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        "content_text": "the Executive Council\n\nML\n\nSaturday\n\nnext, the 20th instant, at 11 o'clock A.M. and that Counsel might attend on behalf of the accused, and\n\nAttorney General to conduct the examination for the Crown. His\n\nThe\n\nExcellency\n\nundertook to issue the\n\nnecessary instructions\n\non the subject!\n\nA True Extract\n\nClerk of the Councils.\n\nC\n\nExecutive Council.\n\nPresent.\n\n89\n\n99\n\nMarch 1856.\n\nHis Excellency The Governor\n\nThe Hon'ble. The Lieut. Governor\n\nThe Hon'ble. The Council Secretary.\n\nThe Hon'ble : Lieut: Colonel Caulfield.\n\nThe Council met this day pursuant to\n\nadjournment.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Council\n\nembodying the Resolution for the Enquiry\n\ninto the cause\n\nof the Murder\n\nof one Mahammed Ali at Sakumpor, being read by the Governor's order,\n\naffirmed, and His Excellency desired me to take the Chief Justice's Notes of\n\nthe trial",
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        "content_text": "## \nAlways having his pass with him, Khan Beg went to Peshawar and effected the sale of a rifle. Then returning to Rawalpindi, he came on to Kohat, sold the rifle recovered with Diyal Singh's pass and returned to Rawalpindi. A second time venturing to Kohat he was arrested. The rifle lodged in the lines of the 20th Punjab Infantry has been recovered, together with the three referred to above.\n\nThere appear to be several points worthy of attention in the case of which the above is an outline:-\n\n(1) The ease with which sepoys obtain passes from Military Officers to carry arms. Officers of the Indian Army grant passes in a lavish way. Usually, no attempt being made to specify the weapon, an enterprising man has Khan Beg's method open to him, with a fair chance of success.\n\n(2) A trade, the existence of which Khan Beg admits, in rifles between Hong-Kong and this country.\n\nApart from this case, Khan Beg has given the names of fellow-gunners who have brought arms into the Hazara district. The District Superintendent of Police, Hazara, is satisfied of the truth of this, but has failed to obtain the return of any rifles.\n\n(3) The very slight risk run in transporting rifles, provided there is no attempt at concealment.\n\nKhan Beg in his many journeys was rarely questioned, and never in the Punjab. The Sergeant sent from Kohat in returning with the rifle recovered in Mean Meer, though in plain clothes, was never spoken to.\n\n(4) The probability that the export of arms from Hong-Kong is not restricted to the \"Asiatic Artillery,\" but shared in by the Infantry and Police.\n\n(5) The necessity of a closer watch on the movements of sepoys, especially when travelling with boxes nearly four feet long, as was that of Khan Beg.\n\n(6) The help afforded by regimental sepoys in the secretion of arms.\n\nMen of at least three regiments (11th Bengal Lancers, 20th and 33rd Punjab Infantry) gave Khan Beg all the assistance they could. Commanding Officers of the 11th Bengal Lancers and 20th Punjab Infantry are taking regimental action in this case.\n\nIt only remains to describe the recovered rifles. They were made in Liege (Belgium) and Steyr (Austria), and one by J. Hollis & Sons, London and Birmingham. District Superintendent of Police at first thought the continental weapons might be of the \"condemned barrel type\" referred to by Mr. Hastings, but such officers and armourers as have seen them pronounce them first-class weapons. They were probably brought from W. G. Humphreys & Co., or Tang Hing, carpenter, 180, Queen's Road, West, Hong-Kong, for with both of these firms Khan Beg has evidently had dealings.\n\nKhan Beg has been convicted under sections 19, 20, and 22 of Act XI of 1873, and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment: the rifles and box in which they were brought over have been confiscated.\n\nThe 29th November 1893.\n\n**H. A. CLOSE,**\nOfg. District Superintendent of Police, Kohat.\n\n## \nproduce no authority entitling him to purchase and carry ammunition. He was travelling in company with about 80 other sepoys. He was fined by the Cantonment Magistrate Rs. 10 and the ammunition was forfeited.\n\nSepoy No. 705, Muhammad Ali, son of Sayad Ali Pathan, resident of Garhi, Thana Mardan, Peshawar, was arrested at the Rawalpindi Railway Station on the 23rd April 1894, under Section 20 of the Arms Act, for being in possession of six-chambered revolver and 100 cartridges not covered by any license or letter. He was sentenced by the Cantonment Magistrate to a fine of Rs. 30 or in default to three months' rigorous imprisonment, and forfeiture of the revolver and cartridges.\n\nSepoy No. 836, Nakib-ullah, son of Fakir, Pathan, resident of Shamatkor, Thana Mardan, Peshawar, was arrested at the Rawalpindi Railway Station on the 23rd April 1894, under Section 20 of the Arms Act, with the above-named Sepoy, being also in possession of a six-chambered revolver, with 200 cartridges, not covered by license or certificate. He was sentenced by the Cantonment Magistrate to a fine of Rs. 30 or in default to three months' rigorous imprisonment, and forfeiture of revolver and cartridges.\n\nSepoy Khanzada, son of Ajib Gul, Kamazai Khel, resident of Wata in Swat, was detected by the patrolling constable between Lala Musa and Rawalpindi to be in possession of one six-chambered revolver, 100 revolver cartridges, eight blank and one loaded snider cartridges, as well as two boxes of percussion caps. He was arrested at the Rawalpindi Railway Station on the 26th April 1894, and sentenced by the Cantonment Magistrate to a fine of Rs. 30 and forfeiture of the revolver and ammunition. This man had a letter from his Commanding Officer, permitting him to carry a rifle and 100 cartridges, which were taken from him by the Calcutta Police.\n\nSubadar-Major Hassan Ali Khan, son of Fazal Khan, Khatak, of Jabbi Madauri, Kohat, of the 16th Hong-Kong Regiment, alighted from 3 Up Mail at Khairabad on the 26th of April 1894. He was in possession of a double-barrel gun, a Henry-Martini rifle, a cavalry carbine, a pistol and 500 cartridges. As all these were covered by a letter from his Commanding Officer, he was not interfered with.\n\n## Enclosure No. 2.\n\n**Report from the Punjab Police.**\n\n**ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN ARMS, &c.**\n\nOn the 19th April, a telegram was received from the Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, intimating that 150 sepoys from Hong-Kong had that day left Calcutta for their homes in the Punjab, and that they were suspected by their Commandant to be in possession of contraband fire-arms. All Station Masters and Railway Police, Peshawar to Delhi, on the North Western Railway were put on the alert by wire, and Inspectors, Railway Police, were ordered to see that strict vigilance was maintained. The following is the result:-\n\n| Sepoy No. | Name | Resident of | Arrested at | Offense |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 259 | Amir Shah | village Jallo, Thara Mansehra, Huzara | Ambala Cantonment Railway Station | Illegal possession of two boxes Enfield gun-caps and two boxes military percussion caps |\n| 705 | Muhammad Ali | Garhi, Thana Mardan, Peshawar | Rawalpindi Railway Station | Possession of six-chambered revolver and 100 cartridges without license |\n| 836 | Nakib-ullah | Shamatkor, Thana Mardan, Peshawar | Rawalpindi Railway Station | Possession of six-chambered revolver and 200 cartridges without license |\n| - | Khanzada | Wata in Swat | Rawalpindi Railway Station | Possession of six-chambered revolver, cartridges, and percussion caps |\n \nSepoy No. 259, Amir Shah, son of Muazzam Shah, resident of village Jallo, Thara Mansehra, Huzara, was arrested at Ambala Cantonment Railway Station on the 23rd of April 1894, under Section 19 of the Arms Act, for illegal possession of two boxes Enfield gun-caps, English manufacture, and two boxes military percussion caps made in Germany for the Hong Kong market. 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        "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]",
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        "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]",
        "content_text": "# No. 2524-G., dated Indore Residency, the 29th March 1895\nFrom-**LIEUTENANT-COLONEL D. W. K. BARR**, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India,\nTo-**The Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department**.\n\nI have the honour to submit, for the favourable consideration of the Government of India, the accompanying letter from the Political Agent in Bhopal, regarding the proposed visit of the Nawab of Basoda to America and Australia.\n\n2. There are no local objections to the Nawab's proposals, unless an absence of two years from his estate be considered excessive.\n\n3. Should the Nawab's proposal meet with the approval of the Government of India, he will be given a letter of introduction as on previous occasions.\n\n# No. 447-169-84, dated Bhopal Political Agency, Sebore, the 18th March 1895.\nFrom-**MAJOR M. J. MEADE**, Political Agent in Bhopal,\nTo-**The 1st Assistant to the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India**.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence ending with your office telegram `No. 7811`, dated the 21st October 1893, conveying permission for Mohammad Amar Ali Khan, the Nawab of Basoda to go and visit Madrid and Lisbon, I have the honour to state that the Nawab could not avail himself of the permission owing to the failure of crops that year, and he has now sent me a yaddasht requesting to be allowed to go and visit America and Australia.\n\n2. The Nawab proposes to embark from Calcutta and to sail to America *viá* Hongkong and Japan and to return to Bombay *vid* Liverpool, Gibralter, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Naples and the river Nile in Egypt. After his return from America the Nawab intends spending a few days at his capital to see if things are going on all right, and then to resume his travels to Australia. The money required for his trip to America will be, he estimates, about Rs. 5,000, and it will take the Nawab five months to complete the journey. Separate arrangements will be made for his travels to Australia.\n\n3. The Nawab assures me that the State is free from all embarrassments, that the administration is being carried on smoothly, and will be managed as usual by his son, Mian Hyder Ali Khan, during his absence. He asks that, as after his return from America, he will only be here for a short time before proceeding to Australia, sanction may be obtained for his absence from Basoda for two years to save time.\n\n4. I see no reason why the wishes of the Nawab should not be complied with except that the period he intends remaining away is too long, and I therefore forward his application for the favourable consideration of the Agent to the Governor-General.\n\n5. If the Government of India sanctions the Nawab's request, I beg that the usual circular letter in English may be forwarded for his use.\n\n# No. 1235-1, dated Simla, the 16th April 1895.\nFrom-**CAPTAIN H. DALY**, Officiating Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department,\nTo-**The Agent to the Governor-General in Central India**.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter `No. 2524-G.`, of 29th March 1895, regarding the proposed visit of the Nawab of Basoda to America and Australia.\n\n2. On the understanding that the Nawab's son, Mian Hyder Ali Khan, will carry on the administration of the State during his father's absence, the Governor-General in Council has no objection to the Nawab travelling as proposed. He may be furnished with a letter of introduction as on previous occasions.\n\n**INDIA OFFICE**\nG. C. Press, Simla. `No. 153 F.D.--30-4-95.--35.`\n17 MAY 95\n1\n301",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, May 11, 1904. IN continuation of my letter, dated the 27th April, 1904, I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of India, translations of a letter and its inclosure, received by the Political Agent in Gilgit from the Mir of Hunza regarding the recent interchange of presents between Hunza and the Chinese authorities at Kashgar.\n\n## (Translation.)\n\nI have given this order, and thus every year he comes he is well looked after. It would be better if in future you send the gold earlier. You, Mansabdar, are doing your work well, and have given your heart to it. We also are pleased with you. When a person possesses peace of mind, he can then work in the interests of his subjects, look after them diligently, and do good to them. In such circumstances the subjects, too, serve their Ruler with devotion and behave like good people. The result is that such an Empire never comes to grief. I, Taotai, am very pleased with you, Mansabdar, so I write this to you.\n\nThis letter is given to Mansabdar, Mir of Kanjut, Muhammad Nazim Khan, 30th year of Kuang-Hsü Khan, 19th of the 1st month—viz., Zilhijja, 1321 (8th March, 1904).\n\n# Inclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\n## Mir of Hunza to Captain Gurdon.\n\n(After compliments.)\n\n1 Safar, 1322 (April 18, 1904), NAZAR ALI has returned from Kashgar with the presents that the Chinese authorities send me every year. I am sending the Taotai's letter on to you, and hope it will reach you.\n\n2. As directed by Colonel Miles, Nazar Ali talked over the Raskam question with the Taotai, and explained that Raskam was from ancient times within the limits of Kanjut, that in the past years the Taotai had stated that the lands were given over to the Kanjutis, but that the Russians were making mischief, and that Raskam could not therefore be given either to Hunza people or to any other people, and that now the people of Sarikol were cultivating the lands for reasons not known. The Taotai, in reply, said that the Raskam lands were undoubtedly within the Kanjut limits, and that he would write on the subject to the Futai (Governor of New Dominions) at Urumchi, who, the Taotai hoped, would sanction the grant. All this conversation was reported by Nazar Ali to Colonel Miles with full details. The Taotai also said that he would write to the Amban at Tashkurghan and instruct him to prohibit cultivation in Raskam by foreign people.\n\n# Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\n## Taotai of Kashgar to Mir Muhammad Nazim Khan of Hunza.\n\nI HAVE seen the letter you sent me. You, Mansabdar (official), have sent here the gold fixed from old times for the 29th year of Kuang-Hsü Khan (Emperor of China). It weighed 1 seer and 5 miskals (4 tolas). I, Taotai, have received it personally, and will forward it to Shingjang Shongfu (Governor of the New Dominions at Urumchi). The said Shongfu will send it on to Bogh Khan (Emperor of China). As usual, two pieces of tawar (Chinese silk of superior quality) have been sent you by hand of Nazar Ali and Gauhar Shah. They will deliver them to you. I, Taotai, have, according to old usage, shown my favour to you and have sent to you, Mansabdar, 20 pieces of shahi (Bokhara silk), 10 bricks of black tea, 4 pairs of China cups, and 1 big yamboo (Chinese silver coin weighing 160 tolas). In addition, I am also sending 2 pieces of durdoon (Chinese silk inferior to tawar), and 200 pieces of white and blue kirbas (coarse cloth made in Kashgar). All these things have been made over to your men who came here, and they will hand them over to you. You should see these favours of mine and distribute the articles among the persons who are doing service to you, so that they also may see the favours. To Nazar Ali and Gauhar Shah I have shown my kindness by granting them 12 strings of puls (1 string = 20 tangas = about rupees 3:8), China cups, kirbas, and black tea. I have also given them a written order to all my subordinate officials to look after them (Nazar Ali and Gauhar Shah) properly, treat them respectfully, and make their journey easy from karawal to karawal (karawal is a small post stationed at certain places to watch routes leading from one place to another). No hire will be taken from them for the carts and ponies supplied to them.\n\n# (Confidential.)\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. Colvin to Government of India.\n\nSrinagar, June 3, 1904. IN continuation of the correspondence ending with my telegram of the 22nd April, I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Government of the India, copy of a letter of the 19th May, received from the Political Agent, Gilgit, in which he expresses his views on the amount of compensation to be given to the Mir of Hunza, if the relations of that Chief with China are to be severed, and also on the possible measures for providing for the redundant population of Hunza.\n\nI concur with the Political Agent that, under the circumstances explained by him, the actual pecuniary loss to the Mir, if the severance of the relations of his State with China is effected, would possibly be less than that sum, but it is a matter in which compensation should, I think, be liberally given. The compensation should be fixed at not less than 3,000 rupees per annum.\n\nOf the three possible measures proposed for relieving the excess population of Hunza, the one promising the quickest and most certain results is, in my opinion, the suggested increase in the strength of the existing levies. Captain Gurdon has pointed out that, although relief is not so urgently required in Nagar as in Hunza, it would, nevertheless, be impolitic while dealing with the question to omit the former State from consideration. The increase in the number of levies in each State to 250 men is, in my opinion, in itself a desirable measure, for the Hunza and Nagar men make excellent levies, and may now, I think, be fully depended on, but it would be a somewhat costly measure, involving, according to the Political Agent, an extra annual expenditure of 14,000 rupees. Details of this amount have been asked for, and will be forwarded, if required, to the Government of India.\n\nThe advisability of rearming the levies has been revived by Captain Gurdon. My views on this question—which agree with those of my predecessor, Mr. Dane—are already known to the Government of India. Should an increase in the number of the levies be decided upon, I think there would be no undue risk in providing them at the same time with a better weapon than that they at present possess.\n\nAs regards the other two measures proposed by the Political Agent, they possess the undoubted advantage of taking people out of the country instead of putting money in. The principal obstacle to their success is the obstructive attitude adopted by the Chiefs towards the emigration of their subjects outside their States. The conditions on which the Durbar were willing three years ago, and are still willing, to allow colonization on the Matam Das lands are very reasonable, and it is a pity that the proposal should be thwarted owing to the disfavour with which it is viewed by the Mir of Hunza. It would appear that the scheme is not alternative to the suggested increase of the levies or contingent on the decision of the Government of India as regards the latter. I am therefore urging the Political Agent to use his influence in inducing the Mir to change his present attitude, and to refrain generally from discouraging his subjects from seeking employment in Gilgit and elsewhere. It will be seen from the Political Agent's recent diaries that he has already pressed the Mir to reconsider his views in the matter, and I hope shortly to hear that his arguments have taken effect.",
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        "content_text": "## List of Firms\nMaison Hollandaise (Prins, C. F.), Tehran.\nMalik-ut-Tujjar (Haji Muhammad Ibrahim), Ispahan.\nMeshedi Ismail Salmasi, Kerman.\nMeshedi Goulam Ali, Resht.\nMinassiantz, A., Tehran.\nMir Abdul Baghi & Sons, Kermanshah.\nMissirian, Kerman.\nMuhammad Mehdi Samsar Isfahan.\nMuhammad Saleh, Resht.\nMustafa Husseini, Tehran.\nPapadopoulo, Hariles, Resht.\nPascalidi Frères, Resht.\nPersische Teppiche A/G, Ispahan.\nPrins, C. F. (Maison Hollandaise), Tehran.\nRahim Ittahadie (Ittahadie Fils), Tehran.\nRoever, Wilhelm, Shiraz.\nSadik Afshar, Yezd.\nSafa & Co., Limited, Bushire.\nSeskiel Nawi, Tehran.\nSociété du Tombac, Ispahan.\nSofer, D. J. & S., Hamadan.\nTabibian, M., Resht.\nTehallis, Demetri, Resht.\nTehallis, Leandros, Resht.\nTehallis, Sotiri, Resht.\nWassmuss.\nWonckhaus & Co., Bushire.\nYavash Oghli, Resht.\nZafar, Ispahan.\nZarour, Sion, Hamadan.\nZilka, Abraham Joseph, Kermanshah.\n\nDeuss, Paul.\nMebel, Beira.\n\n## PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA\nVillardo, Ricarto, Beira.\nVithaljee, Bhatt, Lourenço Marques.\n\n## SWEDEN\nHarmsen, Wilhelm & Co., Stockholm.\n\n## REMOVALS FROM LIST\n\n### NETHERLANDS\nVan Perlstein & Co., Singel, 532, Amsterdam.(a)\n\n### SWEDEN\nHanson, Wilhelm & Co., Vasag, 6, Stockholm.(a)\n\n## COUNCIL CHAMBER\n11th May, 1916.\n\nA. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.\n\n(a) These entries appear in a corrected form in the list of additions to the schedule.\n\nPage 30385\n\n**REG** 27 JUN 16\nIn **Importation Exportation**\n\nOrd co No 35 of 1915 - copy Corrise with AM. Herd at Than Satel it is not necessary to circulate any Lists to Tapper'z Cov, as it is Black List large to not ming in to HK.\n\n?? Dept 23 Aug 168.\n\n\"My (without uncle) Cagher. Conf 21001, 47.362.\n\nI do not think it probable that the system will lead to difficulties and anomalies, though criticisms may follow.\n\nThe fact that it is not reaching cargo that H. Kong wake... to indicate have beam cameomments.\n\n(90092) Wt. 35800-8. 45,000 12/15. BM 8.",
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        "content_text": "## List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men of His Majesty's Forces who have died in the China Command, since the outbreak of War 1914.\n\n| Regiment-al No. | Rank and Name | Unit | Date & Place of death | Place of Burial | Whether 'grave' is permanently or temporarily marked |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Major de Courcy Ireland | 36th Sikhs | 28. 1.15, Peking | Peking | Permanently |\n|  | Subedar Sande Khan | 18th Infantry | 2. 8.16, Shan-hai-kuan | Shan-hai-kuen |  |\n| 2789 | Recruit Sandoria Khan |  | 11. 8.15, Tientsin | Musalman Cem. Tientsin | Temporarily |\n| #2714 | Cr.Hav. Hingu Khan |  | 15. 5.16 |  |  |\n| /2131 | Sepoy Khan Muhammed |  | 21.6.16 |  |  |\n| ✓2919, ✓1898 | Reser-vist Ismail Khan |  | 28.6.17 |  |  |\n|  | Sepoy Munshi Khan |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Reser-vist Sannde Khan |  |  |  |  |\n| 2781 | Sepoy Miran Bakhsh |  | 25. 3.18 | Muhammedan Cem. Peking |  |\n| 2509, #2358 | Shahzada Khan Ahmad Ali |  | 21. 1.19, 17. 7.18 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 9.11.18, 24.10.18 |  |  |\n\n## Enclosure 2.\n\nThese graves have not been permanently marked, but arrangements are being made to do so.",
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        "content_text": "# Regiment -al No.\n\nList of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Men of His Majesty's Forces who have died in the China Command, since the outbreak of War 1914.\n\n| Regiment-al No. | Rank and Name | Unit | Date & Place of death | Place of Burial |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Major de Courcy Ireland | 36th Sikhs | 28.1.15, Peking | Peking |\n| 2789 | Recruit Sendoria Khon | 18th Infantry | 11.8.15, Tientsin | Tientsin |\n| 2714 | Sepoy flingu Khan |  | 15.5.16 |  |\n|  | Khan Muhammad |  | 21.6.16 |  |\n| *2131 | Rezer-vist Ismail Khan |  | 28.6.17 |  |\n| **2919 | Sepoy lunghi Khan |  | 25.3.18 |  |\n| 1898 | Resor-vist Sannde Khan |  |  |  |\n| 2781 | Sepoy kiran Bakhsh |  |  |  |\n| *2509 | Shahzada Khon |  | 24.10.18 |  |\n|  |  |  | 9.11.18 |  |\n| 2358 | Ahmad Ali |  | 17.7.18, Peking | Muhammedan Cem., Peking |\n|  |  |  | 21.1.19 |  |\n\nThese graves have not been permanently marked, but arrangements are being made to do so.\n\nSando Khan, Subedar, 18th Infantry, died 2.8.16 at Shan-hai-kuan, buried at Shan-hai-kuan.\n\nWhether 'grave' is permanently or temporarily marked: Tientsin salinan Cem. Temporarily.\n\n#414 Cr.Hav. \n\nTIENTSIN. \n\nPage 491 \n\nThese graves have not been permanently marked, but arrangements are being made to do so.",
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        "page_number": 94,
        "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924",
        "content_text": "## LOT\n\n\"their second nationality in cases where the Government of that country claims exclusive jurisdiction over such persons and interposes formal objection to the grant of British passports to them while they are within such jurisdiction.\n\nFootnote:- this provision should not be interpreted as an Instruction to approach the authorities concerned with a view to ascertaining their attitude in advance in regard to such cases of this nature no may arise. It may be assumed that they will not object to the issue of British passports in these cases unless and until such objection is in fact raised.\"\n\n3. The certificate of naturalisation is signed by Sir E. Stubbs, Governor of Hongkong, and countersigned by the late Mr A. Bonar Law. \n\nOther particulars are: \n| Particulars | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name | Haji Mohamed Hassan Namazie |\n| Address | No 1, Dos Voeux Road, Victoria, Hongkong |\n| Occupation | General Merchant and Commission Agent |\n| Born | Shiraz, Province of Fars, Persia, March 16, 1859 |\n| Married to | Rubab Namazes, nee Rubab Wehdashti |\n| Parents | Haji Mohamed Ali Hemayati, Khadijah Namazed (Zarsiana) |\n| Children | Ahmad Namazi, born 13th Novr 1901 (son); Sophie Namazi, born 13th March 1903 (daughter) |\n\nHaji Muhammad Hasan Hasani further informs me that he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Hongkong in 1921.\n\n5. As stated in paragraph 3 of my despatch No 96, Mr Ahmed Namazi, the son, was born in Hongkong, and is therefore, as described in his cancelled passport of 1918, a British subject by birth as well as under his father's naturalisation certificate. The exception quoted under Dual Nationality in Chapter XXVI, paragraph 10 appears to cover such a case also; but in Persia, there are not a few Indian subjects of Persian ancestry to whom British passports are commonly issued and protection...",
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        "content_text": ".Dubben (vol. 13\n\nail: 10.19. 14. 221\n\n9. Ishar Singh of Bhambi pura, district Ludhiana, formerly of the Hong Kong Singapore Artillery. Believed to have gone to Shanghai.\n\nof Kufri, 10. Sher Muhammad, s/o Fatteh Khan district Shahpur. Believed to have gone to Shanghai.\n\n11. Bachittar Singh, a railway employee. district Probably 8/0 Ganda Singh of Nathowal, Ludhiana. Not to be confused with a man of the same name employed by the Asiatic Petroleum Company.\n\n12. Sawan Singh alias Lall Singh, an ex-langri of the Hong Kong Singapore Artillery.\n\n13. Sham Singh of Jhabbal, formerly of Shanghai. Has returned to Shanghai and has a possible connection with the Ghadr party.\n\n14. Sarwan Singh, identity as yet not ascertained. Employed as watchman by a German at Tungshan (close to Canton) and believed to be anti-British. Is one of the present ringleaders. Knows Chinese.\n\n9. Though Communist propaganda has made considerable progress in parts of Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies, and Labour troubles are not unknown in Singapore, the Malay Peninsula as a whole is still immune from the Bolshevik virus.\n\nThe population of the Peninsula is very mixed and consists mainly of Malays, Chinese and Indians. Taking into consideration males only, the Indian element accounts for about three-sixteenths of the total population, the Chinese and Malays being equally represented.\n\nThe Malays have no political consciousness and may be ignored. The Indians comprise Pathans, Sikhs, and Punjabi Muhammadans, men from the Ganges basin...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926",
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        "title": "CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926",
        "content_text": "second interview went on, and expressed his regret at any \nprejudice against his firm, which might exist in, or occur \nto British official minds on account of this or other \ntransactions. \n\nHe referred to Sir Percy Loraine's warning \nto his father in April 1925, and said that his father's \nstatement that he was not dealing in opium was a fact, \nnot a promise. Since the Hongkong Ordinance was promulgated \nin the autumn of 1924, neither his father personally nor \nhis firm in Hongkong had any dealings in opium: in fact \nthey could not, even if they wanted, because of the Ordinance. \nThey had applied for a Government license to deal with \nFormosa (or Japan) and he was not certain what \nthe outcome was. The deal, for which he was now trying \nto recover payment in Basrah, was the last made by \nhis father (his firm in Hongkong?) in 1924 before the \nOrdinance. Since then any business by members of his \nfamily in opium had been by the firm of his oldest \nbrother (Aqa Ali Namazi) in Bombay and by relatives in \nShiraz, Aqa Muhammad Mehdi Hamasi and Aqa Muhammad Ja'far \nNamazi (the latter a partner in the Bombay firm). And the \nfirm of Aqa Ali Namazi in India was free under the law \nto deal in opium as any other British or foreign merchants \nin India. Nearly all sales, except those for Persia, were \nmade for Shanghai, where the Chinese Governor made \nmillions of dollars a year from the special tax he levied. \nThe Chief of Police of the International Settlement at \nShanghai had recently recommended that import there \nshould be allowed under licence, instead of being \nsmuggled promiscuously. Mr. Hamasi thought that this was \nthe best solution for the Persian opium problem - \nexport to China should be allowed under license. \n\n## Page 174",
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