[ { "id": 228157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 461, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Appendix.\n\nTreaty between\n\nthe King of Siam and the East India\n\nCompany.\n\n[ 26 ]\n\n(5.)\n\nCOPY of a TREATY between the King of Siam and the East India Company.\n\nArt. 1. THE English and Siamese engage in friendship, love, and affection, with mutual truth, sincerity, and candour. The Siamese must not meditate or commit evil so as to molest the English in any manner; the English must not meditate or commit evil so as to molest the Siamese in any manner. The Siamese must not go and molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or boundary, belonging to the English, in any country subject to the English; the English must not go and molest, attack, disturb, seize, or take any place, territory, or boundary belonging to the Siamese, in any country subject to the Siamese.\n\nThe Siamese shall settle every matter within the Siamese boundaries according to their own will and customs.\n\nArt. 2. Should any place or country, subject to the English, do anything that may offend the Siamese, the Siamese shall not go and injure such place and country, but first report the matter to the English, who will examine into it with truth and sincerity; and if the fault lie with the English, the English shall punish according to the fault. Should any place or country, subject to the Siamese, do anything that may offend the English, the English shall not go and injure such place or country, but first report the matter to the Siamese, who will examine into it with truth and sincerity; and if the fault lie with the Siamese, the Siamese shall punish according to the fault.\n\nShould any Siamese place or country, that is near an English country, collect at any time an army or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the English country inquire the object of such force, the chief of the Siamese country must declare it. Should any English place or country, that is near a Siamese country, collect at any time an army or a fleet of boats, if the chief of the Siamese country inquire the object of such force, the chief of the English country must declare it.\n\nArt. 3. In places and countries belonging to the Siamese and English, lying near their mutual borders, whether to the east, west, north, or south, if the English entertain a doubt as to any boundary that has not been ascertained, the chief on the side of the English must send a letter, with some men and people from his frontier posts, to go and inquire from the nearest Siamese chief, who shall depute some of his officers and people from his frontier posts to go with the men belonging to the English chief, and point out and settle the mutual boundaries, so that they may be ascertained on both sides in a friendly manner.\n\nIf a Siamese chief entertain a doubt as to any boundary that has not been ascertained, the chief on the side of the Siamese must send a letter, with some men and people from his frontier posts, to go and inquire from the nearest English chief, who shall depute some of his officers and people from his frontier posts to go with the men belonging to the Siamese chief and point out and settle the mutual boundaries, so that they may be ascertained on both sides in a friendly manner.\n\nArt. 4. Should any Siamese subject go and live within the boundaries of the English, the Siamese must not intrude, enter, seize, or take such person within the English boundaries, but must report and ask for him in a proper manner, and the English shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not. Should any English subject remove, and go and live within the boundaries of the Siamese, the English must not intrude, enter, seize, or take such person within the Siamese boundaries, but must report and ask for him in a proper manner, and the Siamese shall be at liberty to deliver the party or not.\n\nArt. 5. The English and Siamese having concluded a treaty, establishing a sincere friendship between them, merchants, subjects to the English, and their ships, junks, and boats, may have intercourse and trade with any Siamese country which has much merchandise, and the Siamese will aid and protect them, and permit them to buy and sell with facility. Merchants, subject to the Siamese, and their boats, junks, and ships, may have intercourse and trade with any English country, and the English will aid and protect them, and permit them to buy and sell with facility.\n\nThe Siamese desiring to go to an English country, or the English desiring to go to a Siamese country, must conform to the customs of the place or country on either side; should they be ignorant of the customs, the Siamese or English officers must explain them. Siamese subjects who visit an English country must conduct themselves according to the established laws of the English country in every particular. English subjects who visit a Siamese country must conduct themselves according to the established laws of the Siamese country in every particular.\n\nArt. 6. Merchants, subject to the Siamese or English, going to trade, either in Bengal, or in any country subject to the English, or at Bankok, or in any country subject to the Siamese, must pay the duties upon commerce, according to the customs of the place or country on either side; and such merchants, and the inhabitants of the country, shall be allowed to buy and sell without the intervention of other persons in such countries. Should a Siamese or English merchant have any complaint or suit, he must complain to the officers and governors on either side, and they will examine and settle the same according to the established laws of the place or country on either side.\n\nIf a Siamese or English merchant buy or sell without inquiring and ascertaining whether the seller or buyer be of bad or good character, and if he meet with a bad man who takes the property and absconds, the rulers and officers must make search and produce the person of the absconder and investigate the matter with sincerity. If the party possess money or property he can be made to pay; but if they do not possess any, or if they cannot be apprehended, it will be the merchant's own fault.\n\n[ 27 ]\n\nArt. 7. A merchant, subject to the Siamese or English, going to trade in any English or Siamese country, and applying to build godowns and houses, or to buy or hire shops or houses in which to place his merchandise, the Siamese or English officers and rulers shall be at liberty to deny him permission to stay. If they permit him to stay, he shall land and take up his residence according to such terms as may be mutually agreed on; and the Siamese or English officers and rulers will assist and take proper care of him, preventing the inhabitants of the country from oppressing him, and preventing him from oppressing the inhabitants of the country.\n\nWhenever a Siamese or English merchant or subject, who has nothing to detain him, requests permission to leave the country and to embark with his property on board of any vessel, he shall be allowed to do so with facility.\n\nArt. 8. If a merchant desire to go and trade in any place or country, belonging to the English or Siamese, and his ship, boat, junk meet with any injury whatever, the English or Siamese officers shall afford adequate assistance and protection: should any vessel belonging to the Siamese or English be wrecked in any place or country where the English or Siamese may collect any of the property belonging to such vessel, the English or Siamese officers shall make proper inquiry and cause the property to be restored to its owner, or in case of his death, to his heirs, &c.; the owner or heir will give a proper remuneration to persons who may have collected the property. If any Siamese or English subject die in any English or Siamese country, whatever property he may leave shall be delivered to his heir; if the heir be not living in the same country and unable to come, he may appoint a person, by letter, to receive the property, and the whole of it shall be delivered to such person.\n\nArt. 9. Merchants, subject to the English, desiring to come and trade in any Siamese country, with which it has not been the custom to have trade and intercourse, must first go and inquire of the governor of the country; should any country have no merchandise, the governor shall inform the ship that has come to trade, that there is none.\n\nShould any country have merchandise sufficient for a ship, the governor shall allow her to come and trade.\n\nArt. 10. The English and Siamese mutually agree that there shall be an unrestricted trade between them, in the English countries of Prince of Wales Island, Malacca, and Singapore, and the Siamese countries of Ligore, Merdilous, Singora, Patani, Junkceylon, Quedah, and other Siamese provinces.\n\nAsiatic merchants of the English countries, not being Burmese Peguers, or descendants of Europeans, shall be allowed to trade freely, overland and by means of rivers.\n\nAsiatic merchants, not being Burmese Peguers, or descendants of Europeans, desiring to enter into and trade with the Siamese dominions, from the countries of Mergui, Tavay, Tenasserim, and Ye, which are now subject to the English, will be allowed to do so freely, overland and by water, upon the English furnishing them with certificates.\n\nBut merchants are forbidden to bring opium, which is positively a contraband article in the territories of Siam; and should a merchant introduce any, the governor shall seize him and destroy the whole of it.\n\nArt. 11. If any Englishman desire to transmit a letter to any person in a Siamese or other country, such person only, and no other, shall open and look into the letter.\n\nArt. 12. Siam shall not go and obstruct or interrupt commerce in the states of Tringanu and Calantan; English merchants and subjects shall have trade and intercourse, in future, with the same facility and freedom as they have heretofore had, and the English shall not go and molest, attack, or disturb those states upon any pretence whatever.\n\nArt. 13. The Siamese engage to the English, that the Siamese shall remain in Quedah, and take proper care of that country and of its people. The inhabitants of Prince of Wales Island and of Quedah shall have trade and intercourse as heretofore; the Siamese shall levy no duty upon stock and provisions, such as cattle, buffaloes, poultry, fish, paddy, and rice, which the inhabitants of Prince of Wales Island, or ships there may have occasion to purchase in Quedah, but shall levy fair and proper import and export duties.\n\nThe Siamese further engage, that when Chow Phya, of Ligore, returns from Bankok, he shall release the slaves, personal servants, family and kindred, belonging to the former governor of Quedah, and permit them to go and live wherever they please.\n\nThe English engage to the Siamese that the English do not desire to take possession of Quedah; that they will not attack or disturb it, nor permit the former governor of Quedah, or any of his followers, to attack, disturb, or injure, in any manner, the territory of Quedah, or any other territory subject to Siam.\n\nThe English engage that they will make arrangements for the former governor of Quedah to go and live in some other country, and not at Prince of Wales Island, or Praye, or in Perak, Salangore, or any Burmese country. If the English do not let the former governor of Quedah go and live in some other country, as here engaged, the Siamese may continue to levy an export duty upon paddy and rice in Quedah. The English will not prevent any Siamese, Chinese, or other Asiatics at Prince of Wales Island, from going to reside in Quedah, if they desire it.\n\nArt. 14. The Siamese and English mutually engage, that the Raja of Perak shall govern his country according to his own will; should he desire to send the gold and silver flowers to Siam, as heretofore, the English will not prevent his doing as he may desire.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240611, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "52\n\nment of\n\nof public money - and\n\nEven if they\n\ncorrect there\n\nof\n\nthe coupes.\n\nare worth striving\n\nca\n\nStreetly sufficient\n\nmargui against the probability of remunerative outlay-\n\nhowever, that we look upon this consideration as comparatively insignificant in a important public\n\nwork.\n\n& it is worth stating, that he has reason to believe that some of the Marine Lot-holders\n\nhave taken measures\n\nfor\n\nagitating against the proposed improvement in their Country. Whether this\n\nbe so or not, we have no means\n\nof knowing, but one thinks it right to call attention to the fact mentioned in the report of the Commissioners, that with the exception of Mr. Autrobeer, none of those who had taken the most\n\nactive part against the proposed measures presented themselves to be examined by the Commissioner. As yet no representation on behalf of the Lot-holders has been heard\n\nfrom\n\nthe marine lot holders to the Government in this\n\nCountry. It is\n\n...\n\n3185 93\n\na\n\nthe\n\nThe BF 109899", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "content_text": "215\n\nif the age of the prisoner appears to be 18 the magistrate not prison have been horie onct tostaud 16 years.\n\nThis Juris Convicted by Mr. Russell, Ihr May, and once, on the last occasion, by both Magistrate sitting together.\n\n* if M. Hempy is correct in his opinion of the first age, These two gentlemen, who return home for an in Many with this pim poms Juwely failure in the duty or gran The colony have on the #occasion Invore Theus cons unable & judy of the Jaismen age within 3 a 4 years,\n\nit was de rendis appetent that although there formin with for the one with his way Slight of perene of the Chinese faciat pentiantis, which Bone comers genually appear the all aliker, was able to determine the age as om toenty years. The Affore Under Inch circumstances the opinion of the Speculia Committee how beam of em quando The Minutes Mouncil comere have told me what is Jews lifte of in dull whether the Governor Adhund to this opinion,\n\ninertons as it does a ory Dorions imputation when With Mergul opposition to the whole of this council, on has done so without Consulting them ne very importans element in the can: An Element which was not defor them when separatif a in May 17418 The usual convenient manne-\n\nThey ex Jressed their Japanes name This A Their concuren in the magistralis recommendation: but which have become of great moment befor the German shind Discharge on June 22: So far as appears from the Gapers Mr. Hemely relied upon his are observation & Mi Smithin Uput. That dreumech contains a statement to the prisoner instatement by to withe frinsonen as being his mother. These hos statements contradict referent Each the penchefe del hay hon facts, & the woman's testiming as to age i woman who claims the wis out, but wome is tape hearsay, while the prisonen gairs the lamest Hause to account for his having decland his own ager To be 15 at the time of his first conviction.\n\nNo stress can be placed recons The hendis to the on the fact thank in the later ages appeurs as 21 on 22, for it is supplied bithe prisonen : & is probably cosine from & chay that.\n\nI then otapalin: a it is worthy of notice that on Each occasion. In appears to be of a different trade on a thon W. Smiths recollection of the interpreter's Opinion is of very olight value in a question of fact: he pain from Mering any one tens elf.\n\nThe jauth On the other hand the magistintes report that on currction they dost together, and that the prisoner upon appearancen was The basis of ages first given and his pidque to be under 16 years of age, to be Glogue ara boy. and Sentinel\n\nUnder than circumstances it is windende That Mr. within thing too much weight toony weak side on has Hennessy has Bchieve mainly upon his own A Z primin \" judicial decision ofthe magistrates, Opposition to, or without ascutaining, the in opposition to the judicial decision Arastu his Whole A his views of the execution Council: and Low (armaron will Instaby Jul himself oblique to with holder approval, Trich could imply that he was datis.\n\nLatisfied that the man caus mon than 19 years of age when In duland himself to br 15, and the magistrate dal that he affer the under 16: jedivially divideder\n\n- and would convey a very gramm Conturen apon both magistrates, which dann my For from breg datisfiel al ale is deserord in this case\n\nThe Third chart which Mr Philippe dereiber es duttful was on a change of hing a Rope & vagabone, an old Iffende Jugmenting the state apparently, with intent to commich Jelang to with _ to shine from the Jerms of denker deamen _ The magistrater noter of the wichan are, as he admits,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "& 9 > $ i> a h \n\nR \n\nM \n\nA \n\nNoter \n\nExisting Cables \n\nProposed \n\nTROPIC \n\nNew Maca \n\nKe Kit \n\nHawhong \n\nBus jong \n\nKila Ripon \n\nZ \n\nToinday rat \n\nCuke 30 pr \n\nOF \n\nPirate \n\nCANCER \n\nGuitong \n\nThen Pak of \n\n~ \n\nQuang bai \n\nIyon \n\n36 \n\nCANTON \n\nSatnica kard \n\nKöferioare Dis \n\nAlayal \n\n30 \n\nde murit Shoal (Rize, \n\nEsprit Shont i fivérvenor; \n\nAMOY \n\nJung dan H \n\nMOT \n\nPesculore: \n\nChoilush Brothers. 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A copy of `No. 13-4T-34`, dated the 30th April 1894, of the report of the Deputy Commissioner, Rangoon Town, is submitted.\n\n## No. 12-4T.-34, dated the 30th April 1894\n\nFrom **The Deputy Commissioner, Rangoon Town District**, To-**The Commissioner, Pegu Division**.\n\nWith reference to your endorsement, General Department, `No. 283-30-M.`, dated the 14th instant, I have the honour to report that there is no reason to believe that kidnapping of Chinese women, or women of other nationalities, for immoral purposes or keeping of them in brothels by the methods mentioned in the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner's letter is prevalent among the Chinese population in Rangoon. It seems that nearly all the Chinese prostitutes in Rangoon are prostitutes from Penang or Singapore, who come to Rangoon by the British India Steam Navigation Company's boats and return after staying here for a time. In the Straits they are said to require a pass from the Chinese Consul before being allowed to practise prostitution. Steamers seldom come here direct from China, and no instances have yet come to notice in which women have been brought to Rangoon direct against their wish.\n\n2. It would appear that in Rangoon there is no necessity to keep women in brothels by force or fraud. The brothel-keepers provide board and lodging and receive in return half of what the women earn by prostitution. The establishments, which contain about a dozen women each, are reserved for Chinamen only, and the women seem perfectly contented and not unfrequently marry, their calling being no special bar to matrimony. In some cases mothers reside with their daughters in brothels with a view to selling them to the highest bidders whose wives they would become.\n\n3. From the regular and business-like way that these establishments are conducted, it does not seem that it would pay to use coercion to obtain women. I understand that while there were no Chinese brothels in Rangoon about ten years ago, there are now five, and they are said to be becoming more numerous with the increase of trade in Rangoon and decline of it in Penang.\n\n4. No complaints have been made by the Chinese community in Rangoon about the non-regulation of brothels. When brothels were first started, the Cantonese sect petitioned the then District Magistrate to put a stop to Chinese prostitutes coming over to Rangoon, but no dissatisfaction appears to exist now, and on the contrary the establishments seem to be becoming more popular.\n\nPage 1531 \n15719 \nRECP PLC 5 SEP \nG. C. Press, Simla.-No. (81 H. D.---8-8-94,17)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434882, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n15371\nApril 22.\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nDear Sir Arthur,\n\nNo. 1.\nLord ffrench to Sir A. Nicolson.-(Received April 22.)\n26, Victoria Street, Westminster, April 21, 1911.\n\nI ENCLOSE a copy of a memorandum which I am sending to the Russian Foreign Office in connection with the proposed alteration of route of the Chenchow-Aigun Railway. I shall, of course, keep the embassy in St. Petersburgh informed of any developments which may take place.\n\nYours sincerely,\n**FFRENCH.**\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum with regard to the proposed Chinese Railways in Chili and Mongolia.**\n\nIN October 1909 Messrs. Pauling and Co., British railway contractors, entered into an agreement with the Viceroy of Manchuria, by which they undertook to construct, for the Chinese Government, a railway from Chenchow to Aigun. This agreement was subsequently ratified by Imperial edict.\n\nIn the early part of 1910 the Russian Government addressed a despatch to the Chinese Foreign Office, emphasising the various objections which His Imperial Majesty's Government entertained towards the Chenchow-Aigun project, at the same time suggesting that, as an alternative scheme, the Chinese Government might construct a railway from Kalgan to Urga, and thence to Kiachta.\n\nThe Chinese Government were unwilling to accept this alternative proposition, because they held that, by agreeing to it, they would admit their inability, in the future, to construct railways to the eastward of the Kalgan-Kiachta line. Furthermore, they maintained that the route suggested served an entirely different tract of country, and would not assist them in developing the rich and more eastern portions of Mongolia.\n\nThe British contracting firm concerned felt that the Russian Government was absolutely sincere in its declaration that its objections to the Chenchow-Aigun route were in no way inspired by a desire to prevent China developing the resources of her own territory, and, therefore, that perhaps, with some alterations of route, the objections of the Russian Government might be removed.\n\nLord ffrench, therefore, representing Messrs. Pauling & Co., proceeded to St. Petersburgh, and, as a result of his visit and the conversations which he held with various members of the Ministry, he derived the belief that there would be no objection on the part of the Russian Government to a line going northward from Peking, and thence to Taonanfu, and from there to Tsitsihar; and that, further, the Russian Government would not object to a new line from Tsitsihar to Mergun, or Aigun, provided that line was constructed of the same gauge as the Chinese eastern railways.\n\nThe British contractors, therefore, now venture to suggest that the Russian Government should either notify them, or the British Ambassador in St. Petersburgh, that there is no objection on their part to this proposed line or lines, in order that Messrs. Pauling and Co., may be enabled to commence negotiations with the Chinese Government to induce them to agree to these alterations of route.\n\nFrom the knowledge Messrs. Pauling and Co. have acquired of the country thus to be traversed, and of the very favourable agricultural conditions therein, they are certain that this proposed new route, or routes, should be of the greatest possible advantage to the traffic returns of the Chinese eastern railways.\n\nAgain, the building of the Peking-Harbin line would probably be commenced from Harbin and Peking simultaneously, and, therefore, a large proportion of the... \n\nPage 292", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434883, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 297, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[15201]\nCO 15371\n[April 24.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n### No. 1\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 24.)**\n(No. 145.)\n\nPeking, March 31, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith the copy of a note which I have addressed to the Chinese Government urging the opening of Pukou to foreign trade in the interests of the Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway, and of the community in general.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\nPeking, March 27, 1911.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing**\n\nI HAVE the honour to address your Highness on the subject of the advisability of opening the port of Pukou to foreign trade.\n\nSeeing that the first section of the Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway has already been opened to traffic, and that the whole line will in all probability be completed before the end of next year, it appears to me that the time has arrived to make the necessary arrangements for the opening of Pukou to foreign trade. The business quarter of the new port would naturally be situated on the river bank in the neighbourhood of the railway station, and as all the land there would require raising several feet to be above flood level, the sooner the people are allowed to buy or lease lots and commence filling operations the better. Moreover, it is in the interest of all concerned that the conveniences offered by the railway should be utilised as promptly as possible, and the best means to this end is to facilitate the purchase of land by merchants, and especially by the local shipping companies.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Nanking has already spoken in the above sense to the Viceroy, but the latter replied to him that it was not intended to open Pukou as a treaty port, or even as a trade mart. The Viceroy explained that business with that side of the river would have to be done in the future as in the past from Hsiakwan, the foreign settlement of Nanking, which would be connected with Pukou by a ferry. He added that foreign merchants could, if they liked, rent land or warehouses temporarily on the Pukou side under the rights accorded to them under the inland navigation rules, but they would not be allowed to purchase land. This was the decision arrived at by the Board of Communications.\n\nIn my opinion, under such conditions the Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway is hardly likely to be a profitable concern. Apart from the inconvenience to passengers of having to be ferried from and to the south side of the river instead of being landed or embarked directly at Pukou, the fact that there was no custom-house there would be a very serious hindrance to trade.\n\nIt is possible that the Viceroy of Nanking and the Board of Communications do not realise how very important a commercial centre Pukou would become if the development of trade by the railway were encouraged instead of being hindered by limitations of this kind. I would venture therefore to recommend strongly that the Chinese Government should reconsider the whole question in all its bearings, and announce their intention at an early date to open Pukou to foreign trade.\n\nAwaiting the favour of an early reply, I avail, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n(1974 a)\n\nApril 21, 1911.\n\n(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\nThe railway material required would pass over the Chinese eastern railways, either from Vladivostock to Harbin, or from Kwang-Cheng-zie to Harbin.\n\nThe country lying between Taonanfu and Harbin is of exceptional richness and fertility, and a great proportion of the produce and cereals resulting from its being opened to cultivation, would certainly find their way, by means of the new railway to Harbin, and thence, by the Chinese eastern railways, be distributed either southwards via Kwang-Cheng-zie, or eastwards to Vladivostock, in both cases swelling the traffic returns of the Chinese eastern railways.\n\nA glance at the map will show that to send produce from this portion of the country to Peking, and thence to the sea at Tientsin, would be a much longer traffic haul than to send it via Harbin, and that, therefore, a considerable portion of the new proposed line must act as a branch, or feeder line, to the Chinese eastern railways.\n\nAgain, also, the new proposed line from Tsitsihar to Mergun, or Aigun, would of course be simply a branch line to the Chinese eastern railways, and very considerably increase its traffic returns.\n\nUnder these circumstances, and that the Russian Government can have no wish to hinder the real development of China, as long as such development does not conflict with the vested and proper interests of the Chinese eastern railways, the British contractors entertain the confident hope that His Imperial Majesty's Government will now see their way to give the notification requested.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462662, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "# BOTI\n\nFrom **SECRETARY OF STATE** \nTo **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** \nTranslation of `CODE` Telegram, \n\nDate \n1st August, 1916 \n\n„Mergeist #000 to moitsfansTT \n„STATE TO YHATCHONB \n„DMONDXOH „ACHMATOD \n„alei „Jangjuk tai \nberpe \n\n1 1 h at C 1 1 1 1 sa sp. mm s \n- 926 \n446 \n\nLeveu no moldoeção on ootasid reqqet n#El viul mergaiət xzvoľ .sacitibnoo \n„WAI HAMOH \n\nYour despatch 29th April **Confidential** Munton, \nBruce Peebles \nenquire whether they may ship a machine ordered by their agents in Japan for Siemens China Electrical Engineering Company. \nDo you consider that they may be allowed to forward machine and that payment by Huntons Company may be allowed. \n\n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# ANNEX 8.\n\n**Mr. Brander (Excise Commissioner Burma), to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma.**\n\nJune 24, 1920.\n\nWITH reference to the correspondence forwarded with this office endorsement, dated the 17th May, 1920, on the subject of opium smuggling into Siam, I have the honour to submit a copy of letter, dated the 12th June, 1920, received from the Commissioner, Tenasserim Division. From my own local acquaintance with the four districts of Mergui, Tavoy, Amherst and Thaton, I have no doubt that the Deputy Commissioners' reports are correct. Possibly some opium may come from the Southern Shan States through part of the Salween and Thaton Districts into Siam, but the amount is very small and we are doing all we can to prevent it.\n\nThe whole question hinges on the policy Government proposes to adopt in the Shan States. Control of cultivation there means that the source of supply is cut off and we can then more easily and effectively deal with all that comes in by the ports from India.\n\n## Commissioner of the Tenasserim Division, Moulmein, to the Excise Commissioner,\n\nJune 12, 1920.\n\nIN reply to your letter dated the 30th April, 1920, I have the honour to say that it would not appear that any special measures are needed to suppress opium traffic between the districts of this division and Siam.\n\n2\\. The Deputy Commissioners who were consulted report as follows:—\n| District | Report |\n| --- | --- |\n| Amherst | Very little smuggling between the district and Siam, and no special measures needed. Poppy is not grown in the district. |\n| Mergui | The same. |\n| Thaton | The only special measure indicated is watching the most likely route from the Pa-an sub-division into Siam by means of a special patrol. The Deputy Commissioner does not suggest that there is much smuggling. |\n| Tavoy | Mr. Fogarty reports as follows: So far as this district is concerned it is believed that no such traffic exists. There is little smuggling of opium into Tavoy from India or elsewhere, and the small supplies of illicit opium and of licit opium disposed of illicitly are easily absorbed by the illicit demand, within the district. I do not know what demand exists for opium in the Siamese districts adjacent to Tavoy, but, however great it may be, I cannot imagine that an illicit dealer in opium would undertake the toilsome and risky journey to the frontier when a profitable market was available at his hand. |\n\n\"Opium reaching Siam from Tavoy District must be illicit opium smuggled from outside Tavoy, or licit opium illicitly disposed of in the district, or opium actually produced in the district. As to the first, our Excise Staff primarily exists to deal with such smuggling and for our own sakes we are not likely to relax our efforts to put an end to it. As to the second, the main sources of leakage have been at the mines, and vigorous efforts are now being made to secure that no more opium reaches any mine than is absolutely necessary for the licit consumers working there. As to the third, it has never been suggested that poppy cultivation exists in the district, and such cultivation could hardly escape immediate detection.\n\nI do not think that any special measures are called for in the district. I propose, however, to have the villages along the Tenasserim River and the upper reaches of the Tavoy River visited next open season by the most experienced available excise officer. If you consider it desirable I shall also issue special instructions to the head-men of village tracts along the main routes to the Siamese frontier.\"\n\n3\\. The matter seems to concern the north-western frontier of Siam, adjoining the Shan States.\n\nPage 24 \nLast previous Paper... \nNext subsequent Paper... \n`18043` \n`TONG KONG` \n`4124` \n`C.O` \n`IR 26 JAN CU` \n\n## Political Developments in China\n\n... (unrelated text, appears to be a different document)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-606-4 Hong Kong Loan- government grant 1-4-1947 - 2-3-1948", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-606-4 Hong Kong Loan- government grant 1-4-1947 - 2-3-1948", "content_text": "6\n\nANNEX\n\nDEFENCE AGREEMENT SIGNED ON 29TH AUGUST, 1947, IN RANGOON\n\nGeneral\n\nTHIS Defence Agreement between the Government of Burma and the United Kingdom Government has been freely concluded between the two countries and is without prejudice to any Military alliance which may be made in the future between the Government of Burma and the United Kingdom Government. It has been negotiated in relation to the treaty of transfer, the provisions of which in regard to the international obligations of either party, the settlement of disputes and to similar matters will apply in respect of this Agreement subject to the provisions of the treaty.\n\nEvacuation of British Troops\n\n2. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the United Kingdom Government will move all United Kingdom troops out of Burma as soon as possible after the date of transfer of power. The margin of time necessary to effect this movement will be a matter for adjustment between the two Governments. The Government of Burma agree to afford all possible help and protection to His Majesty's Forces in the course of this evacuation,\n\nFinancial Concessions by the United Kingdom Government\n\n3. The United Kingdom Government agree—\n\n(a) to forgo the financial claims made upon the Government of Burma in the letter to the Finance and Revenue Department of 22nd February, 1947, in respect of Defence charges in Burma subsequent to 1st April, 1947;\n\n(b) to make no charge in respect of the transfer of initial equipment for the Burma Army up to the scales agreed;\n\n(c) to make no charge in respect of the transfer of initial maintenance reserves for the Burma Army up to the agreed scales;\n\n(d) to transfer to the Government of Burma free of cost fixed assets of the Army and the Royal Air Force remaining in Burma at the date of the transfer of power;\n\nprovided that the transfers agreed to in clauses (b), (c) and (d) above shall explicitly exclude all Lend/Lease material.\n\nUnited Kingdom Service Mission\n\n4. In accordance with the wishes of the Government of Burma the United Kingdom Government agree—\n\n(i) to provide a Naval, Military and Air Force Mission to Burma;\n\n(ii) that the Mission will, provided volunteers are available, include instructional and other staff for service with the Burma forces;\n\n(iii) to provide training facilities in His Majesty's establishments for personnel of the Burma forces.\n\nThe functions and composition of the Mission and of instructional and other staff, the terms and conditions of service of United Kingdom personnel and particulars of training facilities to be provided will fall to be negotiated separately between the two Governments.\n\n7\n\nAs a special arrangement to meet the circumstances giving rise to this Agreement, the United Kingdom Government are prepared to waive the cost of the Mission, excluding instructional and other staff under (ii) above, and the cost of training facilities in His Majesty's establishments for a period of three years from the transfer of power. The cost, other than Home effective and non-effective charges, of instructional and other staff for service with the Burma forces will be borne by the Burma Government.\n\nNaval\n\n5. The United Kingdom Government agree to transfer to the Government of Burma free of cost the Naval vessels set out in the Appendix to this Agreement.\n\nAir Provisions\n\n6. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement the United Kingdom Government agree\n\n(a) to contribute such portion of the cost of the maintenance of Mingaladon Airfield including the cost of technical personnel as may be agreed between the two Governments;\n\n(b) to provide necessary technical personnel for the maintenance and operation of this airfield at appropriate standards to be agreed between the two Governments for such period, not exceeding one year, as will enable the Government of Burma to assume this responsibility;\n\n(c) to contribute for a period of three years a sum not exceeding £40,000 annually to the maintenance at standards to be agreed between the two Governments of the landing grounds at Akyab and Mergui.\n\nSupply of War Material\n\n7. Having regard to the friendly relations signified by the conclusion of this Agreement, the United Kingdom Government agree to give all reasonable facilities for purchase by the Government of Burma of war material.\n\nUndertaking of the Government of Burma\n\n8. The Government of Burma agree—\n\n(a) to receive a Naval, Military and Air Force Mission from the United Kingdom Government and not from any Government outside the British Commonwealth;\n\n(b) that, in view of the close association between His Majesty's Navy and the Burma Naval Forces and in accordance with customary peace-time practice with other friendly Powers, ships of either navy shall have the right of entry into the ports of the other party upon notification direct between their respective naval authorities on the spot;\n\n(c) that, in view of the friendly association between the air forces of the two parties, military aircraft of either party shall have the right in accordance with customary peace-time practice upon notification direct between the respective air authorities, to fly over the territories of the other, and to enjoy staging facilities at airfields to be prescribed from time to time by agreement between the two Governments, including those referred to in Article 6;\n\n7\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-606-4 Hong Kong Loan- government grant 1-4-1947 - 2-3-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596045, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949", "content_text": "7\n\nANNEX\n\nDEFENCE AGREEMENT SIGNED ON 29TH AUGUST, 1947, IN RANGOON\n\nGeneral\n\n1. THIS Defence Agreement between the Government of Burma and the United Kingdom Government has been freely concluded between the two countries and is without prejudice to any Military alliance which may be made in the future between the Government of Burma and the United Kingdom Government. It has been negotiated in relation to the treaty of transfer, the provisions of which in regard to the international obligations of either party, the settlement of disputes and to similar matters will apply in respect of this Agreement subject to the provisions of the treaty.\n\nEvacuation of British Troops\n\n2. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the United Kingdom Government will move all United Kingdom troops out of Burma as soon as possible after the date of transfer of power. The margin of time necessary to effect this movement will be a matter for adjustment between the two Governments. The Government of Burma agree to afford all possible help and protection to His Majesty's Forces in the course of this evacuation.\n\nFinancial Concessions by the United Kingdom Government\n\n3. The United Kingdom Government agree—\n\n(a) to forgo the financial claims made upon the Government of Burma in the letter to the Finance and Revenue Department of 22nd February, 1947, in respect of Defence charges in Burma subsequent to 1st April, 1947;\n\n(b) to make no charge in respect of the transfer of initial equipment for the Burma Army up to the scales agreed;\n\n(c) to make no charge in respect of the transfer of initial maintenance reserves for the Burma Army up to the agreed scales;\n\n(d) to transfer to the Government of Burma free of cost fixed assets of the Army and the Royal Air Force remaining in Burma at the date of the transfer of power;\n\nprovided that the transfers agreed to in clauses (b), (c) and (d) above shall explicitly exclude all Lend/Lease material.\n\nUnited Kingdom Service Mission\n\n4. In accordance with the wishes of the Government of Burma the United Kingdom Government agree—\n\n(i) to provide a Naval, Military and Air Force Mission to Burma;\n\n(ii) that the Mission will, provided volunteers are available, include instructional and other staff for service with the Burma forces;\n\n(iii) to provide training facilities in His Majesty's establishments for personnel of the Burma forces.\n\nThe functions and composition of the Mission and of instructional and other staff, the terms and conditions of service of United Kingdom personnel and particulars of training facilities to be provided will fall to be negotiated separately between the two Governments.\n\nAs a special arrangement to meet the circumstances giving rise to this Agreement, the United Kingdom Government are prepared to waive the cost of the Mission, excluding instructional and other staff under (ii) above, and the cost of training facilities in His Majesty's establishments for a period of three years from the transfer of power. The cost, other than Home effective and non-effective charges, of instructional and other staff for service with the Burma forces will be borne by the Burma Government.\n\nNaval\n\n5. The United Kingdom Government agree to transfer to the Government of Burma free of cost the Naval vessels set out in the Appendix to this Agreement.\n\nAir Provisions\n\n6. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement the United Kingdom Government agree—\n\n(a) to contribute such portion of the cost of the maintenance of Mingaladon Airfield including the cost of technical personnel as may be agreed between the two Governments;\n\n(b) to provide necessary technical personnel for the maintenance and operation of this airfield at appropriate standards to be agreed between the two Governments for such period, not exceeding one year, as will enable the Government of Burma to assume this responsibility;\n\n(c) to contribute for a period of three years a sum not exceeding £40,000 annually to the maintenance at standards to be agreed between the two Governments of the landing grounds at Akyab and Mergui.\n\nSupply of War Material\n\n7. Having regard to the friendly relations signified by the conclusion of this Agreement, the United Kingdom Government agree to give all reasonable facilities for purchase by the Government of Burma of war material.\n\nUndertaking of the Government of Burma\n\n8. The Government of Burma agree—\n\n(a) to receive a Naval, Military and Air Force Mission from the United Kingdom Government and not from any Government outside the British Commonwealth;\n\n(b) that, in view of the close association between His Majesty's Navy and the Burma Naval Forces and in accordance with customary peace-time practice with other friendly Powers, ships of either navy shall have the right of entry into the ports of the other party upon notification direct between their respective naval authorities on the spot;\n\n(c) that, in view of the friendly association between the air forces of the two parties, military aircraft of either party shall have the right in accordance with customary peace-time practice upon notification direct between the respective air authorities, to fly over the territories of the other, and to enjoy staging facilities at airfields to be prescribed from time to time by agreement between the two Governments, including those referred to in Article 6;\n\n98", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]