[ { "id": 242316, "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": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "# China Mail, Vol. XIII. No. 655.\n\n## INTIMATIONS.\n\n**NOTICE** -- All Persons having Claims against the Estate of the late WILLIAM R. LORRAIN, sen., are requested to send in their claims to the undersigned on or before the 20th November next.\n\nADAM SVET, A. E. DIXSON. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1887.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nAll Persons indebted to the Estate of the late ... are requested to make payment of the amounts due without delay, and parties having Claims against the said Estate, are required to forward particulars of the same to the Office of this Consulate for the 1st proximo.\n\nO. CLEVERLY, Acting British Vice-Consul &c. Macao, 24th August, 1887.\n\n## IN THE COURT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CHINA.\n\nWILLIAM BURRAGE vs. Quincy Shaw, Hathaway, Rogers, and others.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that an Assignment of all the Property of the Firm of WETMORE & Co., in China, was made on the 12th day of August, 1857, by WILLIAM SHEPARD WETMORE, Partner in said Firm, to Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Consul at Canton, in trust for the Creditors of said Firm.\n\nS. WELLS WILLIAMS, Clerk of the Court, Legation of the United States of America in China. Canton, 12th August, 1857.\n\n## IN THE UNITED STATES CONSULAR COURT OF CANTON, IN BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY JURISDICTION.\n\nWHEREAS, LUMAN NORTON HITCHCOCK, an American Citizen, and Partner in the mercantile Firm of KING & Co., carrying on business at Canton and elsewhere within the jurisdiction of China, has made application in writing to this Court, verified by his oath, setting forth the insolvency of said Firm of KING & Co., and asking that he might be discharged from his debts as Co-partner; and it being necessary that a Receiver of his Property should be appointed to take and hold the same for suitable distribution: I, OLIVER H. PERRY, Consul of the United States of America for the Port of Canton, China, have appointed, and do by these presents appoint, Jay P. Blanchard, Esq., with full power and authority to take and hold the said LUMAN NORTON HITCHCOCK's Property, real and personal, and the Property of the said Firm of KING & Co., and hold the same subject to the order of this Court, at the Consulate of the United States Legation.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY, United States Consul for Canton. Macao, 8th May, 1887.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nBy order of His Excellency PETER PARKER, Commissioner of the United States to China, &c., &c., it is hereby made known to all American Citizens, that His Excellency has been officially informed, that His Britannic Majesty's Naval Commander in Chief, with the concurrence of Sir John Bowring, H.B.M. Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, hath declared, from and after the instant, a strict blockade of the River and Port of Canton by all its entrances; and the same is hereby communicated for the information of American Merchants, Ship-masters, and others interested in said Blockade.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY, United States Consul for Canton. Canton, 12th August, 1857.\n\n## SHIPPING.\n\n**PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMSHIPS.**\n\nOne of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steamships, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, and SOUTHAMPTON; BOMBAY, MADRAS, and CALCUTTA, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th of September, at 9 A.M. Cargo will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 9th.\n\n## CONTENTS IN AND VALUE OF PARCELS REQUIRED.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Package for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Date of Taking on with Parcels, and the Company will not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen through incorrectness in such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER, Superintendent. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 26th August, 1857.\n\n## TRIESTE ROUTE.\n\nThe Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company's STEAMERS ply regularly between Trieste and the Levant, corresponding with the Monthly and Bi-monthly Indian Steamers. The Fares have been reduced, and the following are the Rates, viz: 1st Class, £14: 2nd Class, £11; 3rd Class, £7: in valuing Packages and Furs.\n\n## INSURANCES.\n\n**THE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.** (Established in 1843.) The Premium of Insurance charged by this Office has been reduced from 1/4 to 1/8 per cent. on Goods insured to London, the Ports of this Office intervening. Charge the Risk of Railway from Southampton.\n\nR. S. WALKER, Hongkong, 19th August, 1857.\n\n**\"NETHERLANDS INDIAN MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BATAVIA.\"** The undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the Company in China, are prepared to grant Insurances on ORDINARY MARINE RISKS, to EUROPE, UNITED STATES, India, the STRAITS Java, or the Coast, at the Rates of Premium current at the Places--Policies can be obtained at BOMBAY, SINGAPORE, PENANG, and Batavia. TURNER & Co. Bankong, 1st December, 1856.\n\n**\"RELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY.\"** The undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above-named Society, are prepared to grant POLICIES, payable in London, Calcutta, BOMBAY, RANGOON, Penang, Bangkok, and CHINA.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 1st October, 1856.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\n**NOTICE.** Messrs. GADO, LEVINGSTON & Co. beg to give notice, that they have this day admitted Mr. HENRY HALTON as a Partner in their Firm.\n\nGADO, LEVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 10th July, 1837.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\n**NOTICE.** The undersigned beg to give notice, that they have this day established themselves as AUCTIONEERS, COMMISSION AGENTS, and GENERAL STOREKEEPERS, and will have constantly on hand a full assortment of Wines, &c., &c.\n\nWANDKLA, HEDGE & Co. Foo-chow, 1st January, 1857.\n\n## APPEALS.\n\n## NOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\n**NOTICE.** The Partnership of the undersigned, under the Firm of BUCK & WELSH, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 21st August, 1855. The affairs will be wound up by H. WELSH.\n\nW. CURRIN, D. WELSH. Pagoda Island, August, 1857.\n\n## AGENT.\n\n**NOTICE.** The Copartnership carrying on Business as MERCHANTS at Canton under the Firm of BATESON, BUTT & Co., is dissolved by mutual consent (as advertised in the Canton Register, dated June 17th, 1857.). The Affairs of this late Partnership will be wound up by CHARLES ROWIN BATESON, who will sign the Firm in Liquidation.\n\nBATESON, SUTT & Co. Macao, 18th August, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Hongkong as MERCHANT & GENERAL AGENT.\n\nA. J. P. DE CASTRO. Macao, 1st January, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\n**JUST RECEIVED.** Bass's Trademark BEER, in best condition. Guinness's and Flavel's STOUT, in bottles. PORT, SHERRY, and BRANDY of the best quality.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Queen's Road, 31st August, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nInvoice of SALT BUTTER, just landed.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Queen's Road, 31st August, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nVALUABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC MACHINE, a Pair of Profit Schottle Lenses, and Complete supply of Chemicals.\n\nApply to LANE, CRAWFORD & Co. Queen's Road, 12th August, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nOLD and GOLDEN SHERRY, in 3 Dozens. Also PORT WINE, of superior quality.\n\nApply to LINDSAY & Co. Hongkong, 28th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\n5% **\"CLAUSE\"** Bonds, lately arrived. SUPERIOR PALE SHERRY, in cask and Bottles for the well known vintage of 1847. A few Patent Fluted Cots MATTRESSES.\n\nD. LAPRAIK. Hongkong, 30th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nBRANDY, White and Pale, and of various other Brands. SHERRY, of excellent quality. PORT Wines. TINTO WINES, from London. Manilla CHEROOTS, No. 2, New and Old.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 13th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nInvoice of CREAM and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, and Core LINES. Also CANVAS and European and Ostrich CORDAGE.\n\nApply to LY ALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nRAW SILK, of various qualities. PONJAM SILK, do. do. SUGAR, from the West Indies. TEAS from Canton.\n\nB. E. CARNEIRO. Macao, 12th July, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n\nBEST Australian COAL.\n\nApply to LINDSAY & Co. Hongkong, 9th April, 1855.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296810, "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": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "41\n\nrest be examined tomorrow, that all those who seem to think themselves under contracts of service be struck from the list and the rest allowed to depart.\n\nI must again pray for a speedy reply, because, if this request is not granted, it is my duly to throw up the affair at once.\n\nI have\n\n(Signed) Dr. P. Groeneveldt.\n\n(Ive losses)\n\n(Signed) W. G. Thomsett.\n\n42.\n\n536\n\nW. Groeneveldt to The Administrator\n\nEnclosure No 10.\n\nNetherlands Consulate\n\n30th August 1875.\n\nHongkong\n\nI had the honor to receive a despatch from the Colonial Secretary dated 27 August No:573, informing me that it was not possible for Your Excellency to afford me any assistance towards establishing emigration of Chinese from this Colony to Acheen.\n\nJ. Gardiner Austin\n\nStarboard Master.\n\nHis Excellency\n\n(Illegible)\n\nThe Administrator.\n\n(Illegible)\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300066, "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": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "Shanghai, 15th March 1877.\n\nReceived\n\nRood James Thomas\n\nto\n\nRight Reverend\n\nBishop Burdon, D.D.\n\nHongHong\n\nJamine in China -\n\nAppeal for aid towards the relief Fund of -\n\nEnclosure no Im Adiminist I. Gardiner Austin's Despatek Ro 63 of 28th March 1877.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1877.\n\nAN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRESSED CHINESE IN THE NORTH.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"CHINA MAIL.\"\n\nNetherlands Consulate,\n\nHongkong, 20th March, 1877.\n\nDEAR SIR,-I have been requested by His Excellency the Netherlands Minister in China to have the enclosed Circular, asking for help from Netherlands Subjects here und at Outports for the distressed Chinese in the North, published in the Local Papera, if those will kindly assist therein; and I shall therefore feel obliged, if you can ren-der this service to the good intentions of His Excellency.\n\nI am, Dear Sir, Yours truly,\n\nLUDWIG BEYKE,\n\nH. Netherlands M's Consul.\n\nNETHERLAND LEGATION IN CHINA.\n\nTo His Netherland Majesty's Consuls and Supjects in China, Japan, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Cochin-China, Siam, Straits' Settlements and India,\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nIt was pretty generally known that during the autumn of last year various parts of the Provinces of Shantung and Chihli had suffered from a drought, which would result in more or less distress from the scarcity of food that must necessarily follow, and indeed symptoms-in themselves grave-began to be manifest as winter approached, though only trifling as compared with what has occurred.\n\nTowards the middle of November regular communication from reliable sources in the interior of Shantung ceased, and native report was the only source of information as to the condition of the suffering province. It appears that, in the interim, matters were becoming daily more and more aggravated, and that the aid given by the Chinese Government towards the suffering districts, proved not to be sufficient, so that urgent appeal was made to the people of other provinces and the foreign communities in China.\n\nAbout the 25th of January communications were again opened with the coast, but unfortunately the first letter, coming through Chinese hands, only reached its destination long after subsequent accounts which confirmed the worst fears and depicted a state of unutterable distress. The word which now reaches us says that thousands are already dead of starvation, and thousands more are starving.\n\nThe principal scenes of these sufferings in Shantung are eight hien, viz: Liu-ku, I-tu, Chang-lo, Weihien, Lo-ngan, Show-kwang, Ling to and Poling. Of these Lin-ku suffers most and gets 10,000 taels in relief, from the 46,000 taels granted, for all, by the Government; but though the distribution of gruel has doubled, yet the suffering has more than doubled. The people have eaten up the little crop they got in the autumn and now are in the direst plight, and their cry is no longer for rain, but for food.\n\nWith reference to the extent and degree of sufferings the following details will give an idea. A moderate hien contains about 1,000 villages. Villages of 500 families report 300 persons dead of starvation; villages of 300 families, 100 persons, and so on. One village in Liu-ku had 180 inhabitants in it last summer; now there remain 99, 40 are dead and the rest gone away.\n\nThe course of the distress seems to be that as soon as the corn is all eaten, they resort to the husks; then potatoe-stalks, elm-bark, turnip leaves, acorns and grass seeds gathered in the fields. When these are all done, they pull down their houses, sell their timber, eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the roof, and the dried leaves, which they usually burn as fuel. Thousands eat fuel leaves, and thousands more die because they cannot get them. Then they sell their clothes and children. Having no more clothes many take refuge in pits built under ground, to keep themselves warm by the foetid breath of the crowd—a course which is bought dearly. For the east suburb of Ching-chow city there are four such pits. One third of the number, 240, originally put in them, died within six weeks, and yet no sooner is a corpse carried out than a crowd is struggling for the place. All this has wrought a great change in the spirit of the people. Late in the autumn they were strong and daring, and although life and property were then at their mercy, no popular disturbance of any kind has taken place. Now the fare they have had for many months has broken their spirits, and they are quiet and submissive to their dreadful fate. Starvation by inches faces these unfortunate people, and deputations of old men, who come to beg relief, weep like little children before you, when they find there is none to be had. Not a day passes but one must refuse to many who ask it, perhaps the last bit they would have eaten.\n\nThe Chinese Government and the people of the other provinces do what they can, but the calamity is too great to be met by ordinary means. There is a Government distribution of gruel to the value of six or eight cash per person per day. Many have lived on nothing else for two months, and are getting so weak that young men of twenty years cannot walk three miles for it. If it is so with youth, how must it be with the infant and the aged? Even though the gentry have in many places doubled the Government aid by their contributions, yet it is estimated soberly that there are districts in Liu-Ku, where \"half the people will not live to see the wheat crop ripe, if no support comes from outside. To all this there is added the one capital aggravating circumstance—the depreciation of the land to about eighty per cent below its normal value. Next comes the fixing of an upward limit for the price of grain, thus preventing the influx of supplies from neighbouring provinces. There has been no such famine as this in these parts for 90 years, since the 51st year of Kien-lung (A.D. 1786). The number of lives saved and orphans rescued will only be limited by the amount of money placed at the disposal of the distributors. Thousands may be tided over the famine at $4.00 per head. Who would not like to be the deliverer of fifty or a hundred human beings from starvation, where nothing but money is to be given? These are the heartrending accounts which reach us here daily. This is not pleading for charity to the poor, but for the ransom of their lives.\n\nI therefore take the liberty to appeal to the Netherland Consuls and my countrymen in this and the adjacent countries to give a helping hand during this exceptional famine and distress in the two above-named provinces of China. The Netherland Consuls at Shanghai and at Chefoo will receive all gifts collected by His Majesty's Consuls at other ports in China, Japan, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Cochin-China, Siam, the Straits Settlements and India, and hand these collections over to proper persons in the interior for distribution, of which an account will be published in due time, in the local papers of Shanghai, for the information of those who have responded to this appeal on behalf of our starving fellow-creatures in China.\n\nI have the honor, etc.,\n\nJ. H. FERGUSON,\n\nH. N. M. Minister-Resident and Consul General in China.\n\nCHEFOO, 1st March, 1877.\n\n394", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422621, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## M. Müller, who proposed an amendment, copy of which is to be found in the minutes of the 30th April, enclosed in this despatch.\n\nAt a general meeting of the whole consular body held on the 11th May, the German acting consul-general's minority report was adopted, instead of the majority report of the committee, by eight votes to three, four members being neutral. M. Ratard, the French consul-general, was unable to be present; otherwise, he would have voted for the committee's resolution.\n\nAt the time, I strongly opposed the adoption of M. Müller's amendment and pointed out that I considered that the consular body were over-stepping their authority by trying to dictate to the engineer in the way proposed by the amendment. Article 11 of the Whangpoo Conservancy Convention of the 27th September, 1905, only gives the consular body a right to protest to the Conservancy Board if the works are not executed with diligence, care, and economy. It certainly could not be interpreted as allowing the consular body to bring in a scheme totally opposed to the engineer's report.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**PELHAM L. WARREN**\n\n## WHANGPOO CONSERVANCY SCHEME AND ESTIMATES\n\n### Minutes of Meeting held April 30, 1909, at 15 o'clock at the Senior Consulate, by the Committee instituted under Item 6 at the Sixth Consular Meeting.\n\nAll members of the committee are present:\n\n| Member | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Pelham Warren | Consul-general for Great Britain |\n| M. Ratard | Consul for France |\n| M. de Zeppelin-Obermüller | Consul-general for the Netherlands |\n| M. M. Müller | Acting consul-general for Germany |\n| M. D. Siffert | Consul-general for Belgium and senior consul |\n\nM. J. de Rijke, engineer-in-chief to the Wangpoo Conservancy Board, is also present.\n\nIn answer to a question put to him, M. de Rijke states:\n- That the contractors will have finished the present contract of dredging in the junk channel at about the end of July or middle of August of this year.\n- That the amount of supplementary dredging in the junk channel will be of 1,200,000 cubic yards, so as to get a channel 18 feet deep, 600 feet wide on the whole length, for final opening.\n- That the approximate time required for this supplementary dredging will be about one month.\n- That if taken into account, the 500,000 or 250,000 cubic yards to be eventually dredged gratis by the East Asiatic Dredging Company might be deducted from the above 1,200,000 cubic yards, but that it will do no harm to have a reserve of dredging.\n- That he considers necessary and advantageous for the Whangpoo Conservancy, and in consequence for the public benefit, to have this dredging done with the least possible delay.\n- That he thinks that a reduction of 10 per cent on the present contract cost of dredging will be obtained from the East Asiatic Dredging Company for the supplementary dredging in question.\n- That for this supplementary dredging, he could:\n (a) Ask for tenders in eight days,\n (b) Get tenders by the end of June from contractors having a plant in the East.\n (c) That he does not consider either possible or probable that tenders would be received from contractors further away, from Europe, for instance.\n (d) That a new contractor could only commence work in the middle of September and finish it by the middle of October.\n- That harm would result to the river improvement from any delay in this supplementary dredging, as he wants dredging matter for dumping on his mattresses for solidification in the ship channel.\n\nM. de Rijke then receives the thanks of the committee and withdraws.\n\nThe committee therefore considers the motion submitted to the last consular meeting by MM. de Zeppelin and Siffert, which, after some discussion, is adopted by 4 votes against 1 (M. M. Müller), in the following modified form:\n\n\"To write to the Conservancy Board that, in the consular body's opinion, the dredging of the 1,200,000 cubic yards should be done without interruption between the present dredging work and this proposed extra dredging by the present contractors at a cheaper cost per unit to be agreed upon by said contractors, and the Whangpoo Conservancy Board to write to the diplomatic body in Peking, suggesting that the other works proposed by M. de Rijke in his last report of scheme and estimates should be proceeded with, and that the Chinese Government be approached to devise means and ways to raise the necessary funds for said works.\"\n\nIt is understood that this resolution shall be presented to the consular body, M. Müller being at liberty to present the following motion (see No. `285 VI`), which the committee did not see its way to adopt.\n\nThe committee then takes cognizance of the letter (No. `277`) from the Whangpoo Conservancy Board in reply to their inquiry as to the publication of No. `251`, and decides to conform to its contents in sending the report of M. de Rijke to the Chamber of Commerce, under the express understanding that it will not be published, in order to abide by the wish expressed to them in writing by the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.\n\nThe meeting adjourns at 17 o'clock.\n\n**D. SIFFERT**\nSenior Consul and Chairman of the Committee\n\n## (285 VI.) Motion presented by M. Müller\n\nTHAT it be decided:\n- (a) To write to the diplomatic body in Peking suggesting that the Chinese Government be approached to devise means and ways to raise the funds necessary for the completion of the Whangoo Conservancy.\n- (b) To write to the Conservancy Board that, in our opinion, in accordance with article 3 of the Peking Agreement of 1905, public tenders would have to be invited for the undertaking of any dredging work which will still be left to be done after the expiration of the dredging contract with the East Asiatic Dredging Company, the present contractors, or, if account is taken of the 200,000 cubic yards to be dredged free by the East Asiatic Dredging Company, as proposed by the consular body, after the expiration of the said contract and free extra dredging of these 250,000 cubic yards.\n- (c) To write to the Conservancy Board that, in our opinion, in the case of tenders being invited for the dredging of 1,200,000 cubic yards, which, according to M. de Rijke's report, would have still to be dredged to make the junk channel fit for a final opening, all dumping of dredging matter into the shipping channel should be abstained from as long as the means and ways to raising the necessary funds for the further Whangpoo Conservancy works will not have been secured, in order to avoid all risk of interfering with the present fairway without having at the same time the means at hand for a permanent opening of the junk channel.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445692, "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": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "# Convention for the Administration of the Cape Spartel Lighthouse\n\nHis Majesty the King of the French, the Sieur Ernest Daulin, Officer of His Legion of Honour, His Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nHis Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nHis Majesty the King of Spain, the Sieur Don Francisco Merry y Colom, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III, His Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nThe President of the United States of America, the Honourable Jesse H. McMath, Commander of His Order of the Legion of Honour of France, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nThe President of the French Republic, the Sieur Ernest Daulin, Officer of His Legion of Honour, His Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nHis Majesty the King of Italy, the Sieur Alexander Verdinois, Knight of His Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, His Agent, and Consul-General of Italy to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nHis Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, administering the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Morocco;\n\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, the Sieur José Daniel Colaço, Commander of His Order of Christ, Knight of the Order of the Rose of Brazil, His Consul-General to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nHis Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, the Sieur Selim d'Ehrenhoff, Knight of His Order of Vasa, His Consul-General to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;\n\nAnd His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and Fez, the learned Sid Mohammed Bargash, His Minister for Foreign Affairs;\n\nWho, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:\n\n## ARTICLE I\n\nHis Sheriffian Majesty having, in the interest of humanity, ordered the construction, at the expense of the Morocco Government, of a lighthouse on Cape Spartel, consents to make over, during the whole duration of the present Convention, the entire direction and the administration of that establishment to the Representatives of the Contracting Powers. It is well understood that such delegation in no way affects the rights of property and sovereignty of the Sultan, whose flag shall alone be hoisted on the tower of the lighthouse.\n\n## ARTICLE II\n\nThe Morocco Government not possessing at present any navy, either of war or of commerce, the expenses necessary for the maintenance and administration of the lighthouse shall be defrayed by the Contracting Parties by means of an annual contribution which shall be equal in amount for each of them; if hereafter the Sultan should possess a military or mercantile navy, he engages to take part in the expenses in the same proportion as the other signing Powers. The expense of repairs, and, if need be, of re-construction, shall moreover be at his charge.\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\nThe Sultan shall furnish, for the security of the lighthouse, a guard composed of a kaid and four soldiers. He engages besides to provide, by every means in his power, even in case of war, either internal or external, for the preservation of that establishment, as well as for the security of the keepers and persons employed there.\n\nOn the other hand, the Contracting Powers engage, each so far as it is concerned, to respect the neutrality of the lighthouse, and to continue the payment of the contribution destined for its maintenance, even in the event (which God forbid) of hostilities breaking out either between them, or between any one of them and the Kingdom of Morocco.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\nThe Representatives of the Contracting Powers, charged, in virtue of Article I of the present Convention, with the entire direction and the administration of the lighthouse, shall establish the necessary regulations for the service and superintendence of that establishment, and no modification shall be afterwards introduced into those regulations unless by common agreement between the Contracting Powers.\n\n## ARTICLE V\n\nThe present Convention shall remain in force for ten years. In case none of the High Contracting Parties should, six months before the expiration of that period, have announced, by an official declaration, its intention to terminate the operation of the Convention so far as it is concerned, the Convention shall remain in force during another year, and so on from year to year until due notice be given for its termination.\n\n## ARTICLE VI\n\nThe execution of the reciprocal engagements contained in the present Convention is subjected, as far as may be necessary, to the fulfilment of the formalities and rules established by the constitutional laws of those of the High Contracting Parties for whom such a sanction is required, and who engage to take measures for obtaining the same with the least possible delay.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\n\nThe present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Tangiers as soon as possible.\n\nIn witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.\n\nDone in duplicate, in French and Arabic, at Tangiers the protected of God, the fifth day of the moon of Moharrem, in the year of the Hegira 1282, corresponding to the thirty-first day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.\n\nJ. H. DRUMMOND HAY \nJ. H. DRUMMOND HAY \n(L.S.) \n(L.S.) \n(L.S.) \nERNEST DAULIN \n(L.S.) \nFRANCISCO MERRY Y COLOM \n(L.S.) \nJESSE H. McMATH \n(L.S.) \nAYME D'AQUIN \n(L.S.) \nA. DE VERDINOIS \n(L.S.) \nJ. H. DRUMMOND HAY \n(L.S.) \nJOSE DANIEL COLAÇO \n(L.S.) \n(L.S.) \nS. D'EHRENHOFF \n(Arabic Signature of the Morocco Plenipotentiary)\n\nPage 162", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455639, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "**HR-CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nC \nNON 15 \nReg 26 \n54684 \n333 \n\n# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 9th October, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\n80% 43169 S \n\nWith reference to my Confidential Despatch of the 7th of August, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a letter, with enclosures, from the Vice-Consul in charge of the Consulate-General for the Netherlands India.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., &c.**\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455644, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "## Official Report\n\nThe Commission,\n\n(Sd.) Telders. \n1st. Polis.\n\nSeen, the Commandant, annotating that:-\n\n1. Mr. Wehde after his return from Menado on 11th August, 1915, has shown to him and the Chief Officer the charter party, which he had in his pocket, and which has been found in order, and Wehde aforementioned openly declared that the cargo discharged at Manila consisted of arms and munitions.\n\n2. He, Commandant, has ordered that an entry as yet be made in the Logbook of the \"Henry S\", that the missing charter party has been found in the keeping of Mr. Wehde.\n\nThat entry has been made in the Logbook on the 11th August by 1st class naval lieutenant K.A. Telders.\n\nA true copy. \n(sd.) W. J. G. Umbgrove. \nThe Secretary to the Department of the Navy in Netherlands India.\n\n(Sd.) Scheltema.\n\nA true copy, \nThe Government Secretary, \n(Sd.) Van Valkenburg.\n\nA true translation. Hongkong, 6th October, 1915. \n(sd.) K.J. quist, Vice-Consul, in charge of the Netherlands Consulate-General.\n\n### Details of an Interrogation\n\n... gave as his place of birth Assam, British India). He had spent ten years in the United States and had signed on with the intention to proceed to Shanghai, whence he would try to go to Japan. Since his stay in the United States, he had not been back in British India. He enquired whether something was the matter with the vessel, as at Manila also questions had been put to him showing great interest in the ship. Unasked for, he declared to be, of course, pro-British, and as such to be willing to give all information desired.\n\nIn the logbook, an entry has been made that the ship's papers had been examined and the charter party found missing.\n\nOf the aforegoing, we have drawn up this official report on the date aforementioned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455646, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "# \n337 \n\nDiameter of cylinder about 260 m.M. For proper and safe working renewal of this piston is necessary. \nA short statement of our findings has been entered in the Logbook of the \"Henry S.\" \n\nWe have drawn up this official Report on the date aforementioned, everybody in so far as concerns his own examination. \n\nThe Commission. \n**(Sd.)** Teldera. \n**(Seen)** \nthe Commandant, \n**(S.)** Umbgrove. \nBorghertyn \nAbbinga. \n\nA true copy, \nThe Secretary to the Department of the Navy in Netherlands India, \n**(Sd.)** Scheltema. \n\nA true copy. \nThe Government Secretary, \n**(Sd.)** Van Valkenburg, \n\nA true translation. \nHongkong, 6th October, 1915. \n**(Sd.)** J. Quist, \nVice-Consul in charge of Netherlands Consulate-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456108, "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": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Code and Cypher Telegrams from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nB---\n\nApproving proposals regarding the enlistment of Police for the front, 495.\n\n4th November Cypher\n\nCuspicious actions of one Otto Stuts, a Swiss Subject, from Marseilles.\n\n486. 4th Code\n\nExport of tin to Bangkok allowed.\n\n487. 4th Code\n\nExport of tin to San Francisco allowed.\n\n488. 4th Code\n\nExport of antimony to Kobe allowed.\n\n489. 5th Code\n\nExport of tin for Yokohama allowed.\n\n490. 8th Code\n\nNegative reply to Govr's telegram of 2nd November regarding enemy cargo brought forward to Hongkong by banks.\n\n491. 8th Code\n\nPersons desiring to land in Egypt must be provided with passports.\n\n492. 8th Code\n\nLicences to export tin in reasonable quantities from Hongkong will be granted to the Japanese Government. Procedure for grant of licences will remain as before.\n\n493. 8th Code\n\nRequesting that detailed statement of receipts and expenditure with vouchers and full report relating to \"Lord Lansdowne\" should be sent home.\n\n494. 8th Code\n\nChinese or Japanese firms not on the White or Black Lists allowed the privilege of receiving small consignments not exceeding £50 in value from British firms.\n\n495. 9th Code\n\nAs to whether Mr. Volpicelli has removed the Italian Consulate-General to Canton.\n\n496. 9th Code\n\nShipment of sovereigns to the Netherlands (Rotterdam) allowed.\n\n497. 11th Code\n\nInstructions regarding the refusal of trans-shipment facilities in respect of rice bought by American buyers from Arkwald & Co.\n\n498. 14th Cypher\n\nExport of Yellow Metal to Manila allowed.\n\n499. 16th Code\n\nInspector Night applies permission to enlist for the front.\n\n300. 16th Code\n\nApproving proposals contained in Govr's despatch (confidential) of 30th September re enemy subjects.\n\n301. 16th Code", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456134, "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": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 300, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Code and Cypher Telegrame from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n-----\n\n293\n\n485. 4th November Cypher Suspicious actions of one Otto Stutz, a Swine Subject, from Marseilles.\n\n486. 4th Code Export of zinc to Bangkok allowed.\n\nM 487. 4th Code Export of tin to San Francisco allowed.\n\nน.ส N Diz sonabT0932 PÅ DIN TOŊZO NIJ MÌwolfo!\n\n488. 4th Code Export of antimony to Kobe allowed.\n\n489. 5th Code avi * Inoc mo contsumes no‘„Ilewa' mood M -: TOİJOCIJAL\n\n490. 8th Code userošai,rånåt mnoð 5 ban „IBOJ no „Mistes\" „narol anod df ;rotherof Mad\n\n491. 8th Code 0. Tom İn200 .Y byrod\n\n492. 8th Code\n\n493. 8th Code\n\n494. 8th Code\n\n495. 9th Code\n\n496. 9th Code\n\n497. 11th Code\n\n498. 14th Cypher\n\n499. 16th Code\n\n16th Code\n\n501. 16th Code Approving proposals regarding the enlistment of Police for the front.\n\nExport of tin for Yokohama allowed.\n\nNegative reply to Govr'e telegram of 2nd November regarding enemy cargo brought forward to Hongkong by banks.\n\nPersons desiring to land in Egypt must be provided with passports.\n\nLicences to export tin in reasonable quantities from Hongkong will be granted to the Japanese Government. Procedure for grant of licences will remain as before.\n\nRequesting that detailed statement of receipts and expenditure with vouchers and full report relating to S.S. \"Ferd Laeisz\" should be sent home.\n\nChinese or Japanese firms not on the White or Black Lists allowed the privilege of receiving small consignments not exceeding £50 in value from British firms.\n\nAs to whether Mr. Volpicelli has removed the Italian Consulate-General to Canton.\n\nShipment of sovereign to the Netherlands Oversea Trust allowed,\n\nInstructions regarding the refusal of trans-shipment facilities in respect of rice bought by American buyers from Markwald & Co.\n\nExport of Yellow Metal to Manila allowed.\n\nInspector Knight applies permission to enlist for the front.\n\nApproving proposals contained in Govr's despatch (confidential) of 30th September re enemy subjects.\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461735, "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": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \n366 \n\n## \n\nInquiry about the \"AGA\" Lighting System\n\nBuoys or dolphin, post light, beacon or lighthouse \nwas it cheaper to build the structure of beacons, light-houses in China or to have same imported from Sweden? Could you give me perhaps also an approximate estimate of the saving in wages, attention etc. of the \"AGA\" system in comparison with the older systems.\n\nIn order to have a basis to work on, what would be the prices for refilling the following sizes of accumulators viz.-\nA. 50 cont. 5000 litres & A. 5 cont. 500 litres of gas, kindly state also the charges for delivery from and to the Bangkok steamer incl. all boat, cooly & other charges. I calculate roughly $10.- for freight for one cylinder of 5000 litres (at ordinary freight rates). I regret that I cannot give you at present any figures, what quantities of gas will be required as this depends entirely upon the adoption of the \"AGA\" system and to what extent, but it would be perhaps essential to know, what quantity of gas your manufactory will be able to deliver say every 3 or 6 months.\n\nI understand that the \"AGA\" Lighting system was also adopted by the Netherlands Government & that already in 1911 2 installations and 1 gas manufactory were erected in Netherlands East India, upon my enquiries at the Consulate in Batavia I was informed that no \"AGA\" lights are used in the Archipelago, could you perhaps enlighten me on this subject.\n\nThe catalogues you kindly sent me have arrived for which I am much obliged.\n\nI would ask you to kindly excuse the trouble I am giving you and thanking you for your kind assistance \nI have, etc., \n**(SD.) A. Mohr** \nConsul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469601, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "6\n\nANNEN:-II.B.M. Consul-General, Batavia, to Foreign Office,\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 46.\n\nBritish Consulate-General, Batavia,\n\n10th February 1917. With reference to my despatch No. 10 of 27th January 1916, I have the honour to enclose translation of a Decree issued by the Governor-General on 28th December last, prohibiting entirely, as from 1st January 1917, the import into Netherlands India of firearms, gunpowder, and ammunition, except for the use of the Government, and except in special cases allowed by the Governor-General.\n\nThus after a lapse of two years and in spite of frequent assertions that they had the import of arms and ammunition under complete control, and that no further control was necessary, this Government have at length realised that the further import is dangerous to the welfare of the Netherlands Indies, and admit that the former control was ineffective.\n\nIf therefore in future any consignments of arms or ammunition pass through British ports, I have the honour to suggest that such consignments should be held up until evidence is furnished that either they are for the use of this Government or are being imported under a special permit of the Governor-General.\n\nThis is only one instance out of many of the want of foresight of this Government and their dilatoriness in realising the necessity of action until such necessity is forced on them by some sudden and immediate set of circumstances which renders further delay dangerous. In this case the prohibition of the import of arms is doubtless due to the constant recurrence of rebellion and other indications of unrest in various parts of the Netherlands East Indies, and the fear of danger from a further circulation of arms which is already well-nigh universal. When I remarked to a well-known official that it had taken the Netherlands East Indian Government two years to arrive at prohibition, I was not surprised by his replying:- \"Oh! two years is quite a short time for this Government to take a decision.\"\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nW. R. D. Beckett,\n\nI am forwarding copies of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at The Hague, His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, His Excellency the Governor of Singapore and the Governor-General of South Africa.\n\nEnclosure in above.\n\nExtract from the Register of the Decrees of the Governor-General of Netherlands India.\n\nBuitenzorg.\n\n(Staatsblad No. 754.)\n\n28th December 1916. Having regard to the decree of 11th October 1916, No. 2 X. (Staatsblad No. 626.)\n\nRead, &c.\n\nHaving further regard to Article 9 of the order of 3rd August 1908 (Staatsblad No. 491).\n\nIt has been found good and understood:—\n\nFirstly. With regard to Article 9 of the order of 3rd August 1908 (Staatsblad No. 491) to prohibit entirely for the time being the import into Netherlands India of firearms, gunpowder, and ammunition, except for the benefit of the country's service and by those whose duty it is to be in possession thereof for the country's service. Exemption from this prohibition can be obtained through the Governor-General in special cases.\n\nSecondly. To order that the prohibition mentioned in Part I. of this decree shall take effect from 1st January 1917, &c.\n\nHULSHOFF POL,\n\nGeneral Secretary.\n\n7\n\nENCLOSURE No. 6:- War Trade Department to India Office.\n\nW.T.D. 772/17/8.\n\nSir,\n\n4, Central Buildings, S.W. 1, 13th April 1917.\n\nI am instructed by the Director of the War Trade Department to acknowledge receipt of your letters of 8th February and 27th March, Ref. P. 369, relative to the export of fire-arms from the United Kingdom to neutral destinations in the Far East. I am to state that the whole question relating to the export of sporting ammunition has been under the consideration of the War Office, and it has not been possible to give an earlier reply to your letters. It has now been decided that licences cannot be granted for the export of sporting ammunition to any destination at the present time. A further communication will be addressed to you as soon as possible in regard to the export of sporting arms, as it is believed that the manufacture of these goods is to be discontinued.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India.\n\nENCLOSURE No. 7:- India Office to War Trade Department.\n\nP. 1489.\n\nA. F. Kira.\n\nIndia Office, 20th April 1917.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for India to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. W.T.D. 772/17/8, of the 13th April 1917, on the subject of the export of fire-arms, &c., from the United Kingdom to neutral destinations in the Far East.\n\nIt is understood that it has been decided that no licences can be granted for the export of sporting ammunition to any destination at the present time and that a further communication may be expected regarding the export of sporting arms.\n\nMr. Secretary Chamberlain believes that, as a fact, the export of arms and ammunition of all kinds from the United Kingdom to neutral destinations in the Far East has completely ceased for the present; but he, nevertheless, thinks it may be desirable to proceed on the lines of the proposal conveyed in the second paragraph of my letter of the 9th February 1917 to your address. He would therefore suggest that a ruling should be laid down by the War Trade Department (not necessarily for immediate publication) that no application for permission to export arms or ammunition of any description from the United Kingdom to these destinations will be considered in the absence of a recommendation from the British Consular authorities concerned.\n\nThe necessary communications would then be addressed to the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Government of India, and the new system would be ready to be applied to exports from the United Kingdom if they should be resumed at any time, and in the meantime it could be applied to any proposed exports from British Dominions or Dependencies.\n\nA copy of this letter is being forwarded to the Foreign Office, War Office, Colonial Office, and the Board of Trade.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nWar Trade Department.\n\nJ. F. Suckburg.\n\nENCLOSURE No. 8:- War Trade Department to India Office.\n\nW.T.D. No. 772/17/8.\n\n1, Central Buildings, S.W. 1, 25th April 1917.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 20th instant, I am instructed by the Director of the War Trade Department to state that it has now been definitely decided that, as a general rule, no export licences will be granted for the export of arms and ammunition from the United Kingdom, whether for\n\nB 247\n\nC\n\n470", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469740, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 614, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "25\n\n21\n\n\"Applications for financial assistance should be submitted to these Advisory Committees and to the British Consuls-General; and instead of British institutions competing keenly against each other for big contracts in foreign countries, it would be more advisable to do the business on joint account.\n\n11\n\nI am in complete accord with the spirit of this recommendation, but would suggest an alteration in the form, and would recommend that purely British Chambers of Commerce be established at the principal ports in Java, and wherever else there are sufficient numbers of British traders to justify their existence, in order :-\n\n(a) To afford a common meeting ground for the discussion of matters which affect the general welfare of British residents;\n\n(b) To enable British traders to act collectively, and thus bring greater pressure to bear whether to remedy existing abuses or to promote national interests; and\n\n(c) To form a link between H.M. Government and officials and the trading community, both for the collection and dissemination of useful trade information and also for the purpose of devising schemes for the active extension of British interests in the islands.\n\nThis brings one to the necessity for an organised Commercial Intelligence Service in the Netherlands Indies.\n\nCommercial Intelligence Service. The only British official representatives in the islands are the Consul-General at Batavia and trading Vice-Consuls at Sourabaya, Samarang, Medan, and Macassar. The Consul-General is usually a member of the Consular service in Siam, but the Vice-Consuls are British merchants at the ports and are not in the service. Their functions prior to the war were mainly administrative in connection with the administration of the Merchant Shipping Acts, the giving of advice and assistance to British subjects trading in, residing in, or visiting the district, the relief and repatriation of distressed British subjects, and the work of a registrar in respect of births, marriages, and deaths. Beyond issuing an annual trade report, which is mainly a resumé of statistics, it may be said that no active official steps were taken to develop and extend British commercial interests in the islands. While British merchants have become accustomed to this policy of \"laisser faire\" on the part of the Government, it cannot be said that they were satisfied with it. The more active interference of the Consul officials since the war with regard to the carrying out of the Trading with the Enemy Regulations, and the compilation and manipulation of the \"White and Black\" lists, has given an earnest of what might be done by a systematized and sympathetic official commercial service. British interests are unanimous in voicing the need for active official co-operation in the work of developing and expanding our commercial influence throughout the islands, although they do not appear to have very clear ideas as to the precise form it should take.\n\nI would recommend that this constructive function of official activity should be entirely separated from the administrative and restrictive sides of a Consul's work, and should be placed in the hands of a Commercial Intelligence Officer specially appointed. Whether he be a Commercial Attaché under the orders of the Foreign Office, or a Trade Commissioner appointed by the Board of Trade, will, no doubt, be settled by H.M. Government in reviewing the whole question of our commercial service abroad. The main desiderata are that the Commercial Intelligence Officer should have a good general knowledge of the market and conditions of trade; that he should work in close conjunction with H.M. Consul-General and the Vice-Consuls, who would act as correspondents in the various ports; that he should have his headquarters at H.B.M. Consulate-General at Batavia, and thus be within easy reach of Sourabaya and Samarang; and that he should make periodical journeys in the Outer Possessions in order to study ways and means of fostering the British share in their development. All official commercial inquiries should pass through the hands of the Commercial Intelligence Officer, and he should regularly disseminate semi-confidential commercial reports and literature within his territory. The old system of Commercial Attaché's annual reports has not been satisfactory. These reports frequently contained excellent matter, but by the time they were published the information was often out of date. Commercial reports to be of value should be privately circulated as soon as possible, and an organisation for the circulation of such documents should be formed in the foreign market concerned as well as in the United Kingdom. In this connection the purely British Chambers of Commerce whose formation is strongly advocated would provide a most valuable link between the official and the merchant. The success of the system would largely depend on the personality of the officer. The personal element counts for more in the East than in Europe, and I feel confident that a sympathetic, active, able man would find the commercial community only too glad to be of assistance to him and to co-operate in the national work. As an instance, I would cite the cordial relations existing between H.M. Commercial Attaché in Japan and the mercantile community, which is the result of a most happy selection for the post.\n\nIt may be objected that the appointment of a Commercial Intelligence Officer in the Netherlands Indies would clash with the suggested appointment of a Trade Commissioner for British Malaya. This, however, need not be so. The Trade Commissioner at Singapore would have the whole of the Malay States trade for his field, and also important subsidiary markets such as Siam. He would, it is true, regard the Dutch Indies as one of his largest dependencies, but it has been seen that the expansion of trade via Singapore and Penang has been concomitant with a still greater extension of direct trade from the islands, and there is no real clashing of interests. By a strict demarcation of activities, and loyal co-operation between the two officials in the national interests, mutual benefits would result. I would commend this matter to the attention of H.M. Government.\n\nSuggested Measures to be taken against German Trade after the War.-It is reasonable to anticipate intensified German competition in the Netherlands Indies after the war. The popular feeling in the Straits Settlements will be so strong for many years that it is extremely likely that the leading German merchants, such as Behn, Meyer & Co., will transfer their activities from Singapore to the Java ports, and will leave no stone unturned in their endeavour to build up a direct business, and to divert as much trade as possible from the British colony. Such competition, however, can and will be met on equal terms, provided that measures are taken by the mercantile community, fostered by a helpful and sympathetic Government, to safeguard and extend their interests.\n\nIt must be remembered that we are dealing with the colony of a neutral country, Holland, and that British activity is subject to the laws, usages, and conditions prevailing in that country. Restrictive measures aimed against enemy trading are therefore not possible, even if they were considered desirable. Our policy must, therefore, be constructive rather than restrictive.\n\nThe suggestion of the Sourabaya Advisory Committee is as follows:-\n\nWe consider that the most effective measure should be adopted, namely, to blacklist all those, no matter what their nationality, who, after due notice has been given to them, continue to work, knowingly and willingly, against the interests of the Allied nations. This blacklisting should continue after the war-wherever practicable.\n\nAfter giving this suggestion very careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that it would be extremely difficult to put into practice in normal times; and even were such a policy feasible, it would cause intense friction with the Dutch, and would provoke retaliatory measures, which might shake the foundations of our commercial position in the islands. The enforcing of the black list system during the war has necessitated the application of considerable pressure on Dutch firms, and has aroused a certain amount of feeling. Such pressure in peace times would raise a storm of indignation and a call for retaliatory action on the part of the Dutch Government. It would, in fact, tend to unite the Dutch and German mercantile communities against the British. A simple method of such retaliation would be the granting of fiscal preference to Dutch manufacturers. At present the tariff is purely a revenue tariff, and all countries, including the Mother Country, stand on the same basis. Were the Dutch, however, to grant a complete rebate on cotton piece goods manufactured in Holland, this quite natural act would place a handicap of 6 per cent. on Lancashire goods, and would seriously affect our export trade (65 per cent. of which is in textiles).\n\nPrior to the war, British activity in the islands was carried on under conditions of amity and scrupulous fairness. The Dutch enjoyed remarkably few advantages which were not shared by the subjects of other countries. In face of this dominant\n\n2087\n\nD\n\n609", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469741, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 615, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "26\n\nfact, I consider that H.M. Government should carefully balance all the circumstances before deciding upon an aggressive post-bellum policy, which would tend to promote friction and which might recoil upon our own heads. The whole question is an important one, and I would recommend that H.M. Government should make careful investigation in the countries themselves as to the most suitable policy to be adopted after the war in all the Far Eastern markets, having regard to the peculiar circumstances in each case. It is not possible, at this distance, to do more than sketch the broad lines such policy might take.\n\nSUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS.\n\n1. Although the Netherlands Indies are to some extent a commercial dependency of the Straits Settlements, the direct trade with the outside world has increased enormously of late years, largely as a result of improved shipping facilities. In this increased trade British merchants in Java and the lesser islands have had a considerable share.\n\n2. A noteworthy feature is the paucity of British houses in the market. One or two powerful firms do a very large business in sugar and other produce. The import trade is handled by two or three more British Java houses, but there appears to be an opportunity for young, active men with local experience to commence business on their own account, provided that British banks are willing to be a little more generous in their terms. It is an admitted fact that young but enterprising German merchants, with slender resources, received more encouragement and assistance from their home manufacturers and banks and from their Government than was the case with British subjects under similar circumstances.\n\n3. The strongest competition encountered in the Netherlands Indies before the war was with the Dutch houses, and particularly in textiles. Holland had a large share of the trade in bleached goods, and it is stated that special rebates on Dutch goods were granted by the Dutch shipping companies to British merchants, by constant activity and vigilance were able to hold their own, and the shipments of British textiles to Java were increasing at a satisfactory rate. The market is an open one, and all nations are on the same footing as regards customs duties.\n\n4. German competition was keen throughout the archipelago, not only in German manufactured articles, but in the distribution of British goods. In the iron, steel, engineering and hardware trades the German merchants hold a very strong position, and they were rapidly building up a most satisfactory business in the export of miscellaneous produce. Their position was largely due to:—\n\n(a) Longer credit terms and financial facilities received from their Home banks, and also from Dutch banks, facilities which British banks declined to give.\n\n(b) Their monopoly of the sale of aniline dyes and synthetic indigo, which enabled them to force the sales of their textiles and other goods. This weapon is likely to be utilised still more effectively in the future, unless British dyestuff manufacturers can supply the dyes at competitive prices. The principal colours are aniline red and indigo.\n\n(c) The development of the export of the less important articles of produce, such as copra, and the willingness to reside and work up a trade in the more remote parts of the islands, where there was little competition.\n\n(d) The support which in many cases was given to them by British manufacturers in respect of desirable sole or joint agencies. These agencies were frequently granted because the German merchants had branches and connections in the Outer Possessions, and thus offered a wider field for distribution.\n\n(e) The facilities offered by German shipping lines, both as regards secret rebates, and also in extending local shipping services to certain outports, such as Macassar, where German influence was powerful.\n\nAfter the war, we may expect intensified German competition in the islands, as it is extremely likely that the leading enemy houses in the Straits will transfer their activities to the Dutch islands.\n\n5. Japanese competition before the war was not serious, but strenuous efforts are being made to work up a trade in the coarser grades of textiles. A very large business is being done in hosiery, underwear, and miscellaneous sundry articles, and local British interests anticipate gradually increasing competition in the future.\n\n27\n\n6. American competition before the war was negligible, but efforts are now being made to introduce United States manufactures. The attempt is not regarded with any concern by local British merchants, who aver that in normal times the high cost of production in the States, and the lack of American marketing and financing facilities enable them to hold their own.\n\n7. British merchants in the Dutch Indies are dependent on steamers which commence loading at Continental ports, and then call to fill up at British ports. This system causes much dissatisfaction on account of frequent \"shutting out\" of British goods. A regular, fast steamship service under the British flag from Birkenhead and other United Kingdom ports, calling at certain Continental ports, is strongly advocated. British merchants in Java are loud in their denunciation of the Shipping Conference agreements with German and Dutch companies, and urge that they should not be continued after the war.\n\n8. Heavy Imperial taxation, together with local taxation on profits, is bearing very heavily on the British houses, and is seriously handicapping them in competition with the Dutch. Owing to a low basis of assessment (the years 1913 and 1914 being lean years), the profits now being made are claimed by the Government as excess profits. This incidence of taxation is seriously crippling firms who would otherwise be prepared to sink their profits in consolidating and extending their influence.\n\nIt appears desirable, in the interests of our post-bellum position in the islands, that such special cases should receive favourable consideration at the hands of H.M. Government in return for guarantees that any profits thus exempted from taxation should be devoted to the strengthening and extending of British interests.\n\n9. In view of the necessity for closer co-operation and collective action on the part of British merchants after the war, and with the object of providing a link between H.M. officials and the mercantile community, it is desirable that purely British Chambers of Commerce be formed at Batavia, Sourabaya, Samarang, and any other ports where there is a sufficiently large British trading community.\n\n10. With a view to the promotion of British mercantile activity in the Netherlands Indies, I would recommend that a Commercial Intelligence Officer be appointed with headquarters at H.B.M. Consulate-General at Batavia, and that an efficient system of commercial intelligence should be inaugurated by him.\n\nSECTION 3. SIAM.\n\nSources of Information.—Much of the information contained in this Section has been obtained at personal interviews with the heads of the leading British houses trading in Siam. A memorandum has been received from the Bangkok agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and the many and valuable works of reference recently published have been consulted.\n\nExtent of Foreign Trade.-While Siam is one of the less important markets of the Far East from the point of view of the total volume of its foreign trade, it nevertheless merits careful attention by British commercial interests owing to:\n\n(a) The steady expansion of the trade with the outside world during the past 15 years as a result of good government and a systematic State policy of economic development; and\n\n(b) The commanding position occupied by local British trading firms, some of which have been established in the country from the date of the first Commercial Treaty concluded with Great Britain in 1855, the treaty which not only regulated trade methods but determined the Siamese Customs Tariff.\n\nThe total volume of the sea-borne trade of the country during the last three complete pre-war Siamese years was as follows:-----\n\n \n Year\n Total Imports\n Total Exports\n Total Value of Trade\n \n \n 1911-12\n 5,524,000\n 6,392,000\n 11,916,000\n \n \n 1912-13\n 5,740,000\n 6,173,000\n 11,913,000\n \n \n 1913-14\n 6,962,334\n 8,858,921\n 15,821,000\n \n\nN.B. The Siamese year extends from April 1st to March 31st.\n\nD2\n\n610", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481949, "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": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 681, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "and a half percent in excess of twenty-five pounds in \n\nconnection with disbursements by a Consular Officer in \n\nany single transaction, without special authority from \n\nthe Department of His Majesty's Government concerned, who \n\nwould, in consultation with the Foreign Office consider \n\nwhether the amount of work and responsibility involved \n\njustified the grant of remuneration on a larger scale. \n\n3. The Secretary of State also decided that the total \n\namount of commission on disbursements at any one place on \n\nbehalf of any one Government Department during any one \n\ncalendar year should not exceed one hundred pounds \n\nwithout similar authority. \n\n£25. \n\nCopy. \n\nNo.25. \n\nP.0.Box 46. \n\n(161426). \n\nH. B. M. CONSULATE, \n\nSAIGON, \n\n£100. \n\n4. Lord Curzon is aware that it is not the usual \n\npractice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to pay \n\ncommissions on transactions of this nature, but he feels \n\nthat, in view of the particular difficulties surmounted by \n\nMr.Fitzmaurice, it is possible that the Hong Kong Government \n\nmay be prepared to make an exception in this case. \n\nI am, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient, \n\nhumble Servant, \n\nWathaGoming \n\nSir, \n\nCOCHIN-CHINA. \n\nOctober 20th, 1919. \n\n670 \n\nI have the honour to invite your reference to my despatch \n\nNo.21 of the 15th September 1919 regarding the assistance \n\ngiven by me to the Colonial Governments of the Straits Settle- \n\nments and Hongkong with respect to the purchase of rice here on \n\ntheir behalf for Food Control purposes, and to Foreign Office \n\nCirculars 24463/16K of March 1st 1916 and 137598/250/K of \n\nAugust 1918 regarding commissions on disbursements made by Con- \n\nsular officers and remuneration for services rendered in respect \n\nof work carried out on behalf of other Departments of His \n\nMajesty's Government. \n\nIn my despatch mentioned particulars were given of the \n\ncircumstances in which I purchased 27,500 tons of rice, at \n\nfirst for the Government of the Straits Settlements, of which \n\nrice half was subsequently transferred to the Government of Hongkong and half to the Government of the Netherlands East \n\nIndies. \n\nThe operations alluded to in that despatch are now ap- proaching conclusion and shipment to Hongkong of all the rice purchased by that Government will be completed within about a fortnight. The time therefore seems to have arrived when I may reasonably venture to submit for your consideration, in accord- ance with the directions in your Circular of August 21st 1918, \n\nan \n\nThe Right Honourable, \n\nA.J.Balfour, O.M., M.P., \n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, \n\nForeign Office, \n\nLondon. \n\ni \n\nUpon reviewing the provided text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nand a half percent in excess of twenty-five pounds in \nconnection with disbursements by a Consular Officer in \nany single transaction, without special authority from \nthe Department of His Majesty's Government concerned, who \nwould, in consultation with the Foreign Office consider \nwhether the amount of work and responsibility involved \njustified the grant of remuneration on a larger scale.\n\n3. The Secretary of State also decided that the total \namount of commission on disbursements at any one place on \nbehalf of any one Government Department during any one \ncalendar year should not exceed one hundred pounds \nwithout similar authority.\n\n£25.\n\nCopy.\n\nNo.25.\n\nP.O.Box 46.\n\n(161426).\n\nH.B.M. CONSULATE,\n\nSAIGON.\n\n£100.\n\n4. Lord Curzon is aware that it is not the usual \npractice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to pay \ncommissions on transactions of this nature, but he feels \nthat, in view of the particular difficulties surmounted by \nMr. Fitzmaurice, it is possible that the Hong Kong Government \nmay be prepared to make an exception in this case.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nWathawongming(?)\n\nCOCHIN-CHINA.\n\nOctober 20th, 1919.\n\n670\n\nI have the honour to invite your reference to my despatch \nNo.21 of the 15th September 1919 regarding the assistance \ngiven by me to the Colonial Governments of the Straits Settlements and Hongkong with respect to the purchase of rice here on \ntheir behalf for Food Control purposes, and to Foreign Office \nCirculars 24463/16K of March 1st 1916 and 137598/250/K of \nAugust 1918 regarding commissions on disbursements made by Consular officers and remuneration for services rendered in respect \nof work carried out on behalf of other Departments of His \nMajesty's Government.\n\nIn my despatch mentioned particulars were given of the \ncircumstances in which I purchased 27,500 tons of rice, at \nfirst for the Government of the Straits Settlements, of which \nrice half was subsequently transferred to the Government of Hongkong and half to the Government of the Netherlands East Indies.\n\nThe operations alluded to in that despatch are now approaching conclusion and shipment to Hongkong of all the rice purchased by that Government will be completed within about a fortnight. The time therefore seems to have arrived when I may reasonably venture to submit for your consideration, in accordance with the directions in your Circular of August 21st 1918, \nan application...\n\nThe Right Honourable,\n\nA.J. Balfour, O.M., M.P.,\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon.\n\nCorrections made include:\n1. Rejoining broken sentences.\n2. Correcting spelling errors (e.g., \"WathaGoming\" to \"Wathawongming(?)\", \"ap-proaching\" to \"approaching\", \"an/ \" to \"an application...\").\n3. Fixing spacing issues.\n4. Standardizing formatting.\n5. Preserving original content and structure as much as possible.\n\nThe name \"Wathawongming\" is unclear and might be a misrecognition; it is left as is with a question mark to indicate uncertainty. The text \"an/\" is corrected to \"an application...\" to make it a sensible continuation, assuming the rest of the sentence was cut off or not recognized properly by the OCR.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 482020, "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": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "content_text": "Page 56\n\n6\n\nANSEX-II.B.M. Consul-General, Batavia, to Foreign Office.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 46.\n\nBritish Consulate-General, Batavia,\n\n10th February 1917.\n\nWith reference to my despatch No. 10 of 27th January 1916, I have the honour to enclose translation of a Decree issued by the Governor-General on 28th December last, prohibiting entirely, as from 1st January 1917, the import into Netherlands India of firearms, gunpowder, and ammunition, except for the use of the Government, and except in special cases allowed by the Governor-General.\n\nThus after a lapse of two years and in spite of frequent assertions that they had the import of arms and ammunition under complete control, and that no further control was necessary, this Government have at length realised that the further import is dangerous to the welfare of the Netherlands Indies, and admit that the former control was ineffective.\n\nIf therefore in future any consignments of arms or ammunition pass through British ports, I have the honour to suggest that such consignments should be held up until evidence is furnished that either they are for the use of this Government or are being imported under a special permit of the Governor-General.\n\nThis is only one instance out of many of the want of foresight of this Government and their dilatoriness in realising the necessity of action until such necessity is forced on them by some sudden and immediate set of circumstances which renders further delay dangerous. The prohibition of the import of arms is doubtless due to the constant recurrence of rebellion and other indications of unrest in various parts of the Netherlands East Indies, and the fear of danger from a further circulation of arms which is already well-nigh universal. When I remarked to a well-known official that it had taken the Netherlands East Indian Government two years to arrive at prohibition, I was not surprised by his replying--\"Oh! two years is quite a short time for this Government to take a decision.\"\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Secretary of State,\n\nForeign Office.\n\n1\n\nW. R. D. Beckett.\n\nP.S. I am forwarding copies of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at the Hague, His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, His Excellency the Governor of Singapore and the Governor-General of South Africa.\n\nEnclosure in above.\n\nExtract from the Register of the Decrees of the Governor-General of Netherlands India.\n\nBuitenzorg.\n\n(Staatsblad No. 7546\n\n28th December 1916. Having regard to the decree of 11th October 1916, No. 2 X. (Staatsblad No. 620.)\n\nRead, &c.—\n\nHaving further regard to Article of the order of 3rd August 1908 (Staatsblad, No. 491).\n\nIt has been found good and understood :—\n\nFirstly. With regard to Article 9 of the order of 3rd August 1908 (Staatsblad, No. 491) to prohibit entirely for the time being the import into Netherlands India of firearms, gunpowder, and ammunition, except for the benefit of the country's service and by those whose duty it is to be in possession thereof for the country's service. Exemption from this prohibition can be obtained through the Governor-General in special cases.\n\nSecondly. To order that the prohibition mentioned in Part I. of this decree shall take effect from 1st January 1917, &c.\n\nHULSTOFF FOL,\n\nGeneral Secretary.\n\n7\n\nENCLOSURE No. 6: - War Trade Department to India Office,\n\nW.T.D. 772/17/S.\n\nSir,\n\n4, Central Buildings, S.W. 1,\n\n13th April 1917.\n\nI am instructed by the Director of the War Trade Department to acknowledge receipt of your letters of 8th February and 27th March, Ref. P. 369, relative to the export of fire-arms from the United Kingdom to neutral destinations in the Far East. I am to state that the whole question relating to the export of sporting ammunition has been under the consideration of the War Office, and it has not been possible to give an earlier reply to your letters. It has now been decided that licences cannot be granted for the export of sporting ammunition to any destination at the present time. A further communication will be addressed to you as soon as possible in regard to the export of sporting arms, as it is believed that the manufacture of these goods is to be discontinued.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India.\n\nA. F. KING.\n\nENCLOSURE No. 7:- India Office to War Trade Department.\n\nP. 1189.\n\nIndia Office.\n\n20th April 1917.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for India to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. W.T.D. 772/17 S., of the 13th April 1917, on the subject of the export of fire-arms, &c., from the United Kingdom to neutral destinations in the Far East.\n\nIt is understood that it has been decided that no licences can be granted for the export of sporting ammunition to any destination at the present time and that a further communication may be expected regarding the export of sporting arms.\n\nMr. Secretary Chamberlain believes that, as a fact, the export of arms and ammunition of all kinds from the United Kingdom to neutral destinations in the Far East has completely ceased for the present; but he, nevertheless, thinks it may be desirable to proceed on the lines of the proposal conveyed in the second paragraph of my letter of the 9th February 1917 to your address. He would therefore suggest that a ruling should be laid down by the War Trade Department (not necessarily for immediate publication) that no application for permission to export arms or ammunition of any description from the United Kingdom to these destinations will be considered in the absence of a recommendation from the British Consular authorities concerned.\n\nThe necessary communications would then be addressed to the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Government of India, and the new system would be ready to be applied to exports from the United Kingdom if they should be resumed at any time, and in the meantime it could be applied to any proposed exports from British Dominions or Dependencies.\n\nA copy of this letter is being forwarded to the Foreign Office, War Office, Colonial Office, and the Board of Trade.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nThe Secretary.\n\nWar Trade Department.\n\nJ. E. SUCKBURGII.\n\nENCLOSURE No. 8: - War Trade Department to India Office.\n\nW.T.D. No. 772/17/8.\n\n1, Central Buildings, S.W. 1,\n\n25th April 1917.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 20th instant, I am instructed by the Director of the War Trade Department to state that it has now been definitely decided that, as a general rule, no export licences will be granted for the export of arms and ammunition from the United Kingdom whether for \n\n$ 357 \n\nC \n\nParlt \n\n95 \n\nisc \n\nff.\n\nPage 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510542, "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": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "content_text": "# GOVERNOR\n## BOTNING STIDET, 2 June, 1927\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the despatch from His Majesty's Consul General at Batavia to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs No.64 Secret of the 28th of April on the subject of Communist activities against the Netherlands East Indies, a copy of which has been sent to you direct by Mr. Crosby, I have the honour to state that I shall be glad to receive any observations that you may have to offer on the information claimed to have been secured by the Netherlands Consulate at Canton in so far as you have not already dealt with the matter in your secret despatch of the 29th of March.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSIR C.CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G.\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant\n(Signed) L. S. AMERY\n\n## 28008/27\n## 19\n## 7\n## 23. ko.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510543, "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": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927", "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\nSir,\n\n20\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL,\nBATAVIA.\n\nApril 28th, 1927.\n\nA responsible Dutch official here recently lent me a list of names, supplied by the Netherlands Consulate at Canton, of various persons who are alleged to compose the organisation set up under the auspices of the Third International for the purpose of fomenting revolution in the Netherlands East Indies. I took the opportunity to make a copy of this document, which I have the honour to transmit to you herewith.\n\n2. My informant told me that the list was procured just as it is by the Dutch authority originally forwarding it. He said that no explanations in regard to it were forthcoming, and he evidently did not know anything further concerning its purpose or history. Assuming that the document is genuine, it indicates the existence of committees and of a military department both at Canton and at various centres in Java. There is also a \"technical department\" for the manufacture of rifles, ammunition and bombs, whilst representatives (\"wahila\" or \"wakila\") have been appointed in various other countries (in Holland, in London, Paris and Berlin, in Afghanistan, at Angora and in America). Further, there is a committee for foreign affairs at Shanghai, headed by Kwee Hing Tjist, a Chinese journalist born in the Netherlands East Indies whose return to this country has been forbidden on account of his violent political activities.\n\nThe Right Honourable,\nSir Austen Chamberlain, K.G., P.C., M.P.,\netc.,\netc., Foreign Office,\nLONDON.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512575, "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": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "Page 51\n\n2.0 Sex(14) 2\n\napplications for British registration, it will be seen from Enclosure 1* that Mr. Brenan is refusing to entertain them until denationalisation certificates are produced.\n\n5. Mr. Brenan observes that any undue optimism as to the Chinese carrying out their part of the arrangement with a modicum of efficiency and good faith would be misplaced, but it is a good augury for the success of the scheme that in fact one denationalisation certificate has already been issued under the new regulations in the circumstances reported in Canton despatch No. 68 of the 8th May, copy of which was sent direct to you.\n\n6. The second development, to which reference is made above, is at Shanghai. It will be seen from the correspondence enclosed in my despatch No. 267 of the 19th March that on the 31st December, 1927, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs at Shanghai, in a letter to His Majesty's consul-general, returned to the question of Chinese of dual nationality, with a special reference to civil and criminal cases in the provisional court at Shanghai. The court had suggested that an attempt should be made to solve the difficulties which were constantly arising in its administration of justice owing to the existence of dual nationality, and had proposed that negotiations should be set on foot with a view to arriving at a general and satisfactory settlement of questions of dual nationality both as regards persons already registered at foreign consulates and as regards future applicants for such registration. The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs endorsed this suggestion, and asked that it might be examined. Similar letters had been received by the other consuls in Shanghai, and the question was discussed at a meeting of the consular body on the 18th January, when it was agreed that individual replies should be sent to the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, informing him that it had been decided to apply to the respective Ministers for sanction to make some arrangement applicable locally in the provisional court.\n\n7. The Netherlands and Portuguese Legations at Peking refused permission to their respective consuls-general at Shanghai to make a local arrangement of the matter, but Sir Sidney Barton stated that for his part he was prepared, if I agreed, to take action alone and see whether a solution ad hoc could not be found, and he proposed to take as a basis a personal suggestion which was made by the Chinese representatives on the commission set up in Peking last year to examine that part of His Majesty's Government's treaty alteration offer of January 1927 which concerned the application of Chinese law in British courts. This suggestion, which seemed to Sir Sidney Barton to offer a reasonable solution of the question, was that no person of Chinese race should be entitled, while in Chinese territory, to claim British protection unless-\n\n(1.) He has been registered at a British consulate and his name has been communicated to the Chinese authorities; and\n\n(2.) If he has resided in China for over six months he has, in addition to registration at a British consulate, obtained from the Chinese authorities a certificate of denationalisation.\n\n8. I replied on the 19th March (to Shanghai, No. 40, sub-enclosure in my despatch No. 267) authorising Sir Sidney Barton, subject to the concurrence of the Governors of Hong Kong and Singapore, to explore the possibility of reaching a settlement on the bases proposed, and subject also to a stipulation that certificates of denationalisation should not unreasonably be withheld, and on the same date I wrote to the Governors of Hong Kong and Singapore seeking their concurrence (sub-enclosures in my despatch No. 267). The Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong has replied that he concurs (Enclosure 3*), but the Governor of Singapore has made his concurrence dependent on certain conditions (see Enclosure 4*), one of which is that the proposed arrangement does not contain anything repugnant to the action proposed in Mr. Pratt's memorandum. This condition can scarcely be considered to be fulfilled, for Sir Sidney Barton's suggestion amounts to withdrawing protection from all Anglo-Chinese who fail to obtain denationalisation certificates within six months, whereas Mr. Pratt's scheme is to continue indefinitely the protection of those persons of dual nationality who have already been registered, but to afford no protection to any other Anglo-Chinese persons at all in future, giving transient visitors at the most a claim to the good offices, advice and assistance of British consuls.\n\n*\n\n* Not printed.\n\nProbably 70 of 12th received by -see fawx. 44 foot wote. (No. 70 met May-sel F.C.)\n\n9. Thus there are now three proposals for dealing with this vexed problem of the protection of persons in China who possess Chinese as well as British nationality:\n\n(a.) Mr. Pratt's proposal that, in accordance with our practice elsewhere, we should recognise the validity of the Chinese Nationality Law in respect to all future applicants and refuse registration and protection in China to all such persons who also have Chinese nationality under Chinese law. Persons already registered are to continue indefinitely to be entitled to protection. Transient visitors, on the other hand, will in no case be entitled to full protection, but at the most to the good offices and assistance of British consuls.\n\n(b.) Mr. Brenan's proposal that persons having dual nationality should be invited to secure denationalisation certificates from the Chinese authorities, failing which they would cease to be registered and protected after a certain period, the duration of which is still to be considered. We are already committed to a trial of this scheme at Canton, which has the advantage, as compared with the former scheme, that it would enable the present registers to be placed on a satisfactory basis, but has the same disadvantage that transient visitors are excluded from the full privileges of British nationality.\n\n(c.) The Chinese proposals originally put forward as a personal suggestion to Mr. Garstin, that no person of Chinese origin shall be protected unless\n\n(1.) He has been registered, and his name has been communicated to the Chinese authorities; and\n\n(2.) If he has resided in China for over six months he has, in addition to registration, obtained from the Chinese authorities a certificate of denationalisation,\n\nThis scheme also would enable the present registers to be placed on a satisfactory basis, and it has the additional advantage of making some provision for the extension of protection to the transient visitor. There are difficulties in all three schemes, but they are not necessarily insuperable, and the schemes themselves do not necessarily conflict, but, in fact, seem rather to evolve one out of the other.\n\n10. To consider these difficulties as they appear to me.\n\n11. I have already referred to the question of transient visitors and suggested that an important defect of schemes (a) and (b) is that no provision is made for this class. Such visitors may be numerous, but are not likely to be a source of great difficulty with the Chinese, while it may be a considerable hardship that British subjects of Chinese descent who are genuinely domiciled in Hong Kong and Singapore should not be able to visit China even for a brief period without being exposed to the peculiarities of a legal or illegal system to which they have ceased to be accustomed. The point is one of concern to the Colonial authorities as affecting the interests of their loyal Anglo-Chinese communities, and the Shanghai scheme provides a solution that may be considered adequate, namely, that transient visitors could obtain full protection for a period not exceeding six months by registering at the British consulate on their arrival in China. It will be for consideration, if this procedure is introduced, what form of passport or other documentary evidence of British nationality should be issued to such persons by the Colonial Governments.\n\n12. As regards persons already registered, proposal (a) contemplates that their protection will have to continue until they die or cease for some other reason to register. The Shanghai scheme provides a solution by which these persons would continue to be protected for a period, so that they may have an opportunity of obtaining Chinese denationalisation certificates, but after the expiry of this period, if they had failed to obtain a certificate, protection would be withdrawn and they would no longer be allowed to register.\n\n13. As regards persons not previously registered who have dual nationality, proposal (a) is that registration and protection should be refused altogether. Hardship might thereby be caused in certain cases, but the introduction of a system enabling these persons to apply, if they so desire, for the cancellation of their Chinese nationality meets a serious deficiency in the Chinese Nationality Law. The efficacy of this system in preventing hardship and in meeting the case of the transient visitor should be greatly enhanced by the interposition of a period of grace, during which Anglo-Chinese would have an opportunity of obtaining Chinese denationalisation certificates, and after which, in the absence of such certificates, they would automatically cease to trouble us.\n\n[594 d-1].\n\nB 2\n\nPage 50", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524006, "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": "CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "see) that \"A state may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a State whose nationality such person also possesses\"\n\n(The principle was recognized by the Law Officers in 1879 when they advised that His Majesty's Government ought not to insist upon extending British protection to persons of Chinese descent whilst they are within Chinese territory).\n\nAs regards the Chinese Netherlands modus vivendi, it may be recalled that it was extorted from the Chinese Government as a quid pro quo in exchange for the right of establishing consulates in Dutch possessions (cf. Sir C. Clementi's desp. of 12.9.30 (8 on 72392/30) and paragraph 25 of the Foreign Office Memorandum in 9 on 52710/28).\n\nMalay States precedents are almost useless in China of 1930. It is scarcely possible, even if it were our policy, to extort now an \"unequal\" privilege. The suggestion is only another proof that the present orientation of British policy towards China is not understood in Malaya. (Whether that policy is right or wrong is another question).\n\nThis is also seen in the new despatch about the establishment of a Chinese Consulate at Kuala Lumpur, with which it will be most convenient to deal at the same time (8 on 72392). Sir Cecil there suggests (in the name of the Rulers of the Federated Malay States) that as a quid pro quo in exchange for the right to establish a consulate the Chinese Government could be required to bind itself to consider its Consuls as commercial agents only, protecting the commerce and nationals within their consular districts.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529624, "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": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## 35 \n\n16 \n\nTo Colonial Office, September 16, 1911. (**Confidential Print 11426, No. 11.**) \n\nColonial Office, September 30, 1911. (**Confidential Print 11426, No. 12.**) \nTo Sir John Jordan, October 26, 1911. (**Confi. dential Print 11426, No. 13.**) \nSir J. Jordan to Sir F. Campbell, February 19, 1911. (**Confidential Print 11426, No. 5.**) \nSir A. Johnstone, April 19, 1911. \nSir A. Johnstone, August 30, 1911. \nSir J. Jordan, August 24, 1911. (**Confidential Print 11426, Nos. 7, 9 and 10.**) \nSir B. Alston, 1922. \nNo. 374, June 27, [T 9093/593/10.] \nTo Sir J. Jordan, No. 174, June 17, 1914.\n\nThe situation remained exactly as it had always been, with the exception that provincial officials contesting the claims of foreign consuls were able to appeal to an authoritative statement of the law of China as set out in the terms of an Imperial Edict (see Appendix I, case No. 17). The immediate effect was that His Majesty's Government reverted to the view abandoned in 1903 that an agreement would have to be negotiated with the Chinese Government. Instructions were accordingly sent to Sir John Jordan in October 1911 to suggest to the Chinese Government, whenever a favourable opportunity should arise, the appointment of a joint commission by Great Britain and China to examine the whole question and draw up recommendations for the consideration of the two Governments. But, as in the period 1886-1903, an opportune moment for opening negotiations with the Chinese Government has not yet arrived.\n\n25. The Netherlands Government, who were faced with a similar problem to our own, found little difficulty in negotiating a modus vivendi with the Chinese Government, which is said to have worked smoothly ever since. Early in 1911 Sir J. Jordan reported that the Chinese were extremely anxious to obtain the right of establishing consulates in the Dutch possessions, and the Netherlands Government promised to entertain the request on the condition that an understanding was reached with regard to the treatment in China of Dutch subjects of \"Chinese descent.\" Sir John Jordan suggested that we might watch the result of the Dutch negotiations before entering into negotiations ourselves. The Consular Convention between Holland and China was duly concluded on the 8th May, 1911. An exchange of notes appended to the Convention provided that any doubts which might arise with regard to the words \"Chinese subjects\" and \"Netherlands subjects\" in the text should be settled in accordance with the laws obtaining in those possessions or colonies. Nothing more was reported, however, as to the negotiations in regard to Dutch Chinese in China, and it was only 11 years later that the Foreign Office learned that the Consular Convention had been followed by the negotiation of a modus vivendi on the 20th June, 1911. A copy of this document will be found in Appendix III. Under this arrangement, reported the Minister in 1922, \"lists of Dutch subjects of Chinese origin residing in China are regularly furnished by the Dutch consuls to the Chinese authorities. I am informed by my Netherlands colleague that this arrangement has on the whole worked satisfactorily ever since.\" In the event of a Dutch subject of Chinese origin arriving in China and failing to register within the prescribed period of three months, he is, it appears, simply disowned by the Dutch authorities. But if he is registered and his name then duly communicated to the Chinese authorities, the latter apparently recognise him as a foreign national. As regards the qualifications which entitled a person of Chinese origin to Dutch nationality under this arrangement, the apposite clause of a law, dated the 10th February, 1910, regulating the status as Netherlands subjects of the population of the Dutch East Indies, provided that persons born in the Dutch East Indies of parents settled there were Netherlands subjects. The law further provided that the status of Netherlands subject was lost, in the event of sojourn in a foreign country, by omitting to give notice to a Netherlands consular officer in that country within three months after arriving, and in case of continued sojourn by omitting to repeat that notice within the first three months of every calendar year. The status of Netherlands subject thus lost could only be reacquired by settling in Netherlands-India.\n\n26. The British position, unfortunately, owing to a fresh series of misconceptions, went from bad to worse. In 1914, when the Governor of Hong Kong desired to expel \"undesirables\" from the Colony, he was prevented from doing so by the fact that many of them had been registered as British subjects in China, though, of course, they had not been provided with the certificates prescribed in the 1904 instructions. How this arose is explained in paragraph 21 (5). When the question was examined, however, the circumstances in which these instructions had been issued were apparently entirely forgotten. The Order in Council laid down that British subjects arriving in China must register themselves at a British Consulate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536247, "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": "CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933", "content_text": "No. 2.\n\nCopy to Sub-Legation.\n\n**H.B.M. Consulate, Amoy, 4th February, 1933.**\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your despatch No. `31(5/32V/1932)` of the 24th December last, on the subject of smuggling from Hong Kong into China, I have the honour to report that I have investigated the question locally as well as I can.\n\n2. It is, in the first place, obvious that the chief reason for the recent increase of smuggling into this district is the raising of the Customs duties, a step which cannot fail to encourage smuggling and to render it lucrative. There is, of course, the risk of detection, but so profitable is the business that three successful smuggling ventures out of four are sufficient to give a handsome profit.\n\n3. Smuggling appears to be conducted not nearly so much from Hong Kong direct as from Formosa, which affords a most convenient entrepôt. For instance, | sugar is sent in large quantities from the Netherlands East Indies both to Formosa direct and Hong Kong. At Hong Kong it is transshipped into Japanese vessels, which carry it to Formosa. From Formosa sugar, however it may have arrived, is sent across the Channel to convenient places on the coast of China...\n\n**His Britannic Majesty's Minister, etc., etc., etc., British Legation, Peking.**\n\nPage 40\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-12 Smuggling from Hong Kong into China 21-1-1933 - 21-8-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548882, "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": "CO129-554-4 Companies Amendment Ordinance 1935 7-1-1935 - 17-12-1935", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-554-4 Companies Amendment Ordinance 1935 7-1-1935 - 17-12-1935", "content_text": "Enclosure in Shanghai P/L despatch to Peking Number 302 of July 19th, 1935.\n\n(COPY)\n\nBritish Consulate-General, 27\n\nShanghai.\n\nCopies to: Peking, No. 302,\n\nJuly 19th, 1935.\n\nDiplomatic Mission, Nanking, Crown Advocate.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to enclose, for Your Excellency's\n\nconsideration, a copy of a communication which I have\n\nreceived from the Secretary General of the Shanghai\n\nMunicipal Council calling attention to the fact that by\n\nthe amendment introduced into the Hongkong Companies\n\nOrdinance by Ordinance No.29 of 1933 the Council was\n\ndeprived of its legal claim to priority in respect of\n\nrates due by China companies in liquidation, and express-\n\ning the hope that it may be possible to restore the\n\nformer position.\n\n2. With regard to the extent to which the matter\n\nis of practical importance to the Council, I learn that\n\nduring the past two years the Council has twice received\n\npriority in respect of claims for rates in the winding\n\nup of China companies, but that in a case now proceeding\n\npriority has been refused owing to the amendment in the\n\nOrdinance. I am also informed that the Council receives\n\npreferential treatment where winding up takes place\n\nunder the jurisdiction of the Belgian, French and\n\nNetherlands authorities.\n\n3. It would certainly appear that the position of\n\nauthorities such as the Shanghai Municipal Council was\n\noverlooked when the amending Ordinance No.29 of 1933 was\n\npassed, and I venture to suggest to Your Excellency that\n\nthis is one which calls for remedial measures.\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nThe Officer Administering the\n\nGovernment,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's most\n\nobedient servant,\n\n(signed) J.F. Brenan,\n\nActing Consul-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-4 Companies Amendment Ordinance 1935 7-1-1935 - 17-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571820, "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": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "content_text": "## DAY \n`(F3794/177/10)`\n\nNo. Colonial Oper\n\nOriginal by air mail. \nCopy by ordinary mail.\n\ncopies sent My Lord,\n\n18 W.O. Adul \n4.0 54058/1/+\n\n**British Consulate-General \nMANILA.**\n\n11 1% 2nd August, 1940\n\nWith the Compliments of the \nUnder Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs \n8 Feb 1940\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No. 54 of the 1st instant, I have the honour to transmit a list of Hong Kong evacuees who sailed from Manila for Australia in Netherlands s.s. \"Indrapoera\" yesterday. The majority of the evacuees on this list are members of naval and dockyard families but a certain number of civilian relatives and attendants are also included.\n\nI have etc. \n(sd.) J. Wyatt Smith \nConsul-General.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nThe Viscount Halifax, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., \netc., etc., \nForeign Office, \nLONDON. \netc.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571828, "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": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "content_text": "## No.56\n**British Consulate-General, MANILA**\n\nAugust 8th, 1940.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No.55 of the 2nd instant, I have the honour to transmit a list of Hong Kong evacuees who sailed from Manila for Australia in Netherlands s.s. \"Johan de Witt\" on August 6th. The majority of the evacuees on this list are civilians but a certain number of military families are also included.\n\nI have, etc.\n\n(Sd) S. Wyatt-Smith.\nConsul-General.\n\nThe Right Honourable\nThe Viscount Halifax, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.\netc.,\netc.,\netc.,\nForeign Office,\nLondon.\n\n`F3990/177/10`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571857, "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": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940", "content_text": "# British Consulate-General, Manila\n## No. 54\n1st August, 1940\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to Foreign Office telegram No. 17 of the 20th July, I have the honour to transmit herewith a list of Hong Kong evacuees who sailed from Manila for Australia on the 28th July in the Netherlands M.V. **\"Christian Huygens\"**. All the evacuees included in this list are members of civilian families.\n\nFurther lists will be forwarded after the departure of the other vessels provided for the transportation of the service families and remaining civilian evacuees to Australia.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Signed) **S. Wyatt-Smith**, Consul-General.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nThe Viscount Halifax, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.,\netc., etc., etc.,\nForeign Office, London.\n\nCOPY.\n\nTo The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office (K9527/9444/245)\n\nOf Reference Mr. Allchin, letter by Mr. Monson 24th July, 1940, No. K9527/9444/245. 6th Aug 1940\n\nOriginal by Air Mail. Copy by ordinary Mail.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575408, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## department was formed in the Hongkong & Shanghai bank building (part of the bank proper) which was operated by Japanese civilians, some of them members of the former Japanese consulate in Hongkong.\n\nThis department dealt with all the affairs of so-called \"third nationals\" which included Swiss, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, French, Portuguese, etc. During the first three weeks of January, all the \"third nationals\" were officially instructed to present themselves to this dept. in order to obtain \"third national\" passes with which they would be able to move freely in town. Two photographs were to be provided, one attached to the pass itself with a stamp of the Japanese Consulate over it. These passes were effective till the end of March and later on prolonged till the 15th of April.\n\nA branch of the Civil Affairs dept. was also established in Kowloon in the Peninsula Hotel. This department dealt with everything concerning third nationals such as issue of protective papers to tenants, issue of permits to take luggage across the harbour, permits to leave the colony, etc., as well as the business side - e.g., reopening of offices, etc. All the banks came under the Japanese Financial department. The foreign banks were allowed to open three consecutive days a month when the \"third nationals and friendly Chinese\" were allowed to draw specified amounts in Hongkong dollars from their personal accounts (HK$50.- in January, £300.- in February, and in March 150.-).\n\nThe employees of the \"enemy banks\" i.e., Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corp., Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Mercantile Bank of India, National City Bank of New York, the Chase Bank, Netherlands Trading Society, Nederlandsche Indische Handelsbank, Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, were interned in a Chinese Hotel (Sun Wa hotel) in town and were brought every morning under escort to their offices. These banks were officially in the state of liquidation, and their employees were allowed a certain salary not exceeding HK$80.- per month. The Chinese banks were eventually instructed to reopen, but their work was restricted and under the supervision of the mentioned Japanese Finance dept.\n\n## At the time of the surrender, Hongkong and Kowloon were packed with Japanese troops.\n\nAs a rough estimation, the Japanese Army in Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories included about 60-80 thousand seasoned Japanese troops - infantry, artillery, airforce, marines, and tank units. Some of the units were reportedly brought from Manchuria, being stationed previously on the Russian border; others, including marines, from the Canton area. After a month or so, the Japanese army in Hongkong decreased considerably - a skeleton garrison of some thousands was left, and the bulk of the troops was shipped away to other war areas.\n\n49\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594360, "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": "CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949", "content_text": "# Subject: \n**WANG TIN JHU MONG ALA YA Wife LIN. VID.** \n**ANG JON 30 SAA**\n\nand \n\n## Report by: Date: \n3.I. Brooks. 18.10.47.\n\nA.2.3. B.\n\nSir,\n\nAs instructed I interviewed William Corls of the Netherlands Consulate who said he had some information on communism which he wished to communicate to us.\n\nMr. Corla is performing the duties of Immigration Officer at the Consulate and he quoted from two letters he had received from: \n1) Immigration Office, Medan, Sumatra; & \n2) Foreign Office, Batavia.\n\nThe subject of the letters concerned entirely **Banren** (Wang Yin Shu Jang Jon 3, Dutch rendering) and his wife Lin Tien.\n\nWong Chuk Yan\n\nA resume of the 2 letters were that Wang Yin Shu dang Jon Ji (Bahren) a notorious communist who left Singapore for Sumatra in 1942 became prominent after the Japanese surrender in orta matra for his anti-Dutch and Communist propaganda.\n\nHe was arrested this year by the Immigration Officers at Medan, Sumatra for not having valid immigration papers and Entry Permit.\n\nMuch prominence was given to his arrest in the Chinese Democratic League news organs in Singapore, and the Sumatra Branch of the C.P.I. presented a petition to the Governor of the N.E.I stating that although he was not a member of the C.P.I. he was closely connected with them and petitioned for his release.\n\nHe was released from custody on the 26.8.47 after signing an agreement to leave the N.E.I.\n\nWang Yin Shu and his wife Lin Yier left N.E.I. on the 14.9.47 by S.S. Van Heutz for Hong Kong.\n\nChinese Characters are not available.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-617-5 Deportation orders against Yam Shuk Wong- Kin Tse- Yui Chung- Fong Siu- Madame Lui Sze... 18-4-1947 - 25-2-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]