[ { "id": 223550, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "Meares in that \n\nChat Colong \n\nSimilar better ti. \n\nSociety Fenn \n\nSept \n\nThe Church Missionary Society 10 Sept/26/170 (1760) The Rector Dr. Do \n\nThe Revd H. Brown St. Inchaugt ... and 7 Sept/feb (1769) The Rector. 7 Sept/40 (1794) \n\nThe Sedih \n\nDo \n\nThe Moravian Society \n\nThe London Missionary Society \n\nDo \n\nThe Baptist Missionary Society 8 September 1846 \n\nScript ... 19 Sept 8 \n\n538", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224382, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "This should be put by until his arrival.\n\nThe answers from the other societies.\n\nAnd to the Baptists Miss...\n\nBut Letters this be written to London.\n\n14 trong hang\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSEP. 11 1846\n\n236\n\n33 Ely place sept. 14\n\n1876\n\nSin...\n\nThey beg to acknowledge with much respect, the receipt of your letter & the £42 cash and in reply to the enquiry which you have addressed to me by direction of Earl Grey, I state, for the information of you & his Lordship, that the Mission Board of the Moravian Church, have taken nor are nor are proposing to take any steps for the promotion of education, by means of missionaries, or by any other agency in the colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThey express sincere regret, that they find themselves precluded, from cooperating with their fellow Christians, in the laudable Efforts, in progress, for the religious instruction of the inhabitants of the China.\n\nI have the honour to be, with great respect,\n\nYour faithful Servant,\n\nB. Cowes Esqr.\n\nTo the Honorary Secretaries to the London Missionary Society", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 633, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "Miscellus Offices Post Office send Mails conveyed by Laders,\n\nSolicitors report enclosed\n\nHead Office 254, JM Gulme, re letter forwarded\n\nPost Office 27 Apr: Rel: to giving receipt for all letters addressed on Am Service\n\nMiscellus Offices returned 626\n\nPost office 15th Departure of steamer for Bombay\n\nMackenzie \"Pests\" Report Schotters.\n\nPeninsular & 15th May, Pleading Coal More south they hoy Arrow with soren Abts weachs to propel practical document\n\nMental Report\n\nBay\n\nRoe no impediment be offered to the mooring of.\n\nPost office 8 June Marseilles Mail, complaint re delivery of.\n\nHamps Taps 2 July Mr Hilmer Bankers, re names of\n\nPeninsular, say Eval Bulk \"Frederick, Whether Inter issued to for refs the admission of into Harbour.\n\nOriental Firm\n\nBuy\n\nLetch Missings 7 Sep Education, no steps contemplated after Police suing Less..\n\nBruce or Jon M. Ferrone as Registrars,\n\nB\n\nrecounts\n\nBurgess R & Officiant as trustee fuite bake or elsewhere solicited\n\nreferenced in th\n\n5 Aug Hoffing Ordinance to 10\n\nf1044\n\nA\n\nto t\n\nZ\n\nSory\n\nMoravian the 7\n\nChurch Do 10\n\nPuseyn Joshal 12\n\nbr\n\nWesleyan Sory 16\n\nBarlish s. 198\n\nre: relative to\n\nBruce F. # 96% Half Salary to what date\n\nBruste and tuft nie. Bemisphrecke\n\nBread Capta\n\nmay he draw\n\nFrequen\n\nBuck Fir le don Rtbay's Salary, rend succrcase.\n\nblisk\n\nCary. Re\n\nAn Agent will probably be sent out to Caine Road Coroner, measures in contemplation.\n\nre Legge evil, call!\n\nSuch block & Frythi War Here", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277399, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 699, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "MERRYWEATHER & SONS\n\n...\n\nIMPROVED HOSE REEL\n\nber Füro Ingings, Wetar feina, Stand Piperi. Ayurak, 25., na stori al fin, Majelly's Douk-\n\nCONSERVATORY ENGINE.\n\nTHE FIRST PRIZE, AND ONLY GOLD MEDAL PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, 1867.\n\nPRIZE MEDAL,\n\nDUBLIN EXHIBITION,\n\n1865.\n\nPRIZE MEDAL,\n\nGREAT EXHIBITION.\n\nLONDON, 1851.\n\nPRIZE MEDAL. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.\n\nLONDON, 1862.\n\n694\n\nPRIZE MEDAL,\n\nPARIS\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\n1855;\n\nThe SPECIAL FIRST PRIZE, 500 Thalers, for the BEST STEAM FIRE ENGINE, International Exhibition. COLOGNE EXHIBITION, 1865.\n\n11.\n\nFor the protection of the Upper Rooms and Galleria of Mansions, Hotels, etc.\n\nFig. 2\n\nTHE FIRST GRAND PRIZE (£250) FOR THE\n\nBEST STEAM FIRE ENGINE. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, Crystal Palace, London, JULY, 1863.\n\n1462 LONDIN\n\nHONORIE, ALVEA\n\nThe NETHERLANDS PRIZE MEDAL and\n\nMONEY PRIZE, 1984.\n\nMERRYWEATHER & SONS,\n\n(LATE HADLEY, SIMPKIN, & LOTT),\n\nPatent Fire Engine, Fire Escape, & Hose Manufacturers,\n\n63, LONG ACRE; AND YORK ROAD, LAMBETH, LONDON,\n\nPatentees and Manufacturers of Improved Fire Engines, with Metallic Pistons and Valves in depressed Valve Chambers, so as to be proof against injury by violence or neglect; the Valves are accessible, and may be got at in a few minutes, without disturbing the working parts of the Engine. The construction of this Engine admits of its being worked with the dirtiest water for any length of time without injury, and of remaining its powers unimpaired in all climates.\n\nThe Patent Fire Engines are extensively and exclusively employed in several British, Colonial, and Foreign Government departments, by the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, Manufacturers, and Corporate bodies in London, and many of the provincial towns throughout the kingdom; by the London and North Western, Great Western, Great Northern, Eastern Counties, London and South Western, London Brighton and South Coast, London Chatham and Dover, Midland, North Eastern, Lancaster and Carlisle, South Wales, South Devon, Vienna, Olmutz (Moravia), Hungarian State, South Australian, Bombay, Baroda, and Central India, Great Indian Peninsula, and other Railway Companies; the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the Belfast, Liverpool, and Manchester Fire Police; and by the following Insurance Companies, who have them in constant use:\n\nAlliance\n\nBirmingham District\n\nBuckshire\n\nChurch of England\n\nCommercial\n\nCounty\n\nCrown\n\nEagle\n\nEngineers, Malleable and General\n\nFire Association\n\nGlobe\n\nHand-in-Hand\n\nImperial\n\nKent Mutual\n\nLegal and Commercial\n\nLiverpool and London\n\nLondon Assurance\n\nManchester Mutual\n\nNew Zealand\n\nNorth of England\n\nRoyal Exchange\n\nRoyal Insurance\n\nScottish Equitable\n\nStar\n\nSun\n\nUnion\n\nWest of England\n\nYorkshire\n\nPORTABLE FIRE ENGINE.\n\nFor Ships, Entrance Halls of Mansions, Houses, Warehouses, &c.\n\nTHE FARMER'S FIRE ENGINE.\n\nCABINET\n\nPortable, Light, and well adapted for justices, Estates, &c.\n\nGARDEN ENGINE.\n\nMade in four different sizes. Separate Price List of these will be furnished when required.\n\nFIRE ENGINE, PLAN MADE In Eight Sizes.\n\nTo be worked by from 8 to 40 men.\n\nPRIZE MEDAL,\n\nPORTAT EXHIBITION, 1851.\n\nPRINCE ALBERT.\n\nPOWERFUL BRIGADE FIRE ENGINE.\n\nInvented for Counties, Fire Brigades, Donations, Provincial Towns, Dockyards, Manufactories, &c.\n\nPOWERFUL FIRE ENGINE.\n\nVarious sizes, for Fairs, Shows, Markets, Manufactorics, Plantations, &c.\n\nThese Engines can be fitted with Metallic Cisterns for Hot Water tight.\n\nPORTABLE FIRE PUMP.\n\nFor Estates, Farms, and Provincial Towns.\n\nDOMESTIC FIRE FOR PRIVATE HOUSES.\n\nMERRYWEATHER & SONS'\n\nPATENT STEAM FIRE ENGINES (GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1867.)\n\n(Adopted by the British, Spanish, Belgian, Austrian, Spanish \"Fire Brigades\", and several Borough departments), the Archbishoprick, Provincial, Foreign and Chinese Peninsular Brigade.\n\nThese Engines raise Steam from cold water to working pressure in from 7 to 15 minutes.\n\nFor Particulars and Prices of the Patent Engines, as well as other Engines, see accompanying Price List.\n\nPRIZE MEDAL. PARIS EXHIBITION, 1855 \"L'EMPIRECH,\"\n\nThe Farmer's Fire Engine and Agricultural Fire Engine, for Liquid Manure, &c. Manufacturers of the Farmer's Fire Engine, Agricultural Fans, Irrigation Pumps, Conservatory Pumps, Copper-riveted Leather and Canvas Hose, Fireman's Belts, Buckets, Firemen's Helmets, &c.\n\nIMPROVED PATENT VOLUNTEER AND COUNTRY BRIGADE FIRE ENGINE.\n\nA supply to Her Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the several County Fire Brigades.\n\nTHE \"PAXTON\"\n\nPRIZE MEDAL, GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851.\n\nManufacturers of Copper-riveted Leather and every description of Fire Hose, Fireman's Helmets, Fireman's Belts, &c.\n\nSteam Pumps, with or without Boilers for Stationary and Portable Steam Fire Engines.\n\nSOLE MANUFACTURERS\n\nSTEAM FIRE ENGINES\n\nIN THE\n\nBRITISH, FRENCH, BELGIAN, AUSTRIAN, SPANISH, OTTOMAN,\n\nFOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.\n\n1 INT\n\nIMPROVED HOSE CLAMP,\n\nTURNABLE FIRE ESCAPE LADDERS, on a Light Carriage, for Quick Transit, and 35 various Provincial Towns, Magistrates, Nobility, Gentry.\n\nFIREMAN'S HELMET.\n\nMade with Brass or Silver Mounting, to various designs.\n\nFIREMAN'S BELT AND HATCHET.\n\nMERRYWEATHER & SONS PORTABLE FIRE ESCAPE LADDERS.\n\nWith Tails\n\nWith caps Peli.\n\nCANVAS FIRE HOSE.\n\nFor Stopping Leakages in Hose when at work.\n\nMERRYWEATHER & SONS' IMPROVED FIRE ESCAPE.\n\nAwarded by the ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE FROM FIRE. HER MAJESTY'S AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS\n\nIN LONDON, DUBLIN, AND VARIOUS PROVINCIAL TOWNS AND PARISHES.\n\nFiremen's Clothing\n\nLeather\n\nof every description\n\nlinked\n\nFiremen\n\nCOPPER-RIVETTED LEATHER FIRE HOSE\n\nand Patent\n\nLeather\n\nBuckets for Firemen, &c.\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF POWERFUL STEAM FIRE ENGINES (LAND AND FLOATING), FOR CITIES, DOCKS, RAILWAYS, &c.\n\nFor Particulars and Prices of the above Illustrations see accompanying Price List.\n\nPEBERT & ODDY, Porter, D. Vauxhall Meer, South Lambeth, S.W.\n\n5.678464", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369713, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "Judas \n\n294 \n\nloan from an outsider \n\nI had become entitled to pension after ten years' service: and by 8 years additional service had become entitled to increased pension. \n\nMy law-agent asked for a copy of the evidence in my case: and waited for it a week. No answer was sent by the Captain of Police.\n\nNor did I get a copy of the final order in the case.\n\nh. Moravian", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# SIR HENRY BLAKE AND THE PREVENTION OF PLAGUE\n\nWe noted briefly last evening, as we went to press, the proceedings of the meeting at the Council Chamber when H.E. the Governor met the members of the Sanitary Board for the purpose of submitting a statement as to the results of the recent administration of the experimental blocks of houses in Second and Third Streets.\n\nWe reprint in the present issue the full report of the proceedings as given by our morning contemporary to-day.\n\nAddressing the meeting, His Excellency said he had deferred it until he had first prepared a memorandum which those present had received, giving an account of the experiment that, with the permission of the Sanitary Board, he had entered upon. That experiment, he assured them, had not been undertaken from mere curiosity, but from an anxious desire to investigate into this scourge of plague, whose annual recurrence carried away so many valuable lives and inflicted such injury upon the business of the Colony. He ventured to enter upon that experiment because he felt that as a layman he might dare to attempt that from which professional men would probably shrink. For over ten years now, plague had swept over the Colony annually, like a typhoon, sweeping away thousands in its path, and before its ravages, sanitary precautions and medical science had alike been ineffectual.\n\nAs regarded the memorandum, His Excellency proceeded, he might therein have said something that perhaps some of those present thought would have been better left unsaid, but he was of opinion that in framing it, it would be better both for the public and for them that nothing should be omitted which might render more complete or effective any arrangements made for carrying on the business of fighting this epidemic in the future. To begin with, he was quite satisfied that no sanitary arrangements which could be made would ever be efficiently or economically carried out until the co-operation of the people had been secured.\n\nHere, as elsewhere, it had been the habit to say that this co-operation of the people was not possible, that it could not be attained. The speaker had been intimately associated with the government of all sorts and conditions of men, from his own mercurial countrymen to the Esquimaux of the Far North of Labrador, the negro of the West Indies, and now the representatives here of the Chinese race, whose civilisation had existed for thousands of years longer than ours; and he found that if the people were only approached in a proper spirit, they could be induced to follow the course marked out for them. Human nature was very much the same, in the East as in the West.\n\nAs Shylock said-\"If you prick me, will I not bleed; if you tickle me, will I not laugh; if you poison me, will I not die; if you wrong me, will I not avenge?\" In Labrador, the nomad Esquimau had been taken possession of by sympathetic action; the Moravian Mission established there had, by its exertions, transformed these nomad Esquimaux, who possessed among themselves no elements of higher feeling, into a respectable, law-abiding, trading community.\n\nWhilst in the West Indies, continued His Excellency, he remembered that a great scare of cholera occurred in the Bahamas. There, all the water was procured from surface wells, which were very dirty. The general idea was that the position was desperate, because the islands were inhabited by a primitive population of negroes. His Excellency got those people together and asked them to do something for themselves. He explained to them where the danger was and told them what to do - to get their wells cleaned and keep them clean. Arrangements to that end were carried out; the wells were cleaned and made perfectly safe.\n\nIn Jamaica, as in most places, the negroes were very improvident; their farming was conducted on very primitive lines, and they had no idea of progress. Here again, they were got together; an agricultural society, with small branches, was established; leading local men gave their assistance, and trained men were secured to teach the negroes what they ought to do. Now, that agricultural society at Jamaica was the most flourishing institution in the island; the people were improving their methods, and the island was becoming more and more prosperous.\n\nIn Hongkong, His Excellency said, they had been faced with the same conditions; they were face to face with a great difficulty, but they entered upon their task with the determination to leave nothing undone that money could accomplish in the effort to try to reduce the ravages that plague was responsible for. That the Colony had not been skimped in the matter of sanitation would be realised when it was stated that in 1897, the expenditure on sanitation was about $96,000; in 1898, in round numbers, it was $105,000; and the estimated expenditure for next year was $181,000. Nobody, therefore, could say that money had been spared or denied on sanitation in Hongkong, but so far as concerned this particular disease - plague - we were just where we were in 1897.\n\nThe people, however, were now more inclined to extend their help, but there still existed a doubt, a suspicion, a distrust of authority that was not confined to the Chinese alone, but was really found in certain classes in all countries. It was His Excellency's experience in other countries that if the people were approached in the proper spirit and trusted a little way, they would respond, and if the gentlemen present read the memorandum placed before them, they would find that in that small area in the Western district handed over to His Excellency, an area picked out as being amongst the worst in the Colony, and inhabited by a very poor class of Chinese, the people did respond, and responded most satisfactorily.\n\nHe had no hesitation in saying, went on His Excellency, that the co-operation and activity of the kaifong were worthy of any people of their class in any country. It behoved them, it behoved the members of the Sanitary Board, as the people in whose hands the carrying out of sanitary...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478405, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 642, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# Deutsch Asiatische Bank, Calcutta in account current with the Direction Der Disconto-Gesellschaft, London.\n\n## Statement of Interest for 1917\n\n| Date | Particulars | Dr. £ | s. | d. | Cr. £ | s. | d. |\n|-------------|---------------------------------------------|---------|----|----|---------|----|----|\n| July, 11th | To Balance | | | | 63 | 5 | 8 |\n| September, 11th | Renewal of Insurance for 3 months on Jute | 47 | 3 | 8 | | | |\n| December, 31st | To Balance | | | | ... | | |\n| January, 11 | By Balance | 2 | 16 | 6 | | | |\n| July, 11 | Charges re jute ex \"Moravia\" | 18 | | | | | |\n| September, 15 | Charges re five bales hides ex \"Moravia\" | ... | | | | | |\n| December, 31 | Postage and Petties | 5 | | | | | |\n| | Interest as per statement | 7 | 8 | 19 | | | |\n| January, 1 | To Balances | 708 | 19 | 0 | | | |\n| | | 641 | | | 764 | | |\n| | | 1,230 | | | | | |\n| December, 31 | By Balance | | | | 708 | 19 | 0 |\n\n## Details\n\n| NUMBER | Days | Dr. £ | s. | d. | Cr. £ | s. | d. |\n|--------|------|---------|----|----|---------|----|----|\n| 397 | 62 | | | | FIT | | |\n| | | Dr. £10 | 4 | 5 | | | |\n| | | 438 | | | | | |\n| | | 47 | 9 | | 641 | | |\n| F | 671 | 5 | 12 | 5\" | 3 | | |\n| | | B | | | D | | |\n| G | AMOUNT | + | | | co | | |\n| | | Ра | 62 | | 7 | | |\n| | | 111 | | | 764 | | |\n| | | 184 | | | 1,230 | | |\n\nE, & O. E.\n`10CL-41-10-7-18—CEPS`\n\nLondon, 31st December 1917.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n### [Mr. Donner.]\n\nside by side with a Germany which can live contentedly in peace, rather than with a Germany that is starving and in despair. Therefore, we ought not to be over-anxious if Dr. Funk's great drive into South Eastern Europe succeeds.\n\nI do not believe we shall lose these markets entirely, for, as the Prime Minister pointed out, many of the countries in South Eastern Europe, many of the Danubian countries, require foreign exchange, and they can obtain it only by trading with Great Britain and France. But just as it is natural for Germany to trade with South Eastern Europe, so it is natural, surely, for us to increase our trade with the Dominions and Colonies. I express the hope and belief that the Munich settlement will represent a new chapter in our history. If it leads to greater German prosperity, that will be a factor on the side of peace. I believe that one of the results of it will be that we shall turn more to our own Dominions and Colonies than in the past, and do our best to extend our trade with them and develop the territories within the British Empire. If that should happen, then even greater good will come of that Agreement than we see to-day.\n\nThere is one obstacle which still remains to such progress. I should like to make an appeal for the formation of a small committee to examine the whole question of inter-Imperial trade, because I think that the facts and figures which are really essential to us are missing. What is needed are statistics to show what the Dominions produce and in what quantities and where, how much they sell and to whom they sell it, how much they buy and from where, and lastly what are the transport and communications which are available. If we had those data and statistics, it should not be beyond our capacity to build up a great Imperial trade on a complementary and not on a competitive basis of production. If that policy were coupled with a great policy of fostering at home the domestic power of production, then we should secure an even higher standard of living in this country. I believe that by carrying out such a policy we should be able to maintain and increase the standard of living in England.\n\nBefore concluding, there is one other aspect to which I wish to draw attention.\n\n### International Situation\n\nI believe that the solution of many of our economic problems, and many of the economic problems which will face this country after the Munich Agreement, lies in the lesson provided by the example of one man, Lord Nuffield. Let the House consider what has happened in regard to him. We find that a great industry has been built up as a result of the establishment of the McKenna Duties. We see not only an improved article produced for the consumers, but we find that the price has been lowered; and we see that Lord Nuffield has accumulated a great fortune which he has given back to the people. That is the point to which I wish to draw the attention of the House. Not only has he secured much for Oxford economically, but the great bulk of his fortune has gone back to the people who made it. I suggest that ought to prove a great lesson to all of us. If we were to recognise that we are faced with immensely high tariff barriers all over the world and that there is little or nothing that we can do to reduce many of those barriers, and sell in those markets denied to us to-day, and if we accepted those conditions and facts and heightened our own tariffs and made greater use of them, by protecting ourselves, we could create a higher standard of employment and living in England.\n\n**Mr. Dingle Foot:** Is that part of the policy of appeasement?\n\n**Mr. Donner:** Yes, it is. I believe that if one took, over the last five years, an average of the profits of all companies in England—index them individually, for the sake of argument, at 100—and increased the protection for those industries, one could estimate quite easily the increased profits produced by the higher tariffs, and if one were to return that extra profit in the shape of, say, 10 per cent. to the State, for giving the benefit of the tariff, 10 per cent. to the shareholders, 30 per cent. for the renewal of equipment and machinery, and 50 per cent. to the people who created it, not only would it create a higher standard of living and greater employment in this country, but it would create a new spirit of co-operation between the Government and the employers and the employés.\n\n**Mr. Foot:** I do not follow the hon. Member's argument. He was arguing a little earlier in his speech that it was in our interests to do what we could to raise the standard of living and increase the prosperity of Germany, and I gather of other European countries. Does he suppose that a steep increase in our own tariffs would conduce to that end?\n\n**Mr. Donner:** I do. I explained at the beginning of my speech that I believe that the natural expansion of German trade is in South-Eastern Europe, just as the natural expansion of English trade lies, in the first instance, in fostering the domestic power of production, and secondly, in increasing trade with the Dominions and Colonies on the lines I have suggested. If a policy on those lines were carried out, I believe it would create a new spirit of national unity and of good will and co-operation among the working people of this country. Such a policy could be carried out simultaneously with the Prime Minister's policy of appeasement. I believe we should make it plain that we are not prepared to fight in Europe or anywhere else except in a cause more essential, more vital and more important to the interests of this country than is the maintenance of peace itself to this country, and by fostering such a spirit at home, by stimulating trade within the Empire, this country would be able to look forward to a great, happy and peaceful future.\n\n6.40 p.m.\n\n**Mr. Muff:** We meet to-day in circumstances different from those in which we met a month ago. Then it was a day of tension, and when Ministers and the Front Opposition Bench came in at 2.45 for prayers, one Member said: \"Are things as bad as that?\" We wished the Prime Minister Godspeed when he went to Munich, and when he came back I told my constituents that I was glad of the respite. Representing as I do the vulnerable city of Hull, with its teeming population, I contemplated with horror what would happen to Hull and to London in the event of war. I was glad of the Agreement, but since then I have found myself saying, as did our great weekly humorous magazine, that it was a peace we were glad of, but not very proud of. I suggest to the Prime Minister that the German Government have badly let him down by not showing a more accommodating spirit and greater magnanimity. They have made his position and that of the Government more difficult. Although the House may wonder what that matters to a Labour Member, I feel that as long as the right hon. Gentleman is Prime Minister, and as long as he was doing what he thought was right in his policy of appeasement, the Fuhrer might have behaved better than he has done, especially to Czechoslovakia.\n\nI suppose that I am the only Hussite Member of the House. I am rather proud to be what is known as a Moravian Brother. The Hussites owe their inspiration to a man whose memory we honour in St. Stephen's Hall, John Wyclif. In Czechoslovakia there are both Sudetens and Czechs. As a result of the persecution which these people, especially the Czechs, have suffered in Sudetenland, I feel that it was the duty of the German Government to stand by Article VII, which was signed by the Fuhrer as well by the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini and M. Daladier. We have a right to complain. Moreover, the German Government are missing a great opportunity by not implementing the large measure of good will which was created when the feeling of revulsion at the prospect of war was turned into a feeling of gladness when the respite came. If the German Government possess any psychologists, I suggest they have made a grave mistake in not making better use of the opportunity which came their way by implementing Article VII, by which they promised to give Sudeten, Czech and Jew the option of saying where they wished to live. The German Government have not made our position easier by the expulsion of thousands of Jews. If the Fuhrer had wanted sincerely to help the British Prime Minister and to save him from the criticism of his own party in the country, he could have done so. I have spent the last five weeks in defending the Prime Minister against Conservatives. Incidentally, I am glad to say that some of those Conservatives are going to vote Labour at the next election but that is by the way.\n\nI speak in general terms because I do not wish to be personal, but the German Government is making the position of this country more difficult because of this persecution of minorities and especially of the Jews. At the same time there is an insidious movement against this country, a sneering at the English people and statements are made publicly to the effect that we are persecuting the Arabs in Palestine.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563284, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# International Situation HOUSE OF COMMONS [Brigadier-General Spears.]\n\nThe Prime Minister said that the Berlin Commission were attempting to get at the conditions of 1918, and there was no census in 1918, so they went back to 1910. But why not have taken 1920, when there was a census of population? Why is there this constant weighting down of the scales against these wretched people? It is said that in later years the Czechs planted a good many of their people in the Sudetenland; it was called \"Czechisation.\" That would have been effective by the time the 1930 census was taken, but it certainly was not effective in the 1920 census. If you are going into that sort of thing, you ought to go back to the Thirty Years War, when the Sudetens first came into that country, planted there by Germany.\n\nThe Prime Minister, and I think the Leader of the Opposition also, dealt with the question of opting. That is a very important question. The Prime Minister reminded the House that there was a German-Czech Commission whose duty it would be to settle who could opt, and the indication was that the 580,000 Czechs left in the Sudetenland—I think that that is an under-estimate by at least 100,000—could opt to go into Czechoslovakia. But I beg the House to ask themselves for a moment how is it possible for 580,000 people to opt to go into this small country which has been deprived of 40 per cent. of its industry? How can skilled workers, who have worked all their lives in the industries of the Sudetenland, go and find a living in the small, diminished, largely agricultural country which Czechoslovakia is now going to be? I think it is absolutely absurd.\n\nThen the Prime Minister spoke of the readjustments that were taking place in the frontiers of Czechoslovakia. That sounded as though the readjustment of the frontiers laid down in 1919 was something that was easy to do, but what is actually being done is, as we all know, that the wretched Czechoslovakia, deprived of all defence, is simply handing over what she is told to hand over. We cannot get away from that. And I must say I feel a little humiliated when I think that, when Hungary makes a new claim on Czechoslovakia, she does not appeal to us or to France, but turns to arbitration by Germany.\n\nThe Prime Minister, speaking of Munich and the criticisms that have been levelled at the Munich settlement, asked what was the alternative? To what was Munich the alternative? We are told that Munich was the alternative to Godesberg, and that it was a good and favourable alternative as compared with Godesberg. It is quite clear, however, that from the Czech point of view Munich is worse than Godesberg was, and Godesberg was stated by the Prime Minister at the time to be unacceptable. May I quote from the Prime Minister's speech on 3rd October last? Speaking of Munich he said: \"The line up to which German troops will enter into occupation is no longer the line as laid down in the map which was attached to the Godesberg Memorandum.\"—`[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd October, 1938; col. 43. Vol. 339.]`\n\nBut in fact the land occupied by the German troops to-day includes more purely Czech areas than were included in the Godesberg map.\n\nThere is another point that has not been referred to, I think, in the Debate. Under the Munich plan the Berlin Commission has allocated to Germany an area on the South bank of the Danube, opposite Bratislava, which was never on the Godesberg map at all. It was never Sudetenland. Before the War it was part of the Kingdom of Hungary. That, to my mind, shows what a puppet body that Berlin Commission turned out to be. If the frontier laid down by the Berlin Commission is made permanent, according to my information, over 700,000 Czechs will be included in the German Reich, of whom 270,000 are in compact Czech districts in Moravia and Silesia containing only 30,000 Sudeten Germans. There was an assurance given by the Prime Minister in his speech on 28th September that Hitler had stated at Berchtesgaden and repeated at Godesberg that he had no wish to include in the Reich people of other races than German. Will the Prime Minister make representations to Herr Hitler to obtain a rectification in the sense of Herr Hitler's declarations to him, in which the Prime Minister assured the House he believed him to be sincere?\n\nI would also ask him to make representations under Clause 6 of the Munich Agreement in order to rectify economic injustices. For instance, the water supply of the town of Brno, the capital of Moravia, is just inside the new German frontier, and a very small rectification of the frontier would put this right. Again, in many instances districts with large Czech majorities have been taken by Germany apparently simply to allow the frontier to cut Czech main railway lines in a number of places. There is another point—it may be said to be a small one, but my attention has been drawn to it. There is a kind of island which includes the estates which belong to Count Cinsky, a rich and powerful gentleman with Nazi tendencies. It seems a permissible surmise that that gentleman hoped by returning to Germany to get back the land which was divided by the Czechs under their Agrarian laws.\n\nThe Count has many friends in high places in many countries.\n\nI, personally, am particularly ashamed of the way the Berlin Commission has failed so completely to secure a minimum of justice for the Czechs. It has, in fact, proved to be a more effective means of meeting unjust claims than Godesberg itself. I will give one or two examples. There is the town of Policka. It has 6,000 Czech inhabitants and 149 Germans. It has gone to Germany. The town of Breclav has 13,500 Czechs and 1,500 Germans. It has gone to Germany. But this is the record. The town of Hodslavice, with 1,900 Czechs and one German, has gone to Germany. That German cannot claim that he is going to reproduce his kind one day to form a German settlement, because there is only one of him. But this town is of industrial importance. Here is another town, Kopravnice. It has 4,000 Czech inhabitants and only 600 Germans, but it includes the Tatra automobile and aeroplane works. All hon. Members remember what Czechoslovakia looked like—a long country with rather a thin waist. The Germans have been at pains to narrow that waist still further by taking over large territories with purely Czech majorities. They have made that waist still smaller so that they can separate Bohemia and Slovakia whenever they choose.\n\nI am sorry to say this, but it is evident that the British representative on the Berlin Commission has been singularly unsuccessful in preventing Czechoslovakia from being carved up. If he protested at it, no rumour of that has reached the outside world. [Interruption.] I am very glad to hear it. We all know what M. Daladier, the Prime Minister of France, said on the subject. [Interruption.] I would prefer not to say what...\n\n## 1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\nThere is one point, which may seem a very small one, but which I think is important. It is now reported in the Press that the rolling stock, locomotives, etc., of Sudetenland which have been removed by the Czechs should, it is now claimed by the Germans, be paid for or returned.\n\nThis is an important point, one of the few points we can deal with in the House, because it is in contravention of the assurances of the Prime Minister that, in the view of the Government, installations which might be removed should include rolling stock. I think we are entitled to hear something on that point. I have never seen the least reference in the Press, incidentally, to the Germans either offering or being asked to pay for anything they have taken.\n\nI listened to the Prime Minister's speech with a good deal of sadness. There seems to be a fundamental difference of opinion between him and some hon. Members on this side of the House. His speech was one call to trust Hitler. I cannot trust him, and I do not think the people of this country trust him either. I wish I could share the Prime Minister's optimism, but the whole burden of the remarks I have made merely tend to prove that certain undertakings were given by Herr Hitler to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden and Munich, and that every one of them has been broken. Every one has been broken, so that really, though there may have been something to be said at first, I find it entirely impossible as a reasonable man to trust Hitler to-day.\n\nThe question of armaments has been touched upon already. Our one excuse for what happened was that we were terribly weak. The hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) said that this House was blameless in this sense, that it had never refused supplies for arms, and that is true. Last March we were, in fact, given to understand by the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563865, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Summary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which was exported from or transshipped at Hong Kong between 1st January and 30th June, 1939.\n\n| Country | Aeroplanes | Aeroplane parts (cases) | Machine Guns (pieces) | Rifles (pieces) | Pistols & revolvers (pieces) | Shotguns (pieces) | Shells, 20mm, 81mm, 75mm (rounds) | Cartridges for machine guns & rifles (rounds) | Cartridges for pistols & revolvers (rounds) | Cartridges for shotguns (rounds) | Empty hunting cartridges (rounds) | Percussion Caps (ton) | Shell Cases (Cases) | Forgings (cases) | Electrical Fuse, Exploders & accessories (Nos.) | Hydrogen steel bottles (empty) (Nos.) | Dynamite (tons) | Detonators (tons) | Fuses (cases) | Spare parts for tanks (cases) | Spare parts for machine guns (cases) | Magazines (cases) | Gun charging handles (packages) | Pistol Grips (packages) |\n|----------------|-------------|-------------------------|------------------------|------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|-------------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------|---------------|----------------|------------------------|---------------------------|------------------|------------------------|--------------------|\n| Britain | | | | 502 | 1,207 | 5 | 206,000 | 1,081,000 | 281,500 | 1,742,600 | 5,000 | 99,900 | 0.6 | 21 | 20 | 100 | 17 | | | 338 | ? | 1 | | |\n| America | | | 17 | 233 | +,270 | | 75 8... | 88,586,500 | 1,742,600 | | | | | 50 | | | | 82.3 | 3.8 | 10 | | | 22 | 8 | 1 |\n| Germany | | 32 | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | |\n| Austria (Germany) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Moravia (Germany) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Canada | | | | 20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| France | | | | | | | | 2,108,000 | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | 340 | | | | | |\n| Belgium | | | | | 350 | | | | 231,980 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Denmark | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **Total** | 17 | 32 | 25 | 755 | 6,827 | 5 | 281,000 | 91,775,500 | 2,257,080 | 1,742,600 | 5,000 | 99,900 | 0.6 | 80 | 20 | 100 | 17 | 82.3 | 3.8 | 350 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 1 |\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## \n| Date Imported | Description | Country of Origin | Value | Date Exported | Name of Dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 26.11.38 | 500 cases containing 750,000 rounds Mauser cartridges 7.92 mm. | Britain | £3,750 | 4.3.39 | | South West Transportation, Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China). | 10.1/29/20 A.O.33 in 174. (0.5.0.1/24/59) 56,857. |\n| 7.10.38 | 12 cases containing ... | | | | | | \" |\n| 8.9.38 | 440 cases containing 22,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. | | £2,000 | 11 | | | \" |\n| | 267 cases containing 400,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 mm. | | 32,805. | \" | | | t? |\n| | 216 cases containing 9,000 rounds Hotchkiss explosive shells 20 mm. | | \" | | | | * |\n| | 400 cases containing 20,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. | | £2,630. | ?? | | | #1 |\n| | 180 cases containing 45,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. | | 0,742. | 零事 | | | = |\n| | 288 cases containing 12,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. | | \" | ↑↑ | | | |\n| 30.11.38 | 50 cases detonators 1.3 tons | Germany | unknown | 1 | | | # |\n| | 75 cases detonators 2.5 tons | # | 11 | \" | | | |\n| | | | 12 | # | | | tt |\n| 2.10.38 | 500 cases containing 25,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 20 mm. | Denmark | unknown | \" | | | |\n| 24.10.38 | 104 cases containing 100 machine guns, 7.92 mm. | Britain | 7,792. | # | | | 尊 |\n| | 180 cases containing 45,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. | | £3,330. | \" | | | |\n| | 1 case containing 2 machine guns 7.92 mm. | Germany | | | | | |\n| | 7 cases containing 350 revolvers cal.32. | | | | | | |\n| | 7 cases containing 70,000 rounds cal.32 cartridges | | | | | | |\n| | 22 cases machine gun spare parts. | Belgium | | 17 | | | tp |\n| 11.11.38 | 2 cases containing 100 Mauser pistols | Moravia (Germany) | | 2.11.38 | | | |\n| | 101 cases containing 100 Madsen machine guns 7.92mm | Denmark | | 26.8.38 | | | |\n| 24.10.38 | 17,824 cases containing 35,652,500 rounds cartridges cal. 7.9 mm. | Germany | | | | | |\n| | 20 cases containing 100,000 rounds cartridges, 7.63 mm. | | | | | | |\n| | 4 cases containing 200 pistols cal. 7.63 mm. | | | | | | !! |\n| | 10 cases containing 500 Mauser pistols. | | | | | | |\n| | 85 cases containing 500 light machine guns. | | | 18 | | | #t |\n| | 1,695 cases containing 32,000 rounds tank shells. | | | | | | |\n| | 288 cases containing 12,000 rounds Madsen explosive shells. | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | 2.0.65 in 174. #7 A.O. 67 in 174. A.O. 68 in 174. A.0. 20 in 174 tf tt tt \" |\n| | | | | | | | 11 4.0.146 in 174. \" A.C. 14 17 \" 11 #1 18 \" 1. \" = !! in 174. 11 A.0. 122 in 174. A.O. 54 in 174. \" 10 11 24 \" 1 fi |\n| | | Britain | | | | | !! 155 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563868, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Description\n| Country of origin | Date exported | Name of dealer | Authority | Value | Exported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Denmark | 16.10.38 | C. 15.2/24/35 | | unknown | |\n| | 4.3.39 | Co. 17 | | | |\n| Austria (Germany) | 14.10.38 | | | 40,000 | Britain |\n| | | | | !! | \" |\n| Germany | 18.7.38 | | A.0.28 in 174 (c. 041/24/39) | | South West Transportation Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) |\n| Germany | 2.2.39 | | A.0.83 in 174 | | \" |\n| Belgium | 12.10.38 | | | | |\n| | 31.10.38 | | | | |\n| Moravia (Germany) | | | #1 | ?? | Britain |\n| Belgium | 7.10.38 | | E | 27,702 | |\n| Moravia (Germany) | | | 12 | 1t | |\n| | | | | £3,000 | |\n| Germany | 26.12.38 | | 11 | | |\n| | 11.9.38 | | 18 | | |\n| | 24.10.38 | | 11 | | |\n| | 11.11.38 | | | | |\n| Germany | | | A.0.16 in 174 | | |\n| | | | A.0. 154 in 174 | | |\n| | | | A.O. 30 in 174 | | |\n| | | | A.0. 135 in 174 | | |\n| France | | | | ?? | |\n| Moravia (Germany) | 30.11.38 | | A.0. 99 in 174 | | |\n| Germany | | | A.0.128 in 174 | | |\n| | | | A.0.25 in l | | |\n| | | | A.0.139 in 174 | | |\n\n156 Exported to \n101 cases containing 100 light machine guns \n7 cases containing 100 electrical mine exploders & accessories. \n600 cases containing 30,000 rounds Madsen cartridges 2 cm. \n144 cases containing 36,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges 13.2 mm. \n£2,664 \n12,525 cases containing 25,050,000 rounds cal.7.92 mm. cartridges. \n10 cases containing 100,000 rounds 7.63 mm. cartridges. \n1 case containing 20 Mauser rifles 7.92 mm. \n500 cases containing 25,000 rounds Madsen cartridges, 20 mm. \n400 cases containing 600,000 rounds Mauser cartridges 7.92 mm. \n50 cases containing 1,000 Mauser rifles, 7.92 mm. \n32 cases containing 36 Browning machine guns 7.9 mm. \n50 cases fuse. \n1,000 cases containing 2,000,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 mm. \n200 cases containing 5,000 rifles, Mauser, 7.9 mm. \n100 cases containing 500 light machine guns. \n20 cases fuse (for hells) \n13,938 cases, containing 27,876,000 rounds cartridges, 7.9 mm. \n1 machine gun \n377 cases containing 3,550 rounds gun shells 81 mm. \n113 cases containing 1,880 rounds gun shells, 81 mm. \n20 cases containing 119 machine guns. \n6 cases containing 265 Mauser pistols. \n8 cases containing 40,000 rounds pistol cartridges. \n20 cases containing 1,000 Mauser pistols. \n100 cases containing 500,000 rounds cartridges. for pistols \n26 cases containing 1,300 Mauser pistols.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "# Description\n\n3041.38 cases containing 650,000 rounds pistol cartridges. \n9 cases containing 450 Maucer pistols. \n45 cases containing 225,000 rounds pistol cartridges.\n\n| Country of origin | Date | Value exported | Name of dealer | Exported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Germany | 21.11.38 | | South West Transportation Co. | 1 case containing 10 revolvers |\n| \" | 30.3.39 | | \" | 4 cases containing 20,000 rounds pistol cartridges. |\n| Belgium | 1.10.38 | | | 220 cases containing 55,000 perforating & ordinary cartridges, 13.2 mm. |\n| \" | 11.11.38 | | | 8 cases containing 50 shells |\n| Moravia |(Germany) | 7.10.38 | | | 1 case containing 3 machine guns 7.92 mm. |\n| France | 24.10.38 | | | 1 case containing 12 pistols |\n| Germany | | | | 1 case containing 3,600 rounds pistol cartridges. |\n\n## Fuse and Other Items\n\n| Country of origin | Description | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Britain | 8 cases containing 2,400 coils fuse | HK$1,752 |\n| Germany | 1 case containing 350 coils fuse | HK$255 |\n| \" | 3 cases fuse | HK$1,095 |\n| \" | 5 cases fuse | HK$1,325 |\n| \" | 3 cases fuse | HK$1,460 |\n| \" | 4 cases fuse | HK$1,095 |\n| U.S.A. | 2 cases fuse | HK$730 |\n| \" | | HK$1,625 |\n\n## Sporting Arms\n\nEx Hongkong Sporting Arms Co's stock. \n52 cases containing 5 shotguns & 5,000 rounds shotgun cartridges. \n11 cases containing 550 revolvers. \n**HK$44,000** \n100 cases containing 200,000 rounds revolver cartridges. \n**HK$16,000** \n9 cases containing 450 S.& W. revolvers. \n**HK$36,000** \nEx Ying Tek Kee's stock. \n3 cases containing 6,000 rounds revolver cartridges. \n**HK$420** \n2 cases containing 70 revolvers. \n**HK$5,600** \n7 cases containing 14,000 rounds revolver cartridges. \n**HK$1,220** \n10 pieces revolvers \n4,000 rounds revolver cartridges. \n**HK$800** \n**HK$320** \n3 pieces pistols \n1,000 rounds pistol cartridges \n**HK$240** \n**HK$90**\n\n## Export Details\n\nExported to Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) `(C.5.1.1/24/30)`\n\nPage 160 \nPage 161", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563870, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "# \n| Date exported | Description | Country of origin | Value | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 24.10.38 | 1,200 cases dynamite, 32.8 tons | Germany | unknown | Siemssen & Co. | Haiphong en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | |\n| | 100 cases electrical fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| 30.11.38 | 1,800 cases dynamite, 49.5 tons | \" | | | | A.0. 26 in 174 |\n| | 100 cases electrical fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 cases percussion caps 0.6 ton 40 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 40 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| 12.5.38 | 50 cases forgings | | $240 | | | |\n| 20.12.38 | 17 cases containing 99,900 rounds empty hunting cartridges & 100,000 cardboard tubes capped | | | | | |\n| 9.1.39 | cases aeroplane spare parts | | | | | |\n| 17.3.39 | 1 case tank spare parts | | | | South West Transportation Co. | |\n| 29.10.38 | 8 cases containing 8 'Fleet' Aeroplanes, & parts | | | | | A.0. 14 in 174 A.0.417 in 25 |\n| 10.10.38 | 2 cases containing 2 'Fleet' Aeroplanes & parts | | | | | |\n| | | U.S.A. | unknown | | | A.0.152 in 174 |\n| | | \" | | | | \" |\n| 31.3.39 | | Britain | | Jardine Engineering Corporation | | A.0. 61 in 4 |\n| | | Canada | | | | |\n| 6.11.39 | | | | South West Transportation Co. | Rangoon- en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | c.d.c.1/22 A.0. 95 in 174 |\n| 14.10.38 | 7 cases containing 7 'Fleet' Aeroplanes & parts | | | | | A.C. 137 in 174 |\n| 9.7.38 | 1 case aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| | 8 cases aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| 27.1.38 | 5 cases aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| 10.7.38 | 6 cases containing 3 machine guns cal.50. Ex Siemssen's stock | U.S.A. | HK$8,075 | | | |\n| | 8 cases containing 400 Mauser pistols. Ex stock at Hongkong Sporting Arms Store | Germany | HK$4,200 | | | |\n| | 40 cases containing 200,000 rounds pistol cartridges | \" | HK$600 | | | |\n| | 95 pieces revolvers | Germany | HK$320 | | | |\n| | 52,500 rounds revolver cartridges | \" | | | | |\n| 21.4.39 | 6 pieces auto. pistols. Ex local stock | U.S.A. | HK$1,700 | | South West Transportation Co. | |\n| | 4,000 rounds pistol cartridges | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 pieces revolvers | \" | | | | |\n| 8.2.39 | 2,000 rounds revolver cartridges, 2 cases aeroplane parts | | HK$160 | | | |\n| 20.5.39 | 1 case tank spare parts | Britain | | Intercontinent Corporation | | |\n| 11.11.38 | 1 case containing 1 light machine guns & parts | Moravia (Germany) | | | Swatow for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0. 90 in 8 |\n| | | | | Jardine Engineering Corporation | | A.0. 18 in 30 |\n| 2.6.39 | | | | | Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | |\n| 15.6.39 | | | | Intercontinent Corporation | | A.0. 19 in 30 |\n| | | | | | Haiphong en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | A.0. 61 in 158 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563881, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Summary of exports of Arms and Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc through Hong Kong to China via Rango on during the period, 4.6.39 to 17.6.39\n\n| Country of origin | Machine Guns (Bren) | Cartridges for machine guns. | Cartridges for revolvers. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| U. S. A. | | | 800 rounds. |\n| Germany | 4 pieces | 8,000 rounds. | |\n| Moravia (Germany) | + | | |\n\n74.6.39 \n169", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]