirates, had diverted into Sandpiper Creek.\n\nPIRACY PREVENTION REGULATIONS OF HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.\n\nThe Piracy Prevention Ordinance of the Hong Kong Government issued in August, 1914, and its dependent regulations confer wide powers of search on the police, provide that ships trading from Hong Kong shall carry armed guards and be fitted with grills for restricting the movements of passengers and for protecting the bridge and engine room, and require certain arms, ammunition and rockets to be carried on board. There is also a clause in the regulations which directs that British mercantile marine officers should resist piratical attacks to the utmost of their power.\n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY,\n\nAfter the war, as conditions in South China became confused and control by the Canton Government relaxed, piracy in the Canton Delta gradually increased. Throughout 1923, despite continuous patrols by gunboats, the depredations of pirates had a very serious effect on the volume of trade. This state of affairs did not, perhaps, attract as much public attention as it deserved, for since British shipping was rarely attacked, political issues were not raised in an acute form, and the loss caused to British trade which was carried for the greater part in Chinese owned craft was not generally realised. At the beginning of 1924, however, attacks on British shipping brought matters to a head, particularly as they coincided with the piracy of a British coasting steamer shortly after it had left Hong Kong for the port of Swatow.\n\nNaval resources in the West River. At the end of 1923 the Naval forces available for work in the West River were the gunboats Tarantula, Cicala, Moorhen and Robin. The gunboat Moth was in reserve and except during the refit of one of the larger gunboats could only be put in commission if personnel was provided from the fleet.\n\nThe Insect class gunboats, though fast and heavily armed, were unable to navigate many of the waterways of the delta owing to their length. Robin, with her light draught and small turning circle, was admirable for work in the small channels, but her maximum speed was only 7 knots in favourable conditions.\n\n29\n\nThe plan facing page 27 gives some idea of the extent of the waterways to be protected, although it has not been possible to show the smaller channels and creeks on a plan of this convenient size.\n\nThe gunboats' duties were, of course, not confined to the hunting down of pirates: they had to show the flag on the river, visit the Treaty ports, and protect the interests of British subjects in the area generally. Political events in Kwantung, with occasional skirmishes between rival generals, were a continual drag on their freedom of movement. Their activities were limited to the river and its delta. Except in co-operation with the Chinese authorities and with their consent, the gunboats could not fire on persons or places ashore unless to return fire or in the hot pursuit of undoubted robbers who were making their escape after an act of piracy. Armed parties were only to be landed on receipt of a request from a consular officer to protect British lives and property. Moreover, in addition to the task of protecting all river traffic from piracy, British shipping needed protection from the numerous independent military leaders who were apt to commandeer ships for the transport of troops, private trading, etc., regardless of their nationality. The flat nature of the country immediately surrounding the main channels of the delta made it difficult to take the pirates unawares; the gunboats' masts were visible from a great distance, while numerous foothills provided convenient look-outs for the pirate gangs, for whose activities convenient cover was in certain places afforded by the high crops. Even if surprised, it was often easy for the pirates to slip up some small creek or channel where the larger gunboats could not follow, or they could get away ashore and lose their identity among the peasants of the district. The terrorism which the pirate gangs established cloaked their operations and made it impossible to obtain reliable intelligence of their movements. On the other hand, the pirates' own intelligence system was excellent, and they had a remarkable knowledge of traffic movements and the consignment of cargoes.\n\nIn certain places a gang several hundred strong would establish a definite stronghold which, since it was defended with machine guns, and in some cases field guns, the Chinese soldiery were very loath to attack.\n\nIt may be gathered from the above that while the operations of the gunboats alone might keep piracy within bounds, the pirates would never be exterminated until their strongholds were destroyed and a reasonable degree of order was established in the region of the delta.\n\nEvents at the beginning of 1924.--On 19th January two launches belonging to the Asiatic Petroleum Company were seized by pirates and two days later the Chinese-owned s.s. Tai Lee, flying the British flag, was pirated on the Hong Kong-Kongmun run by men who had embarked as passengers at Hong Kong. In the case of the Tai Lee some of the crew were also implicated. These piracies, coming so close together, and at a time when piracy in\n\n144",
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        "content_text": "## Exemptions \n\n## Commencement\n\n(iii) any person authorised in writing under the hand of the said officer in charge of the batteries; or \n\n(iv) any police officer. \n\n10. This Ordinance shall not apply to-\n\n(a) any vessel entering or passing through the areas affected in the ordinary course of navigation from one port to another. \n\n(b) any vessel compelled to enter or unable to quit the areas affected by reason of the exigencies of navigation. \n\n(c) any vessel when racing, provided due notice of the racing fixture has been given not less than forty-eight hours previously to the Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, at Military Headquarters, China Command, Hong Kong. \n\n(d) any vessel employed in tending, placing or replacing mark buoys or other aids to navigation within the areas affected. \n\n(e) His Majesty's Ships of War, His Majesty's Aircraft, or any vessel or aircraft employed under Admiralty, War Office, or Air Council Authority or under the Government of the Colony. \n\n(f) any aircraft compelled to alight on or unable to quit the areas affected. \n\n(g) any foreign vessel when outside territorial waters. \n\n11. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until such date as the Governor shall notify by Proclamation as the commencement of this Ordinance. \n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 30th day of January, 1936.\n\nH. R. BUTTERS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n## FIRST SCHEDULE\n\n[s. 3.]\n\n### Firing Areas\n\n| Area | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) Firing Area A | The sea area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 23′′-longitude 114° 14′ 03′′), thence following High Water Mark along western shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 24\"-longitude 114° 15′ 05\", thence across Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 44′′-longitude 114° 15′ 45\", thence following High Water Mark along eastern shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 16′ 46\"-longitude 114° 16′ 28′′, thence to Junk Island at latitude 22° 16′ 46′′-longitude 114° 16′ 18\", thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Junk Island to latitude 22° 16′ 38′′ longitude 114° 15' 44\", thence across to Lao Shui Pai (latitude 22° 16' 36\"-longitude 114° 14′ 23′′), thence following High Water Mark northward to light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 10′′-longitude 114° 13' 57\"), thence across Lyemun to starting point. |\n| (b) Firing Area B | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at Cape Collinson (latitude 22° 15′ 48′′-longitude 114° 15′ 48′′), thence across to Slope Island (latitude 22° 15′ 50′′-longitude 114° 16′ 21′′), thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Slope Island and northern shore of Tai Miu to Fo Tau Point (latitude 22° 15′ 42′′-longitude 114° 17′ 53′′), thence on a bearing of 98° to latitude 22° 14′ 48′′-longitude 114° 25′ 15\", thence on a bearing of 218° to latitude 22° 08′ 42′′-longitude 114° 20' 00\", thence to the northern end of Waglan Island (latitude 22° 11′ 25\"-longitude 114° 18′ 14′′), thence to Tai Long Head (latitude 22° 12′ 33′′-longitude 114° 15′ 38′′), thence northward following High Water Mark to starting point. |\n| (c) Firing Area C | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at Bluff Point (latitude 22° 11' 46\"-longitude 114° 12′ 42′′), thence following High Water Mark along the southern shore of Tai Tam Peninsula to latitude 22° 11' 50\"-longitude 114° 13′ 15\", thence to Beaufort Island at latitude 22° 11′ 22′′-longitude 114° 14′ 32\", thence following High Water Mark along the western and southern shores of Beaufort Island to latitude 22° 10′ 52\"-longitude 114° 14′ 48′′, thence across to Pu Toi Island at latitude 22° 10′ 00\"-longitude 114° 15′ 08′′. thence across to North East Head on Tamkan Island (latitude 22° 04' 00\"-longitude 114° 19′ 10′′), thence following High Water Mark along northern shore of Tamkan Island to latitude 22° 01' 32\"-longitude 114° 18' 02\", thence across to Lingting Island at latitude 22° 06′ 52′′-longitude 114° 02′ 30′′, thence across to Un Kok Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 11′ 00′′-longitude 114° 09′ 00′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to starting point. |\n| (d) Firing Area D | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at Shiktongtsui (latitude 22° 16' 36\"-longitude 114° 07′ 00′′), thence following High Water Mark southward to Waterfall Bay (latitude 22° 15′ 02′′-longitude 114° 08′ 15′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to Boulder Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 14′ 35′′-longitude 114° 07′ 04′′), thence following High Water Mark along the western shore of Lamma Island to Tai Kok Point (latitude 22° 10′ 48′′-longitude 114° 08′ 16′′), thence on a bearing of 180° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 114° 08′ 17′′, thence on a bearing of 270° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 113° 56′ 28\" thence to Chang Chau Island (latitude 22° 11′ 54′′-longitude 114° 01′ 16′′), thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Chang Chau Island to latitude 22° 13′ 32\"-longitude 114° 02′ 03′′, thence across to Papai Island at latitude 22° 14′ 36\"-longitude 114° 02′ 40′′, thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Papai and Chau Kung Islands to latitude 22° 15′ 56′′-longitude 114° 03′ 09\", thence across to Kau I Chau Island at latitude 22° 17′ 00′′ longitude 114° 04′ 48′′, thence across to starting point. |\n| (e) Firing Area E | The area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:- By a line starting from High Water Mark at western end of Stonecutters Island (latitude 22° 19′ 10′′-longitude 114° 07′ 48′′), thence across to Green Island (latitude 22° 17′ 14′′-longitude 114° 06' 36\"), thence across to eastern shore of Lantau at latitude 22° 17′ 40′′ longitude 114° 01' 32\", thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Lantau to latitude 22° 20′ 14′′-... |\n\nPage 5\nPage 24",
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        "content_text": "## Exemptions\n## Commencement\n\n(iii) any person authorised in writing under the hand of the said officer in charge of the batteries; or  \n(iv) any police officer.\n\n10. This Ordinance shall not apply to-  \n(a) any vessel entering or passing through the areas affected in the ordinary course of navigation from one port to another.  \n(b) any vessel compelled to enter or unable to quit the areas affected by reason of the exigencies of navigation.  \n(c) any vessel when racing, provided due notice of the racing fixture has been given not less than forty-eight hours previously to the Officer Commanding, Royal Artillery, at Military Headquarters, China Command, Hong Kong.  \n(d) any vessel employed in tending, placing or replacing mark buoys or other aids to navigation within the areas affected.  \n(e) His Majesty's Ships of War, His Majesty's Aircraft, or any vessel or aircraft employed under Admiralty, War Office, or Air Council Authority or under the Government of the Colony.  \n(f) any aircraft compelled to alight on or unable to quit the areas affected.  \n(g) any foreign vessel when outside territorial waters.\n\n11. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until such date as the Governor shall notify by Proclamation as the commencement of this Ordinance.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 30th day of January, 1936.\n\n(a) Firing Area A:—  \nThe sea area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:-  \nBy line starting from High Water Mark at light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 23′′-longitude 114° 14′ 03′′), thence following High Water Mark along western shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 24′′-longitude 114° 15′ 05′′, thence across Junk Bay to latitude 22° 18′ 44′′-longitude 114° 15′ 45′′, thence following High Water Mark along eastern shore of Junk Bay to latitude 22° 16′ 46′′-longitude 114° 16′ 28′′, thence to Junk Island at latitude 22° 16′ 46′′-longitude 114° 16′ 18′′, thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Junk Island to latitude 22° 18′ 38′′-longitude 114° 15′ 44′′, thence across to Lao Shui Pai (latitude 22° 16′ 38′′-longitude 114° 14′ 23′′), thence following High Water Mark northward to light marking Harbour Boundary (latitude 22° 17′ 10′′-longitude 114° 13′ 57′′), thence across Lyemun to starting point.\n\n(b) Firing Area B:-  \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:-  \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at Cape Collinson (latitude 22° 15′ 48′′-longitude 114° 15′ 48′′), thence across to Slope Island (latitude 22° 15′ 50′′-longitude 114° 16′ 21′′), thence following High Water Mark along southern shore of Slope Island and northern shore of Tai Miu to Fo Tau Point (latitude 22° 15′ 42′′—longitude 114° 17′ 58′′), thence on a bearing of 98° to latitude 22° 14′ 48′′ longitude 114° 25′ 15′′, thence on a bearing of 218° to latitude 22° 08′ 42′′-longitude 114° 20′ 00′′, thence to the northern end of Wagian Island (latitude 22° 11′ 25′′-longitude 114° 18′ 14′′), thence to Tai Long Head (latitude 22° 12′ 33′′-longitude 114° 15′ 38′′), thence northward following High Water Mark to starting point.\n\n(c) Firing Area C:-  \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:-  \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at Bluff Point (latitude 22° 11′ 46′′-longitude 114° 12′ 42′′), thence following High Water Mark along the southern shore of Tai Tam Peninsula to latitude 22° 11′ 50′′-longitude 114° 13′ 15′′, thence to Beaufort Island at latitude 22° 11′ 22′′-longitude 114° 14′ 32′′, thence following High Water Mark along the western and southern shores of Beaufort Island to latitude 22° 10′ 52′′-longitude 114° 14′ 48′′, thence across to Pu Toi Island at latitude 22° 10′ 00′′-longitude 114° 15′ 08′′, thence across to North East Head on Tamkan Island (latitude 22° 04′ 00′′-longitude 114° 19′ 10′′), thence following High Water Mark along northern shore of Tamkan Island to latitude 22° 01′ 32′′-longitude 114° 13′ 02′′, thence across to Lingting Island at latitude 22° 06′ 52′′—longitude 114° 02′ 30′′, thence across to Un Kok Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 11′ 00′′-longitude 114° 09′ 00′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to starting point.\n\n(d) Firing Area D:-  \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:-  \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at Shiktongtsui (latitude 22° 16′ 36′′-longitude 114° 07′ 00′′), thence following High Water Mark southward to Waterfall Bay (latitude 22° 15′ 02′′-longitude 114° 08′ 15′′), thence across East Lamma Channel to Boulder Point on Lamma Island (latitude 22° 14′ 35′′-longitude 114° 07′ 04′′), thence following High Water Mark along the western shore of Lamma Island to Tai Kok Point (latitude 22° 10′ 48′′-longitude 114° 08′ 16′′), thence on a bearing of 180° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 114° 08′ 17′′, thence on a bearing of 270° to latitude 22° 06′ 44′′-longitude 113° 56′ 28′′ thence to Chang Chau Island (latitude 22° 11′ 54′′-longitude 114° 01′ 16′′), thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Chang Chau Island to latitude 22° 13′ 32′′—longitude 114° 02′ 08′′, thence across Papai Island at latitude 22° 14′ 36′′-longitude 114° 02′ 40′′, thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Papai and Chau Kung Islands to latitude 22° 15′ 56′′-longitude 114° 03′ 09′′, thence across to Kau I Chau Island at latitude 22° 17′ 00′′-longitude 114° 04′ 48′′, thence across to starting point.\n\n(e) Firing Area E:-  \nThe area included in this Firing Area is bounded as follows:-  \nBy a line starting from High Water Mark at western end of Stonecutters Island (latitude 22° 19′ 10′′-longitude 114° 07′ 48′′), thence across to Green Island (latitude 22° 17′ 14′′-longitude 114° 06′ 36′′), thence across to eastern shore of Lantau at latitude 22° 17′ 40′′ longitude 114° 01′ 32′′, thence following High Water Mark along the eastern shore of Lantau to latitude 22° 20′ 14′′- \n\n## Page 32",
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        "content_text": "Minister for Foreign Affairs, No. 140.\n\nConfidential.\n\n46\n\n19th September 1938.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Note No. 116 of the 15th August, together with the enclosed memorandum, in which Your Excellency states that a sampan of the Hong Kong Junk 2012 H.D. was detained by a Japanese armed motor trawler, flying the Japanese flag and with uniformed Japanese on board, on the 17th May last at a point within Hong Kong territorial waters. Your Excellency also states that three Chinese of the crew of this sampan were taken away to Lin-tin Island and either killed or wounded.\n\nI immediately made enquiries of the Ministry of Marine concerning this case and, according to information which I have now received from the Navy, they have explored every channel in carrying out strict investigations, but there is absolutely no vessel of the Imperial Navy which has anything to do with a case such as that referred to by Your Excellency.\n\nI avail, etc.\n\n(sgd) Kazushige Ugaki,\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir Robert L. Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.E.,\n\nH.B.M. Ambassador.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n107 \n\nJunk `2012 HD` was detained by a Japanese motor trawler flying the Japanese flag and with Japanese in uniform on board, at a position approximately 29° 21′ 58″ latitude North and 119° 51′ 48″ longitude East in **British** (Hongkong) territorial waters. The three men on the sampan were removed and taken to the Island of Lingting where one was decapitated by the Japanese, one so severely wounded that he died an hour later, while the third suffered a bad wound inflicted, according to the medical officer's report, by a heavy chopping instrument.\n\nIn bringing the matter to the attention of the Japanese Government in a note dated the 15th August, His Majesty's Ambassador pointed out that, quite apart from the brutal nature of the proceedings, His Majesty's Government were much concerned by the action of the Japanese vessel in carrying out the forcible detention of the crew of the sampan at a point within Hongkong territorial waters. Moreover, the two murdered men were themselves **British**-born, so that in fact those in command of the trawler had forcibly removed British-born persons in British territorial waters and subsequently put them to death.\n\nIn a reply dated the 19th September, the Minister for Foreign Affairs informed His Majesty's Ambassador that, according to information received from the Navy, the latter had explored every channel in carrying out strict investigations, but that there was absolutely no vessel of the Japanese Navy which had anything to do with the case such as that referred to in Sir Robert Craigie's note.\n\nHis Majesty's Government have taken note of this reply. They cannot but observe, however, that the evidence submitted by the survivors is circumstantial and reliable. They, therefore, trust that further investigations will be made. In the meantime, His Majesty's Government are presenting a claim for compensation amounting to Hongkong $41,080.00.",
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        "content_text": "## (3) \n## Crow \n\n| Date of Incident | Type & No. of Junk | Owner or Master & Passenger | C. P | Junk & Gear | Loss or Damage | Nature of Incident | Lat. | Long. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 3.4.41 (Reported 14.4.41) | Trading T3572H | Fong Yu Hing 50 Yrs. of Wai Loi | 14 | 13 | 3 cannon. | V$270.00 2 Ginglos | A Japanese warship ordered this junk to come alongside when off Ping Hoi and searched it. The cargo was dumped overboard with the exception of 2 crates of chickens. The armament was also dumped overboard. This junk drifted into Tat Hong Channel. | 22° 37' N. | 114° 51' E. |\n| 23.4.41 (Reported 23.4.41) | Trading T2177H | Tsang Moi Kau! Master, of Luk Fung | 9 | 135 Yrs. |  | V.$100.00 Damage to junk $200.00 $10,000 in C. C taken from master. 1 licence book v. $200.00 |  |  |  |\n| 17.3.41 (Reported 26.4.41) | Trading T4499H | Ah Mui Koo Master, of Cong Chau, Yiu Ping District | 9 | 28 Yrs. | 1 Ginglo v.$50.00 1 Cannon V. $100.00 4 Rifles & 400 Rds. ammunition $400. T.V.$550.00 1 Licence Book | This junk was sailing 3 miles to S.E. of Sam Mun Kwan when stopped and searched by a Japanese trawler. The pigs and eggs were transferred to the trawler and the garlic was thrown overboard. The foremast was cut down before the junk was allowed to sail away. | 22° 26' N. | 114° 39' E |\n|  |  |  | 43 | Long & 8 CO | Cargo Dried vegetables V.$100. Sundry cargo value Unkn. |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Garlic, pigs & eggs. v.$2060.00 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Flour, fertilizer, bean cake & salt mussels v.$5300.00 | The junk was stopped off Sam Mun Kwan by a Japanese Warship and the flour, fertilizer, bean cake were transferred to the warship and the salt mussels, were dumped overboard. | 22 26 N. | 114° 39' E. |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944",
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        "title": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944",
        "content_text": "# THE DOCK AND HARBOUR AUTHORITY\n## Port of Hong Kong-continued\n\nIn recommending \"a properly-constituted Authority, Board, or Imperial Tribunal?\" \n\n### Advisory Port\n\nTo enable the Government to appraise intelligently the needs of the Port, the Board should study and observe traffic and port conditions, and advise and make recommendations as to whether the results of these studies indicate the desirability of greater channel accommodation, by deepening the fairways; the provision of berthage, increased storage space, road and railway transport facilities; change in the disposition of buoys, lights, etc., modification of the tariffs; **or advice in any matters which concern the efficient working of the Port.**\n\nWhilst I have obtained much information to enable me to prepare this report, the various Schemes of Development are recommended with some reserve as the information available is insufficient, from which to deduce with any degree of accuracy the nature and extent of actual requirements. In the light of further information the various schemes may require to be modified in detail.... the programme of Port Development works to be constructed by the Government in the near future must necessarily be limited to the amount of berthage, which there is no doubt would either become immediately remunerative, or the return of the cost be assured by the disposal of land reclaimed in connection with its construction. Otherwise, to secure a return on the capital expense involved in the construction of berthage in excess of that taken up, would necessitate either the levying of higher charges for the use of that portion taken up or increased taxation on shipping. The latter may not only result in driving away existing trade but discourage new trade. The extent of the works recommended for immediate construction is, therefore, limited by these considerations.\n\nSo far the development of the Port has been left to private enterprise and adequate accommodation has not been made for shipping. Without the provision of the most economic handling and storage facilities possible, the present developments, together with the advantages of the security pertaining to British Administration, the Colony's banking facilities, and its excellent harbour, are unlikely to be sufficient inducement for the producer to send forward his traffic so that Hong Kong may deal with the trade its strategic position should secure.\n\nPrivate companies, however, cannot be expected to meet the cost of development works which are necessary to secure true efficiency and economy in the handling of cargoes, as the return on the capital cost is subject to trade being handled over the works constructed. In this respect it may be mentioned, that the Port derives little benefit from the large transhipment business at Hong Kong on through Bills of Lading. Nevertheless, private enterprise should be encouraged rather than abandoned. All obstacles such as any marine and pier rights or other domination of the waterfront in the way of creating modern accommodation for shipping should be removed, if unable to be co-ordinated in the general plan of developments. Port facilities are in the service not only of the Colony but of South China, and indeed of the many ports with which commerce is interchanged. The control of the Port itself, and of port facilities, as well as all other matters relating to the waterways, construction of quay accommodation, supervision of all port works under construction, and the general maintenance, amelioration and extension of the accommodation for the exploitation of the waters of the Colony, should therefore be retained in the hands of the Government.\n\nSince the shipping or Godown (warehouse) companies themselves cannot be expected to initiate necessary reforms, Government should put into operation such works as are recommended, and such extensions as with the advice of the Advisory Authority it is considered will best serve the interests of the Port. The construction of the quays, harbour roads, and the carrying out of all necessary dredging, should be undertaken by Government which would lease the steamer berths to private operators on long term leases. The junk basins, being as necessary an adjunct to transport as roads and railways and at the same time providing shelter for small craft during typhoon weather, should not be a charge on the lessee of the steamer berth. Private enterprise, however, should be required to provide the shed, cargo-handling, and all other facilities.\n\nIn regard to the granting of exclusive and particularly long term leases for the use of the piers and wharves it would seem well to observe some degree of caution. The recent experience in America has been that such leases may result in less efficient use of the facilities than is desirable for the best interests of the Port. A lessee, for example, may keep his wharf idle rather than permit its use by an actual or potential competitor, or he may make such high charges as to drive business away from the Port. This actually happened in New York during the Great War. If leases are made, they should preferably be in the form of first call on the berth, Government reserving to itself the right, when the berth is vacant, to assign to it vessels other than those belonging to the lessee, or in which he may hold a direct or indirect interest.\n\nThe basis of this Policy is that, while there would be the broad impartial outlook of Government, which would provide the costly works and lease them in reasonable terms for the exploitation of the Port, the administration of business would be carried out by commercial people who should be interested in despatch, efficiency, and economy, on the method of Profit and Loss.\n\nIt will perhaps now be conceded that Sir David Owen's recommendations regarding Policy, control, management and administration are little different from those laid down in my report in 1924, the only difference being that he has elaborated them by going into a great deal of detail.\n\nWith so much information and advice on this subject as I know the Government already had in its possession, one is left to conjecture why it was considered necessary to seek further advice and so incur additional expense at a time when Great Britain was already at war and Hong Kong threatened! After all, the pier leases do not expire until 1949 and, in any case, if it was not found possible to adopt a complete scheme of control and form of development in the immediate future, the lessees could have been informed that their leases would be renewed for a period of say 10 years, which, I imagine, would have been sufficient encouragement for them to effect necessary repairs and improvements, the cost of which they could retrieve over a period of about 17 years.\n\n### Government Policy\n\nSir David Owen remarks that for years the doctrine of \"laissez faire\" has characterized the Government's attitude towards this question of control and development. To the uninformed it would indeed appear that the Government was disinterested. On the contrary, the Government, at any rate during the period of Sir Edward Stubbs' governorship (1920-1925), I do know was very conscious of the importance of the harbour-the very life-blood of the Colony. I venture to think that had conditions been more stable than they have been since the general strike in Hong Kong in 1925, and the Government been untrammelled by political considerations, we should not now, in 1942, be discussing this subject, for the policy of control and development would have been decided long ago; and no doubt by this time many works would have been completed.\n\nDoes not the mere fact that a complete stranger to the Colony was asked to make recommendations in the light of physical, economic, and political conditions in 1941, lead one to conjecture whether political expediency dictated the Government's attitude, and so another report would assist to appease for a further time importunate demands of people commercially interested in the development of the Port? If so, then Sir David Owen's report has served a very useful purpose and at the same time has added much valuable information on the subject under review.\n\nIt is really quite immaterial who first put forward the idea of an Advisory Board, but, as I happen to have been the one who did so, I would like to take this opportunity of stating that the Harbour Board created by the Government in 1929 in no way reflected the Impartial Tribunal which I envisaged as the first need of the Port. As Sir David Owen says its constitution \"seemed hardly a happy one.\" I would even go farther in saying that it would be ridiculous to expect a Board so constituted to produce any results.\n\nIn November, 1920, I had the pleasure of daily contact, over a period of three weeks, with the late Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, when he visited Hong Kong at the invitation of the Government. Knowing his views as I do, I would like to avail myself of this opportunity of stating that I concur with Sir David Owen that it was not the intention of Messrs. Coode, Fitzmaurice, Wilson and Mitchell that a Port Trust in Hong Kong should operate any of the facilities which may be provided and/or controlled by it. It is unfortunate that, in their report in 1922, the word \"manage\" was introduced, for, quite naturally, it would lead to misconception of the Consulting Engineers' recommendations in regard to administration of the business of the Port.\n\n### Constitution of the Board\n\nBefore passing to comment on the physical developments proposed I would like to make an observation on the proposed constitution of the Trust which Sir David Owen recommends should remain in being for three years as an experiment.\n\nWhilst he has made it quite clear that this proposed Body of Harbour Trustees should be an absolutely impartial one consisting of eight persons, including an independent chairman, three Government officials of high standing, three British subjects nominated by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and one person nominated by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, I note he suggests that a quorum at any meeting should be four, and that no Trustee should be allowed to vote on any question directly affecting his own or his firm's business.\n\nIn order that the Trust should function satisfactorily it is absolutely essential that goodwill and mutual trust exist amongst all peoples who have any interests in the Port. For this reason I would suggest an addition to the effect that \"no Trustee be allowed to vote on any question directly affecting his own or his firm's business or interests.\" In this connection may I draw attention to a situation which may quite conceivably arise? And believe me this is no idle flight of fancy!\n\nOne or all three British unofficial members of the Trust may quite possibly be directors of The Wharf and Godown Co., or of The Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., or of The Star Ferry Co., or even of all three. A question of development for the benefit of Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co. (a private company) competitors of The Hong Kong Wharf and Godown Co. may arise. Likewise for Taikoo Dock Co. (a private company) competitors of The Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., or for one of the Chinese Ferry Co.'s which may be competitors of The Star Ferry Co. In such circumstances, I am afraid, if the British member or members were allowed to vote, a spirit of apprehension may arise and develop into one of mistrust amongst some of the parties concerned. On the other hand, if they were not allowed to vote, the Trust may at times become bureaucratic. Such contingencies should be guarded against.\n\nAnother situation that constantly occurs in the tropics is that due to the fact that for reasons of health, it is necessary every three or four years for white people to reside for some time (usually 6 months) in a temperate climate. Doubtless someone would be appointed to take the place of the absent member, but he may not be so conversant with the work of the Trust. It will be gathered, therefore, that the constitution of the Trust would be virtually in a state of constant change and so here again may deteriorate into a bureaucratic body.\n\nIt is agreed by all that membership of the Trust should be restricted to the fewest number compatible with securing true efficiency in its work in the best interests of the Colony and all concerned with its harbour, but, having regard to such contingencies, and there may quite possibly be other special circumstances that, by frank and free discussion may come to light, I think it would be well to increase the membership of the Trust, including the chairman, from eight to eleven by the appointment of three additional British subjects, also to be nominated by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nThis letter is already sufficiently lengthy, so I propose to deal with the proposals for Physical Development in a subsequent communication.\n\nWestbury-on-Trym, Bristol.\n12th January, 1942.\n\nYours faithfully,\nJOHN DUNCAN.",
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        "content_text": "# 30\n\n**Honourable Director of Medical Services,**\n\nFollowing is an account of my recent trip with lepers to Chinese territory.\n\n### Tuesday, April 8th\n\nArrived at Kennedy Town Leper Hospital with Mr. Curtis and Dr. Sporer, at 8 a.m. Instructed the lepers to start packing up. Had some trouble as lepers refused to leave unless their possessions were redeemed from various pawnshops. This was done. Lepers and cargo were loaded and junks sailed under tow at 12.30 p.m.\n\nJourneyed to Tai O via Lamma Channel and arrived at 9.30 p.m. Comprador failed me and no food was available for lepers. Issued emergency rations. Lepers all suffered from seasickness. Junks were badly fouled and had to be cleaned.\n\n### Wednesday, April 9th\n\nLeft Tai O at 12.30 a.m. and set a course for Coloane Light. Kept hour watches. Light and variable winds. Arrived off Kau Lan Island at 6.15 p.m. Proceeded through pass into Chek Kai Bay. At 7.30 p.m. a Japanese patrol boat caught up with us and opened fire with machine guns without challenging. Over 500 shots were fired, some 200 landing in our junk. There were no casualties. After some time we managed to signal to the Japanese with a torch whereupon they came in close. When they boarded us, Curtis was hit over the head with a rifle butt, but was not badly hurt. We were carefully searched and were made to board their launch. We proceeded to the other junks and satisfied the Japanese that they contained nothing but lepers. The Japanese then apologised and left us. The crew of our junk were beaten and robbed of all their money, some $50. We lost nothing. Anchored for the night.\n\n### Thursday, April 10th\n\nHoisted anchor at 5.30 a.m. Bad storm and heavy rain drove us off our course and we again anchored at 10.15 a.m. having lost the tide. At 11 a.m. 20 sampans, each containing 10 men, approached us and opened fire. All three junks sustained many hits but fortunately there were no casualties. We were boarded and found that the men were pirates. Our junk was made to hoist sail and we proceeded inshore. The fact that we were foreigners and were in possession of credentials given by high Chinese military officials apparently prevented them from molesting us. The chief pirate finally boarded us and was most courteous. Apart from fouling our junk and eating most of our food, we were not bothered. They finally left us at 4.30 p.m. and we proceeded up the bay. We found our chart not accurate and missed the channel and ran fast aground at 8.30 p.m.\n\n### Friday, April 11th\n\nFloated off sandbar at 11 a.m. and sailed upriver arriving at Kau Pui Shek at dark. Could not proceed further because of minefield. Dr. Sporer went in a sampan some two miles away and engaged a pilot from a fishing junk to take us up river.\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "Min Ah Chong\n\nRAMBLER CHANNEL,\n\nKELLETT\n\nGIN DRINKERS BAY\n\nRECLAMATION BY ACCLAMATION\n\nLai Chi Kok\n\nPROFOND\n\nNEW\n\nShui Po\n\nISLAND\n\nPek He\n\nJTONICUTTERS\n\nCUA CHẾ CAM\n\nWESTERN BOUNDARY BY HONG KONG HARBOUR\n\nGreen\n\nBelchers Bay\n\nSai Ying\n\nShek Tong\n\nBelcher Point,\n\nPaint\n\nAnd wand. Anand van\n\nTu Cok Thái\n\nWan\n\nRECLAMATION Typhool Anchorage\n\n(MET ACRESY\n\nYau Ma Ti\n\nPala\n\nCable Area\n\nHUNG HOM BAY\n\nPLAN TO ACCOMPANY REPORT\n\nBY SIR DAVID J. OWEN\n\nON THE FUTURE CONTROL AND\n\nDEVELOPMENT OF THE PORT OF HONG KONG\n\nFEBRUARY 1941.\n\nKai Tak\n\nKan Pui Shek\n\nswered Hill\n\nKOWLOON\n\n(Tronment (SITE FOR\n\nCaufamay Bay\n\nNarth\n\nCai Wan\n\nKOWLOON BAY\n\nNEW TERRITORY PIKSİ\n\nChanna c\n\nBraemar\n\nQuarry Bay\n\nScale - 20,000.\n\nMẦU LUNG\n\nLI\n\nChe Kar\n\nTHIS PORTION OF FORESHORE TO BE PRESENTED IN ITS\n\nNATURAL STATE\n\nRESERVED FOR JUNK AND BOAT BUILDING YARDS\n\nYau Tong Wan\n\narry Point\n\nAldrick\n\nBey\n\nKi\n\nLYE MUN\n\nPah Sha Wan\n\nPORT WORKS OFFICE\n\nP W D\n\nHÀNG\n\nHÀNG",
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        "content_text": "# ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG PEACE CONFERENCES\n\n(Continued from Page 3)\n\nAfter this I had no idea where I was to go, but as my escort boarded one of the buses I got on at the other off. At last we began to breathe freely but, to my disappointment, my escort got off and we only sailed across Three Fathoms Cove to another village called Sam Chung. Here we stayed for two days and nights and, as it was only one more day to Chinese New Year, we almost gave up hope of reaching Free China. Late in the afternoon of the sixth day after the start of my journey, however, we proceeded as far as Tong, and when my escort alighted I started to sail down Tolo Channel.\n\nNear the mouth of the Channel we anchored at about 10 p.m. We were then spent about the most uncomfortable night that I can ever remember. There were 17 people, with luggage, crammed into the small well at the stern of the junk. The floor space was approximately 36 square feet, so there was little more than 2 square feet per person. I think very few of us slept more than a few moments that night.\n\nAt the crack of dawn we were off again, and soon came in sight of the pretty islands at the mouth of Tolo Channel. At last we sighted Tap Mun, the island home of my mythical patient. Fortunately, I never had occasion to produce the letter summoning me to visit a hypothetical patient on Tap Mun island, and I started off in the wake of my guide who took the road which led towards Kai Tak airport.\n\nThe guide, who had been twice over the road, had already ascertained at what points Japanese sentries were posted, and at what times they changed guard. The guards at the entrance to the airport changed duty at 8 a.m. and it was planned that we should pass by at that time, when presumably the soldiers would be somewhat less intent on scrutinising the passers-by.\n\nThe plan worked perfectly, and the incoming guard marched past us a few moments before we reached the entrance to the airport. I was instructed, in a note handed to me by my second guide, to send a message to my friends after passing the island of Tap Mun in safety. I scribbled the following message on a piece of paper: \"Patient on island is well. Anticipate satisfactory progress.\" The star (*) was a pre-arranged signal indicating my name and continued safety. I handed the note to my guide, and over a year later learned that the message had been safely delivered.\n\nFrom Tap Mun we steered north-east across Mirs Bay towards Peng Chau Island and then almost due north to Sha U Chung. I carried a small watch-chain compass in my waist-coat pocket and, sewn into my inside parts, I had a map of the whole area, extending as far north as Kukong, which I had cut out of a Postal Atlas. These two things were of the utmost value during the rest of the journey, and I still count them among my most treasured possessions.\n\nLater we picked up a small sailing boat and made somewhat quicker progress. Two days before reaching Lulong I was able to send a telegram to the British Ambassador in Chungking telling him of my escape and asking him to inform my family in Australia, and at the same time to request my wife to cable out some much-needed money. On the way up we ran into two or three parties of men who had escaped from North Point and Shamshuipo camps and were delighted to make their acquaintance and to hear their stories. Some of them, I am glad to say, are back in Hong Kong again at the present moment.\n\nAfter reaching Lulong we felt, for the first time, that all risk was over. We had reached a point where motor transport was available and there was a well-made road leading to our immediate destination of Kukong.\n\nAt Lulong, we parted company. Marsman, Lavrov, and their remaining Chinese friend had an opportunity of travelling by private car to Kukong, so they went ahead. I proceeded by the somewhat more tedious transportation offered by a salt truck. It was my first experience of the devious methods necessary for obtaining the privilege of joining the crowded mass of humanity on one of these trucks, and I shall always be grateful to a young student of Lingnam University who initiated me into the technique.\n\n## Journey To Kukong\n\nOn the journey to Kukong was the inevitable breakdown of the boat and made somewhat quicker progress. Two days before reaching Lulong I was able to send a telegram to the British Ambassador in Chungking. The weather was extremely cold and there was actual snow on the hills above Sha U Chung. I felt very glad that I had sewn an old goatskin into my raincoat.\n\nWe passed through beautiful country, and some of it reminded me forcibly of parts of Surrey. If it had not been for the circumstances of our journey we could have imagined ourselves on somewhat strenuous walking tour.\n\nThe hospitality of the villagers was amazing. We met with nothing but the utmost kindness, courtesy, and generosity at their hands. We were robbed by a lone bandit, who robbed us each in turn of wrist watches, fountain pens, and money. I only lost my fountain pen; I had no money and my Rolex wrist watch was pushed above my elbow and covered by a bandage over skin painted with mercurochrome.\n\nMy time has already gone and I shall not attempt to tell the story of the Hong Kong University students in China, as that has already been told in full elsewhere. But I think there is no time to tell the story of the rest of my experience in ex-China.\n\n## Guide Turns Up\n\nOn the following morning my permanent guide turned up. I recognised him at once by the fact that he was carrying my suitcase and a bundle containing my Jaeger sleeping bag. For the rest of the journey, about 4 p.m. on the afternoon of the fourth day, there was a great commotion in the village. Villagers dashed about excitedly and soon gunboats had apparently come up from Hong Kong, and at last I was able to get into touch with friends whom I knew.\n\n## Reach Wai Chow\n\nWe reached Wai Chow after five strenuous days of walking and on the third day after leaving Lulong. It had taken me twenty days to complete the journey from Hong Kong.\n\n## Future of University\n\nUltimately some 346 Hong Kong University students, out of a total student body of about 600, made their way into Free China, of whom no fewer than 319 continued their studies at 17 different Chinese Universities.\n\nIn Chungking I went to see the British Ambassador, Sir Horace Seymour, and Mr Han Lih-wu, of the Sino-British Cultural Association. As a result of conversations with them, and with the Chinese Minister of Education, I returned almost immediately to Kukong, via Kweilin, carrying relief money for the students from British Government funds.\n\nThe addition of Marsman and his friends made the party six, and my plans had all been made on the assumption that a party of two could make good speed and would attract little attention. However, as things turned out, we had a very unpleasant experience during the second night. The guerillas and the crew of the junk slept on shore, leaving only the five of us who were refugees to sleep on the boat.\n\nAbout 3 a.m. I was awakened by the blinding light of an electric torch shining in my face and the barrel of a revolver pointed straight at my head. It was the first time I had been confronted with this particular type of situation and I must say one feels in rather a weak and essential position to be suddenly awakened out of a confused sleep to face such circumstances flat on one's back!\n\nThe lonely robber then dropped from the side of our junk into a waiting boat and was rowed away into the darkness.\n\nAt the Hosai Hospital I could literally say that I was penniless. I shall never forget the warmth of the welcome I received, nor the luxury of lying on a real bed again after sleeping for three weeks on bare boards, boat decks, and stone floors.\n\nAfter three hours I was taken up to the school on the hill and here, to my surprise, was ushered into a room where Messrs Marsman and Lavrov and two of their Chinese colleagues were waiting.\n\n\"No Impossible Problems In Pacific\"\n\n## FRASER IN AMERICA\n\nMr Fraser said he wanted such a conference immediately to follow the Paris Conference which would draft the peace treaty for the war in Europe.\n\n## SWORD SURRENDERED\n\nJapanese Commander At Malaya Ceremony\n\n### SERVICE CHIEFS PRESENT\n\nWashington, Feb. 25.\n\nOne of the highest-ranking Japanese officers in South-east Asia General Itakgaki, Commander of the 7th Area Army, embracing Malaya, Java, Sumatra, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and parts of Siam and Borneo, has formally surrendered to the General Officer Commanding in Chief, Malaya Command, General Messervy, at a ceremony at the Command Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, witnessed by a large gathering of Service chiefs.\n\nBe-ribboned, greying Itakgaki, at the head of a line of his staff officers, was marched onto the parade ground and halted between the lines of British and Indian guards to come to attention as General Messervy took up his position at a flag-draped table and called on him in a loud voice to surrender his sword.\n\nAt a slow, halting pace, the Japanese commander advanced to the table bearing his sword, encased in a colourful cloth bag tied with purple ribbon, and offered the sword across the Union Jack, after which General Messervy announced that the remaining 12 senior Japanese officers, headed by General Itakgaki, would hand over their swords to Brigadier C. P. Jones, C.B.E., M.C., the General's Staff Brigadier, at Malaya Command.\n\nMr Fraser foresaw \"no impossible problems in the Pacific. There will be problems, naturally. China has her many problems. There are other problems of organising the so-called trusteeships. There are also the economic and political problems concerning the stability of all Asia.\"\n\n## DANISH KING BETTER\n\nCopenhagen, Feb. 26.\n\nIt was officially announced today that King Christian's condition has improved.-United Press.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "AN \n\nChhing \n\nChaw \n\n(Pr \n\nRAMBLER CHANNEL \n\nKELLETT \n\n\"GIN DRINKERS \n\nSTONECUTTERS \n\nISLAND \n\nPROPOSED RECLAMATION \n\nCHAS Acres) \n\nLai Chi Ko \n\nNEW \n\nPainti \n\nof Aerude \n\nके \n\nSh \n\nShui Po \n\nAND TRAVEL \n\nSHIBA Dan \n\nA \n\nto go po ATA--- \n\nSai Ying \n\nWest \n\nShek Tong \n\nBelcher Paint; \n\nTsui \n\nGreen \n\nBelchers Bay \n\nTai Kok Tsui \n\nWan \n\n24 \n\nPROPOSED RECLAMATION \n\nTyphoon Anchorage \n\n(LOT ACRES) \n\nYau Ma Ti \n\nChung \n\ntable Arva \n\nPROPOSED JALE) \n\nBUNG HOM \n\nEast Polic \n\nPLAN TO ACCOMPANY REPORT \n\nBY SIR DAVID J. OWEN \n\nON THE FUTURE CONTROL AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PORT OF HONG KONG \n\nFEBRUARY 1941. \n\nSale 1- 20,000. \n\nKai \n\nTak \n\nKan Pui Shek \n\nKOWLOON CITY \n\nEMARABLE QUITE POR \n\nR \n\nB \n\nسيوي منيعية \n\nKOWLOON \n\nJAY \n\nNEW FERRY WEA \n\nTai Wan \n\n27 \n\nNEW PERRY PURNÍ \n\n# \n\nT \n\nChanel Beck \n\nNorth \n\nQuarry \n\nBay \n\nTor Ka \n\nChe K \n\nTHIS PORTION OF FORESHORE TO BE PRESENTED IN ITS NATURAL STATE, \n\nRESERVED FOR \n\nJUNK AND BOAT BUILDING YARDS \n\nYau Tong Wan \n\nPoitr \n\nAldrich \n\nBay \n\nLTE MUN \n\nSka Wan \n\nPORT WORKS OFFICE \n\nPWD \n\nHONG KONG.",
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