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        "id": 244348,
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
        "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}",
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        "content_text": "# Freip\n\nThe Junction of different departments \nof that system is defined and \neach tooth constitutes a distinct \nsystem causally related to \nHurd.\n\nThe distinctions between \nCallertatis convey to a prior Got, \nthough the Bestick \nAsiatic authority \nis a distinct threat. \nMust And His Work \nis called ... that this \nthreatened not has \naffected its \nParis diction, \nand \nit is believed \nthat the materials \naffects \nrelation of this \n... its Chinese water \n286 \nin a manner written Conndiced Inducción \ninterests.\n\nIt is quite plain that the FW: qt.K. has \nno power to hinder or prevent the Exercise of authority and that, in the case of \nCoventry with which \nhas established \nConstant Gehrering has established \nto prevent it Gymenade the relations \ndiplomatic.\n\nHe is taking a most simple response \nunexamined, \nendeavouring, \nwith the consive \ndiplomatic experience \nof Ami \nat the Mugs conference.",
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        "content_text": "## THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1870.\n\n**OPINIONS OF MORNING PAPERS**\n\nThe Bombardment of Paris. The Times thinks that \"the fury and rapidity with which the batteries at Mont Avron were overpowered was in no small measure due to the fact that the spot had not yet been armed with the heaviest guns.\" There is, perhaps, closer resemblance between the besiegers' reliance on overwhelming force and the former's pause, though the latter's mode of attack was more steady and deliberate. The besiegers, however, says the writer, were less successful. The French resistance was more stubborn and more pacific than the authors of the bombardment had expected.\n\nSeizing the Opportunity. The Standard remarks that the war has reacted on prices, not in the shape of invading armies or hostile declarations, but on the sale of champagne and other luxury goods. Your regular wine merchant has not increased his prices due to an enormous stock in hand. The war is simply an excuse for extortion.\n\nTHE COURT.\n\nOSBORNE, December 19.\n\nThe Queen and her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Macdonald; and her Majesty walked in its grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold also went out.\n\nThe Marquess and Marchioness of Ailesbury are entertaining at Savernake Forest. Burgundy, Claret, and the better growths of the Bordeaux wines have not been affected at all by the struggle now raging.\n\nTHE SEIZURE OF THE FRENCH CABLE.\n\nThe Standard says — The more closely the matter is looked into, the more egregious appears the blunder of supposing that the recent act had any bearing upon the war. The Hoegh International is a telegraph, not built or equipped for warlike purposes, but for peaceful use.\n\nTHE PRUSSIANS.\n\nThe cause of the seizure of the English vessels Duclair, &c., is divulged in a letter from Rouen to the Times.\n\nTHE WANT OF FORTRESSES.\n\nA correspondent (\"W.P.\") writing from the Army and Navy Club to the Times advocates the construction of fortifications which would deter an enemy from making a raid upon this country.\n\nTHE CONFERENCE.\n\nThe French Government is reported to be negotiating. The Nizam Government has recognised the French Government.\n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS.\n\nThe gap between Bourbaki's forces will tell whether he plans to make a dashing 'raid' on the undefended districts or whether he means to follow up Werder's success and fight wherever found. The former seems the more likely plan.\n\nTHE MILITIA ARTILLERY.\n\nThe noble Earl says:-\"I think it would be difficult to point out a more glaring instance of false economy.\" The money expected on the pay, equipments, and billets of the militia artillery might just as well have been thrown into the sea.\n\nNOTICE—HINDOO'S IL Whisky Depot.\n\nKiddaban and Co. herewith announce their New Spring Stock, S. Great Tower-street, London.\n\nSNOW MISERIES.\n\nThe misery caused by the snow fall in the central parts of the metropolis cannot be appreciated by those who live there. It is in the suburbs specially that the ordinary channels of communication are stopped up.\n\nAMERICA.\n\nNew York, December 29. Gold closed at 110; the highest quotation during the day was 110%, the lowest 110g; sterling exchange on London, 109.\n\nHOMEWARD CAPE MAILS.\n\nForcargo, December 30. The Union Company's Mailer Shawn arrived in Plymouth Sound to-day at 7 a.m., with the homeward Cape Mails.\n\nOUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.\n\nThe P. and O. Company's steamer Tanjore, from Suez, arrived at 7 and leaves at 11 this morning for Alexandria. All well.\n\nINVESTMENTS IN SECURITIES.\n\nSince Variety is charming, notably in ladies' attire, we make no apology for our notice of Le Follet. Very best colours, either plain or mixed, are much worn for covering dress.\n\nFASHIONS FOR JANUARY.\n\nColours are diversified with black, or shades of the same. Neutral tints are also tried. The velvet badges for visiting dresses are profusely trimmed with fan, jet, and feathers.\n\nSTAMINA.\n\nThe Law Times says: The death of Mr. William Brandthis is by no means a loss to the legal profession, but he was a distinguished scholar.\n\n## THE GLOBE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1870.\n\nTHIS MORNING'S WAR NEWS.\n\nThe Prussians are reported to be advancing. General von Gablenz to the 18th Division to change front to their right Bank.\n\nTHE FRENCH BLOCKADE.\n\nThe Prussians are very weak before Quarrieux, and the French artillery retreated.\n\nTHE REFUGEES.\n\nA letter from Rouen of the 26th to the Times says, with time, to the right, the village of Dar, Vau, &c., were repulsed, the greater part being killed.\n\nTHE SITUATION IN PARIS.\n\nA letter from Paris, hearing date the 28th, has been received, and the news was not encouraging. On Wednesday we received definite intelligence that General Bourbaki, who was in another part of France, had reached Bapaume.\n\nGERMAN VALOUR.\n\nA correspondent of the Times has sent here a description of the fighting at Querrieux. At 4.45 I started Quarrieux for the purpose of bringing a message to a wounded friend.\n\nARTILLERY FOR THE FRENCH.\n\nIt is stated in a telegram from Marseilles that 37 batteries of 34-pounders, and 28 batteries of 7-pounders, 300 pieces in all, are being manufactured at La Seyne and other places in France.\n\nMILITARY MOVEMENTS.\n\nThe Count of War of Bourges which was transferred to Issoudun between 1000 and 1,800 killed were found.\n\nAN EXTRAORDINARY PERSONAGE.\n\nA resident in Paris describes a woman who was wounded at Le Bourget. She was transported to Warsaw, where she joined her father in a convent boarding school.\n\nTHE BATTLE OF PONT NOYELLES.\n\nA correspondent of the Lyraph, writing from the German head-quarters at Amiens on Christmas Eve, says that the morning of the 3rd of December was bitterly cold—the frost out intense.\n\nTHE ARMIES OF THE LOIRE.\n\nA French reconnaissance from Havre. Last Friday morning (writes the Havre correspondent of the Times), M. Nucelle was good enough to send me intimation of his intention to take reconnaissance of the enemy's positions.",
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        "content_text": "## 02\n\n**THE CHINA REVIEW**\n\n...of high rank, communicating with native Mandarins by means of \"huge official envelopes, duly stamped and sealed,\" and thus, by the implied threat of political difficulties with France or the Pope, protect unscrupulous native criminals. The number is well illustrated and contains two valuable sketch maps of the districts surrounding Amoy and Swatow.\n\nWe regret to have to note in connection with this periodical the death of the Rev. Carstairs Douglas, M.A., LL.D., who was one of its principal promoters. He died since the issue of this number, rather suddenly, of cholera. Dr. Douglas arrived in China in 1855 and has ever since been foremost among the able representatives of the Presbyterian Church in Amoy. He was a first-class scholar, as evidenced by his \"Dictionary of the Vernacular of Amoy; London, 1873,\" and his various contributions to the China Review, Missionary Recorder, and other periodicals, but he was also an excellent practical worker, gifted with a largeness of heart and keenness of foresight so widely recognized that he was unanimously chosen President of the late Missionary Conference, although he was one of the principal partisans of Shangti as against Shin or Tien-chu.\n\nA complete Atlas of the two hemispheres. Second, revised, and improved edition. Canton, 1877. This is a very creditable product of native intelligence and industry and a good specimen of native block-printing. We have here three sheets, the first giving the two hemispheres, designed each with a diameter of two feet; the frontiers of the different countries are suitably coloured; all the principal names of countries, mountains, rivers, seas, etc., printed in bold type; and the available space filled up with brief notes on the usual subjects generally treated as introductory to geography. The accompanying two sheets give the most needful details concerning the political and topographical geography of each country seriatim. For a future edition of this for native schools specially valuable publication, we would recommend Mr. Leung Chu-shan to overhaul his system of spelling foreign names so as to make it uniform, to be more liberal in accepting popular terms such as 新金山 for Australia or 加利福尼亞 for California, which have once become generally accepted and are indispensable in speaking, and finally to bring up his accounts of European countries to the date of publication, including, for instance, the political results of the late Franco-Prussian war. The author ought also to state where this second and improved edition of his Atlas is for sale in Hongkong or Canton. The only reference we find is his private address, viz. 省沙基大街梁柱臣, Leung Chi-shan, Sha-ki Street, Canton.\n\n**Chinese Studies at Oxford**.—The Rev. Professor Dr. Legge, having in the course of last term given several lectures on Chinese Grammar, continued his course of Chinese instruction, during the term which is now ending, by treating in three consecutive public lectures the well-known Sacred Edict. Next term the exhibition of these sixteen maxims will be complete by one lecture, the subsequent lectures being devoted to Grammar.\n\nWe are pleased to learn that there are now a few students giving their attention to Chinese studies. The lectures on the Sacred Edict will be published in successive numbers of the China Review, as probably also the lectures on Grammar. Dr. Legge is now in correspondence with the Foreign and Colonial Offices regarding his proposal to send the Candidates for the Consular Service in China and Japan, as also the Candidates for the Civil Service in the Straits and in Hongkong, for a course of Chinese study, as unattached students of the University, to Oxford, in which case Dr. Legge will secure the assistance of a Pekingese native teacher.\n\n**SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS**\n\n**Chinese Studies in America**.—The chair for Chinese Language and Literature which is to be established at Yale College has been offered to Dr. S. Wells Williams, the author of the \"Middle Kingdom\" and of the two well-known Dictionaries for Cantonese and Mandarin Dialects. There is also a project to introduce Chinese lectures at Harvard University, without, however, establishing a Professorial chair. Mr. Francis P. Knight, formerly of Shanghai, and Chinese Commissioner of the Philadelphia Exhibition, proposed to President Eliot to bring from China one or two native teachers, who, he thinks, with the help of Sir Thomas Wade's textbooks would teach a young man, in the course of two years, sufficient Chinese to enable him to take a position of some usefulness upon arrival in China as a Consul or in connection with the Legation in Peking. A subscription has been opened by Mr. Knight to find the necessary funds, whilst President Eliot has promised the assistance of the Corporation in this undertaking.\n\n**COLLECTANEA BIBLIOGRAPHICA**\n\n| Publication | Issue | Title/Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Chambers's Journal | Febr., 1877 | A journey in Turkestan |\n| Leisure Hour | March, 1877 | Augustus Raymond Margary |\n| Leisure Hour | June, 1877 | The cup of gold, a Chinese story |\n| Leisure Hour | June, 1877 | Japanese (and Chinese) Music and musical instruments |\n| London & China Express | July, 1877 | A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect |\n| Lappincott's Magazine | June, 1877 | The Chinese at Beaver Falls |\n| The Nation | May, 1877 | A Chinese teachership at Harvard |\n| The Nation | May, 1877 | The Folklore of China |\n| The Saturday Review | May, 26, 1877 | Marks on China |\n| The Nineteenth Century | July, 1877 | A journey to China, and round the world, by Tho. Brassey, M.P. |\n| Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record | Nos. 125 and 126, 1877 | Translation of the Peking Gazette; China and her Apologist; Catalogue of the Jesuit Missionaries in China |\n| The Hongkong Government Gazette | No. 36, 11 Aug., 1877 | Civil Service Examinations, Hongkong |\n| The Friend of China | June, 1877 | Our Chinese critics |\n| North-China Daily News | July, 1877 | Mr. Giles' Records of the Buddhistic Kingdoms |\n| North-China Daily News | July 21, 1877 | A Chinese Professorship at Oxford |\n| North-China Daily News | Aug. 2, 1877 | Epitome of ancient history of Japan |\n| The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal | May-June, 1877 | Rise and Progress of the Miau-tsze |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. VIII, No. 26 | Philological diversions; From Swatow to Canton; Dr. Legge and the Conference; The Son of Heaven |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. IX, No. 1 | The Logus of the Chinese; Bits of Chinese Travel; Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. IX, No. 2 | Bits of Chinese Travel; A Mandarin Primer; List of the high provincial authorities of China |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. IX, No. 3 | Bits of Chinese Travel; A Chinese view of the Cuban question |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. IX, No. 4 | Bits of Chinese Travel; The China Review |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. IX, No. 5 | The departure of Mr. Wylie; Bits of Chinese Travel |\n| The Celestial Empire | Vol. IX, No. 6 | Bits of Chinese Travel |\n| Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes | 46 Jahrg. No. 20 | Literarisches über China and Japan |\n| Das Ausland | No. 18 | Corea |\n| Europa. Redig. von H. Kleinstouber | No. 19 | Der Theestrauch |\n| Die Grenzboten. Redig. von H. Bluhm | No. 20 | Der wahre Konfutse |\n\nThe following are the latest publications on Chinese subjects:\n\n- A visit to Japan, China and India, by R. N. Fowler, M.A. London, 1877.\n- `China, No. 2, 1877`. Report by Mr. Davenport upon the trading capabilities of the country traversed by the Yunnan mission. (Blue Book.)\n- Treaties referring to trade between Great Britain and China, by Edward Herstlet, Librarian to the Foreign Office. London, 1877.\n- The Diseases of China, By John Dudgeon, M.D. Glasgow, 1877.\n- Le Catholicisme en Chine. Par P. Dabry de Thiersant. Paris, 1877.\n- China, Erlebnisse eigener Reisen und darauf gegründete Studien. Von Ferdinand von Richthofen. Erster Band. Einleitender Theil. Mit XXIX. Holzschnitten und XI. Karten. Berlin, 1877.\n- Eine Staatslehre auf ethischer Grundlage oder Lehrbegriff des chinesischen Philosophen Mencius. Von E. Faber. Elberfeld, 1877.\n\nPage 63  \nPage 174",
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        "content_text": "# 301 \n\n## 154 \n\ncollected. The rate now discussed was to clear the drug once and for all, no matter what part of the interior it might be carried. \n\nI believed that foreign opium under these circumstances would fairly bear 60 taels; but an assertion being made in the course of the Conference that the Board of Revenue's estimate of opium revenue was a total of 6,000,000 taels, much of which was lost by smuggling, while 10 per cent. must be deducted for expense of collection, I felt bound to argue that, supposing this estimate correct, a li-kin of 50 taels would, in an average year, secure to China her 6,000,000 taels, the 10 per cent. cost being certainly saved, for the Customs would need no addition to the staff that now collects the Tariff duty; while, by a proper understanding with the Hong Kong Government, much opium would be made to pay duty which now never finds its way to a port. \n\nThe Grand Secretary Li, returning to Tien-tsin, no further opportunity of conferring with him presented itself for a time. The Grand Secretary Tso, as I have said, sent up his Memorial advocating an extravagant rate of li-kin, to be collected withal, independently of the foreign Inspectorate, at a number of central depôts. His colleagues at the Tsung-li Yamên did not understand his scheme, or did not approve it. In the provinces some of the authorities, on whom the work of collecting the impost would devolve, have affirmed that the scheme in question would largely increase smuggling. \n\nThe next incident in this history was the self-imposed mission of Mr. Samuel, an intelligent gentleman connected with money agencies, who had paid a visit to India apparently for the purpose of examining what seemed to him the defective system of remittances still in favour with the Indian Government in its regulation of opium sales. His inquiry into this matter completed, he came on to China to obtain information regarding the opium trade, not only with this country, but with the various markets which, so to speak, flank the line of communication. His scheme, by which, in brief, England was to become the sole possessor of all the opium in the world, and sole trader both with the Chinese and other markets, appeared to me, so far as revenue was concerned, to have much to recommend it both to England and China. To the latter not only would a fixed income be secured, but with Hong Kong as a terminus, and no more than a fixed quota of opium saleable at that or any other of the minor markets, there would be secured a most complete protection against contraband trade in the drug. \n\nMr. Samuel's object, as I understood him, was to attempt the regulation of what appeared to him a faulty system of remittances where the sale of opium was concerned. He had obtained a Circular despatch from the Foreign Office, instructing Her Majesty's Consuls in China to assist him in obtaining information about the opium trade, and a private letter to myself from Sir Louis Mallet, Under-Secretary for India. He had no papers to produce except these, and certainly no kind of official position; but the Grand Secretary Li, who received Mr. Samuel, without any introduction from Consul or Minister, appears to have imagined that he was invested with official responsibility. I mention this merely because his visit was productive of a singular result to which I shall come presently. Mr. Samuel's own scheme was not viewed with disfavour by his Excellency Li, any more than by myself, to whom he communicated it a few days later. I did not immediately speak of it to the Tsung-li Yamên, for I regarded it simply as the suggestion of a private speculator, which I had, so far, no right to suppose that Her Majesty's Government would even take into consideration. \n\nI said nothing either, for the time, of a second proposition with which Mr. Samuel acquainted me, but not as proceeding from himself. A Chinese of Canton had consulted him in the South upon the possibility of creating a vast opium monopoly, of which Hong Kong was to be the headquarters. The projector of this scheme subsequently addressed himself to me, through Sir John Hennessy, Governor of Hong Kong. I gave it no sort of encouragement. Even if its Chinese sponsors have the capital they profess to have, I should regard their enterprise with extreme mistrust unless it were placed under foreign control in such proportions as would speedily disgust the native directors. If it were left to the latter, unused as the Chinese are to operations of such magnitude, should look for the same unlimited confusion that unhappily besets other branches of financial administration in this country. I am further mistaken if such a reproduction of the old Co-Hong, condemned to death by the Treaty of 1842, did not find that, should it prosper, it would, like its predecessor, be made to pay a preposterously high fee for the privilege of existing at all. Nor would the fact of its establishment in Hong Kong be the smallest security against exaction of the kind, so long as the families of the Chinese interested were resident, as they must be, in their own districts. But it is not necessary to enlarge much on this project. It has found favour neither in the provinces nor at the capital. \n\nNow to come to the result of Mr. Samuel's mission, as it was regarded by his Excellency Li. The Grand Secretary was forthwith urged, as I have since learned, by his foreign advisers, at once to use Mr. Samuel's supposed mission as a precedent, and to dispatch, independently, an Agent to India. An intelligent Chinese officer, by name Ma Kieh-chung, formerly attached to the Chinese Legation in Paris, was the Agent chosen, a gentleman of whose fitness for the purpose, let me say, I am fully satisfied. Had the Grand Secretary, with whom my relations are most friendly, applied to me, I should have had the greatest pleasure in giving his Agent letters to the Viceroy of India. \n\nMa-taotai returned well pleased with his reception. His prescribed object had been not only to obtain information regarding the opium trade, with a view to the regulation of the revenue derivable from it, but also to sound the Indian Government upon the practicability of gradually extinguishing its interest in the traffic. \n\nI have stated above that it is my intention separately to submit to your Lordship some remarks upon the moral aspect of the opium question. The last-mentioned proposition belongs properly to this, and I shall here refer to it no farther than by observing that I am not impugning the sincerity of a Chinese stateman's condemnation of opium-smoking, when I say that the proposal thus submitted to the Government of India did not emanate primarily, I am convinced, from a Chinese statesman at all. I do not, in the least, quarrel with the foreign adviser of the Chinese for suggesting such a measure, but I have my own reasons for believing that this was entirely the suggestion of a foreign adviser. \n\nMeanwhile, although not dropped in casual discussion on either side, final agreement as to the extent or method of the taxation of Tariff-paid opium was not materially approached, and in August 1881 I instructed the Assistant Chinese Secretary, Mr. Hillier, then on his way home, to visit the Grand Secretary Li and other chiefs of provincial Governments to ascertain confidentially their views on this and other subjects. I was satisfied that they would entertain no doubt of my earnest desire to arrive at an understanding that might be considered fair to both sides. \n\nI do not propose here to say more of the opinions elicited from these high officers than that they were, with one exception, opposed to monopoly, whether in Chinese hands alone or otherwise. To some association of foreigners with Chinese appeared especially dangerous. The general feeling was in favour of collection of Tariff duty and li-kin, the abnormal taxation, together. The Grand Secretary Li, whose larger experience makes him a more flexible financier than some of his colleagues, was not hostile to monopoly, but, on the whole, inclined to a system of joint collection, could but a rate of li-kin in his opinion, sufficiently high be agreed to. He expressed some anxiety to have a further conference with me. \n\nI was unable to leave Peking during the month of September, but, in October, as I was proceeding to Shanghae, I had an interview near Tien-tsin with his Excellency, when he was on his way to attend the coffin of the late Empress Dowager, and it was agreed that we should together attempt to conclude something definite as soon as we could again meet. \n\nTo this end I spent nearly the whole month of December here at Tien-tsin, and before leaving, I laid before his Excellency the draft of a note to the Prince of Kung, in which I reviewed all the propositions that had been submitted to either party, or considered by both; and requested His Imperial Highness to acquaint me, for the information of Her Majesty's Government, which of these various schemes (some ten or more) had the preference of the Government of China. \n\nIt will have to be considered in detail. I inclose copies of my correspondence with the Prince of Kung. \n\nBefore any first note was sent in, however; indeed, before I left Tien-tsin, I had ascertained that the Tsung-li Yamên would not look with favour upon any of the schemes that might give their fiscal arrangements the air of a commercial transaction: such, for instance, as the scheme—one of those submitted to the Grand Secretary, by which the cost of opium was to be secured to the Indian Government and revenue at a high rate of taxation to the Government of China by an Agency in India. This had been very sensibly considered by the Grand Secretary, who had gone so far as to consult me upon the appointment, in the event of such an Agency being authorized, of a certain able foreigner of my acquaintance to watch the interests of China in India. I readily promised him my vote. Failing the acceptance of anything similar, his Excellency, as my note to the Prince of Kung states, was either for doubling the Tariff duty, which would thus become 60 taels a picul, and leaving the li-kin to be collected, as in time past, by native Collectorates, or for collection of a uniform rate of li-kin at the same time as the present Tariff duty of 30 taels. The Tsung-li Yamên, as shown in the Prince of Kung's reply, pronounces... \n\n## 156 \n\nExcellency Li. The Grand Secretary was forthwith urged, as I have since learned, by his foreign advisers, at once to use Mr. Samuel's supposed mission as a precedent, and to dispatch, independently, an Agent to India. An intelligent Chinese officer, by name Ma Kieh-chung, formerly attached to the Chinese Legation in Paris, was the Agent chosen, a gentleman of whose fitness for the purpose, let me say, I am fully satisfied. Had the Grand Secretary, with whom my relations are most friendly, applied to me, I should have had the greatest pleasure in giving his Agent letters to the Viceroy of India.",
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        "content_text": "266\n\n## Board of Trade, calling attention to the Convention and Protocol in respect of the International protection of industrial property, agreed to by the delegates of the countries represented at the recent conference in Paris, and pointing out the expediency of uniformity, as far as circumstances will admit, in the legislation of the different British Colonies and possessions, both with each other and with Imperial legislation.\n\nIn reply, I beg to state that the Attorney General, to whom I referred Your Lordship's despatch, has reported that the Registration of Trade Marks is regulated in this Colony by Ordinance 16 of 1878, and grants of Patents by Ordinance 14 of 1862.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nW. H. Bowen",
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        "content_text": "Magisterial Synopsis, Vol. II page 901, and in several previous cases where persons were charged with having stolen property and gave references to persons from whom they received the same, the Judges have stated that such persons should be sent for and examined with the view of exonerating or contradicting the accused. 30 and 31 Vic. C. 35 § 8 directs Justices in England to ask prisoners whether they have witnesses, and directs their examination and to be placed under recognisances like witnesses for the prosecution. Prisoners committed for trial are by local Ord. almost on the same terms as in Jervis' Act, to be informed that if they wish to make a statement they may do so, but that it will be taken down in writing and may be used in evidence, and although the Act of 30 and 31 Vic. has not been formally made law here yet the practice has been to allow prisoners to call witnesses as “meet and conducive to the ends of Justice.\" In his argument the learned counsel called our attention to Clarke's work on extradition and the rules of practice in different countries. At page 177 the learned author states in reference to English practice that \"when the fugitive is apprehended he is brought before the Police Magistrate, who hears the case in the same manner, and has the same jurisdiction and powers as near as may be as if the prisoner were charged with an indictable offence committed in England,\" and he may receive evidence to show that the offence is a political one and not an extradition crime. The writer then proceeds to discuss the question as to the duty of the Magistrate to receive evidence for the prisoner. He cites various opinions, and gives the views of the late Lord Cairns, who referred to the minutes of a Conference held at Paris wherein it was stated that a prisoner brought before a magistrate would be entitled to deny his identity with the person named in the warrant. Lord Cairns stated “that as to an accused person being precluded from entering into any other defence than a denial of his identity he differed entirely from that view, for he apprehended that it would be quite open to him to produce any evidence in his power to controvert the allegations made in the depositions.\" Clarke page 185. The writer seems to take the view that the Magistrate should only hear evidence for the prosecution except as to political offences or that the crime was not an extradition crime but with all respect to the learned author we think that the English practice and the demands of justice are in accord with Lord Cairns' view and his view that was announced by this Court in 1831. See judgment of the late Mr. Justice Snowdon, 18th Nov., 1831. From the form of warrant of committal under the Extradition Act of 1870 it would appear that the prisoner is brought before the Magistrate \"to show cause why he should not be surrendered in pursuance of the Extradition Act 1870, on the ground of his being accused of...\n\nand for as much as no sufficient cause has been shown to me why he should not be surrendered in pursuance of the said Act: This is therefore, &c.\" In Oke's Magisterial Synopsis 898, in the footnote 29, dealing with indictable offences, the author cites Mr. Justice Bagley in Cox v. Coleridge as saying \"I think that a Magistrate is clearly bound in the exercise of a sound discretion not to commit any one unless a prima facie case is made out against him by witnesses entitled to a reasonable degree of credit.\" Justices ought not therefore to balance the evidence and decide according as it preponderates, for this would in fact be taking upon themselves the functions of a petty jury and be trying the case. They should consider whether or not the evidence makes out a strong, or probable, or even a conflicting case of guilt. In any one of such cases they should commit the accused for trial. We think the above gives the true rule for dealing with extradition cases here, and the Magistrate should ask himself if the offence had been committed within this jurisdiction, should he commit for trial at the Supreme Court. If so he should commit under the Ordinance, and thus enable the Governor to carry out the treaty obligation. The Magistrate after investigating the case,\n\nOn the other hand, if as he does an indictable offence, comes to the conclusion that there is no probable cause for believing that the person before him committed the crimes charged, then he should not put it in the power of the Governor to deliver him up if he thought fit, but discharge him. It seems to us from a careful perusal of the documents before us that the sitting magistrate interprets prima facie case, and \"probable cause\" to mean evidence on one side—and on one side alone—but that is too narrow a meaning to put upon those terms. There may be a conflict of testimony and yet a prima facie case, or probable cause. The Magistrate refused evidence for the prisoner apparently because of some order or other that he got from the Executive Government. He does not, from the information before us, appear to have refused it of his own sense of right, and we think that in result, from whatever cause, an injustice has been done to the prisoner by the refusal of the evidence on his behalf pressed on the Magistrate. Mr. Justice Snowden in the case already cited stated that in the depositions there was no statement that the accused were called on to plead. Above all it does not appear that they were asked what they had to say in their defence although they might have been able to show beyond doubt, either mistaken identity or an alibi, or some defence within the province of the Magistrate to hear. No opportunity was afforded them to do so\". These observations we think are in accordance with justice and the present case is much stronger, for it appears that there were eight witnesses in attendance and tendered on behalf of the prisoner, and whether their evidence was worth anything or nothing in our judgment they should have been examined. On the evidence before the Magistrate there was sufficient grounds for committing the prisoner if he believed the witnesses. There was also sufficient evidence that he was a Chinese subject. For the reasons given above we think the warrant had on the face of it, and that the prisoner ought not to have been committed without being allowed to make any defence, and the Governor thus authorised if he thought fit to deliver Laung Afu to the Chinese Authorities. The deportation to another country for trial is a severe penalty in itself\" says Sir Edward Clarke at page 190 of his work on Rendition, and we think that justice requires the putting in force of the maxim audi alteram partem in rendition cases as well as in other matters. The prisoner is discharged.\n\nPage 202",
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        "content_text": "## \nHe then goes on to quote from the warrant of committal: \"Whereas it hath appeared to me a Magistrate for the said Colony, is a subject of China and that there is probable cause, &c.,\" and asks if this form is sufficient—and cites Baron Parke's Judgment, Ex. Chamber, in Howard and Grossett. 10, Q.B., at p. 411-452. Paley Conviction 182: \"In the case of special authorities given by Statutes to Justices or others acting out of the ordinary course of Common Law, the instruments by which they act, whether warrants to arrest, commitment orders, convictions or inquisitions ought, according to the course of decision, to shew their authority on the face of them by direct averment or necessary intendment.\" Mr Justice Snowden goes on to say: \"Of course greater nicety is required in the case of summary conviction, and where the commitment is in execution, than where prisoners are remanded or committed to prison for further disposal only.\" He further states that he is of opinion that in cases of rendition the accused are entitled to the protection of every formality the law throws around them, and that it is the duty of this Court before whom they claim their discharge to see that there has been no shortcoming in this respect.\n\nIn Paley on Convictions, pages 201 and 202, it is stated that the conviction must likewise specify the time and place of committing the fact complained of. The precise day need not be named if the fact be alleged to have happened between such and such a day—see also 2 Hawkins, c. 25, sec. 82. It is quite true, as Mr Francis pointed out, that Jervis' Acts have not been made the law of the Colony, and that so far as indictable offences are concerned the procedure would be in strict law according to 7 Gen. IV, c. 61. Jervis' Acts became law in England in 1849, and introduced certain changes which are pointed out in Stephens' History of the Criminal Law of England. But Sec. 1 of 7 George IV, c. 64, after describing how persons are to be examined in indictable offences with the view to commitment, indicates that evidence may be adduced by the accused—or such evidence shall be adduced on behalf of the prisoner charged, &c. 'Provided however that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require any such Justice or Justices to hear evidence on behalf of any person so charged as aforesaid unless it shall appear to him or them to be meet and conducive to the ends of Justice to hear the same.' Now Ord. 2 of 1850 directs that the magistrate shall investigate rendition cases as he would indictable offences.\n\nIn 1849 Lord Denman, C. J., said that where a person charged with felony has witnesses in attendance at the time of the examination before the magistrate they should then be examined if the prisoner wishes it. See Oke's Magisterial Synopsis, Vol. II, page 901, and in several previous cases where persons were charged with having stolen property and gave references to persons from whom they received the same the Judges have stated that such persons should be sent for and examined with the view of exonerating or contradicting the accused—3 & 3! Vic., c. 35 § 3. directs Justices in England to ask prisoners whether they have witnesses and directs their examination and to be placed under recognisances like witnesses for the prosecution. Prisoners committed for trial are by local Ord. almost in the same terms as in Jervis Act, to be informed that if they wish to make a statement they may do so, but that it will be taken down in writing and may be used in evidence, and although the act of 30 and 31 Vic. has not been formally made law here yet the practice has been to allow prisoners to call witnesses as 'meet and conducive to the ends of Justice.'\n\nIn his argument the learned counsel called our attention to Clarke's work on extradition and the rules of practice in different countries. At page 177 the learned author states in reference to English practice that when the fugitive is apprehended he is brought before the Police Magistrate, who hears the case in the same manner, and has the same jurisdiction and powers as near as may be as if the prisoner were charged with an indictable offence committed in England, and he may receive evidence to show that the offence is a political one and not an extradition crime.\n\nThe writer then proceeds to discuss the question as to the duty of the Magistrate to receive evidence for the prisoner. He cites various opinions, and gives the views of the late Lord Cairns, who referred to the minutes of a Conference held at Paris wherein it was stated that a prisoner brought before a magistrate would be entitled to deny his identity with the person named in the warrant, stated that as to an accused person being precluded from entering into any other defence than a denial of his identity he differed entirely from that view, for he apprehended that it would be quite open to him to produce any evidence in his power to controvert the allegations made in the depositions.\" Clarke page 185. The writer seems to take the view that the Magistrate should only hear evidence for the prosecution except as to political offences—or that the crime was not an extradition crime—but with all respect to the learned author we think that the English practice and the demands of justice are in accord with Lord Cairns' view and the view that was announced by this Court in 1881. See judgment of the late Mr Justice Snowden, 18th Nov., 1881.\n\nFrom the form of warrant of committal under the Extradition Act of 1870 it would appear that the prisoner is brought before the Magistrate to show why he should not be surrendered in pursuance of the Extradition Act 1870, on the ground of his being accused and forasmuch \"no sufficient cause has been shown to me why he should not be surrendered in pursuance of the said Act: This is therefore, &c.\" In Oke's Magisterial Synopsis, 899, in the footnote 29, dealing with indictable offences, the author cites Mr Justice Bayley in Cox v. Coleridge as saying \"I think that a Magistrate is clearly bound in the exercise of a sound discretion not to commit any one unless a prima facie case is made out against him by witnesses entitled to a reasonable degree of credit.\" Justices ought not therefore to balance the evidence and decide according as it preponderates, for this would in fact be taking upon themselves the functions of a petty jury and be trying the case. They should consider whether or not the evidence makes out a strong or probable or even a conflicting case of guilt. In any one of such cases they should commit the accused to trial.\n\nWe think the above gives the true rule for dealing with extradition cases here, and the Magistrate should ask himself if the offence had been committed within this jurisdiction, should he commit for trial at the Supreme Court. If so he should commit under the Ordinance, and thus enable the Governor to carry out the treaty obligation. On the other hand, if the Magistrate after investigating the case, as he does an indictable offence, comes to the conclusion that there is no probable cause for believing that the person before him committed the crimes charged, then he should not put it in the power of the Governor to deliver him up if he thought fit, but discharge him.\n\nIt seems to us from a careful perusal of the documents before us that the committing Magistrate interpreted prima facie case, and 'probable cause' to mean evidence on one side—and on one side alone—but that is too narrow a meaning to put upon those terms. There may be a conflict of testimony and yet a prima facie case, or probable cause. The Magistrate refused evidence for the prisoner apparently because of some order or other that he got from the Executive Government. He does not, from the information before us, appear to have refused it of his own sense of right, and we think that in result, from whatever cause, an injustice has been done to the prisoner by the refusal of the evidence on his behalf pressed on the Magistrate. Mr. Justice Snowden in the case already cited stated that in the depositions there was no statement that the accused were called on to plead. Above all it does not appear that they were asked what they had to say in their defence although they might have been able to show beyond doubt, either mistaken identity or an alibi, or some...\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "Confidential.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. 42136\n\n327\n\n1 DEC 04. Colonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHongkong, 8th September, 1904.\n\nI am directed to transmit to you for the consideration of the Chamber of Commerce the enclosed copy of a Despatch from His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris giving cover to an international Sanitary Convention drafted at a Conference held at Paris in November and December last, together with copy of the Report of the British Delegates at the Conference.\n\nI am also to enclose translation of the principal clauses of the Draft Convention.\n\n2.\n\nThe principal advantage that would accrue to this Colony by joining the new Convention would flow from the reduction of the incubation period of Plague from 10 days (as under the existing Convention) to five days.\n\nThe results of this reduction are set out in the first paragraph of Section E of the report of the British Delegates.\n\nIt is obvious that such reduction would greatly benefit shipping frequenting this Port.\n\n3.\n\nOn the other hand the only provisions of the Convention, compliance with which presents difficulties, are the following:-\n\nDestruction of Rats: Under Part I Chapter II Section 8 and Articles 21 (6) 22, 23, 24 (1 & 2).\n\nThis question is discussed on page 8 of the Report.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nChamber of Commerce.",
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        "content_text": "## Commerce de l'Opium en Chine!\n\n`REGE 9 APR 07`\n\nL'Ambassadeur des Etats Unis à Paris a saisi le Gouvernement de la République d'une proposition tendant à soumettre la question de l'Opium à une Conference Internationale ou à le faire examiner par des délégués des Puissances intéressées dans le but d'arriver à la suppression du trafic de l'opium. Pareille démarche a dû être faite auprès du Gouvernement Britannique et l'Ambassadeur de France serait heureux de connaître l'accueil qui a été réservé à la proposition des Etats Unis.\n\nLa question de l'opium et de son dérivé, la morphine, a déjà été l'objet de plusieurs échanges de vues entre le Foreign Office et cette Ambassade, qui mentionnaient comme nécessaire la coopération loyale de la Chine à la suppression du commerce de l'opium. Les mesures adoptées à cet effet par le Gouvernement Chinois auraient été jugées satisfaisantes par le Ministre des Etats Unis à Pekin; le Ministre de France, Monsieur Rapt, critique les mêmes mesures qui paraissent insuffisantes.",
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        "content_text": "## (This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\n309\n\n2\n\nbridges, and rolling-stock, it is probable that the total cost of the line will not fall far short of 6,000,000l.\n\nThis is a great deal more than such a railway ought to have cost; indeed, it is an open secret that there has been not a little gaspillage, to use no stronger term. Some affirm that the French have been the less careful to keep down expenses, because they desired to put it beyond the power of China to repurchase the line, or, if, per impossibile, the latter did raise the money for repurchase, because they looked to China to pay the piper. Since the Peking Government would expect Yunnan to provide the greater part, if not the whole, of the purchase price; since France is not likely to ask less than 6,000,000l.; and since Yünnan, unaided, could hardly raise a tithe of that sum, it would seem as if the negotiations now said to be on foot between the Chinese Minister at Paris and the French Government are not to be taken very seriously.\n\nTo return to the Reports. You will notice how even so very unimportant a question as the transference of an iron bridge from one position to another has to be submitted to the Governor-General of Indo-China for sanction. You will observe, also, the distrust felt by the Construction Company of the action of the Chinese authorities; in particular, the conviction that nothing will be done to protect the line from theft. Attention, too, is drawn to the constant landslides from which the permanent way suffers during the rains, notably in the Namhti Valley.\n\nThese landslides have, indeed, so delayed progress that for the three weeks ended the 15th September last, no rails could be laid down. Railhead is at the present time (the 24th October) at about kilometre 64 above Laokai. By the 1st January next it is expected that the line will, nevertheless, be in full working order up to Lahati (kilometre 71), and will be to this extent handed over to the concessionary Company. It will, however, be noticed that a change is proposed in the site for this station (Report No. 42, section 5).\n\nThe rest of the Report needs little comment. Pi-che-tehai (Pi-se Chai) is the point where the railway descends to the Mengtzu plain, and where the customs station for Mengtzu is to be situated (see my despatch No. 11 of the 9th June last). Tche-ts'ouan (Chih-ch'uang) is the station for Mi-la-ti (kilometre 156), a plateau, 5,578 feet above sea-level, that has been suggested as a possible health resort for Tongking. Amitchéou (A-mi Chou), whose insanitary condition is deplored, is designed to be the first railway stage from Yunnan-fu—the stage where travellers by rail will have to spend the night. As regards the question of the reservation of a towing-path between the Yunnan-sen (Yunnan-fu) station and the river, I have not heard the result of M. Arnould's conference; but the land remains unoccupied. The river empties into the K'un-yang Lake (the largest of the Yunnan lakes), and if properly canalized could bring cargo-boats right up to the station—hence the importance to the Railway Company of keeping its approaches open.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)  \n**W. H. WILKINSON**\n\n## **CHINA RAILWAYS**\n## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`(40886)`\n\n**(No. 514.)** Sir,\n\n920\n\n[December 14.]\n\n**SECTION 59 JAN 08**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received December 14.)\n\nPeking, October 30, 1907.\n\nThe accompanying letter from Mr. Bland, the agent of the British and Chinese Corporation, deals with a question which is in serious need of adjustment in view of the extension of railway construction in China. The report which Mr. Bland incloses from the Traffic Manager of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway shows how that line is affected by the discrimination in favour of water-borne traffic in the matter of li-kin charges and similar difficulties are certain to occur wherever the two means of communication come into competition with each other. What is really wanted is a uniform tariff and system of collection adapted to the altered conditions consequent upon the development of railway construction, but the Board of Communications has, by the composition of its personnel, been singularly unfitted from the outset to deal with this and other pressing problems.\n\nIt will help us to furnish an answer to the continual complaints which the Chinese make about the Shanghae-Nanking Railway being an undertaking which can never hope to prove remunerative owing to the extravagant outlay in its construction. This is one of the arguments which they have repeatedly used against being obliged to embark in the Soochow-Ningpo extension.\n\nThe Shanghae-Nanking line will be the first railway in China, with the trifling exception of the Canton-Samshui line, to form a link of communication between Treaty ports, and some arrangement will have to be made for assimilating the duties charged upon goods carried by it to those levied under the Maritime Customs Tariff on steamer-borne produce.\n\nMr. Bland has submitted the whole question to the Board of Communications and asked for the appointment of a Director-General with whom the matter may be discussed and arranged, but as long as his Excellency Ch'ên-pi remains at the head of that Board there is little hope of a satisfactory solution.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)  \nJ. N. JORDAN\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\nMy dear Sir John,\n\nMr. Bland to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nPeking, October 24, 1907.\n\nHerein I send you the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Traffic Manager's Report on the question of li-kin, wherein he describes a state of affairs that seriously prejudices the railway's chances of success, and which constitutes, as he points out, a breach of the Loan Agreement. The Chinese have frequently complained that the expenditure involved in the construction and equipment of this line as a first-class railway in accordance with the British standard prevents it from being a remunerative undertaking. There is some justification for this point of view (although in the Loan Agreement this system of construction was stipulated), and they have used their grievance in this matter as leverage to obtain the abolition of the Board of Commissioners and substitution therefor of a system of control similar to that which exists on the Northern Railways. The Corporation, recognizing that control by Board of Commissioners against the will of the Chinese could only prolong a state of friction prejudicial to the interests of the railway, has agreed, experimentally, to this change, provided that it involves no infringement of the rights of the bondholders, &c. But before it actually comes into effect, I think (and I hope you will concur) that the Chinese Government should give some satisfactory proof, by remedying these li-kin abuses, that their object in desiring the change is not simply to secure Chinese control of the line, but to improve its administration. So long as they permit the... \n\n`[2768 o-5]`",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nregard to the Sainam\" compensation claim, this matter had not been officially brought to my notice, but I raised the question at the instigation of His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, who informed me that it had been outstanding a year, and that the Canton authorities had hitherto refused to discuss the claim, urging that they were not in any way liable. The Viceroy professed to be unacquainted with the details, but promised to go into the matter and give his decision in a week.\n\nIt will be observed that during the discussion his Excellency alleged that many of the British vessels pirated were really owned and run by Chinese, and that I informed him that the matter would be gone into. The Regulations for registration of launches under the British flag by His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton had already been occupying my attention, and the result of my inquiries, together with my remarks thereon and proposals for the revision of the Regulations, are given in Inclosure 7.\n\n5. On the following day the conference on board the \"Alacrity\" the Viceroy's despatch of the 21st November (Inclosure 4) was received. I discussed with His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General what steps should be taken in view of his Excellency's refusal to agree to the placing of the four fast launches under Customs control.\n\nThe opposition of the Customs officials themselves to this scheme gave the Viceroy a very strong position in refusing to agree to it. His motives in doing so were probably two-fold: in the first place, he no doubt resented foreign interference in the police duties of the Provincial Government, and in this he had popular opinion to consider, which in Canton is distinctly anti-foreign; and, in the second place, he was probably infected with that jealousy of the foreign-controlled Customs Service which is developing very strongly in Chinese official circles.\n\n6. The situation required careful consideration. A mass meeting of Chinese merchants to protest against foreign interference in the policing of the Canton Delta was already advertised in the local native newspapers, and Mr. Mansfield informed me that, in view of the present feeling in Canton, any drastic action on our part might precipitate anti-foreign riots with serious consequences; also, there was the possibility of a boycott of everything British to be considered.\n\nWe both agreed that the principal point to insist upon was payment of the compensation demanded in the case of the \"Sainam.\" It was the one genuine case of the piracy of a bona fide British trader due to the inefficiency of the local authorities in affording protection to foreign trade in the waterways.\n\n33\n\n7. Two courses of action were open to us. Either to increase our patrol service forthwith, first acquainting the Viceroy of our intention to do so, or to inform him that, if he would meet the \"Sainam\" claim, action on our part would be deferred until the result of his proposed measures was seen. If we could carry the \"Sainam\" claim to a successful issue, and so obtain an admission from the local authorities of their liability for such outrages, a valuable point would be gained. As in a matter which touched their pockets, they would no doubt take every precaution that such a case should not occur again.\n\n8. Before acting I decided to ascertain the views of His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, and telegraphed to him accordingly. His reply (vide Inclosure 5) was received the next day, and the Consul-General, being of opinion that it would carry more weight if I addressed the Viceroy direct, I forwarded to the latter the despatch of which a copy is given as Inclosure 6, and I informed their Lordships of the action taken (telegram No. 105).\n\n9. Pending the Viceroy's decision in the matter I returned to Hong Kong to make the necessary preliminary arrangements for increasing our patrol. With reference to their Lordships' telegram (No. 126), received the 24th November, the action proposed in my submission of the 29th September, 1907, will be taken, should the Viceroy decline to meet the \"Sainam\" claim.\n\n10. In conclusion, I cannot refrain from remarking that, should this action become necessary, it would have afforded me more satisfaction to feel that we are taking it entirely in the interests of genuine British traders, and not that it has been forced upon us mainly for the protection of passenger launches, which are seldom really British owned, are never British manned, and in which British interests are only indirectly, if at all, concerned.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nA. W. MOORE.\n\nP.S. November 29.-Since closing the above a despatch from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton (vide Inclosure 8), transmitting the Viceroy's reply to my letter of the 23rd instant, has reached me, and I am now requesting Mr. Mansfield\n\n3\n\nto inform his Excellency of my intention to increase our patrol of the Canton Delta and West River (Inclosure 12).\n\nFurther details of action taken will be forwarded by next mail.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nRegulations for Policing the West River,\n\nA. W. M.\n\n(Translated from the Chinese text forwarded by the Viceroy of Canton.)\n\n1. Provision of additional Fast Cruisers.\n\nTHE waterways comprised within the limits of the West River begin in the district of Feng Chuan and extend as far as the Canton River, covering a distance of some 230 miles. Nineteen launches have hitherto been employed to patrol the upper and lower divisions of these waterways in sections. These launches are, however, deficient in horse power, and have been unable in many cases of piracy to overtake and capture the pirates. It is therefore proposed to provide four fast shallow-draught cruisers having a speed of at least 12 miles an hour or 40 Chinese li. Two of these cruisers will be apportioned to the upper division of the West River waterways and two to the lower. They will be constantly engaged in patrol work night and day, and, except in a special emergency, when they may be wanted for military operations, they shall not be detached for any other purpose, but shall be specially commissioned for the prevention of piracy.\n\n2. Scheme by which the old launches Patrolling the various Sections shall work in pairs.\n\nNineteen launches have hitherto been employed in the patrol of the sections of the upper and lower divisions of the waterways. The upper division begins at Feng Ch'uan and extends as far as Chao Ching Ch'eng, a distance of about 100 miles. This division is at present patrolled in sections by eight gun-boats, viz.: \"Hai Feng,\" the \"Hsi Ning,\" the \"Hai Ching,\" the \"Hai Chien,\" the \"Hsi Te,\" the \"Hsi An,\" the \"Hai Ting,\" and the \"Kung Chi.\" The lower division, from Chao Ch'ing to Chu Tou Shan, 130 miles in extent, is policed by eleven gun-boats, viz.: the \"Kung Wu,\" the \"Li Chi,\" the \"Hsi Hsing,\" the \"Hsi Hai,\" the \"Hsi Chiang,\" the \"Hsi Ming,\" the \"Hsi Shan,\" the \"Hsi Shun,\" the \"Hsi Hai,\" the \"T'ai Chi,\" and the \"Pao Chieh.\" Owing, however, to the small number of soldiers carried by these gun-boats they are unable to detach men to follow up pirates making good their escape on shore. The arrangement now proposed, therefore, is to make these gun-boats work sections in pairs, and to place them under the direction of the two new cruisers in whose division they are. By this system the soldiers on the gun-boats will be able to unite their strength.\n\n3. Number of times Sections will be Patrolled by Gun-boats.\n\nThe upper and lower divisions of the West River waterways cover distances of about 100 and 130 miles respectively. The new cruisers having a speed of 12 miles an hour, will therefore be able to traverse their divisions twice in the day. Thus each division having two cruisers will be traversed throughout its length by these cruisers four times a day. The old launches, whose speed varies from 4 miles to 7 miles an hour, will also patrol their respective sections twice in the day. It follows, therefore, that with the two new cruisers and two of the old launches, any particular section of a division will be patrolled throughout its length by each pair four times in the day—that is to say, eight times a day by the two pairs together. The Regulations governing patrol gun-boats will, as heretofore, be adhered to, and gun-boats will enter in their log-books particulars of the point from which they started and of the place where they stopped. They will also enter the names of other patrol launches signalled by them, and of any trading launches they may pass, with times and places. These log-books must be sent in for inspection every month as a safeguard against abuses.\n\n15",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nNote by French Foreign Office.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to state that the Chinese Government is determined in its effort to prohibit the use of opium, but, not understanding the method of investigation which would be pursued by the Commission, my Board could not conveniently assent to the proposal before. Now, however, we have read Excellency's second note, in which your Government's proposal is clearly explained.\n\nMoreover, your Excellency called at the Foreign Office on the 19th instant and explained that after the method of investigation shall have been agreed upon by the Commissioners, each Government will itself make the investigation within its own territory. This is the general plan as my Board understands it, and to this proposal we can consent. We will select and appoint a competent Commissioner, and when all the Commissioners together have decided upon the method of investigation and pursued, China herself will carry out the investigation in all the provinces.\n\nIt becomes my duty to send this note to your Excellency for your information, and I request that you will forward this reply to the Department of State.\n\n(Seal of the Wai-wu Pu)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nHerr von Tschirschky to Mr. Eddy.\n\nImperial German Ministry for Foreign Affairs.\n\nMarch 28, 1907.\n\nIn reply to the note of the 27th February, 1907, the Undersigned has the honour to inform Mr. Spencer Eddy, Chargé d'Affaires of the United States of America, that the Imperial Government is very willing to accept the invitation of the United States to take part conjointly with the Governments of the United States, Britain, France, Holland, China, and Japan, in a Conference for the investigation of the opium question and the opium trade in Eastern Asia.\n\nFurther, if it should be deemed more practical, the Imperial Government would be willing to appoint a Commission to study the opium question and to investigate proposals, or it would name a Commissioner to take part in a united action.\n\nThe Undersigned, while desiring to be informed as to how the proposals of the United States have been received by the other Powers, avails, &c.\n\nVON TSCHIRSCHKY.\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nParis, le 3 Juillet, 1907.\n\nInclosure G in No. 1.\n\nViscount Hayashi to Mr. Wright.\n\nDepartment of Foreign Affairs, Tókið,\n\nMarch 27, 1907.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nAmbassadeur,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note under date of the 8th instant, stating to the effect that the inquiries made by the United States Government towards the end of last year about the views of the Imperial Government and of the British Government, relative to the limitation and suppression of the opium traffic, having elicited favourable replies from these Governments as to the question.\n\nM. van Goudriaan to Mr. Hill.\n\nle 11 Mai, 1907.\n\nPOUR faire suite à ma lettre du 27 Mars dernier, j'ai l'honneur de porter à la connaissance de votre Excellence que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté la Reine est d'avis que la nomination d'une Commission Internationale serait préférable à la réunion d'une Conférence pour étudier la question de l'opium en Extrême-Orient.\n\nVeuillez, &c. (Signé) VAN TETS VAN GOUDRIAAN\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nM. van Goudriaan to Mr. Hill.\n\nMinistère des Affaires Étrangères, La Haye,\n\nle 27 Mars, 1907.\n\nEN réponse à la lettre de votre Excellence du 14 Février dernier, j'ai l'honneur de porter à sa connaissance que le Gouvernement de la Reine est disposé à coopérer de la manière indiquée à l'institution d'une enquête par rapport au commerce et la consommation de l'opium en Extrême-Orient.\n\nIl procédera à la nomination d'un Délégué à la Conférence mentionnée par votre Excellence, ou bien à l'indication d'un membre dans une Commission éventuelle dès qu'il sera décidé de quelle manière l'enquête se fera.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\nVAN TETS VAN GOUDRIAAN\n\n(Signé)\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed)\n\nViscount HAYASHI,\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs.\n\n204",
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        "content_text": "604\n\nt\n\n2\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to state that the Chinese Government is determined in its effort to prohibit the use of opium, but, not understanding the method of investigation which would be pursued by the Commission, my Board could not conveniently assent to the proposal before. Now, however, we have read your Excellency's second note, in which your Government's proposal is clearly explained. Moreover, your Excellency called at the Foreign Office on the 19th instant and explained that after the method of investigation shall have been agreed upon by the Commissioners, each Government will itself make the investigation within its own territory. This is the general plan as my Board understands it, and to this proposal we can consent. We will select and appoint a competent Commissioner, and as soon as all the Commissioners together have decided upon the method of investigation to be pursued, China herself will carry out the investigation in all the provinces.\n\nIt becomes my duty to send this note to your Excellency for your information, and I request that you will forward this reply to the Department of State.\n\n(Seal of the Wai-wu Pu.)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nHerr von Tschirschky to Mr. Eddy.\n\nImperial German Ministry for Foreign Affairs, March 28, 1907.\n\nIN reply to the note of the 27th February, 1907, the Undersigned has the honour to inform Mr. Spencer Eddy, Chargé d'Affaires of the United States of America, that the Imperial Government is very willing to accept the invitation of the United States to take part conjointly with the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, France, Holland, China, and Japan in a Conference for the investigation of the opium question and the opium trade in Eastern Asia. Further, if it should be deemed more practical, the Imperial Government would be willing to appoint a Commission to study the opium question and to investigate proposals, or it would name a Commissioner to take part in a united action.\n\nThe Undersigned, while desiring to be informed as to how the proposals of the United States have been received by the other Powers, avails, &c.\n\n(Signed) VON TSCHIRSCHKY.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nM. van Goudriaan to Mr. Hill.\n\nMinistère des Affaires Étrangères, La Haye, le 11 Mai, 1907.\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nPOUR faire suite à ma lettre du 27 Mars dernier, j'ai l'honneur de porter à la connaissance de votre Excellence que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté la Reine est d'avis que la nomination d'une Commission Internationale serait préférable à la réunion d'une Conférence pour étudier la question de l'opium en Extrême-Orient.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\n(Signé) VAN TETS VAN GOUDRIAAN,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nM. van Goudriaan to Mr. Hill.\n\nMinistère des Affaires Étrangères, La Haye, le 27 Mars, 1907.\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nEN réponse à la lettre de votre Excellence du 14 Février dernier, j'ai l'honneur de porter à sa connaissance que le Gouvernement de la Reine est disposé à coopérer de la manière indiquée à l'institution d'une enquête par rapport au commerce et à la consommation de l'opium en Extrême-Orient. Il procédera à la nomination d'un Délégué à la Conférence mentionnée par votre Excellence, ou bien à l'indication d'un membre dans une Commission éventuelle dès qu'il sera décidé de quelle manière l'enquête se fera.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\n(Signé) VAN TETS VAN GOUDRIAAN.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nNote by French Foreign Office.\n\nPAR une note verbale en date du 26 Juin dernier, l'Ambassadeur des États-Unis a prié le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de vouloir bien lui faire connaître la réponse du Gouvernement de la République à la proposition du Cabinet de Washington, en date du 25 Février, de soumettre à une Conférence Internationale ou de faire élucider, par des Commissaires nommés par les Puissances intéressées, la question du commerce de l'opium en Chine, Mr. White ajoutait que les Gouvernements Anglais, Japonais, Allemand, et Hollandais avaient déjà répondu à la proposition précitée qu'ils étaient prêts à se joindre au Gouvernement des États-Unis \"en nommant des Commissaires pour étudier la question de l'opium, si la coopération de la Chine était assurée et si l'enquête à faire devait s'étendre à la production de l'opium aussi bien qu'à son importation.\"\n\nLe Ministre des Affaires Étrangères a l'honneur de faire savoir à son Excellence Mr. White que le Gouvernement de la République est prêt à se faire représenter dans une Commission Internationale d'Enquête si les Puissances intéressées y sont également disposées, si la coopération de la Chine est assurée et si l'enquête s'étend à la production de l'opium en Chine aussi bien qu'à l'importation de l'opium étranger dans ce pays.\n\nLe Gouvernement de la République estime que la procédure d'une Commission est plus pratique qu'une Conférence, qui ne disposerait pas actuellement de tous les éléments nécessaires pour formuler des règles précises, avant qu'une Commission n'ait procédé à une enquête détaillée sur la production, le commerce, l'usage, et les inconvénients de l'opium.\n\nParis, le 5 Juillet, 1907.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nM. l'Ambassadeur,\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nViscount Hayashi to Mr. Wright.\n\nDepartment of Foreign Affairs, Tókió, March 27, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note under date of the 8th instant, stating to the effect that the inquiries made by the United States' Government towards the end of last year about the views of the Imperial Government and of the British Government, relative to the limitation and suppression of the opium traffic, having elicited favourable replies from these Governments as to the investigation on the subject, your Excellency's Government have made further inquiries of the Governments of France, Germany, and the Netherlands as to whether they would join in an International Conference on the question, or whether, if another course were deemed more convenient and practical, each of the Governments would be prepared to name a Commissioner, who would undertake to investigate the subject. Your Excellency now makes a similar inquiry as to the views of the Imperial Government on the question.\n\nIn reply, I beg leave to state that the Japanese Government would have no objection to either course being taken of convening the International Conference or of naming a Commissioner, when each of the Governments above mentioned will have consented thereto.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed)\n\nViscount HAYASHI,\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### SECTION 3\n\n(No. 47.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir E. Goschen to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received April 7.)**  \n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\n## HANKOW-CANTON Railway\n\nBerlin, April 7, 1909.\n\nI had already inquired of Baron von Schoen yesterday, before receiving your telegram No. 150 last night, as to what truth there was in statement referred to in the telegram. He said that the statement was not true, but in subsequent conversation he admitted that the banks had inquired of him if the Imperial Government desired that they should withdraw from the Agreement. To this he had answered that they must act as they pleased, as the Imperial Government would not be responsible for urging them to break an engagement entered into with the Chinese Government.\n\nThe upshot of the long interview we had with Baron von Schoen was that the Imperial Government would not object in the least were the Agreement to be dropped owing to any action taken at Peking by His Majesty's Government, but that they could not exercise any pressure on the German group.\n\nI drew Baron von Schoen's attention to the report of the Paris meeting published in the \"Times.\" His Excellency remarked that he had no knowledge of a Conference held on the 1st March at Berlin, but that it did not alter the matter, since the German Government's standpoint was that they could not recommend to Germans a breach of faith with China.\n\n[2241 g-3]",
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        "content_text": "## reorganize their finances, to centralize their revenue by an increased tariff in lieu of likin, and to follow the example of other countries in providing a national coinage, a Conference such as he had suggested might doubtless prove of considerable use,\n\nI have, &c.!\n\nYour Highness,\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nDoyen of the Diplomatic Body to Prince Ch'ing,\n\nMarch 30, 1909.\n\nIN November last the attention of the Chinese Government was called by the diplomatic body to the dangers involved in an uncontrolled and unguaranteed issue of banknotes by Chinese banks in Shanghai and the Province of Chekiang, and on the 18th December your Highness replied stating that the Board of Finance was considering new regulations for the limitation and control of such issues, and that a further communication would be made when their arrangements were completed.\n\nI have the honour to enquire, on behalf of the foreign Representatives, what progress has been made in the three months which have elapsed since that date, towards giving effect to the recommendations contained in the note to your Highness of the 28th November.\n\nAt the same time I have to invite the serious consideration of the Chinese Government to the necessity of coming to a decision, at as early a date as possible, on the question of introducing a uniform coinage throughout the Empire.\n\nI need scarcely remind your Highness that six years have already passed since China engaged to take the necessary steps for the introduction of this reform, which is of vital importance to the general interests of commerce, and without which the reorganization of the national finances cannot be accomplished with success.\n\nSince, therefore, Decrees have already been issued commanding a thorough reorganization of the Chinese financial system, and the first essential towards that end is uniformity of coinage, it is earnestly urged in the interests of foreign commerce and the stability of Chinese credit, that no further time should be lost in determining on an early date for the issue of a national coinage in lieu of the numberless currencies now in use.\n\nFrom representations of the Tien-tsin Consular Body it appears that the condition of the currency there is particularly confused. The original standard, known as \"hua-pao\" sycee, 992 fine, can hardly be obtained, having been driven off the market by debased metal passing for the \"hua-pao\" standard; while the dollars issued by the Provincial Mint, which have been sent to the \"Laboratoire de la Monnaie\" of Paris for assay, show a steady deterioration in quality from year to year.\n\nThe money of the common people, the 10-cash piece, though nominally the 100th part of a dollar, stands in reality at a discount of about 25 per cent., while it takes eleven 10-cent pieces to make a dollar, and a Chinese Imperial postage stamp of the face value of 10 cents costs one 10-cent piece, with 1 copper cent added to supplement the lack of silver in the 10-cent piece, and 4 brass cash to supplement the lack of copper in the cent.\n\nThe condition of the currency is too well known to your Highness' Board to require further criticism in detail on my part; and in now addressing your Highness on the subject, I have the honour to request that the foreign Representatives may be informed as soon as possible of the date upon which it is intended to introduce a uniform national coin.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Gazette\" of March 26, 1909.\n\n**Decree and Memorial respecting Currency.**\n\nTHE Government Council (Cheng-wu Chu) have memorialized that in view of the importance of the question of a national currency, upon which they were commanded to report, it is necessary to devise a complete measure; and they therefore recommend that the Board of Finance should be directed to establish an office for the purpose of investigating the subject.\n\nThey have also memorialized the throne, reporting on the recommendation made by Ch'en K'uei Lung (Viceroy at Wuchang), that in deciding the question of a currency it is first necessary to guard against dangers, and they request that the Board of Finance should be directed to take this Memorial into consideration at the same time.\n\nBoth these Memorials of the Government Council are hereby approved.\n\n## Memorial of the Government Council reporting on the Memorial of the Board of Finance on the Question of a National Currency.\n\nThe Board of Finance having represented in a Memorial of the 4th February that in view of the importance of the question of a national currency, it is necessary to devise a complete measure; and this Council having been commanded to report upon this Memorial, after due deliberation; the Council now find that the question of a national currency demands a profound and minute study of various systems, and involves the consideration of advantages and disadvantages of an extraordinarily complicated nature.\n\nThe changes made under previous reigns in the copper coinage resulted in the continual occurrence of illicit minting, rendering uniformity impossible, and, moreover, in these days of general communication with other countries of the world, necessitating the use both of gold and of silver, the importance of the question is still greater than ever, and the differences in values still more pronounced.\n\nBut at a time when the prevailing confusion is already of long standing, it is not possible to devise at once a complete system which would inspire general confidence. In our previous Memorial upon this subject, we struck a mean between the various views of the different Viceroys and Governors, but in consideration of the fact that they did not agree on the question of value, we did not venture to form a decision.\n\nA Decree was thereupon issued appointing a period of years within which a uniform national silver coinage was to be instituted. From this it may be seen that the Throne appreciated the importance of the question, and sought to secure the general and lasting circulation of the currency rather than a momentary success.\n\nThe Board of Finance now represents that of the three questions of minting, placing into circulation and uniformity, there is still much difficulty involved in the questions of value and weight.\n\nNow the common difficulty in all occurrences is that if the touch of the coins is high they are liable to be melted down for fraudulent purposes, while if the touch is low illicit minting ensues. So the ancients, such as K'ung Ch'i, Yeh Shih, and others, advocated the liberal use of copper, together with fineness of work in turning out the coins, as the best safeguard.\n\nThough silver and copper are not the same thing, yet the principle is evidently the same. Now when Japan reorganized her currency, the Minister of Finance established a currency investigation bureau which held more than thirty conferences, and issued a compendious report in two large volumes, before a decision was finally made, and when the change was made from the old to the new system, many difficulties were experienced before success was achieved.\n\nThe Board of Finance is now reorganizing the finances of the provinces, and is occupied in establishing offices and appointing officials for this purpose. If the Board in the course of their investigations were to make a study of this question also, a means of introducing a new system would be found, and two results would be attained by the one course of procedure.\n\nThe Government Council is unanimously of opinion, therefore, that the question of currency is extremely obscure and that it is essential to gather the views of the people before a true consensus of opinion can be reached; and the Council requests that the Board may be commanded to establish a Currency Investigation Bureau, and be given a liberal period of time within which to make a searching investigation, so that by the engagement of specialists from all parts they may pass under review the whole situation before a definite decision is made.\n\nThe result of their inquiries will then be submitted to the Throne for action to be taken.",
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        "content_text": "## Instructions to Counsel to Advise in re the Hankow-Canton Railway\n\nHEREWITH are sent :-\n\n* Prints of the two draft Agreements recently settled by counsel.\n* Prints of the Minutes of meetings held between the various groups held in London on the 12th and 13th March, 1909.\n* Prints of the Minutes of further meetings held between the various groups at Paris on the 2nd and 3rd April, 1909.\n* Copy cablegram received by the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation in London from their agent, Mr. Hillier, in Peking, dated the 16th April, 1909.\n* Print of the Addis Memorandum.\n* Print of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement.\n\nAs will be seen from the Minutes sent herewith, the meetings between the various groups proved abortive. This was due to the fact that the German group, prior to the meetings and in defiance of the terms of the Memorandum and Protocol by Mr. C. S. Addis, dated the 26th February, 1909, concluded with the Chinese a Preliminary Agreement for the loan in question, upon terms which were referred to at the various meetings as Tien-tsin-Pukow terms. The terms in question appear from the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement sent herewith.\n\nThe objection to these terms is that they allow the Chinese a free hand in the spending of the loan funds, and that the only protection which the bondholders receive is that after the money is spent the accounts are audited by an auditor who is appointed and paid by the lenders. See the last paragraph of `Article 14` of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement.\n\nAt the conference in Paris, the British and French groups stated clearly their determination not, for the future, to join in loans to the Chinese which did not provide for a check or control or veto over the power of the Chinese to obtain the loan funds. The German group in Paris protested that they could not withdraw from the Preliminary Agreement if the Chinese insisted upon holding them to it without modification, but as will be seen from the Minutes of the meetings, they did telegraph to their agent in China with a view to adding the words \"and countersigned by the Chief Engineer,\" to the last sentence in paragraph 1 of `Article 14` of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Agreement. If the Chinese had accepted this modification the British and French groups were prepared to have come to terms and to have settled all outstanding points on the draft Agreement sent herewith, but unfortunately the German group were unable to obtain any reply from their agent, and the conference broke off.\n\nNegotiations have been going on since, and it is, we believe, the fact that the final Loan Agreement has not yet been signed by the Chinese.\n\n## Letter\n\ndes divergences d'opinion se sont produites lors des conférences tenues à Londres et à Paris.\n\nJe vous suis très reconnaissant des explications détaillées contenues dans votre lettre, et qui confirment, en les développant, les arguments que vos représentants, MM. Urlig et Erich, ont déjà fait valoir dans les conversations que j'ai eu le plaisir d'avoir avec eux.\n\nJ'ai le vif regret, cependant, de ne pouvoir me rallier à votre manière de voir, et je crois de mon devoir, en raison même des anciennes et amicales relations qui existent entre nous, de préciser, à mon tour, notre point de vue.\n\nCroyez bien, d'ailleurs, que les observations qui vont suivre n'ont nullement pour objet de rappeler inutilement les griefs des groupes anglo-français contre l'action du groupe allemand, mais plutôt de chercher, par une explication franche, à préparer le terrain, en vue d'une entente ultérieure que je ne désespère pas de voir intervenir.\n\nL'argument principal sur lequel le groupe allemand s'appuie repose sur le fait que l'adhésion donnée le 1 mars au Mémorandum Addis - et approuvée le 3 mars par le Consortium - ne liait pas votre groupe, tant que l'accord de principe n'était pas complété par l'entente définitive sur tous les points que la conférence des trois groupes devait discuter.\n\nSur ce point essentiel notre manière de voir diffère de la vôtre.\n\nL'adhésion du groupe allemand donnée le 1er mars engageait-elle sa responsabilité au moins morale ? Je ne puis pas un seul instant le mettre en doute. Cette adhésion signifiait la signature de préliminaires de paix, après une guerre reconnue nuisible par tous les intéressés.\n\nOr, pouvait-il entrer dans l'esprit des contractants qu'après la signature de ces préliminaires et avant la conclusion définitive du traité de paix, les hostilités continuassent ?\n\nEn ce qui concerne le groupe anglo-français la cessation de toute action en dehors de l'entente générale a été absolue. Vous en avez été informés, et la prière instante vous a été adressée de suivre la même voie.\n\nIl est certain - et personne ne le met en doute - que le groupe allemand en attendant le résultat de la conférence a cru, de bonne foi, pouvoir maintenir les propositions faites au Gouvernement chinois, bien que l'`Article 6` du Mémorandum Addis comportât expressément le retrait de ces propositions.\n\nMais si l'attitude du groupe allemand peut, au point de vue juridique, ne pas être contraire à la lettre des engagements, sa politique contradictoire devait fatalement placer ce groupe dans une situation fausse soit vis-à-vis du Gouvernement chinois, soit vis-à-vis des autres groupes.\n\nSon offre du 3 mars - d'apporter, le cas échéant, l'affaire obtenue par lui seul aux trois groupes réunis - n'atténue nullement les difficultés de cette situation, puisque vous étiez prévenus d'avance que les autres groupes n'accepteraient pas la formule de Tientsin-Pookow que l'entente générale avait précisément pour objet d'écarter.\n\nC'est cette politique contradictoire du groupe allemand, continuant la concurrence sur des bases reconnues inacceptables dans les préliminaires d'entente, qui, à notre avis, justifie les critiques que les autres groupes lui ont adressées.\n\nVous faites valoir que l'abandon de vos propositions aux Chinois vous eût placés dans cette situation inadmissible que, la conférence repoussant vos demandes, vous eussiez sacrifié sans compensation le fruit de vos efforts.\n\nCette crainte, permettez-moi de la dire, me paraît exagérée. En effet, vous étiez assurés d'avance de l'entente sur les points essentiels : l'entrée du groupe allemand dans la Chinese Central, le système de la désignation alternative de l'Ingénieur en chef, et le partage par tiers des commandes et autres avantages.\n\nPour ce qui est de l'internationalisation des emprunts, vous saviez certainement que la solution ne dépendait pas de la conférence, mais des autorités compétentes.\n\nQuant à la désignation d'un Ingénieur allemand pour tout le chemin de fer du Sze-Chouen, je pense bien que vous n'aviez pas sérieusement l'intention d'écarter de cette affaire l'influence française, ce qui aurait rendu toute entente impossible. Vos représentants n'ont d'ailleurs pas insisté sur ce point lors de la conférence.\n\nLe risque de vous asseoir entre deux chaises, comme vous le dites, n'existait donc pas. Cependant, pour employer la même image, le groupe allemand, en vue d'éviter ce danger, paraît avoir voulu occuper les deux chaises à la fois.\n\nPermettez-moi donc de vous demander quelle eût été notre situation respective si, comme il avait été proposé, la conférence se fût réunie avant l'acceptation de vos propositions par le Gouvernement chinois ?\n\nJe ne doute pas que l'accord définitif n'eût été facilement établi, et si, faute d'instructions contraires de votre part à votre représentant en Chine, vos propositions, toujours valables, avaient été acceptées simultanément par le Gouvernement chinois, vous vous seriez trouvés dans la nécessité de manquer à des engagements définitifs, et non seulement préliminaires - vos engagements envers le Gouvernement ne pouvant se concilier avec ceux contractés envers vos associés.\n\nJe connais trop bien la correction de vos procédés pour croire que vous vous seriez exposés volontairement à une difficulté de cette nature. Je crois ne pas me tromper en supposant que l'acceptation de vos propositions par les Chinois a été une surprise pour vous. Mais c'est précisément sur ce point, et non pas sur la légitimité de votre action, que les autres groupes sont en droit de se plaindre de la politique suivie par vous et qui a rendu cette surprise possible.\n\nVoilà, chers Messieurs, dans quels sentiments nous envisageons cette question. Ai-je besoin d'ajouter que je suis personnellement très affligé d'un différend qu'il n'a pas dépendu de nous d'éviter ?\n\nCe différend, j'en ai la ferme conviction, pourra avec de la bonne volonté réciproque être aplani dans la suite pour le mieux de nos intérêts communs, et je puis vous assurer que je serai très heureux de pouvoir contribuer à rétablir l'entente.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\n(Signé) E. ULLMANN.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1. \nPage 4\nPage 5",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[16896]  \n431  \nC.O.  \n17911  \nRECR  \nRec 27 MAY OS  \n\n[May 4.]\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n#### No. 1.\n\nSir,  \nMr. Carter to Sir Edward Grey-(Received May 4.)  \nAmerican Embassy, London, May 3, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my note of the 27th ultimo, and to the Foreign Office Memorandum, dated the 1st April, and received here on the 30th of that month relating to the subject of Tariff reform in China, I have the honour to inform you that my Government is gratified to learn of the readiness of His Majesty's Government to support the Chinese proposal when the time for the inauguration of such a discussion seems opportune.\n\nThe Government of the United States, on the 22nd March last, about the time of Mr. Reid's note to you on the subject, also, through our Ambassadors at Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburgh, and Tôkio, made inquiries as to the attitude of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan towards the contemplated measure.\n\nAs I informed you in my note of the 27th ultimo, France and Russia have signified their approval in principle, and on the 1st instant a telegram was received from our Ambassador at Tôkio stating that Japan, while complaining of China's failure to observe the Treaty of 1903, however, agrees in principle to the proposal and will not make its criticism a condition precedent.\n\nIn the opinion of my Government, the contemplated discussion is the first step toward securing financial reform, which must necessarily be precedent to, as well as coincident with, administrative reform, and it believes that it is particularly desirable at this juncture to welcome China's proposal and to implement the provisions of the British, American, and Japanese Treaties. My Government feels that in the suggested Conference it might be stipulated that foreign consent to the increase of the Customs Tariff must be conditional upon China's promise to inaugurate at once the desired reforms.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) J. R. CARTER,  \n\n[2274 d-2]",
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        "content_text": "# No. 21.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne—(Received October 26.)\n\n**(No. 243.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nPeking, October 26, 1903.\n\n**INDEMNITIES**. With the exception of the Russian Government, which has sent no instructions as yet, all the Powers have concurred in the proposal mentioned in your Lordship's telegram No. 163.\n\nI have been informed, in confidence, by M. Dubail, that the French Government has sanctioned the remission of the interest on the difference (see my telegram No. 230, fourth paragraph), but such a concession has, up to the present, been strenuously combatted by the German Government.\n\nDoes your Lordship sanction my taking sides with my French colleague?\n\n## No. 24.\n\nSir E. Monson to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received October 28.)\n\n**(No. 561.)**\n\nParis, October 27, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch No. 520 of the 21st October, and to inclose copy of a note which, in accordance with your Lordship's instructions, I have addressed to M. Delcassé with regard to the respective jurisdictions of the Mixed Courts of the International and French Settlements at Shanghae.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**EDMUND MONSON**.\n\n### No. 22.\n\nThe Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\n\n**(No. 174.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nForeign Office, October 26, 1903.\n\n**TIEN-TSIN-CHINKIANG Railway**. British and Chinese Corporation express surprise at the alleged desire of the German group to separate their interests from those of the British group, as reported in your telegram No. 239 of the 20th October.\n\nThe Corporation have promised us an early statement of their views which we are now awaiting.\n\nThey have had no communication from the German group since the Conference held in Berlin in March last when it was arranged to continue the partnership.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### No. 23.\n\nForeign Office to Treasury.\n\nForeign Office, October 27, 1903.\n\nWITH reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, I am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to transmit to you copy of a telegram which has been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, in which Sir E. Satow requests permission to act with his French colleague who has been authorized, in the event of the proposal put forward by the Belgian Minister with regard to the Chinese indemnity being accepted by the Powers, to forego the interest on the difference between gold and silver payments.\n\nIt will be remembered that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury sanctioned the remission of interest on annual differences between the sums paid by the Chinese Government and those properly due by them under the Protocol in connection with the proposal that the payment of the British instalments of the indemnity should be accepted on a silver basis up to 1910.\n\nLord Lansdowne proposes, if the Lords Commissioners concur, to approve Sir E. Satow's acting with the French Minister in the matter, and he would be glad if he could be favoured with their Lordship's views on the subject at the earliest possible date.\n\nI am, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**F. A. CAMPBELL**.\n\n**M. le Ministre,**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 24.\n\nSir E. Monson to M. Delcassé.\n\nParis, October 26, 1903.\n\nI AM in receipt of a despatch from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs calling my attention to the fact that the Provisional Rules which were drawn up in the summer of 1902 by the British, French, and German Consular officers at Shanghae for defining the respective jurisdictions of the Mixed Courts of the International and French Settlements at that port, have remained in force up to the present time, but that they have never been considered satisfactory, and that they were accepted, as their title implies, only as a modus vivendi until a definite arrangement could be arrived at.\n\nAs matters now stand, the British Minister at Peking reports that the French Consul-General at Shanghae has declared himself unable to send an Assessor to the Mixed Court in the International Settlement, and denies the right of other nationalities to send Assessors to the Mixed Court in the French Settlement, in which only the French Assessor sits with the Chinese Magistrate.\n\nSince the Provisional Rules with regard to the jurisdiction of the two Courts were agreed to, a Committee consisting of the British, German, and United States' Ministers at Peking, have been intrusted by the Diplomatic Body in that capital with the task of preparing a draft of amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Mixed Court in the International Settlement, and the final draft prepared by this Committee was presented to the Diplomatic Representatives for their approval, and accepted by all except the French Minister, who stated that he had asked his Government for instructions in the matter.\n\nIn June last Mr. Townley, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, reported that M. Dubail was still without instructions.\n\nM. Dubail expressed to Mr. Townley the opinion that the present arrangement would work very well if properly applied. Experience has, however, shown that difficulties have frequently arisen, and in the opinion of His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Shanghae, friction between the authorities of the two Settlements is certain to occur as long as the present conditions continue.\n\nI am accordingly instructed to state to your Excellency that, although it would no doubt be advisable that all details with regard to procedure should be settled locally, His Majesty's Government trust that the French Government will see their way to send instructions to the effect that the two Courts in the Settlements should be placed on an equal footing, that when a Frenchman is concerned in a case in the International Settlement a French Assessor should be present, and that, similarly, when a foreigner of any other nationality is interested in a case in the French Settlement, an Assessor of that nationality should be present, all cases being tried in the Court of the Settlement in which the defendant resides.\n\nI am at the same time to point out that the Provisional Regulations now being acted upon at Shanghae were, as already stated, only adopted as a temporary measure pending a definite Settlement.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**EDMUND MONSON**.\n\nPage 550  \n[1688]",
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        "content_text": "615 \n\n2 \n\nMy telegram No. 86 of the 7th May, was that, without a definite understanding beforehand as to the Szechuan Railway, the Germans would be left in a favourable position at Ichang, where the Hupei section ends, and we should not be able to compete with them for the extension on equal terms, bound as they were to the French, who were not popular politically in Szechuan.\n\nYour telegram No. 87 of the 7th May in reply informed me of Mr. Addis' views and also that a meeting of the three groups was in prospect. He was much afraid that if we insisted on further stipulations as a condition of ratifying Hillier's arrangement, the Germans would make further claims, and more especially demand German engineers on other sections of the Hankow-Canton line. He pointed out that hitherto our claim to a British engineer for the whole of that line had not been questioned by them, and that as far as French unpopularity was concerned, the arrangement dealing with the Szechuan railway would be on behalf of the Chinese Central Railways, which is a British company. You also thought that as we had secured the points to which we attached most importance, some control over expenditure, and our claim to a British engineer for the whole of the Hankow-Canton line had hitherto been admitted in the course of the negotiations, it seemed unwise to risk wrecking the agreement by insisting on further claims. You had therefore authorized Mr. Addis to make the best arrangement he could; if he found the Germans well-disposed, he could continue negotiations for a general agreement or make a definite arrangement in regard to the Szechuan line, but if it appeared that to insist upon these points now the whole negotiations would be upset, he would reserve them for future negotiation.\n\nAs you learnt from my telegram No. 88 of the 9th May, I was not altogether disposed to concur in Mr. Addis' estimate of the situation. I had had more than one indication that the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank were inclined to forget the political side of this matter in their natural anxiety to conclude the financial bargain, and I did not think that they sufficiently understood that our protests alone had stopped the Chinese from closing with the Germans during the past two months. To me, it seemed fairly certain that the Chinese Government did not intend to conclude with the Germans about the Hankow-Canton Railway unless our protests were removed. As for the danger of the Germans demanding engineers on other sections of the Hankow-Canton line, I pointed out that the Hupei section of the Szechuan Railway (which turns out to include a line from Kuang-shui on the Peking-Hankow line through Nsiang-yang to Ichang as well as one from Hankow to Ichang) was almost as long as the Hupei and Hunan sections together of the Hankow-Canton, and, there being no question at present of a foreign loan for the Canton section, it was clear that under Hillier's arrangement, the Germans obtained more than their share of engineer and material rights. Regarding the Chinese Central Railways, the Chinese knew it was half French, and as questions of engineer and material would have to be settled in the future, it appeared to me only too probable that in the absence of an arrangement, we should then be at a great disadvantage in dealing with such questions, since the Germans would have constructed their section to Ichang and would naturally do their utmost to secure the extension into Szechuan. I also thought that matters would not be improved if the question of the Szechuan extension was mentioned by Mr. Addis in the conference and dropped because he found the Germans ill-disposed, and I felt myself that, failing a satisfactory understanding about the extension, it might be better for us to retain what we had got, the Hupei section of the Szechuan line, and maintain our position and protests regarding the Hankow-Canton.\n\nOther considerations occurred to me which I refrained from adding to an already lengthy telegram. By arranging a formula with Mr. Hillier under which the loan funds were better protected, the Chinese admitted the justice of our objections to the Tien-tsin-Pukow terms, and thereby strengthened the grounds of our protest. Moreover, as with that formula conceded, there was nothing to prevent Mr. Hillier from undertaking the loans for both railways, in accordance with China's long-standing written engagements with us, I felt confident that the Chinese could be brought to consider the arrangement we were prepared to agree to, that the Germans should share equally with the French and English groups in the financial loans of both railways, and be given the engineer and material rights on the Ichang section of the Szechuan line—a generous concession on our part, and one which was made purely in the interests of an amicable settlement. The Chinese would also be specially interested in finding a solution on that basis. Our protest, which could not be ignored without serious consequences, could be got rid of; Chang's obligations to us would be met; \n\n3 \n\ngood relations with the money markets of London and Paris—an important consideration to China—would be maintained; and the Germans would be well recompensed for any assistance the Chinese might consider they had given in this matter. The Germans, too, appeared to me to have good reasons for coming to terms. A breach with the London and Paris markets was obviously not desirable; the prospects of concluding a final agreement for the Hankow-Canton, in the face of our protests, were, in the circumstances, poor; the Hupei section of the Szechuan line is little less important than the Hupei and Hunan sections of the other line; and the right to participate to the extent of one-third in future loans for the two lines is probably no small advantage.\n\nYour telegram No. 90 of the 11th May informed me that in view of the considerations suggested by me, you had arranged that Mr. Addis should hold out for an arrangement including Szechuan railways in the negotiations about to take place in Berlin, and your two telegrams Nos. 93 and 94 of the 14th and 15th May conveyed the very gratifying news that he was completely successful in those negotiations.\n\nIn reporting what is, I hope, the final stage in these protracted and complicated negotiations, I desire to place on record my sense of the obligations which His Majesty's Government owe to Mr. Fraser, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, and to Mr. Campbell, Chinese Secretary of this Legation, for the services they have rendered to British railway interests in China.\n\nMr. Fraser negotiated the 1905 agreement, which, in spite of its unavoidable weak points, has proved our main reliance throughout, and without which we should never, in face of German competition, have secured a modification of Tien-tsin-Pukow terms.\n\nTo Mr. Campbell, I am especially indebted for the invaluable assistance he has given me in watching and directing the negotiations here in all the phases through which they have passed since November last.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. 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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nTelegram dispatched to Peking June 23, 1909.\n\n**REFERRING** to your wire of the 23rd. Matter is in the hands of Foreign Office who are pressing United States' Government, Washington, to agree to conference in Europe between representatives of Anglo-German-French group and American syndicate as only practical means of settling details with a view to give effect to American desire for participation which is already conceded in principle. Paris and Berlin have been advised and urged to co-operate with British Government in arranging conference. Inform Cordes and Casenave.\n\n## 3\n\naméricains. L'un d'eux, le représentant de la maison Kuhn, Loeb, et Cie., vient d'arriver à Paris, et nous ne tarderons pas sans doute à être l'objet de démarches de sa part. Puisque vous vous êtes déjà en rapports avec nos amis allemands à ce sujet, je pense que nous pourrons nous réunir d'ici peu pour arrêter notre ligne de conduite. Croyez-moi, &c. \n\n**ST. SIMON**.\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\nTelegram addressed by the Secretary of State to the American Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, dated June 16, 1909.\n\n[Printed as Inclosure I in Mr. Whitelaw Reid's despatch of June 21 (`23469`).]\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\nTelegram to M. Urbig.\n\nJune 23, 1909.\n\n**WE** hope your Government will co-operate with ours in again urging United States Government, Washington, to agree to conference in Europe between representatives of Anglo-German-French groups and American syndicate as only practical means of settling details with view to giving effect to American desire for participation which is already conceded in principle. Have advised Hillier. Inform Cordes and Casenave.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\nTelegram from M. Urbig to Mr. C. S. Addis.\n\nBerlin, June 23, 1909.\n\n**RECEIVED** your Nos. 22 and 23 telegrams. Will see syndicate to-morrow. Meantime have made no concessions, even not in principle to Americans, and would like to know what you have conceded. Please wire immediately.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\nMr. Addis to M. Urbig,\n\nJune 24, 1909.\n\n**LIKE** yourselves, we have made no concessions. We have not had any communication with the Americans, but our Government has associated itself with your Government in intimating at Washington its willingness to accept American participation in principle, leaving details to be arranged by banks interested. Refer your letter of the 19th.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\nM. St. Simon to Mr. Addis.\n\nParis, le 23 juin, 1909.\n\n**JE** vous remets ci-joint, à titre confidentiel, la copie des instructions données, le 16 de ce mois, par le Département des Affaires Etrangères à Washington à son chargé d'affaires à Pékin, et qui résument les revendications américaines à cette date. Je vous confirme ce que je vous disais dans ma lettre d'hier, relativement à la nécessité de nous entendre de vive voix avant toute conversation avec les financiers...",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n\n## C.O. 24967\n## SECTION 4\n\n### No. 1. Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Berlin, to Mr. Addis.- (Communicated by Mr. Addis, June 24, 1909.)\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**\n\nPROPOSE to wire to Cordes as follows: -\n\nAgree to participation of Americans up to one quarter of 2,500,000l., provided that they do not participate in materials and chief engineer. Negotiations would have to be conducted through Chinese intermediation by our Peking representatives and by American legation. After an understanding would have been arrived at in principle, American Government would have to name American syndicate, with whom we have to arrange details.\n\nWire if you agree; if so, telegraph same to your Peking representative. Awaiting result of our proceedings. We are not in favour of a conference with Americans. Foregoing is the result of today's syndicate meeting. Are sending identical telegram to Paris.\n\n**REG 26 JUL 09**\n**JAL PORTLA 5**\n**CHINA RAILWAYS**\n**59** \n**[23821]**\n**[2317 aa-4]**",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[31566]\n## No. 1. Papers communicated by Mr. Addis, August 19, 1909.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n412\n\nDear M. de la Chaume,\n\nMr. Addis to M. de la Chaume.\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, 31, Lombard Street, London, August 19, 1909.\n\nI HAVE your letter of the 18th instant with an interesting enclosure from M. Casenave, for which I thank you. I trust that the enclosed telegram to Hillier, a copy of which has already been dispatched to you by wire, meets with your approval.\n\nWith regard to the inter-bank agreement now being negotiated at Peking, I believe that we are agreed as to the principle, namely :-\n| Principle | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | That we should pay our own auditors; |\n| (b.) | That the Americans should pay a quarter of the preliminary expenses; |\n| (c.) | That the American portion of the loan should not be quoted in London, Paris, or Berlin, but be limited to New York. |\n\nSo much for the principle, but I confess I do not see how the details are to be settled without a second conference in Europe. Preliminary expenses, for example, have mopped up pretty well the entire capital of the Chinese Central Railway Company. Are preliminary expenses, then, vis-à-vis the Americans, to include the cost of the survey beyond Ichang (about £4,000 to £5,000), office expenses and salaries of representatives (about £2,000 a-year) during the past five years, &c.?\n\nAgain, as regards internationalisation of the loan, it would clearly be inequitable to grant America for no consideration whatever the opportunity, which would be immediately availed of, to dump her portion of the loan upon this market. On the other hand, the British group, as you will understand, would not like to be put in the position of being held up to obloquy for having discriminated against the United States in granting to France and Germany what they had denied to America.\n\nThe whole question, in fact, bristles with difficulties, which, in my opinion, can only be properly thrashed out on this side. I shall be glad to know that the line we have taken up with regard to the appointment of engineers is in accord with your views.\n\nBelieve me, &c.\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n### Mr. Addis to Mr. Hillier, Peking. (Telegraphic.)\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, London, August 19, 1909.\n\nRE your wire of 18th, Americans must pay their own issue expenses. Their issue is limited to American market. Americans must pay one-fourth preliminary expenses. We do not propose to ask them to pay auditor. `Banque de l'Indo-Chine` and `Deutsch-Asiatische Bank` agree.\n\nIn reply to your telegram of 19th, Chinese Central Railways and French group assume that nomination of chief engineers for Ichang-Chengtu line will remain as arranged at Berlin 14th May. Please inform Americans.\n\n[2389(-1)]",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**M. de la Chaume to M. Casenave, Peking.**\n\nParis, le 26 août, 1909.\n\nNous vous confirmons notre dépêche du 14 août; si absolument impossible obtenir que Américains reconnaissent notre droit de nomination ingénieur tel que résulte accords intervenus Berlin, nous vous autorisons à conclure arrangement laissant question entière pour l'avenir.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**M. Rehders to Mr. Addis.**\n\nDear Mr. Addis,\n\nBerlin, August 28, 1909.\n\nSince writing you this morning I received a telegram from Peking, from which I learn that the question of the appointment of the chief engineer for the Szechuan section of the Hankow-Chongtu line, raised by the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), has caused new complications, so that now has occurred what I feared (see my letter to you of the 21st instant).\n\nI telegraphed you therefore as per enclosed copy, and beg to add that our Foreign Office told us quite confidentially that the Russian Government was about to interfere,\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**(Telegraphic.)**  \n**M. Rehders to Mr. Addis.**\n\nE. READERS.\n\nLondon, August 28, 1909.\n\nCordes wires that new complications have sprung up by Chinese Central claims to settle simultaneously engineer Szechuan section. This question having been agreed upon at Berlin conference, we strongly urge you not to delay final conclusion by this matter, moreover as we hear on best authority that Russian Government is about to interfere, and so threaten further to complicate matter.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\n**M. de la Chaume to Mr. Addis.**\n\nCher Mr. Addis,\n\n15 bis, Rue Laffitte, Paris, le 28 août, 1909.\n\nJe reçois de nos amis allemands et de M. Casenave deux télégrammes dont je vous adresse des expéditions.\n\nJe réponds aux uns et à l'autre suivant copies incluses, et ne vois par suite rien à modifier aux vues que vous exposait ma lettre d'hier.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\nN. DE LA CHAUME.\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\n**(Télégraphique.)**  \n**M. Casenave to M. de la Chaume.**\n\nPékin, le 28 août, 1909.\n\nAnglais soulever à nouveau la question extension Chemin de Fer Hankéou-Tchentou. Situation grave par suite de l'intervention de Russes. Insistez auprès de Londres pour que réserve la question Deutsch-Asiatische Bank agir dans la même sens.\n\n## Letter\n\neru devoir vous adresser plus tôt, car elle se borne à confirmer les instructions déjà données à M. Casenave par télégramme du 14 août et que vous faisait connaître ma lettre du même jour.\n\nEn définitive, nous autorisons M. Casenave, s'il est naturellement en plein accord avec Mr. Hillier et M. Cordès, à conclure avec les Américains un arrangement qui—\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | Ou bien reconnaisse notre droit de nomination d'ingénieurs tel qu'il résulte des accords de Berlin; |\n| (b.) | Ou bien laisse au moins complètement entière la question de nomination des ingénieurs pour les lignes autres que celles actuellement concédées et faisant l'objet du présent emprunt. |\n\nNous ne nous dissimulons pas que cette dernière solution ne fait que reculer les difficultés, et si nous nous y rallions c'est uniquement par esprit de conciliation, pour ne pas faire échouer l'affaire actuelle.\n\nPar conséquent, si vous estimez que l'on ne doit conclure celle-ci que lorsque la question des ingénieurs pour l'ensemble de la ligne Hankéou-Tchentou aura été réglée, nous entrerons pleinement dans vos vues, car c'était également notre opinion première que je vous ai exposée par lettre du 12 août, et c'est toujours la solution qui a nos préférences.\n\nQuant à savoir quel est notre sentiment sur le règlement définitif de la question des ingénieurs, je ne puis que vous confirmer mes lettres des 21 et 25 août.\n\nNous sommes disposés à accepter le remaniement des accords de Berlin et à nous contenter de un quart de la ligne, si nos amis allemands y consentent également. Mais, si nos amis allemands n'y consentent pas, nous ne pouvons prendre une autre attitude qu'eux, et nous réclamons l'exacte exécution des accords de Berlin en ce qui nous concerne.\n\nJe n'ai pas qualité pour parler au nom du comité français du `Chinese Central Railways`, et je doute pouvoir toucher MM. Caillaux ou de Biedermann avant lundi. Mais d'après les entretiens que j'ai eus avec l'un et l'autre d'entre eux ces derniers jours, je ne doute pas qu'ils n'approuvent entièrement le contenu de la présente lettre.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\nN. DE LA CHAUME.\n\nP.S.-Je viens de voir M. Caillaux et ai recueilli son plein assentiment à tout ce que je vous expose ci-dessus.\n\nN. DE LA C.\n\nand that the German Ambassador at Washington has received instructions on Friday to urge upon the United States Government to the effect that any delay by raising new questions should be avoided.\n\nBelieve me, &c.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nPage 482",
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        "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[35634]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nTOM 058\n\n[September 24.]\n\n### SECTION 1\n\nCopy of Telegram received from Peking.-(Communicated by Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, London, September 24, 1909.)\n\nAs result of conference with Chinese and American representatives, we have agreed to submit for your approval the following clause:---\n\nWith regard to article 18, such modification or extension of the provision respecting appointment of purchasing agent for the two lines as may be necessary to secure equal consideration for British, German, French, and American materials, and equal facilities for receipt of tender in the market of the four countries shall be made the subject of an equitable arrangement between director-general and four banks.\n\nWith reference to foregoing, Chang Chih Tung approves, and desires us to urge immediate conclusion of agreement.\n\nInform `Deutsche Asiatische Bank`, `Banque de l'Indo Chine`.\n\n[2413 aa-1]\n\n2\n\nOn peut ajouter que si la crainte de mettre en cause un contrat déjà signé a pu être opposée à Pékin au désir de la Russie d'obtenir dans l'emprunt envisagé une participation de 5 pour cent, un semblable argument serait sans valeur dans le cas d'une combinaison nouvelle, dans laquelle prétendraient peut-être entrer d'autres Puissances, telles que les Japonais, qui viennent de constituer un syndicat pour la construction des chemins de fer en Chine.\n\nQuoiqu'il en soit, le Gouvernement français est disposé à s'associer aux démarches du Gouvernement anglais pour l'obtention d'un contrat pour la construction des différentes lignes de chemins de fer en Chine sur la base de l'égalité des avantages.\n\nParis, le 18 septembre, 1909.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[October 2.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nREG: 25 00T 09\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**M. Simon to Mr. Addis**.-(Communicated to Foreign Office October 2.) (Translation.)\n\nDear Mr. Addis,\n\nI had yesterday a conversation on the subject of our affairs with our friends who belong to our group, and this morning a conversation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nParis, September 30, 1909.\n\nOn the other side, I must tell you that M. Ullmann has seen M. Scholler, and that the latter, while stating that he was not qualified to speak on behalf of the German group, nevertheless told him very positively that, in his opinion, the Germans will not make any concession on their share of the Szechuen if, on their side, the English did not give up something of their share of the Hankow-Canton.\n\nUnder these conditions we consider that for the present the meeting of a conference would be useless or at least premature. It would indeed have no other result but to show that nobody agrees.\n\nIt seems to us that first an application should be made jointly by the three Governments, with whom the American Government would join (and, in case it appeared necessary, the Russian Government), in order to obtain from China an engagement in respect of the extension and prolongation of the Szechuen lines.\n\nIf this were obtained most of the difficulties would disappear, and an agreement satisfactory to all would easily be arrived at. This would become the object of a conference which would then meet to decide definitely.\n\nOn the other hand, if the diplomatic steps taken towards China failed, the conference might also assemble to see if it is possible to satisfy the Americans, and in what way, or if, on the contrary, all hope to reach an understanding being abandoned, events should be left to follow their course.\n\nIn any case, however, our friends and ourselves agree that there is no occasion to convene a conference until diplomatic steps have been tried with China, and the result is known.\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs are to write to-day or to-morrow at the latest, to M. Paul Cambon, in this sense, asking him to explain these ideas to Sir Edward Grey.\n\nBelieve me, &c.\n\nSIMON.\n\nP.S.-I acknowledge due receipt of the copies of the telegram received by you from the `Deutsch-Asiatische Bank` on the 28th instant, and of your reply of the 29th, and I thank you for this communication.",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n \n2 \n\n(4.) \n\nTelegram dispatched to Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Paris, October 8, 1909. \n\nHillier wires as follows:---\n\n\"We think an Imperial Edict has been issued appointing Board of Communication (Yuchuanpu), Peking, to take our negotiations regarding Hukuang Railway Loan favourably in view of the appointment. With reference to the foregoing telegraph to us, what is the present situation? What are the prospects of conference? In the absence of information, our position is very difficult.\"\n\nWe have wired Hillier as follows:- \n\n\"Re your wire of 8th October. We regard the information as satisfactory. Re my wire of 27th September. We have abandoned the idea of convening a conference for the present, in deference to the request of the French, who desire to make a fresh attempt themselves to secure joint diplomatic action, Peking, in favour of the object referred to in my wire of 3rd September.\"--ADDIS.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[37591] \n\nNo. 1. \n\nOctober 11.\n\n36185 \n\nRECEIVED 3 NOV 09 \n\n794 \n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 11.) (No. 346.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 22, 1909.\n\nWith reference to your telegram No. 122 of the 24th July last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, in translation, copies of memoranda exchanged between the Russian Minister and the Wai-wu Pu regarding an arrangement made between the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, by which the latter cedes to the former a portion of its share in the loan for the Canton-Hankow and Hankow-Szechuan Railways.\n\nYou will observe that the Chinese Government accedes to the arrangement, provided that the consent of the French bank is first obtained, that no objections are raised by the British, German, and American banks, and that the terms of the loan agreement are preserved intact.\n\nThe Russian Minister, in handing me the Chinese text of these memoranda on the 17th instant, explained that their object was to place the arrangement on official record, and that he considered it his duty to bring it to my knowledge, in view of the stipulation making its enforcement dependent upon the consent of the British bank.\n\nI have communicated copies of the papers to Mr. E. G. Hillier, the local manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, who is also acting as agent of the British and Chinese Corporation. He sees no objection to the arrangement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Note communicated by Russian Minister to Wai-wu Pu.**\n\nWith regard to the foreign loan which is at present being arranged by the Chinese Government for the construction of the Hankow-Canton and Hankow-Szechuan Railways, China has on more than one occasion declared that, as a definite understanding had been arrived at regarding the loan, there was no basis for further negotiation, and that Russian capitalists could not, therefore, participate therein.\n\nThe Russian Government, in view of the friendship existing between our two countries, is willing to accept the view expressed by the Wai-wu Pu, and will not insist upon the Russo-Chinese Bank being named in the agreement, but they are most desirous that the Chinese Government should give a separate written declaration to the effect that it shall be permissible for the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Banque de l'Indo Chine to enter into an arrangement whereby a portion of the latter's share of the loan shall be ceded to the Russo-Chinese Bank. This arrangement should not in any way interfere with the original agreement nor introduce any modification in its terms.\n\nIf the board will carefully consider this proposal, they will see that the Russian Government has no desire whatever to obstruct the Chinese Government in dealing with this matter, but is extremely desirous of protecting the interests of the Russo-Chinese Bank and of Russian and Chinese capitalists.\n\nThe favour of a reply is requested.\n\nSeptember 7, 1909.\n\n[2471-1]",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \nNo. 41510 \nand address \nThe Under-Secretary of State, \nForeign Office \nLondon. \n\n38529 159 \nRecd 25 NOV 09 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \nhis compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the \nColonies \nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned papers \nForeign Office, \nNovember 25th 1909. \n\n| Reference to previous letter | Subject | Name and Date | Description of Inclosure |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| November 19th 33150 | Proposed Opium Conference at the Hague. | To US Ambassador November 24th | HM. Representative |\n|  |  | Paris Nov! 23. Rome So Petershing |  |\n|  |  | Hague | (Similar letter sent to |\n\n[ 12 ]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, London, to Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Peking.--(Communicated by Mr. C. S. Addis, July 13, 1909.)\n\nLondon, July 13, 1909.\n\n**(Telegraphic)**\n\nPresent position is, Anglo-German-French groups have offered Americans per cent. participation on equal terms finance, purchase of materials, and supervision both as regards Hupeh section Hankow-Szechuen Railway and also as regards extension to Chengtu when authorised, provided initialed agreement for Hukuang Railway loan is ratified by Imperial edict. On the other hand, Americans will only accept foregoing provided they receive in addition 25 per cent. participation finance materials Hupei-Hunan section Hankow-Canton line. They do not claim participation in any extension beyond southern boundary Hunan. The conference, being unable to arrive at a compromise on this point, was adjourned sine die. Neither Americans nor ourselves have any knowledge of a further meeting having been arranged at Paris.\n\nInform British Minister and your French and German colleagues.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA TRADE.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n357\n\n41444\n\nDecember 4, 1909.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n(No. 477.) Sir,\n\nMr. Carnegie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 6.)\n\nParis, December 5, 1909.\n\nON receipt of your despatch No. 466 of the 23rd ultimo, His Majesty's Ambassador addressed an enquiry to the French Government with a view to learning how they regard the suggestion of the United States Government that an international conference should be held at The Hague to conventionalise the resolutions adopted by the commission which was held at Shanghae last February to investigate the opium trade and opium habit in the Far East.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of M. Pichon's reply, stating that, as French interests in the question are much less important than those of Great Britain, though of the same nature, his Excellency proposes to adopt the same course in the matter as that taken by His Majesty's Government. M. Pichon expresses the opinion, however, that the assembly of a conference on the opium question would, in present circumstances, be premature, since only the measures taken by China herself would have any real effect in repressing the opium habit. M. Pichon proposes, moreover, to have the matter submitted to the Governor of French Indo-China with a view to ascertaining his views thereon.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nL. D. CARNEGIE.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nM. l'Ambassadeur,\n\nM. Pichon to Sir F. Bertie.\n\nParis, le 1er décembre, 1909.\n\nPAR un office en date du 27 novembre dernier votre Excellence a bien voulu me faire savoir que le Principal Secrétaire d'Etat de Sa Majesté pour les Affaires Etrangères avait été pressenti par l'Ambassadeur des États-Unis au sujet de la réunion éventuelle d'une conférence internationale à La Haye destinée à conventionnaliser les résolutions prises par la commission de l'opium réunie à Shanghaï en février dernier.\n\nVotre Excellence a bien voulu, en me faisant connaître en même temps que le Gouvernement britannique examinerait à loisir cette proposition, dont les conséquences doivent être auparavant examinées avec soin par le Gouvernement des Indes, me demander quel serait l'accueil fait par mon Gouvernement à la même suggestion qui m'a été soumise d'autre part par l'Ambassade américaine à Paris.\n\nMon département pense adopter vis-à-vis du Gouvernement américain une attitude analogue à celle qui a été prise jusqu'à présent par le Gouvernement britannique, intéressé, dans les mêmes conditions que la France, mais dans des proportions plus importantes, à ce que la question de l'opium ne soit pas posée dans des conditions de hâte illégitimes et contraires à ses intérêts.\n\nDe même que le Gouvernement des Indes doit être, avant toute décision, consulté par le Gouvernement anglais, j'estime que pour la France le Gouvernement de l'Indo-Chine est, bien plus que le Gouvernement de la Métropole, intéressé par la question de l'opium, et pour cette raison je me propose de consulter sur la suggestion américaine M. le Ministre des Colonies, qui, de son côté, ne prendra sans doute aucune décision sans avoir fait étudier la question par M. Klobukowski.\n\nEn toute hypothèse, je considère comme prématurée la réunion d'une conférence de l'opium dans les conditions présentes; seules les mesures prises par la Chine elle-même peuvent avoir une action efficace sur la répression de l'opiomanie. Il convient donc, avant tout, d'être bien certain non seulement que le Gouvernement chinois a pris les dispositions nécessaires pour supprimer partout la culture du pavot, mais... \n\n[2553 ƒ-1]",
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        "content_text": "should be assigned to the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), to be apportioned by them in equal moities between a French and English engineer. This division, though departing from the strict one-fourth division which the English directors had always held out for, did not depart so very widely but that it might be accepted, and accordingly they announced their acquiescence subject to certain reservations.\n\nIf the French directors had similarly acquiesced or would now acquiesce, the whole matter would be settled subject to the adjustment of details to be arranged in conference. Or, in the alternative, if the French directors, while refusing to accept the division proposed by the Americans, had intimated their willingness to adhere to the one-fourth equal division, the English directors would have used their best efforts with the other parties to secure this solution.\n\nFrom the\n\nThis brings me to the subject of your letter to Mr. Addis now under acknowledgment. This letter, we regret to find, raises new points on which there has hitherto been no discussion or dispute between the English and French groups. note addressed by the French Government to the American chargé d'affaires in Paris—a quotation from which is given in your letter—we gather that the French Government propose, first, either that the British group (the British and Chinese Corporation, Limited) should surrender their claim to nominate the engineer for the Canton-Hankow line, or, secondly, that there should no longer be equality of treatment between the constituent groups of the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), but that the French engineer should have, say, 800 kilom., so as to put him on a level with the American, and the British engineer should have only 200 kilom. To neither of these propositions can the British groups assent. It may be that we have misunderstood the attitude of the French Foreign Office, because it is difficult to understand why, after having expressed no dissent when the proposition was 1,700 kilom. British to 800 kilom. French, or, on the one-fourth division, 1,500 kilom. British to 600 kilom. French, they should now bring forward such radical objections when the proportion is 1,400 kilom. British to 500 kilom. French.\n\nI have endeavoured to put the position in the plainest possible language, because it requires serious consideration on both sides. If the proposition of differential treatment as between the two constituent groups now forming the Chinese Central Railways (Limited) is persisted in, the whole object for which that company was formed, viz., to eliminate competition, is destroyed, and it would be better to dissolve it and wind up forthwith. This is a conclusion which the English directors would infinitely regret, and which, they trust, may be avoided.\n\nThe points now to be considered are:—\n\n1. Whether it is possible to induce the Quai d'Orsay to modify its position, at least as regards the suggestion of differential treatment of the two groups of the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), and leaving the Canton-Hankow line British.\n\n2. Whether the French group and the Quai d'Orsay still adhere to the one-fourth division of the whole Hankow-Szechuan line, with an engineer of each nationality for each section.\n\nIn the latter case, the English directors would make one more effort to induce the Americans to accept the 200 kilom. as arranged with the Germans, plus 400 kilom. out of the deferred portion of the line. If this effort fails, and if the French Foreign Office still refuses to fall in with the American proposition, the British groups will find themselves in a difficult position, and will have to consult with the French groups as to what rearrangement should be made to meet the new circumstances.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nG. JAMIESON,\n\nManaging Director.\n\n(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46366]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to M. Cambon.\n\n[December 28.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nForeign Office, December 28, 1909. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's memorandum of the 8th instant, stating that the French group are unable to accept a share of the Szechuan line inferior to that allotted to the other groups, or to agree to any reduction in the position of the line given them by the Anglo-Franco-German arrangement of the 14th May last. Your Excellency goes on to say that the British group can, however, satisfy the demands of their French colleagues without affecting the arrangements come to with the Germans and Americans in the following manner: the Chinese Central Railway to appoint a French engineer and an English sub-engineer for their share of the Szechuan line, and the Hankow-Canton line to be placed under an English engineer, assisted by a French sub-engineer. Your Excellency adds that if the above condition were accepted, the Government of the Republic would instruct the French Minister at Peking in the sense indicated at the end of the Foreign Office note of the 24th ultimo.\n\nI have learnt with great regret the decision of the French Government to allow the slight difference between the share allotted to the American and German group and that allotted to the Anglo-French group to interfere with the settlement of the whole question, more especially as only the matter of engineers is at present in question, and I note with surprise that the Hankow-Canton line should be mentioned on an apparently equal footing with the Hankow-Szechuan line, as if the two lines formed part of one undertaking. As your Excellency will recollect, the latter has always been treated, not only by His Majesty's Government and the British group, but also by the French group, as an absolutely separate concern.\n\nIn fact, the separation of the two contracts, as a condition precedent to the French acceptance of American participation in the Hankow-Szechuan line, was laid down by the French Syndicate themselves in a letter to Mr. Addis, the chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, of the 12th August last, in which it was stated that the preferable course would be to recognise the American claim to a half-share in the loan for the Szechuan line rather than to a quarter share in the loan for the two lines.\n\nThis was subsequently confirmed by a letter, dated the 20th August, according to which the French group were in complete agreement with their British colleagues in considering that the concession made to the American syndicate should embrace the half of the loan for the Szechuan line.\n\nThe identity of Anglo-French interests was emphasized by a letter, dated the 13th August, in which the French group announced that they entirely concurred in the view that vis-à-vis the German syndicate, the Anglo-French \"Chinese Central Railways (Limited)\" should be considered as one body speaking with one voice,\" and that all attempts to represent British and French interests in the matter as antagonistic should be resisted.\n\nThe French Government seem to overlook the fact that the American demand was limited to the Szechuan line, and that they never claimed to appoint an engineer to the Canton line, the latter being the subject of a separate agreement between Mr. Addis and M. Simon of the 24th February, 1909, and concerning neither the German nor American groups.\n\nIn the circumstances, it would appear that the only solution of the question now remaining is the division of the Szechuan line into four equal parts among the four groups, with the internationalisation of the bonds as desired by the American group, and I have the honour to state that, subject to the concurrence of the French Government, I am prepared to put this proposal before the American and German Governments.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2538 ee-1]\n\n40",
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        "content_text": "151\n\nLiedeygun end of monerotab\n\nand al bedastojak #Tavoʻl eds\n\nyasinties avizstarot a to vew ye\n\n#\n\nA Pug 477 et end yo niles ad ddgie\n\nTO\n\nto UNOPITY\n\nLetenni pedaarodnt edg\n\nved loan jutro arli beibute\n\nnelte edi og\n\n00021stnoj\n\ntutelaerong produlos nivo\n\nnu bevind asiaalforoo Leid\n\n43.00730 innoiJacvodnj\n\nTrend Dilates to a\n\n2100016 Tuonud eduj syndi\n\nJaponora wis bedrepor aved\n\n20 Creiztraud lord pataisos van bes\n\nsuretetirav adt\n\n{ fundo ayza ei riaer sidemoval Á\n\nfrom Austria-Hungary; also from Turkey. The French\n\nGovernment has informed the Department of State that their\n\nForeign and Colonial Offices are in consultation in regard\n\nto the tentative programme submitted in the circular pro-\n\nposal communicated to His Majesty's Government on the 23rd\n\nof September last, and it is expected that a favourable reply\n\nwill be received in a short time from Paris. The Netherlands\n\nGovernment has expressed the wish that the Conference be\n\nheld at The Hague, and is now awaiting notification from\n\nthis Government as to the adhering Powers to enable it to\n\nsend out the necessary invitations to the Conference.\n\nIn order to enable my Government to consult the inter-\n\nested Powers as to the most suitable date for the convening\n\nof the Conference and to inform the Netherlands Government\n\nthereof so that it may issue the necessary invitations, the\n\nGovernment of the United States would be highly gratified\n\nto learn that His Majesty's Government is prepared to accept\n\nthe American proposal.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(Signed) Whitelaw Reid.\n\n*Sir F. Cartwright informed by Austro-Hungarian Government\n\non June 11th/10 that neither Austria nor Hungary intended to take part in the Conference,\n\nF.O.\n\n14/6",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n1\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[20713]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[June 10.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n207\n\nSir,\n\nMr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 10.)\n\nAmerican Embassy, London, June 8, 1910.\n\nIN your note to Mr. Carter, dated the 14th March, 1907, it was stated that in the opinion of His Majesty's Government procedure by way of commission would seem better adapted than a conference for an investigation of the facts of the opium trade and of the consequences of the opium habit in the Far East; but that if the other Powers consulted would prefer procedure by way of a conference, His Majesty's Government had no desire to press their views in regard to a commission.\n\nIn view of the aforesaid note, my Government could not but feel that His Majesty's Government were at that time favourable to the meeting of a conference to settle the question of the production of opium in China as well as the importation of foreign opium to that country. However, in deference to the suggestion of His Majesty's Government that the Powers interested in the opium question should proceed by way of a commission preliminary to any action which might be taken by the Powers jointly or severally, the Government of the United States proposed such a commission to the interested Powers. That commission met at Shanghae and studied the opium problem not only as seen in the Far East, but in its widest bearings. Based on the findings of the commission, my Government on the 1st September last proposed a conference to the interested Powers which should give to the main salutary propositions of the Commission and the essential corollaries derived therefrom the force of law and international agreement.\n\nAs of possible interest to His Majesty's Government, I have the honour to inform you that the following Governments have accepted the proposal of the United States Government, and have declared their intention of sending delegates to the conference: China, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, Persia, Russia, and Siam.\n\nA favourable reply is expected in the near future from Austria-Hungary, also from Turkey. The French Government has informed the Department of State that their Foreign and Colonial Offices are in consultation in regard to the tentative programme submitted in the circular proposal communicated to His Majesty's Government on the 23rd September last, and it is expected that a favourable reply will be received in a short time from Paris. The Netherlands Government has expressed the wish that the conference be held at The Hague, and is now awaiting notification from this Government as to the adhering Powers to enable it to send out the necessary invitations to the conference.\n\nIn order to enable my Government to consult the interested Powers as to the most suitable date for the convening of the conference and to inform the Netherlands Government thereof so that it may issue the necessary invitations, the Government of the United States would be highly gratified to learn that His Majesty's Government is prepared to accept the American proposal.\n\nI have, &c\n\nWHITELAW REID.\n\n*Sir F. Cartwright informed by Austro-Hungarian Government on June 11, 1910, that neither Austria nor Hungary intended to take part in the conference.\n\n[2793 k-1]",
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        "content_text": "16\n\nThese provisions were accepted as correctly setting out the principle of the division of profits subject only to any elaboration which might be found necessary on further examination.\n\nAn understanding was arrived at on the following points:-----\n\n1. Each group should, on the completion of the new agreement, communicate to their respective Governments the result of the conference with all necessary documents.\n\n2. The four groups should approach their respective Governments and request them to address an identic note to the Chinese Government calling upon that Government to complete the loan and supplemental agreements.\n\n3. The four groups to advise their respective representatives in Peking of the result of the conference, and to instruct them to take action accordingly.\n\n4. With regard to the printing of the bonds, the form to be such as will satisfy the reasonable requirements of the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nThe following persons were then appointed to be members of the committee to consider questions of detail and to report to the conference:\n\nM. M. Casenave,\n\nM. F. Urbig,\n\nMr. G. Jamieson,\n\nMr. E. C. Grenfell, represented by Mr. W. D. Straight.\n\nFor the French Group:\n\n17\n\nThe proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman, proposed by Mr. Addis, M. Urbig, and Mr. Davison, which was carried unanimously.\n\nJ. CAILLAUX.\n\nEnclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nST. SIMON. ULLMANN. CASENAVE.\n\nH. P. DAVISON.\n\nE. C. GRENFELL.\n\nH. H. HARJES,\n\nMAX WARBURG.\n\nW. STRAIGHT.\n\nFR. URBIG.\n\nE. REHDERS. G. JAMIESON. CARL MEYER. C. S. ADDIS.\n\nJ. CAILLAUX. ST. SIMON. ULLMANN. CASENAVE.\n\nFor the British Group:\n\nCARL MEYER.\n\nG. JAMIESON. C. S. ADDIS.\n\nFor the German Group:\n\nFR. URBIG.\n\nE. REHDERS.\n\nFor the American Group:\n\nEnclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nE. C. GRENFELL.\n\nH. P. DAVISON. MAX WARBURG. H. H. HARJES. WILLARD STRAIGHT.\n\nMinutes of Meeting of the French, British, German, and American Groups, at the Office of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Paris, on May 24, 1910.\n\nPresent:\n\n(Same parties as on May 23, 1910.)\n\nThe minutes of the meeting of the 23rd May, 1910, were read and approved with certain modifications, and signed.\n\nThe minutes of the committee meeting of the 23rd May, 1910, were read, approved, and signed, and the report of the committee was adopted.\n\nIt was agreed that the four groups should ratify the agreement of the 23rd May, 1910, as between themselves.\n\nMinutes of a Meeting of the French, British, German, and American Groups, held at the Banque de l'Indo-Chine on May 23, 1910, of the Committee appointed at the Meeting of the four Groups held that day.\n\nPresent:\n\nM. F. Urbig, in the Chair\n\nM. M. Casenave;\n\nMr. G. Jamieson;\n\nMr. W. D. Straight.\n\nThe following resolutions were passed:\n\n1. Preliminary Expenses.\n\nThat, to carry out and give effect to clause 7 of the agreement between the four groups drafted at the meeting of the groups held that day, the American group pay to the French, British, and German groups respectively the sum of 1,500, being 1 per 1,000 on the share of the loan allotted to the American group.\n\n2. Purchasing Arrangements.\n\nThat the existing arrangements of article 18 of the original loan agreement be allowed to stand, provided that the two purchasing agents give to the French and American groups a letter in the following terms, and provided, moreover, that said purchasing agents shall be bound to report, as far as possible, to any group requesting such information regarding the purchase of materials under the instructions of the director-general in accordance with the provisions of the original loan agreement with accompanying despatch and the supplemental loan agreement:\n\n\"We beg to inform you that we have been appointed purchasing agents for the Hankow-Canton, Hankow-Szechuan Railways, in accordance with article 18 of the Hukuang loan agreement initialled on the 6th June, 1909.\n\n\"In view of the terms of said loan agreement, with accompanying despatch and the agreement supplementary thereto providing for the admission to participation of the American group and securing equal consideration for British, German, French, and American materials, and equal facilities for the receipt of tenders in the markets of the four countries, we beg to state that we will take all steps necessary to assure the above-mentioned consideration for French-American materials and make all proper provision for the receipt on an absolute basis of equality of tenders from British, German, French, and American manufacturers.\"\n\n249",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nC O\n\n35951\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nRear 24 NOV 49\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[October 28.]\n\nSECTION 5.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Addis to Mr. Alston.-(Received October 28.)\n\nDear Mr. Alston,\n\n31, Lombard Street, London, October 28, 1910.\n\nYou will remember that on the 6th July, 1909, the representatives of the English, French, and German groups met in Paris and signed inter-group and inter-bank agreements for joint participation in all future railway and loan business in China.\n\nThe American group were offered participation on equal terms, but would only accept on the condition that the English, French, and German groups would undertake to obtain an official quotation for the American bonds on their respective bourses. The French Government refused to allow their group to give such an undertaking with regard to Paris and, accordingly, the attempt to include the Americans failed, and the agreements were concluded between the English, French, and German groups alone.\n\nAs a way out of the difficulty, I suggested that in lieu of granting an international quotation for the American bonds, the English, French, and German groups should agree, if required, to issue the American portion on commission in their respective markets.\n\nThis proposal was favourably received in New York, and has now been agreed to in principle by all the groups---English, French, German, and American.\n\nTo give effect, however, to the proposal, it has been found necessary to re-draft the inter-group and inter-bank agreements so as to admit of the inclusion of the American group.\n\nI now enclose copies of the new draft quadruple inter-group and inter-bank agreements, which have been agreed to by the representatives of the American group and myself. They are now under consideration by the French and German groups, who have been invited to attend a conference in London, on Saturday the 5th November, when, unless some hitch occurs, they will, I hope, be finally signed.\n\nThese draft agreements are intended to embrace all future loans, with the sole exception of the Hukuang loan, for which a separate agreement has been made between the four groups.\n\nThe proposed Manchurian and China currency loans would, therefore, automatically fall within the sphere of the new agreements.\n\nI shall inform you as soon as the assent of the French and German groups to the conference has been obtained. In the meantime, I trust the foregoing explanation will make clear to you how the necessity for annulling the old agreements and entering into these new agreements has arisen.\n\nYours, &c.\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n[2958 ee-5]",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\nExtract from the \"Mail\" of Friday, May 13th., 1910.\n\n### The White Slave Traffic\n\n### Conference Agreements\n\n(From Our Own Correspondent.)\n\nParis, May 11.\n\nThe main articles of the diplomatic convention drawn up by the International Conference for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic have been published here this evening. Article 1 is as follows:-\n\nPunishment should be inflicted upon anyone who, in order to satisfy the passions of another person, has engaged, incited, or led astray, even with her consent, a woman or a girl who is a minor for immoral purposes, even when the various acts which form the essential elements of the offence have been committed in different countries.\n\nClause 2 runs:-\n\nPunishment should likewise be inflicted upon anyone who, in order to minister to the passions of another, has by fraud or by violence, threats, abuse of authority, or any other means of constraint, engaged, incited or led astray a woman or a girl who is of age for immoral purposes, even when the various acts which form the essential elements of the offence have been committed in different countries.\n\nBy Clause 3 the signatory Powers whose legislation is at present inadequate for the suppression of the offences defined in the two preceding articles undertake to propose to their respective Legislatures such measures as will secure the adequate punishment of these offences. The fact of...",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[13849]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n3371\n\n[April 13.]\n\n#### SECTION 1.\n\nDear Mr. Greg,\n\nMr. Addis to Foreign Office.--(Received April 13.)\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 31, Lombard Street, London, April 12, 1911.\n\n ENCLOSED please find a copy of the telegram which I have, with the concurrence of the other groups, dispatched to Mr. Hillier to-day.\n\nYours truly,\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nCopy of Telegram dispatched to Peking Office, April 12, 1911.\n\nRE your telegram of the 11th April. As a general principle groups can only agree to modifications the necessity for which can be shown to have arisen through changed circumstances since date of initialled agreement. Therefore Chingmen-Hanyang branch line we agree omit. Deposit loan proceeds native banks raises question of principle to which we cannot agree. Article 15, agree accept latter alternative as proposed by you. Article 18, agree share inspector's fee on condition that right to reject goods on arrival abandoned. French, Germans, and Americans concur.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nCopy of Telegram dispatched to Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Berlin, and Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Paris, April 11, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to Hillier's joint telegram to-day, we propose send following reply:\n\nRe your telegram of the 11th April. As a general principle groups can only agree to such modifications the necessity for which can be shown to have arisen through changed circumstances since date of initialled agreement. Therefore Chingmen-Hanyang branch line we agree omit. Deposit loan proceeds native banks raises question of principle to which we cannot agree. Article 15, agree accept latter alternative as proposed by you. Article 18, agree share inspector's fee on condition that right to reject goods on arrival abandoned.\n\nAs Peking representatives meet on 13th, kindly wire if you approve.-A ODIS.\n\n### Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nCopy of Telegram from Peking Office, April 11, 1911.\n\nHUKUANG Railway.\n\nFollowing from group's representative, Peking, for communication to other groups :--\n\n\"At conference with four Ministers 5th April, Sheng refused to withdraw other demands in exchange for omission branch line, but Ministers consented to omission branch line provided that group could come to satisfactory arrangement other terms with Yuchuanpu. As result of conference group's representative with Yuchuanpu 7th April we have revised agreement as follows:-\n\nChingmen-Hanyang branch line to be omitted; Sheng states provincial company will be allowed to construct same at their risk, but considers line unprofitable and will memorialise throne to this effect.\n\n289 \nPage 289",
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        "content_text": "3. The clauses given in italics had, however, been the subject of objection by other Powers. His Majesty's Government could not admit the discussion of clauses (k), (l), (m), and (n). The French Government likewise objected to (l) and (m), and reserved their opinion about (a), while also objecting to (i); and the Russian Government objected to (f). On the other hand, the British Government laid down as a condition of their participation in the conference that it should also deal with the question of stringent restrictions on the manufacture and trade in morphine and cocaine, and this condition was accepted by the other participating Powers.\n\nThe Italian Government, again, suggested that the conference might advantageously deal with drugs produced from the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa or indica).\n\n4. Our instructions, communicated to us in your despatch of the 29th November, 1911, emphasised the fact that His Majesty's Government held it essential that \"the conference should thoroughly and completely deal with the question of restricting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphine and cocaine.\" This, indeed, you added, \"is a subject to which His Majesty's Government attach especial importance in view of the spread of the morphia and cocaine habit in India, in China, and in other Eastern countries. Indian and Chinese experience shows that legislation against the importation of morphia and cocaine must fail to be thoroughly effective owing to the ease with which it can be evaded in practice, and consequently suggests the desirability of co-operation on the part of the home and foreign Governments in the shape of control over manufacture and distribution.\" We were therefore to use our best efforts to secure the assistance of the Governments represented at the conference towards obtaining this end.\n\n5. Our instructions went on to indicate the various points (specified above) in the original American tentative programme for the conference to which His Majesty's Government had taken exception and which therefore they were not prepared to discuss. We were further told that the following matters should also be considered as excluded from treatment by the conference:\n\n(1) The arrangements made between His Majesty's Government and China respecting the progressive restriction of the importation and production of opium in China.\n\n(2) All other existing treaties between the two countries.\n\n(3) Any resolution specifically affecting the domestic regulation of the production and use of opium and cognate questions of internal administration in India or any portion of the British dominions.\n\nWe were, therefore, to refuse to discuss these subjects, although not precluded from communicating to the conference, if desired, any information in regard to systems of regulation in India or the colonies that might be of assistance in its labours.\n\n6. In accordance with this last proviso, Sir William Meyer submitted to the conference a paper dealing with the measures taken by the Indian Government to control and restrict the consumption of raw opium in India, and a second paper treating of the policy adopted in Burma, where the usual method of consumption is the smoking of prepared opium. This latter memorandum also referred to the measures taken by the Indian Government against the smoking habit in the rest of India. At a later stage, a memorandum was likewise put in showing the methods taken in British colonies, mainly those in the Far East, to restrict the consumption of opium, morphine, and cocaine. These memoranda are included in Vol. II of the conference proceedings, but as we shall have occasion to refer to them occasionally, we append copies of them (Appendices I to III).\n\nWe may add that we were furnished with a copy of the Government of India's clear and exhaustive expression of their actions, difficulties, and wishes in regard to opium, morphine, and cocaine, as set forth in their despatch No. 285 of the 23rd November, 1911, to the Secretary of State for India, and that this document proved of great value and assistance to us.\n\n7. In your despatch of the 11th December, 1911 [49099], we received supplementary suggestions as to the measures which His Majesty's Government thought it desirable that we should suggest to the conference in the matter of restricting the manufacture of, and trade in, morphia and cocaine, and these will be referred to later on.\n\n8. The conference assembled on the 1st December, 1911 (first session), and, after a speech of welcome from His Excellency M. de Marees van Swinderen, the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was subsequently elected honorary president of the conference, Bishop Brent, the leader of the American delegation, was unanimously elected to the actual presidency — on the proposal of M. Cremer, the first delegate for the Netherlands, supported by Sir Cecil Clementi Smith and M. von Müller, the first delegate for Germany — and delivered an eloquent inaugural address.\n\nThe natural selection for the presidency would have been M. Cremer, as senior member of the delegation of the country in which we were meeting; but as he expressed himself unwilling to accept this post, the choice of Bishop Brent, as representing the country on whose initiative the conference had been called, was inevitable. The result was, however, unfortunate in that it threw the leadership of the American delegation into the hands of Dr. Hamilton Wright, who is singularly wanting in those qualities of clear-mindedness, moderation, and respect for the ideas of others which are essential for success in an international gathering of this kind. Under Dr. Wright's leadership, the American delegation was responsible for a number of useless and irritating proposals, and entirely lost the position of special advantage which it might have enjoyed as representing the Power on whose initiative the conference had come together.\n\n9. The second session (4th December) was occupied by the framing of rules of procedure and the constitution of committees, viz.:\n\n(a) A Programme Committee, consisting of one member from each delegation, which was to prepare and submit to the conference a programme of work, based on the original draft programme of the American Government as modified by the objections made in respect thereto by other Powers. This programme was also to deal with the supplementary proposals made by Great Britain on the subject of morphine and cocaine, and by Italy in regard to hemp drugs. It was further decided that any additional matter on which the conference might later embark should likewise be a subject of preliminary examination by the programme committee. This committee was presided over by M. Cremer (Netherlands), and Mr. Max Müller was the representative of the British delegation.\n\n(b) A Drafting Committee (\"Comité de Rédaction\"), consisting of five (afterwards six) members, and presided over, first by M. Guesde of the French delegation and later on, when M. Guesde had to return to Paris, by his colleague, M. Brenier. Sir William Collins was a member of this committee, which also included representatives of Germany, Holland, and Russia, and subsequently of the United States.\n\nThe original reference to this committee was to draft into proper conventional form the resolutions passed by the conference, but later on, as will be seen, its functions were considerably enlarged.\n\n(c) A Press Committee, consisting of three members, whose duty it was to decide what information should be communicated to the press, it having been resolved that the meetings of the conference should be private.\n\n(d) A fourth committee, the Technical Committee, though never formally constituted, also assumed shape, and eventually definite recognition. It consisted of the medical and scientific members of the various delegations under the presidency of Sir William Collins.\n\n10. It was also definitely decided at this session that, while French must as usual be the official language of the conference, each delegate might speak in his own language, and that translations of French documents might be furnished to those delegates who desired it. As a matter of fact, owing to the large number of delegates who understood English better than French, most of the speeches were made in English, even the French and German delegates frequently repeating in English what they had already said in French, and there was likewise an English summary of the proceedings, though it was always understood that the French text was the only authoritative one, and we feel it only right to take this opportunity of placing on record our sense of the courtesy and consideration with which the other delegations accepted the situation.\n\n11. At the third session (7th December), a warning note was sounded by the French and Portuguese delegations in regard to the difficulties that might arise owing to the small number of countries represented at the conference, and the danger of outside Powers deriving profit from the self-denying ordinances which the participating Powers might impose upon themselves in regard to trade in opium, &c.; and it may be mentioned here that at the fourth session a resolution was carried, on the proposal of the Persian delegate, that all the conclusions arrived at by the conference should be presented to outside Powers with a view to their co-operation being obtained.\n\nPage 9\n\n272",
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        "content_text": "16\n\nmorphine, cocaine, &c., are manufactured on the date when the present convention shall be signed, shall have the right to denounce the said convention; and such denunciation may take effect a month after it has been communicated to the Netherlands Government.\" \n\nIt will be observed that this proposal aimed not merely at the production of opium, morphine, or cocaine for purposes condemned by the convention, but even at production for legitimate medical purposes, and would in fact have prevented any Power from starting a new internal industry for such purposes. \n\nThe German delegates, in private conversation with us, suggested that we ought to welcome this proposal, since it would permanently establish our practical monopoly in the morphine trade like that of the Germans in cocaine. We replied, of course, that we could not assent to anything of the kind, and that our instructions were simply to obtain measures for confining the use of these drugs to proper medical purposes. The proposal gave us considerable anxiety, since it seemed to us to indicate that the Germans, in spite of the agreement we had come to with them in regard to the morphine and cocaine articles, were casting about for an easy means of withdrawing from the convention. We hoped, however, that this was merely a ballon d'essai, and that the idea would not be pressed. \n\nThe proposal was subsequently withdrawn, in view of the methods finally adopted to secure the adhesion of outside Powers to the convention. \n\n66. At the thirteenth session (21st December) the American delegation also brought forward resolutions on the subject of adhesion to and ratification of the convention, which were to the following effect :-- \n\n(1.)—(a.) Powers not represented at the conference might be allowed to adhere to the convention; but the participating Powers might lay down conditions of adherence. In the absence of such conditions, adherence would imply acceptance of all the obligations required by the convention. \n\n(b.) The interested Governments should agree among themselves as to the steps to be taken to obtain the adhesion of States whose co-operation might be necessary or useful in order to secure complete execution of the convention. \n\n(2.) The convention should be ratified as soon as possible, and in any case within a year. \n\nThis was merely setting forth in other words a matter which had already been agreed to provisionally. \n\n(3.) The convention should come into force in all the dominions of the contracting Powers sixty days after ratification. \n\nThese resolutions were subsequently withdrawn, \n\n67. The powers of the Drafting Committee were, by a resolution passed during this session, extended so as to enable it not merely to put into conventional form the substance of resolutions already accepted by the conference, but to add such additional articles as seemed necessary for the purposes of completing the convention. \n\n68. Reference had been made in more than one of the previous sessions of the conference to the difficulty in regard to dealing with \"Indian hemp.\" The Italian Government had put this subject forward as one of the matters which the conference should consider, but its delegate, M. Santoliquido, having also to attend the International Sanitary Conference in Paris, had only been present at one of our meetings (at the fourth session). The Italian Minister at The Hague had accordingly been communicated with by M. Cremer (Netherlands), as chairman of the Programme Committee; and M. Cremer now put before the conference a letter from the Minister stating that M. Santoliquido had informed him that the Italian delegation had no intention of presenting any specific proposal in regard to hemp drugs, and left it to the conference as a whole to take such measures in regard to these as it might deem expedient. \n\n69. At the urgent request of Dr. Hamilton Wright the subject was referred to the Programme Committee, but that body was of the unanimous opinion that no useful purpose would be served by entering on the discussion of such a question, in which many interests might be involved, without careful study and consideration. M. Cremer, its chairman, therefore announced to the conference that, having regard to these circumstances, and to the facts that--(a) the conference was not in possession of the statistics necessary for adequate treatment of the subject;* (b) it was difficult to obtain a scientific definition of the preparations that would have to be dealt with; (c) the delegates had no instructions in regard to the discussion of this matter; (d) it appeared sufficient for the countries threatened by the abuse of hemp drugs to take internal measures against them--the Programme Committee considered it sufficient to recommend the adoption of the following resolution in the form of a vœu :-- \n\n“Il est à désirer que les Gouvernements participants étudient la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique, et scientifique, dans le but de régler éventuellement, par leur législation intérieure ou pour un accord international, les abus de son emploi.” \n\nThis resolution was accordingly introduced by the Netherlands delegation, and was carried, with an amendment proposed by us substituting for the word \"éventuellement\" the words \"si la nécessité s'en fait sentir.\" \n\n70. The Chinese delegation wished the resolution to read as follows :---- \n\n'Il est à désirer que les Gouvernements participants étudient la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique et scientifique, dans le but d'en contrôler le commerce, et d'en régler l'usage par leur législation intérieure ou par un accord international, ou par tous les deux. \n\nBut this was objected to on the ground that it was going beyond what the data before us justified. M. Brenier (France) pointed out that the Chinese Government could, if it pleased, take restrictive measures against hemp drugs such as had been already taken in Indo-China, and Sir William Meyer added that similar restrictions had been in force in British India for a good many years. The Chinese amendment was accordingly withdrawn. \n\nDr. Hamilton Wright expressed the hope that the resolution as carried would become a definite article of the convention, but he met with no support in this view, and the resolution remained a vœu, and stands as such in the final protocol (clause I (2)). \n\n71. The next matter for consideration was a resolution by the American delegation which had been brought forward and received some discussion at the twelfth session. This was to the effect that the participating Powers should communicate to one another, through the medium of the Netherlands Government, texts of existing and future laws and regulations bearing on matters dealt with in the convention; as also statistical information in regard to the trade in raw and prepared opium, morphine, and cocaine, and their respective salts, hemp drugs, and any other drugs or preparations dealt with in the convention. \n\nThe mention of hemp drugs was now deleted from the resolution, and, as regards the exchange of statistical information, an amendment, moved by our delegation and accepted by the Americans, to the effect that the statistics should be based, not only on Customs reports, but also on the registers of sale kept by persons licensed to carry on trade in the drugs concerned, was carried with a single negative vote--that of Germany. Our object, as Mr. Max Müller explained, was not in any way to divulge the statistics of individual firms, but, by grouping these together, to obtain information which would be very valuable as a supplement to the Customs returns. \n\nLater on, however (seventeenth session), when article 21 of the convention, which was based on this resolution, came up for consideration, the German delegation pointed out that in some cases, as in regard to heroine, the trade was so largely in the hands of a single firm that to give the statistics proposed would in effect amount to divulging private affairs; and, recognising the justice of this view, the conference brought back the article to the scope of the original resolution by merely prescribing in general terms the submission of statistical information in regard to trade in the drugs mentioned. \n\n72. At the fourteenth session (22nd December) the American delegation brought up a fresh series of resolutions, intended to stiffen the restrictive measures already agreed upon in respect of the drugs dealt with by the convention. The fourth resolution, however, which concerned the protection of aboriginal natives of Pacific islands, was withdrawn, and the remaining three resolutions were referred to the Drafting Committee and subsequently dropped. \n\n73. The conference then proceeded to the discussion in article form, and at this stage in a separate convention, of the special resolutions regarding China referred to in paragraphs 57-61 above, and then adjourned for a Christmas recess. \n\n74. We had now been sitting for about three weeks, and had, as it seemed, come to a final agreement in regard to most of the matters with which we had been called upon to deal. The resolutions covering the ground which forms the basis of the \n\n[878]\n\nF\n\n279\n\ny",
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        "content_text": "3. The clauses given in italics had, however, been the subject of objection by other Powers. His Majesty's Government could not admit the discussion of clauses (h), (l), (m), and (n). The French Government likewise objected to (l) and (m), and reserved their opinion about (a), while also objecting to (2); and the Russian Government objected to (f). On the other hand, the British Government laid down as a condition of their participation in the conference that it should also deal with the question of stringent restrictions on the manufacture and trade in morphine and cocaine, and this condition was accepted by the other participating Powers.\n\nThe Italian Government, again, suggested that the conference might advantageously deal with drugs produced from the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa or indica),\n\n4. Our instructions, communicated to us in your despatch of the 29th November, 1911, emphasised the fact that His Majesty's Government held it essential that \"the conference should thoroughly and completely deal with the question of restricting the manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphin and cocaine.” \"This is a subject to which His Majesty's Government attach especial importance in view of the spread of the morphia and cocaine habit in India, in China, and in other Eastern countries. Indian and Chinese experience shows that legislation against the importation of morphia and cocaine must fail to be thoroughly effective owing to the ease with which it can be evaded in practice, and consequently suggests the desirability of co-operation on the part of the home and foreign Governments in the shape of control over manufacture and distribution.\" We were therefore to use our best efforts \"to secure the assistance of the Governments represented at the conference towards obtaining this end.\"\n\n5. Our instructions went on to indicate the various points (specified above) in the original American tentative programme for the conference to which His Majesty's Government had taken exception and which therefore they were not prepared to discuss. We were further told that the following matters should also be considered as excluded from treatment by the conference --\n\n(1.) The arrangements made between His Majesty's Government and China respecting the progressive restriction of the importation and production of opium in China.\n\n(2.) All other existing treaties between the two countries.\n\n(3.) Any resolution specifically affecting the domestic regulation of the production and use of opium and cognate questions of internal administration in India or any portion of the British dominions.\n\nWe were, therefore, to refuse to discuss these subjects, although not precluded from communicating to the conference, if desired, any information in regard to systems of regulation in India or the colonies that might be of assistance in its labours.\n\n6. In accordance with this last proviso, Sir William Meyer submitted to the conference a paper dealing with the measures taken by the Indian Government to control and restrict the consumption of raw opium in India proper, and a second paper treating of the policy adopted in Burmah, where the usual method of consumption is the smoking of prepared opium. This latter memorandum also referred to the measures taken by the Indian Government against the smoking habit in the rest of India. At a later stage, a memorandum was likewise put in showing the methods taken in British colonies, mainly those in the Far East, to restrict the consumption of opium, morphine, and cocaine. These memoranda are included in Vol. II of the conference proceedings, but as we shall have occasion to refer to them occasionally, we append copies of them (Appendices I to III).\n\nWe may add that we were furnished with a copy of the Government of India's clear and exhaustive expression of their actions, difficulties, and wishes in regard to opium, morphine, and cocaine, as set forth in their despatch No. 285 of the 23rd November, 1911, to the Secretary of State for India, and that this document proved of great value and assistance to us.\n\n7. In your despatch of the 11th December, 1911 [49099], we received supplementary suggestions as to the measures which His Majesty's Government thought it desirable that we should suggest to the conference in the matter of restricting the manufacture of, and trade in, morphia and cocaine, and these will be referred to later on.\n\n8. The conference assembled on the 1st December, 1911 (first session), and, after a speech of welcome from his Excellency M. de Marees van Swinderen, the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was subsequently elected honorary president of the conference, Bishop Brent, the leader of the American delegation, was unanimously elected to the actual presidency--on the proposal of M. Cremer, the first delegate for the Netherlands, supported by Sir Cecil Clementi Smith and M. von Müller, the first delegate for Germany--and delivered an eloquent inaugural address.\n\nThe natural selection for the presidency would have been M. Cremer, as senior member of the delegation of the country in which we were meeting; but as he expressed himself unwilling to accept this post, the choice of Bishop Brent, as representing the country on whose initiative the conference had been called, was inevitable. The result was, however, unfortunate in that it threw the leadership of the American delegation into the hands of Dr. Hamilton Wright, who is singularly wanting in those qualities of clear-mindedness, moderation, and respect for the ideas of others which are essential for success in an international gathering of this kind. Under Dr. Wright's leadership, the American delegation was responsible for a number of useless and irritating proposals, and entirely lost the position of special advantage which it might have enjoyed as representing the Power on whose initiative the conference had come together.\n\n9. The second session (4th December) was occupied by the framing of rules of procedure and the constitution of committees, viz.:-\n\n(a.) A Programme Committee, consisting of one member from each delegation, which was to prepare and submit to the conference a programme of work, based on the original draft programme of the American Government as modified by the objections made in respect thereto by other Powers. This programme was also to deal with the supplementary proposals made by Great Britain on the subject of morphine and cocaine, and by Italy in regard to hemp drugs. It was further decided that any additional matter on which the conference might later embark should likewise be a subject of preliminary examination by the programme committee. This committee was presided over by M. Cremer (Netherlands), and Mr. Max Müller was the representative of the British delegation.\n\n(b.) A Drafting Committee (\"Comité de Rédaction\"), consisting of five (afterwards six) members, and presided over, first by M. Guesde of the French delegation, and later on, when M. Guesde had to return to Paris, by his colleague, M. Brenier. Sir William Collins was a member of this committee, which also included representatives of Germany, Holland, and Russia, and subsequently of the United States.\n\nThe original reference to this committee was to draft into proper conventional form the resolutions passed by the conference, but later on, as will be seen, its functions were considerably enlarged.\n\n(c.) A press committee, consisting of three members, whose duty it was to decide what information should be communicated to the press, it having been resolved that the meetings of the conference should be private.\n\n(d) A fourth committee, the Technical Committee, though never formally constituted, also assumed shape, and eventually definite recognition. It consisted of the medical and scientific members of the various delegations under the presidency of Sir William Collins.\n\n10. It was also definitely decided at this session that, while French must as usual be the official language of the conference, each delegate might speak in his own language, and that translations of French documents might be furnished to those delegates who desired it. As a matter of fact, owing to the large number of delegates who understood English better than French, most of the speeches were made in English, even the French and German delegates frequently repeating in English what they had already said in French, and there was likewise an English summary of the proceedings, though it was always understood that the French text was the only authoritative one, and that the English version was a summary rather than a translation. We feel it only right to take this opportunity of placing on record our sense of the courtesy and consideration with which the other delegations accepted the situation.\n\n11. At the third session (7th December) a warning note was sounded by the French and Portuguese delegations in regard to the difficulties that might arise owing to the small number of countries represented at the conference, and the danger of outside Powers deriving profit from the self-denying ordinances which the participating Powers might impose upon themselves in regard to trade in opium, &c.; and it may be mentioned here that at the fourth session a resolution was carried, on the proposal of the Persian delegate, that all the conclusions arrived at by the conference should be presented to outside Powers with a view to their co-operation being obtained. Ultimately (as will be seen later)...\n\nPage 3\n\n3\n\n...\n\nPage 328",
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        "content_text": "16\n\nmorphine, cocaine, &c., are manufactured on the date when the present convention shall be signed, shall have the right to denounce the said convention; and such denunciation may take effect a month after it has been communicated to the Netherlands Government.' \n\nIt will be observed that this proposal aimed not merely at the production of opium, morphine, or cocaine for purposes condemned by the convention, but even at production for legitimate medical purposes, and would in fact have prevented any Power from starting a new internal industry for such purposes.\n\nThe German delegates, in private conversation with us, suggested that we ought to welcome this proposal, since it would permanently establish our practical monopoly in the morphine trade like that of the Germans in cocaine. We replied, of course, that we could not assent to anything of the kind, and that our instructions were simply to obtain measures for confining the use of these drugs to proper medical purposes. The proposal gave us considerable anxiety, since it seemed to us to indicate that the Germans, in spite of the agreement we had come to with them in regard to the morphine and cocaine articles, were casting about for an easy means of withdrawing from the convention. We hoped, however, that this was merely a ballon d'essai, and that the idea would not be pressed.\n\nThe proposal was subsequently withdrawn, in view of the methods finally adopted to secure the adhesion of outside Powers to the convention.\n\n66. At the thirteenth session (21st December) the American delegation also brought forward resolutions on the subject of adhesion to and ratification of the convention, which were to the following effect -----\n\n(1)(a) Powers not represented at the conference might be allowed to adhere to the convention; but the participating Powers might lay down conditions of adherence. In the absence of such conditions, adherence would imply acceptance of all the obligations required by the convention.\n\n(b) The interested Governments should agree among themselves as to the steps to be taken to obtain the adhesion of States whose co-operation might be necessary or useful in order to secure complete execution of the convention.\n\n(2) The convention should be ratified as soon as possible, and in any case within a year. This was merely setting forth in other words a matter which had already been agreed to provisionally.\n\n(3) The convention should come into force in all the dominions of the contracting Powers sixty days after ratification.\n\nThese resolutions were subsequently withdrawn.\n\n67. The powers of the Drafting Committee were, by a resolution passed during this session, extended so as to enable it not merely to put into conventional form the substance of resolutions already accepted by the conference, but to add such additional articles as seemed necessary for the purposes of completing the convention.\n\n68. Reference had been made in more than one of the previous sessions of the conference to the difficulty in regard to dealing with \"Indian hemp.\" The Italian Government had put this subject forward as one of the matters which the conference should consider, but its delegate, M. Santoliquido, having also to attend the International Sanitary Conference in Paris, had only been present at one of our meetings (at the fourth session). The Italian Minister at The Hague had accordingly been communicated with by M. Cremer (Netherlands), as chairman of the Programme Committee; and M. Cremer now put before the conference a letter from the Minister stating that M. Santoliquido had informed him that the Italian delegation had no intention of presenting any specific proposal in regard to hemp drugs, and left it to the conference as a whole to take such measures in regard to these as it might deem expedient.\n\n69. At the urgent request of Dr. Hamilton Wright the subject was referred to the Programme Committee, but that body was of the unanimous opinion that no useful purpose would be served by entering on the discussion of such a question, in which many interests might be involved, without careful study and consideration. M. Cremer, its chairman, therefore announced to the conference that, having regard to these circumstances, and to the facts that--(a) the conference was not in possession of the statistics necessary for adequate treatment of the subject; (b) it was difficult to obtain a scientific definition of the preparations that would have to be dealt with; (c) the delegates had no instructions in regard to the discussion of this matter; (d) it appeared sufficient for the countries threatened by the abuse of hemp drugs to take internal measures against them--the Programme Committee considered it sufficient to recommend the adoption of the following resolution in the form of a vœu :--\n\n“Il est à désirer que les Gouvernements participants étudient la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique et scientifique, dans le but de régler éventuellement, par leur législation intérieure ou pour un accord international, les abus de son emploi.” \n\nThis resolution was accordingly introduced by the Netherlands delegation, and was carried, with an amendment proposed by us substituting for the word éventuellement the words si la nécessité s'en fait sentir.\n\n70. The Chinese delegation wished the resolution to read as follows:\n\n\"Il est à désirer que les Gouvernements participants étudient la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique et scientifique, dans le but d'en contrôler le commerce, et d'en régler l'usage par leur législation intérieure ou par un accord international, ou par tous les deux' \n\nBut this was objected to on the ground that it was going beyond what the data before us justified. M. Brenier (France) pointed out that the Chinese Government could, if it pleased, take restrictive measures against hemp drugs such as had been already taken in Indo-China, and Sir William Meyer added that similar restrictions had been in force in British India for a good many years. The Chinese amendment was accordingly withdrawn.\n\nDr. Hamilton Wright expressed the hope that the resolution as carried would become a definite article of the convention, but he met with no support in this view, and the resolution remained a vœu, and stands as such in the final protocol (clause I (2)).\n\n71. The next matter for consideration was a resolution by the American delegation which had been brought forward and received some discussion at the twelfth session. This was to the effect that the participating Powers should communicate to one another, through the medium of the Netherlands Government, texts of existing and future laws and regulations bearing on matters dealt with in the convention; as also statistical information in regard to the trade in raw and prepared opium, morphine, and cocaine, and their respective salts, hemp drugs, and any other drugs or preparations dealt with in the convention.\n\nThe mention of hemp drugs was now deleted from the resolution, and, as regards the exchange of statistical information, an amendment, moved by our delegation and accepted by the Americans, to the effect that the statistics should be based, not only on Customs reports, but also on the registers of sale kept by persons licensed to carry on trade in the drugs concerned, was carried with a single negative vote--that of Germany. Our object, as Mr. Max Müller explained, was not in any way to divulge the statistics of individual firms, but, by grouping these together, to obtain information which would be very valuable as a supplement to the Customs returns.\n\nLater on, however (seventeenth session), when article 21 of the convention, which was based on this resolution, came up for consideration, the German delegation pointed out that in some cases, as in regard to heroine, the trade was so largely in the hands of a single firm that to give the statistics proposed would in effect amount to divulging private affairs; and, recognising the justice of this view, the conference brought back the article to the scope of the original resolution by merely prescribing in general terms the submission of statistical information in regard to trade in the drugs mentioned.\n\n72. At the fourteenth session (22nd December) the American delegation brought up a fresh series of resolutions, intended to stiffen the restrictive measures already agreed upon in respect of the drugs dealt with by the convention. The fourth resolution, however, which concerned the protection of aboriginal natives of Pacific Islands, was withdrawn, and the remaining three resolutions were referred to the Drafting Committee and subsequently dropped.\n\n73. The conference then proceeded to the discussion in article form, and at this stage in a separate convention, of the special resolutions regarding China referred to in paragraphs 57-61 above, and then adjourned for a Christmas recess.\n\n74. We had now been sitting for about three weeks, and had, as it seemed, come to a final agreement in regard to most of the matters with which we had been called upon to deal. The resolutions covering the ground which forms the basis of the\n\n[2458 s-2]\n\nF\n\n335\n\n17",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nLes achats d'opium que la Régie indo-chinoise effectue chaque année au Yunnan interviennent, en effet, directement entre ses agents et les planteurs ou négociants de cette province, sans aucune participation du Gouvernement provincial. Ce trafic se trouve, d'ailleurs, réglé, d'une façon explicite, par la convention additionnelle entre la France et la Chine, signée à Pékin, le 26 juin, 1887 - convention encore en vigueur.\n\nLe Gouvernement français ne s'est, à aucun moment, interdit, depuis lors, d'opérer au Yunnan les achats destinés à satisfaire le goût spécial de certains consommateurs indo-chinois ou à compléter le stock nécessaire à la Régie indo-chinoise, et le Gouvernement chinois, à plusieurs reprises, a été lui-même amené à reconnaître que l'exportation d'opium brut vers l'Indo-Chine ne saurait être interdite aussi longtemps que le pavot est cultivé en Chine.\n\nLe Gouvernement français est, au même degré que le Gouvernement anglais, désireux de prêter son concours à la lutte contre l'opium; les résultats acquis en Indo-Chine en fournissent la preuve évidente, car la consommation de la drogue y est tombée en trois ans de 107,000 à 60,000 kilog. Cette diminution si rapide montre bien avec quelle résolution le Gouvernement de l'Indo-Chine s'est engagé dans la lutte contre l'opium, et, pour mesurer les sacrifices ainsi imposés à son budget, il y aurait lieu de tenir compte encore de la hausse considérable des prix qui s'est produite depuis quelques années sur l'opium brut, hausse qui a été entièrement supportée, sans compensation possible, par les pays consommateurs.\n\nMais, si le Gouvernement de l'Indo-Chine estime n'avoir pas été dépassé dans ses efforts pour limiter la consommation de l'opium, il ne saurait lui appartenir de modifier une situation de fait et de droit existant au-delà de ses frontières; il ne saurait non plus interdire l'importation en Indo-Chine de l'opium du Yunnan lorsque, par suite de circonstances avérées, il n'est pas au pouvoir des autorités provinciales d'interdire la culture de l'opium, encore moins de réprimer la contrebande, qui ne manquerait pas de se produire, tout au détriment de la Régie indo-chinoise, si les marchés de la frontière ouverts par la convention de 1887 étaient arbitrairement fermés.\n\nLa restriction de la consommation de l'opium en Indo-Chine et la surveillance très stricte exercée par la douane française sur la frontière sino-annamite ne peuvent apparaître que comme des mesures destinées à faciliter grandement la tâche des autorités provinciales au Yunnan.\n\nLa hausse extraordinaire des prix à Calcutta, encore signalée en mars dernier au Conseil législatif des Indes, n'est peut-être pas étrangère au malaise qui pèse actuellement sur le marché de l'opium, en Chine comme ailleurs. Il est inutile de dire que, placée entre deux centres de production, la Régie de l'Indo-Chine n'hésiterait pas à s'approvisionner de préférence dans l'Inde anglaise si les prix y devenaient sensiblement égaux, ou tout au moins comparables à ceux du Yunnan.\n\nC'est une préoccupation de cette nature, le désir de soustraire à l'influence d'une spéculation excessive un produit brut dont la vente fait l'objet d'un monopole dans la plupart des pays, qui avait sans doute inspiré, lors de la réunion de la conférence de l'opium de La Haye, les démarches officieuses de certains délégués; mais il ne semble pas que ces délégués aient reçu quelque encouragement à cet égard.\n\nLa question de la délimitation de l'exportation d'opium indien vers l'Indo-Chine aux quantités strictement requises par la Régie de cette colonie ne présente pas en elle-même un intérêt suffisant pour justifier un accord spécial. Cette question pourrait, toutefois, être envisagée au cas où le Gouvernement des Indes verrait la possibilité de conclure un accord particulier avec le Gouvernement de l'Indo-Chine pour l'approvisionnement direct de la Régie indo-chinoise dans des conditions écartant l'aléa excessif qui résulte actuellement de la spéculation exercée par les intermédiaires. Une certaine stabilisation des prix, à un taux normal, en faveur de l'Indo-Chine, peut seule assurer, en retour, la régularité de ses achats aux Indes.\n\nLe Ministre des Affaires Étrangères ne peut enfin confirmer les informations communiquées par Sir Francis Bertie dans sa nouvelle note du 11 septembre que sous la forme énoncée au début même de la présente note, à savoir, que le Gouvernement de l'Indo-Chine n'envisage nullement la conclusion d'un accord spécial avec le Gouvernement provincial du Yunnan, mais que l'importation de l'opium du Yunnan en Indo-Chine, pour le compte de la Régie, reste toujours possible en conformité avec la Convention franco-chinoise de 1887.\n\nM. Poincaré saisit, &c. Paris, le 14 septembre, 1912.\n\n## **OPIUM.**\n## **CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`[39834]`\n\n## No. 1.\n\n## [September 2]\n\n| SECTIE | 1.32 |\n| ------- | ----- |\n| REC     |       |\n| REG     | 21 OCT 12 |\n\nMr. Wingfield to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 23.) (**No. 133. Confidential.**) Sir,\n\nLisbon, September 16, 1912. IN continuation of my despatch No. 132 of the 6th instant, I have the honour to transmit herewith translation of a memorandum which has been privately communicated to me by Colonel Freire d'Andrade on the subject of the opium traffic at Macao. This memorandum admits \"defective administrative action\" at Macao, and proposes reforms which would include a reduction of the quantity imported to 840 chests, and still further in order to approximate the amount imported into Hong Kong, but asks whether the limit in the Hong Kong contract can be or has been exceeded, as the Portuguese Colonial Office are led to believe is possible under clause 2.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Translation.) (Private.)\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\n**CHARLES WINGFIELD.**\n\nMemorandum communicated to Mr. Wingfield.\n\nTo His Excellency the Director-General of Commercial and Consular Affairs,\n\nIN continuation of the despatch from this department of the 24th August last and in reply to your Excellency's despatches of 6th July and 22nd August, I am instructed by his Excellency the Minister of the Colonies to inform you that a careful examination of the Macao opium question has given rise to the following observations and considerations. On the part of the British Government, it is stated that for local consumption and exportation from Macao 440 chests of opium are sufficient. On the part of the Governor of Macao, it is asserted that during the period of the previous contract (1903-1909) the monthly average for local consumption was 53 chests and for exportation 153, amounting to 630 for local consumption and 1,830 for exportation per year. At the present moment, however, owing to the adoption of the restrictive measures taken in accordance with the resolutions of the Shanghai Conference, a large reduction took place both in the local consumption, which dropped to an average of 38 chests per month, and in the exports, which dropped to a monthly average of 61 chests, that is, 450 chests for consumption and 732 for exportation annually. In the meanwhile, the limit of the existing contract (1910-1913) was 20,000 \"bolas\" (500 chests) of opium for local consumption and 60,000 (1,500 chests) for exportation, with a successive annual reduction of 10 and 15 per cent. respectively. Notwithstanding the relative extent of the monopoly concession, it is, however, certain that the highest price offered, that at which adjudication was made, was 148,750 patacas (66:937$500 - 13,3881), whereas during the former period (1903-1909) the sum paid was 334,000 patacas (150:300$000 30,060). In the meantime, while the 1910 adjudication at Macao was for 148,750 patacas with a margin of 2,000 chests or 80,000 \"bolas\" at Hong Kong, with a limit of 900 chests or 36,000 \"bolas,\" the revenue of the monopoly amounts to 1,200,000 patacas (540:000$000 108,000). This Directorate-General cannot help recording the impression caused by such a flagrant contrast, and would be glad if it were possible to explain this by reasons other than those arising from the defective administrative action at Macao, in connection with this and other monopolies, in spite of the most persistent recommendations made in order that contracts and customs regulations should be strictly adhered to and observed, and especially for the purpose of preventing smuggling, so that our international engagements should be carried out. Directorate-General for the Colonies is naturally anxious to defend the interests of the Colony of Macao by safeguarding its principal revenue, and while bearing this in mind, it recognises the fact that it is only fair and justifiable that the neighbouring Colony of Hong Kong should seek to guarantee and ensure its own revenues. Following this same \n\n`[2644 z—3]` \n\n## 127",
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        "content_text": "28\n\nCHILE:\n\nHis Exc. JORGE HUNEEUS, E. E. & M. P. at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate,\n\nCHINA:\n\nHis Exc. W. W. YEN, E. E. & M. P. at Berlin, First Plenipotentiary Delegate. Dr. WU LIEN-TEH, M. A., M. D. (Cambridge) Surgeon Major, Director of the Medical Service, Physician of the Foreign Office, Plenipotentiary Delegate.\n\nCOLOMBIA:\n\nMr. CH. HEYSCHEMÖLLER, Consul at Rotterdam, Delegate.\n\nCOSTA RICA:\n\nHis Exc. MANUEL M. DE PERALTA, E. E. & M. P. at Paris and the Hague, Delegate.\n\nDENMARK:\n\nMr. J. G. DE GREVENKOP CASTENSKJOLD, Minister Resident at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.\n\nDOMINICAN REPUBLIC:\n\nHis Exc. Dr. José LAMARCHE, E. E. & M. P., Delegate.\n\nECUADOR:\n\nHis Exc. JORGE HUNEEUS, E. E. & M. P. of Chile at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.\n\nSPAIN:\n\nMr. MANUEL GARCIA DE ACILU Y BENITO, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nFRANCE:\n\nHis Exc. MARCELLIN PELLET, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nGREAT BRITAIN:\n\nMr. WILLIAM GRENFELL, MAX-MÜLLER C. B., M. V. O., Counsellor of Embassy, Delegate.\n\nSir WILLIAM J. COLLINS, D. L., M. D., F. R. C. S., former President of the London City Council, Delegate.\n\nHAITI:\n\nMr. STENIO VINCENT, Chargé d'Affaires at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nITALY:\n\nMarquis ALEXANDRE COMPANS DE BRICHANTEAU, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nJAPAN:\n\nMr. JUMPEI SHINOBU, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nLUXEMBURG:\n\nHis Exc. Baron ALBÉRIC FALLON, E. E. & M. P. of Belgium at the Hague, Delegate.\n\n29\n\nMEXICO:\n\nHis Exc. FEDERICO GAMBOA, E. E. & M. P. at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.\n\nTHE NETHERLANDS:\n\nMr. J. T. CREMER, Former Minister of the Colonies, Former President of the Netherlands Commercial Company, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, First Delegate.\n\nDr. C. TH. VAN DEVENTER, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, Delegate.\n\nMr. A. A. DE JONGH, Former Inspector General, Chief of the Opium Regie in the Dutch East Indies, Delegate.\n\nDr. J. G. SCHEURER, Member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, Delegate.\n\nPORTUGAL:\n\nHis Exc. ANTONIO MARIA BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.\n\nRUSSIA:\n\nHis Exc. A. SWÉTCHINE, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate. Professor STANISLAS PRZIBYTEK, Member of the Academy of Medicine at St. Petersburg, Delegate.\n\nSIAM:\n\nHis Exc. PHYA SUDHAM MAITRI, E. E. & M. P. at London, Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.\n\nMr. WILLIAM J. ARCHER, Counsellor of the Legation at London and the Hague, Delegate.\n\nthe Conference,\n\nIn a series of meetings held from July 1st to ... having examined the question submitted to it by paragraph 2 of article 23 of the International Opium Convention of January 23, 1912, (has decided that the deposit of ratifications may now take place).\n\nand unanimously adopted the following resolution:\n\nDesiring to continue, in the direction indicated by the International Commission of Shanghai of 1909 and by the First Conference at the Hague in 1912, the progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine and cocaine, as well as of the drugs prepared or derived from these substances, and more than ever convinced of the necessity and mutual advantage of an international agreement on this matter, the Second International Opium Conference,\n\n1st. Expresses the wish that the Government of the Netherlands may be pleased to inform the Governments of Austria-Hungary, Norway and Sweden that the signature, ratification, preparation of legislative measures, and the enforcement of the Convention, constitute four distinct stages which allow these Powers to proceed at once to supplemental signature,\n\nIndeed, it is provided by Articles 23 and 24 that a period of six months may elapse between the enforcement of the Convention and the preparation of bills, regulations and other measures contemplated by the Convention. Also, the third paragraph of Article 24 allows the Contracting Powers to come to an agreement after ratification, as to the date of the enactment of such legislative measures.\n\n289\n\nThe ...",
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        "content_text": "36\n\nto Her Majesty the Queen and our thanks to the Government of the Netherlands for the hospitality that they have extended to us.\n\nIn your name also, Gentlemen, I thank our honorable President Mr. CREMER for the zeal with which he has conducted our discussions. He has fully justified the confidence which we have placed in him.\n\nHis Exc. Mr. Lloyd Bryce said: I wish as a Delegate, also to thank Her Majesty the Queen and the Netherlands Government for the hearty cooperation and assistance they have rendered us in bringing our Conference to the stage of development it has already reached, a stage which leaves no doubt as to the future, and from which there will be no recession, but always advance. To have contributed to this end is a proud distinction for any Government.\n\nPerhaps it may even be permitted me to touch a more personal note. To avoid seeming to detach His Exc. the Minister for Foreign Affairs from his Government let me address him further, and not instead, in his additional capacity of Honorary President of this Conference. I desire to pay a well-deserved tribute to the unfailing kindness and consideration which he has shown to all. Though not presiding in person he has presided in spirit and he has made us feel, while in this beautiful city, so to speak, in the house of our kinsmen, yes with such success that I for one am often inclined to forget whether I am in Washington or in the Hague. Please do not attribute it to any Trans-Atlantic tendencies of a monopolistic nature if my Delegation at least claim him as half its own. His long and distinguished service in our country, in this too and in other lands has fitted him for the role of the ideal International host.\n\nLet me also put myself on record in expressing our sincerest thanks for the patient, considerate, and impartial manner in which the actual President of this Conference His Exc. Mr. CREMER has conducted the business of its sessions. His notable career in both orient and occident not to forget the part he played in the Hudson Fulton celebrations, attended by Delegates from all the world have made him not only personally known but a friend to many here, while all recognise him as an international asset of the greatest value in the good work we are trying to accomplish.\n\nThere has been so much said, and so much well said, on this question of opium however that there seems nothing left to say. Perhaps my colleagues will not regret the admission.\n\nBut the harmony, good feeling and unanimity which have marked our discussions argue well not only for this Conference but for the Great Cause viz—the International settlement of matters in which the world is interested. Concerning one among the many important questions which have already received the stamp of universal approval let me relate a curious little incident: yet in its effect it is big in suggestiveness as to the future of civilization. I approach it with diffidence, because at the first hearing it may almost arouse a smile.\n\nSome little while ago I was instructed by cable from my Government to inform the Government of Luxemburg that on the levees of New Orleans had been found at 3.30 in the afternoon a dead rat examination was proved to have died of bubonic plague. This information was (laughter) which on flashed by telegraph to every civilized Government, in accordance with the International Sanitary Convention, signed at Paris, January 17, 1912. Yes, from one point of view my recital might well arouse a smile, but when you consider the effect of such detailed information imparted simultaneously to the further corners of the world as a warning of danger to come, I can think of no greater tribute to the kind of work the Hague is doing.\n\nMr. Carnegie, has just written me to say that he will be present at the opening of the Peace Palace. To be sure, it will be a long time before wars cease and the Millennium arrives. Just at this moment the peace movement\n\n37\n\nmay seem just a trifle retarded, but I think we can attribute to the influence of the Hague the fact that the war now in the near East has been confined to that quarter, this could hardly have been the case ten or fifteen years ago. Yes, it is my firm conviction the Peace Conferences held here have not been in vain. On the contrary they have created an atmosphere of conciliation throughout the world, which already has sensibly affected the great family of nations.\n\nIn short, the Hague by furthering international cooperation along the line of beneficent legislation is making the world a better, a happier, and a healthier place for human habitation. To this end the Opium Conference closing today has played in my opinion no insignificant part.\n\n(Applause.)\n\nThe President said:\n\nThe complimentary words that you have just heard have greatly touched me and I sincerely thank you for them.\n\nThe reason that our labors have been so agreeable and that you all, Gentlemen, particularly the Editing Committee and their collaborators, have rendered such assiduous cooperation is due, I am sure, to the conviction that our conflict with one of the evils of humanity must be crowned by success, despite the difficulties to be overcome; the conviction that we acknowledge defeat.\n\ncan never\n\nThe First Conference pointed out to us the road to follow, along which we have just taken another step, but it is with regret that we realize that the promised land is, perhaps, still distant.\n\nThis is only because all the Powers who were asked to join us are not represented here. Whatever may be the reasons for this absence, I am more than ever convinced of the truth of the old saying that \"those who are absent are wrong\". Let us all strive, therefore, Gentlemen, and let our Governments join in firm but friendly effort, to persuade those whose absence is so deplored soon to unite with us, so that the structure of which we have laid the foundation and sketched the outline may be completed without delay. In order that this goal may be attained, let us hope that the black war-clouds which now obscure a portion of our European heavens and hamper our peaceful task may soon forever disappear.\n\nGentlemen, before we disperse I deem it our duty as the Minister of France has already proposed to express how greatly we appreciate the hospitality that we have enjoyed during our visit to this city. I therefore beg to discharge a last duty by proposing that the following telegram be addressed to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands on behalf of the Conference:\n\n\"At the termination of their labors, the Delegates of the Powers assembled for the Second International Opium Conference beg to express to Your Majesty their sincere appreciation of the gracious hospitality extended to them by Your Majesty's Government. They beg to tender to Your Majesty their respectful homage and their sincere wishes for a prosperous reign.\"\n\nOne more but no less agreeable task that devolves upon me a task, that has already been partly accomplished by the former speakers — is to express our deep gratitude to our distinguished Honorary President, His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who, after opening our Conference with an address, has been so kind as to facilitate our task by lending his valuable assistance.\n\nYou will unite with me, Gentlemen, in expressing our thanks to the Secretariat. Owing to their zeal and to that of the members of the National Printing Office, the documents so necessary during our labors have been prepared in good time and distributed to all.\n\nAnd now, Gentlemen, permit your President, before relinquishing this place to your Honorary President, to thank you cordially for your kind indulgence and to wish you a happy return to your homes.\n\n293\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n7 JAN 14\n\nOpen Traffic in Kwangchowwan\n\nDespatch, for concurrence, draft of proposed despatch to Paris\n\nOn\n\nThe draft despatch is composed of the substance of Fur & May's conference despatch (E/17/50/13). In that paper Sir F.M. said that the amount of opium actually consumed in Kwangchowwan in 1912 was so small as to be negligible.\n\nCopy\n\nAus d 14 Jan corres: For Conf.\n\nStraits Conf.\n\ncones:\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n3.0.\n\n295-9\n\nban in them for suggest the alteration of the passage marked A on pil. I the out Suffert this tots. pointing out that the actual figures (88,196) $1,088—18, 45,000, 12/18. &E W.\n\nwere from mo para 2(4) 180 117758/13\n\nPage 233\n\n...\n\nPage 233\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n70 39 233\n\n771\n\nFROM\n\nForeign Office\n\n14\n\nW\n\n4\n\nH\n\n4\n\nW\n\nH\n\nL\n\n↑\n\n4\n\nL\n\nJ\n\nDATE\n\nSUBJECT\n\nsupé opium conference.\n\n120\n\n2,\n\n& date of I Ford. Deceased. Draft on China companies) & in 0. Opium convention.\n\n22\n\n125-\n\nFrener\n\n124\n\n130\n\nLA\n\nbuilway discussion in China\n\naaim of China commercial. J. §. 6°\n\n14 May 2; cum Conference-\n\n66\n\n7\".3\n\n2.\n\n22\n\n123\n\n20\n\npuum.\n\nreportation of unacurable Chinese. Kwangtung. \"Note Josul.\n\npum Convention.\n\nSpranim v. The King\n\nKisey in southern Chinese Waters. \"wrady of the \"Fai on\".\n\n26. Appeal of Torahim.\n\n130\n\n-\n\nProjected Railway from Wuchow to,\n\nJune opium convention.\n\n36 Spium.\n\n→\n\nit\n\n4\n\nSedition mony\n\nfuum\n\nmingtou\n\nsikh community at\n\nchium convention.\n\n15- Piracy in Chinese Waters.\n\n14. Piracy\n\n•\n\n23\n\n23.\n\nThe\n\n*\n\n27-\n\nH\n\n27 30\n\n30\n\n+\n\non the tai on\".\n\nspium convention.\n\nconference\n\non Joratiem.\n\ncxpital sintence on\n\nLankou.\n\nGraft china companies) in 6.\n\nForeign\n\n1914\n\n6 Jan?",
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Félix von Müller, Privy Counsellor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate.\n\nUnited States of America: Dr. Hamilton Wright, Special Commissioner of the Department of State, delegate; His Excellency Mr. Lloyd Bryce, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate; Mr. Gerrit John Kollen, President Emeritus of Hope College, Professor of Mathematics, delegate.\n\nArgentine Republic: Dr. François de Veyga, delegate.\n\nBelgium: His Excellency Baron Albéric Fallon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate.\n\nUnited States of Brazil: His Excellency M. J. Graça Aranha, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate.\n\nChile: His Excellency M. Jorje Huneeus, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.\n\nChina: His Excellency M. W. W. Yen, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin, First Delegate Plenipotentiary; Dr. Wu Lien-Teh, M.A., M.D. (Cambridge), Surgeon-Major, Director of the Medical Service, Physician of the Foreign Office, Delegate Plenipotentiary.\n\nColombia: M. Ch. Hischemöller, Consul at Rotterdam, delegate.\n\nCosta Rica: His Excellency M. Manuel M. de Peralta, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris and at The Hague, delegate.\n\nDenmark: M. J. G. de Grevenkop Castenskjold, Minister Resident at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.\n\nDominican Republic: His Excellency Dr. José Lamarche, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, delegate.\n\nEcuador: His Excellency M. Jorje Huneeus, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Chile at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.\n\nSpain: M. Manuel Garcia de Acilu y Benito, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at The Hague, delegate.\n\nFrance: His Excellency M. Marcellin Pellet, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate.\n\nGreat Britain: Mr. William Grenfell Max Müller, C.B., M.V.O., Counsellor of Embassy, delegate; Sir William J. Collins, D.L., M.D., F.R.C.S., former Chairman of the London County Council, delegate.\n\nHayti: M. Stenio Vincent, Chargé d'Affaires at The Hague, delegate.\n\nItaly: Marquis Alexandre Compans de Brichanteau, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at The Hague, delegate.\n\nJapan: M. Jumpei Shinobu, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at The Hague, delegate.\n\nLuxemburg: His Excellency Baron Albéric Fallon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.\n\nUnited States of Mexico: His Excellency M. Frederico Gamboa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.\n\nThe Netherlands: M. J. T. 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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nLes Puissances, dont la signature n'a pas été obtenue à la date du 1er novembre, 1913, sont les suivantes :\n\n- L'Autriche-Hongrie\n- La Roumanie\n- L'Uruguay\n- Le Monténégro\n- La Serbie\n- La Bulgarie\n- La Grèce\n- La Suisse\n- La Turquie\n\n- Signé le 27 décembre, 1913. [Promises to sign shortly.]\n- [Minister at Brussels authorised to sign as soon as possible.]\n- Signé le 22 décembre, 1913. [Minister at Paris authorised to sign.]\n- Signé le 29 décembre, 1913.\n\nLa convention a été ratifiée par le Danemark, le Siam, le Guatemala, le Honduras, le Vénézuela,\n\n## No. 1.\n### Sir Edward Grey to Sir W. Collins\n\n**Foreign Office, January 6, 1913**\n\nI HAVE read with interest and satisfaction the report which you have drawn up in conjunction with Mr. Max Müller of the proceedings at the International Opium Conference, 1913.\n\nWhile regretting that the results of the Conference are, through force of circumstances, not more immediately apparent, I agree that very considerable progress has been made, and the number of countries which since the termination of the Conference have either signed or promised to sign the Opium Convention bears ample testimony to the fact.\n\nI have no doubt that the success of the Conference was in no small measure due to the labours of the British delegates, and I desire to convey to you my cordial thanks for the services which you have rendered, and to express my hearty appreciation of the able and tactful manner in which you carried out your instructions.\n\n*Also to Mr. Max Müller, mutatis mutandis.*\n\nI am, &c.\nE. GREY.\n\nPour le Vénézuela  \nPour le Brésil ...  \nPour l'Argentine  \nPour l'Espagne  \nPour la République dominicaine  \nPour le Paraguay  \n\n2  \nPour le Danemark (pour le Danemark, l'Islande et les Antilles danoises)  \nPour la Colombie (sous réserve de l'approbation du Corps législatif de la Colombie)  \nPour la République de Cuba  \nPour la Bolivie  \nPour le Chili  \nPour le Nicaragua  \nPour le Pérou  \nPour la Suède (sous réserve de la déclaration suivante: \"L'opium n'étant pas fabriqué en Suède, le Gouvernement suédois se contentera pour le moment de prohiber l'importation de l'opium préparé, mais se déclare en même temps prêt à prendre les mesures visées dans l'article 8 de la convention, si l'expérience en démontre l'opportunité\")  \nPour la Norvège  \n\nle 10 septembre, 1912  \nle 16 octobre,  \nle 17 octobre,  \nle 23 octobre,  \nle 12 novembre,  \nle 14 décembre,  \nle 17 décembre,  \nle 15 janvier, 1913  \nle 8 mai,  \nle 4 juin,  \nle 2 juillet,  \nle 18 juillet,  \nle 24 juillet,  \nle 27 août,  \nle 2 septembre  \n\n| Date        | Event                                      |\n|-------------|--------------------------------------------|\n| le 10 septembre, 1912 |  |\n| le 16 octobre,      |  |\n| le 17 octobre,      | 11 |\n| le 23 octobre,      | +  |\n| le 12 novembre,     | 22 |\n| le 14 décembre,     | 23 |\n| le 17 décembre,     | OPIUM. 53 |\n| le 15 janvier, 1913 | CONFIDENTIAL. |\n| le 8 mai,           | \"J |\n| le 4 juin,          | 55 |\n| le 2 juillet,       | [57230] |\n| le 18 juillet,      | F1 |\n| le 24 juillet,      | J |\n| le 27 août,         |  |\n| le 2 septembre,     | 25 |\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]  \nC. C. 347  \n!3187  \n+ CR  \nPage 363  \nSI APR 14  \n[January 6.]  \n[2032 ƒ-1]",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n**(No. 2.) Sir,**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**British Opium Delegates to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 29.)**\n\nThe Hague, June 25, 1914. We have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of the Final Protocol of the Third Opium Conference, which was signed to-day by the delegates of the Governments represented at the Conference.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER. W. J. COLLINS.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Final Protocol of Third Opium Conference, 1914.**\n\nLa troisième Conférence internationale de l'Opium, convoquée par le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas en vertu du vœu No. 3 émis par la deuxième Conférence, s'est réunie à La Haye, dans le Palais des Comtes, le 15 juin, 1914.\n\nLes Gouvernements dont l'énumération suit ont pris part à la Conférence, pour laquelle ils avaient désigné les délégués nommés ci-après:\n\n| Government | Delegate(s) |\n| --- | --- |\n| L'Allemagne | Son Excellence M. Félix de Müller, Conseiller intime actuel, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| Les États-Unis d'Amérique | Son Excellence Mr. Henry van Dyke, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué; Mr. Charles Denby, Consul général à Vienne, Délégué. |\n| La République argentine | M. le Dr. François de Veyga, Professeur honoraire à la Faculté de Médecine de Buenos-Ayres, Inspecteur général du Service de Santé de l'armée argentine (S.R.), Délégué. |\n| La Belgique | Son Excellence M. le Baron Albéric Fallon, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| Les Etats-Unis du Brésil | Son Excellence M. José Pereira da Graça Aranha, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| Le Chili | Son Excellence M. Jorje Huneeus, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à Bruxelles et à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| La Chine | Son Excellence Mr. Yen Hui-Ching, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à Berlin, Délégué; son Excellence Mr. T'ang Tsai-fou, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| Le Danemark | M. J. G. de Grevenkop Castenskjold, Ministre-Résident à Bruxelles et à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| La République dominicaine | Son Excellence M. le Dr. José Lamarche, Envoyé et Ministre plénipotentiaire, Délégué. |\n| L'Equateur | M. Miguel A. Seminario, Chargé d'Affaires à Bruxelles, Délégué. |\n| L'Espagne | Son Excellence D. Fernando Osorio y Elola, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| La France | Son Excellence M. Marcellin Pellet, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| La Grande-Bretagne | Mr. William Grenfell Max Müller, C.B., M.V.O., Conseiller d'Ambassade, Consul général à Budapest, Délégué; Sir William J. Collins, K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.S., ancien Président du Conseil municipal de Londres, Délégué. |\n| Le Guatemala | M. José María Lardizabal, Chargé d'Affaires à Paris et à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| L'Haïti | M. Stenio Vincent, Chargé d'Affaires à La Haye, Délégué. |\n| L'Italie | Son Excellence M. le Comte Joseph Sallier de la Tour, Duc de Calvello, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué. |\n\n...\n\n2. or abstention of Northern and Southern Rhodesia may be regarded as a matter of small importance from the point of view of the international control of the trade in opium, morphia, and cocaine, yet it would be advantageous from the point of view of the universality of agreement which is being aimed at.\n\n2. I propose also, if you concur, to inform the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that the convention may be signed on behalf of Basutoland, Swaziland, and the Bechuanaland Protectorate.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nL HARCOURT.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC.O. 175 [B] 30645 OPIUM. RECO REC 17 AUG 14 June 29.\n\nPage 180\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "44\n\nThe position, therefore, is that the British, French and Russian Governments published the whole of their records at an early date. Italy also has published her records; Germany has done so only in part. From the publications we possess it is possible to observe the attitude of all the Powers, and to come to a decision as to what nations sincerely wished for peace, and what nations desired, not peace, but war. The facts will be stated as they appear in these documents. Let the reader draw his own conclusions.\n\nJune 28th, 1914. On this day the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary and his Princess paid a state visit to the town of Serajevo in Bosnia, the capital of the two provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. When entering the town, the Crown Prince and Princess narrowly escaped being killed by a bomb which was thrown at their carriage. Later in the day they were shot by assassins armed with pistols.\n\nJuly 3rd. The Crown Prince and Princess were buried, and infuriated mobs in Vienna tried to tear down the flag on the Serbian Legation.\n\nJuly 6th. On this date the German Emperor left Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.\n\nJuly 7th. There was a conference of Austrian Ministers with the Military and Naval chiefs of staff, and a seven hours Ministerial Council on the Serajevo tragedy.\n\nJuly 9th. On this day the results of the Austrian investigations into the Serajevo crime and the decisions of the Council having been laid before the aged Austrian Emperor, he agreed to the decision of his Council. This fact was announced on the 10th, but neither the result of the investigations, nor the decision of the Council was disclosed to the public.\n\nJuly 13th, 14th. There were serious disclosures in France concerning the condition of the French Army and its unpreparedness for war. These disclosures undoubtedly strengthened the hands of the German military party, who believed it would be easy for them to sweep rapidly on to Paris, beat France to the ground, then swiftly turn round with all its forces on Russia.\n\nJuly 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th. Heavy selling of shares took place in the Canadian Pacific Railways by Berlin dealers. The Canadian Railway is a British Limited Liability Company, and Germans, probably with inside knowledge of Germany's plans, were evidently desirous of obtaining their money before war broke out.\n\nJuly 16th. Austria-Hungary has two Parliaments, one in Austria, the other in Hungary. On this date, the Prime Minister of Hungary, who later became Prime Minister of Austria-Hungary, declared in the Hungarian Parliament that war was now a sad necessity. This was a week before Austria sent her demands to Serbia.\n\nJuly 23rd, Thursday. Austria, having secretly made her warlike preparations, now for the first time disclosed her intentions towards Serbia, without publishing any proof of the Serbian guilt. Austria now forwarded a formal despatch containing certain demands. These demands took the form of an ultimatum, and their acceptance by the Serbian Government in toto was required within 48 hours. The ultimatum included a form of apology to be published on a specified date by the Serbian Government, and ten engagements which the Serbian Government were to accept. These engagements were of so humiliating a character that acceptance would have made Serbia a vassal of Austria. They were so worded that it was evident Austria did not expect or want them to be accepted. On the contrary, the terms clearly indicate that Austria expected and wanted immediate war, so that she could swiftly occupy Belgrade, the Serbian capital, which is close to the Austrian border.\n\nThe British Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, having received a brief summary of the ultimatum, interviewed the Austrian Ambassador to England, and deplored the fixing of a time limit as a first step. He pointed out that the possible consequences of the situation were terrible, probably involving all Europe in a war. He urged that Austria and Russia should enter into a discussion to settle the Serbian difficulty.\n\nJuly 24th, Friday. This was an anxious day in the Chancelleries of Europe, the beginning of many anxious days. The complete details of the ultimatum were not communicated to the other Powers of Europe until this day, thus giving them only one clear day for action. Moreover, whether accidentally or purposely, no more extraordinary time could have been chosen for the delivery of the ultimatum, for important personages were absent from home. In this grave time of crisis, whether accidentally or intentionally, the German Emperor was absent on a cruise. The President and Prime Minister of France were on a State visit to Russia, and had instantly to curtail their visit and rush back a five days' journey to Paris. As the British Ambassador in Russia telegraphed to Sir Edward Grey: \"It looks as though Austria purposely chose this moment to present her ultimatum.\" The Emperor of Austria was away from the Capital, at Ischl, and after the issue of the ultimatum the Prime Minister also left the Capital for Ischl, so that there was no responsible statesman in the Austrian Capital with whom to discuss. Can anyone doubt that the issue of the ultimatum had been timed to make discussion by the nations useless? In other words, that war had been pre-arranged by Germany and Austria!\n\nIt is absolutely certain that Germany was consulted by Austria before the ultimatum was issued, because Austria was entirely dependent upon German support in case of war with Russia. It cannot be doubted also that Germany agreed to the ultimatum before it was issued.\n\nAt any rate, the German Government lost no time in informing the Powers that it approved the Austrian note, stating that it considered the demands \"equitable and moderate,\" and that Austria's action had the unhesitating approval of the German Government. The German Government also stated that the Austrian action was rendered necessary by the Pan-Serbian propaganda, which aimed at the incorporation with Serbia of the southern Slav provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina; that if Austria wished to remain a great Power it could not avoid pressing the demands made, even by military means; and that the question was one which concerned no Powers except Austria and Serbia.\n\nRussia was unable to agree that the Austrian demands were only directed against Serbia. Serbia is a country peopled by Slavs, of the same race as Russia, and Russia stood...\n\n495",
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        "content_text": "# CANADA AND INDIA\n\nThe British Empire is apparently a disqualification. I do not wish to speak of retaliation, but, in my humble opinion, no so-called reciprocity will be worth anything if the colonist be not taught to respect the golden rule and to realize that the Indian's country is not for him to exploit at his sweet will. I have every hope that since out of evil cometh good, one beneficial result of this war will be that racial antagonism will to a large extent die out, and the white man will recognize that the brown or black man who fought side by side with him and shed his blood without stint does not deserve to be, and cannot be, despised. The time is coming for the adjustment of our differences in a true statesmanlike spirit, which will not divorce morality from politics and which will steer clear not only of all petty selfish prejudices, but also of all narrow, short-sighted, and degrading considerations. A fair settlement is all that we ask for.-Dr. Satish Chandra Banerji, in the **Indian Review**.\n\n## QUESTION UNDER CONSIDERATION\n\nIn regard to the \"representation\" referred to in the above article, and which was reprinted in full in the preceding number of **Canada and India** under the title \"The Status of Indians Within the Empire,\" this statement is made in the **Indian Review**, July: \"In connection with the memorial submitted to the Government on the question of the position of Indians in the colonies, and particularly in Canada, by the United Provinces Congress Committee, a reply has been received from the Government of the United Provinces, which says the whole question is under consideration of the Government of India, and matters dealt with in the memorial will receive their earnest attention in any negotiations which may be undertaken with the Colonial Governments with a view to arriving at a satisfactory solution of the difficulties which have arisen.\"\n\n## EMIGRATION AFTER THE WAR\n\nThe following expression of opinion regarding Indian emigration has an added interest because taken from an Anglo-Indian paper: \"The Governments of the Dominions must be prepared to cope with that spirit of adventure, and if they are wise they will prepare well beforehand, not in the old compromising spirit, but in a desire to deal justly and honourably with a proud race. The Government of India, too, must prepare by affording facilities for opening up Mesopotamia, that land of ancient glory and fertility, and by encouraging enterprise in the borderlands of India. It must remove restrictions that hamper the mobility of labour and operate against industries that need workers. But when the Government of India has done all that is possible to do to keep the labour it so badly needs itself in India, there will still remain a number of adventurous souls who will turn to distant lands. These are the men with whom our Dominions must deal, and if the bitterness of the past is to be avoided an early endeavour should be made to arrive at a fair and honourable scheme for their admission.\"-**Calcutta Englishman**.\n\n## INDIA IN FINAL WAR SETTLEMENT\n\nCommenting on why India should have a voice in the final settlement of the issues of this war, the **Bombay Chronicle** says: \n\n\"In view of the beginning that has already been made in the new relations of intimate confidence and consultation with the Dominions, it is but natural that India should not only expect a measure of confidence to be extended to her, but that she should be anxious to know why responsible Ministers are loath to assure her equally with the Dominions that her aspiration will not be ignored. One would prefer to leave the public discussion of these matters on one side at the present moment, and there is every desire to avoid controversy and embarrassment to the Government, but what is to be done when we find the Minister in charge of the interests of the colonies going out of his way amidst the plaudits of the public to announce the new rights and privileges to be enjoyed by the Dominions as a direct response to their services and loyal devotion to the Mother Country in the war, while the Minister for India is silent as to the part which India is to be allowed to play? In the face of the loquacity of Mr. Bonar Law, the silence of Mr. Chamberlain is likely to be given a sinister interpretation in this country. It is incumbent upon the Secretary of State to announce whether India is to be consulted or not, even if he is not prepared to tell us in what form she will be represented in the Imperial Council Chamber.\"\n\n## WHAT BRITAIN SHOULD DO\n\nNow, what is the dominant note of the French civilization? It is liberty, equality, and fraternity. Perhaps it stands on an even higher moral plane than the British civilization. This high standard of moral conception of human relationship was attained by the French nation after it had passed through the volcanic stage of the Revolution. It is the next higher stage to the ideal aimed at by British culture, and is not antagonistic, but allied to it. The whole system of French Government is based on the recognition of this ideal, and the spirit of its administration is permeated by it. In the words of Mr. Cloudesley Brereton in the **Hibbert Journal**, in the modern French Empire, there is no second-class citizens. Rightly or wrongly, there is no colour line in French citizenship. The inhabitant of Senegal, of Tahiti, or Madagascar, is treated, is regarded, just as much a French citizen as the inhabitants of Paris or Marseilles; and, what is more important, he regards himself as such, and is proud of belonging to a nation which he hears described as the finest in the world. This appeal is not first and foremost to his desire for good Government, or even to his sense of justice. It is to his sense of dignity as a human creature. It is to this ideal to which the British Government must approximate in order to achieve a full measure of success in Britain's associations with India.-The **Allahabad Leader**.\n\n## A NOTABLE BIRTHDAY\n\nMr. Dadabhai Naoroji, who is called India's Grand Old Man and the father of Indian political reform, saw his 90th birthday on September 4th. It is comparatively rare for an Indian public man to attain great age, and since his retirement some years ago his birthday has been regarded as a national anniversary. Some of the leading English papers had interesting references to the event.\n\n### THE FIRST INDIAN M.P.\n\nIt is certainly interesting to recall that the little white-headed Parsee who was an energetic London member in the last Gladstonian House of Commons, was born so long ago as 1825, more than thirty years before the rule of the East India Company was merged in that of the Crown, and a long time before the gallant Sikhs, now fighting with us in Flanders and the Dardanelles, were incorporated in the British Empire. Mr. Naoroji, who kept up his activities until he was past four score, now lives in retirement near Bombay. The Viceroy always sends him a birthday telegram, and so do many other dignitaries, who bear no malice towards an old opponent, and like to think of the aged agitator as in these days a very fervent supporter of the Imperial cause.-The **Pall Mall Gazette**.\n\n### ADVOCATE OF GREAT REFORMS\n\nHe has lived to see a great part of the programme for which he fought adopted by the Imperial Government and much of his criticism of the economic basis of the Indian revenue system admitted by all impartial enquirers. When Mr. Naoroji began the labours that lasted without intermission until his final return to India, eight years ago, his countrymen were not admitted to the Indian Civil Service, or even to the Legislative Councils. They sit now in the Viceroy's Cabinet and preside over departments of State, are elected by popular franchise to seats in the Councils, and not seldom dominate the University Senates and the High Court bench. There is still a great deal to be done, as the war has made everybody realize, before the Government is brought into harmony with the reasonable claims of the Indian people. But it is rare indeed for any reformer to enjoy so great a measure of fulfilment as this fine old Indian can reflect upon to-day.-The **Manchester Guardian**.\n\n(The University of Bombay conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. on Mr. Naoroji the other day.)\n\n## CANADA\n\n### INDIA AND IMPERIAL CONFERENCE\n\nReuter's Agency at Ottawa has been busy of late. On September 23rd the following appeared in the Canadian papers: \n\nA special despatch from Simla announces that India's place in the councils of the Empire was discussed at an important meeting of the Imperial Legislative Council today, and that a resolution will be forwarded to London requesting that measures be taken to have India represented at the next Council of the Empire, as are the various overseas Dominions and dependencies.\n\nThe resolution, which was moved by the Hon. Khan Bahadur Mian Muhammad Shafi, asked that India in future be officially represented at conferences of the British Empire, the request to be forwarded to the Secretary of State for India.\n\n### VICEROY IN SYMPATHY\n\nLord Hardinge, the Viceroy, affirmed that the Government of India gladly accepted this important resolution, which had his warmest sympathy, adding that if Council adopted it his Government would readily comply with the recommendation. The Viceroy proceeded to recapitulate what had occurred at previous conferences.\n\nThe ultimate decision at the next meeting of the conference rested with the conference itself. If India were admitted, said his Excellency, it would appear reasonable that she should be represented by the Secretary and one or two other officials from India.\n\nLord Hardinge dwelt upon the difficulties and obstacles in the way of carrying out the request, but laid emphasis upon the fact that the Imperial Government, without committing themselves regarding its principles or details, would give most careful consideration to the Legislative Council's resolution, although the ultimate decision of the Imperial Government must necessarily depend largely upon the attitude of the other members of the conference. He thought this pledge eminently satisfactory, as showing due appreciation of India's claims, to which, he trusted, the Governments of the overseas Dominions would give sympathetic consideration.\n\n### BRITAIN'S BEST CUSTOMER\n\nMuch had happened since the last Imperial Conference, said the Viceroy, and India's size and population, her wealth, her military resources, and her patriotism demanded suitable representation. She could not be disregarded when great Imperial issues were debated in which she was concerned. To discuss questions of the defence of the Empire without counting upon India, he declared, would be ignoring the value of the Empire's greatest military asset, outside the United Kingdom itself. To discuss trade questions without India would be disregarding Britain's best customer. To concede India direct representation in future Imperial Conferences would be no revolutionary or far-reaching concession to Indian opinion or to her just claims.\n\n\"I feel confident,\" said Lord Hardinge in conclusion, \"that when the question is placed in its true light before the Governments of the Dominions they will regard it from the widest angle of vision, from which we hope other Indian questions may be viewed in the near future, so that the people of India may, in the words of Mr. Asquith, feel that they are conscious members of a living partnership extending all over the world under the same flag.\"\n\n### INDIA'S PLACE IN THE EMPIRE\n\nIt is right to mention here that India in a sort of way has been represented at the meetings of the Imperial Conference by the official class, but what the Indian public now want is an Indian representative of the Indian people. This is shown by the unanimous way in which the Indian members of the Council asked for it in the Council chamber.\n\n### COMMENTS OF THE CANADIAN PRESS\n\n| Newspaper        | Comment                                                                                                                                 |\n|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| **Toronto Star** | \"The question of the representation of India in the Imperial Conference is likely to become practical soon...\"                        |\n|                  | \"Why should not the representatives of India go into consultation with those of Canada?...\"                                          |\n| **Toronto World**| \"With the endorsation of the Viceroy, the Indian Council has forwarded to the Secretary of State for India a request...\"               |\n| **Mail and Empire** | \"The time has come for taking India into the Councils of the whole Empire...\"                                                       |\n| **Toronto Globe**| \"It will be interesting for British people everywhere to watch the effect of the present war and the coming peace...\"                |\n\nThe **Toronto Star** referring to it says: \"The question of the representation of India in the Imperial Conference is likely to become practical soon. At present the conference is one of self-governing commonwealths only. But it is purely advisory, has no legislative power, and there does not appear to be any insuperable difficulty in the way of allowing representatives of India to take part in a conference. Why should not the representatives of India go into consultation with those of Canada? The Imperial Legislative Council of India wants this, and their request is supported by Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy. Questions relating to Indian migration into the colonies have come before the conference, but no representative of India was present. Now, the way to settle this question of Indian migration is by friendly discussion between the representatives of India and those of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.\"\n\nThe **Toronto World** writes: \"With the endorsation of the Viceroy, the Indian Council has forwarded to the Secretary of State for India a request that India be hereafter represented at the Imperial Conference. When acknowledging its receipt, Mr. Chamberlain stated that inasmuch as the composition of the conference is a matter for the conference itself, the overseas Dominions must be consulted before a more definite reply can be given. Few, however, of those conscious of the evolution and development of the British Empire will refuse sympathetic consideration of the claim made by the Indian Government, or fail to recognize that it can be supported on real and weighty grounds.\"\n\nThe **Mail and Empire** of Toronto expresses the opinion that \"The Imperial Legislative Council will forward to London a resolution in favour of the admission of representatives of India to the Imperial Conference. The petition is not likely to be denied. Before replying to it the British Government will doubtless communicate with the several Dominion Governments, whose concurrence will decide the matter. The time has come for taking India into the Councils of the whole Empire.\"\n\nWhilst the **Toronto Globe** comments thus: \"It will be interesting for British people everywhere to watch the effect of the present war and the coming peace on the minds of the Indian peoples. The cheerful loyalty and self-sacrificing courage of the Hindu soldiers in the war have made it inevitable that some change shall take place in their status as citizens.\"\n\n### CANADA MUST BE COSMOPOLITAN\n\nAn Italian in Welland writes to the **Star** protesting against a real estate handbill in which a certain locality is described as desirable because foreigners are barred. Our correspondent is quite right in his view that the alliance of which we now form part ought to break down instead of increasing racial prejudice. It need hardly be said that we should be generous to the Hindus, who are members of the British Empire, and whose brethren are fighting for our cause in France and at the Dardanelles. A broad-minded Imperialist must necessarily be a cosmopolitan, absolutely free from racial prejudice.-The **Star**.\n\n### IS IT FAIR?\n\nWhen our Aryan forefathers broke up their homes in Southern Asia, some of them went to India. When that Empire was added to Britain, Queen Victoria gave these, our Indian cousins, her pledge (and her son Edward and her grandson George have since reiterated that pledge), in which she said: \"We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which bind us to all our other subjects.\"\n\nIn 1911, an ex-soldier from India who had settled in Canada went home to bring out his wife and child. On his return they were detained under bond of $1,000, and were admitted after three months' litigation, but only as an act of grace.\n\nAbout 2,500 of these fellow-citizens from India are in Canada, the great majority of them being Sikhs. Only five of these men's wives have thus far been admitted. Yet they are the husbands of one wife each; they are distinguished loyalists, having saved the Empire at the time of the mutiny. They have fought in Asia and Africa, and are now fighting in Europe for our \"free institutions\" with a bravery unsurpassed, and are showing a generosity which is the admiration of the Empire.\n\nIs it not time for us to think what our treatment of them on the western coast looks like to them? Is it not time for our Government to \"clean house\" in this matter? Turkish Mohammedans, who would have several wives if they dared, enjoy all the privileges of other Europeans in this Dominion, and are allowed to bring wives and children here; why should our own fellow-citizens, who are bearing the burdens of the Empire and are superior to the Mohammedan in every way, have their wives and children excluded?-**Public Health Journal**.\n\n### SIKH CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE\n\nJ. A. M. writes: \"Before even the claims of the Japanese, 'an Imperial ally,' come the Imperial rights of the Sikh, a British citizen. In his case, more than in that of the Japanese citizen, has been 'seen the conflict of Imperial and domestic considerations.' And whilst in the handling of the case of the alien there was at least a savor of diplomacy, in the handling of that of the Sikh there has been little but prevarication. Would it not be possible at this most interesting time, when Sikh and Canadian blood has flowed freely on the Flanders fields, in a blood brotherhood of opposition to the present-day enemies of humanity and freedom to speak out once more a word on their behalf?\"\n\nFor those interested who want to know more about India, we call attention to the following books, which, as well as copies of **Canada and India**, can be obtained from McAinsh & Co., Ltd., Publishers, 4 College Street, Toronto: \n1. `Web of Indian Life` by the Sister Nivedita (Margaret Noble)\n2. `Religion of the Sikhs` by Dorothy Field.",
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        "content_text": "# THE GLOBE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916.\n\n## NOTES OF THE DAY\n\nOur inability to make use of German prisoners is an embarrassment. They should be made to earn their keep by working on the land. Sixteen months ago, it was urged in \"The Globe\" that every foot of land should be cultivated and German prisoners made to work on it. It is ridiculous to keep them eating their heads off and producing nothing while farmers and fields are crying out for labour. Our harvest is late and difficult this year. The corn will be long in the fields because of the amount of bottom growth. The ploughing and cultivation of the stubbles and getting ready land for autumn-sown wheat is all-important. This year's acreage fell by 260,000 acres compared with last year's, largely because farmers lacked sufficient labour to compete with the unfavourable seed time. In the reclamation of uncultivated land, saving our coasts from erosion, and recovering land from the seas, and planting highlands with trees, much might be done by German labour to add to the country's strength, wealth, and self-supporting power.\n\n## ARE WE AT WAR?\n\nIt must be the case that some Departments of Government have not yet learned that the country is at war, or else they choose to ignore it. Thus, at the Colonial Office, they seem to have a superlative disregard for the regulations against trading with the enemy and the Acts of Parliament respecting it. In the colony of Hong Kong, alien enemy trade marks to the number of 183 were renewed after the beginning of the war. Moreover, a motion in the Legislative Council recently to expunge them and prevent the registration of any colourable imitations of them was defeated by means of the official majority. The Governor's excuse was that to carry the motion would be flying in the face of the Government and would only be vetoed. What a comment upon the Paris Economic Conference, when in the Far East, a stronghold of Hun trade, we are officially dry-nursing Hun interests. After all the blood and treasure the Allies have lavished to defeat the Germans, their trading triumphs over us are to be resumed as soon as this war is over. We wonder whether Mr. Bonar Law is really aware of the way some of his officials are acting.",
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        "content_text": "## CAEEE \n13 Jul 21 \nZaalf \n\n410 | 70 | 1916 \n---|---|---\nLast previous Paper. | Frany | To Loo. Conf. cons. 26 | 70. | 1.5 \nNext subsequent Paper. | A | TOM KONG | 33489 \n\n**¡REC** \nC \nיין \n33489 \n**REA**\" 17 JULY \nReuter Bronkelmann & Co \nChina \nJanom. Copy \n\nA letter from W. O. Paris worth Enel. respy. showing how an ... are obtained in ... \n11 Teigay va \nA reache \nMurDixon \n\nFor the method in which Shipment via H.K: are dealt with su copy of desp to UK on `58418` below \n\nI understand that Richten is on the black List, & unless he has tranches (\"mairess Succursalyn\") which have escaped being put on the black List, it ought to be impossible for any goods to reach him in a HK unless they pass through in neutral steamers, not being the Far Eastern Conference members `53153` (`90092`) \nWt. 36800-6. 45.000 12/15. BM & S.",
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        "content_text": "CIRCULATED TO DEPARTMENTS. to note the \n\nogne, I 25 in this letter peril 6 191 Sir H. Just Sir G. Fiddes Mr. Haris Mr. Johnson— Mag-Hazel 2674/6 rachey 27:\" 7574 My Green Yugkom 204.16. 294 16 Mom Butler 1.5.76 2.4.16 Mr Darnley 2/5 Mr. Battomley 74.16 Me A 1 Hamdinic Mr. Griffin Ma. Batterben Mr. Robinsol Mr. Flood Mr Dixon 28.4 6 2647 45/16 Mr Calder 24.4 Mr. Cooke 29!. Mr. Croome Mr. Beckett 2/5- Mir tachuana 26416 2874 22074 My Authoring 2.2 Mustatory m Clarke Mr. Westbrook 3.5 16 2814. tena 2/5/16. Am Beich 2714 hotilin \n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to— \n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India, Revenue Department, London, S.W. India Office, and the following reference quoted :— \n`INDIA OFFICE, WHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W.` \nApril, 1913 \n`R.S.105e.` 16763 238 1. 316 \n\n## \n### \nSir, \n**REC REG 7 APK TO** \n\nWith reference to Sir R. Ritchie's letter `R.&.S.3278` of the 2nd January 1912 and connected correspondence on the subject of the Hague Opium Conference and the cocaine question, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward for submission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India in the Commerce & Industry Department drawing attention to the continuance of the illicit traffic in cocaine in India and the difficulties experienced in dealing with it in the absence of control over the distribution of the drug in the countries of manufacture.\n\nIf information as to the development of new sources of supply comes to the notice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies I am to ask that it may be communicated to this Department for transmission to the Government of India.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 9th February, 1917.\n\nI have the honour to forward for your consideration copies of correspondence which has passed between this Government and the Secretary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce on the subject of suggested legislation throughout the Empire that all Government Departments and others spending public money should purchase Empire-made goods and contract only with British firms.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c..\n\nTEX. 30/417.\n\nPage 30\n\nWe are guided by the matter ignoring declinations,\n\nwhich arise from the R.C.J. Circular;\n\nour duty is to follow the line that questions of\n\nthis kind\n\nwill be comprehensively dealt with in the replies to the particular\n\nlady out the Resolution\n\nat the Paris Conference.\n\n? Should we not reply that it is with necessity that my actions should be taken on the\n\nDepartment R.C.J. Circular (see despatch no. 45789,\n\nI love the matter, the subject matter\n\nof\n\nthis despatch with us doubt be fully dealt with in a Circular\n\nof\n\nthe 25th January last. (verify date) corrected\n\nto C.A. as Mr. Cleves proposes\n\nand copy to C.A. as\n\nNo.\n\nREG. 2017\n\n20328\n\nREC.\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nWALTER LONG, M.P.\n\n&c.,\n\n&o...\n\nYes 8830.4.17\n\non Despatch\n\nIs date correct\n\n47'3\n\n$157:\n\nYes 25 Top 161",
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        "content_text": "\"ing as far as possible a free port,\" it is the considered opinion of the Government of the Colony that we must not allow our sentiment of detestation of the crimes committed by the Germans to outweigh the practical contribution which their presence here on the old terms would make to the future prosperity of the Colony! It is an amazing message to go forth to the world from a British Colony at the present time. We had no expectation that the Government would commit itself to the Hon Mr. HOLYOAK's motion, but we were scarcely prepared to see the opposition take the form of a conviction on the part of every official member of the Council that the proposals contained in the resolution are not \"in the interests of the Colony.\" It is not a convincing reply to the resolution to say that the men who have played a leading part in the commercial life of the Colony during the past thirty or forty years have held views strongly opposed to any restriction of the trade and commerce of the port. Times change, and we change with them, and we should be much surprised to learn that \"the big men,\" whose names \n\nHis EXCELLENCY introduced in the course of his speech were found to-day out of sympathy with a motion which embodies the considered views of the men who are now carrying on the trade of the Colony. The defeat of the motion in the Council raises once more the question as to who are the best judges of what is \"in the best interests of the Colony\" - the Government, or the general body of commercial men who carry on the Colony's trade? It discloses also that so far as Hongkong is concerned the local Government is out of sympathy with the general tenor of the Paris Conference. The value of the discussion in the Legislative Council is that it makes clear what the attitude of the Colony is towards these proposals, and we think the discussion will be read abroad with no little amazement. Everybody must agree with His Excellency the \n\nGeneral when he said the great Imperial question could not be overlooked, but can we believe that there will be a lasting peace with such a foe as Germany if immediately the war is over we offer her the old facilities for building up the trade which the war has interrupted! We have every confidence that the Allies will do their best to secure that it shall be lasting, and that end can be achieved in no surer way than by the adoption of such means as the Hon Mr. HOLYOAK's motion suggests - means which are in accord with the recommendations of the Allied Economic Conference.\n\nPage 202",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong except as an integral part of a general scheme. When we remember this fact it is unnecessary to traverse the laboured arguments of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and the GOVERNOR. We may remark, however, that when the GOVERNOR recoils from the idea of excluding enemy ships from this port he seems to overlook the possibility of the ton-for-ton policy and its effects, and to forget that one of the resolutions passed at the Economic Conference at Paris provided that \"the Allies will determine by agreement through diplomatic channels the special conditions to be imposed,\" during the period of reconstruction, \"on the ships of enemy Powers.\"\n\nRightly or wrongly, the British commercial community have arrived at a certain conclusion which they desire to place before the proper authorities for their information, and it ill becomes the permanent officials to set themselves up as superior judges on a subject of which they cannot, by any stretch of imagination, pretend to have equal knowledge. It would have been infinitely better if they had refrained from voting and had merely passed the resolution on with an explanatory letter. Instead of that, they exercised their veto, after suggesting an invidious distinction between those whose views the proposal embodied and the \"really big men of the past whom we do not know Hongkong has produced.\"\n\nWe do not know if the opinions of these \"really big men\" were accorded the same respect when they resided here, but we do know that some of them—notably Sir THOMAS JACKSON and Mr. T. H. WHITEHEAD—advocated a reform in the governance of the Colony and they do not, unfortunately, appear to have been accepted as infallible guides in that matter. But what justification is there for assuming that on economic questions the views which they held years ago remain unchanged or, in the case of the dead, would remain unchanged to-day? If the giants of the past were endowed with the lofty intelligence attributed to them surely it is at least equally probable that they would have allowed circumstances to modify their views, as so many other enlightened men have done.\n\nThe introduction of their names served no good purpose but has deepened and widened the indignation caused by the Government's action. It will not be surprising if that indignation should find early and vigorous expression. If the view of the Government is right, it goes a long way to justify Bernhardi's boast that \"Hongkong, the great emporium of Southern China, has been raised to its position of eminence chiefly by German industry.\"\n\nPage 206",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, 9th June, 1917.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 6th April last (No. 3679/1916) enclosing a copy of an \"Interim Report on the Importation of Goods from the Present Enemy Countries after the War\" presented by Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy, and requesting the views of this Chamber thereon.\n\nMy Committee have assumed that their views have been requested on the subject matter of the Report as affecting the Empire generally and not merely this Colony.\n\nThey have based their views on the assumption that the Allies will be able to dictate the terms on which peace will be granted, but realise that the policy to be adopted with regard to enemy goods will be largely governed by the peace terms the Allies are able to insist upon.\n\nSubject to the above, my Committee have come to the following conclusions:-\n\n1. That they are inclined to agree with Sir Alfred Booth's memorandum, and to think that the objects of the Paris Economic Conference can be better attained by a tariff.\n\n2. That prohibition of imports required in the United Kingdom which cannot be obtained within the Dominions or from the Allied Nations would be detrimental to our own interests.\n\n3. That facilities and where necessary assistance should be afforded to British Industries which have been inaugurated since the war began for the manufacture of articles of trade which had previously been largely in the hands of enemy countries.\n\n4. That little progress can be made with 2 and 3 above without first consulting the self-Governing Overseas Dominions, in order to arrive at some basis of negotiation with the Allied Nations and",
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        "content_text": "(2) \" The claim of this Colony to direct representation on any Imperial Council or Council for Asia to be formed as part of a scheme of Imperial Federation, as I am aware, no schemes of the kind are at present likely to be framed till after the war. This \"claim\" therefore does not at present arise.\n\nIn any case, I think strong objection might be raised to the proposed method, that the Chamber of Commerce alone should have a voice (the Governor's minute on 32955 gives the arguments against this).\n\n2. As regards replying to the Association:\n\n(1) Chamberlain does not consider it practicable to invite the Crown Colonies to send representatives to an Imperial Federation, as their views would not receive due consideration.\n\n478 25/04/17 AUC\n\nAs to (2) say that in the event of any such council being proposed, the question of the position of Crown Colonies would doubtless be considered.\n\nS.S.23.1617 or Long Mmm 28.7-17 Mr. 25/11 W kw\n\nThis conference on postwar trade policy, but that, as they are aware, meetings have been held in Hongkong, as well as elsewhere, on the matters dealt with at the Paris conference.\n\n(2) that in the event of any steps being taken to formulate any scheme...",
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        "content_text": "have recently been revealed. In short, it is hoped that they are taking advantage of the temporary lull in German competition to put their own house in order.\n\nThere are, however, one or two important questions arising out of the war, upon which it would appear desirable to make a few comments in amplification of the views expressed by the various trade organisations summarised under heading A.\n\nComments on the Suggested Restrictions on Trading with German Firms after the War.\n\nIt has been suggested in many quarters that inasmuch as a number of shippers (particularly of piece goods) in the United Kingdom depended very largely upon German distributors in China before the war, these connections will probably be re-opened unless post-bellum trade with such firms in the Far East is prohibited by legislation. Such legislation would give a powerful measure of protection to British merchants in China, but the point to be considered is whether such legislation Would—\n\n(a) be effectual in practice; and\n\n(b) contribute to the interests of Great Britain in the broadest sense.\n\nThere is a considerable cleavage of interest and opinion on this subject. In the first place there is the interest of the British merchants in China, who are strongly of opinion that they are both able and willing to handle the whole of the piece-goods trade, and that it would be in the best interests of Lancashire if all trade with non-British distributors were restricted by legislation for a period of years, on the laudable principle of \"British distributors for British goods.\" Many of the goods formerly handled by the Germans before the war are now being distributed by British houses under new chops, and it is contended that unless some measure of protection is afforded, the old German chops will probably be renewed at the close of the war if the goods are obtainable from Manchester and Bradford.\n\nOn the other hand there is the important interest of the cotton textile industry in the United Kingdom which calls for the greatest possible output of the products of British capital and labour. There is little doubt that the expansion of the piece-goods shipments to China of late years has largely fallen into the hands of German houses who have been most active and pushing distributors, and whose relationship with British shippers has been on a sound and satisfactory basis. The opinion of the China representatives of Manchester and Bradford houses is that the concentration of business in the hands of a limited number of hongs is not conducive to the extension of British trade, and that the development of the present British firms, and the encouragement of new British firms to establish themselves is essential to the development of the trade to the limit of its fullest possibilities in China. Taking all the factors of the case into consideration, I am disposed to agree with the contention of the Manchester and Bradford representatives, and hold that the remedy should be found in the action of the exporters and distributors themselves rather than by State interference. The prohibition of British trading with German firms in a great neutral market like China would present very grave difficulties in the time of peace:\n\n(a) It would probably involve the continuation of the system of the black and white lists, and, in order to be effectual, would require the blacklisting of Chinese firms, which in normal times would create friction with the Chinese Government.\n\n(b) It would tend to stimulate American and Japanese competition by forcing the German distributing organisation into the hands of American and Japanese manufacturers.\n\nIn this connection the following extract from the report of Commercial Agent Ralph M. Odell to the United States Government, Special Agents Series, No. 107, page 153, dated 1st December 1915 is of peculiar interest:--\n\n\"There are a number of German firms in China which have hitherto done a large business in English piece goods, but which will probably have to secure their supplies elsewhere owing to the restrictive measures with regard to trading with the enemy which have been taken by the British Government. The German importers are extremely thorough in their methods and dealings, and they have gone into the interior and established closer relations with the consumer than other firms. It is possible that the organisation and facilities which they possess in handling trade in China might be utilised to advantage by American manufacturers and mill agents who are unable to establish satisfactory connections with American firms. If a good trade could be built up through German firms, it is not likely that it would be lost after the close of the present European war. Inasmuch as German cotton goods have never been an important factor in the trade, the German firms would not turn to Germany, and the bitter feelings engendered by the war will probably make them reluctant to handle English goods in the near future.\n\n\"A number of English firms, with branches or correspondents in New York, are doing some business in American cotton goods. With only a few exceptions, however, they are extremely conservative, and, since they are allied by business and personal relations to the home country, they are not particularly anxious to handle American goods, except those lines which do not compete with Manchester goods. The tendency to favour British goods has been intensified by the war. One English importer went so far as to state that he would not buy American goods even if they were offered at prices 5 per cent. lower than similar goods that he could purchase in England.\"\n\nIt is possible that a commercial rapprochement between Germany and Japan may take place after the war. Japanese views with regard to the economic policy outlined at the Paris Conference are well known, and it is conceivable that if the supply of British goods should be artificially cut off, German firms would turn to Japan, firstly with a view to securing a textile trade, and secondly with the object of seriously damaging British interests. I am informed that the German prisoners in Japan, many of whom are assistants in German firms in China, are making the best possible use of their time in studying both Chinese and Japanese, and in cultivating friendly relations with their captors.\n\n(c) Such legislation would tend (certainly at the outset) to restrict the shipments of British textiles to China and to confine our trade. At the same time it would provide such effectual protection for British merchants in China that they would lack the direct incentive and stimulus of healthy competition, and it is extremely doubtful whether, under such circumstances, they would be prepared to take adequate steps to widen the basis of their distribution.\n\nThe remedy would appear to be in energetic action on the part of the exporters in the United Kingdom and their British clients in China on the following lines:—\n\n(1) The extension of the existing connections in every possible way with a view to a wider field of distribution. To this end, British merchants in China should abandon their pre-war attitude of confining themselves to one shipper only; they should be more ready to take up business in fancy goods and novelties; and should not refrain from handling new lines of trade because at first they appear to involve considerable trouble and detail work, and are not as simple to work as the large staple articles.\n\nThe fact that the bulk trade in staple goods has been in British hands in the past has undoubtedly caused British merchants to view with disfavour the small orders in novelties involving numerous designs and assortments, and much trouble for a small turnover. They failed to see that with the raising of the standard of living in China, these goods would tend in time to become staple articles themselves. This attitude largely accounts for the fact that the distribution of miscellaneous fancy textiles was so largely in German hands.\n\n(2) Home exporters should give every possible assistance to the British houses in their laudable attempts to expand their trade. This can be done in many ways, such as by the help and advice of resident representatives in Shanghai, by liberal financial facilities and careful sampling, by regular consignments of goods on joint account in order to establish new qualities and chops, and by most meticulous attention to the execution of orders and the needs of the market.\n\n(3) In view of the fact that there are not, at present, sufficient British firms of the requisite standing and enjoying the necessary facilities to deal with a greatly increased volume of business, new British firms should be established with the encouragement and assistance of the banks. 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        "content_text": "657\n\n120\n\nand other companies in places where, at the present time, the British company is not seriously challenged.'\n\n\"The Committee fear that any legislation on the part of the British Government which may have the effect of restricting the freedom with which British offices have hitherto conducted their business in the Far East, whether in regard to their selection of agents, or in respect to the firms to whom they may grant insurances, would be of no assistance whatever to the companies, but would, on the contrary, materially assist their chief competitors to extend their influence to the disadvantage of the British.'\n\n71\n\n(6) MARINE INSURANCE. The following is a summary of the views expressed by the leading insurance associations in the Far East:—\n\nSingapore. Very little competition existed before the war, and it is not expected that more serious competition will be experienced after the war. It is suggested that legislation should be introduced enacting that every company transacting fire and marine insurance business in the colony should hold at least £10,000 value of approved British Government Stocks. It is held that the introduction of such legislation would prevent small, unsound concerns from doing business, and would, at the same time, afford protection to native policy-holders. This suggestion is one which H.M. Government might consider after consultation with the Governor of the Straits Settlements.\n\nHong Kong -The Committee consider that no enemy subject should be allowed to enter the colony after the war.\n\nThe following suggestions are offered as affording a measure of protection against the competition of neutrals, and, so far as the terms of the Paris Conference admit, against the competition of Allies:-\n\n(1) Legislation providing that British traders or insurance companies shall insure and reinsure only with British companies.\n\nNOTE. They suggest that this may need modification under the terms of the Paris Conference, and that the Local Companies Ordinance must be so amended as to prevent foreigners from forming companies registered under the Ordinance, and so becoming entitled to the designation \"British.\"\n\n(2) Legislation obliging British insurance companies doing business through agents to employ only British agents on Empire territory.\n\nNOTE-They suggest that this may need modification under the terms of the Paris Conference.\n\n(3) Legislation to provide for a special tax on all premia received by foreign companies doing business on Empire territory.\n\nNOTE. They suggest that this also may need modification under the terms of the Paris Conference; that the books of all insurance companies should be open to inspection by properly-appointed auditors, and that it should be obligatory that the books of all companies doing business on Empire territory should be kept in English.\n\nThe above suggestions are intended to be protective measures for British insurance companies and their agents. Inasmuch as British insurance companies in Hong Kong before the war had practically no competition to meet and held a predominant position, I contend that such protection is unnecessary and undesirable.\n\nShanghai --In a carefully considered memorandum the insurance sub-committee of the Shanghai British Chamber of Commerce state that Chinese coastal business is practically all in the hands of native companies, while the overseas trade from China to Europe and America is controlled by British companies in China, London and the United States, and the rates are governed by the London market. As the financial position of British companies has improved during the war, the prospect of their being able to continue holding their own against the competition of non-British companies is decidedly good.\n\nBefore the war, agencies of British companies were freely offered to German merchant firms, and the heads of German firms were placed on local directorates for the purpose of influencing business. The sub-committee state that the future policy with regard to the employment of German agents, &c., will necessarily be governed by the position of German merchants in China. If German merchants enjoy the same shipping and banking facilities as before the war, they hold that no useful\n\n121\n\npurpose would be served in prohibiting British companies from covering German cargo, although it is admitted that German merchants may possibly look askance at British policies in future if they are unable to collect the claims arising out of interned cargo.\n\nThe sub-committee very clearly state:-\n\n\"Insurance follows trade, and it would not appear to be to the interests of British companies that their business should be hampered by any artificial means such as legislation against insuring German risks. As long as German trade with China is allowed to be resumed on the old scale, British insurance companies would only be cutting their own throats by refusing to take the insurance. The keynote of the situation would appear to be banking and shipping facilities. By placing sufficient obstacles in the way of German shipping and banking, the German merchant in China is at once placed at a disadvantage as compared with the British merchant, with the result that more British business will come the way of the British insurance companies, and there will be no object in running after German agents to represent them.\n\nAfter commenting on increasing Japanese competition and the unsatisfactory position of British insurance companies in Japan, owing to the inexperienced administration of the Marine Insurance law of that country, the sub-committee conclude by stating:-\n\n\"British insurance companies are confident that with a free hand they can hold the insurance on the bulk of the import and export trade of China.\" The Shanghai Marine Underwriters' Association somewhat naively state that they find themselves \"in entire agreement with the sub-committee on the point of being able to protect their own interests should it unfortunately be left to them to do so after the war, but they would insist that where such vital matters as finance, shipping, and insurance are concerned, every precaution should now be taken to hereafter impose restrictions, legally enforceable, upon those facilities which enemy firms undoubtedly enjoyed before the war.\n\nI would endorse the views held by the insurance sub-committee of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, that it would not be in the interests of British companies that their business should be hampered by any artificial means, such as legislation against insuring German risks.\n\nKobe. The Kobe branch of the Foreign Marine Insurance Association of Japan state that their competition in the past has been solely from Japanese companies. When war broke out there were no German companies holding a licence from the Japanese Government to underwrite marine risks, and German shippers, finding themselves unable to cover their risks with British companies, were driven to insure with Japanese companies.\n\nThe Japanese companies have secured a stronger position during the war, and increased competition may be looked for in the future.\n\nThe only suggestion that is made is that it would seem advisable to keep a careful watch on Japanese legislation, lest any measure be introduced which would place British companies at a disadvantage in the matter of the deposit of funds or otherwise, and would prevent them from having an open field and fair treatment.\n\nYokohama. The Yokohama branch of the Foreign Marine Insurance Association of Japan anticipate increased competition after the war. They consider that the inconvenience and loss caused by the sudden breaking-off of business relations between enemy subjects time of war will cause all nations to see the advantage of insurance contracts being formed exclusively with companies of their own nationality, with the result that whereas formerly the British companies and underwriters handled the bulk of the insurance for all nations, the tendency will probably be for each nation to establish underwriting facilities for its own nationals all over the world.\n\nThey state that the Japanese companies will be greatly strengthened by the present prosperity of Japan arising out of the war, and that the help of the foreign companies, both as regards original insurances and reinsurance contracts, will be required to a lesser degree. They point out that whereas a foreign company has to pay a deposit (£50 per cent. of its premium income with a minimum of £10,000), deducting only reinsurances effected with companies registered in Japan) before being allowed to underwrite in Japan, a Japanese company may do business in the United Kingdom and the Crown Colonies without payment of deposit, and they consider that",
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        "document_key": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]",
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        "title": "CO129-447 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "125\n\nthus:-\n\nhu Collins\n\nune pindle\n\nJ\n\nlast 3 works\n\nam Correy\n\nnot to have been able to deal with this sooner, but for nearly the whole time I have been fully occupied by the S. Mong Kong Land Reference before the Paris Conference, and it has not been possible for me to give due consideration to the issues:\n\nPrompted by this despatch and its inclosures, I now submit the following remarks:\n\nThe subject matter may be divided into\n\nI. Inordinate delays in dealing with litigation\n\n(a) Causes.\n\n(b) Proposed remedies.\n\nII. Speculative and fraudulent actions.\n\nI deal with the second question first as there is less to say upon it. Watchfulness on the Bench should help to stop these actions, but in my opinion the best remedy is to go to the source, i.e. take stringent measures against fraudulent solicitors, solicitors' clerks, and solicitors' interpreters, (See CF.5619) and also against touts and persons making a business of promoting speculative or fraudulent litigation (See Re enclosure 18).\n\nUnder Section 52 of Ordinance 1 of 1871 the Court can strike a solicitor off the Roll for reasonable cause but I am unable to find out what (if any) are the functions or powers of the local Law Society in this connection, save that they may with the approval of the Court appear by solicitor or counsel on any application for striking off a solicitor under Section 52 (see Ordinance 19 of 1913, section 7).\n\nI cannot find that the Society is charged with any statutory duty of holding a preliminary investigation into charges against solicitors and bringing prima facie cases of misconduct before the Court, as the Committee of the Law Society do here under the Solicitors Act 1888. Nor can I find any provisions for disciplinary action with regard to solicitors' clerks and interpreters who presumably are not officers of the Court as solicitors are.\n\nIt appears to me that, if it does not exist at present, power should be taken to deal with these 'legal or quasi-legal' classes and the Chief Justice and Attorney General should confer as to the legislative or other measures which may be necessary for the purpose.\n\nSeparate legislation of a penal character should also be considered with regard to touts and \"champertous\" persons fomenting dishonest litigation.\n\nI don't think we can make any constructive proposals on this subject as only those familiar with the local conditions are really in a position to lay down the proper lines on which it should be worked.\n\nInordinate delays in dealing with litigation.\n\n(a). The Causes.\n\n(1) The small number of local barristers. There are only nine or ten, of whom only five are at all competent or in regular practice. Coupled with this\n\n(2) the local practice which has grown up",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918",
        "page_number": 616,
        "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918",
        "content_text": "612\n\nAll cr. ds ward le to And He bt. WW. Fountain of the they pray. We are not respected on the Economic Sachin had duousland but the thread was all intertwined Abdominal Lennie Indust den in Paris.\n\nI brick had the best than with le trad the tel. th\n\nthe very the loft Camellf aworsk\n\nhat it may be subinthe's to the\n\nEcomane fachand Supine dad thile\n\nSaid un\n\nLorand Lon.\n\nof their question\n\nthe water\n\n692 2/1/19\n\nAt once\n\nAre\n\nas\n\nthee\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No. 208311/350/T` \nand address, \nnot to any person by name, but to \n`C62344` \n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" \nForeign Office, \nLondon, S.W.1.\n\n**REC**\n\nSir,\n\n**RE 26 !8)**\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE** \nS.W.1. \nDecember 24th 1918.\n\no.ag.\n\nWith reference to your letter `No.60658` of the 18th instant enclosing copy of a telegram from the Officer administering the Government of Hong Kong respecting the adoption of the so-called \"ton for ton\" policy, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Balfour to suggest, for the consideration of Mr. Secretary Long, that this telegram should be submitted to the Economic Section of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference which is under the charge of the Board of Trade, through the Colonial Office representative on that section.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble Servant,\nInde Nann",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918",
        "page_number": 127,
        "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918",
        "content_text": "## 124 \n\nIn the fort of things \n\nク \n\nCan't \n\nlown & the MM then the 508 apart \n\nIt seems that the issue of \n\nwith regard to that the \n\nlicenses is \n\n\"left to the discretion of the \n\nlocal authorities \n\n(in the absence of any qualification) \n\nis unsatisfactory \n\na \n\ncopy comes \n\n/ \n\n& Send them \n\nl. fort. \n\nA Embarrassing to the lot.) \n\n02- B 16508. \n\nCopy of Para 4 of 34255 & (sent end. \n\nwith copy of \n\nom letter to M/M & B 42 \n\nMa \n\n22/7/18 \n\nThe instructions to for. \n\nare in tel. \n\nit can be argued \n\nas to influence \n\non 2688, \n\nmay \n\nperhaps that the \"suggestions\" of the Governor are at his discretion: but the for. does not \n\n7 course regard himself \n\nas having any freedom to refuse to act on these \"suggestions\". \n\nM- \n\nM. do \n\nnot limit \n\nOLA \n\n20 \n\nThis letter is in the wrath of \n\n23.7.15 \n\nboth in wh. I impressed on the 5. Eaglesome the danger of driving the wolfram away from H. Kong. He undertook to bear in mind that \n\nsomething to show those- \n\naspect a \n\nwrite wo \n\nit would not be overlooked at the ministry. Notable Sena \n\nHas \n\nwe have had 34255/1/ wh shows that irregular \n\nthat irregular \"squeezes\" \n\nSend to prevent the duct obstant \n\nwe \n\nfeared, for \n\nthe prevent- \n\nAs proposed \n\n6.5.24.7.15 \n\nat \n\n1. K \n\nAny further communication should be addressed to- \n\nAnd the following letter and number \n\n**THE SECRETARY,** \n\nshould be quoted:-- \n\n`C.R.V/C/521` \n\nTelegraphic Address: Munorgize, London. Telephone Number: Victoria, 8700. \n\nSir, \n\n**MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS OF WAR,** \n\n**WHITEHALL PLACE,** \n\n**LONDON, S.W.1.** \n\n12 July 1918. \n\n`34390` \n\n**REC** \n\n**REG 13 JUL 1818** \n\nI am directed by the Minister of Munitions to refer to your letters `26193/1918` of the 12th June and `28289/1918` of the 26th June concerning the export of wolfram from Hong Kong. \n\nI am to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Mr. Churchill is in agreement with the opinion expressed in paragraph 3 of your letter of the 12th June that the present position of this matter is not altogether satisfactory. \n\nIt is regretted that it has not, so far, been possible to obtain the formal ratification by the American Authorities of the resolutions passed at the recent Paris Conference regarding wolfram, although the American representatives have been repeatedly urged to obtain the ratification of their Government. In the absence of the assistance from the United States Government, which it had been hoped would already have been obtained, Mr. Churchill agrees that the maintenance of the restrictions on the export of wolfram from Hong Kong are attended with certain disadvantages of the nature indicated in the third paragraph of your letter of the 12th June. \n\nOn the other hand, he is of the opinion that the withdrawal of these restrictions would result in even more serious disadvantages to the national interests. Owing to the high prices for wolfram now obtaining in America, the American purchasers would be able to out-bid R.M. Government in respect of all the wolfram produced in China which at present finds its way to Hong Kong. The result of this would be that neither the United Kingdom nor France would obtain any part of this wolfram. While the maintenance of these restrictions may, in some cases, divert traffic from Hong Kong to other ports of shipment where no such restrictions exist, the superior advantages which Hong Kong possesses as a port of transhipment, will, so far as Mr. Churchill is in a position to judge, always offer a substantial inducement.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]",
        "page_number": 305,
        "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]",
        "content_text": "# No. 19.\n\n**Sir**\n\n## Enclosure\n\n**H. B. M. Consulate-General, Canton, April 12th, 1919.**\n\nOn the 10th instant, I had an interview lasting nearly two hours with the Military Governor, in the course of which I endeavoured, by means of all the arguments of which I could think, to induce His Excellency to return the Kwangli to Hongkong with an apology, at the same time giving him a very plain hint that, were he to do so, there was every probability that Your Excellency's Government would, on being approached through me, return her and the other interned vessel belonging to the Provincial Government to Canton. His reply was that he was unable to do so, as the provincial Navy would not give their assent to such a proceeding, and this morning he has addressed to me an official communication ignoring what actually happened and reiterating his refusal.\n\nIn view of this uncompromising attitude, I have the honour accordingly to suggest that Your Excellency telegraph to the Colonial Office, asking them to approach the Foreign Office with a statement of the facts and a request that it be laid before the Conference now sitting at Paris, with a view to having excluded from the sittings all Chinese delegates, representing more particularly South China, until this grave breach of international comity has been atoned for.\n\nShould Your Excellency decide to act on this suggestion, will you be good enough to let me know immediately. I will then inform the Tuchun, the Military Government, and Mr. La Yung Ting of what action has been taken, and point out what grave consequences to their cause are likely to ensue.\n\nI have etc.,\n(sd.) J. W. Jamieson,\nConsul-General.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government,\nHongkong.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "page_number": 215,
        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "In any further communication \non this subject, please quote \nNo. \nand address, \nto- \n15589/10F/1919. \nnot to any person by name, \n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" \nForeign Office, \nLondon, S.W.1. \n\nRECE \n203 \nFOREIGN OFFICE \nI \nFebruary 6, 1919. \n£022 \nREG: 7 FER 19 \n\nWith reference to the letter from this \nDepartment of December 10th last, No.197836/10F/18, I am directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston to transmit \nto you herewith copy of a memorandum from the United \nStates Ambassador concerning the enforcement of the provisions of the International Opium Convention \nof 1912. \n\nIn view of the fact that the United States Government do not offer any objection to the proposal to bring the subject before the Peace Conference, Lord Curzon is suggesting to the British Peace Delegation in Paris that they should consult with \nthe American Delegation as to the possibility of obtaining from the Conference the adoption of a resolution binding all the belligerents to take immediate steps to enact the legislation contemplated \nin the Convention. \n\nThe Under Secretary of State \nColonial Office. \n\nI am, Sir, \nYour most obedient \nhumble Servant, \n\nS.d.C.Lilly",
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        "id": 481484,
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "page_number": 216,
        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "The American Ambassador presents his compliments\n\nto the Earl Curzon of Kedleston, and, with reference to Mr. Balfour's Note, No.197836/10F/18 of December 10th, 1918, concerning the enforcement of the provisions\n\nof the International Opium Convention of 1912, has the honour to inform His Lordship that a copy of the above\n\nNote was duly transmitted to the Department of State in Washington, and a reply has been received stating that,\n\nwhile the American Government does not feel that the question of suppressing the illegal trade in Opium and other habit-forming drugs is one to come before the Peace\n\nConference, which should deal only with questions growing out of the war and related subjects, the American Government is not disposed to offer any objection to the suggestions of His Majesty's Foreign Office.\n\nThe American Mission in Paris has been acquainted with this matter, and Mr. Davis has been instructed to forward a copy of Mr. Balfour's Note to the American Embassy at that Capital.\n\nEMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,\n\nLONDON,\n\nJanuary 27th, 1919.",
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        "id": 481490,
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "page_number": 222,
        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n15589]\n\nC.O.\n\n11005\n\nREC?\n\nCEG 219 FEB 19\n\nNo. 1.\n\n213\n\n[January 28.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nMr. Davis to Earl Curzon.-(Received January 28.)\n\nTHE American Ambassador presents his compliments to the Earl Curzon of Kedleston, and, with reference to Mr. Balfour's note of the 10th December, 1918, concerning the enforcement of the provisions of the International Opium Convention 1912, has the honour to inform his Lordship that a copy of the above note was duly transmitted to the Department of State in Washington, and a reply has been received stating that, while the American Government does not feel that the question of suppressing the illegal trade in opium and other habit-forming drugs is one to come before the Peace Conference—which should deal only with questions growing out of the war and related subjects—the American Government is not disposed to offer any objection to the suggestions of His Majesty's Foreign Office.\n\nThe American Mission in Paris has been acquainted with this matter, and Davis has been instructed to forward a copy of Mr. Balfour's note to the American Embassy at that capital.\n\nAmerican Embassy, London,\n\nJanuary 27, 1919.\n\n[2854 ee-1]",
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        "id": 481767,
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        "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine",
        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "page_number": 499,
        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "BAI TISH LEGISLATION,\n\n480\n\nPEKING.\n\nMay 28th, 1919.\n\nNo. 236\n\nCopies to India, Tokyo, Hongkong and Singapore.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to report that a recent case at Shanghai in which a British subject was convicted for importing opium into China raised the question as to how far the import of opium was actually forbidden by English statute apart from Chinese law. A copy of the report on this aspect of the case from His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai is enclosed herewith. It is obvious from Sir Everard Fraser's despatch that what the situation requires is the issue of an International Regulation prohibiting dealings on the part of any foreigner of whatever nationality in opium or alkaloids of opium, unless specially licensed for medicinal purposes.\n\nThe solution recently taken by His Majesty's Government at the Paris Conference will doubtless lead to such legislation in course of time, but on May 22 of 1919, it seemed to me desirable to remove at once all possibility of doubt as to the legality of British subjects engaging in this traffic. In view of the systematic smuggling of opium by foreigners both by land and sea, I suggested to the Minister for Foreign Affairs the advisability of addressing a circular note to the foreign Legations, notifying them of the prohibition against dealings in opium, in continuation of the notifications of 1908 and 1911 against the import of opium.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nMarquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.,\n\netc.\n\n \n\n \nPage 481\n\n \n\n \n\n \nwas changed to \nBAI TISH LEGISLATION,\n\n480\n\nPIKING.\n\nbecomes \nPEKING.\n\nMay 28th, 1919.\n\nNo. 236\n\nCopies to India, Tokyo, Hongkong and Singapore.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to report that a recent case at Shanghai in which a British subject was convicted for importing opium into China raised the question as to how far the import of opium was actually forbidden by English statute apart from Chinese law. A copy of the report on this aspect of the case from His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai is enclosed herewith. It is obvious from Sir Everard Fraser's despatch that what the situation requires is the issue of an International Regulation prohibiting dealings on the part of any foreigner of whatever nationality in opium or alkaloids of opium, unless specially licensed for medicinal purposes.\n\nThe solution recently taken by His Majesty's Government at the Paris Conference will doubtless lead to such legislation in course of time, but on May 22 of 1919, it seemed to me desirable to remove at once all possibility of doubt as to the legality of British subjects engaging in this traffic. In view of the systematic smuggling of opium by foreigners both by land and sea, I suggested to the Minister for Foreign Affairs the advisability of addressing a circular note to the foreign Legations, notifying them of the prohibition against dealings in opium, in continuation of the notifications of 1908 and 1911 against the import of opium.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nMarquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.,\n\netc.\n\n \n\nThe changes made include:\n- \"BAI TISH LESATION\" to \"BAI TISH LEGISLATION\"\n- \"PIKING\" to \"PEKING\"\n- \"ss\" to \"statute\"\n- \"proki bi ting\" to \"prohibiting\"\n- \"The so ti on recen t-\" to \"The solution recently\"\n- \"spium\" to \"opium\" (multiple instances)\n- \"arĺpornis\" to \"opium\"\n- \"Katl Curses\" to \"Marquess Curzon\"\n- \"1.0.4 1×\" to \"G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.\" (assuming this is an abbreviation expansion)\n- \"e to.\" to removed as it seems incomplete or a typo.\nThe output is formatted in HTML using `` tags for paragraphs.",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919",
        "page_number": 280,
        "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919",
        "content_text": "Several replies received \n\nLast previous Paper. ca. \n\nReceived apple from L. Singleton \n\n9629. \n\n11063 \n\n267 \n\nRECE \n\nRLC 20 LB 19 \n\nConference \n\nMeteorology while \n\nis called avons mid summer \n\nOnly comment & settle once on th \n\nbefore going to \n\nIntercal'nal \n\nI am putting the propos \n\nRecent Meteorological Committee. \n\nThe headship \n\nEstablished Acting director for period \n\nwas I cannot to quite so far \n\nmy \n\naccord \n\na substantive Directions the Monde world calamity be best \n\ndealt with at such \n\nthere and a \n\nConference there \n\nParis Will discuss all. \n\nImperial \n\nAnch \n\nDown since \n\nJ.G.Lyn \n\nas lauded ter \n\nruises qualification in Food & drug analysis. \n\nwho was nearly \n\nfulfils conditions. Proves not sufficiently attractive to introduce when fully qualified 3 prod \n\nMayon Furse \n\nHoe \n\nto Dept I have sent him\" 319 of 5 file up \n\nMany thanks with the previous pop \n\nSee \n\nS \n\nwhich came to you \n\nto be telegraphing after Capt Lane tive of the Cand to fo Grr. \n\nBrilliant \n\nRafa 1/3/19 \n\n16999 Page as to Singleton. \n\n79 \n\nsubsequent Paper. \n\n5081. \n\n14-4b.) Wt. 30876-21, 50m. 11/18. D&S. G. 122 41. \n\nPage 1",
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        "content_text": "PARIS, 18, Rue de Châteaudun \n\n14th, 1919\n\nSir,\n\nWe beg to enclose for your perusal a copy of the Claim which we have filed with the Peace Conference on behalf of the Korean People and Nation, together with a copy of a letter addressed to Mr. Lloyd George,\n\nUntil now the unimaginable wrongs and the unspeakable oppression that Korea and the Koreans have been, and are, subject to have never been known to the world. A \"Chinese wall\" has been built around Korea, and while the Koreans are constantly being kept in ignorance of what is taking place outside, the world on the other hand is led to believe that a real paradise reigns within.\n\nTherefore in presenting you with these documents we simply wish to expose certain facts and truths and only solicit your impartial judgment for the sake of HUMANITY AND JUSTICE that are being trampled under the iron heel of the satanic miser who really surpasses his Prussian pattern.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYours most respectfully,\n\nTHE KOREAN DELEGATION\n\n(Signed) John KIOOK SCHO KILL",
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        "content_text": "copy of letter Lent to Fr. Lloyd George\n\nL &\n\nC.O\n\nISSION CORDONNE 36907\n\n38, Rue de Châteaudun, PARIS (9) REC\n\nSir,\n\nREG 2 2 JUN JO by 12\n\n382\n\nIda t\n\nOT BAUMA\n\nI have the honour to submit for your perusal a copy of the claim of the Korean People and Petition for liberation from Japan, which my Delegation has filed with the Peace Conference.\n\nThe claim has been cast in the form of a Petition, with a Memorandum attached setting forth a series of facts and views in support of our claim for the reconstitution of Korea as an independent state. Sections 1 and 15 are a summary — with the exception of the important foot-notes on pages 2 and 5 — of the principal points developed in the Memorandum, the rest of the Petition deals with matter untouched in the Memorandum.\n\nIn a letter to President Wilson, Sections XVIII and XIX of the Memorandum would be found to summarise and re-state current views in the Far East which ought to be, I ventured to suggest, of interest to the President both as an American statesman and as one who thinks of and for the future.\n\nMay I be permitted, Sir, also to suggest that those views should prove equally interesting to you as a political leader whose aim and purpose must look to the security of England as an Asiatic power and to the maintenance and consolidation of British power and influence on the Pacific?\n\nThis point will be better understood if I transcribe here the concluding sentences of my letter to the President:\n\n\"Lest the urgencies of the moment should prevent you from glancing at those sections of the Memorandum, I am hoping to tempt your intellectual curiosity by a quotation from Section II which briefly indicates, in the course of a definition, a policy of empire unmatched in its sweep of conception since the crumbling of Rome: Continental policy aims, first, at the seizure of the hegemony of Asia through the DOMINATION AND CONTROL OF THE MAN-POWER AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF KOREA, the continental point d'appui of Korea, possible only by the Japanese possession of the 'stepping stones' to Korea as the sole means of forcing an entrance for Japan; and, next, at the mastery of Japanese egress into the rich lands of the Australias and the Pacific seaboard of the United States.\"\n\n\"I hope the reader will note that this policy is a reality.\"\n\nI may add that the Memorandum shows that Japan's Continental Policy has received its latest expression in the \"Japanese possession of the 'Southsea Islands north of the Equator'\" which brings JAPAN NEARLY TWO THOUSAND MILES CLOSER TO AUSTRALIA and gives the Japanese Navy a base which dominates, practically, the entire land-areas of the Pacific.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir, Your most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nFor the Korean Delegation.\n\n(Signé) John KIM Kyu-sic (or alternatively, Kwang-soo or other possible renderings, but sticking to the most likely) or more likely: (Signed) John KIM Kyu-sic\n\nRight Honourable\n\nDavid Lloyd George, M.P.\n\netc. etc.\n\n23, Rue Nitot, Paris.",
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        "content_text": "THE PEACE CONFERENCE\n\nTHE CLAIM OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE AND NATION FOR LIBERATION FROM JAPAN AND FOR THE RECONSTITUTION OF KOREA AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE TO BE EFFECTED BY AND THROUGH THE PEACE CONFERENCE DECLARING AS NULL AND VOID OR OTHERWISE ABROGATING THE TREATY CONCLUDED AT SEOUL ON AUGUST 22, 1910, WHEREBY JAPAN PURPORTED TO ANNEX THE EMPIRE OF KOREA\n\nPetition\n\nPARIS: APRIL, 1919.\n\n383",
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        "content_text": "KOREAN DELEGATION\n\nTO THE PEACE CONFERENCE IN SESSION AT PARIS :\n\nTHE PETITION of the KOREAN PEOPLE AND NATION for liberation from Japan and for the reconstitution of Korea as an independent\n\nstate\n\nRESPECTFULLY SHEWETH;\n\nThe Korean People have been a nation for more than 4,200 years, with a settled life and culture and with their country forming one of the historic states of Asia. During most of these Forty-two Centuries, Korea enjoyed national independence.\n\nKOREAN INDEPENDENCE RECOGNISED.\n\n2. The continued existence of Korea as a separate and sovereign state was recognised by Japan, the United States, Great Britain and other foreign Powers in their respective treaties of peace and commerce concluded with the Korean Government.\n\nIn the Treaty with the United States, signed at Seoul on May 22, 1882, it was expressly agreed that \"if other Powers deal injustly or oppressively with either Government the other will exert their good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement, thus showing their friendly feelings.\"\n\nIn the Treaty of Shimonoseki, signed on April 17, 1895, Japan insisted on China's definite recognition of the \"full and complete independence and autonomy of Korea\". And in the first Anglo-Japanese agreement of alliance, concluded on January 30, 1902, Japan and Great Britain affirmed and substantially guaranteed the independence of Korea. Lastly, in the Treaty of Defensive and Offensive Alliance made between the Japanese Government and the Korean Government in 1904, Japan specifically guaranteed the independence and integrity of Korea.\n\nKOREAN INDEPENDENCE AS AN INTERNATIONAL DOCTRINE.\n\n3. These treaties not only affirmed and confirmed the separate existence of Korea as a sovereign state but they established, it is submitted, Korean independence on the basis of an international authority and sanction which no single Power could violate without subjecting its action to eventual revision by other Powers.\n\nJAPAN'S VIOLATION OF KOREAN INDEPENDENCE.\n\n4. Such a violation of Korean independence was committed by Japan when the Japanese Government—by acts of fraud and force—compelled the conclusion...\n\nPage 1\n384\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "THE KOREAN REVOLUTION.\n\n16. The protest and opposition of the Korean People to Japanese annexation of their country and to the process of political extermination applied to them by the Mikado's agents, has now expressed itself in the Korean Revolution. On the First of March at  p.m., the Korean People and Nation declared their independence. This act of independence was formally done by the National Independence Union, composed of three million Koreans representing and expressing the desire and will of 18,700,000 Koreans in Korea proper, in China, in Siberia, in Hawaii and in the United States.\n\nThe declaration states: \"It is our solemn duty to secure the right of free and perpetual development of our own national character, adapting ourselves to the principles of the reconstruction of the world—to secure our independence, to wipe out injuries, get rid of our present sufferings, and leave our children eternal freedom instead of a bitter and shameful inheritance.\"\n\nPROGRESS OF THE REVOLUTION.\n\n17. The Korean Delegation—appointed by the New Korean Young Men's Society to which are affiliated the Korean National Independence Union and other Bodies organised in the cause of Korean independence—is in receipt of several cable despatches, reporting the progress of the revolution and the national movement for independence.\n\nA despatch from the Korean National Independence Union received in Paris, via Shanghai, on April 7 instant, reads in part as follows: \"On March 26 we held grand demonstrations at Seoul. Our national flags were flown on the city hills. The Japanese Authorities arrested two hundred of those who participated in the demonstrations. There were casualties on both sides. Samnam (i.e., all provinces south of Seoul) are uprising every day. Korean demonstrations are taking place in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria.\"\n\nTHE KOREAN REPUBLIC.\n\n18. The same despatch reports the organisation of a Provisional Republican Government of Korea, consisting of a President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Justice and Minister of War.\n\nAmong those included in the Provisional Government are Prince Pak Yung-hio and Messrs. Rhee Syngman, Ahn Chang Ho and Li Tong Whi. Prince Pak Yung-hio is one of the five great leaders who inaugurated what is known in Korean history as the movement of the Progressive Party in 1884. He was the chief figure among the Progressives who, in 1891, compelled the introduction of modern reforms into Korea. He was at one time Minister for Home Affairs before the annexation. Rhee Syngman is an M.A. of Harvard, U.S.A. and Ph.D. of Princeton, B.S.A. Since 1894 he has been one of the leaders of the old Korean Independence Club. As a political worker, he has suffered imprisonment and he has also been tortured. Ahn Chang Ho is the founder of the Sin Min Huch of People's Society and, since 1905, has been a leader of young Korean nationalists. He is the President of the Korean National Association. Li Tong Whi is a former major in the old Korean Army and a recognised leader of Korean nationalists in Siberia and Manchuria. He has been imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese Authorities.\n\nJAPANESE REPRESSION.\n\n19. Another despatch received by the Korean Delegation on April 10 instant, states that \"from first March up to date, active demonstrations of the Independence movement have been very well conducted all over Korea. Representatives prefer passive revolution, including lecturing and distribution of manifestoes. Girls more active. Strikes have occurred in enemy (Japanese) factories, stores, etc. Our churches, schools and 32,000 men and women are in prison. About 100,000 have been injured, including stores closed everywhere, old people, girls and children. Interior traffic communications severed. Terrible outrages committed by enemy (Japanese). Missionaries are sending truth to world.\"\n\nIn a further despatch which reached the Korean Delegation on April 11 instant, Japanese atrocities are reported: \"Japan has begun massacring in Korea. On March 28, over 1,000 unarmed people were killed during a three-hour demonstration held in Seoul. The shooting, beating and bayonetting of people are in merciless progress throughout Korea. Churches, schools and homes of leaders have been destroyed. Women are being stripped naked and beaten before crowds, especially female members of leaders' families. The imprisoned are being tortured. Doctors are forbidden to attend to the wounded. Foreign Red Cross. We have decided to fight for freedom until last Korean falls. We ask urgently aid from ... We solicit help in the name of God.\n\nOf the many news despatches on the subject appearing in the American and the European Press, it must suffice here to quote the latest from the Tokio correspondent of the London \"Times\". It appeared in the issue of the London paper on April 17 instant, under the caption \"Korea's Rights\". \"While it is recognized that there can be only one outcome of the disturbances in Korea, the Government's decision to reinforce the military establishment in the peninsula evokes universal Press comment, the feature of which is the recognition that it will be inevitable, when opportunity occurs, to replace the Military Governor by a civilian Governor. The Nichi-Nichi attributes the disturbances chiefly to a mistaken conception of the principle of self-determination, also to the inimical influence of missionaries. The 'Jiji' says it is evident that many reforms are necessary in Korea. Another journal dwells on the fact that the Koreans are not an inferior people…\"\n\nABROGATION OF THE TREATY OF ANNEXATION.\n\n20. The Korean People submit that the Treaty of Annexation of August 22, 1910, should be declared Null and Void or otherwise abrogated by the Peace Conference for the reasons set forth in this Petition and further elaborated in the Memorandum hereto attached and more especially for the reasons following:-\n\nI. The said Treaty of Annexation was concluded in circumstances of Fraud and Force which vitiated its validity as a legal and international document, even assuming that the then Emperor of Korea had the right to hand over to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan Fifteen Million Koreans and a country that had existed as a separate and sovereign state for more than 4,200 years.\n\nII. The Korean People and Nation have consistently denied the right of the then \"puppet\" Emperor of Korea to deal with them in terms of the said Treaty of Annexation. Being men and not cattle they hold that their consent is and has been an essential condition to the validity of the said Treaty. This consent has never been given.\n\nIII. The said Treaty of Annexation was and is a direct violation by Japan of the International guarantees entered into by the Japanese Government with Korea and other Powers regarding Korean independence and integrity.\n\nIV. In the several Treaties concluded between Korea and Japan and other Powers, and by Japan with China, with Russia and with Great Britain, regarding Korea, the existence of the latter as a separate and sovereign state is—as to all these Treaties—explicitly recognised and its political independence and territorial integrity...\n\nThe Japan-Korean Treaty of February 26 or 27, 1876, states in the first article \"Chosen being an independent state enjoys the same sovereign rights as does Japan\".\n\nIn the Japan-Russian Protocol of April 25, 1898, it is stipulated in Article I that the \"Imperial Governments of Japan and Russia definitively recognise the sovereignty and entire independence of Korea, and mutually engage to refrain from all direct interference in the internal affairs of that country.\"\n\nThe Japan-Korean Protocol of February 13, 1904, provides (art. 3) that the Government of Japan definitively guarantees the independence and territorial integrity of the Korean Empire.\n\nPage 386",
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        "content_text": "PY.(92216)\n\n89/1/60.\n\n20589\n\nIRES?\n\nREC 23 APR 20\n\nThe Danish Minister presents his compliments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour\n\nto lay the following case before Earl Curzon,\n\n332\n\nCaptain Jacob Bendixen, a resident of Aabenraa in\n\nthe first plebiscite zone of Slesvig, has applied to the King's Government for its assistance in recovering possession of his property which being invested in a German undertaking at Hong Kong was sequestrated as enemy property. As will\n\nbe seen from the enclosed translation of Mr. Bendixen's\n\napplication he is part owner of certain vessels belonging\n\nto the firm of Jebsen and Company of the said place and moreover claims a considerable sum deposited with the company\n\nand therefore sequestrated with the rest of its assets.\n\nThe standpoint adopted in the letter of November 23rd last\n\nfrom the President of the Peace Conference to the Danish\n\nMinister at Paris (of which a copy is appended) indicates\n\nthat, although no claim of the nature here involved can be\n\nmade good against the German Government, the Peace Treaty\n\nhaving already been signed, the Principal Allied and Associated Powers are disposed favourably to consider and to do\n\ntheir utmost to give effect to an equitable settlement of the\n\nclaims of those German subjects who in virtue of the\n\nTreaty are about to become definitely Danish subjects.\n\nMr. Bendixen, besides being a lifelong resident in the first\n\nzone, was born there of Danish parents in 1860 and therefore\n\npreviously to the acquisition by Prussia of this Danish\n\nterritory his case would seem to be especially entitled to\n\nthe benevolent consideration of the Allied Powers and more\n\nparticularly of His Britannic Majesty's Government, seeing\n\nthat...\n\nAs",
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        "content_text": "# \n207 \n\nİdevelopment of the Canton Hospital in harmony with the great traditions \nof its past eighty-five years of medical missionary service in China.\n\nIV. \n\"That this conference endorses the program formulated by the recent Board of Directors of the Canton Medical Missionary Union (Canton Hospital) for the sending of a deputation of members of the Hospital staff to visit the home countries above indicated as well as assisting in the securing of means for the creation of new buildings with modern equipment which are so urgently needed for the prosecution of the hospital's work.\n\n## Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Canton Medical Missionary Union (Canton Hospital), May 10, 1920\n\nI \n\"That the Canton Christian College Board of Trustees be asked to assume the responsibility in co-operation with the Missions for:\n\"(a) The reconstruction, staffing and maintenance of the Canton hospital, and \n\"(b) For the establishment of a school of medicine which shall be an integral part of the Canton Christian University.\n\nII. \"The reconstruction of the hospital is the immediate need, and funds for this purpose should be secured within a year.\n\n## \n14 \nThere is little need to refer to the present critical condition of the Canton Hospital which is no doubt already fully known to you, its antiquated buildings, its lack of equipment, its inadequate staff and still more serious need for funds to maintain its work and achieve the purpose for which it exists as a medical missionary institution.\n\nIt is earnestly hoped not only by the members of this delegation and the constituency which they represent, but also by medical missionaries all over China (witness resolutions of Peking conference, February 1920), that the Canton Christian College and the other Missionary Societies aforementioned will assume the responsibility which they are now asked to undertake, providing for the reorganization, reconstruction, maintenance and development of this hospital in order that it may continue without interruption its long record of useful medical missionary service to China.\n\nThere is good reason to believe that the Chinese friends of the Hospital in all parts of the Republic (vide testimonials from His Excellency Hsu Shih-Chang, President of the Chinese Republic who recently contributed one thousand dollars toward the new buildings fund, Dr. Chengting Wong, representative of China at the Peace Conference in Paris, the Military and Civil Governors of the Kwongtung Province, Dr. Tu Lien Teh, Director of the North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, Dr. C. Voonping Yui, President of the National Medical Association of China, the Chinese Chambers of Commerce of Canton and Hong Kong and many others), will do their share in assisting to carry to a successful issue the plans which the Missionary Societies are now asked to initiate.\n\n## 2.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[F2786/2/10]\n### No. 1. Sir C. Addis to Foreign Office.-(Received November 11.)\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,  \n9, Gracechurch Street, London, November 6, 1920.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith for the information of His Majesty's Government printed copies of the following documents relating to the recent conference held in New York on the subject of the China consortium :-\n\n1. Agenda of the Conference.\n2. Minutes of the Conference.\n3. The China Consortium Agreement.\n4. Memorandum on the Minutes and Agreement, and Appendices.\n\nIt will be noted that all resolutions taken by the delegates, as recorded in the minutes, are subject to the approval of the Governments of the respective groups. I have the honour, therefore, to request that I may be informed whether these resolutions are approved by His Majesty's Government.\n\nI have the honour also to request that, if the resolutions are approved, a communication may be addressed by His Majesty's Government to the Belgian Government, informing them that the inclusion of a Belgian group in the consortium will be welcomed in terms of resolution 5, and I venture to suggest that the attention of the Belgian Government should at the same time be drawn to the reported conclusion, recently, of a loan agreement between a Belgian-Dutch syndicate and the Chinese Government, in respect to which it is desirable that the other groups should be informed whether it is the intention of the Belgian group to pool this contract for the benefit of the consortium.\n\nIt will then remain only for His Majesty's Government to acquaint the Chinese Government officially with the arrangements made by the consortium, and to request their consent thereto.\n\nPrinted copies of the pooled agreements will be furnished at an early date.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**CHINESE CONSORTIUM.**\n\nInter-Group Conference at New York, October 11–14, 1920.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n| Agenda Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Call to order and election of chairman. |\n| 2 | Appointment of secretaries. |\n| 3 | Confirmation of the minutes of the Paris meetings of the 11th and 12th May, 1919, with the necessary amendment relating to the measure of Government support to be accorded to the groups, as follows: In introductory paragraph of agreement, delete the words \"and are entitled to the exclusive diplomatic support of their respective Governments.\" and substitute the following clause :- \"And whereas their respective Governments have undertaken to give their complete support to their respective national groups, the parties hereto, in all operations undertaken pursuant to the agreement hereinafter contained and have further undertaken that in the event of competition in the obtaining of any specific loan contract the collective support of the diplomatic representatives in Peking of the four Governments will be assured to the parties hereto for the purpose of obtaining such contract,—\") |",
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        "content_text": "# Agenda for the China Consortium Meeting\n\n1. Resolution clarifying the phrase \"Government guarantee.\"\n\n5. Completion by signature of the agreement establishing the consortium which was initialled by the delegates at Paris on the 12th May, 1919.\n\n6. Application of a Belgian group for inclusion in the consortium.\n\n7. Application of an Italian group for inclusion in the consortium.\n\n8. Consideration of existing old four-Power group business.\n   (a) What is position of Russian bankers under loans in which they participated?\n\n9. Consideration as to whether formation of Chinese group should be encouraged. Explanation by Mr. Lamont as to attitude taken by him, with approval of Peking group representatives, on this matter on his recent trip to China.\n\n10. Tabling of all existing agreements and options to be pooled in accordance with the minutes of the 11th May, 1919.\n    N.B. The British group has submitted a summary giving the particulars required, drawn up in a suitable form, which should be adopted by all the groups.\n\n11. Consideration of the financial requirements of China for general purposes, having regard to--\n    (a) Attitude of Chinese Government with regard to German issued bonds.\n    (b) Pacific Development Corporation loan and wine and tobacco revenue.\n        (1) Additional advance, if option is extended.\n    (c) Currency reform.\n    (d) Land tax. Consideration of land tax as additional security, under supervision of a foreign inspector on lines of Salt Administration.\n\n12. Railway policy of the consortium, having regard to--\n    (a) Unification of China's railways.\n    (b) Relative importance of, and priority of treatment for, different trunk and branch lines of railway.\n    (c) Standardisation of equipment and equality of open tender.\n    (d) Conference of railway engineers.\n\n13. Chinese Eastern.\n\n14. Hukuang Railway.\n    (a) Issuance of second series of loan.\n    (b) Proposal of the 28th April, 1920, made by group representatives at Peking to Minister of Communications.\n    (c) Abolition of sections.\n    (d) Silver loan for local expenditures.\n\n15. General.\n    As bearing upon ability of consortium to function effectively, latest information should be made available to the conferees upon the following points:--\n    (a) Unification of north and south.\n        (1) Disbandment of troops.\n        (2) Adoption of constitution.\n        (3) Election of representative Parliament.\n    (b) Establishment of adequate fiscal system.\n    (c) Proposed abolition of likin.\n    (d) Budget for ensuing twelve months.\n    (e) System for the supervision of expenditures from loan funds.\n\n## THE CHINA CONSORTIUM\n### Minutes of a Meeting held in the Executive Committee Room of the New York Chamber of Commerce on October 11, 1920.\n\nRepresenting the British group--\nSir Charles Addis. Mr. S. F. Mayers.\n\nRepresenting the French group--\nM. R. Thion de la Chaume. M. Georges Picot.\n\nPresent: \nRepresenting the Japanese group--\nMr. Kimpei Takeuchi. Mr. Reitaro Ichinomiya.\n\nMr. R. C. Witt.\nM. Henri Mazot.\nMr. C. F. Whigham,\nMr. J. Ridgely Carter.\nMr. Burnett Walker.\n\nRepresenting the American group--\nMr. Thomas W. Lamont. Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff. Mr. Charles H. Sabin. Mr. Albert H. Wiggin. Mr. Frederic W. Allen. Mr. John Jay Abbott.\n\nIn Attendance: \nMr. F. W. Stevens.\nMr. Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Mr. A. M. Anderson.\nMr. Robert I. Barr.\nMr. L. L. Strauss.\n\nI. Chairman.\nUpon the proposal of Sir Charles Addis it was unanimously agreed that Mr. Thomas W. Lamont take the Chair.\n\nII. Secretary.\nMr. W. E. Leveson and Mr. J. Ross Tilford were appointed joint secretaries to the meeting.\n\nIII. Minutes of the Paris Meetings.\nThe Minutes of the Paris meetings of the 11th and 12th May, 1919, were confirmed, subject to the following three amendments:--\n1. Government Support.--The words \"and are entitled to the exclusive diplomatic support of their respective Governments\" were deleted and the following substituted:\n   And whereas their respective Governments have undertaken to give their complete support to their respective national groups the parties hereto in all operations undertaken pursuant to the agreement hereinafter contained and have further undertaken that in the event of competition in the obtaining of any specific loan contract the collective support of the diplomatic representatives in Peking of the four Governments will be assured to the parties hereto for the purpose of obtaining such contract.\n\n2. Chinese Government Guarantee.--The words \"or to companies having Chinese Government or Chinese Provincial Government guarantees\" were deleted and the following substituted:--\n   or to companies or corporations owned or controlled by or on behalf of the Chinese Government or any Chinese Provincial Government or to any party if the transaction in question is guaranteed by the Chinese Government or Chinese Provincial Government.\n\n3. Preamble. The following addition to the recitals to the agreement was adopted:--\n   And whereas the said national groups are of the opinion that the interests of the Chinese people can in existing circumstances best be served by the co-operative action of the various banking groups represented...",
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Any one or more of the parties hereto who shall have accepted its or the participation in any business hereunder shall be entitled by notice in writing to call upon the other or others of the parties hereto who propose to issue their own respective participations to issue for the account of the party or parties giving such notice or notices either all or one-half of the amount which may constitute the participation of the party or parties giving such notice or notices and the party or parties so called upon shall issue the said amount or amounts (hereinafter called the \"residuary participation\") specified in such notice or notices upon and subject to the terms and conditions following, viz:--\n\n(1) Such notice or notices must be received by the other or others of the parties hereto before the execution of the final agreement for the issue of the loan or (in the case of an issue of a part only of the loan) of so much thereof as the parties hereto may from time to time agree to issue.\n\n(2) The party or parties to whom such notice or notices shall have been given shall be entitled to decide among themselves and without reference to the party or parties giving such notice or notices as to which one or more of them shall issue the residuary participation but in default of any such decision they shall issue the same equally between them.\n\n(3) In issuing the residuary participation no distinction shall be made between the residuary participation and the amount or amounts issued on its or their own account by the party or parties issuing the residuary participation which shall in all respects be subject to the conditions of the respective syndicates which may be formed for the purpose of effecting the issue.\n\n(4) Each of the parties issuing the residuary participation shall be entitled to decide for itself and without reference to the party or parties giving such notice or notices as to what expenses shall be incurred in relation to the issue of the total amount issued by such party.\n\n(5) The party or parties issuing the residuary participation shall be entitled between them to charge the party or parties giving such notice or notices with a commission of not exceeding 1/4 per cent. on the nominal amount of the residuary participation and also with a pro rata share of the total expenses which the issuing party or parties may in their sole discretion incur in relation to the whole issue and being in the proportion which the residuary participation bears to the total nominal amount of the issue.\n\n(6) The party or parties issuing the residuary participation shall not by virtue of this agreement incur any responsibility to subscribe for the residuary participation or to cause the same to be subscribed.\n\n(7) Each party issuing the residuary participation shall apply all subscriptions received by it pro rata between the residuary participation issued by it and the amount issued by such party on its own account.\n\n(8) Each of the parties issuing the residuary participation will apply for and use its best endeavours to obtain a quotation on its market for the total amount issued by it.\n\n(9) No issue of the residuary participation or any part thereof shall be made by the party or parties giving such notice or notices unless mutually agreed by the parties hereto.\n\n## 7. No participation shall be given by any one of the parties hereto outside its own market. Any participation given in its own market by any one of the parties hereto shall be for its own account only or in the event of the issue including any of the residuary participation for the accounts pro rata of the issuing bank and the party or parties giving such notice or notices as aforesaid and in giving any such participation the party giving the same shall use its best endeavours to secure that no part of such participation shall be transferred to parties outside the market of the party giving the same. Any other participation shall be given only with the consent of all parties hereto and shall be borne in equal shares by the parties hereto.\n\n## 8. This agreement shall remain in force for the period of five years from the date hereof provided nevertheless that a majority of the parties hereto may by twelve months' previous notice in writing addressed to the other parties hereto determine this agreement at any time.\n\nIn witness whereof the duly authorised representatives of the respective parties hereto set their hands the day and year first above written.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nFor the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, on behalf of the British group:  \nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nFor the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, on behalf of the French group:  \nTH. DE LA CHAUME.\n\nFor the Yokohama Specie Bank (Limited), on behalf of the Japanese group:  \nK. TAKEUCHI.\n\nFor and on behalf of the American group:  \nJ. P. MORGAN AND Co.  \nKUHN, LOEB AND Co.  \nThe National City Bank of New York: by J. A. STILLMAN, President.  \nThe Guaranty Trust Company of New York: by J. R. SWAN, Vice-President.  \nContinental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago: by JOHN JAY ABBOTT, Vice-President.  \nChase National Bank, New York City: by A. H. WIGGIN, Chairman.  \nLEE, HIGGINSON AND Co.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum respecting the China Consortium.**\n\n## CONFERENCE AT NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1920.\n\n### Arrival in New York.\n\nThe representatives of the British, French and Japanese groups assembled in New York on the 6th October, 1920, and had several opportunities for preliminary conversations prior to the date fixed for the first meeting, viz., the 11th October. These were not without value in disclosing the general position taken by the other groups on the various points arising on the agenda, which had been prepared in advance and circulated among the groups.\n\n### French Group.\n\nFrom the outset a serious difficulty presented itself in the fact that the French alone of all the groups came to the conference without any agreements or options to pool. It appeared that in spite of the repeated representations which had been made to them previously by the British group, no substantive steps had been taken to secure for the benefit of the consortium the important agreements held by the Banque Industrielle de Chine. The importance to be attached to this incident was enhanced by the fact that the chairman of the Banque Industrielle was M. Berthelot, the brother of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, who has been associated with the direction of French foreign policy for the past ten years.\n\n### Visit to Washington.\n\nForeseeing that there would be a deadlock if no remedy could be found in time, Sir Charles Addis visited Washington on the 8th October and explained to His Majesty's Ambassador that he could not sign the agreement if the French group, with no contribution of their own, were to share in the benefit of the other groups' agreements. On the following day the difficulty was explained at the State Department to Mr. Norman Davis, Acting Secretary of State in the temporary absence of Mr. Colby, and a decision was reached that instructions would be cabled by the State Department to the American Embassy in Paris to urge the French Government to bring pressure to bear on their group and on the Banque Industrielle.\n\nSir...  \n72",
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        "content_text": "## Charles Addis returned to New York on the 9th October. There were three alternative courses of action to choose from: to refuse to sign and to break off the conference if the French group's position remained unchanged; second, to sign and trust to the French bringing their agreements later; third, to sign subject to a reservation by which the French would agree to be excluded from the benefit of the agreements contributed by others. If the French rejected this reservation, then the British group were to withhold their signature and refer to their Government for instructions. It was the third course which was approved by Sir Auckland Geddes and by the American Acting Secretary of State, but the latter made it a condition of his approval that if in these circumstances signature were suspended, the British group would continue in session until the decision of their Government was made known. The representatives of the French group were at once informed of the action taken, and consented to telegraph to Paris a recommendation that the Banque Industrielle should be invited to join the French group, and that pending the completion of that arrangement, authority should be given to them to accept a resolution framed by the British group excluding the French group from the benefits of the agreements pooled by the other groups. Throughout these proceedings, the American group showed themselves comparatively indifferent to the issue, but the Japanese representatives concurred in and supported the British view.\n\n## Opening of Conference: Chairman\n\nAt the opening of the conference on the 11th October, in view of the position of the American group as hosts, it seemed appropriate to ask their senior representative, Mr. T. W. Lamont, of Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co., to take the chair. He carried out his duties with great tact and fairness. The following notes on the proceedings at the various meetings should be read in conjunction with the agenda and formal minutes, and are intended to throw light upon them and supplement them where necessary.\n\n## Amendments to Consortium Agreement\n\nThe first business of the meeting involved three amendments to the draft of the Consortium Agreement as approved in Paris on the 11th and 12th May, 1919.\n\n1. **Government Support**  \nThe first amendment, dealing with the degree of Government support to the consortium, was made at the instance of the respective Governments and requires no elucidation.\n\n2. **Chinese Government Guarantee**  \nThe second amendment arose on a question brought forward by the Japanese group as to the meaning of the words \"Chinese Government or Chinese Provincial Government guarantees.\" After discussion, a new wording was adopted, covering any transaction involving a public issue to which the guarantee of the Chinese Government attached.\n\n3. **Objects of Consortium**  \nThe third amendment arose from a suggestion made by the British group that the agreement should contain some expression of the aims of the consortium in language which, when published, might appeal to Chinese public opinion as indicating a benevolent attitude towards China and as emphasising the desire of the consortium to assist China in raising capital from Chinese sources. With this object in view, the British group had prepared a more comprehensive statement than is contained in the wording which was ultimately adopted in deference to the wishes of the American group.\n\n## Belgian Group\n\nIn considering the application from the Belgian group for admission to the consortium, reference was made to possible applications from other Powers, such as Holland and Switzerland, and it was decided that the consortium was bound by resolution 4 of the Paris meeting of the 11th May, 1919, to welcome the Belgian group, but that it would not be necessary to give them an equal share with the existing four groups, and the proportion was fixed at one-ninth for the Belgian group, leaving two-ninths for each of the other four groups. At the suggestion of Sir Charles Addis, it was decided to recommend that when the resolution welcoming the inclusion of the Belgian group is communicated by the respective Governments to the Belgian Government, their attention should be called to the reported conclusion of a loan agreement with China for 60,000,000 fr. (vide letter from State Department to Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Co. dated the 11th October, 1920, `Appendix 1`) and to enquire if it was the intention of the Belgian group to bring this particular agreement into the consortium.\n\n## Italian Group\n\nRegarding the Italian group, it was decided to treat the application of the Italian Ambassador at Washington and of the Italian Financial Commissioner in New York made in 1919 as an application on behalf of an Italian group, but the conference was unanimous in thinking that, in view of the present economic conditions in Italy and the state of Italian exchange, it was premature to consider the entry of an Italian group into the consortium.\n\n## Russian Bank\n\nThe next item on the agenda dealt with the position of the Russian group under loans in which they had participated, and though it was considered in the discussion that their position remained technically unaffected, it was thought that no useful purpose would be served by recording any minute under this heading.\n\n## Chinese Group\n\nOn the question of Chinese participation, Mr. Lamont addressed the meeting on the subject of his recent visit to China and his discussions with the group representatives at Peking. Sir Charles Addis considered that the consortium should show the fullest readiness to co-operate with a Chinese group if such group were prepared to undertake the obligations as well as to share in the advantages of the consortium, by issuing their quota of any loan in silver in their own market in China or, in any case, an amount at least approximately corresponding to the individual shares of the other groups.\n\n## Conditions of Pooling of Agreements\n\nThe tabling and pooling of existing agreements was next considered and gave rise to much discussion. Sir Charles Addis pointed out that, in the present economic circumstances, many of them might not be dealt with at all during the life of the consortium, viz., five years, and that should the consortium then come to an end, it would be only fair that existing rights should revert to the present holders. This principle was adopted, but consideration was deferred of the second resolution already referred to limiting the right of participation in pooled agreements to such groups as had themselves made individual contributions to the pool.\n\n## Expenses arising from Residuary Participation\n\nMr. Mortimer Schiff, a member of the American group, raised a question as to the meaning of the words \"total expenses\" in article 6 (5) of the Consortium Agreement, and it was agreed that underwriting expenses were included under the words used.\n\n## Second Meeting\n\nThe second meeting of the consortium was held on the 13th October, the intervening day having been spent in informal interviews with the representatives of the various groups.\n\n## Currency Loan\n\nThe question of the renewal of the Currency Loan Agreement was discussed, and an application for a further six months' extension was resolved on. It may be mentioned that before the representatives left New York, information was received by telegram from Peking that this application had been granted.\n\n## Tabling of Pooled Agreements: Reservations regarding Agreements Pooled\n\nThe secretaries of the conference having reported that copies of the various individual agreements and options pooled by the British, Japanese, and American groups, and of the agreements pooled in common by all the groups, such as the...",
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        "content_text": "## Reorganisation Currency and Hukuang Loans\n\nDiscussion followed on the various reservations made regarding the reorganisation currency and Hukuang loans, after the replies had been received. Those of the Japanese and American groups drew attention to the fact that their negotiations with the holders were technically not quite complete, while that of the British group referred to the sum of £120,000 due to Chinese Central Railways (Limited) in terms of article 22 of the Pukow-Sinyang Agreement of the 14th November, 1913. This, it was explained to the meeting, was in commutation of a share in the net profits of the railway which it would not be equitable to surrender to the consortium. No objection was taken to this reservation, or to those of the other groups.\n\n## Messrs. Pauling and Co. and Messrs. Erlanger\n\nIn reply to an enquiry of the French representatives as to why the Loan Agreement of Messrs. Pauling and Co. was not included in the British list, Sir Charles Addis explained the offer he had made to Messrs. Erlanger, the bankers to Messrs. Pauling and Co., viz., that in consideration of surrendering the Pauling contract to the British group, Paulings as regards the industrial part and Erlangers as regards the financial part should be placed in the same position as if they had issued their loan and executed their contract themselves. Their agreement contemplated a loan of £10,000,000 for the construction by contract of the Shasi-Singyi Railway, and the effect of this offer would be that if and when the consortium issued this loan, the benefits arising from the industrial share of the British group, at present one quarter, would enure entirely to Paulings, and as subsequent loans for other railways were made, the British group's share of such subsequent loans would similarly enure to Paulings up to a total of £10,000,000, and that the British group would use its best endeavours to secure for Paulings a preference in any future construction by contract. Furthermore, that Erlangers should share in the issue of the Pauling loan and that their name should appear on the prospectus. This offer evoked only the counter-proposal that Erlangers should be admitted as members of the British group, and when this was rejected, Erlangers asked for an assurance that should the British group be extended at any future time, Erlangers should be given a preference. Sir Charles Addis had replied that this assurance could not be given, and the negotiations terminated without result.\n\n## Agreements Pooled\n\nAfter this explanation, the French representatives specifically asked the American and Japanese representatives whether they held or controlled any agreements or options other than those tabled. The American and Japanese representatives replied in terms that the agreements they had tabled included all they held or controlled.\n\n## Land Tax\n\nThe question of the land tax as a possible security for future loans was not discussed in detail, the Japanese representatives showing a disinclination to consider the subject, while the French held the view that foreign supervision of the land tax would not be practicable and intimated that in their opinion, a suitable source of revenue to form security for future loans would be the stamp duty under foreign supervision.\n\n## Silver Loans\n\nThe prospect of issuing silver loans in China was reviewed, and the opinion of the meeting was unanimous in considering that the policy of the consortium should be to facilitate by every means in their power the raising of money from Chinese sources and to endeavour to create a Chinese investing public. With exchange at its present high level, it was regarded as indispensable for the purposes of railway construction that the capital required for expenditure in China on native labour, salaries, land purchase, building, &c., should be raised in silver, leaving only the balance required for rolling-stock and equipment to be raised abroad in gold.\n\n## Final Meeting: Removal of Difficulties regarding Pooling of Agreements\n\nThe final meeting of the conference was held on the 15th October, by which time the French representatives had received authority from Paris to accept the conditions of pooling laid down by the British group after consultation with His Majesty's Ambassador. The necessary resolution recording these conditions was unanimously passed.\n\n## Signature of Consortium Agreement\n\nThereupon the Consortium Agreement, the signature of which had stood over meanwhile, was duly executed, and the chairman congratulated the representatives on the successful issue of their deliberations.\n\n## Pacific Development Corporation Loan: Railway Policy of the Consortium\n\nThe reports of the sub-committees previously appointed to deal with the questions of the Pacific Development Corporation Loan and the railway policy of the consortium were next considered.\n\n## Appointment of Sub-Committees\n\nThese sub-committees consisted, in the case of the former, of Messrs. Abbott, Mayers, Mazot, Stevens, and Wiggin, and in the case of the latter, of Messrs. Mayers, Mazot, Stevens, and Takeuchi.\n\n## Reports of Sub-Committees\n\nThe substance of their reports is embodied in the resolutions printed in the minutes, and the outcome of their deliberations has been that the American group, with the concurrence of the other groups, authorised its representative in Peking to inform the Chinese Minister of Finance that they will be prepared to consider an early issue of bonds for the completion of the Hankow-Canton Railway, provided (a) China recognises her liability for payment of the German-issued Hukuang Railway coupons without distinction, (b) that a separate security other than the revenues of the railway, such as, for example, the wine and tobacco revenue hypothecated to the Pacific Development Corporation, is given to cover the contemplated new issue, the amount of which is estimated at 100,000,000 dollars gold, to be issued in series, (c) that the Ministry of Communications will accept the consortium conditions for foreign supervision of the railway. This tentative offer, the full terms of which appear in the telegram of the 27th October, 1920, annexed hereto (`Appendix 2`), is not likely to prove acceptable to the Chinese Government, but it seemed inexpedient to discourage any tendency on the part of the American group to make an offer on their own conditions, which would demonstrate the preparedness of the consortium for immediate action.\n\n## Hukuang Railway, German Issue\n\nAs regards the German-issued bonds of the Hukuang Railway, the attitude of the British group had been to regard this question as of relatively minor importance so far as their own market is concerned, but they saw no reason to dissent from the views strongly urged by the American group and therefore concurred in the resolution to be communicated to the Chinese Government.\n\n## Chinese Eastern Railway\n\nAs soon as the question of a loan to the Chinese Eastern Railway was reached, the Japanese representatives entered an objection on the ground that the instructions of their Government precluded their considering it, as well as on the ground that such business was outside the defined scope of the consortium's activities. The latter objection was dissented from by the other groups on the ground that it was within the competence of the consortium to determine from time to time what business it would undertake. In these circumstances, it was decided that all the consortium could do was for the groups to inform their Governments of their readiness to consider a loan for the requirements of the Chinese Eastern Railway upon the conditions laid down in the minutes. At the same time, the paraphrase of a telegram dated the 13th October, 1920, and communicated by the State Department (`Appendix 3`) was read, from which it appeared that the Russo-Asiatic Bank and the Chinese Government had recently made an agreement to meet the immediate financial requirements of the railway.\n\n## Central Agency\n\nThe resolution as to the central agency was primarily intended by the British group to preserve the central agency of the consortium in London and to insure that... \nPage 15 \n... \nPage 74",
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        "content_text": "## Count Uchida's Speech on Japanese Foreign Affairs\n\nco-operation with the Chinese Government for the tranquillity of the districts affected and for the protection of Japanese subjects.\n\nFrom Chientao his Excellency turned to the subject of Siberia; but there was nothing new in the information he gave the House. With regard to the Chita Government, he said that it was for the future to reveal whether that Government would in practice, as it did in profession, stand for anti-communistic democracy.\n\nThe last part of Count Uchida's speech was devoted to the relations of Japan with the United States. The friendship of the two countries was, his Excellency said, traditional, and although it was true that there had been an occasional mingling of unpleasantness, this was almost inevitable in view of the complexity of international relations. He was, nevertheless, firmly convinced that fundamentally the good relationship remained unchanged, and that no insurmountable obstacles existed which were likely to disturb the principles governing that relationship. The Californian Land Law of 1920, which was aimed at the Japanese, and unjust and discriminatory, was undoubtedly an unfortunate measure. But it was not new: it was the result of an old unsolved problem, a problem, moreover, which could not be solved from the standpoint of one side alone. The Japanese Government had exercised the greatest care in dealing with this matter, and, recognising the urgency of obtaining a final solution of the difficulties caused by this question, they had instructed their representative in Washington to open a discussion on the subject with the American authorities. A frank exchange of views had followed; but the Government was not yet in a position to publish the results.\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1\n\nI have, &c.\n\nC. ELIOT.\n\n## Extract from the \"Japan Advertiser,\" January 23, 1921\n\n### TRANSLATION OF SPEECHES DELIVERED ON JANUARY 22 BY MR. HARA, THE MINISTER-PRESIDENT, AND COUNT UCHIDA, THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS\n\nTOUCHING briefly on the type of legislation that is to come before the present session of the Imperial Diet, Premier Hara yesterday morning opened the resumed sitting of the Diet. Count Uchida, Minister for Foreign Affairs, also addressed the reconvened Diet. The Premier's speech follows :-\n\n\"I feel it a great honour to address you on this occasion of the opening of the 44th session of the Imperial Diet.\n\nThe Imperial Diet, which was convened in July last, being a special session, the Bills which were then submitted for your approval were confined to those considered to require our immediate attention, whereas the present session being an ordinary one, some of the Bills which were left unpassed, and those which, though intended for submission to your consideration had not been introduced at all during the previous session or the one preceding it, will be submitted for your approval on this occasion. Further, the Bills which are deemed of importance in the interest of the State, and those which have been prepared by the various committees, such as the committee for the revision of existing legislation and the committee appointed to inquire into matters concerning the economy and finance of the State, will as far as possible be introduced into the Diet in the course of this session.\n\n\"It need hardly be said that, consequent upon the Peace Conference of 1919, the responsibilities of our country have greatly increased as regards our contribution to the peace of the world. Accordingly, the united efforts of the whole nation are more than ever required for the growth of the national resources and the enhancement of the national prestige. And inasmuch as it is an undeniable fact that the external development of the country depends upon the growth of the national strength at home, the Government are conducting affairs of State in accordance with this principle so far as the circumstances and the finances of the country permit.\n\nAs to the foreign relations of the country, I am happy to say that we are on good terms with all foreign countries. It is true that there are now, as in other times, some questions pending, for instance, such as the Californian and Chientao questions. In the case of the Californian question, however, the authorities concerned both in America and Japan are now engaged in the discussion thereof in a most friendly spirit, and the Government are anticipating its satisfactory settlement. As regards the Chientao question, the despatch of our troops to that district is only a temporary measure demanded by the necessity of self-defence in the presence of disturbing conditions, as was evidenced in the act of those outlaws who had burned our consulate at Hunchun and killed and wounded our countrymen there. As soon as the order and security of that district are assured, for which the Chinese Government are primarily responsible, these troops will of course be withdrawn, as was announced on the occasion of their despatch. In fact, with the exception of small detachments, these troops have already been withdrawn. As to the other questions, the Government, actuated as they are by the most sincere desire further to improve the existing friendly relations with foreign countries, are prepared to treat them equally with right and justice.\n\n\"As regards the actual foreign relations and financial programme of our country, the Ministers concerned will give you a fuller account. I will therefore refrain from dwelling upon them now at length. At any rate, it is hoped that the intention of the Government to achieve the peaceful development of the country by cultivating the national strength for the benefit of the whole nation at home, and by maintaining amicable relations with all foreign countries abroad, will be fully appreciated by the whole House.\"\n\n### The Address of Viscount Uchida\n\n\"I esteem it a great honour to come before you and make a general statement on our relations with foreign countries since the last session of the Diet.\n\n\"I desire first to touch upon questions relative to the enforcement of the several treaties of peace. The German, Austrian and Bulgarian treaties have all been in force for some time, the Japanese Government having already ratified the first two and the third being now in order for ratification. As you are aware, the Government have recently appointed diplomatic representatives to Germany and Austria. In thus resuming normal relations with these countries we are making efforts, in concert with the Allied Governments, for the enforcement of the terms of the Peace Treaty. In pursuance of this aim we have appointed commissioners to deal with problems connected with the defining of boundaries, the caution of the military clauses, and indemnity. In the task of distributing the German rolling-stock, a Japanese representative is participating as chairman of the commission. The Government were also represented on the commissions sent to various districts whose nationality was to be decided by plebiscite. The plebiscite having duly been carried out, the nationality of the districts in question has now been definitely determined. Besides, steps have also been taken at home in connection with the disposition of the special enemy properties situated in Japan, and the resumption of old treaties. In this way the Peace Treaty with Germany and Austria is being steadily put into practice. At the Ambassadors Conference held from time to time at Paris, which may be regarded as the central Allied organ for the enforcement of the Peace Treaty, the Japanese Government have throughout been represented by the Ambassador to France, who has taken part in the framing of any general policy concerning the enforcement of the various treaties of peace. The treaty with Hungary and that with Turkey have not yet taken effect, but they are expected soon to do so. The Government have already sent to the capital of Turkey a diplomatic agent, who will shortly be followed by a representative on the Commission of the Straits. Among the countries which have come into existence as the result of the great war and those to which we did not hitherto send any diplomatic agent, the Government have decided to establish legations in Poland and Greece, a Minister having recently been appointed to Poland. It being considered necessary to have representatives also in Czecho-Slovakia and Roumania, the expenditures needed for that purpose have been inserted in the budget, which is submitted to you for approval during the present session.\n\n\"The League of Nations was formally inaugurated on the 10th January, 1920, when the German Treaty took effect, and at present has a membership of forty-seven States, representing three-fourths of the entire population of the world. Now that Austria and Bulgaria have been admitted into the League, even if we temporarily abandon hope of Russia which is still in a chaotic condition, it is sincerely to be hoped that Germany, her willingness to fulfil international obligations especially those entailed by the Peace Treaty generally recognised, may before long be given admittance likewise. In this connection the Japanese Government, in common with ...",
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        "content_text": "# \nthe Allied Governments, very keenly desire that, for the peace of the world and the common welfare of humanity, the United States will see its way clear to join its efforts with the other nations for the realisation of the lofty aim of the League, \n\nAlthough the efforts of the League for the past twelve months have mainly been devoted to the perfecting of its organisation and the strengthening of its foundation, it has also exerted itself for the enforcement of the Peace Treaty and for international finance, economics, labour, communications, sanitation, statistics and like cultural work. The League is as yet at its initial stage of development, and, moreover, the international political situation has not quite recovered permanent equilibrium since the war. It is to be expected, therefore, that the League should still leave something to be desired both in organisation and working, and that each one of the member States may be dissatisfied in one respect or another. It is, indeed, inevitable that an international undertaking of the magnitude of the League of Nations should fail to attain perfection in a single day, but all the nations of the world should feel it pointedly incumbent upon them to see to the future development and eventual perfecting of the League. \n\n## \nThe functions of the League are performed by the Council, the Assembly, the Secretariat and various expert commissions. The Council met eleven times in the course of last year, at Paris, London, Rome, San Sebastian, Brussels and Geneva. The Assembly was in session for a month from the 15th November last year, at Geneva, the seat of the League. At each of these meetings good work has been done, and what is worthy of special note is that at these sessions of the Council and the Assembly the representatives of the member States have evinced willingness throughout to put forth their efforts for the common cause of the League, instead of confining their attention wholly to the interests of individual nations they represented. It is principally due to the spirit of concert and harmony manifested on these occasions that the League now has a fair promise of life and development. \n\nIn regard to the curtailment of armament, provided for in the Peace Treaty, the Military Commission of the League, since its organisation last May, has been making investigations into the practical phases of the question. As a matter of principle, disarmament is to be welcomed for the general welfare of the human race, and the Japanese Government are paying special attention to the question. The matter, however, has very important and complex bearings for each nation, and it is to be apprehended that the realisation of this end may be found impossible unless all the nations act in one accord and in good faith. \n\nThe project of the International Court of Justice was resolved upon both by the Council and the Assembly, chiefly on the basis of the original draft adopted by the Conference of International Jurists held last year at The Hague. The plan is now being submitted to the several Governments for approval, and the Court is expected to be established at no distant date. The passing of this resolution is the most important of the results achieved at the first session of the League Assembly. That international conflicts should to as great a degree as possible be settled by peaceful means is of course highly desirable, and the decision to establish an international court for that end is most welcome. \n\nThe questions of amending the League Covenant, of economic blockade as the principal means of punishment by the League, and of mandates to be exercised on behalf of the League have each been assigned to expert commissions which have been appointed as auxiliary organs of the League Council. The field of activities of the League will thus gradually be enlarged with time. \n\nBefore passing on to another theme, I may be permitted to state that the aim of the League of Nations, which lies in the securing of world peace and the promoting of international co-operation, is quite consistent with the policy followed throughout by Japan, and that it is her intention, as one of the five great nations, invariably to make endeavours, in hearty co-operation with the other Powers, for the attainment of that lofty aim of the League. \n\n## \nNext the question of mandate calls for a few words. Under the Peace Treaty, which is based on the principle of non-annexation, the former German possessions in Africa and the South Pacific, together with the territories in Asia which belonged to the former Turkish Empire, have been placed under administration by mandate. So far as the former German possessions are concerned, the mandatories and their assigned territories were decided upon at the Supreme Council of the 7th May of last year. On that occasion the whole group of former German islands lying north of the Equator was assigned to the Administration of Japan as mandatory. When, at a later date, the terms and formulæ of the mandates came up for determination, a difference of views arose between the Japanese and British Governments in the construction of the treaty stipulation relating to the terms and formulæ of the mandate over the former German colonies lying south of the Equator. Agreement could not be reached for a long time. A frank exchange of views, however, between the Japanese and British representatives who attended the first session of the League Assembly happily resulted in a composition of the difference. \n\nWhile agreeing to the terms of the mandate of the C class as proposed by the British Government, the Japanese Government came to a full understanding with the British Government that Japan should make a declaration to the effect that the acquired right of the Japanese in the former German colonies south of the Equator should be fully respected, and that their agreement to the terms of mandate over these islands should not be taken to signify acquiescence on the part of Japan in any discriminatory and unfavourable treatment of her nationals in the said islands. Accordingly, when the terms of the class C mandate were decided upon on the 17th December last, at a meeting of the eleventh session of the League Council, the Japanese representative made a declaration on the lines of the above understanding and reserved for Japan a right to resume negotiations with the British Government concerning the treatment of Japanese subjects in those territories. The terms and formulæ of the mandates over the former German possessions in the South Pacific having now been determined, the Japanese Government are about to enter upon formal control and administration, in pursuance of those terms of mandate, over the group of islands assigned to Japan. \n\n\"Gentlemen, I am happy to be able to state that it is the determination of the Japanese Government to spare no efforts in the discharge of this noble mission of civilisation, in promoting the welfare and development of the people of these territories, thus fully to deserve the trust that the League members have placed in Japan. \n\nAs to the revision and renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Agreement of Alliance, the Japanese Government had been giving careful consideration to the question, with a view especially to its relation to the Covenant of the League of Nations. They entered into conference with the British Government and a frank exchange of views on this matter took place both in London and Tokyo. In view of article 6 of the existing agreement of alliance, it was decided to address to the League of Nations a joint notification to the effect that the Governments of Japan and Great Britain had come to the conclusion that the Anglo-Japanese Agreement of the 13th July, though in harmony with the spirit of the Covenant of the League of Nations was not entirely consistent with the letter of that Covenant, and that they accordingly recognised the principle that if the said agreement was to be continued after July 1921 it must be in a form not inconsistent with the Covenant. The notification was conveyed in a note dated the 8th July, 1920. The principle to guide the Japanese Government in revising the agreement is at present a subject of serious study, regard being had to the articles of the League Covenant, as declared in the joint notification, and to the many important changes which have taken place in the aspect of affairs since the conclusion of the present agreement. \n\nThat this agreement of alliance has contributed largely and distinctly to the peace, stability and welfare of the entire Far East is fully realised by both nations, and not only is the continuance and preservation of the wholesome spirit of this alliance for a long time to come desired by the most thoughtful of the two peoples, but it is, I am sure, in perfect harmony with the high ideals of the League of Nations. \n\nConcerning the organisation of the new consortium looking to financial aid to China, I had the privilege at the last session to state before you how a clear understanding was reached between the respective banking groups and Governments concerned, and how the new organisation was fast taking shape. Last October the representatives of the various banking groups met in conference at New York, signed the final agreement, and discussed the policy of the consortium and other details of practice, thus bringing to completion the organisation of the new consortium. While the activities of the consortium in the future are necessarily dependent upon negotiations and co-operation between the organisation itself and the Chinese Government, it may not be out of place, now that the consortium has been completed, to make a remark on its mission. The object of the consortium is purely economic: in other words, what it aims at is to assist and facilitate the economic development of China and thereby to contribute to the happiness and interest of the Chinese people, on the one hand, and to afford equal opportunity for the private enterprise of the nations concerned on the other. \n\n`[5870 h-3]`\n\nPage 4\nPage 5\n473",
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        "content_text": "561 \n\n2 \n\ndifficulty, it seemed deplorable that they should quibble about wireless concessions when it should be quite possible by conference and cooperation to avoid international competition and provide some amalgamation of interests on an international basis. I hoped the Chargé d'Affaires would convey to his Government that this was not the way to settle such matters and that a better method should be devised. \n\nThe American Chargé d'Affaires expressed warmest agreement and thought if two or three representatives of his Government and ours met together this question and others could be easily solved. He felt certain that this was the opinion of the new administration in America. \n\nWhile expressing pleasure at this assurance I said we had better await arrival of new American Ambassador a few weeks hence from whom I should doubtless hear authoritatively what his Government proposed. \n\nRepeated to Washington No.220. Copy to Paris. \nRepeat to Tokio.",
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        "content_text": "# COPIN.\n\n**(N 11246/476/15)**\n\n## Conference des Ambassadeurs.\n\n### Secretariat General.\n\nQuai d'Orsay.\n\nParis, le 15 Septembre 1921\n\nComme suite à sa note du 14 Septembre 1921, le Secrétariat Général de la Conférence des Ambassadeurs a l'honneur de faire tenir ci-joint à l'Ambassade **BRITANNIQUE** copie de la lettre adressée le 23 Novembre 1919 par M. Clemenceau à Monsieur Bernhoff, Ministre de Danemark.\n\nAMBASSADE BRITANNIQUE,\n\n463",
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        "content_text": "# COPIE\n\n## CONFERENCE DE LA PAIX\n\n### Le Président\n\n464\n\nParis le 23 novembre 1919.\n\nMonsieur le Ministre,\n\nPar votre lettre du 24 octobre dernier, vous avez bien voulu attirer l'attention du Conseil Suprême sur la question de la liquidation des biens, droits et intérêts qui appartiennent aux habitants de la partie Sleswig soumise au plébiscite et qui sont situés dans les pays alliés et associés.\n\nJ'ai l'honneur de vous faire connaître que le Conseil Suprême a examiné cette question avec tout le soin qu'elle mérite.\n\nAu point de vue de la reconnaissance, au profit des intéressés, d'un droit de recours contre le Gouvernement allemand à fin d'indemnité, il n'a pas paru qu'en l'état actuel du Traité déjà signé, ratifié par l'Allemagne et sur le point d'être mis en vigueur, une nouvelle obligation puisse être imposée de ce chef à l'Allemagne.\n\nD'autre part, en ce qui les concerne, les Principales Puissances alliées et associées sont loin de méconnaître la situation spéciale des Sleswigeois devenant définitivement Danois à la suite du plébiscite et, dans l'esprit le plus amical, elles sont disposées à prendre, chacune dans les termes de sa législation et autant que les circonstances le permettront, les mesures appropriées pour assurer un règlement équitable de cette situation. Elles se plaisent\n\nMonsieur Bernhoff,\nMinistre de Danemark,",
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        "content_text": "BEPT. 24, 1921]\n\nBALTIC INTERNATIONAL CHOLERA CONFERENCE.\n\nHis address is so full of biological meat that it is difficult to make a selection from the mass of original thoughts he presents there, but to comment on all would mean an article longer than the lecture itself. I will therefore be content with one more reference, and this to a point of nomenclature. The word \"vitamine\" has for long stunk in the nostrils of the chemist. The loss of the final \"e\" has deprived it of much of its sting, but Professor Armstrong prefers to get rid of it altogether, and proposes in its place the word \"adjuvant\". If only its coiner had been the first in the field Vitamin is now, one fears, firmly rooted; one can only regret the difficulty there always is in uprooting these ill-advised expressions; still, if such be possible, adjuvant as a substitute appears free from all objection.\n\nW. D. HALLIBURTON.\n\nTHE BALTIC INTERNATIONAL CHOLERA CONFERENCE.\n\nIt appears that conditions in Russia are reaching a point that may have serious effects upon the health of Europe. One of the most productive districts of Russia, formerly the granary both for that country and for Europe, has been stricken by drought, which has destroyed the crops and reduced the Russian people to a state of famine. An emigration that is almost a panic has started, we are told, from the famine districts, and the horrors of the flight of those starving people have been increased owing to the fact that such diseases as cholera, typhoid fever, and scurvy continue to follow them. The districts from which the emigration started are stated to be already so affected by cholera that combative measures are impossible in present circumstances. The cholera epidemic is gradually spreading over the country, and the rest of Europe is faced with the danger of cholera. The three Baltic states, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, have decided, therefore, to assume the responsibility of making a sanitary cordon against the spread of the disease. A Baltic conference was suggested by Lieut.-Colonel Edward W. Ryan, M.D., the American Red Cross Commissioner to Western Russia and the Baltic states, and this conference was held in Riga from July 25th to 27th under his honorary presidency, with the Assistant Director of the Latvian Health Department, Dr. Kivitzki, in the chair. Dr. R. Adelheim of the University of Riga has prepared a report of the deliberations of this conference, which has been forwarded to us at his request by Colonel Ryan.\n\nThe conference agreed to adhere to the Paris Convention of 1903-1911, and it was decided to consider the decrees of the Convention of Paris as binding for the three Baltic states, and to induce the representative Foreign Offices to take the necessary steps for their formal adherence to the Convention. As regards relations with Russia, the conference found that no official records on the cholera epidemic had reached the Governments of the three Baltic states, but that nevertheless official papers in Russia did not deny the existence of cholera. Owing to diplomatic difficulties the conference refrained from declaring immediately that Russia was affected by cholera, but agreed to the request of the respective Governments to apply to the Soviet Government for immediate information on the question. The Estonian representative said that his Government had some time ago applied to Russia for this information, but no reply had yet been received. Should, however, the reply of the Soviet Government to the inquiries of the conference not be received in the near future, the Baltic states would of necessity proclaim Russia as an infected country, and this decision would be followed by a strengthened frontier protection. It was agreed by the conference that whatever the reply of the Soviet Government should be, provided it contained confirmation of the existence of the epidemic, the whole of Russia was to be declared as infected by cholera and action taken according to Article 8 of the Convention.\n\nWith BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL\n\n493\n\nThe further work of the conference consisted in dealing with the internal measures to be taken against cholera, and unanimous agreement was reached on this subject. A restriction of railway traffic was found to be necessary in order that the health departments might confine the right of railway travel to such persons only as could show a certificate of health issued by the local authorities. Compulsory vaccination against cholera was not provided for as an invariable rule, but the medical officer in charge was authorized to apply compulsion should circumstances call for such action. The question of preventive measures on the adjacent frontiers was further dealt with, and it was agreed that there should be no interruption of trade and traffic, and therefore no frontier closing. The medical staff in a border zone twenty kilometres wide were to report mutually, through the frontier authorities, all cholera cases which occurred.\n\nIn order to co-ordinate the work of the three Baltic states it was decided that their bacteriological institutes should exchange as frequently as possible their epidemiological and bacteriological observations. The Governments of the Baltic states were requested to convoke periodical sanitary conferences and to form a permanent central bureau of representatives of the three states with the duty of examining health conditions. During the discussion the hope was expressed that this bureau might gradually grow into an Eastern Europe international sanitary board. As regards the measures to be taken in harbours, these were in conformity with those provided for in the Convention of Paris, Latvia establishing two observation points on the river Dwina in order to lock up the timber rafting, and similar measures were to be undertaken by the other states.\n\nAs soon as Russia should be definitely declared to be infected by cholera it was agreed to apply a strengthened military frontier protection, the three States closing their frontier with Russia; the exchange stations for flax and salt were also to be closed, as well as the other transit stations, with the exception of certain notified border stations. Should a cholera case occur in a train all passengers were to be considered as contagious, and kept under supervision for a definite period. Infected refugee transports were expected to arrive within a short time at the border stations, and it would be necessary to submit these refugees to observation in quarantine stations before they set off for other places. The position of Latvia was especially hard in this respect, as Lithuanian refugees would also pass through Latvian territory on their way home. Latvia possessed only one quarantine station, with accommodation at present for 2,500 to 3,000 people, and not only would it be necessary to enlarge this quarantine station, but another still larger had to be established. A shortage was reported in essential equipment such as beds, bedding, bacteriological apparatus and instruments. It was decided by the conference to request the aid of the American Red Cross in organizing European relief work, so that the first wall against cholera should not be in danger of collapse, and the infection spread from the harbours and the borders of the Baltic states throughout the world.\n\nTHE WEST INDIAN MEDICAL CONFERENCE.\n\nThe West Indian Medical Conference, which was held at Georgetown, British Guiana, from June 28th to July 13th, was the second medical conference ever held in the West Indies, the first being the Quarantine Conference of 1904. The delegates to the Conference were: From Barbados, Dr. John Hutson, O.B.E., Public Health Inspector; from British Guiana, Dr. E. P. Minett, Government M.O.H.; from Trinidad, Dr. John Dickson, Deputy Surgeon-General; from Grenada, Dr. G. W. Paterson, Colonial Surgeon; from St. Lucia, Major H. E. Sutherland Richards, M.C., Chief Medical Officer; from Jamaica, Dr. E. D. Gideon, District Medical Officer. The London School of Tropical Medicine was represented by Professor R. T. Leiper, and Dr. John Anderson, of the Filariasis Commission. A representative from Dutch Guiana was also present in the person of Dr. J. Wolff, Government Bacteriologist of Surinam. The Conference was one of Government medical officers, called at the request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was of an official character. Unfortunately, the colonies of British Honduras, the Bahamas, the Leeward Islands, St. Vincent, and Bermuda, were not represented. His Excellency the Hon. Cecil Clementi, C.M.G., the Acting Governor, presided, and the two vice-presidents were Professor R. T. Leiper and Dr. W. G. Boase, Acting Surgeon-General of British Guiana. Dr. E. P. Minett, Medical Officer of Health for British Guiana, acted as secretary of the Conference.\n\nIn his opening address the Acting Governor said that the most fundamental questions in every community were, could the inhabitants of the country be kept in good health? and did the population show year by year a natural increment? If these questions could be answered in the affirmative, the community was sound at the core; if the\n\n62",
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        "content_text": "taute de concurrents, un considérable surcroit de bénéfices.\n\nOh, rassurez-vous, chers collègues, je ne vous ai pas dit tout cela pour vous décourager. Mais je tenais à vous faire comprendre que les seules mesures administratives ne suffiront pas et qu'il nous faut tâcher de combattre le mal dans sa racine même, c'est-à-dire trouver quelque chose pour qu'il n'y ait plus d'opiomanes. Car tant qu'il y aura des gens adonnés à ce vice, rien, ni personne ne les empêchera de se procurer, par n'importe quel moyen et à n'importe quel prix, la drogue qui tue l'énergie.\n\nA mon humble avis, il faudrait entreprendre une intense propagande anti-narcotique dans tout l'Orient, et même en Europe. J'ai lu dernièrement un livre édité à Paris depuis peu et intitulé « Opium et opiomanie », dans lequel l'auteur raconte comment ce vice se répand en Occident par l'intermédiaire de quelques Européens de retour des colonies.\n\nLa cinquième Commission a fait, certes, tout son possible, pour aider l'Assemblée dans l'accomplissement de cette noble tâche, et la peine qu'elle s'est donnée est vraiment digne de tout éloge. Et la Société elle-même, par les efforts qu'elle fait, pour sauver de ce fléau une bonne partie du genre humain, mérite une reconnaissance infinie. L'humanité entière lui doit une gratitude immense.\n\nJe propose donc que le Comité d'hygiène soit chargé de l'édition de nombreuses brochures contre l'opium, que l'on ferait écrire par les médecins du monde entier. Il va sans dire que ces brochures doivent être éditées dans l'idiome des pays sus-indiqués et dans un langage aussi simple que possible. On répandrait ces brochures par l'intermédiaire des membres intéressés de notre Société dans les contrées où l'opium fait ses ravages, et je puis assurer que cela fera un effet bien plus efficace que telle ou telle mesure douanière.\n\nOn dépense beaucoup d'argent pour combattre le typhus, la peste et le choléra. Pourquoi n'en dépenserait-on pas un peu pour combattre l'opiomanie? Je connais la mentalité orientale. Une propagande de ce genre venue de l'Occident, surtout au nom de la Société des Nations, qui a là-bas un grand prestige, ne sera pas inutile, j'en suis certain.\n\nJe répète une fois de plus que la plus grande attention doit être attachée à cette question. Celui qui connaît l'Orient et qui a eu l'occasion de rencontrer dans les rues ces fantômes vivants qu'on appelle opiomanes, comprendra pourquoi la Société des Nations se préoccupe tant de résoudre ce terrible problème.\n\nPour finir, je remercie très chaleureusement, de la part de mon pays, la Société des Nations pour les peines qu'elle se donne afin de parer à ce fléau, car c'est surtout en Orient qu'il sévit le plus gravement, et je suis persuadé que tous les autres pays producteurs d'opium joindront à ces remerciements. (Applaudissements).\n\nM. van SWINDEREN (Pays-Bas). Monsieur le Président, Mesdames, Messieurs, permettez-moi, en quelques mots, de motiver mon vote en faveur des propositions et résolution qui vous ont été proposées.\n\n...\n\nseek these drugs everywhere with feverish anxiety. Moreover, these chemical products can be obtained at a low price, and are therefore sold very cheaply throughout Europe.\n\nThey are carried about by hawkers, who do a good trade, and make a great deal of money by selling these products. The effects of these chemical products are not the same as the effects of the natural products. The chemical changes that take place inside the plant through the action of the sun do not produce the same effects as a synthetic drug. Those who are addicted to the use of these drugs feel a curious satisfaction in inciting others to share in their sensations and to partake of them. The evil is spreading throughout Europe, and the future of our race is at stake if it persists.\n\nMoved by the fear of this terrible scourge, the French Government thought it necessary to ask the Fifth Committee to recommend the Assembly to request the Council to beg the Governments to call together a new Conference to consider at once these new drugs which are ravaging humanity; but several members of the Fifth Committee did not absolutely support that view.\n\nM. FERREIRA (Rapporteur). Interpreter: I wish to say a few words in order to fill up a gap in the Report which I previously read. As regards the sixth recommendation, which reads: \"The Assembly urges those States Members of the League, which have not yet signed and ratified the Opium Convention to do so as soon as possible,\" the following Members of the League have not yet ratified the Opium Convention of 1912 or signed the Protocol of 1914: Albania, Argentine, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Esthonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Paraguay, Persia, Salvador, Switzerland.\n\nThe PRESIDENT. Interpreter: Gentlemen, as no other Member wishes to speak, the debate is brought to a close. I will now put to the vote the Resolutions which you will find on pages 2 and 3 of the Report. Does anyone wish for a roll-call? If not, I declare the Resolutions carried unanimously.\n\nEn vérité, la Société des Nations a tout lieu d'être satisfaite de son œuvre et une belle page va être ajoutée à ses annales. Dans une harmonie parfaite, des résolutions ont été prises, qui tendent à réduire de plus en plus les ravages moraux et physiques causés par l'abus de la drogue nuisible.\n\nLes vues larges de notre Société sur le bien-être du genre humain ont triomphé de toutes les considérations d'ordre national, et les grands et petits pays, producteurs de ce dangereux pavot, salubre et funeste à la fois, n'ont pas hésité à faire taire leurs intérêts matériels devant les exigences supérieures de l'humanité.\n\nDans la résolution sur laquelle vous êtes appelés à vous prononcer, la convention de l'opium vient de se voir administrer une nouvelle injection fortifiante et la voie est tracée dans laquelle il faudra poursuivre pour élargir le terrain sur lequel ses effets bienfaisants pourront se faire sentir.\n\nEn rendant de plus en plus infranchissables les obstacles que nous avons déjà dressés devant celui que je ne peux m'empêcher d'appeler \"le serpent dans le paradis botanique\", nous nous approcherons lentement du millénaire où la pipe meurtrière sera complètement reléguée au musée dans les chambres d'horreur, parmi les instruments historiques de torture. (Applaudissements).\n\nM. Jean HENNESSY (France). Monsieur le Président, Mesdames, Messieurs, je me propose de soutenir la huitième résolution que la cinquième Commission vous demande de voter. Elle a été exposée dans son principe par l'honorable rapporteur, M. Ferreira. Elle a trait uniquement à la question des succédanés de l'opium et de la cocaïne.\n\nL'Assemblée sait que la convention signée en 1912 ne vise que les produits de la capsule du pavot somnifère et de la feuille de l'erythroxylon coca. Ce sont donc uniquement les produits végétaux ou dérivés des alcaloïdes qu'ils fournissent qu'actuellement nous pouvons poursuivre aux termes de la convention.\n\nOn fabrique par synthèse des produits chimiques qui ont la même composition que ceux dérivés de l'opium ou de la coca. Les malades qui commencent à les absorber sur la recommandation des médecins et qui trouvent en eux un principe curatif sont pris quelquefois par une étrange passion.\n\nBien plus, comme ces produits d'origine chimique sont fabriqués relativement à bas prix, ils peuvent être vendus à des prix encore modérés par des colporteurs clandestins. En quelques heures, en vendant quelques grammes, ceux-ci peuvent réaliser un bénéfice important. Ils sont par conséquent les agents actifs de la distribution de ces produits.\n\nPage 253",
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        "content_text": "236\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nNEWS.\n\n[September 3rd, 1921.\n\nCABLE MYSTERIOUS CHINESE AFFRAY AT\n\nFRENCH LINER NOT LOST.\n\nUnder the present scheme of allotting the FAR EASTERN Valley for different games at different times golf is not dangerous and accidents should not happen. The only difficulty at the moment is the two tennis courts used by members of the Army, but I am certain that the golfers and tennis-players can settle this little question in a friendly spirit, provided outsiders do not interfere.\n\nThere is a suggestion afoot to start a library of books on golf, and if any members have any such books that they have finished with Mr. A. B. Stewart will be pleased to receive them. Of course no details have been fixed, but I hear the idea is to have the books at Fanling. This, to my mind, would be a mistake. Very few golfers would have time to study them out there. The only people to benefit by them would be those who stay over the week-end—a very small proportion. It appears to me that members would like to take books of this description home to read during the week, and therefore it would be far more beneficial if the books were kept at a central depot in Hongkong.\n\nThe Committee are at present compiling a small booklet of revised local rules, bye-laws, etc., for each course. The booklet will also contain a facsimile of the medal cards for each course, giving the names of each hole, with, of course, the length and bogey. The names for the old course at Fanling will remain as they stand, but the new course, Happy Valley and Deep Water Bay are receiving brand new names. At the time of writing the only new names available are those for Happy Valley, which I give below:\n\n1st hole, \"The better 'ole\"; 2nd, \"The Gap\"; 3rd, \"The Corner\"; 4th, \"Black rock\"; 5th, \"The Monument\"; 6th, \"The Turn\"; 7th, \"The Long hole\"; 8th, \"Mile end\"; 9th, \"The Hut.\"\n\nA well-known firm in Hongkong are having a thousand copies of the rules and etiquette of golf, amended up to date, printed, and these they are generously presenting to the Golf Club, so I presume that every member will be supplied with a copy. There will be no excuse, then, for the indiscretions which are far too numerous on the Hongkong course!\n\nThey are making great headway with the new verandah at Deep Water Bay; and I hear that some of this course's patrons have offered to build an additional one on top of the one at present under construction. This will greatly add to the comfort of players during the hot weather, and further relieve the congestion.\n\nThe re-constructed fourth hole on this course is now finished and is a great improvement on the old one.\n\nI believe the Committee are busy trying to draft a scheme to simplify the booking of times at Fanling. It is a difficult problem and one which will never be solved to the satisfaction of everybody. Personally, I do not envy them their job, and I doubt very much whether they will be able to do anything at all without a deal of extra expense, which is the one thing they are trying to avoid. If the railway had electric trains to carry 20 people only, ran one every forty minutes, and would issue tickets for specified trains beforehand, I think the problem would be solved! But will the Railway do it?\n\nSHANGHAI, August 26th. The French liner Cordillere marvellously righted herself late on Wednesday night and the captain, officers, and crew were enabled to go aboard. The rudder was broken by the bumping she got. Her previous list was to starboard. Early yesterday morning the list was ten degrees to port. She is still in a dangerous position, as are also the Glaucus and Hendrik. The Glaucus is on her maiden trip from Liverpool.\n\nSeptember 2nd.\n\nThe Glaucus got off this forenoon.\n\nY.M.C.A. IN SHANGHAI.\n\nSHANGHAI, August 30th. The national war-time council of the Y.M.C.A. in America has donated three hundred thousand gold dollars for the club and property acquired in Shanghai. Work begins soon.\n\nTORONTO, August 29th.\n\nFour Chinese crew of the Dominion Coal Company's steamer Maskinonge were killed, and 2 wounded, by revolver shots in the forecastle of the steamer, which had anchored near Quebec. No weapon was discovered. The surviving Chinese refuse to throw light on the affray.\n\nORIENTAL LABOUR IN CANADA.\n\nTORONTO, August 29th. The Dominion Trades and Labour Congress has passed a resolution in favour of the exclusion of all Oriental immigrants permanently.\n\nCHINESE LABOUR IN UNITED KINGDOM.\n\nLONDON, August 31st. That a capitalist boss was behind the importation of Chinese into Canada and the United Kingdom was the opinion expressed by a Magistrate at Pontypridd, to-day, when three Chinese were charged with landing in the United Kingdom without permission of the immigration officer at Liverpool; and were ordered to be detained in custody in the second division for a month, with a view to arranging for their deportation.\n\nA SHANGHAI BANKRUPTCY.\n\nMr. Cecil Humphreys, merchant of Shanghai, yesterday underwent a public examination for bankruptcy before Judge Grain in the British Supreme Court. The Magistrate declared that a great amount of money was given for securing the services of Chinese on the Pacific coast and along the coasts here. A huge business was being done in this way in British Columbia, and certain Chinese were making fortunes very rapidly by getting young Chinese into England. The petitioning creditor was the Bank of China. Mr. P. W. Goldring represented the debtor. A statement of affairs places the assets at $2,050 and the estimated liabilities at $520,000. Mr. Humphreys attributed his losses to bad judgment, the tremendous fall in exchange, and general bad trade conditions. His original capital, he said, approximated $150,000. The examination was adjourned.\n\n[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]\n\nMARSHAL JOFFRE'S VISIT TO JAPAN.\n\nPARIS, August 24th (delayed.) Marshal Joffre has postponed the start of his voyage to Japan until the end of the year.—Havas.\n\nYAP DISPUTE SETTLED.\n\nLONDON, August 29th.\n\nThe protracted dispute between the United States and Japan, as regards the mandate given to the latter by the League over the Island of Yap, to which the United States objected, is now settled.\n\nAccording to the Morning Post's Washington correspondent, the United States has accepted the Japanese offer to concede cable facilities and control, instead of agreeing to the proposed internationalisation of the island.\n\nNEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN.\n\nPARIS August 27th (delayed). M. Paul Claudel, the new Ambassador to Japan, will sail on September 2nd. In an interview with the Excelsior, M. Claudel expressed himself as proud and sincerely pleased to represent France in the country of an allied nation, whose civilisation he greatly admires and in whose destiny he firmly believes. The new Ambassador states that all his efforts are to be devoted to rendering still more intimate the intellectual bonds between France and Japan.—Havas.\n\nPACIFIC CONFERENCE AND SOUTH CHINA'S APPLICATION.\n\nLONDON, August 31st. Advices from Washington indicate that the pressing application of South China to be admitted to the disarmament conference is not likely to find favour with the American Administration, which is disposed only to recognise the established Government.\n\nTHE PRINCE OF WALES TO VISIT HONGKONG.\n\nLONDON, September 1st. According to the present arrangements, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales concludes his tour in India, approximately, on March 17th, and is calling at Singapore, Hongkong, and, possibly, Penang en route for Japan.\n\nFAMINE COMMITTEE AND A BANK FRAUD.\n\nA Peking message says:-The United International Famine Relief Committee has asked H.E. President Hsu Shih-chang to aid that organization in recovering $80,000 lost through the Yu Feng Bank, which closed its doors the day after the Society had deposited $150,000 for transmission from Peking to Sianfu for use in relieving famine there.\n\nThe petition, signed by members of the committee, charges that the bank officials knew when the money was accepted that the bank was to close its doors and that the act of receiving the money was fraud and that all of the funds should be returned.\n\nThe petition further says that the Society has been able to get $70,000 from the officials, but asks the President to use his influence with the police and other authorities to see that the remainder of the money is returned.\n\n178",
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Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver 7th Nov.\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE (via Suez or Panama)\n\nANTILOCHUS AGAMEMNON TEUCER TERESIAS PYRRHUS PYRRHUS\n\n5th Oct. via Suez 25th Oct. via Suez 15 Nov. via Suez\n\nPASSENGER SERVICE\n\n25th Sept. for Singapore & London 1st Nov for Shanghai & Japan 4th Nov. for Singapore & London\n\nFor Freight and Passage Rates and further information apply to :-\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (JOHN SWIRE & SONS, LTD.) AGENTS.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.\n\nRegular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong, Swatow and return.\n\nS. S. \"BAKA\" Due S. S. \"BINTANG\" Will leave for Bangkok via Swatow\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., Agents. CONSIGNEES.\n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE.\n\nThe Steamship \"PRESIDENT MCKINLEY\" having arrived from Manila P. I on Sep. 21 consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., at Kowloon, and stored at consignees' risk.\n\nConsignees of cargo must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be counter-signed.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nEARLIER TELEGRAMS. (Continued from Page 3)\n\nTHE ALLIES AND TURKEY.\n\nParis, Sept. 21.\n\nAn account of the proceedings of the Foreign Ministers' Conference yesterday is contained in the semi-official statement which says that Lord Curzon expressed great astonishment at the fact that while the British had decided to reinforce her troops at Chanak, both France and Italy had resolved to withdraw their contingents from the south side of the Sea of Marmora.\n\nLord Curzon considered that the Franco-Italian decision hardly conformed with the agreements of 1915 and 1918, providing for partial Inter-Allied occupation of Turkish territory.\n\nM. Poincare regarded the agreements as being at present inapplicable, as no conflict was feared when the allocation of troops was provided thereunder. He added that French opinion would not permit French troops to act with the Greeks and he argued that if Chanak was held, the whole of the southern shore of the Sea of Marmora ought equally to be occupied.\n\nKemalists would entertain peace proposals.\n\nSignor Sforza, agreeing with M. Poincare, believed that the discussions on the acceptable basis of agreement cabled last night and which just then arrived.\n\nThe Conference decided, in principle, to hold a Peace Conference at Venice, but pointed out that Russia had not been invited as she was not directly interested, the Soviet-Angora Treaty specifically excluding Russian decisions affecting the sovereignty of Turkey and the security of Constantinople.\n\nM. Poincare further pointed out the military objection to the Allies fighting with their backs to the sea. He also pointed out the undesirable effect upon the Islamic world if Britain adopted an uncompromising or bellicose attitude.\n\nIt is semi-officially declared that the problem cannot be referred to the League of Nations as urged by Dr. Nansen and Dominion representatives, as it is a Government matter.\n\nThe document states that the Foreign Minister's decision marks a big step on the road to peace.\n\nAll broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns, where it will be examined at 10 a.m. on 26th inst., by the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Anderson & Ashe.\n\nAll claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.\n\nNo claims will be recognised after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Sept. 27th will be subject to rent.\n\nNo Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.\n\nConsignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-signature immediately.\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, No. 4. Des Voeux Road, Managing Agents, THE ADMIRAL LINE. Hongkong, 21st. Sept., 1922.\n\n\"For the Blood is the Life.\"\n\nSufferers from Bad Legs, Abscesses, Ulcers, Piles, Glandular Swellings, Eczema, Boils, Pimples and Eruptions, Gout, Rheumatism, must realise that the only sure way to complete and lasting relief is to free the blood of the poisonous waste matter, the one cause of such troubles.\n\nClarke's Blood Mixture contains ingredients which soon overcome and expel the impurities, that's why so many lasting cures stand to its credit.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M. S. \"INDIEN\" will be loading for Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen & other Scandinavian Ports, about 1st October.\n\nFurther Sailings:-Expected on or about 4th October M. S. \"ASIA\" 15th October M. S. \"PANAMA\" 26th October M. S. \"MALAYA\" Subject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Agents. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1922.\n\nMRS. SEKAI MASSAGE\n\nTHE CANTON BANK, 2nd Floor, No. 2, DUDDELL ST. HONGKONG.\n\nSAVARESSE'S SANTAL CAPSULES\n\nFrom all Chemists The best internal treatment. Specially made in a way that prevents sickness or nausea. Physicians recommend them.\n\nTHE GRECO-EGYPTIAN TOBACCO CO. 12a, Queen's Road, Beg to announce to the general public the arrival of their new coffee roasting machine for the best quality Mocha and Java coffee, which can be had at the above address, Fresh Coffee roasted daily.\n\nA PERSIAN PROVERB: \"A cup of hot coffee without an Egyptian cigarette is like meat without salt.\"\n\nSimla, Sept. 21.\n\nTwenty-five Moslem Members of the Legislature have submitted their views on the Near East situation to the Viceroy, most earnestly and with the greatest moderation drawing his attention to the points on which it is considered Turkish peace ought to be based and which formed the subject of the Government of India's famous telegram of March 8, the unauthorised publication of which resulted in Mr. Montagu's resignation of the Secretaryship of India.\n\nThe Viceroy promised to lay their views before the Imperial Government.\n\nParis, Sept. 21. A message from Angora reports that the Turks altogether captured 60,000 Greeks.\n\nWellington (N.Z.), Sept. 21. There has been an immense response to the proposal for service in the Straits. Ten thousand New Zealanders yesterday alone offered themselves.\n\nConstantinople, Sept. 21. Hamid Bey, the Kemalist representative here, has informed a British correspondent that the Turks intend to cross the Dardanelles and enter Thrace, but will not fire on the Allies in crossing unless first attacked.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Near East policy of the United States has been outlined at the White House.\n\nIt is stated that the United States will stand aloof in the event of trouble, except to provide adequately for the relief of American citizens endangered by the Turkish advance and to participate in any general programme of relief adopted by the European governments.\n\nTHE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF BILL.\n\nWashington, Sept. 21. The Treasury experts estimate that the new tariff under the Fordney-McCumber Bill, the measure when enacted, will yield about $100,000,000 annual revenue, half of which will be derived from the following sources, viz., sugar, $37,000,000; raw wool, $63,000,000; tobacco, $35,000,000; laces and embroideries, $15,000,000; while the average ad valorem rates will be slightly higher than the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.\n\nThey will in actual operation show an average slightly lower because some of the new duties will be inoperative owing to their height or the absence of imports of commodities they cover.\n\nPerhaps, the most notable feature of the Bill is the power given to the President, after investigation by the Tariff Commission, to increase or decrease any rate in the Bill by 50 per cent. if necessary, in order to set off the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad.\n\nThe President may also declare American valuations as the basis of an assessment of ad valorem duties.\n\nIt is estimated that this will automatically increase the rates about 100 per cent.\n\nAfter such declaration the President could reduce any duty by 50 per cent. but could not increase it.\n\nAlmost all infantile troubles arise in the first place from stomach and bowel troubles.\n\nTo remedy these conditions use Baby's Own Tablets.\n\nThese Tablets stand in a class by themselves, being especially made for children's use, pleasant in taste and guaranteed absolutely harmless.\n\nThey quickly reduce simple fever, cure indigestion, check diarrhoea, allay teething pains, expel worms, relieve croup and colds, quiet the nerves and promote health-giving, restful sleep in a natural way.\n\nBaby's Own Tablets are sold by chemists, or at 60 cents the vial, post free, from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai.\n\nVisitors always welcome a VICTROLA No Home complete without one.\n\nMCUTRIES:-Sole Agents.\n\nAIRSHIPS SUPPLANT CRUISERS.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. The Admiralty has decided that the use of the airship in wartime shall become the first consideration of British airship policy, and its employment for Imperial communications the next.\n\nThis decision was influenced by figures in comparison with the cruiser, showing that the airship costing £250,000, compared with £900,000, is cheaper to navigate and able to cover seven times more area.\n\nSIAMESE TEAK TRADE.\n\nLondon, Sept. 21. As the May meeting of the Anglo-Siam Corporation is forthcoming, the issue of 22,000 ordinary shares of £50,000, 7%, preferences is announced.\n\nThe chairman's review considered the Siamese Government was insufficiently considering the interests of the teak trade in Siam.\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO. Just Arrived \"SWIMEASY\" Worsted and Wool BATHING SUITS for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. Practical and Dressy Style Large Assortment of WATER WINGS Price $1.25 a pair\n\nGOLDEN STATE BUTTER From CALIFORNIA CREAMERIES. Sold by all the leading dealers in one pound cartons (FRESH)-and 1 lb. tins. SOLE AGENTS:--GEIZ BROS. & Co. of the Orient Ltd. PROVISION DEPT.\n\nTAI LEE CHAN Established 1884. SUNDRY HARDWARE and METAL GOODS Telephone Central 1993. 119. Jervois Street\n\nFRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS\n\nBY BLOSSER",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nBURNETT'S\n\ncelebrated\n\nLONDON DRY GIN\n\nunique in character and flavour.\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nGIVES THAT DISTINCTIVE EXCELLENCE TO\n\nA COCKTAIL.\n\nBlends excellently with Watson's Stone Ginger Beer.\n\nSOLE AGENTS:\n\nA.S. WATSON & CO., Ltd.\n\nWine & Spirit Merchants\n\n'PHONE CENTRAL 616.\n\nJust you\n\nand a Victrola\n\npar-\n\nWhen you are all by yourself, with no place in particular to go and nothing in particular to do, what a joy it is to get into your big arm chair and let the world's greatest artists entertain you on the Victrola!\n\nWith a Victrola and Victor Records in your home you have always at your beck and call the music you enjoy best.\n\nCome in and let us show you the Victrola you would like for your home. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.\n\nSole Distributors.\n\nESTABLISHED 1850.\n\nJAEGER\n\nPure Wool\n\nTHE LATEST LONDON FASHIONS IN\n\nMEN'S COAT SWEATERS\n\nSILK & WOOL WAISTCOATS,\n\nFANCY WOOL WAISTCOATS,\n\nCARDIGAN JACKETS,\n\nTRAVELLING ULSTERS\n\nLIGHT WALKING COATS,\n\nDRESSING GOWNS.\n\nTRAVELLING RUGS, ETC.\n\nJAEGER PURE WOOL.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nSODA FOUNTAIN\n\nAT\n\nCAFE WISEMAN. SUNDAES, PUNCHES ICE CREAM SODAS\n\nALL FLAVOURS.\n\nBEST SERVICE, HIGH QUALITY, LOW PRICES.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nFRIDAY.\n\nMECHANICS\n\nHAND TOOLS\n\nPEXTO MACHINES.\n\nand TOOLS for SHEET METAL WORK,\n\nMUSTARD AND CO.\n\nDistributors, Hongkong and China. Tel. Central No. 1186.\n\nThe Telegraph.\n\nHONGKONG, 22nd Sept., 1922.\n\nSUN YAT-SEN EXPOSED.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nDAY BY DAY.\n\nOUR GREATEST GLORY CONSISTS NOT IN NEVER FALLING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FALL.-oldsmith.\n\nSun Yat-sen's emissary openly states that he has received the help of von Hintze, whom he describes as a man of modern ideas whose \"plans harmony with current democratic opinion.\" Further, it is put on record that this German schemer has decided to devote the whole of his energies to this project of a Triple Alliance and that he is planning to obtain official sanction for his being sent to China. So hopeful were Sun Yat-sen and his emissary of this request being granted that they had made all the necessary arrangements for von Hintze being secretly taken to Government headquarters in Canton, in order...\n\nOwing to the breakage of an oar, a sampan became unmanageable and capsized off the Kowloon Wharf this morning. A woman was drowned.\n\nKEMALISTS REACH NEUTRAL ZONE.\n\nFrench and Italian Contingents Withdrawn.\n\nANGORA INSISTS UPON OCCUPATION OF THRACE.\n\nReuters' Service.\n\nConstantinople, September 21. The French and Italian detachments and flags were to-day removed from Ismid, the Dardanelles, and the neutral zones on orders from their respective Governments. The lines are now held exclusively by British troops, supported by the combined Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets.\n\nThe Kemalist vanguard is reported to have reached the neutral zone of the Dardanelles, and the next few hours will show whether they contemplate action. The Kemalist representative at Constantinople declined to pledge that the Kemalists would respect the neutral zone, although he was warned that an offensive would mean war with Britain.\n\n\"Continue Until Achievement of National Aims.\"\n\nLater.\n\nHamid Bey, the Angoran representative, interviewed, entertained scant hope of a successful outcome of the conference between the French High Commissioner and Mustapha Kemal, because nothing will alter Angora's determination to occupy Thrace. The Angora Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, authorised Kemal to continue the war until the achievement of the national aims.\n\nA partner in a contractor's firm at 195, Temple Street, Yau-ma-tei, is alleged to have absconded with a sum of $500 which he had collected on behalf of the firm.\n\nTheir Smyrna Refugees' Plight.\n\nThe British, French, and Italian Consuls at Mitylene have wired to the High Commissioners at Constantinople stating that two hundred thousand Christians are still lying on the foreshore at Smyrna awaiting help and insisting upon urgent action, otherwise nobody will survive.\n\nMiners' Federation Against War.\n\nLondon, September 21. The Executive of the Miners' Federation has passed a resolution against the war policy of the Government as regards the Near East.\n\nPremier's Reply to Trades Union Deputation.\n\nLater.\n\nMr. Lloyd George, accompanied by Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir Worthington Evans, received a deputation of thirty members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, who voiced Labour's uncompromising peace policy in regard to the Near East.\n\nMr. Lloyd George, replying, explained the Cabinet's well-known views. He is understood to have pointed out that peace was always their aim, and contended that it was partly due to the Government's prompt action that the position was easier.\n\nNationalists Reported to Have Made Smyrna Their Headquarters.\n\nThere are many significant factors that must be borne in mind when considering this great strike for over a week.\n\nThe teachers of the Middle-School at Canton have been on strike, demanding the payment of 50 per cent. of their salaries in silver coin.\n\nThe Canton Times says that the movement is Bolshevistic in character, and that Sun Yat-sen has long been credited with revolutionary ideas and has in recent times openly espoused the labourers' cause.\n\nAdana, September 21. According to a message from Smyrna, Kemalist Ministers have assumed control, and it is reported, but not confirmed, that Smyrna will henceforth be the Nationalists' headquarters.\n\nAuthoritative quarters here express the view that the Turks will not attack the Allied troops in the neutral zone, which Turkey does not intend at present to cross.\n\nMr. Lew Yuk-lin, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, is very keen on settling the Macao affair. He wishes to obtain full knowledge on the subject, and has called on the British Consul for certain information.\n\nNo Further Move, by Kemalists.\n\nConstantinople, September 21. The Kemalists have not made a fresh move in the direction of the neutral zone during the past twenty-four hours, and it is hoped by well-informed persons that the question will be settled peacefully to-day if the guarantees demanded by the Kemalists for immediate Greek evacuation of Thrace are forthcoming.\n\nKemalist Demands.\n\nParis, September 22. An inspired statement says that the British resolve to keep troops in the Asiatic zone has unfavourably impressed French and Italian circles, but understands that Angora will refrain, at least for some days, from any imprudent move.\n\nThe French Government has received information that Sun Yat-sen's secret documents, which were left behind by an official of Sun Yat-sen's South China Government when the leaders thereof were compelled to flee as consequence of General Yip Kai's coup, are incriminating to the point of absolute conviction.\n\nINDIAN INDUSTRIAL UNREST.\n\nIndications of Further Trouble.\n\nBombay, September 21. There are signs that India is on the verge of another spell of industrial unrest. In addition to the trouble at the Tata Iron and Steel Works, three-fourths of the Bombay tramwaymen have struck for an increase of wages.\n\nVessels arriving in port yesterday and to-day report bad weather. The Japanese steamers Hirano Maru, Asama Maru, and Kishu Maru had to put back to Hongkong owing to heavy seas, and the Sanka Maru, which arrived this morning, had to take refuge in Shito Bay, off St. John's Island, on account of the typhoon, for sixteen hours.\n\nCharged with the theft of a sheet and two towels from the Empress of Canada, Ah Kam, 19, unemployed, pleaded at the Police Court this morning that these articles were left behind by one of the boys and were not wanted. It was stated that the towels were found wrapped round the man's waist.\n\nCOUNCIL OF THE L. ON.\n\nIncrease in Non-Permanent Members.\n\nGeneva, September 21. The Bourgeois, the First Commission of the League of Nations decided to increase the non-permanent members of the council from four to six.\n\nWELSH COLLIERIES CLOSED.\n\nTen Thousand Men Affected.\n\nLondon, September 21. The Ebbw Vale Collieries and Steel Works, employing over 10,000 men, is closing indefinitely, following a wage dispute and a twenty-four hours' strike.\n\nGAMBLING IN WHEAT.\n\nPresident Harding Signs Restrictive Measure.\n\nWashington, September 21. President Harding has signed the Bill regulating trading in grain futures. The Bill is to be effective from October 1.\n\nNEW AERIAL RECORD.\n\n213 Miles in an Hour.\n\nEtampes, September 21. Sadi Lecointe, the well-known aviator, broke the world's aeroplane speed record by covering 213 miles in an hour.\n\nDUTCH AEROPLANE DISASTER.\n\nAmsterdam, September 21. A military aeroplane nose-dived into the Zuider Zee near Den Helder, the pilot and observer being drowned.\n\nGERMAN BANK RATE RAISED.\n\nBerlin, September 1. The Reichsbank has raised its discount from seven to eight per cent.\n\nFord Works Restarting.\n\nDetroit, September 21. The Ford motor-works are restarting now that coal is available.\n\nAMERICA'S NEW TARIFF BILL.\n\nWashington, September 21. President Harding has signed the Tariff Bill.\n\n(Continue on Page 7.)\n\nPage 7",
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        "content_text": "Shipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nP.&O.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR\n\nAND\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND)\n\nTO\n\nBURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND & QUEENSLAND PORTS.\n\nRED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC\n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (UNDER CONTRACT WITH H. M. GOVERNMENT.)\n\n  \n    S.S.\n    Tons\n    From Hong-kong (about)\n    Destination\n    Miles\n  \n  \n    MACEDONIA\n    11,000\n    27 Sept. 11 am\n    'pore, P'ang, C'ho & B'bay\nB'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n    6,696\n  \n  \n    KALYAN\n    9,000\n    11th Oct.\n    B'bay, M'les, L'don, A'werp\n    \n  \n  \n    MANTUA\n    11,000\n    25th Oct.\n    M'les, London & Antwerp\n    \n  \n  \n    DONGOLA\n    8,000\n    8th Nov.\n    \n    \n  \n\nBRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS (South)\n\nTORILLA 15,205 24th Sept. 11 a.m. | Singapore & Madras.\n\nJANUS 4,824 29th Sept. | Calcutta via S'pore, Penang.\n\nEASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)\n\nARAFURA 4th Oct. | Manila, Iloilo, Sandakan, Thurs. Is., Tville, B'bane,\n\nSydney and Melbourne,\n\nFrequent connections from Australia with the following:-\n\nThe Union S. S. Co's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc\n\nThe P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal\n\nThe P&O Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape\n\nThe New Zealand Shipping Co's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.\n\n  \n    S.S.\n    Tons\n    From Hong-kong (about)\n    Destination\n  \n  \n    ST. ALBANS\n    6,052\n    22 Sept. d'light\n    Amoy, Y'hama & Kobe\n  \n  \n    MANTUA\n    10,902\n    25 Sept. d'light\n    S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama\n  \n  \n    DONGOLA\n    8,083\n    7th Oct.\n    Shanghai & Japan\n  \n\nSAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.\n\nAll dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice\n\nWIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.\n\nParcels Measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft. x 1ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing.\n\nFor Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights etc., apply to\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO\n\n22, Des Voeux Road Central.\n\nGLEN\n\nAND\n\nSHIRE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.\n\nU.K., STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN Service.\n\n  \n    Vessel\n    OUTWARDS\n    HOMEWARDS\n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENOGLE\n    Leaves Hongkong... 22nd September\n    Discharges G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENAVY\n    5th October\n    \n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENAPP\n    5th October\n    \n  \n  \n    S.S. GLENADE\n    24th Sept.\n    G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, R'DAM, H'BURG\n  \n  \n    S.S GLENARIFFE\n    18th Oct.\n    G'OA, L'DON, A'WERP, H'BURG\n  \n\nMovements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to:-\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.\n\nTHE GLEN LINE, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nTelephone Central No. 215, sub-ex. 23 and 3696\n\nJAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY\n\nSERVICE BETWEEN\n\nJAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    From\n    Expected on or about\n    Will leave on\n    in port\n  \n  \n    Tjikini\n    Java\n    21st Sept.\n    23rd Sept.\n    Shanghai\n  \n  \n    Tjisondari\n    Java\n    \n    21st Sept.\n    Japan\n  \n  \n    Tjisalak\n    Japan\n    23rd Sept.\n    \n    Java\n  \n\nThe steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers\n\nAll steamers carry a duly qualified Surgeon.\n\nCargo taken with through rates to all ports in N., Frlands-India and Australia.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to the\n\nJava-China-Japan Lijn.\n\nYork Buildings.\n\nTelephone Central No. 1574.\n\nHONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMERS.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-CANTON LINE.\n\nSailings: To Canton daily at 8 a.m & 10 p.m. (Sun. 10 p.m. only)\n\nFrom Canton daily at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only)\n\nSERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO\n\nSTEAMBOAT CO., LTD.\n\nHONGKONG-MACAO LINE.\n\nSailings to Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sundays at 9 a.m. only)\n\nSailings from Macao Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sun. at 5 p.m. only)\n\nFurther information may be obtained at the Company's office, 4A Des Voeux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son or the American Express Company, Hongkong.\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nFRIDAY.\n\nShipping to Europe, Australia, and other Ports.\n\nN. Y. K.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,\n\nVICTORIA, SEATTLE & VANCOUVER via S'hai & Japan ports\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued to all Overland Common Points in U.S.A & Canada\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    Sailing\n    Destination\n  \n  \n    SHIDZUOKA MARU\n    Saturday, 30th Sept., at 11 am\n    \n  \n  \n    YOKOHAMA MARU\n    Monday, 23rd Oct., at 11 am\n    \n    KASHIMA MARU\n    Friday, 29th Sept. at 11a.m.\n    MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singanore, &c.\n  \n  \n    HAKONE MARU\n    Friday, 13th Oct. at 11 am\n    \n  \n  \n    MATSUMOTO MARU\n    Thursday, 28th September.\n    LIVERPOOL via MARSEILLES\n  \n  \n    TOYOHASHI MARU\n    17th Oct. at 11 a.m.\n    SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, &c.\n  \n  \n    YOSHINO MARU\n    Tuesday, 26th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n    \n  \n  \n    AKI MARU\n    Tuesday, 3rd Oct. at 11 a.m.\n    NEW YORK VIA PANAMA\n  \n  \n    SANUKI MARU\n    Monday, 25th September.\n    CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon\n  \n  \n    MORICKA MARU\n    Friday, 29th Sept.\n    BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo\n  \n  \n    AKI MARU\n    Friday, 13th Oct. at 11a.m.\n    NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n  \n  \n    TOTTORI M.\n    Saturday, 23rd Sept.\n    SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA\n  \n  \n    FUSHIMI MARU\n    Thursday, 28th Sept. at 11 a.m.\n    \n  \n\nFor further information apply to Tel. Central Nos. 292 & 293.\n\nNIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nK. H. KAMEI, Manager.\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nCOASTAL\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nINDO CHINA STEAM\n\n309\n\n11\n\nSHIPPING NEWS.\n\nSYDNEY'S PILFERAGE LOST\n\nThe annual loss at the port of Sydney through pillaging of cargo\n\nNAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    Sailing\n    Destination\n  \n  \n    Yuensang\n    Sat. 23rd Sept. at 3 p.m.\n    MANILA\n  \n  \n    Chipshing\n    Tues. 26th Sept. at 4 p.m.\n    TIENTSIN\n  \n  \n    Wingsang\n    Tues. 26th Sept. at noon\n    T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n  \n  \n    Drufar\n    Tues, 26th Sept. at noon\n    BANGKOK via Swatow\n  \n  \n    Mingsang\n    Wed. 27th Sept. at 8 a.m.\n    HAIPHONG via Hoihow\n  \n  \n    Fooksang\n    Wed. 27th Sept. at 3 p.m.\n    STRAITS & Calcutta\n  \n  \n    Yatching\n    Thurs. 28th Sept. at noon\n    T'TAO via S'tow & S'hai\n  \n  \n    Mausang\n    Sat. 30th Sept. at 2 p.m.\n    SANDAKAN\n  \n  \n    Hangsang\n    Sun. 1st Oct. at noon\n    T'TAO via Stow & S'hai\n  \n  \n    Kutsang\n    Tues. 3rd Oct. at 3 p.m.\n    STRAITS & Calcutta\n  \n  \n    Laisang\n    Thurs. 5th Oct. at noon\n    KOBE\n  \n\nCALCUTTA LINE:-This Line now affords regular sailings to Calcutta, Penang and Singapore; Returning from Calcutta steamers proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan occasionally calling at Shanghai.\n\nfrom ships is considered to be not less than £500,000 yearly.\n\nSECOND MATE'S CERTIFICATE\n\nDuring the year ended June 30 last 1,974 candidates were examined at Home for certificates of competency as second mates. 829 were successful.\n\nSOOCHOW SHIPPING. A total of 4.293 vessels, aggregating 188,948 tons, entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1921 as compared with 4031 vessels, aggregating 189,859 tons, during 1920.\n\nGERMANY BUYS JAPANESE STEAMER.\n\nThe Japanese s. Shimpo Maru, 4,392 gross tons, has been purchased by Messrs. Schroser, Holcken and Fischer, of E\n\nSHANGHAI LINE: Sailings approximately every three days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through Bills of Lading are issued for all to Northern and Yangtsze Ports via Shanghai.\n\nAll steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light & Fans and carry a fully qualified Surgeon.\n\nstated to have been re-christened the Harald.\n\nMANILA LINE-A weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailing from both ports every Friday.\n\nHAIPHONG LINE:-Sailings, approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at Hoihow when inducement offers.\n\nBORNEO LINE:-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 ton steamers s.s.\" HINSANG\" & \" MAUSANG \"\n\nboth steamers having excellent passenger accommodation.\n\nCargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawao and Lahad Datu.\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nTIENTSIN LINE-A regular service is run from March to Nov.\n\nREGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON\n\nFOR NEW YORK & BOSTON.\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO.\n\nTaking cargo on through Bills of Lading for Levant. Black Sea and Danube Ports.\n\nFIUME having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is also accepted for this port on through Bills of Lading.\n\nFOR SHANGHAI.\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE “\n\nSailing on or about 5th October.\n\nFor BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE.\n\nVia Singapore, Penang and Colombo.\n\nS.S. \"PERSIA \"\n\nS.S. \"TRIESTE\"\n\nSailing on or about 22nd September.\n\nSailing on or about 22nd October.\n\nPassengers Luggage can be insured at the office of the Agents.\n\nNATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.\n\nRegular Passenger and Cargo Service.\n\nFROM CALCUTTA TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.\n\nS.S. \"UMLAZI \"\n\nSailing on or about 31st October.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong.\n\nFor Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.,\n\nAgents.\n\nTelephone Central 1030.\n\nAUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS.\n\nSAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)\n\n  \n    Steamer\n    Arrives Hongkong from Australia\n    Leaves Hongkong for Australia\n  \n  \n    TAIYUAN\n    28th Sept.\n    3rd Oct.\n  \n  \n    CHANGSHA\n    15th Oct.\n    20th Oct.\n  \n\nThis steamer is fitted with Refrigerating machinery, ensuring\n\nbetween H'kong & Tientsin calling at Weihaiwei & Chefoo, plan. The Shipping Board suggested the plan to preserve the rates after the recent disruptions and disorganizing of the Eastern freight shipments. when the Atlantic Conference declare i open rates. A later report av that fourteen steamship es. plying between American N Atlantic and Far Eastern ports, have drawn up a schedule f freights, which is stated to b higher than the present rate. They have also agreed to deposit a sum of $25,000 each as a guarantee of the maintenan the schedule.\n\nCREW'S \"SMOKE-ABLES\"\n\nRecently in the House of Commons a member asked the President of the Board of Trade a question relative to the prices charged to ships' crews for cigarettes and tobacco. According to this querier, there \"M certain stij masters who compel those on board to\n\nSHANGHAI LINE.-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO.\n\nExcellent Saloon accommodation amidships. Electric Fans in Saloon and State-rooms. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai (thrice weekly) and Tsingtao (weekly), taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtsze, and Northern China Ports. Passengers are Landed in Shanghai avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung.\n\nBANGKOK LINE.-Weekly service to and from B'kok via 'tow.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, (John Swire & Sons, Ltd.)\n\nAGENTS.\n\nTelephone Central No. 36. Cargo and baggage can be insured at the above office.\n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.\n\nand\n\nHONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.\n\nRegular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having a plentiful supply of ice, fresh provisions etc. and has superior good accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms. A duly qualified Doctor is carried. Reduced Fares. Cargo booked through to all Australian. New Zealand and Tasmanian ports.\n\nFor Freight and Passage apply to\n\nTelephone Central No. 36.\n\nButterfield & Swire. JOHN SWIRE, & SON, LTD.) Agents.\n\nFor Swatow, Amoy and Foochow and Returns, (Occupying 9 to 10 days,) Steamships.\n\nCaptain. Leaving. Haiching... J. S. Thomson ... | SUN..\n\n24th Sept. at 11 a.m. Haihong .. W. C. Passmore\n\nFRI, 29th Sept. at 1 p.m. Haifoong... W. S. Turnbull... | FRI., 29th Sept. at p.m.\n\nArrivals and Departures from the Co's Wharf (dear Blake Pier.)\n\nFor Freight and Passage, apply to\n\n\"ELLERMAN\" LINE.\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S. S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT SERVICE.\n\n  \n    Vessel\n    OUTWARDS\n    HOMEWARDS\n  \n  \n    \"City of Tokio\n    S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama. 20th Oct.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"City of Sydney\"\n    \n    10th Oct. L'don, Alwerp, R'dam, H'burg. G’gow\n  \n  \n    \"City of Paris\"\n    Mid. Dec.\n    Marseilles & London\n  \n  \n    \"City of York\"\n    Beg. Feb.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"City of Simla \"\n    Mud, March.\n    \n  \n  \n    \"City of Poona\"\n    Mid. April.\n    \n  \n\nPASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nSubject to change without notice.\n\nFor further particulars apply to\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nCANTON.\n\nDouglas Lapraik & Co., General Managers.\n\nbe left to shipowners and masters to take action.\n\nAN OLD-TIME CAPTAIN\n\nThe following is culler ** the Syren anul Shipping The late Captain \"Tom \"Dutton mas in his day one of those tine a men whose sterling chara ter and sound navigational ski...com tributed so largely to the enviable reputation which the hard Line enjoys Atlantic voy acers. We made several passages ar ago with Captain Dutton in the old Umbria, and have Many pleasant recollections, both of the ship and her commander. He was a typical British sailo bluff, courteous, and cool an emergency. During his 32 rear of service with the Cunard Cor-pany he commanded many of their well-known liners, and h was in command of the inhr when he retired some 20 -\n\nOld Cunarders will re bar the late Captain Drzys famous \"mosquito net,\" was one of the institutions tr Umbria. Many tales are tid o\n\nago.\n\nNANYO YUSEN KAISHA.\n\nthis old sea.dog. One fine ...\n\nThe South Sea Mail S.S. Co., Ltd.)\n\nREGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE between\n\nJAPAN, HONGKONG & JAVA.\n\nFor Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. SAMARANG MARU\n\nSailing on or about 26th Sept.\n\nFor Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.\n\nS.S. CHERIBON MARU\n\nSailing on or about 24th Sept.\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\n(Tel. Central 80).\n\nTel. Central No. 2206. Second Floor, Prince's Building.\n\nK. SUZUKI, Manager.\n\nday morning in mid-Atlan: fe appeared on deck in full rezal -white cap cover, white trou etc. A lady passenger meeting him said: 'Good morning Captain, I see you've got clea white trousers ou.\" madam,\" was the reply, and i hope you have, too.\"\n\nKIANGSU EDUCATORS'\n\nAPPEAL\n\nTO PEKING,\n\nThe Educational Association of Kiangsu has sent a telegraphic appeal to the Peking Government asking that a stricter enforcement of the Presidential Mandates against lotteries be made. These Mandates prohibiting lotteries : China bave not been obeyed the merchants of Kiangsu a they have even gone to the ends of requesting the local authorities to suspend the operation of the..",
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        "content_text": "REMOVAL NOTICE.\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the removal on September 1st., 1922, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road. (SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE)\n\nThe Hongkong Telegraph. FOUNDED 1881 No. 12,503\n\nKEMAL TO MEET GENERAL HARINGTON. Atlantic Flotilla En Route. GREECE INVOKES AID OF VENIZELOS.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nConstantinople, September 29. Replying to General Harington's telegram mentioned in a message of the 28th inst., Mustapha Kemal declares that his troops will not advance further. He desires that no incident shall occur, and will seize the earliest opportunity of meeting General Harington.\n\n[A message of the 28th inst. stated: General Harington, in a conciliatory reply to Kemal Pasha, thanks him for his declaration to respect the neutrality of the Straits and his desire to avoid incidents, and points out that the destruction and building of roads was carried out as a military necessity. He assures Kemal Pasha that no shot will be fired except by his, General Harington's, orders, and expresses readiness to meet Kemal Pasha anywhere that is convenient to discuss an understanding.]\n\nNaval Reinforcements on the Way.\n\nGibraltar, September 29. The flotilla leader and eight destroyers of the first flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet have arrived en route to the Near East, also two submarines.\n\nFull Support from Australia.\n\nMelbourne, September 27. Speaking in the House of Representatives, Mr. Hughes said that Australia was praying that there would not be war, but if it came Britain would be in the right, even if left alone. Australia had previously put in the field a larger army than the Turks could now muster, and would do the same again if necessary.\n\nVenizelos to Represent Greece at Conference?\n\nThe Revolutionary Committee has telegraphed to M. Venizelos at Paris asking him to undertake the defence of Greek interests with the Entente and to represent Greece at the Near East conference.\n\nThe Committee demanded the immediate departure from Greece of ex-King Constantine, ex-Queen Sophie, and the Princes Nicholas and Andrew. It is understood that they departed aboard a battleship last night.\n\nThe Committee has forbidden demonstrations in the streets. It is announced that the revolution has not been accompanied by a single drop of bloodshed. Several Royalist officers arrested at the outbreak of the revolution have been released, and all political prisoners have been liberated. The elements which long terrorized the city under the Constantin regime have mysteriously disappeared. It is rumoured that ex-Premiers, Gounaris, Stratos, and Protopapadakis have been arrested. Many politicians believe that the reign of the new King will not be a long one, and that a republic is likely.\n\nGreece Talking of Retrieving Disaster.\n\nLater. The revolutionary leaders, in a statement, insist that the movement is absolutely national, and is exclusively aimed at reparation of the recent catastrophe and the creation of a strong army to save Thrace. They declare that the settlement of the dynastic question must conform to the will of the great majority of the Greek people.\n\nHigh Commissioners Despatch Pacificatory Delegates.\n\nConstantinople, September 29. The High Commissioners have decided to despatch a commission composed of British, French, and Italian officers to Rodosto, Lule Burgas, and Adrianople to exercise a pacifying influence.\n\nArrest of Greek Premiers Confirmed.\n\nParis, September 29. A message from Athens confirms the arrest of the three ex-Premiers. M. Theotokis and Rear-Admiral Goudas have also been arrested. The message adds that it is expected they will be brought to trial as responsible for the events in Asia Minor.\n\nCabinet Regards Kemalist Action as Infringement.\n\nLondon, September 29. At the conclusion of further series of Cabinet meetings, anxiety in official circles was nowise eased. It is understood that the Government regard the Turkish action as an infringement of the Allied Note, and decided that it is impossible to permit the Kemalists to remain and continue positions in the neutral zone. The Government has therefore informed the military authorities that they have complete support in demanding the withdrawal of the Kemalists, leaving the question of a time-limit to the discretion of General Harington, Admiral Brock, and the High Commissioner. Meantime, the members of the Cabinet are standing by ready for emergencies, and are expecting an early development.\n\nRumour of War Causes Slump.\n\nLondon, September 29. The nervousness created by the Near Eastern situation is exemplified by the slump on the Liverpool cotton market today owing to a baseless rumour that Britain had declared war on Turkey, concerning which an authoritative denial was subsequently issued.\n\nLANCASHIRE COTTON TRADE DEPRESSION.\n\nCompanies Gradually Losing Their Capital.\n\nLondon, September 29. The question of the continued severe depression in the Lancashire cotton trade was discussed at a Manchester meeting of representatives of over fifty per cent. of the spinning companies. Leading spinners pointed out that most concerns were gradually losing their capital, and only immediate and drastic action would avert a financial crisis. An enquiry into the question of fixing minimum prices for standard counts of yarn was suggested, also the curtailment of production.\n\nLEAGUE OF NATIONS FINANCES.\n\nSUN YAT-SEN'S REPLY.\n\nAuthenticity of \"Telegraph\" Letters Admitted.\n\n1922. 日十初月八\n\nLAST NIGHT'S SENSATION.\n\nDetective Murdered; Two Men Shot.\n\nSINGLE COPY 10 CTS. $30 PER ANNUM\n\nTHE BANK\n\nREMOVAL NOTICE.\n\nAndersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd., beg to announce the removal on September 1st., 1922, of their offices from No. 2, Queen's Road Central, to No. 67, 69, Des Voeux Road. (SITE OF THE OLD VICTORIA THEATRE.)\n\nMYSTERY. PORTUGUESE CRUISER.\n\nNot a Book-keeping Error.\n\nOrdered to Macao.\n\nLisbon, Sept. 29. The cruiser Republica has been ordered to proceed to Macao from South America.\n\nThe disappearance of $200,000 from the International Banking Corporation still remains shrouded in mystery. A Telegraph reporter who called on the acting manager this morning to inquire if anything had been discovered which would throw some light on the affair was informed that the Bank are still in the dark as to what has happened to the money.\n\nIt has been ascertained that the loss is not through any book-keeping error, the pressman was told, and there has been no tampering with either the vaults or the safes. Beyond those facts, practically nothing appears to be known.\n\nAbout eight o'clock last night, armed men visited 26, Wing Wo Street, an emigrants' boarding house. They gagged and bound the inmates and during the half-hour they remained on the premises collected all the money and valuables, including gold dollars and foreign coin to the value of some $6,000.\n\nAs the robbers were leaving, they were observed by Detective Sergeant Sin Chuen, who, it will be remembered, was highly praised for his services in the famous Wo Ping Theatre case. Although single-handed, the detective tackled the gang, but they were too many for him. One of the armed men pointed his revolver at the officer and fired, hitting him in the chest. The gang then made off, chased by a number of police and others who by this time had been attracted to the scene.\n\nThe chase was an exciting one, and firearms were used frequently. Two men, on one of whom was found a revolver, were arrested. They were escorted to the Central Police Station by a party of constables with drawn revolvers, and on the way, an accident happened. In Graham Street, the weapon of one of the constables accidentally went off and wounded two brothers who came out of No. 6 to watch the procession pass.\n\nThe police visited the boarding house where the robbery occurred and it is understood that three daggers were found.\n\nJAPAN'S MILITARISTS.\n\nFurther Disclosures.\n\nTokyo, Sept. 30. The revelations continued by the Kokumin alleging that Japanese militarists have completed plans to establish a buffer state in alliance with Germany and Russia intended.\n\nDenial of Bolshevism.\n\n(Our Own Correspondent.)\n\nShanghai, September 29. Dr. Sun Yat-sen admits the veracity of the Hongkong Telegraph's disclosures relative to the proposal to form an Alliance with Germany and Russia.\n\nHe says, however, that the letters have been improperly translated and are partly false. He defended himself on the ground that all the Powers except Germany and Russia continued to be aggressive. He cites the relinquishment of extra-territoriality as proof that Germany and Russia have shown a favourable attitude to China.\n\nChina's Desire for Equality.\n\nDr. Sun Yat-sen says that the creation of the Soviet Government had removed China's greatest political menace, so long as the Soviet Government continues its non-Imperialistic policy. He says that China's greatest need is assistance from Powers which will treat China as an equal, and believes that Germany and Russia are the only Powers qualified to treat China in that manner. He therefore favours a conciliatory attitude towards Germany and Russia.\n\nAccording to Dr. Sun, such a policy will not injure any of the other Powers which honestly desire a re-united China. He states that these are his main considerations.\n\nBolshevism Unsuited to China.\n\nDr. Sun says that epithets accusing him of Bolshevistic views do not injure him and will not deter him. He denies that he has any sympathy with Bolshevism as a principle and says that a correct reading of his letters will prove this beyond doubt. He also says that he may issue an English translation of the letters reproduced in the \"Hongkong Telegraph\". He asserts that the \"Hongkong Telegraph's\" insinuation that the letters reveal a leaning towards Bolshevism is a charge unworthy of an answer, as all intelligent minds will realise that China is politically and economically unsuited to Bolshevism. Dr. Sun says that he never once dreamed of transforming China into a Bolshevik Republic.\n\nFruitless Overtures to Foreign Capitalists.\n\nIn conclusion, the late President of the South says that he had made repeated overtures to American, British, and other foreign capitalists with a view to arousing their interest in the commercial development of China, but all were deaf to his suggestions. Hence, he says, he had to turn elsewhere for much-needed co-operation.\n\nSIKI'S VICTORY.\n\nEndorsed by French Boxing Federation.\n\nParis, September 29. The French Boxing Federation has endorsed the decision of the judges in the Carpentier-Siki fight and approved Siki's claim to the light-heavyweight championship of the world.\n\nARMS TRAFFIC.\n\nFull Sentence Imposed.\n\nWhen charged today with trafficking in arms on river boats, the prisoner was found guilty. Inspector Fallon prosecuted, and asked the Magistrate to pass an exemplary sentence, pointing out that this trafficking in arms was attaining serious proportions. The Magistrate accordingly imposed the full penalty of a year's hard labour on the prisoner.\n\nThe Chinese detective, Sin Cheun, who was shot by the armed men, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, but the wound was serious and the gallant man expired shortly after admission.\n\nA report was made to the police by the accountant of the Wong Tak Loong, import and export firm, occupying the first and second floors of No. 26 Wing Wo Street, to the effect that the gang entered the premises at 7.30, being armed with daggers and revolvers which they used to intimidate the twelve fokia of the firm.\n\nAfter being bound and gagged, the victims were all bundled into one room whilst the process of ransacking the floors took place. From a safe, the robbers took a sum of $4,176, some American money, and a gold watch and chain, the value of which is unknown.\n\nHONGKONG FINANCES.\n\nA Healthy Outlook.\n\nHongkong's finances continue in a healthy state. The figures for the first half of the year are now available. These show that at the end of June there was a balance of $11,512,230, which compares with $7, $7,810,494 during the first half of 1921. The increase was largely due to more receipts from land sales, which produced no less than $2,197,356, against $208,627 for 1921.\n\nDuring the month of June, the revenue was $1,646,108, this comparing with $1,372,442 for June, 1921.\n\nThe total expenditure during the half year was $8,278,026, this contrasting with $6,421,324 for the first six months of 1921, there being considerable increases in Miscellaneous Expenditure and Public Works Extraordinary. For the month of June, the outgoings totalled $1,519,647, compared with $1,066,426 in June last year.\n\nV.R.C. SPORTS.\n\nSecond Day's Events.\n\nThe attendance on the second day of the annual sports carnival of the Victoria Recreation Club left much to be desired, for it was the poorest on record. However, there were enough competitors to make every race interesting, the 220 yards Championship being the outstanding feature of the day.\n\nIn the absence of Johnstone, Lyon was favourite, though with rivals of the capability of Laing and Jack, the finish was a hot one. Lyon set the pace, and in the fourth length, the tussle between Laing and Jack for second place became very keen. Jack had enjoyed the advantage, but in this length, Laing made up and was ahead of the former by a mere matter of feet. The race then resolved itself principally into a tussle between these two for second place, Laing eventually beating Jack by a few seconds. Lyon's win yesterday makes his third championship success in this year's sports. Time—D. Lyon, 2 mins. 40 secs.; D. Laing, 2 mins. 47 secs.\n\nFollowing are the results of the other events:\n\nFour lengths handicap (members).—1, S. A. Marcal; 2, T. Stewart. Time 1 min. 13 sec.\n\nLong plunge.—1, M. Souza; 2. B. Rasmussen. Distance 58 ft. 2 ins.\n\nTwo lengths handicap (open).—1, Baldwin, 2, G. McDade.\n\nTwo lengths test race (men).—1, D. Lyon, V. Ramsay, A. A. R. Remedio, W. Hyde, A. Kitchell, G. A. Razavet, and D. Ogilvie. Time 3 mins. 38 secs.\n\n100 yards boys' championship.—1, A. May; 2, J. Montalto. Time 1 min. 7-2/5 secs.\n\nFour lengths handicap (ladies).—1, Miss R. Kitchell; 2, Miss E. Bell. Time 1 min. 40 secs.\n\nFour lengths handicap (girls) 1st. heat.—1, E. Allen; 2, Molly Groundwater. 2nd. heat.—1, E. Bliss; 2, B. Pathejohns.\n\nTwo lengths handicap (boys).—1st. heat.—1, A. May; 2, W. Tillery. 2nd. heat.—1, W. G. Urquhart; 2;, L. Rozs Pereira. 3rd. heat.—1, A. Bliss; 2; F. Suzara. 4th. heat.—1, H. Watson; 2, G. Noronha. 5th. heat.—1, J. Montalto; 2, M. Noronha.\n\nCANTON'S FINANCES.\n\nReported Conclusion of Foreign Loan.\n\nOur Canton correspondent states that the members of the Provincial Assembly, on hearing that a foreign loan of £2,000,000 has been concluded and was signed by the Civil Governor on the 28th instant, are keen to know the details of the scheme.\n\nIRISH POSTAL SETTLEMENT.\n\nLondon, September 29. The report of the Fourth Commission shows that the League of Nations is financially stressed, owing to the non-payment of contributions totalling 5,000,000 gold francs for 1921 and the payment so far of only 55 per cent. of the 1922 contributions while the Budget has increased to 25 millions.\n\nThe Irish postal settlement provides that three-eighths of the proposed wage reduction shall operate from September 1st, and the remainder from December 1st. The submitted to and approved by the Assembly.\n\nAn Unsatisfactory Position.\n\nGeneva, September 29.\n\nLISTEN!\n\nMake a hobby of your advertising.\n\nThe full week-end programme at the World Theatre is given on page 4.\n\n\"The Witness for the Defence\" is being shown at the Star Theatre tonight.—Page 4.\n\nTo-Day's Exchange. The closing rate of the dollar on demand today was 2s, 6.13/16d\n\nLighting Up-Time. Lighting-up time today, 6.13 p.m.",
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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nin brackets! to 5 Domo ref 531631/20\n\ndiapp in 53163,\n\nsansung\n\nthat\n\nse Resolution gine wasting the\n\nConference referes to in pura\n\nIf the desp to AM. Amb2 of me 1you jour! will be found\n\non pp 54-55\n\nappy gwhich\n\nCrud 1627.\n\nane\n\nShre\n\nboclored in\n\nThe Churchill's desp Dans No 139\n\nbeter\n\nguar 6th ftlay. (16963/22) Baller\n\nCopy alme despp (without\n\nevell) IDEO Bizk\n\ny\n\nHus\n\nDeep & copy encel to be\n\n2699 Dans\n\nto return to F.E.Depr\n\nCRP\n\n3/1/23\n\nall\n\n3.1.23\n\n31123\n\nat once\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN\n\nON THIS SIDE.\n\nIn any further communication\n\non this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 3\n\nand address\n\n13344/36/10\n\nnot to any person by name,\n\nbut to-\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\"\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W. 1.\n\n13 DEC 22\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to the Under Secretary of State for\n\nthe Colonies.\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n11th December, 1922\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nColonial Office letter No. 46413/1922 of 22nd Nov.\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\n  \n    %. Tom. Ambassador. Paris\n    No.3131 of\n    14th October\n    Withdrawal of foreign\n  \n  \n    post offices from China\n    From Jr.M. Clubassader.\n    Paris\n    No. 2733 of 22th November,\n  \n  \n    Similar letter sent to\n    General Post Office\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14--[6628 ] 7\n    | 22 [9014] 5\n    10 22\n    2.0.F. (2)",
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        "content_text": "402\n\nDIA KENNY MOLLAN said he could not conceive that the Government of the British Empire should stand aside and let their Imperial scheme go by default at a time when the United States of America, France, Italy and other countries were busily engaged in setting up world-wide wireless communication. He reminded the Committee that representatives of the four largest commercial wireless corporations were conspiring at Paris endeavouring to establish a world-wide wireless monopoly. The views of the Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee retained the last word in technical advice. The decision of the Cabinet arrived at after careful discussion was that Imperial Communications should remain in the hands of the State. Now the Government of India, for financial reasons, the Government of Australia for other reasons, were preparing to discard the Imperial scheme. It was considered that it was important that the Government should persevere with the Imperial scheme.\n\nTHE POSTMASTER GENERAL stated that he was very anxious to save the scheme. But what an effective scheme it would be if India and Australia stood out?\n\nDR. BOYLE said the partnership arrangement in Australia left the Commonwealth Government in control and thus Mr. Hughes had adhered to the resolution he supported at the Imperial Conference, and that Australia would join in the Imperial Chain, but would co-operate in its own way. Therefore the action of Australia had not in itself injured the Imperial Chain scheme.\n\nMR. BALDWIN suggested that His Majesty's Government should keep its stations in the United Kingdom in its hands. The Government would be prepared to refuse licences to private companies in England to communicate with British territory. Australia and India would not be able to carry on communication with England stations.",
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        "content_text": "6\n\n# EDUCATION AND PROPAGANDA.\n\nInstitutions such as the National Red Cross Societies should be peculiarly well qualified to undertake educational and propagandist work in their respective countries which will bring the opium habit into popular disrepute and thus help to prevent a new generation from acquiring it. They may also be able to make practical suggestions for reform and to furnish evidence of the evils arising from the habit which should carry weight outside of their own countries. Along such lines the Red Cross Societies may do much not only to reduce in their own countries the evils connected with opium smoking, but also to help in the essential work of international co-operation.\n\nE\n\n126\n\nBangkok Times Monday 4th December 1922\n\n## RED CROSS CONFERENCE.\n\n### THE OPIUM QUESTION,\n\nPin composing it with the supervision and execution of agreements) the subject. Now the League's advisory committee found, to begin with, that it would be necessary to get figures of the legitimate needs of the various countries of the world. That was proving a matter of very great difficulty.\n\nOn Saturday the Oriental Conference of the League of the Red Cross Societies discussed the Opium question in relation to popular Health Instruction. In view of the importance of the subject, we feel we ought to add to the brief report we have already given.\n\nTheir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Nagara Svarga, Prince Damrong, and the Prince of Jainad were among those present.\n\nAt the outset, Sir Claude Hill said he would begin by asking Major Norman White to speak on this subject, since this matter was initiated on the motion of the League of Nations. The League referred a definite question to the League of the Red Cross Societies, which in turn had referred the matter to this Conference. Now, he had received a telegram from their headquarters in Paris stating that at Washington a resolution had been introduced in Congress asking the American Government to convene an international opium conference. This Conference might, of course, pass a resolution in favour of that step, but he was distinctly of the opinion that they should abide by the terms of their reference and not in any way deal with a fact of which they were not fully advised. At the same time, the introduction of such a resolution went to show the world-wide importance which is attached to the question of the abuse of opium and the heavy weight of responsibility which rests on any body of persons dealing with this question. The question of the abuse of opium and the control of its consumption is vitally important to humanity at large. But it was not for them to enter on any political question. The reference to the Conference was how far they could assist Governments along lines legitimate for Red Cross Societies. It was not for them to discuss any nation's opium policy or its methods of internal distribution and supply. The question before them was whether they could offer a useful contribution to the problem by indicating means by which the admitted evils could best be combatted.\n\nMajor Norman White said that Article 23 of the Pact of the League of Nations explained why the League gives so much attention to this matter. The League was entrusted by the Pact to supervise the execution of agreements regarding opium. It was felt that no real progress could be made unless more could be done in educational work with regard to the evil results of the abuse of the drug. That was why the matter of propaganda and education had been brought before the Red Cross Societies. It was the only way in which they could render useful aid, and he agreed with the Chairman that the Conference should not go beyond the reference from the League of Nations, which represents 52 of the countries of the world. They all regretted that America was not yet officially connected with the League, but the help it was giving was a clear indication that America would not countenance the setting up of any institution in opposition to this League.\n\nColonel Mixer expressed his sense of the value of the Siamese report and, at the suggestion of Major White, explained the law prohibiting the use of opium operated in the Philippines.\n\nDr. Stemetz also gave the conference the benefit of his experience.\n\nMr. Lo Chang said that China aimed at the complete suppression of the evil. The committee appointed to deal with the subject, of which he was chairman, had the day before adopted the following resolution. It was a provisional resolution and subject to the results of the present discussion.\n\n\"In accordance with the request of the League of Nations, the Red Cross Societies have considered what resistance they can give in the matter of diminishing the abuse of opium in their respective countries. The Conference has received numerous reports regarding this matter and the measures that are being taken or proposed to diminish this abuse. The Conference considers that simple instruction regarding the dangers connected...\"",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTES\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. `3516/1916/84` and address to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. I.\n\nC.O. 61476  \n19 DEC 23  \n454  \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nForeign Office, Dec. 17, 1923  \nTHE Under-Secretary of State ... transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence | Description of Enclosure | \n| --- | --- | \n| Foreign Office letter No. F. 3188/1916/87 of 8/11/23 | Jom Ambassador at Paris No. 2764 9 7/12/23. Subject: Opium memo? Quđa submitted to the Conference Oriental Led brow Societies |\n\nSimilar letter sent to Home Office, India Office  \n14-1844 F.O.P. 10μ 8/28 [10434] (4)",
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        "content_text": "## 179\n\nAt the first session, M. van Wettum was elected Chairman of the Committee. The first meeting was held in Geneva from March 6th to March 10th. The second meeting was held in Paris from March 28th to 30th, the third meeting was held in Geneva from April 26th to April 29th, and the fourth meeting was held in Geneva from July 12th to July 15th.\n\nSir John Jordan was not able to be present at the second, third, and fourth meetings; M. Brenier was not able to be present at the third meeting, and Mr. Neville at the fourth meeting. The other members were present at the four meetings.\n\n## 411\n\nDuring its first session, the Preparatory Committee suggested that the Council of the League of Nations should extend the terms of reference of that body to include also the First Conference. It also passed the following resolution with a view to the Second Conference:- \n\n\"In order to enable the Committee to accomplish the task entrusted to it by the Council of preparing draft arrangements for the limitation of the production of morphine, heroin, and cocaine, and of the raw materials to be exported for such manufacture, the Committee considers that it will be necessary for it to act in consultation with representatives of the chief manufacturing and producing countries, and it accordingly suggests to the Council that the Council should invite the Governments of those countries to nominate representatives who should be called upon to collaborate with the Preparatory Committee, when necessary, in the preparation of the draft arrangement on which they are individually concerned.\" The chief manufacturing and producing States not represented on the Preparatory Committee are as follows:-\n\n| Category | Countries |\n| --- | --- |\n| Morphine, Heroin | Germany, Switzerland, and Japan |\n| Cocaine | Germany, Switzerland, and Japan |\n| Raw Opium | Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Turkey, Persia, India, Russia, and Greece |\n| Case 1002 | Peru and Bolivia |",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTES\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nC. O. 424  \n57726  \n10 DEC 24  \n8 December\n\nSecond International Opium Conference at Geneva with regard to proposed amendments to the scope of exemptions to the requirements of the proposed Convention submitted by the American Delegation.\n\nTo the undersigned were circulated copies of telegram to Hon'ble Secretary of State, Washington, Paris.\n\nfrom Section 64(1) sub. rec. (2) of the Companies Ordinance of 1924, it is to be noted that Hongkong is exempting to the requirements of the proposed Convention.\n\nMr. idr.  \nMr. Asst. U.S. of S.  \nINTEL **155** HONG KONG  \nDATE\n\nPrevious Paper: 58338  \nSubsequent Paper: 12811 18624/27 86,000 11/28-McC-E 253\n\nL. S. AMERY  \nPari U.S. of S.  \n(Syα) Perm' U.S. of S.  \nfr. Sir M. Delavigne + Am Coneul  \nba, Уча capus Черева \n\n`XCR(85)72` is not present, however `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either. `Fo.` is present and is likely a file reference, it should be `FO.` \n\nThe text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases. Here is the best attempt to reconstruct it:\n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nThe issue of exemptions to Hongkong relating to the requirements of the proposed Convention was raised.\n\nIt is to be noted that Section 64(1) sub. rec. (2) of the Companies Ordinance of 1924 exempts Hongkong from certain requirements.\n\nCopies of a telegram were circulated to the Hon'ble Secretary of State, Washington, and Paris, regarding the proposed amendments to the scope of exemptions to the requirements of the proposed Convention submitted by the American Delegation at the Second International Opium Conference at Geneva.\n\nThe following individuals were involved: Mr. idr., Mr. Asst. U.S. of S., L. S. AMERY, Pari U.S. of S., and fr. Sir M. Delavigne.\n\nFile references: `FO.`  \nOther numbers: 57726, 10 DEC 24, 8 December, **155**, C. O. 424, 58338, 12811 18624/27 86,000 11/28-McC-E 253, 58861.",
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        "content_text": "## delegation will refuse to take part in discussion \nand some of the other Powers with Far Eastern territories,\nBritish delegate will take if not all, will do the same. the line that the matter is outside the scope of the \nconference and was considered by the First Conference (on control of opium smoking in the Far East) which reached an agreement as to further measures to be taken. \n\n## Position \nin British territories was then fully set out, and apart from question as to competence of the conference, no useful purpose will be served by re-opening the matter. He will then propose that the Council of the League of Nations should be invited to appoint a small impartial commission with an American chairman to visit the territories \nconcerned of all nationalities as well as any other countries, such as China, that may be necessary, in order to investigate and report on all relevant facts as \naffecting further measures of repression. In our opinion, domain should include nationals of Powers possessing Far Eastern territories. \n\n## Main object \nof this proposal would be to disarm American criticism, which is ill-informed as to our administrative difficulties in the Far East, and to convince public opinion that we do not shirk impartial investigation nor desire to take up obstructive attitude. If you agree that it would have this effect and would be acceptable to United States Government you should explain position frankly to them and ask them to instruct their delegation at Geneva to help to give our proposal effect by co-operating with British delegate when he puts it forward.\n\nAddressed to Washington No.337, repeated to Paris No.293 by bag.",
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        "content_text": "## 82 \nA \n\n58188/241 \n4122/20/07). \n\nNo. \n155 \nTAL OFFICE \n\nMy dear Waterlow, \n\nBritish Delegation, \nHotel Majestic, \nGeneva. \n\n6th December, \n1924. \n\nMany thanks for your telegrams of the 2nd instant telling me that you have instructed our Ambassadors at Washington and Paris to approach the United States and French Governments in regard to the suggested Commission of Inquiry, if they think it desirable. \n\nThe President of the Second Conference spoke to us today about the proposal of the American Delegation to bring up the question of the use of opium for smoking in the Far East, if they consider the results of the First Conference unsatisfactory. He told me, in strict confidence, that he does not intend to allow any discussion of the matter in the Second Conference, but that he will permit the American Delegation, if they wish to do so, at the end of the Conference (when the time comes to sign the Convention, if any, prepared by the Second Conference), to make a declaration on the subject. I told him, equally confidentially, that I had referred the matter here, and hoped I might be able in the course of a few days, to tell him what my position would be if the matter is raised. And if they make a declaration in the manner indicated above, that would give me the opportunity of announcing the willingness of the British Government to hand a Commission of Inquiry should be appointed by the League. I think it will help the President, vis-à-vis his own Delegation, if I let him know beforehand.\n\n`Waterlow, SECRET Cypher 7986. 39/2372. 19. 10/30, (72.11)`\n \nNo 57726/24.",
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        "content_text": "## YEA \n\nBANTA \n\n! \n\n*** \n\nו' \n\n• ASSURE: [! \n\n: \n\nח \n\n438 \n\nBeforehand what line I propose to take on the latter, but I shall not tell him anything until I hear from you what replies have been received from Washington and Paris.\n\nMr. Zahle told me that he has informed Bishop Brent of the American Delegation of the course he proposes to take if the Americans raise the question.\n\nThat line de la Foreign Office and Colonial Office wish me to take if the Americans do not raise the question.\n\nBy the way, I take it that the investigations of the Commission of Inquiry, if appointed, should extend to the Philippines as well as to the Far Eastern Possessions and Territories where smoking is still authorized? The Americans have got complete prohibition of the use of opium for smoking in the Philippines, but it is notorious, and I believe admitted, that notwithstanding, a very large amount of opium is smuggled into the island for the purpose of smoking; and the result of prohibition in the Philippines will be an important consideration for the decision of Inquiry to take into account.\n\nI enclose a copy of the Convention which has been signed on Saturday, adopted by the First Conference on the 13th.\n\nYour*,\n`(384)` Mallet to Deling DDR \n\n= \n\nZEND",
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        "content_text": "# No. 2641 \n\n`(96/82/1924)`\n\n446\n\nHIS Majesty's Representative at Paris presents his compliments \nto the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to \ntransmit herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nBritish Embassy, \nParis, \n`3rd Dec. 1924`\n\n## Reference to previous correspondence: \n| Name and Date | Description of Enclosure | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| To Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 3rd Dec | 2210/717 5 6/24 F.O.P. | Opium Conference at Geneva | \n7.0. Tel. No. 294 of 2nd December.",
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        "content_text": "Rokeby. \n26 St Andrew's Road \nCaversham Reading \n6th Jan 1916. \n468 \n\nMarke: Passing / \n\nThanks for your \nletter of the 10th mentioning \na draft note of the proceedings at last Monday's conference of the S. opium. Share ventured to assume that you \nrefer to G \n\nEatonure to your letter as you do not say anything of the contrary, If permission I should like it if added to the Note that I \npreviously suggested, in deference to \nSir J. Jameson \n\nand Her Majesty's Govt that, \nas far as Kealaka is concerned, \nparticipation \nwould not find it wise to frame disorder. The note as it then does seem to imply that a form of immediate legislative prohibition would be accepted going down as far from being too optimistic \nas that and consequently, \nI bold \nan apply it to tuleya. \nacted that this was would not be \nDhope my description as financial adviser to Balaya \"will not head \non \nanybody's worry. \n\nYely \n2.A. Go the forts of the Malay's Settlements and Federated Malay States and have us with be Unfederated Malay States, excepting Chairman, Paris Committee to deal with the \nis geance, \na mere detail. \n\nOfficial communication. \nwhole of \nBritish Malaya - this \n\nYours sincerely \nAndentury.",
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        "content_text": "179 \n-3- \n\nThe disease could best be dealt with from the public health standpoint. To these Conferences were invited delegates from the Governments concerned and from the official venereal disease Organisations recognised either by the Governments or by the Red Cross Societies, and in every case, the personnel of the Conference was mainly medical.\n\nResolution passed by the International Regional Red Cross Conferences (Copenhagen, May 20th-25th, 1921, including Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Norway, and Sweden.)\n\n\"**THAT** the regulation and official toleration of professional prostitution has been found to be medically useless as a check on the spread of venereal diseases and may even prove positively harmful, tending as they do to give official sanction to a vicious traffic.\"\n\nResolution adopted by the Conference of Countries of Western Europe for the Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases (including France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.) Paris, December, 1921.\n\n\"**LA REGLEMENTATION** de la prostitution ne jouant pas le role prophylactique que l'on a cru pouvoir lui attribuer, les moyens prophylactiques modernes educatifs et therapeutiques, peuvent la remplacer avantageusement.\"\n\nResolution adopted by the Conference of Societies of the Red Cross of Eastern Europe for the Prophylaxis of Venereal Disease, Prague, December 1921.\n\n\"**La reglementation** actuelle de la prostitution doit être remplacée par:\n| Measure | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | une loi relative aux maladies veneriennes dans laquelle hommes et femmes seraient places sur un pied d'egalite absolue. |\n| (b) | des mesures visant les clauses fondamentales de la prostitution: |\n|     | des mesures sociales et economiques. |\n| (3) | l'explication au public et a la jeunesse des dangers sociaux de la prostitution. |\n| (4) | des mesures en vue de la protection efficace de la jeunesse. |\n|     | la lutte efficace contre l'alcoolisme. |\n|     | des mesures contre le proxenetisme. |\n|     | des mesures servant a elever la moralite. |\n|     | la creation d'etablissements d'education pour les jeunes gens en danger au point de vue morale. |\n| (e) | des mesures concernant la protection de la femme et de la jeune fille (protection des filles-meres et des enfants illegitimes).}\"\n\nThe policy of abolishing the Red Light Districts in the United States having already been adopted and put in force during the war, the Resolutions at the corresponding All-America Conference on Venereal Diseases held in 1920 dealt mainly with methods of enforcing the law in order to obtain the effective suppression of known centres of prostitution and to procure the continuous treatment of all known infective persons in the community.",
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        "content_text": "-4-\n\nAt a Western European Regional Medical Conference held under the auspices of the League of Red Cross Societies in Paris in December 1921, at which the French Red Cross was represented by medical specialists, the following Resolution was passed unanimously:\n\n**THAT** regulation of prostitution does not play the prophylactic role that has been attributed to it; the modern methods of prophylactics of an educational and therapeutic nature can replace it with advantage.\n\nFrench version of Resolution.\n\n\"LA RÈGLEMENTATION de la prostitution ne jouant pas le rôle prophylactique que l'on a cru pouvoir lui attribuer, les moyens prophylactiques modernes éducatifs et thérapeutiques, peuvent la remplacer avantageusement.\n\nAt the Congrès Internationale de Propagande d'Hygiène sociale et d'Education prophylactique sanitaire et Morale held in Paris in May 1923, medical and administrative sections were appointed by a number of the most prominent venereologists in France. Those cities which had made most effective progress in providing accessible facilities for the modern methods of treatment were the most insistent on the need for abolishing the regulation of prostitution.\n\nThe following Resolutions were passed:\n\n\"**THAT** in the opinion of the Congress the regulation of prostitution of women is useless in effect, iniquitous in law, and ought to be abolished, and should be replaced by a regime based on a common justice of forbidding the knowing transmission of disease and, if necessary, the isolation of infected persons of either sex in curative institutions.\n\n\"The Congress believes that the law ought to be the same for all under its protection and that it ought not to be applicable for any particular section of the Nation, nor should any individual have any privilege that interferes with the rights of the community.\"\n\nThis shows that the trend of medical opinion in France is towards the abolition of regulation of prostitution and the substitution for it of adequate facilities for free treatment. It is now recognised that venereal disease is a public health measure and can only be adequately dealt with if treatment is secured to all infected persons throughout the community.\n\n## GERMANY\n\nThe system up to date: Regulation has existed in Germany. Under the Imperial Code, it was provided that prostitution was not forbidden; it was an offence, however, to carry it on not under police control, or to break their regulations. The regulations included, as in France, registration and compulsory medical examination. Brothels are illegal but exist.\n\n185",
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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n### THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH\n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\nWILLIAM DESMOND IN \"STRAIGHT THROUGH\" \nWANDA WILEY IN \"GETTING TRIMMED.\" \nOUR OWN TOPICAL.\n\n## QUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \nLON CHANEY IN \"THE NIGHT ROSE\" IN SIX PARTS. \nSaturday, July 11th. \nLILLIAN GISH IN \"THE WHITE SISTER\" IN ELEVEN PARTS. \nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY. At all Shows. \nWILLIAM DUNCAN AND EDITH JOHNSON IN \"THE FIGHTING GUIDE\" (IN SEVEN REELS), \nADDED ATTRACTION: \"A GAME LADY\" (COMEDY IN TWO REELS) AND TOWN TOPICS.\n\n## WORLD THEATRE NOTICE\n\n#9 \nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well Stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently Received Large and Well Selected New Stocks. \nCome and Select your Menu from us \nMAGASIN GÉNÉRAL, The Corner Shop, Phone 3312. Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n## [101 \nTHE NAME MOUTRIE ON A PIANO IS A GUARANTEE OF RELIABILITY. \nEASY TERMS ARRANGED. \nS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., CHATER RD.\n\n| Ad | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 117 | CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |\n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. PROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands.\n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments.\n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers.\n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties.\n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st.\n\n## GERMAN LOANS. UNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG\n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation only 2 per cent., compared with 12.5 per cent. for old holders.\n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. Bankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be possible to parry out much differentiation and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby.\n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list.\n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON\n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. COMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH\n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going.\n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously.\n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. Bluebell makes all the bread for them and the bluejackets have been doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore.\n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. TO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA?\n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor, the number 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again.\n\n## HOME CRICKET. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872. Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 60 not out.\n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November.\n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. RIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. \nPARIS, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repair, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after luncheon at the Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. C. Denison Pender.\n\nA message from Fez says the French evacuated two advanced posts after destruction of defences northward of Wezzan. A later despatch reports that the Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergha region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south.\n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes.\n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. MR. 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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.\n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW. BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuehlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh floor apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was killed. The accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the Berengaria to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio.\n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. Violent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97.\n\n## LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nL. C's are clearing out their stock of Aertex Underwear at reduced prices - $3.00 per Garment.\n\n## GAUNTIE HATS. HOSE AND SOCKS\n\nThe Ideal Hat for Sportsmen. Price $7.50 \nThe Ideal Summer Sock-Light Weight-Silk Mixture in Drab Brown and Grey Shades. $1.75 Pr. \n6 Prs. $10.\n\n## GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nGOLF HOSE and KHAKI SHORTS.\n\n## E. MERCK, Darmstadt. 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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n**THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 1925** \n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\n**WILLIAM DESMOND** \nin \n\"STRAIGHT \nTHROUGH” \nand \n**WANDA WILEY** \nin \n“GETTING TRIMMED.” \nOur own topical. \n\n**QUEEN'S THEATRE** \n\n66 \n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \n**LON CHANEY** \nin \n\"THE NIGHT ROSE” \nin six parts. \n\nSaturday, July 11th. \n**LILLIAN GISH** \nin \n\"THE WHITE SISTER\" \nin eleven parts. \n\nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY, At all Shows, \n**WILLIAM DUNCAN** \nand \n**EDITH JOHNSON** \nin \n\"The Fighting Guide\" \n(in seven reels), \nAdded Attraction :- \n“A Game Lady\" \n(comedy in two reels) \nand \nTown Topics. \n\n**WORLD THEATRE** \n\nNOTICE. \n89 \n\nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently received large and well-selected new stocks. Come and select your menu from us \n\n**MAGASIN GÉNÉRAL**, \nThe Corner Shop, \nPhone 3312. \nBeaconsfield Arcade. \n\nThe name **MOUTRIE** on a piano is a guarantee of reliability. Easy terms arranged. \n**S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.**, Chater Rd. \n\n[CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] \n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. \n\nPROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands. \n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments. \n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers. \n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties. \n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st. \n\n## GERMAN LOANS. \n\nUNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG. \n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation at only 2 per cent., compared with 5 per cent. for old holders. \n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. \n\nBankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be impossible to carry out such a differentiation, and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby. \n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list. \n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repairing, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after a luncheon at The Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. O. Denison Pender. \n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes. \n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. \n\nMR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement. \n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete. \n\n## FLYING RECORDS. \n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with a Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 266 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records. \n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. \n\nENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN. \n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastie by 3 goals to nil. \n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.--Reuter. \n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. \n\nCOMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH. \n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been a boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going. \n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously. \n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. `Bluebell` makes all the bread for the bluejackets have been helping them and doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore. \n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. \n\nTO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA? \n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the `Peking and Tientsin Times`. \n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor car, No. 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again. \n\n## HOME CRICKET. \n\nOXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872 Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 68. \n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \n\nIn the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November. \n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. \n\nRIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. A message from Fez says the French northward of Wezzan evacuated two advanced posts after the removal of stores and destruction of defences. A later despatch reports that Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergba region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south. \n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuhlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh-floor fashionable apartment at the Carlton Hotel and was killed. \n\nThe accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the `Berengaria` to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio. \n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. \n\nViolent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit. \n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97. \n\n| Ad            | Price     |\n| :------------- | :-------- |\n| Aertex Underwear | $3.00 per Garment |\n| Hat (Fine Soft Felt) | $7.50     |\n| Ideal Summer Sock | $1.75 Pr.  |\n| Holeproof Socks  | 6 Prs. $10 |\n| Golf Hose and Khaki Shorts | -         |\n\n**LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.** \nGentlemen's Outfitters.\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-**BORNEMANN & Co.**, HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. \n\n## DECCA \n\n$35.00 at **THE DECCA** and **ANDERSON'S**. \n| Item          | Price       |\n| :------------ | :---------- |\n| Powell Vests  | $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. |\n| Knickers to match | $8.25       |\n| Teddies       | $8.50, $10.50, $11.00 |\n| A New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received | -         |",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. Queen's Buildings. \n\nRid Your Home of Flies with \n\nFLYOSAN \n\nUPER-INSECTICIDE, \n\nAlso ills Roaches, Mosquitoes, Mathe, Azta, Redbugs, Lice. Fleas and other Insects. NON-POISONOUS \n\nto every other form of Animal Life. \n\nFOR SALE AT \n\nTHE CHINA DISPENSARY. \n\n32, Quang's Road t \n\nEast of Central Market, \n\nPhone 594 \n\nAre you still doing the \n\nwashing? \n\nIf so why not \n\nhave a gas wash boiler \n\nIt saves time \n\nmoney and \n\nclothes. \n\nFor sale or \n\nhire from \n\nHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., \n\n9 \n\nLTD. \n\nreside for the purpose of all steamship communication be carrying on the moreaufile tween Canton and Hongkong, bath pursuits, without molesta- direct and via Maeso, and also for loo or restraint, ut Chaton, the boycet in Cantor and other Amoy. Foochuw, Ningpc aud porta la South China as well a Article V of the Treaty of British subjecte ships and goods. Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n17\n\n1925\n\nFOR CIRCULATION\n\nMr. Begret.\n\nMr.\n\nAsst. U.S.\n\nDATE\n\n10 March 11264\n\n11 MK 25\n\nReport of Inter-Departmental Conference.\n\nPiracy\n\nConcurs in proposal to communicate\n\n4 Kony Yout.\n\nPerm.8. of 8.\n\nThe Report to China Association.\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nGree Guila Como-\n\n26 March 1928\n\nMINUTES\n\nthe action proposed (modified where necessary for delays)\n\nof the West bachand ine clas oceaned\n\n17.0.59907/24\n\nThe be taken, the uport Inter-Dept! Conference (52373)\n\nCofer within 5.75.\n\nkousi du whether to who will be submitted musicrity Lave to he report of the 14.2. Cutter (10336)\n\nhave about wah.\n\nnot yet heard officially contains anythining decision\n\nBriefly the mainosity to ul.\n\nwill affect points wh, the signatones Moms Lurie (11172)\n\nreport be may\n\n2 apl' 25. Bab.\n\n44 ape 5 Bija.\n\nAttempt follows:-\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n(1 Protection of agamst 1116917\n\n2) (334313) Wt. 17813/38 Gp. 140 0000 12-24 W & S Ltd. such protection.\n\nthe promise of the Navy, to Shipping company's\n\nPage 8\n\n...\n\nY\n\nX\n\nX\n\nParis U. of S. Secretary of State..\n\njased »van #dy, ka\n\n18.(7\n\nbe submitted\n\nch\n\nsin main\n\nbe\n\nhave\n\nwww.atl\n\nM. Sww.Asen.\n\n59907/200\n\nAut\n\nPiag tarpay ev\n\nH\n\nlook Lave the right to\n\n200\n\nPage XX\n\n \n\n(8)\n\nC\n\n-YUAHIT\n\nsa okay pisTit#regrão de id nad Wrom taal\n\nNEOLE#TITY #ZATL. =102, .bartooman mi youniq sa TEÌ\n\nat{e sovix notuð at rednovoll gran me Jus beixtuD STEW\n\n‚ #fo=#=[[suz UILE Tabionnon v bau adnotava mis pď @ku ben maki xo0% N Tagedes 20h and, domst, two di...\n\nmidt to wet a yd soɑrvba etutzmetĘ\n\nSaga oft er ay troked gainea eft no mietbios\n\nti se Inikaonove as griso noivaraqo edt SeJayvanq DIA\n\n«gs bebærcT SIG\n\n-t e\n\nPOIAN\n\nPROM\n\ndamay\n\ncat lost!\n\nBefore\n\nbe\n\nwill\n\n...\n\nکر کو میں\n\nPage XX",
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        "content_text": "THE CHINESE DISORDERS.\n\nITISH LABOUR MISLED.\n\nPEKING FEAR OF EXTREMISTS.\n\nPOWERS' DUTY,\n\nfurther outrages are reported from Anxiety still persists, however, ially in regard to the Yangt.sze\n\nthe House of Commons yesterday A. M. Samuel said that the forces at disposal of the Powers are sufficient the protection of foreigners on the and waterways of China in any con-ney that can reasonably be foreseen.\n\nis reported from Peking that detach-ts of Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have! posted for the protection of foreigners and the Minister of Communications given general orders to this end.\n\nDar Shanghai Correspondent points that, judging by the questions put in liament and the telegrams of sympathy to the Chinese strikers, misconcep exists in England as to the origin of arisis. He says that dissatisfaction conditions of labour in foreign mills extremely little to do with the due to political bla, which are\n\nof The Association shinations. itish Chambers of Commerce have nt to the Prime Minister & resolution ging the Government to arrange, with he other Powers interested, a conference rith representatives of the different pro-nos in China.\n\nDRIGIN OF SHANGHAI STRIKES.\n\nMISCONCEPTION IN GREAT BRITAIN.\n\n{FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nSHANGHAI, JUNE 18. The questions in the British Parliament d the telegrams from the Independent abour Party and the Trades Union Hongre expressing sympathy with the workers of China in their struggle with apital, betray a total misconception of the origin of the present crisis. It is safe to say that not 2 per cent. of the original dispute is due to dissatisfaction on the part of Labour with the conditions in the foreign mills, which, though doubtless capable of improvement in some points, are unquestionably far superior to those of the Chinese mills. In regard to the disturbances at the Japanese mill, overwhelming evidence has accumulated that these were the direct result of the work of political agitators, and they wore not reproduced in other mills.\n\nAs for the child labour question, the only way in which it is involved is exactly the reverse of what is supposed abroad. The offence of the foreigners is not that they employ children but that they Tho propose to employ them no longer. agitators persuaded parents that the employers were plotting to turn out the children, sweat the parents, and save on wages. Of course, directly workers were called out on strike there was abundant inflammable material ready for a riot, but it can be asserted that without political machination there would have been no strike.\n\nApart from the usual student demon-strations, the Yangtaze Valley has been reported quiet the past two days, but the Chinesa of the better order are in-creasingly nervous owing to the craven yielding of the Peking Government to the extremists. One informant, whom I have quoted before and always found trustworthy, says the increasing fear among the Chinese of an ultimate explo.sion along the Yangtare Valley is com-parable to that of the Boxer year. He adds that the only effective prevention is a strong display of naval force by the Powers along the river.\n\n\"RED\" HELP FOR CHINESE.\n\n(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nRIGA, JUNE 18,\n\nThe Red trade unions have sent the Chinese revolutionaries another £8,000, and the society for assisting distressed Communists abroad have sent Shanghai strikers a further £3,000.\n\nPROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS.\n\nthe\n\nPEKING, June 16-As a result of the foreign representation urging protection, the Government has brought in numbers of General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops to It has also posted patrol the city. pickets outside the principal offices of foreign firms and foreign residences.\n\nChang Teo-lin, who had been con-templating sending troops to Peking for some time, dispatched some to-day, and the first companies arrived this afternoon, occupying the Yellow Temple outside the North Gate.\n\nThe Ministry of Communications, in all circular telegram to-day, orders special protection for all foreign employees in the Ministry and foreign travellers on! the railways, and orders the dispatch of efficient police for this purpose.- Reuter,\n\nHANKOW, June 16-Of the seven Bol-ahevist agitators arrested by the Chinos authorities, one was shot by them this morning-Reuter\n\nFOOCHOW, June 16.-The students here are urging the Chinese employed by foreigners to strike, and are appealing to the Merchants' Guild to support the strikers. The Military Governor, how.ever, has posted guards in the foreign quarter, and all is quiet.-Reuter,\n\nBRITISH WARSHIPS IN CHINA.\n\nThe following list of movements of H.M. warships in Chinese waters was issued by the Admiralty yesterday :-\n\nThe cruisers Despatch at Hankow; Durban at Hong-kong: Hawkins arrived at Nang on Blondry ↑ the sloop Petersfield (with the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, on board), al. Shanghai: and the oruisers Diomede and Carlisle at Shanghai (landing parties).\n\nThe loops Magnolia, at Weltalwei; Holly-hock landing partyr at naukow Bluebel! left Hong kong for Swatow on Monday and Foxglove at Weilwei.\n\nI\n\n1\n\nTHE SHANGHAI MURDER. 71\n\n8\n\nENGLISH GIRE'S STORY. SHANGHAI, June 16. The British Consul General this morning made vigorous protest to the Civil Governor and the Foreign Commissioner with regard to the murder of Mr. Williams Mackenzie. [A report of the murder appeared in The Times yesterday.]\n\nMiss Duncan, who Was with Mr. Mackenzie when he was murdered, and who was herself wounded, in relating her experiences said :—\n\nWe encountered seven Chinese dressed liks coolles who stopped us near the Great Western Road Extension. Mr. Mackonale asked thema what they wanted, but the Chinese only laughed, at the same time turning the light of electric torches upon us. Mr. Mackenzie got out of the car, and speaking both in English and in Chinese, ordered the men to get out of the way. Thereupon one of the Chluamen fired and Mr. Mackenzie ran back, jumped into the car and started the engine. It then seemned as if all the Chinese opened fire together, and Mr. Mackenzie lurched forward, telling me that he had been shot and was dying. Meanwhile the car had gained speed, and se he fell I took the wheel and steered the car while the Chinese kept on Bring.\n\nMiss Duncan, who had only once or twice handled a car before, drove the car with Mr. Mackenzie's body in it for nearly three-quarters of a mile into the settlement, the car finally falling into a wide ditch.\n\nMiss Duncan shouted for aid, but, failing to attract attention, ran to a house occupied by two Shanghai Volun teers, who communicated with the police. Mr. Mackenzie was hit by four bullets, one of them severing the jugular vein. The police found on the roadside near the scene of the murder 12 32 calibre empty cartridge cases.-Reuter.\n\nBRITISH COMMERCE AND CHINA.\n\nPLEA FOR CONFERENCE. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce have adopted a resolution which has been transmitted to the Prime Minister, stating their satisfaction that steps are being taken in agreement with the other Powers to bring about a peace-ful solution of the present troubles in China, and adding:\n\nThe association urge his Majesty's Govern-ment to arrange at the earliest possible date with the other Powers interested a conference i with the representatives of the different pro-Places of China with a view to bringing about a Jermanent and satisfactory settlement in that buntry.\n\nFRENCH NAVAL CHANGE IN FAR EAST. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nPARIS, JUNE 16. The armoured cruiser Jules Michelet Ambrose left Toulon for the Far East. She\n\nHankow: Scarab, at Iohang: Woodcook, t Chinkiang: Woodlark (completed to full complement from Despatch), at Chinkeng; Teal and Widgeon, at Chungking.\n\nSUBMARINE DEPOT SHIP AND TENDERS Titanic (Depôt ship), at Hong-kong: and Marazion, at Weibaiwei.\n\nTimus,\n\nJune 7\n\nrried the flag of Rear Admiral Bazire, who will relieve Rear Admiral Frochet in the armoured cruiser Jules Ferry, as Rear-Admiral Commanding the French Far Eastern Squadron. This move was ordered some time ago and has nothing to do with the disturbances in China.",
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        "content_text": "(1) Japan and hostile to Russia would, if war again broke out between Japan and Russia, be astride the trans-Siberian railway and, therefore, a formidable obstacle to the movement of Russian troops towards the Pacific coast. Japan will accordingly in all likelihood do her utmost to keep the Bolshevists out of Manchuria and encourage a policy of Manchuria for the Manchus.\n\n(4) But elsewhere in China it would hardly be to the advantage of Japan to oppose the infiltration of Bolshevik propaganda which acts as a disruptive element in Chinese politics. While, in so far as Bolshevism is an attack on the trade and civilization of the white races, and especially on Great Britain and the United States of America, it may be that Japanese statesmen watch its progress in China not without satisfaction. Especially is this likely to be the case in South China where Hong Kong, French Indo-China, Burma, and the Philippine Islands stand to suffer heavily if Bolshevism succeeds.\n\n(5) It is important to remember that ever since the Paris Peace Conference there has been organized anti-Japanese feeling in China, kept alive principally through the activities of Chinese students and through the institution of the annual \"Humiliation Day\" (7th May), a perpetuation of national indignation at the concession by China of the Japanese \"twenty-one demands\". This concession was subsequently revoked; but \"Humiliation Day\" continued, and anti-Japanese agitation and boycotts were endemic in China. It became a matter of importance for Japan to unload this hate upon other shoulders, and at last she appears to have succeeded in doing so in South China, in spite of the fact",
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        "content_text": "54\n\nfaith:ful workers to carry out their plans. It has outside support. This is the strong force against Christianity in Canton.\n\nOne can see from all this that the degree of opposition towards Christianity varies a great deal among the forces at work in Canton. For example, in the last anti-Christian campaign all these forces participated, but from different motives and with different methods.\n\nSome employed silent resistance and some used aggressive measures.\n\nForces working against each other.\n\nFurthermore, on many questions these groups are working against each other. In regard to class war, for example, the Communist party stands almost alone against the rest. The Young China Society attacks Communism more bitterly than it does Christianity. The Communist party is meeting opposition everywhere in China, especially among the intellectuals. The Communist party is by no means having an easy time in Canton, although Canton gives the Communist party great freedom of action. It finds opposition everywhere. Recently one of the important Kuomintang leaders, Dr. Tai Kwa To, in his pamphlet \"People's Revolution and the Kuomintang\" denounced the Communists in many respects, and he has had the support of many Kuomintang members. The New Student Society is now a Communist organisation. It used to control the Student Union in Canton, but was defeated in the election last year. The People's Right Society has been a force working against Communism. The Communist party has found strong opposition among the merchants, and even within the labour organisations. When Dr. Ward and the writer met some of the strong labour leaders last April, they were told by them very frankly that China had no place for Communism. One of the largest labour unions forbade its members to participate in the last May-day demonstration with the Communists. In a demonstration last June, the students refused to walk side by side with the Communists. However, the Communists have worked hard day by day to win the people. They have disorganised, reorganised, and organised, and they are advancing every day.\n\nWe Christian workers should know now who are against us and who are not. Of all the forces working against us, we should recognise the different principles and methods. On certain questions, we should know further that we are not standing alone. Many are sympathetic and working with us.\n\nPatriotic Movement.\n\nAfter knowing the forces at work and how they differ from each other, we shall understand the background of the patriotic movement in Canton. The unsettled condition of the country, together with the unjust attitude of the foreign Powers, have aroused the patriotic alarm of the Chinese people, especially the students throughout the country and the workmen in Canton particularly. Since the student movement of the 4th May, 1919, and the renaissance movement, we have witnessed many patriotic nation-wide movements. Even the movement for Chinese control of mission education and the anti-Christian movement itself may be looked upon as a further expression of this patriotic spirit. One movement followed another until the Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton sad incidents, when the patriotic spirit blazed over the whole country, reaching every class of people. As one missionary puts it, to-day in China \"It is war-war for national honour; war for national rights; war for the preservation of the race and of the nation; war against brutality and injustice.\" Many Chinese Christians showed a proper spirit of patriotism-even the Communists gave them credit for it.\n\nBefore 1900, the Chinese people resented the aggressive and oppressive foreigners; after that, Chinese were afraid of foreigners. It was not until the beginning of the student movement on the 4th May, 1919, called forth by the disappointment at the results of the Peace Conference at Paris, that the patriotic spirit rose up again. It is felt everywhere in China to-day. The political parties have done a good deal in rousing this spirit, but foreign oppression, together with the success of Russia and Turkey in their dealing with foreign Powers, have also inspired the Chinese patriots very much.\n\nThis spirit of patriotism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese. If one does not make a clear distinction between this patriotic movement and the progress of Communism, it is a great mistake. If one classifies all the recent patriotic movements as \"Red campaigns,\" or if one were to declare that the \"Reds\" have engineered all the patriotic movements, this would be attributing too much to them. It might even drive non-Communists to become Communists; it would at least make the Communists laugh at our ignorance.\n\n55\n\nWhat should Chinese Christians do under this Spirit of Patriotism?\n\nIt seems to the writer that nothing can stand against this great patriotic movement in China to-day. If Christian work is to continue, it should not try to oppose it. Under these conditions, what should the position of Chinese Christians be? It has been observed that throughout China, practically all the Chinese Christian leaders stood by the patriotic movement. Some may not have approved of all its methods or procedures, but we were all in sympathy with its spirit. Christians from now on should go one step further.\n\nWe should be enquiring of ourselves whether or not we are doing our part for the country, for the Chinese people. We should rely no more on the protection of the unequal treaties through our foreign missionaries. We must do our best to help to get rid of the unequal treaties, for they are against Christian principles.\n\nOther forces are labouring for the good of the working-class and the youth of the country, as Christian organisations have done in the past. We should emphasise these forms of works, or we shall lose our hold upon these classes.\n\nThere is a feeling among many Chinese workers in foreign-controlled Christian institutions that they are merely employees of foreigners. This conception should be changed. The first responsibility to work for the Chinese should be laid upon us Chinese. Foreign missionaries should be helpers only. Unless this idea is well established in our minds, advocating Chinese control of mission education is useless.\n\nLast of all, we should stand firm against materialism and class-war; we must put forth our belief in co-operation and brotherhood in industry. We should stand firm against the narrow idea of strict nationalism, although it is very popular these days, and do our best to lead our country to be strong in the family of nations. Nationalism has led the Western countries into war after war. We must stand for world brotherhood, equal treatment, and world peace.\n\nNow, what should the foreign missionaries do? This is a difficult question for them to solve. It is not for the writer to make any suggestions on this head.\n\nThe foregoing paper deals chiefly with conditions in Canton. Canton is very different from the rest of China. People are aggressive here, and Christian workers must also be aggressive if they are to succeed in the future of Christian work in Canton.\n\nCanton, November 9, 1925.\n\nANNEX XVI.\n\nTwo Despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong describing the Events leading up to and connected with the Visit of the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to Canton in December 1925.\n\n(1)\n\nSir C. Clementi to Mr. Amery.\n\nGovernment House,\n\n(Secret.) Sir,\n\nHong Kong, December 23, 1925.\n\nWHEN I arrived here on the 1st November, I made it my chief duty to inform myself at once as to the political situation in China generally, and at Canton in particular. On the 6th November, I exchanged visits of ceremony with Admiral Li Ching-hsi, who is in command of the Chinese cruiser squadron in these waters, and whose flagship is the Hai Yung. Since then, I have met him informally on several occasions. He stated that he was under the orders of Admiral Yang, whom I have not yet seen, and whose headquarters appear to be at Shanghai. I asked Admiral Li to tell me from whom Admiral Yang gets his orders, and he replied vaguely: \"From the Minister of Marine, at Peking\"; but he subsequently informed me that the Minister of Marine \"had run away,\" and I infer that the Chinese navy is now a law unto itself. However, Admiral Li, upon whose instructions I do not know, regards the present de facto Government at Canton as a rebel Government, and he considers himself to be at war with it. He accordingly maintained until recently a cruiser patrol at the mouth of the West River, with the object of preventing arms and ammunition from reaching the Canton Government, and he also made it his business to prevent the Cantonese Red army from crossing the Hainan Strait and occupying Hoihau, which is one of the sources of this colony's meat supply.\n\nHe has, however, now left for Shanghai, and has withdrawn all\n\n522",
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Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\n\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\n\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\nCONFERENCE.\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present",
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        "content_text": "36 \n\npromise them protection, and tell them that we would not mind caring for the farmers and workmen; and when all the parties are present, we would say nothing. But this is an idle libel.\n\nI would beg you to ask the strikers if I have said to them that I would not take care of you merchants, and I would ask you if I have said to you merchants that I would take no heed of the farmers and workmen. I have not. What we have at present to do is the work for our national revolution. We must protect the common interests of all classes of people. The success of our National Revolution will bring benefit to all people alike, and only the members of the Kuomintang... who are willing to sacrifice themselves, will get nothing.\n\nTo speak the truth, all farmers, workmen, and merchants of our China should sympathize with one another's distress. What we urgently require at present is the abandonment of the unequal treaties, and what is of paramount importance to us is to restore the management of the Customs. Let me ask you if the restoration of the management of the Customs will benefit the merchants. In the 8th year of the Republic (1919), at the Paris Peace Conference, a certain Mr. Wing, representative of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, stated frankly that he would make no comment on anything except the Customs question. For since the management of the Customs fell into the hands of foreign Powers, the duty on foreign goods has been only very small, while that on our own goods has been much heavier. Thus, how can we keep up our commercial competition with the foreigners? Moreover, the Powers can impose any tax on our goods we send to them, but they only pay us duty for their goods according to the tariff fixed by the Powers themselves. If this question is not resolved, our Chinese merchants can never hope for prosperity. Therefore, he came to the Conference and fought vigorously for the restoration of the Customs. Now, with the help of the farmers and workmen, we are fighting for the restoration...",
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        "content_text": "## RUSSIAN DELEGATES\n\nThe Canton Gazette announces that a delegation representing the Soviet Trade Unions arrived in Canton on the 14th inst., in order to participate in the Pan-Pacific Conference of Trade Unions which is to commence its sessions in Canton on May 1st.\n\nThe delegation is composed of Comrades Lozovsky, chairman, general secretary of the Red International of Trade Unions, member of the presidium of the Central Council of Soviet Trade Unions; Andreitchik, secretary of the Railway Workers' Trade Union; Budhik, member of the presidium of the Central Comity of Metal Workers' Trade Unions; Apletine, secretary of the Educational Workers' Trade Union of U.S.S.R. and member of the executive committee of the Paris International Educationalists; Markoff, chairman of the Moscow Textile Trade Union; Koroleff, member of the presidium of the Leningrad Council of the Trade Unions; and Ismailoff, member of the Regional Soviet Council of Far Eastern Trade Unions.\n\nPage 113",
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        "content_text": "126\n\n12\n\nsaying that the British Government do not contemplate any change in their policy, which has been to secure that the peaceful development of the islands and the welfare of their Arab inhabitants shall not be disturbed by attempts to subject them to a foreign domination.\n\nSOVIET UNION.\n\nIn the middle of February, there was reported to be an acute grain shortage. The peasants refused to sell their grain, partly from dread of poor harvests this year, and partly because they were unable to make use of the money paid for the grain, the industrial goods, of which they stood in great need, being then unobtainable.\n\nGerman reports of 20th February, which stated that foodstuffs were rationed in Moscow and other large towns, were denied the next day by the Soviet semi-official Press. There is, however, no doubt that there has been a serious food shortage.\n\nTANGIER.\n\nAn agreement between France and Spain was signed in Paris on 3rd March, by M. Briand and Señor Quinones de Leon, the Spanish Ambassador.\n\nThis agreement provides for a re-arrangement of some of the regulations imposed by the agreement of 1923, and for the better working of the regime put in force thereby. There is no question of revising the work of 1923. One of the chief items of the 1923 settlement was the composition of the Tangier Police Force. This body was to have consisted of French and Spaniards in equal numbers under the command of a Belgian Officer, but this Officer never arrived. Under the new agreement a Spanish Officer is to be nominated as Inspector General of Police, and a French Assistant will be appointed to his staff. The force will be temporarily strengthened.\n\nIn conformity with the procedure agreed to in November 1926, the French and Spanish Governments will now invite the British and Italian Governments to take part in the subsequent negotiations. A meeting will probably be held shortly in Paris to examine the Franco-Spanish proposals and the part which Italy would be willing to take in the Tangier administration. When an agreement has been reached between the British, French, Spanish, and Italian Governments it will be submitted to the other Powers for approval.\n\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\n\nThe sixth Pan-American Conference which concluded its sessions at Havana on 20th February, has left unchanged the relations between the United States and the countries of Central America.\n\n1\n\n•\n\n13\n\nThe main issue, the modern interpretation of the Monroe doctrine which serves to justify the policy pursued by the Washington Administration, was scarcely touched on despite several resolutions put forward on the subject of intervention by one state in the affairs of another. The Dominican Republic and Mexico adopted a resolution understood to have been drafted by the American Association of International Law, providing that \"No state may in the future, directly or indirectly, nor by reason of any motive, occupy even temporarily any portion of the territory of another state. The consent given to the occupying state by the state occupied will not legitimize the occupation and the occupant will be responsible for all occurrences resulting from the occupation not only with the state occupied, but to third parties as well.\" From Argentine came the resolution that a state cannot interfere in the internal affairs or in the external affairs of another state,\" while Haiti sought to define intervention as any action carried out by a state, whether by means of diplomatic pressure or by armed force, in order to force its will upon that of another state.'\n\nNone of these resolutions came to anything. The opposition was not well organised, but the general failure to join in action which was bound to be displeasing to Washington was no doubt chiefly due to fear of the financial domination of the United States, Argentine being the only South American power to associate herself openly with the protests of the Central American Group. The personal prestige and diplomatic ability of Mr. Hughes, who served as Secretary of State under President Harding, was also an important factor in what may be regarded, from the United States point of view, as the successful issue of the Conference. On the other hand, the attitude adopted by Argentine on this question and the very definite stand taken by her delegate on the subject of tariff barriers are an indication of the tendency on the part of the larger nations of South America to assert themselves more vigorously than at any previous Pan-American Conferences.\n\nFollowing suggestions in the United States Press for a joint guarantee of the freedom of the seas by Great Britain and the United States, Senator Borah introduced a resolution into the Senate on 21st February, urging the restatement and codification of the laws governing the conduct of belligerents and neutrals at sea during war. He said that the chaotic state of maritime law constituted an incentive to great Naval armament, the seas being left subject to no definite rules save those of force.\n\nYUGOSLAVIA.\n\nThe political crisis which had lasted since 8th February came to an end on 23rd February, when M. Vukitchevitch at length succeeded in forming a new Cabinet. In the interval several unsuccessful attempts to form a Cabinet had been made by various\n\n127",
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        "content_text": "33\n\nat the International Opium Conference at Shanghai\n\nrecognized \"the unswerving sincerity of the\n\nGovernment of China in their efforts to eradicate\n\nthe production and consumption of opium throughout\n\nthe Empire\". The course of events has completely\n\nstultified this resolution. There is today no\n\n\"Government of China\"; and the various regional\n\nauthorities which exist are chiefly concerned to\n\nmake, each and all, as much revenue as they can out\n\nof the production and consumption of opium. For\n\nexample, a note from the French Ministry of\n\nForeign Affairs dated 2nd April, 1927, a copy of which was sent to\n\nHis Majesty's Embassy at Paris,\n\nin your Confidential despatch of the 10th May, 1927,\n\nsays:- \"La culture du pavot est devenue plus\n\nflorissante que jamais dans certaines provinces du\n\nsud-est de la Chine dont l'excédent de production est\n\nécoulé vers les pays consommateurs. Il est en\n\nparticulier avéré que les ports chinois de Tongking et de Pakhoi, qui sont à proximité de la frontière\n\ntonkinoise, constituent les deux principaux centres\n\nde transit de l'opium du Yunnan et du Kwangsi.\n\nLa drogue y est embarquée sur des jonques qui rejoignent\n\nau large les vapeurs se rendant à Hongkong ou vers\n\nd'autres destinations.\" I refer you also to the\n\ndespatch No.117 of the 8th October, 1927, written\n\nby Mr. J.F.Brenan, His Majesty's Consul-General at\n\nCanton, to the Foreign Office, reporting that opium\n\nis a government monopoly in the Kwangtung province,\n\nthat revenue is collected through an organization\n\ncalled\n\n‡ NO. 6. 30033/27C No.47\n\n5\n\n2",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\n## ART MARBLE WORK\n\nWe undertake every description of DECORATIVE MARBLE WORK including PAVEMENTS, COLUMNS, WALL LININGS, STAIRCASES, PEDESTALS, BALUSTRADES, ALTARS, STATUES, FONTS & STOUPS, VASES, REREDOS, SHOP FRONTS, FACIAS, CHIMNEY PIECES, HEARTHS & KERBS, FLOORING, LAVATORY DIVISIONS, TOPS & BATH CASES.\n\nC. E. WARREN CO., LTD.  \nEstb. 1800.  \nChina Bldg.  \nTel. C.260.  \nAgents for RAOUL BIGAZZI, FLORENCE, ITALY.\n\n## OBITUARY\n\n### A British Patriot Passes Away. EARL OF MEATH.\n\nLondon, Oct. 11. The death took place to-day of the Earl of Meath at the age of 88 years.\n\nThe Earl was famous as the founder of that movement for thinking imperially which resulted in May 24th, the birthday of Queen Victoria, being observed as Empire Day. The suggestion that the day should be devoted to this purpose he first made to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain when the latter was Colonial Secretary, in 1893 he suggested that the anniversary of Queen Victoria be made a universal school holiday.\n\nLord Meath was also identified with many religious and social movements, including the Scouts and the Church Army. He had been ill for some time and he passed away at 2.25 this afternoon.\n\n### Former Diplomat.\n\nThe veteran Earl of Meath was born on July 31st, 1841, and succeeded to the title, of which he was the 12th holder, in 1887. He was educated at Eton and on the Continent and then served in the Foreign Office for five years.\n\nAfterwards, he was attached to the Legation at Frankfort in 1866, to the Embassy at Berlin from 1867 to 1870, and at Paris from 1870 to 1873. He was married in 1868 to Lady Mary Jane Maitland (who died in 1918), and his marriage assured him of the co-operation and sympathy of one whose whole heart, like his own, was devoted to the welfare of others.\n\nAs Lord Brabazon, he became the founder and first Hon. Secretary of the Hospital Saturday Fund, in 1875, and whilst engaged in this work his health broke down by addressing seventy meetings in the course of a few weeks, including an audience of 40,000 in Hyde Park, this being, at the time, the largest non-political meeting ever held there. He was also the originator of the Hospital Sunday movement in Dublin.\n\n## TO-DAY'S NEWS\n\n### A Summary for the Busy Man.\n\n#### PRINCIPAL EVENTS\n\nThe Government is amending the Ordinance for the Protection of Page 3.\n\nAt to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. M. K. Lo will ask the following questions:\n\n| Question | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| i. | Whether he has received any official information from the Government in regard to the proposed Advisory Health Board, and if so, whether he will make a statement to this Board? |\n| ii. | Whether it is the intention of the Government to abridge by legislation the executive powers and functions of the Sanitary Board, as set forth in Part II, of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903? |\n| iii. | Whether it is intended by the Government that the proposed Advisory Board is to function independently of the Sanitary Board, and in any case whether it will tender advice only upon subjects which are not within the scope of that Ordinance? |\n| iv. | In view of the fact that this matter gravely affects the question of public health of the Colony and therefore vitally concerns this Board, will he make the necessary representations to the Government that this Board be given due opportunity for expressing its views on any proposed legislative changes affecting the public health of the Colony? |\n\nDr. Fawcett. Mr. M. K. Lo has given notice to move: \"That this Board desires to put on record an expression of its appreciation of the valuable services rendered, and the ability, energy and zeal displayed, by Dr. H. A. Fawcett whilst acting as Medical Officer of Health.\"\n\n### Man of Many Interests.\n\nHow busy a life the late Earl of Meath spent may be gathered from the fact that he was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, 1879; founder (1882) and first Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association; first President of the British College of Physical Education; founder and first President of the Lads' Drill Association; ex-President of the Christian Union for Social Service; first President of the British Institute for Social Service; founder and first President of the Duty and Discipline Movement: and Senator of the Parliament of Southern Ireland.\n\nDuring the sit of Rumania many years ago, he acted as her cicerone, having been for many years previously the friend and correspondent of \"Carmen Sylva.\"\n\nThe passing of the veteran Earl of Meath at the ripe age of 88 years, removes yet another of those patriotic figures who have done so much to cement the bonds of the British Empire.\n\n### Cigarette Statistics.\n\nAmerica, the land of statistics, has sent us some interesting figures, says the London Daily Telegraph. Enough cigarettes were smoked in the United States to provide every man, woman, and child with 856. Twenty-five years ago the Earl of Meath originated the Empire Day Movement. It was a thought that had been in his mind for many years before.\n\n## OTHER NEWS\n\n### WEDDING BELLS.\n\nMr. R. W. Ritchie and Miss Nancy Riley.\n\n#### CATHEDRAL CEREMONY.\n\nA very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral on Saturday when Miss Nancy Riley, the elder daughter of Mr. Robert Riley, of Blackpool, Lancashire, and Ceylon, became the bride of Mr. Richard W. Ritchie, son of Mr. Richard C. Ritchie, of St. Albans, Herts. The Very Rev. Dean Swann officiated.\n\nThe bride, who was given away by Mr. Bernard Thorpe, looked charming in a gown of ivory ring muslin velvet with a veil of embroidery tulle and a coronet of orange blossoms. Her shoes and stockings were of white satin, while she carried a bouquet of white roses.\n\nMiss Patsy L. Kerr, attended as bridesmaid, and was attired in Princess Mary blue taffeta trimmed with silver lace with silver shoes and blue hat. Her bouquet was also of white roses.\n\nThe duties of best man were discharged by ...\n\n### The Volunteers.\n\nAn episode in his life was his election to be an Alderman of the London County Council. His Parliament and secured the introduction of important reforms in popular education. He later elected to be the first Chairman of the Parks Committee, but when the hour for his re-election came he was told he was \"not Progressive enough\" and he had to go.\n\n### HEALTH BOARD.\n\n#### Sanitary Board Wants Information.\n\nM.O.H.'S SERVICES.\n\n### Page Numbers\n\nPage 3  \nPage 6  \nPage 7  \nPage 8  \nPage 9  \nPage 10  \nPage 11  \nPage 12  \nPage 13  \nPage 14  \nPage 15\n\n### The Far East.\n\nA combination of forces, including the Kuominchun, are arrayed against Nanking. It is reported that war has been declared.\n\n### Overseas.\n\nLord Meath, founder of Empire Day, is dead.  \nThe condition of the Princess Royal still gives cause for anxiety.  \nTenders have been invited for the construction of two huge American liners. Four more are projected.  \nIt is denied that Britain and America have agreed to pool their navies.  \nDuring the course of a hectic programme in New York, the British Premier declared that he was beginning to long to return to Lossiemouth.  \nThe Labour party secured a big victory in the Australian general election.  \nR 101, the largest airship built, was safely moored at Cardington, preparatory to her trial flights.  \nThe capture of Kabul by Nadir Khan's forces is confirmed.  \nThe railwaymen's reduction in wages is to continue for a further period of six months.\n\n### Sports.\n\nTilden represented Britain in a match against France.  \nMiss Gourlay won the golf final at ...  \nThe Electric R.C. beat the Shanghai bowlers by 30 shots to 10.  \nTaikoo won the second division championship and was made ...  \n\n### CYCLIST INJURED.\n\n\"MINISTER'S TRANSFER.\n\nMr. N. M. Henderson Transferred From Paris.\n\n### ALL ANXIETY NOT YET REMOVED.\n\nKowloon J. R. Johnstone broke the local 440 yards record at the V.R.C. night fete.\n\n### HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS.\n\nDuncan and Mitchell beat Compaton and Cotton in a 36 holes foursome for a purse of £250.\n\nThe annual gymkhana and presentation of prizes was held at Kowloon Golf Club.\n\nThe S.C.A.A. members' sports meeting opened yesterday.\n\nWeek-end baseball matches are reported on ...\n\nH.M. the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Nevile Meyrick Henderson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade.\n\nThe Princess Royal is gradually improving according to an official bulletin issued this evening...\n\nThe Far East.\n\nA Chinese detective sergeant attached to the Shamshuipo Police has added another smart capture to an already long list of creditable performances.\n\nA further week's remand was given in a kidnapping case owing to the complainant's failure to return from the country.\n\nThe Kuominchun malcontents strongly denounce Chiang Kai-shek's regime.\n\nFuller details of General Lui's coup in Wuchow are given on ...\n\nJapan's delegation to the Disarmament Conference has been appointed.\n\nThe gold embargo may be lifted in Japan early next year.\n\n### Charity\n\n1 Cor. 13:8.  \n\"Charity never faileth.\"  \nMONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929.  \nNo. 7,041.",
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        "content_text": "# BRITAIN & RUSSIA: A PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT ON PROPAGANDA QUESTION AND CLAIMS UNSETTLED\n\n## London, Oct. 1\n\nThe Anglo-Soviet conversations between Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and M. Dovgalevsky, the Russian envoy, were continued this morning at a hotel at Lewes, the conference lasting several hours.\n\nMr. Henderson is attending the annual conference of the Labour Party at Brighton, and his meeting with M. Dovgalevsky at Lewes was arranged as a matter of convenience.\n\nAfter last Friday's conversation between the Foreign Secretary and the Soviet Envoy, it was announced that an agreement had been reached on the list of subjects which are to be settled by negotiation, after the resumption of full diplomatic relations, including the exchange of Ambassadors.\n\nIt is understood that today's talk resulted in an agreement being reached regarding the procedure to be followed for the settlement of these subjects.\n\n## Diplomatic Relations\n\nLater, it is officially announced that as the result of the conversations at Lewes, an agreement was reached this afternoon with regard to the procedure to be followed on the resumption of full diplomatic relations.\n\nThe agreement included the exchange of Ambassadors for the settlement of questions outstanding between the two Governments, and also an agreement regarding propaganda.\n\nThe questions outstanding include the drawing up of a commercial treaty and claims.\n\nThe necessary document is now being prepared for signature before M. Dovgalevsky leaves for Paris on Friday.\n\nThe approval of Parliament is necessary before the agreement becomes operative.\n\nIn the course of a brief speech at the Brighton Conference later in the day, Mr. Arthur Henderson announced that when Anglo-Soviet Ambassadors have been exchanged, a Soviet Mission will come to London.\n\nHe expressed his belief that the Anglo-Soviet relationship would then be established on a satisfactory and permanent basis. - Reuter.\n\n## FOREIGN POLICY\n\n### Mr. Henderson Reviews the Recent Achievements",
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        "content_text": "254\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nMarch 13, 1930\n\nTHE CHINA CRITIC\n\n255\n\nCHIEF EVENTS March 2-8\n\nGOVERNMENT\n\nDark War Clouds Passing\n\nThe dark war clouds in the North, which have caused nation-wide concern and anxiety, are now passing away, and a feeling of ease is perceptible among the general public as a result of the announcement that Gen. Yen Hsi-shan is determined to go abroad together with Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.\n\nIn his telegram of March 5, he declares that he has always stood for peace and unification and that his recent suggestions to the Government were made with a view to preventing further internal strife. \"Since, however, my proposals have not even been considered,\" Yen declared, \"I shall certainly not be the cause for any civil strife. I am, therefore, immediately going abroad with Huankung (Feng Yu-hsiang) in order to carry out my original intentions.\"\n\nIt is understood that Gen. Yen will leave for Japan, probably alone, as Feng Yu-hsiang has not yet made any preparation for leaving. Mr. Chao Tai-wen, in his wire to the Government, is coming to the capital to make final arrangement with the Government for Yen's departure.\n\nThe Shansi troops in Chengchow, Honan, under Gen. Sun Tso, evacuated on March 4 and the garrison duties of that city are now being performed by Gen. Shih Yiu-shan according to the Government order. Tsaochow, which was also occupied by the Shansi troops in Western Shantung, has been deserted, and these Shansi troops have returned to their original post at Taming. The advanced forces of Gen. Fu Tso-yi, which occupied Tehchow, an important city in northern Shantung, are preparing to leave for Shansi shortly, on account of the sudden change of political development.\n\nThe reasons for Yen's sudden change of policy to fight the Government seem to be due to the fact that Gen. Chen Tiao-yuan, Governor of Shantung, and Gen. Ho Chien, Governor of Hunan, have remained loyal to the Central Government. With Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang neutral and Gen. Shih Yiu-shan and Gen. Han Fu-chu again gone over to the Central Government, Gen. Yen Hsi-shan has been left without sufficient allies to oppose Gen. Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nApparently Gen. Yen hoped that a chorus of disapprobation of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek would arise following Yen's denunciation of the Generalissimo, thinking that this would be sufficient to induce Gen. Chiang to resign without fighting; but as the Generalissimo is determined to remain in office, the Shansi general will not fight in an attempt to compel him to go.\n\nWell-informed circles state that a total of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) have so far been spent by General Yen Hsi-shan for military preparations against the Government. But the refusal of the Kuomintang and other military units in Honan to act according to his instructions have brought about the collapse of his scheme.\n\n3RD PLENARY SESSION OF C. E. C. ENDED\n\nThe third Plenary Session of the C.E.C. came to a conclusion after a five-day discussion. In a manifesto issued to the nation, it stresses the need of District Autonomy, Economic Reconstruction and the spread of Education based upon the Three People's Principles.\n\nIn the 2nd general meeting, nine resolutions were passed, two dealing with party affairs; two on the Reconstruction Program of the National Government; three on the civil administration of the Government with special reference to the question of the selection of District Magistrates, Bandit-Suppression and the Program of Economy of the Government; one concerning the appointment of additional members of the various committees of the C. E. C., and the last concerning the Shansi Provincial Currency Rehabilitation Loan of twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000). The order for the latter loan was cancelled.\n\nThe employment of the disbanded soldiers and officers was also discussed. It was proposed that the soldiers be absorbed in the various reclamation, colonization and reconstruction works. However, for the employment of officers, the following scheme is recommended:\n\n(1) To establish a Police Training Institute for the training of those disbanded officers who aspire to be police officers and who, upon completion of their training, can be dispatched to various districts throughout the country to organize and improve the police system.\n\n(2) To train a number of disbanded officers to serve as military gendarmes whose specific responsibility will be to enforce discipline in the National Army.\n\n(3) To establish in each province a Surveying Institute where suitable disbanded officers can be assigned to study the surveying of land and public roads. Upon conclusion of their training, they will be assigned to various Reconstruction departments of the Government to assist in carrying out the program of National Reconstruction.\n\n(4) To open a Civil Engineering Institute for the training of suitable disbanded officers who will be employed upon completion of their special training, in the various railroad and public highway constructions as superintendents.\n\n(5) To train suitable disbanded officers as agricultural experts.\n\n(6) To train the disbanded officers for special service in connection with land reclamation along the border districts of the country.\n\nCHINA'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT\n\nMr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, presented an annual report on the finances of the National Government together with a financial statement to the Third Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee.\n\nThe total receipts were $434,440,712, of which by far the greatest contribution came from Customs duties. However, half of this amount went to military establishment, the exact figure being $209,536,969. The present situation is much improved than that prevailing during 1928, when only Kiangsu and Chekiang were bearing the heavy financial burden. Now the Customs revenue is centralized, with only about ten provinces still controlling their financial revenues.\n\nKWEILIN CAPTURED\n\nKweilin, an important city in northern Kwangsi, was captured by the Hunan Government troops. As a result of this defeat on the part of the Kwangsi rebels headed by Pei Tsung-hsi, a general retreat was ordered.\n\nNo longer able effectively to resist the onslaught of the Government forces, the rebellious \"Ironsides\" leader, Chang Fa-kuei, sent two personal representatives on March 2 to implore General Chen Chi Tang to stop the advance of the Government forces. General Chen has telegraphed to Nanking for instruction in regard to the matter.\n\nINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS\n\nLEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMISSION\n\nThe League of Nations Commission of Inquiry into Opium Smoking in the Far East arrived in Shanghai on Thursday, March 6, in the str. Chosa Maru from Formosa. The Commission is composed of M. Max Leo Gerard, Dr. Ian Haviase, and Mr. Bertil A. Renborg.\n\nThe commission is merely passing through Shanghai on its way to Dairen, as it has not been invited by China to come on account of League's refusal to include the investigation of Morphia, Morphine and other drugs in its investigation.\n\nTHE LEAGUE'S HEALTH COMMISSION\n\nThe Health Committee of the League of Nations examined the proposals made by the Chinese Government, which asks for the help of the League in the way of technical advice in regard to certain sanitary works that are comprised in the reconstruction and modernization of China, especially, the reorganization of the quarantine service by the Ministry of Health.\n\nAmong the other measures proposed are the immediate establishment of a national hospital in Chekiang, which will serve as a model to the other provinces of China; and the reorganization of medical training.\n\nThe Chinese Government also asks for the collaboration of the Epidemiological Office at Singapore with the Ministry of Health for fighting small-pox and cholera.\n\nThe Chinese Government has already entered into obligations involving a sum of M.$200,000 in respect of fulfilment of its plan which, it is estimated, will cost M.$1,000,000. Miyajima considered the most important question, from an international point of view, was the organization of quarantine service in China.\n\nAMERICAN MINISTER VISITING\n\nMr. Nelson T. Johnson, American Minister to China, visited Nanking and was entertained by Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister Sun Fo and other officials. While in Shanghai, he received a most hearty welcome from the American community.\n\nAIR CONTRACT REVISION\n\nThe contract signed between the Chinese Government and the China Airways Inc., an American company, which has been seriously protested against by the Chinese, is now being revised at Nanking.\n\nMIXED COURT IN FRENCH CONCESSION\n\nThe Judicial Yuan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received on March 2 identic telegrams from the Shanghai Bar Association suggesting reorganization of the Mixed Court in the French Concession at Shanghai along the same lines as that of the Shanghai Provisional Court. It is pointed out that although several minor changes in the administration of the Mixed Court of the French Concession have been voluntarily introduced by the French Consular Authorities, the Court remains to all intents and purposes under the control of the French Concession Authorities and is altogether inconsistent with the Chinese judicial system. Responsible Judicial authorities are formulating detailed procedure governing the rendition and reorganization of the Court which will be the basis of discussion during the negotiations.\n\nSINO-GREEK TREATY RATIFIED\n\nAccording to a cable to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Minister Kao Lu at Paris, the new Sino-Greek Treaty has been duly ratified by the Greek Parliament.\n\nROYAL VISITOR\n\nAt the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Navy has dispatched the gunboat \"Hai-yung\" to Shanghai to welcome the Danish Crown Prince. Preparations are now under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to extend an appropriate welcome to Prince Frederick on his arrival at the Capital.\n\nJAPANESE SOLDIERS IN KIRIN\n\nUnder the pretext of suppressing the independence movement of Korea, a detachment of Japanese troops, numbering over one thousand men, recently arrived at Chungchun route to Lungchin, near the Kirin-Korea border.\n\nStrong resentment is expressed by the public at the illegal arrest of Koreans by Japanese soldiers in Kirin without the concurrence of the local Chinese Authorities. Two Koreans are reported to have been executed by the Japanese military authorities in Lung-chin for alleged complicity in the Independence movement.\n\nPERMIT NECESSARY FOR ARMS IMPORTATION\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in identic communications dispatched to the foreign Legations, declares that hereafter all shipments of arms and munitions from abroad will not be permitted into the country without the necessary permit issued by the National Government. Any foreign national contravening the order of the Government will be severely dealt with. This action is taken in consequence of the receipt of reports that certain foreign nationals have been secretly importing arms and other implements of war for the counter-Revolutionary elements.\n\nCHINESE CREW ON FOREIGN VESSELS\n\nAccording to a cable from Geneva, the Governing Body of the International Labour Office is notifying member-states of the Chinese proposal adopted at the 13th International Labour Conference providing that Chinese crew on foreign vessels shall be amenable to Chinese jurisdiction when within Chinese territorial waters.\n\nTRADE & CONSTRUCTION\n\nCENTRAL BANK OF CHINA'S 46TH EXAMINATION OF RESERVES\n\nIn accordance with Article 15 of the Charter of the Central Bank of China, the Supervisory Committee is invested with the duty to examine the Reserves held against Note-Issue. The Committee has on the 28th day of February, 1930 held its forty-sixth examination at the Issue Department of the Bank, the result is as follows:\n\nTotal amount of notes in circulation: Dollar Notes $12,484,888.00 Subsidiary Coin Notes $1,365,500.00 $13,850,388.00\n\nReserves against notes in circulation: Cash Reserve $9,007,883.24 (of the above sum $5,284,574.82 is kept in Shanghai Office, balance $1,162,085.14 is kept in Branches and Sub-branches $2,561,223.28 is kept in Local Banks). Securities Reserve $4,843,004.80 $13,850,888.04\n\nAccording to Article 2 of the Bank's regulation governing note issue, the Bank is required to keep Cash Reserve @ 60% and Securities Reserve @ 40% of the total issue. Finding the Cash Reserve to exceed 60% and the Securities Reserve not over 40%, we hereby certify that the reserves against notes in circulation are in order.\n\nSigned by Messrs. Li Ming, Chairman of the Committee; C. L. Wang, Tsuyee Pei, Z. C. Zing, Yu Ya-ching, K. H. Lin and C. M. Shu, Supervisors.\n\nOPIUM SUPPRESSION MEASURES\n\nFor the effective prevention of opium smuggling into China, all vehicles, vessels and aeroplanes entering or passing through the territorial limits of China, whether on land, upon water or in the air shall be subject to search by the responsible local opium-suppression authorities and the bureaux of public safety. This decision was reached at a joint meeting on March 6 of the various Ministries concerned and the Central Opium-Suppression Committee. It was also decided to make it incumbent upon all communication organs, civic organizations and the revenue bureaux throughout the country to render all necessary assistance in the matter of enforcing the search.\n\nA recent communication from the Secretariat of the League of Nations at Geneva received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the following measures for the prevention of opium smuggling were adopted at the 10th International Opium-Conference:\n\n1. 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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nMr. Shuckburgh.\n\nMr. Grindle.\n\n6\n\nAir. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nto charge British subjects visa fees in excess of the standard charges as recommended by the Paris Conference A list of countries against whose nationals retaliatory charges have been authorised is enclosed.\n\nThis list is liable to alteration from time to time in accordance with the manner in which foreign Governments vary their regulations in this respect, and when any alteration is made in",
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        "content_text": "in the practice of this country,\n\nthe change is notified to His\n\nMajesty's Consular and Passport\n\nControl Officers concerned by\n\nmeans of a circular despatch.\n\n44.\n\nI approve of the\n\nproposal to double the fees\n\nin connection with the issue,\n\ncharged for renewal/endorsement\n\nof passports and travel certificates.\n\nThe new charges cannot be said\n\nto be of a fiscal character which would be contrary to the\n\nrecommendations of the Paris Conference. I have directed\n\n(Signed) J. H. THOMAS",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote No. T10370/10370/378 and address not to any person by name, but to The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1. 17th September, 1931.\n\n50721\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter No. 82848/31 of the 17th ultimo relative to the proposed revision of the fees charged in Hongkong for the grant of visas and the issue, endorsement, and renewal of passports, I am directed by the Marquess of Reading to inform you that, in His Lordship's opinion, it is highly desirable that the Hongkong administration should adhere to the scale of fees for visas which was fixed by the Paris Conference on Passports, Customs Formalities and Through Tickets of 1920. With regard to the fees in connexion with the issue, renewal, and endorsement of passports, I am to inform you that there can be no objection to the proposed increase since the new charges cannot be said to be of a fiscal character which would be contrary to the recommendations of the Paris Conference.\n\nI am to add, with reference to paragraph 3 of the Governor's despatch enclosed in your letter, that a number of foreign governments continue to charge British subjects visa fees in excess of the standard charges as recommended by the Paris Conference. A list of countries against whose nationals retaliatory charges have been authorised is enclosed. I am to observe that this list is liable to alteration from time to time in accordance with the manner in which foreign governments vary their regulations in this respect. When any alteration is made in the practice of this country, the change is notified to His Majesty's Consular and Passport Control Officers concerned by means of a circular despatch, copies of which are forwarded to your department as issued.\n\nI am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\nPage 9\n\nCopy. (T10370/10370/378)\n\nLIST SHOWING VISA FEES LEVIED, CHARGED BY THE PASSPORT OFFICE IN THE CASE OF NATIONALS OF CERTAIN COUNTRIES WHOSE VISA FEES FOR BRITISH SUBJECTS ARE IN EXCESS OF THE STANDARD FEES OF FRANCS 10 AND FRANC 1 GOLD.\n\n  \n    AFGHAN.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    Fcs.15 gold) To be given Fcs. 1 gold) without charge.\n  \n  \n    BOLIVIA.\n    \n    \n    10/-.\n    10/-.\n  \n  \n    BRAZIL.\n    \n    \n    4 milreis gold\n    U. S. currency $2.20.\n  \n  \n    BULGARIA.\n    Valid for single journey both ordinary & transit.\n    \n    Fcs. 12 gold.\n    Fcs. 1 gold.\n  \n  \n    COLOMBIA.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    £1.\n    £1.\n  \n  \n    CHILE.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    18/-.\n    18/-.\n  \n  \n    COSTA RICA.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    g3 U.S. currency = 12/6d.\n    Fcs. 1 gold.\n  \n  \n    ECUADOR.\n    \n    \n    £1. 10. 0.\n    \n  \n  \n    GREECE.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    Fcs. 1 gold.\n    8/-.\n  \n  \n    HUNGARY.\n    Valid for single journey.\n    Valid for any number of journeys for 12 months.\n    £1. 3. 4/3d.\n    \n  \n  \n    PALESTINE.\n    \n    \n    £1. 4/-.\n    \n  \n  \n    PANAMA.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    PERU.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    £1.\n    £1.\n  \n  \n    PERSIA.\n    Valid for single journey.\n    Transit.\n    Fcs. 10 gold.\n    Fcs. 1 gold.\n  \n  \n    POLAND.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    Fcs. 20 gold.\n    Fcs. 2 gold.\n  \n  \n    PORTUGAL.\n    Valid for 12 months.\n    Transit.\n    £1.\n    £1.\n  \n  \n    ROUMANIA.\n    Transit visa valid for one journey within 60 days.\n    \n    Fcs. 1 gold.\n    \n  \n  \n    RUSSIA\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "Page 13. „During yesterday's, Kadynt debate\n\nCod dem not the proposal, 14 ver the pay of sterling-peld zivil Hrvata at énézust ruta af sochasDa asi anked fer KE KEPONIE PODKL Awan takım oy an Ammand-maxi, which was Zen, and the Brages ww carried\n\nPage 14\n\nUnoliejai kankers of de Lepliktera\n\nPucke\n\nh\n\nFor the purpose of balancing the of\n\nBedret the Dizisiküre Coast Tue Inthet's bone where he met tarday approved, cuation fr North of people—savanta, buningan | varying tobaena duchas, kačzoaning the a patamal degree where exte They reduction affects part of | magsales, lawyers, artista, bazzara | duties on light via and imponing a irritation would have been par- the Ammy and leaver saulker per- and above all the metomy of the duty on non-intrecasting latach, donable. Both Ha Excellency tion intourbed. These are\n\nBurgtheatre-need and the Colonial Secretary win scales, higher and lower, with a\n\nnew by their calm dignity and 1926 dividing line and the person literary work even mayatan obvious attachment to the mod in deal: with mesecḍing in date Colony, our vincere respset.\n\nof soning or exilelog. The\n\nestablishment of two relat In he personal sense that the elective on October 25, 182k.\n\n\"Anatol\" a brilliant series of pabilities and deplores Those la the Army beface that day dramate dialogue was the dret of That Unofficial representations retaland, the old rate and than kate wala de astruct, altantiam, JL so saldoni succeed.We trust that join ng on that day and niter mera in mackend by graestel aletion and |the Government wall remember\n\nthat Unomelal amendments In feeling subalterns and captaina, sermIN NË KAN VETS, MAINETONA DİAYA Council am not moved lightly. and soldiers. This dont study yna and slacion are almost all laid in The Yoona of ha youth, a world The Unomeat views are prof. okt to gradually, over a number fered soldered, deliberate of Posts, Introduos lower pay. The auch freer from care than the city and of their very reluctance onomy by elusion of time has of today, prosperous and little gives place to the full economy na spacerned with meint problema pregnant with gravity.\n\nria myle was piquant and ke That way to reduction is in excurs\n\nthe amendment was moved at 10 per out, and this will patien all in Ralf of serious alpi- the lowering of the higher rather His rat The Morning Post Seance, and the Government make. The present rank and kis\n\nC\n\nNo. 7.\n\nFriday, October 25, 1951,\n\nThe Budget Debate.\n\nshould be further warned by the are mostly willated since 1925 je most of the serving other ranku KYS several oficial references to the Andimes' report. Thai Un- already on the lower rata. Iba official thought should turn thus Army Revist koos threepenco á inta chapel of censorship la 993. There will be further scond\n\nUM DEX YA and I gather that eloquent of the state of public, not be may extension of aqinlas\n\nArmy Reserve Service, a klæber training for the Army, ka camps fac Territoriali, a 3 per Įtosti Tväritorial cel and in reižiak\n\nTwenty-Five Year Aps.\n\nExtract from the South China Marsètz Pead of October 23, 1008, \"To which language in the word\n\nThean who read through the Budget debate and trust that all will regard it as a civic |duty—will agree that the Un- ofcial numbers dealt faithfully 553593555338393 192070582 | With their task. For careful antimataly to be traced\n\n\"For Toddlers\"\n\nStart-Rite Shoes\n\n\"Tru-form Shoes\"\n\nfor\n\nGirls & Boys\n\nfor every occasion\n\nIn\n\nBlack, White or Tan\n\nwith\n\nUзkide & Leather Sols\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd.\n\nChiMen's D partineat\n\nMezcnuine Floor\n\nHalf Yourly Reviste,\n\nbe lucht tower Medal at AUKŠTĖLI performed As was \"Das Marchen\" (1951) and it was followed by \"Liebelen Jin Mo frequently given plece, which had a ZTAN) VNECORE Then cuma \"Frelsila\" and \"Helyen. tea scenes with the same KAN\n\nmotis, which was the subject (tagad Lil| 1920, when it way glor sgainst Schnitzlar'n won Värdeg protests from CT 200\n\nDark\n\nOne-Act Plays\n\nMany of his playa were va pice much na \"Piraculana\" (D).\n\nA change of considerable impart. Fatahrlin.\" \"Der Gran Kaka” (“ ace to Army officers will be ende bene Stende\n\nFar East.\n\nThe almorphere at Gemeen in versu James Incant tožily is believed to be malefyzjera,\n\nFare 16. The China dalecutes at Genera becoming patient at the pre- hegral delay in the rebution of their zolovane vesinal Japan.\n\nPage 16 The Chinese sint their mempalat that the Japanese withdraw their trenge is the Fallway zone and apica ta blewelly China Kumaş HaḍATÜ Limanche negotiations. Рада тен\n\nWAT SHAPE og [164]Saj\n\nii\n\nIn the coming\n\nThere is belief that the Cere' commullion is weakening zu la krent- man of the Maneleden Liffenty wi\n\nanden their celloem. The ply\n\ndve ve Ch\n\ndaarikament com\n\nP 14 Courtes are noteernet ser — the possiblity that the Connell g sabrown without hurke nazamplebod anything mare than a virtual repoči an of the Fogtomova decision.\n\n14\n\nAnxiety tonkinar in alarm 35 420- trement by the Landes papera lagt the Laura Chanell éxity and Exordially be kiliendi even the deputie P14.\n\nMona Chang Eynakl\n\nkatha Madhu Chronišče, “TLEMET.\n\nIn connexion with the gist of Tring | Sun\" and \"Komoda fer Warn comprehensive analysis and for it is and in some diction-deduction from pay. 4 Tature Un The longer play include their anxieties on the taxpayers' area is for 'great rate will be reviewed half yearly Finsame Wexe\" \"Der Shar dende te zeturn to Mukdes as behalf, the peaches are probably wind wines the typhoon laain relation to the cost of Hing be Prats the comedy member the best that have been delivered when of the China and rind of the revision taklite plana pie maner does Streda 11. In Council for many yours. Just\n\nthat sedla at frat concisalve. But | wwery three years. The alteration dram desline with the however, they will not object on doubt, apparently, that will be made an Ortober 1 of Vienna by Napoleon 1, D-\n\nas they criticise Government,\n\nH\n\nApell 1 ouch your and the cost, ef Weite Band\n\n\"E\n\nו' \n\nMen allogool Cooling agtingt his volara, Page 16 The Kancha Gemol Mamas a farokks, neighbour for wing scroraped the Independenta in Mai charla and pola them weltk_KZMA, The Independenta kama koan defental\n\nPam 14.\n\nAnselpating sucess of the Nanking negotiations for pener Canton väripla a sad to be making preparation for tha alanolachen of Mi Vational Depo placement Canton on Navmber 1.\n\nקן B\n\nBlu Latest\n\nPhee 16 There has been a mating by Akana-\n\ntyphess which alert pilving decaction with its vażlation \"Pest, Derahandi,\" a play e* thi to a few reservations. While to Dampier tufen. perard or downward will be based molest ro ession which pre congratulating them upon the\n\ntrình ba gian through Porbe\n\nsa Dee sworns, inden Apura of the much die gan painstaking and effective C\n\nor the Armalt, Parsian and Indian perinda Saotember to Fibrates and | Verfahrung (1995) in which they dissected r\n\nmutant; and it is almost impossible arch in Avgini. Öficers pay wil | Framalle jen “Der Cum 1. Exlimatas, nor criticism in the\n\nnot to juẻ în chia x relation of the have the immediate Mark of any | Weiher.\", Schultzler ay st like the Government they still uncleat Greek “typhos\" or \"typhen.\" | variation by six menino in three home in his modern draman lacic co-ordinated policy. Han,\n\nBut these are rers lastead of pre By the se whirlwind.\n\nHi numeraga novala and Mr. Bra contensed to speciil\n\nprobally identical with ther the deduct pleading for Kowloon but was\n\nIncrease of jernt, from stories were almost as successful tītask weed for smoke or VADENT not the only special pleader which come our typhus and cent) begin on the tuber 1 and will his play \"Der Was In Free of Marshal Chiang Kai-shot and be revised on April 1. next on the pleure of lounque life at the Fé zvare deleven Bola.\n\nPage 16 Unofficial plans year by year sypkald! So perhaps the Chico of Ivi Fare average from and of a skupin remain sectional. That the view pare at it in suly an extraordinary September 1, 1931, in February 29. Greatnet parenting work and in fact Overneas. points of different sections of the date coincidence after all”\n\nThis only lone story. 11835. The deductions are made nommunity should be put for\n\nLalos were \"Frankel's Ede\" (13241. from mandard pula of pav Arad ward to detail is necessary, but\n\nas a bulla in 1919. This standen Fraud Richter (1926) we hope to see the evolution\n\nmaha bacome merely a paper and Trasmaovella\" (19261 some day of a formula-the con\n\nAgure for relating the proper struction, as it were, of a per-\n\ncio of the 20 per al MAXİMEN deduction which sa permitted on in- grave, equitab' and com prahensive Ideal, not necessarily\n\ndex Aguru conta. In opposition to an Official idea!. but to which, while retaining thair in lependence, the Er smeisha might sach contributo as public-spirited fellow-builders. Weil Orange, NJ.. Det. 22. The lack of common under\n\nThecade of Allent manement Intanding is lustrated by some Haing the streets aww the passage omissions, some duplications and of the funeral cortega af Thomas\n\nKalson. including mote contrasts. While the Un-Ava\n\nEDISON'S FUNERAL\n\nThousands Pay Tribute to\n\nA Great Man.\n\nofficials were almost complete'yeover and Mr. and Mrs. Beary Ford, te Rosedala cometery, where\n\nChina AllowA BETUL.\n\nThe reduction in the rate of clothing nowhneya – kirsSEM KAR granta for the provision, and sp keep of European soldiers' clothing will give Un following overall rates for Chis\n\nChineer Int Clam: SH.K. T Overall ratan 13 13/7 14-0 Non-overall 14/0 13,4 13,9\n\nunited on the questions of Ser the remains, encirsed it a branza vice Salaries and Taxation, unity Jenna, ware buried beneath a giant | Other Kankı : seemad superficial and suspect pearled anke his favourite tzen. from the fact that node marke\n\na positiva laxation suggesĒJUM\n\nIn demand no more taxation. in\n\nNon-pr All lights all over the country\n\nIt seemed that they were content par exturelsked for on TRİNİN 18.30 a'clock. That night as a\n\nrican Service.\n\nMord derre conceding that his memory. Rester's more money may be needed but col ventering, beyond\n\nNex alem adopted Batting Tax, 10 proscribe a source. This d.. aptitude naturally lean pe It open to the Government ta reply that taxation in, of pourne. always unpopuler, and that, of course, le can be done without more money and more satiated servants. Only in their\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND.\n\nThe Opening List of Local Subscribers.\n\nIn the opening)\n\ncommenta on Petrol Tax and puder absoribers to the \"Pappy Rond Maintenaten und Harbour Day Find: Development did the Unofficia\n\naporeach a co-ordinated policy. | ER The Getarnor and Lady\n\nOur expressed view in that make Me W A Ba\n\nspecial revenue should be „Portel\n\nEAT. Webol! Rag\n\nto specified purpose and WG. Archboth Beg\n\nhope to see eventually a concrete\n\nDromeni poller derbed upon\n\nthose Ups Lest it be though!\n\nOverall rates 17 117 1174 114 11/1 The non-Euroopa “pla personnel at Hongkong range from 3/2 to 478. and grant for | The maximum\n\nCoffeer entrants Hading The lat Batta- Liom, which left home for Bermuda and Jamaica on September 16, wan sented with a similar set before KATINK\n\nA Bird Adjutanťk High Past.\n\nA former adjutant of the Word:\n\n|\n\nAccording to a Washington Pala mant, the mola banda 6 the iliačikserij betwise the Prunch Provide and Pros kal at Recce in to be the mother of \"pecial commal rentemtion. Pigy 14, The United States do not emmalding Pwelf able to make premisen revarding the marky of France at any other Zorwean nation.\n\nP13.\n\nThe Prime Minister has wide a rinkomen). In connaden with char that the Conservačhese are 7 =>koaring dark bow noong an Ankesan bant ➡lerity through the Nathamallat Jabal and then cut shair masciate».\n\nPam E Further trien kuva hoon m\n\nof the Exe Labner\n\nCat Hongkong) becomes Deputy | changed in the alacion Adjutant General in India og Örtői\n\nmome\n\nBOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WORLD ECONOMIC, CYPRUS TROUBLE.\n\nTOBACCO DUTY VARIED: PETROL TAX INCREASED: NEW LIQUOR DUTY.\n\nFOR BALANCING THE BUDGET.\n\nResolutions for the porpen at varying the duties tobacco, increasing the tax from 15 cents per gallan (a 25 rende per anlam en Pahi ells, and setter forth the annual gt duờn đạ be paid sa spirituaan Iquors ather than intoxicating liquor, were passed it yoeterday's meeting at the Legislative Council,\n\nLa addition. Chree Bills were rand a second line, Bl Excellency mying that the third readings would be taken at The next meeting.\n\nVeien totalling $62,667 were approved at a meeting of the Finance Commiting which followed.\n\nHigi\n\nCRISIS.\n\nFRENCH & AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,\n\nM. LAVAL'S MISSION TO UNITED STATES.\n\nLARGE ISSUES.\n\nWashino, Ort. 21.\n\nNaval and Military Aid Sought\n\nGOVERNOR'S CABLE.\n\nMalla, Det. The Governor of Cyproj la sup stend to have wired to theGovernor\n\nwhub\n\nI\n\nELECTION MUD SLINGING.\n\nLABOUR MEN TROUNCE\n\nEACH OTHER.\n\nCAMPAIGN OF BITTER VITUPERATION.\n\nof Malta anking or na CABINET SECRETS.\n\nWENK o disturbancel broke out the islandijo-day- Rewtor.\n\nConfirmation.\n\nLandau. Ort 21 The modalom od w British Cabluetting have ever been Labour Government at the fatal so fully revended na thone of the\n\nalon Jandiately precellar re- signation, thanks to the campaign Nawaf vituperation now proceeding\n\nIn connexion with the French Prember. M Laval's arrival at\n\nCairo, Det #. Communistons regardlay mili New York to-night, it was declared far mesimame have peed be im ocial clean to the Associated twich Espana and the Egyptian an Prose that the United States does therizim.—Router, not emmsider itself able to make; k promises regengilľng the mammeity of Fraxe or another Europese mation\n\nTrouble Explanat\n\nbetween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Landen, det. 21.\n\nMr. Sourden. Mr. J. H. Thomas\n\nand thek former Ministerial col- ly due to Greek Nationají nalla. Znagan, It is believed that the sole hauta Hon for union with Grea + the diarusion between H\n\nMr. Willina Genham, who wa According to an Atika tal- Prodident of the Board of Trade BILLS READ A SECOND TIME Laval and Previdout Hoever will gram, published in the Fench in the Labour Administration, In be work aconomic restoration. praes. Ühe Greek Orthodic Arch. 1. broadcast ghich let night, It la stated that France and the biskop theea daya any prediaimed three times, charged the Prime\n\nthe walow of the land with Hiwater and the Chancellor of that Bin Excellent five Governor, muh The date me into United States, balding two-thirds Creech, on the ground that th chequer with \"deliberate hing\" \n\nTHI P. KC.N.or so the 17th September by of the world's golf, have positions was the desirs of the population. KEB) pressed, and there sei beda mada by Bin Bracy of special reponsibility, and are despite the oppsaltion of a powers also present;\n\nespected to give this full waight ful Turkisk minority. The Hii Bucellency the Offer Com\n\n1 The discussions. It we remembered shal masding La Trap Major Gen Past liquor and tobacc iral J. W. Jandisada, CB, C.MG.\n\nRevision of war debta in bound DJ.0.).\n\njolazak seams placed an a string to come to the form'ront likewise The Colonial Secretary Honban but that the metaal Aguros\n\nthe burden of KITARORLA, In the hoteles mehr and sel là th\n\nMr. W. T. Southern, L.A.0.3\n\nDer Guverneri Conneti\n\nThe Attorney General Honour la force pride to June, 1950, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C, O.BE in that month they were rala:\n\nThe Secretary for Chiume. Al-jel Cum (39. MZ. A. B. Wodd. J.\n\nMr. Edwin Taylor).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer\n\nHon. Mr. H. T. Cray.\n\n(Dizseker of Puble Warkan.\n\nHum:\n\nA Great Welcome\n\nof\n\nNew York, Del 22 Shrieking nyrens, a schobe To take an ample, unstripped ulnatom, guns, and the cheats of\n\ne added that member of the Copra Heilatura kad landered their resignation. Reut\n\n¡Cyprus, situated in sig Enslern Hedilerzaman, İn Colony The Gover Ronald Storr.]\n\nBRITISH\n\nJ5\n\nKir\n\nBOMBERS.\n\nMr. Sweden to-talyht. In a state. Graham for \"everal stopsly la ment to the Prese, Aronson Mr.\n\nseruzate datacandy.\"\n\nDARK DESIGNS SCOLTED.\n\nPremier's Faith in Conservative Undertaking.\n\nM\n\nKonawhile, Mr. Ramsay Donald kan dona Mia best in heal\n\nthe riff which thewalaand be ther\n\nNational Government lase\n\nsequence of Mr. Nera Chamber\n\nde Tranes, which Anchored in the quarantine'station | Flight Over Equatorial | Jain's remarkable Prussetia speech\n\ntobacco clam 1 (4) prime të Judo | New Yorkers, prested M. Laval 1988. Was masossed at 175 per is. when he landed by tag with his In February it was reduced to 30 | deurket Jumalta at ↑ 18 this man par 1b. on the starling basis. It ng from the Hon. Mr. EDC Wolf C\n\nkaa now been raised to 70 sa a *Enspector General of Poltea).\n\nat 4.36 How Commander G. F. Hole, ring basin. The actual daly ¦parkble per 1, reckoned by the R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).'covaational dollar before the pre- Hoa Dr. W. K. A. Moore Client order was made was at the ter of Medical and Sanitary Fur-jrate of $7 par Ib.\n\nHon. Bir Shecson Chew, Kt. Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, UMG (L.D.\n\nHon. Mr C. G. Mackle.\n\nHan, Mr. 9. W. Tio.\n\nLL.D.\n\nHoa. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nHon. Mr. W. HAL\n\nThe duly be day to $1.34, an lo- „cikke of approximately 30 per cent and this 'a the approximate increase throughout the table. O.B.E.. At the time Un sellaele war\n\nMr. AC North Dr\n\nterk of Councilo).\n\nTabacce Dallen.\n\nAfrica.\n\n11.000 MILES\n\nCRUISE\n\nFour\n\nK. Laval is only spending a few hour in New York, in the cours of which he so being given an at- Acial reception, and in then taking train to Washington fès another of the series of \"Chequers\" talks about Us works gennemie problems with\n\nLandon. Oct 21. Britian day-bombers, Mr. Hoover, notably on gold, war debts and the burden of khas. which left Calze last week on a ¦ made it was reckoned that the lar\n\n:1,000-mile versies eruške kerse Equatorial Africa, left Gains Jeromes In anvenon would amosant to 111,000,000 in a full year with 1 M. Laval will be spending the this morning for Fort Lamy.\n\nby dollar, but with à 1/20 dollar | wesk-end at Mr. Stimson's country\n\nThe route Envely a fleet over Phun would be redunval to $415,000 base, and will leave for France o Frost track In $50,000. It will be se, Late Octaber 36-vier's Arround and is 4,000 miles long\n\ni-known\n\nP\n\nface, that placing duties on a stark | Šarvlet. Ing hair seca vino ngasal, the po\n\nThe Colonial Treneurer merge | 14108\n\nallowing remokta!tom?—Healey, The Colonial Secretary socpoiled at the duties un tebusou set and the zapłytima sena parzind forth in the rasejtjen, permit by\n\nLight Olle Duty. the Council on ise 2006 FT. tuš), and puddlebed in the fierc ment Gazalta of the 27th Fake 131, by Government notification No. 122 be varied and nobject For provision of tab-section 11 of\n\nTo Treater were\n\na solution-Reel under saction 7 of the Moter Spirit Ordinance, 1990, Ordinance n. 4 of 1950, that Lan duties on section of the Tobacco Ordinance, light pħa na wet forth in section 6 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1918) the Mater Spirit Orllance, kalended section 7 10 Kuu 1900, be servased so twenty-lev Tobares Amandment Ordiner. | costa per vallan. 1529. (Ordiannes No. 8 of 1929 Le daty parable:\n\nHe said.—rias. Šiz, to move be Freestation standing in my mama la 1. upon all tobrova – juk počtud“merense (he mum on light olla. into the Celong ether, the coming. The rehman for this are the same\n\nand\n\n2.\n\nFrench View,\n\nParia, Oct. 21. Le Temps late that France American evaporation In the political mecin! and economic Jumalan ramalna antirely ape Reuter.\n\nBRITAIN PAYS UP.\n\nG.$150,000.000 of the Recent Credit Fund.\n\nNew York, Ost. zz. into operation of this resolation,,na in the case of lubecca, vis. to Surpring and #extideation Are balance the budget. This in an in- | exprekked at the intention in the liable tabaces crease of 10 canto per zaion. 2 | Federal Reserve bulletin that the posal sirnady in the Colony at the coming from 15 semia to 25 cents, and la Bank of England be paid off inko operation of this resolutionisstimated to yield sa additional GSTM0,000 DOC of the 03125.000 dos amil be a stated in the (10--9220,000 in a fel pane. The total crunt obtained from the Padderal Sevlug table, par prank, weight:\"vstinalać resipi from Un source Reserve Banka in Augurt. Provided that the dollars and in 1932 are placed at $400,000. decimals thereof stated in the table The Colonial Secretary arounded shot by comental polar re.. and the resolution was carried. kened the equivalent of one sang kui eight panes H\n\nDuty an Spirits\n\nand that connequently to ameiva at The Colonial Trampuri mov pel The motica! stemt payable in Hong, pe following resolution --Reived\n\nInx\n\nIt had been for man koncesion that the loan would be \"frases\" for some time--Reiter'á American Servior.\n\nSecond Readings of Bila, The following Bills were rem\n\nRheingham.\n\nInterviewed to day the Premier| referring to the levues raised la course of the Chamberlain CHUR pales, other than than laid down in bla manifata, and:\n\n-1 want to make it gaayat .. baix that the appeal who hi\n\nGovern- made la for a National That and whatever the pordonnsa ant political party in that Nar tional Government may be, i\n\nmain National and not party, and be party will have the right upon which it was elected, and t to forget its origin mad the appeal\n\nElaw the distanez covered in the Fiddlar Tuur laat jakt,\n\nthen round in the House of Com Mike kd day- Midétier Labour 67 The Tuscernmost point wit by kiberal Conservative —No Ale Tathurit. Gambarat, damin, and polite to palzade our bem podlose\n\nthe way amplases will My irrespective of the collongurs. area Nireria » Akhinti and the whose co-operation the cle. Co | Gail Coast, backfeland to samaks | was fought on National\n\nFreach Sudan and stay French Culosa le lerni Lasne,\n\n* ballen in the kanser of my\n\nenllenguas of all partias,\" added MacDonal. “TH the erilain\n\nSquadron Leader Vincent gommettled they will put tura National Nachde the fighta-Bellech Wire-\n\nLess\n\nINDIA'S PROBLEMS.\n\nGood Progress at London Conference.\n\nCOURT PROPOSAL\n\n—\n\nmajority into a party one.”\n\nMr. Ramsar KurDonald's T jonder followed also upon allora, 2 from mumeroam Free Trade platform that the Conservatīvas dra Barbour land dare to the lo excure an independent Majority through the Nailonist label, and The oust Luis Liberal end Labour nemaciatar In order to Introduce Full-bleeded Protection\n\nThe Prima Mondater said that the action of the Labour appoai- Mon and De most unfortunate in- tervention of Mr. Hard Grogan London, Oct. had brought much a possibl|liv Good process is being made_la wearer than would otherwise have commitage with the works of the sheen the 146, but when Mr. Bald. dian Round Table Çönference und 4. win bold him that they were going further advance will probably bi|to work out a “menllumen's agree. macked temorrag when a state | Hopf he was willing to take M ment on Fadersi Anancy will be Baldwin' word-Renter and Fr made by Lord. Zaal in Federal | Birk Wizolaca. |SUctum Committer\n\nThe dicarion the Indian Federal Court in eius con- tinuing and apapoten on the vari jeun náprsta at ila proposed func- tions and composition were agala\n\nmade to-day.\n\nPREMIER'S CAMPAIGN.\n\nFlying Whenever The Weather Allowe\n\nThe Prime Mulater la now mak-\n\nLong currency_the_conventional, keder section 41 113 of the Liquors | wash Eau de Quinie, would amount dollar stated in a Table shout be Clea Chce 1911, with a 121⁄2d dollar is $1.40. multiplied by 20 and divided by ordinance No. 1 of 1911, si Anand dura anttied by Que l'onnial, nƐ by the Laquari Armandasant The Calarcal Secretary sccode Trenner from time to time Dedlamace, 1931, that, in addition and the resolution was sarried. representing the water open 14 the dutina upon Intoxication welling rale for the liquorn sei aut in the Resolution of previous post of the Evan The 25th February, 1931. published kong and Shanghai Banking Government on No.\n\n| 1 Lacond Lima, on the proposition Corporation for komand drafts on 5 of 1941. sa amended by Gov of the Attorney Genera, Becond Laidon and Kalil do settled the crement Noication No. 116 of 1by the CoMMIE RAINYATY. \"A decalon_nexť\" waak. Lord Sam constituey. Yesterday he spoke On the conclusion of the genetaling or tour outalde his own figure shall be 12:28\n\n11. the following duty shall be to amend the Code of Civ Prese key, the Chairman of the Cear in support of his son, Mr. Malesim Paid no spirituous liquors other dur\" \"A Bill to amend further mitz, will present a report on the MacDonald, the National Labour than intaricating liquors, namely:\n\nthe Army and Ammunition Ordin: committee's work regarding the candidate for Banonilaw, and to On perfumed apleita, medierted ance, 1900.\" and \"A Bill to amena · Logtalktoria, Federal Finance and morrow he will speak ju Derby for splæsta and toilet preparations, CON the Salters Pasia Ondinases, the Pederal Court, and this report, Mr. 7. H. Thomas. He i mung Gaining more than ten per out of hug.**\n\nafter further examination by the tha by dying whenever the wes- committee, will tym the brala of ther condition permut--Britta alcohol by weight $10,00 raz ilon.\n\nWith regard to the lartamed the dual report the Plenary Wirder. Provided that the said duty of Will. when in commliter, na adil | Newsiom uď Eve Conference. $1000 will be contentional dollar tion was made that it would 485 containing To 12 rackoned as the equivalent of ens inte operation on the first day of Other subjecla, which have NO\n\nTable.\n\nA-DA JAMANufactured tebran (1) If waste:pped:\n\nPar 11.\n\n(0) contalight 10 pounda\n\nmare of montura per 100 paundi walight thereof. $0.70.\n\n| bar 24. in Major General German at kag vilaparation at much Page 13 Thorpe. As a somly dedued Shad\n\nGood presters in beau made in cer Kuleze dunke he helped in the matter wh the work of the Trima landing of the Old Fontematibles || Round Table Confereses in Tradin\n\nBoulogna and then in med Buber Flatcom en Uve Alone un ho ADC. Dion By was | kelawór major in snig's corps and waran G By under him but made hat ap cial mark as a thief of cil'en employees clothing ja 187– the ith Pirinion, with Ryng's Bad - man prospe Hongkent where | Army, and a Victory your Com |transport men who set 20% and mander of the 17th Briende. Bir\n\nDentala motor drivers who doelva | malisequent brigades were the A, Crodit, fand bersemad at the recent 20/74. The Colonial allowemises on and S. Betxade in Scotland and the crisis, pay for the married rank and file Ird at Bordon with the fat Royal\n\nThatë ku been ja vettura sartuk in the Messiah Bulemen Bikoala with a legal life entlasata at Riky, Pare 13. Further urugʻinny kaj been made the four Betxules kambers which are making an 11.500 mila berriro e 11 Court-rial Africa Tape 12\n\nThe Bank of Busind bei pod back G8500,000,000 at the Ameri\n\nin China in fxed at 10 venta a day. Beola Fasilers in IL He joined broken out in Cypini.\n\nBugle for the 2nd N.J.\n\nDu Caneta chief the Rhine Sports. and had a hand in the evacuation\n\nWhen the 2nd Nochmab-pland | plana under Sir William Thwaites. Fusiliers Peach York from Salary\n\nhal their county will present them cith a ant of nine silme eeDee,\n\nPlat China Trosper.\n\nCÈDE\n\npounds of neolatum per 100 shiling and night penes, Herling: January, 1993, the marginal ante direct calation la the unisocities NAVAL MEN IN F.MS.\n\nand veneequently to arrive at the being the word \"commitment\" \". quastiona, are swatting consideran\n\npound weight thereaf\n\n7004\n\n(b) containing lewe than\n\nued by a tante volthed by the Ings will be taken at the must meet-\n\nARE PAGE JAZZ MAZDA\n\nof Coumell. Cel da\n\nFinance Committer.\n\nKrajkyat Manag=\"bed. 3\n\nSEVERE QUAKE,\n\npoenda weight therauf.\n\nDon by the commffler during (1...!\n\nths if tripped:\n\nactual_amount payable in Hong:\n\n(a) containing 10 pounds\n\nkner Carvery, the conventional\n\nAdjournment.\n\nJakartal while the Sankey report in |\n\nof\n\n13\n\nmere of moisture per\n\ndollar shall be multiplied by 20 and\n\n11⁄2 Bronlancy.---The third read\n\n100\n\nColonia) Trauree from\n\ntime 1/6\n\nIn\n\nPage 18.\n\nEm repenting the\n\nAverag\n\npounds of moisture per venda welch theref 30.35 B-Oufactured tablecer\n\n200\n\n10\n\nvious month of the Honghent and\n\nper selling calan for the pre-\n\nShakal Bamicing Corpsentia for\n\nST00\n\n300\n\nBeren Sanabal players hawa day 'tels Bed their Intention al making the tris le Maker for the cricket informert. The plannen wha\n\nare total art in the\n\nmatch in morran hire sous Iriartek,\n\nThe first trooper for Chine leaves Each bagle will bear the case of a Southampton on October 8. This leading door those bebug Lard vessel. Dan Neuralla, con the Armstrong, Kije Tam Kan. 2nd Royal Welsh Funillern 10 The Merries mandle heat the Mar Lower\n\nVisualess Allendale | G baller and du Delakar 14 Inaysayan Chisma at fondial] partering 'I W WatsonArmatering. Lady † with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment\n\n100 Expert, Lord Jotray, Dorkem of Bands draft at Supporn on\n\nA\n\nNorthumberland Mr. V. Thow November 8th and Hongkoor opened their war in AustraMA-\n\n15 and 3f Weller Bundinn. The 30\n\nThe Beth African cricketers havi\n\nNovember 13, and dimmbark the\n\nP\n\nTI\n\nGeorge's baden is engraved on ouch\n\nLimeon at hanghai on Nawet\n\nin intended for the\n\nbee 16 in relief of Usa End N. F.— N. G. D. Newa.\n\nOmar hai qualist în megal 17, Tipammanit in the pea host of the Open Lawn Bowl Champimahiy\n\nhum 1.\n\n$275 barle, one of which has a spacial\n\ndoug Kal\n\n(3) Cigarettes,\n\nA meeting of the Plounce Gem-\n\ndemand drafts on London and until witte follow at which est\n\n|se vetlled the Bevine shall ke 12.\n\nSmall Cent In Public.\n\nile ad—This tax was est'mant-\n\nning $42,487 were approved. Referring to a vater af $1,287 for Comesking Enginigro far in con- nexion with the inseniiation tale-autographle plant in Hear\n\nLoss of Life in Solomon Islands.\n\nParticulars Asked For by Government.\n\nKuala Lumpur, Del, 13.\n\nAll officers, peltý adfrers, and men on the active or retired Hat of the Royal Navy, Royal Marinas, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva, who take up they aldance in the FMR he who have liken up thely reel- Genen la the PHS, alege Jan. 3,\n\nThoroughly Reliable\n\nPanama Jak je than an h\n\na dar makada di\n\nválky krumah alam, da pa dy\n\nsanya mapabana shu yonder de ska man\n\nBUCHANAN'S\n\n\"BLACK&WHITE\"\n\nSCOTCH WHISKY\n\nWORLD-RENOWNED FOR ABE AND QUALITY\n\nSole Agent -\n\nDODWELL & CO. LTD.\n\nIN THIS YEAR'S NEW SPELLING\n\nK. and\n\nW.\n\nspells\n\nYour Lett's Diary for 1932\n\nOur stock is here.\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LTD.\n\nYarding.\n\n(cerpecaked in Hong Kong)\n\nSaving\n\nMoney\n\nor saving your teeth?\n\nChater Bond.\n\nPahaco is a toothpaste for round for toothpasta, da people who desire a cantilica– you? Certainly not.\n\nwhich will clean and preserve\n\ntheir teeth and set up and\n\nmaintain a hygienic condition of the mouth it is for people willing to pay for this service, jul they pay for good medical and dental services. You don't go shopping\n\nPEBECO\n\nBut you de-al lead you should — oxorcisa, caution about quality. In other words, You are customer Pabaco wants, a person guided by reason in matters of hygienic science. Give a late trial, then,\n\nto\n\nPEBECO\n\nTOOTH-PASTE\n\nChina Expert-impart & Bani Ca. Läd Hangkang P. O. B. 59\n\nThat notum Lesdan of\n\nBen an indan Dell on the stapa në femalig mið and cipar year but if the delar remaini keng, the Hon. Mr. Paterson asked that a severa argue the Under Betary to Cavern, 1999 MYT The GHON ST CALLS qurolated in E. M. Felice Court akse\n\nTRSE. A rented to forward to Captain Clerks, kale of Ifra 124 Yanchuan Kood, Bhanchhu n\n\nCollege Tjong Kim and the tamed Sejmelna which peared fatal. ment F. 8. Kola Lumpur, their cirka mestral under trasle, decom\n\nwhat it waA.\n\nLandon, Ört. 71.\n\nThe Colonial e annouNTER\n\nA\n\nBritish Soloman talantam Metaber 4th, with Jan\n\n(3). Other manufactured tobacco'ed in produce $150,000 in a fe\n\netings.\n\nPort 1724 the rod will e maly 5 21,000. The retry cost to The reasons for the the pesurid pablle when by wer The Cella! Secretary—It is salonated al ́ifty. PATTERN WITH explained by the meal arch would be amali. An\n\nwhich wil MAČKİNƏ Honal Semtare when po an example, the doty\n\nplat tangan, in the exact form r The Colonial Sacretary Jag the Brit, seedfig of the Appro- bella of the perfume. Eau de which they are written, by wire- sent a Pans of ayale polation Bill on the lot of El Cologna, se on a pint of the hair home.\n\nKrytính Wizolean.\n\n11\n\nmame, address, take while in the waters at the inquant, it was waard imparat conducted by Mr. C. H. Kui maye seniority and inelul qually that he hit kabon (yanide se punkt on the body, at decessed, Durang has denton, whether In revelat et klum kiter a dt af depression, having Singh, a watchman, a verdet mat res newal pension at retainer, and momkled and kit menney and IARE AT Died of death from spre\n\nthe end of hun Yükeuteek.\n\nenved meridantly. grown of LN. Reserve\n\nre\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, indicating missing words, and following specific formatting rules.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a mix of articles, news, and advertisements from a newspaper, likely the South China Morning Post, dated October 23, 1931. The text includes various topics such as legislative council meetings, budget debates, international news, and advertisements.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we first need to identify and correct obvious OCR errors, such as misrecognized characters, incorrect spacing, and broken words.\n\n## Step 4\nUpon examining the text, numerous OCR errors are evident, including misspellings like \"zivil Hrvata\" which should be corrected to \"civil servants,\" \"éézust ruta\" to \"certain route,\" and \"kačzoaning\" to a more plausible word, possibly \"causing.\"\n\n## Step 5\nThe text also contains formatting issues, such as incorrect paragraph breaks and missing or extra spaces. For example, \"Page 13. „Duging yesterday'ı, Kadynt debati\" should be formatted as a header or title indicating a page break and the start of a new section or article.\n\n## Step 6\nSome sentences are broken across lines or columns without logical reason, and these need to be rejoined. For instance, sentences discussing the budget debate and legislative council decisions are fragmented and require reassembly.\n\n## Step 7\nThe text includes advertisements and news articles that need to be formatted correctly. Advertisements like \"Start-Rite Shoes\" and \"PEBECO TOOTH-PASTE\" should be identified and formatted as such.\n\n## Step 8\nFile references and page numbering need to be formatted according to the rules. For example, \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72,\" and \"Page XX\" lines should be preserved as they are, indicating page breaks.\n\n## Step 9\nGiven the complexity and the volume of the text, a detailed, line-by-line correction is necessary to ensure accuracy and adherence to the specified formatting rules.\n\n## Step 10\nThe final output should be in HTML format using  for paragraphs and \n only when necessary, without including markdown or code fences.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nPage 13. „During yesterday's, Kadynt debate\n\nCod dem not the proposal, 14 ver the pay of sterling-peld civil servants at certain ruta af sochasDa asi anked fer KE KEPONIE PODKL Awan takım oy an Ammand-maxi, which was Zen, and the Brages ww carried\n\nPage 14\n\nUnofficial members of the Legislative Council\n\nFor the purpose of balancing the budget\n\nBetween the District Officer, Coast and the inhabitants' bone where he met tarday approved, caution fr North of people—savants, buningan | varying tobaccoena duchas, causing the a patamal degree where exte They reduction affects part of | magsales, lawyers, artista, bazzara | duties on light via and imponing a irritation would have been par- the Army and leave saulker per- and above all the economy of the duty on non-intrecasting latach, donable. Both His Excellency tion intourbed. These are\n\nBurgtheatre-need and the Colonial Secretary win scales, higher and lower, with a\n\nnew by their calm dignity and 1926 dividing line and the person literary work even mayatan obvious attachment to the mod in deal: with mesecḍing in date Colony, our vincere respset.\n\nof soning or exilelog. The\n\nestablishment of two relat In he personal sense that the elective on October 25, 182k.\n\n\"Anatol\" a brilliant series of pabilities and deplores Those la the Army beface that day dramate dialogue was the dret of That Unofficial representations retaland, the old rate and than kate wala de astruct, altantiam, JL so saldoni succeed.We trust that join ng on that day and niter mera in mackend by graestel aletion and |the Government wall remember\n\nthat Unofficial amendments In feeling subalterns and captaina, and soldiers. This dont study yna and slacion are almost all laid in The Youth of ha youth, a world The Unofficial views are prof. okt to gradually, over a number fered soldered, deliberate of Posts, Introduos lower pay. The auch freer from care than the city and of their very reluctance onomy by elusion of time has of today, prosperous and little gives place to the full economy na spacerned with meint problema pregnant with gravity.\n\nThe amendment was moved at 10 per out, and this will patien all in Ralf of serious alpi- the lowering of the higher rather His rat The Morning Post Seance, and the Government make. The present rank and kis\n\nNo. 7.\n\nFriday, October 25, 1951,\n\nThe Budget Debate.\n\nshould be further warned by the are mostly willated since 1925 je most of the serving other ranku KYS several oficial references to the Andimes' report. Thai Un- already on the lower rata. Iba official thought should turn thus Army Revist koos threepenco á inta chapel of censorship la 993. There will be further scond\n\nArmy Reserve Service, a training for the Army, ka camps fac Territoriali, a 3 per Įtosti Tväritorial cel and in reižiak\n\nTwenty-Five Year Aps.\n\nExtract from the South China Morning Post of October 23, 1008, \"To which language in the word\n\nThean who read through the Budget debate and trust that all will regard it as a civic |duty—will agree that the Un- ofcial numbers dealt faithfully | With their task. For careful antimataly to be traced\n\nStart-Rite Shoes\n\n\"Tru-form Shoes\"\n\nfor\n\nGirls & Boys\n\nfor every occasion\n\nIn\n\nBlack, White or Tan\n\nwith\n\nUзkide & Leather Sols\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd.\n\nChina Department\n\nMezzanine Floor\n\n...\n\nBOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WORLD ECONOMIC, CYPRUS TROUBLE.\n\nTOBACCO DUTY VARIED: PETROL TAX INCREASED: NEW LIQUOR DUTY.\n\nFOR BALANCING THE BUDGET.\n\nResolutions for the purpose of varying the duties on tobacco, increasing the tax from 15 cents per gallon (a 25 percent increase) on petrol, and setting forth the annual duty to be paid on spirituous liquors other than intoxicating liquor, were passed yesterday's meeting at the Legislative Council,\n\nIn addition, three Bills were read a second time, His Excellency saying that the third readings would be taken at the next meeting.\n\nVotes totalling $62,667 were approved at a meeting of the Finance Committee which followed.\n\nCRISIS.\n\nFRENCH & AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,\n\nM. LAVAL'S MISSION TO UNITED STATES.\n\nLARGE ISSUES.\n\nWashington, Oct. 21.\n\nNaval and Military Aid Sought\n\nGOVERNOR'S CABLE.\n\nMalta, Oct. 21. The Governor of Cyprus is understood to have wired to the Governor of Malta...\n\nELECTION MUD SLINGING.\n\nLABOUR MEN TROUNCE EACH OTHER.\n\nCAMPAIGN OF BITTER VITUPERATION.\n\nof Malta anking or Cabinet Secrets.\n\nWENK o disturbancel broke out the islandjo-day- Reuter.\n\nConfirmation.\n\nLondon, Oct. 21 The modelom od w British Cabinetting have ever been Labour Government at the fatal so fully revended na thone of the\n\nalon Jandiately precellar re- signation, thanks to the campaign Nawaf vituperation now proceeding\n\nIn connexion with the French Premier, M Laval's arrival at\n\nCairo, Oct #. Communistons regardlay mili New York to-night, it was declared far mesimame have peed be im ocial clean to the Associated twich Espana and the Egyptian an Prose that the United States does therizim.—Reuter, not consider itself able to make; k promises regarding the security of France or another European nation\n\nTrouble Explained\n\nbetween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, London, Oct. 21.\n\nMr. Snowden, Mr. J. H. Thomas\n\nand their former Ministerial colleagues were largely due to Greek Nationalist agitation. It is believed that the sole cause was the desire for union with Greece.\n\nAccording to an Athens telegram, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop there yesterday proclaimed three times, charging the people of the land with \"deliberate sin\"\n\nTHE P. KC.N.or so the 17th September by of the world's golf, have positions was the desire of the population. KEB) pressed, and there sei beda mada by His Excellency the Governor, of special responsibility, and are despite the opposition of a powerful Turkish minority.\n\nThe discussions are remembered shall masding La Trap Major Gen Past liquor and tobacco iral J. W. Jandisada, CB, CMG.\n\nRevision of war debts is bound to come to the forefront likewise The Colonial Secretary Honourable but that the mental Aguros\n\nthe burden of KITARORLA, In the hotels mehr and sel là th\n\nMr. W. T. Southern, L.A.0.3\n\nDer Guverneri Conneti\n\nThe Attorney General Honourable Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C, O.BE in that month they were rala:\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Hon. Mr. A. B. Wood, J.P.\n\nMr. Edwin Taylor.\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer\n\nHon. Mr. H. T. Cray.\n\n(Director of Public Works.\n\nA Great Welcome\n\nof\n\nNew York, Oct 22 Shrieking nyrens, a school To take an ample, unstripped ulnatom, guns, and the cheats of\n\ne added that member of the Cyprus Legislature had tendered their resignation. Reuter\n\nCyprus, situated in sig Eastern Mediterranean, is a Colony The Governor Ronald Storrs.]\n\nBRITISH\n\nBOMBERS.\n\nMr. Swinton to-night. In a statement to the Press, Mr. Graham for \"several stopsly la ment\n\nDARK DESIGNS SCOLDED.\n\nPremier's Faith in Conservative Undertaking.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr. Ramsay Donald kan dona Mia best in heal\n\nthe riff which thewalaand be ther\n\nNational Government lase\n\nsequence of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's remarkable Prussian speech\n\ntobacco clam 1 (4) prime të Judo | New Yorkers, pressed M. Laval 1988. Was masossed at 175 per is. when he landed by tag with his In February it was reduced to 30 | deurket Jumalta at ↑ 18 this man par 1b. on the sterling basis. It ng from the Hon. Mr. EDC Wolf C\n\nkaa now been raised to 70 sa a *Inspector General of Police).\n\nat 4.36 How Commander G. F. Hole, ring basin. The actual daly ¦parkble per 1, reckoned by the R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).'covaational dollar before the pre- Hoa Dr. W. K. A. Moore Client order was made was at the rate of $7 par Ib.\n\nHon. Sir Shenton Chew, Kt. Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, CMG (L.D.\n\nHon. Mr C. G. Macleod.\n\nHon. Mr. 9. W. Tso.\n\nLL.D.\n\nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nHon. Mr. W. H. AL\n\nThe duty be day to $1.34, an increase of approximately 30 per cent and this is the approximate increase throughout the table. O.B.E.. At the time Un sellaele war\n\nMr. AC North Dr\n\nClerk of Council).\n\nTobacco Duties.\n\nAfrica.\n\n11,000 MILES\n\nCRUISE\n\nFour\n\nK. Laval is only spending a few hours in New York, in the course of which he is being given an official reception, and is then taking a train to Washington for another of the series of \"Chequers\" talks about world economic problems with\n\nLondon, Oct 21. Britain day-bombers, Mr. Hoover, notably on gold, war debts and the burden of khas. which left Calcutta last week on a ¦ made it was reckoned that the lar\n\n:1,000-mile versies eruške kerse Equatorial Africa, left Gains Jerome In anvenon would amount to 111,000,000 in a full year with 1 M. Laval will be spending the this morning for Fort Lamy.\n\nby dollar, but with à 1/20 dollar | week-end at Mr. Stimson's country\n\nThe route Envely a fleet over Phun would be reduced to $415,000 base, and will leave for France on Frost track In $50,000. It will be se, Late October 36-vier's Around and is 4,000 miles long\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer moved | allowing remission?—Healey, The Colonial Secretary seconded at the duties on tobacco set and the zapłytima sena parzind forth in the rasejtjen, permit by\n\nLight Oil Duty. the Council on ise 2006 FT. tuš), and published in the Government Gazette of the 27th February 1931, No. 122 be varied and object For provision of tab-section 11 of\n\nTo Treaters were\n\na resolution-Reel under section 7 of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1929, Ordinance No. 4 of 1930, that duties on section of the Tobacco Ordinance, light oils as set forth in section 6 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1918) the Motor Spirit Ordinance, scheduled section 7 10 Kuu 1900, be served so twenty-five percent Tobacco Amendment Ordinance. | costa per gallon. 1929. (Ordinance No. 8 of 1929 The duty payable:\n\nHe said.—Mr. President, to move the resolution standing in my name is 1. upon all tobacco – juk počtud“merense (the duty on light oils. into the Colony, the coming. The reasons for this are the same\n\nand\n\n2.\n\nFrench View,\n\nParis, Oct. 21. Le Temps states that France and America are entirely opposed in the political and economic spheres. Reuter.\n\nBRITAIN PAYS UP.\n\n$150,000,000 of the Recent Credit Fund.\n\nNew York, Oct. 22. into operation of this resolution, as in the case of tobacco, vis. to Surpring and #extideation are balance the budget. This is an increase of 10 cents per gallon. 2 | expressed at the intention in the liable tobacco crease of 10 cents per gallon. 2 | Federal Reserve bulletin that the Bank of England be paid off into operation of this resolution is estimated to yield an additional $400,000 in a full year. The total amount obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank in August. Provided that the dollars and in 1932 are placed at $400,000. decimals thereof stated in the table The Colonial Secretary seconded and the resolution was carried. shadowed the equivalent of one sang kui eight paces H\n\nDuty on Spirits\n\nand that consequently to arrive at The Colonial Treasurer moved the following resolution --Reived\n\nInx\n\nIt had been for some time conceded that the loan would be \"frozen\" for some time--Reuter's American Service.\n\nSecond Readings of Bills. The following Bills were read\n\nRheingham.\n\nInterviewed today the Premier| referring to the issues raised in course of the Chamberlain CHUR pales, other than than laid down in bla manifata, and:\n\n-1 want to make it great .. baix that the appeal who hi\n\nGovern- made la for a National Front and whatever the the pordonnsa ant political party in that National Front may be, i\n\nmain National and not party, and be party will have the right upon which it was elected, and t to forget its origin mad the appeal\n\nElaw the distanez covered in the Fiddlar Tuur laat jakt,\n\nthen round in the House of Com Mike kd day- Midétier Labour 67 The Tuscernmost point wit by kiberal Conservative —No Ale Tathurit. Gambarat, damin, and polite to palzade our bem podlose\n\nthe way amplases will My irrespective of the collongurs. area Nireria » Akhinti and the whose co-operation the cle. Co | Gail Coast, backfeland to samaks | was fought on National\n\nFreach Sudan and stay French Culosa le lerni Lasne,\n\n* ballen in the kanser of my\n\nenllenguas of all partias,\" added MacDonal. “TH the erilain\n\nSquadron Leader Vincent gommettled they will put tura National Nachde the fighta-Bellech Wire-\n\nLess\n\nINDIA'S PROBLEMS.\n\nGood Progress at London Conference.\n\nCOURT PROPOSAL\n\n—\n\nmajority into a party one.”\n\nMr. Ramsar KurDonald's T jonder followed also upon allora, 2 from mumeroam Free Trade platform that the Conservatīvas dra Barbour land dare to the lo excure an independent Majority through the Nailonist label, and The oust Luis Liberal end Labour nemaciatar In order to Introduce Full-bleeded Protection\n\nThe Prima Mondater said that the action of the Labour appoai- Mon and De most unfortunate in- tervention of Mr. Hard Grogan London, Oct. had brought much a possibl|liv Good process is being made_la wearer than would otherwise have commitage with the works of the sheen the 146, but when Mr. Bald. dian Round Table Çönference und 4. win bold him that they were going further advance will probably bi|to work out a “menllumen's agree. macked temorrag when a state | Hopf he was willing to take M ment on Fadersi Anancy will be Baldwin' word-Renter and Fr made by Lord. Zaal in Federal | Birk Wizolaca. |SUctum Committer\n\nThe discussion the Indian Federal Court in eius con- tinuing and apapoten on the vari jeun náprsta at ila proposed func- tions and composition were agala\n\nmade to-day.\n\nPREMIER'S CAMPAIGN.\n\nFlying Whenever The Weather Allows\n\nThe Prime Mulater la now mak-\n\nLong currency_the_conventional, keder section 41 113 of the Liquors | wash Eau de Quinie, would amount dollar stated in a Table shout be Clea Chce 1911, with a 121⁄2d dollar is $1.40. multiplied by 20 and divided by ordinance No. 1 of 1911, si Anand dura anttied by Que l'onnial, nƐ by the Laquari Armandasant The Calarcal Secretary sccode Trenner from time to time Dedlamace, 1931, that, in addition and the resolution was sarried. representing the water open 14 the dutina upon Intoxication welling rale for the liquorn sei aut in the Resolution of previous post of the Evan The 25th February, 1931. published kong and Shanghai Banking Government on No.\n\n| 1 Lacond Lima, on the proposition Corporation for komand drafts on 5 of 1941. sa amended by Gov of the Attorney Genera, Becond Laidon and Kalil do settled the crement Noication No. 116 of 1by the CoMMIE RAINYATY. \"A decalon_nexť\" waak. Lord Sam constituey. Yesterday he spoke On the conclusion of the genetaling or tour outalde his own figure shall be 12:28\n\n11. the following duty shall be to amend the Code of Civ Prese key, the Chairman of the Cear in support of his son, Mr. Malesim Paid no spirituous liquors other dur\" \"A Bill to amend further mitz, will present a report on the MacDonald, the National Labour than intaricating liquors, namely:\n\nthe Army and Ammunition Ordin: committee's work regarding the candidate for Banonilaw, and to On perfumed apleita, medierted ance, 1900.\" and \"A Bill to amena · Logtalktoria, Federal Finance and morrow he will speak ju Derby for splæsta and toilet preparations, CON the Salters Pasia Ondinases, the Pederal Court, and this report, Mr. 7. H. Thomas. He i mung Gaining more than ten per out of hug.**\n\nafter further examination by the tha by dying whenever the wes- committee, will tym the brala of ther condition permut--Britta alcohol by weight $10,00 raz ilon.\n\nWith regard to the lartamed the dual report the Plenary Wirder. Provided that the said duty of Will. when in commliter, na adil | Newsiom uď Eve Conference. $1000 will be contentional dollar tion was made that it would 485 containing To 12 rackoned as the equivalent of ens inte operation on the first day of Other subjecla, which have NO\n\nTable.\n\nA-DA JAMANufactured tebran (1) If waste:pped:\n\nPar 11.\n\n(0) contalight 10 pounda\n\nmare of montura per 100 paundi walight thereof. $0.70.\n\n| bar 24. in Major General German at kag vilaparation at much Page 13 Thorpe. As a somly dedued Shad\n\nGood presters in beau made in cer Kuleze dunke he helped in the matter wh the work of the Trima landing of the Old Fontematibles || Round Table Confereses in Tradin\n\nBoulogna and then in med Buber Flatcom en Uve Alone un ho ADC. Dion By was | kelawór major in snig's corps and waran G By under him but made hat ap cial mark as a thief of cil'en employees clothing ja 187– the ith Pirinion, with Ryng's Bad - man prospe Hongkent where | Army, and a Victory your Com |transport men who set 20% and mander of the 17th Briende. Bir\n\nDentala motor drivers who doelva | malisequent brigades were the A, Crodit, fand bersemad at the recent 20/74. The Colonial allowemises on and S. Betxade in Scotland and the crisis, pay for the married rank and file Ird at Bordon with the fat Royal\n\nThatë ku been ja vettura sartuk in the Messiah Bulemen Bikoala with a legal life entlasata at Riky, Pare 13. Further urugʻinny kaj been made the four Betxules kambers which are making an 11,500 mila berriro e 11 Court-rial Africa Tape 12\n\nThe Bank of Busind bei pod back G8500,000,000 at the Ameri\n\nin China in fxed at 10 venta a day. Beola Fasilers in IL He joined broken out in Cypini.\n\nBugle for the 2nd N.J.\n\nDu Caneta chief the Rhine Sports. and had a hand in the evacuation\n\nWhen the 2nd Nochmab-pland | plana under Sir William Thwaites. Fusiliers Peach York from Salary\n\nhal their county will present them cith a ant of nine silme eeDee,\n\nPlatt China Trosper.\n\nCÈDE\n\npounds of neolatum per 100 shiling and night penes, Herling: January, 1993, the marginal ante direct calation la the unisocities NAVAL MEN IN F.MS.\n\nand veneequently to arrive at the being the word \"commitment\" \". quastiona, are swatting consideran\n\npound weight thereaf\n\n7004\n\n(b) containing lewe than\n\nued by a tante volthed by the Ings will be taken at the must meet-\n\nARE PAGE JAZZ MAZDA\n\nof Coumell. Cel da\n\nFinance Committer.\n\nKrajkyat Manag=\"bed. 3\n\nSEVERE QUAKE,\n\npoenda weight therauf.\n\nDon by the commffler during (1...!\n\nths if tripped:\n\nactual_amount payable in Hong:\n\n(a) containing 10 pounds\n\nkner Carvery, the conventional\n\nAdjournment.\n\nJakartal while the Sankey report in |\n\nof\n\n13\n\nmere of moisture per\n\ndollar shall be multiplied by 20 and\n\n11⁄2 Bronlancy.---The third read\n\n100\n\nColonia) Trauree from\n\ntime 1/6\n\nIn\n\nPage 18.\n\nEm repenting the\n\nAverag\n\npounds of moisture per venda welch theref 30.35 B-Oufactured tablecer\n\n200\n\n10\n\nvious month of the Honghent and\n\nper selling calan for the pre-\n\nShakal Bamicing Corpsentia for\n\nST00\n\n300\n\nBeren Sanabal players hawa day 'tels Bed their Intention al making the tris le Maker for the cricket informert. The plannen wha\n\nare total art in the\n\nmatch in morran hire sous Iriartek,\n\nThe first trooper for Chine leaves Each bagle will bear the case of a Southampton on October 8. This leading door those bebug Lard vessel. Dan Neuralla, con the Armstrong, Kije Tam Kan. 2nd Royal Welsh Funillern 10 The Merries mandle heat the Mar Lower\n\nVisualess Allendale | G baller and du Delakar 14 Inaysayan Chisma at fondial] partering 'I W WatsonArmatering. Lady † with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment\n\n100 Expert, Lord Jotray, Dorkem of Bands draft at Supporn on\n\nA\n\nNorthumberland Mr. V. Thow November 8th and Hongkoor opened their war in AustraMA-\n\n15 and 3f Weller Bundinn. The 30\n\nThe Beth African cricketers havi\n\nNovember 13, and dimmbark the\n\nP\n\nTI\n\nGeorge's baden is engraved on ouch\n\nLimeon at hanghai on Nawet\n\nin intended for the\n\nbee 16 in relief of Usa End N. F.— N. G. D. Newa.\n\nOmar hai qualist în megal 17, Tipammanit in the pea host of the Open Lawn Bowl Champimahiy\n\nhum 1.\n\n$275 barle, one of which has a spacial\n\ndoug Kal\n\n(3) Cigarettes,\n\nA meeting of the Plounce Gem-\n\ndemand drafts on London and until witte follow at which est\n\n|se vetlled the Bevine shall ke 12.\n\nSmall Cent In Public.\n\nile ad—This tax was est'mant-\n\nning $42,487 were approved. Referring to a vater af $1,287 for Comesking Enginigro far in con- nexion with the inseniiation tale-autographle plant in Hear\n\nLoss of Life in Solomon Islands.\n\nParticulars Asked For by Government.\n\nKuala Lumpur, Del, 13.\n\nAll officers, peltý adfrers, and men on the active or retired Hat of the Royal Navy, Royal Marinas, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva, who take up they aldance in the FMR he who have liken up thely reel- Genen la the PHS, alege Jan. 3,\n\nThoroughly Reliable\n\nPanama Jak je than an h\n\na dar makada di\n\nválky krumah alam, da pa dy\n\nsanya mapabana shu yonder de ska man\n\nBUCHANAN'S\n\n\"BLACK&WHITE\"\n\nSCOTCH WHISKY\n\nWORLD-RENOWNED FOR ABE AND QUALITY\n\nSole Agent -\n\nDODWELL & CO. LTD.\n\nIN THIS YEAR'S NEW SPELLING\n\nK. and\n\nW.\n\nspells\n\nYour Lett's Diary for 1932\n\nOur stock is here.\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LTD.\n\nYarding.\n\n(cerpecaked in Hong Kong)\n\nSaving\n\nMoney\n\nor saving your teeth?\n\nChater Bond.\n\nPahaco is a toothpaste for round for toothpasta, da people who desire a cantilica– you? Certainly not.\n\nwhich will clean and preserve\n\ntheir teeth and set up and\n\nmaintain a hygienic condition of the mouth it is for people willing to pay for this service, jul they pay for good medical and dental services. You don't go shopping\n\nPEBECO\n\nBut you de-al lead you should — oxorcisa, caution about quality. In other words, You are customer Pabaco wants, a person guided by reason in matters of hygienic science. Give a late trial, then,\n\nto\n\nPEBECO\n\nTOOTH-PASTE\n\nChina Expert-impart & Bani Ca. Läd Hangkang P. O. B. 59\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\n159\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\n1.\n\nThe object of this Ordinance is to delete from the principal Ordinance all the provisions relating to the system of supplying, in certain privileged districts, unmetered water to tenement houses by means of what were known as \"rider mains,\" thus implementing the Resolution which was passed by the Legislative Council on the 18th August, 1932.\n\nDANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE, 1932.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to dangerous drugs.\" He said. The necessity to amend this law is imposed on us by Geneva Convention Number Two of 1931. The opportunity is taken to consolidate various ordinances in the manner set out in the Table attached to the Bill. The principal clause (Number Five) sets out the names of dangerous drugs to which the Ordinance applies.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\n1. In 1931 a conference was held at Geneva for the purpose of supplementing the provisions of the International Opium Convention, known as \"The Hague Convention,\" signed at the Hague on the 23rd January, 1912, and of the International Opium Convention, known as \"The Geneva Convention (No. 1),\" signed at Geneva on the 19th February, 1925.\n\n2. As a result of the conference, a convention, for the purpose aforesaid and known as \"The Geneva Convention (No. 2),\" was signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 13th July 1931.\n\n3. By Article 11 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it is provided that in the event of the Health Committee of the League of Nations, after consulting the Permanent Committee of the Office International d'Hygiene Publique in Paris, deciding that any product obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, (not being a product which was on the 13th July, 1931, being used for medical or scientific purposes) is, or can be converted into, a drug capable of producing addiction, the Health Committee should notify the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of their decision. The Secretary-General was required to communicate the decision to the parties to the Convention, who undertook to apply to that product the measures of control specified in the Convention.\n\n19\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\n159\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:-\n\n1. The object of this Ordinance is to delete from the principal Ordinance all the provisions relating to the system of supplying, in certain privileged districts, unmetered water to tenement houses by means of what were known as \"rider mains,\" thus implementing the Resolution which was passed by the Legislative Council on the 18th August, 1932.\n\nDANGEROUS DRUGS ORDINANCE, 1932.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to dangerous drugs.\" He said.-The necessity to amend this law is imposed on us by Geneva Convention Number Two of 1931. The opportunity is taken to consolidate various ordinances in the manner set out in the Table attached to the Bill. The principal clause (Number Five) sets out the names of dangerous drugs to which the Ordinance applies.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:--\n\n1. In 1931 a conference was held at Geneva for the purpose of supplementing the provisions of the International Opium Convention, known as \"The Hague Convention,\" signed at the Hague on the 23rd January, 1912, and of the International Opium Convention, known as \"The Geneva Convention (No. 1),\" signed at Geneva on the 19th February, 1925.\n\n2. As a result of the conference, a convention, for the purpose aforesaid and known as \"The Geneva Convention (No. 2),\" was signed at Geneva on behalf of His Majesty on the 13th July 1931.\n\n3. By Article 11 of the Geneva Convention (No. 2) it is provided that in the event of the Health Committee of the League of Nations, after consulting the Permanent Committee of the Office International d'Hygiene Publique in Paris, deciding that any product obtained from any of the phenanthrene alkaloids of opium or from the ecgonine alkaloids of the coca leaf, (not being a product which was on the 13th July, 1931, being used for medical or scientific purposes) is, or can be converted into, a drug capable of producing addiction, the Health Committee should notify the Secretary-General of the League of Nations of their decision. The Secretary-General was required to communicate the decision to the parties to the Convention, who undertook to apply to that product the measures of control specified in the Convention.\n\n163.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n221\n79\n\nFrom FRANCE,\nTelegram (en clair) from Sir E. Phipps (Paris).\nD. By Bag.\nNo. 714.\nR. Saving.\nNovember 20th 1937.\nNovember 20th 1937.\nNovember 22nd 1937.\n\nThe Minister for Foreign Affairs tells me that he received the visit this morning of the Chinese Ambassador, who seemed very depressed, and asked whether Monsieur Delbos advised China to address herself to the League of Nations, in view of the probable failure of the Brussels Conference to obtain any redress for her.\n\nMonsieur Delbos told Mr. Wellington Koo that his advice was to avoid the League, which would be unable to give any practical assistance to China, and to stick to Brussels, where at least the United States was present, however disinclined to help it might be.\n\nIn this connexion Monsieur Delbos referred to the conversations that he had at Brussels with you and Mr. Norman Davis regarding the vexed question of the supply of arms and munitions over French Railways in Indo-China. He repeated his fears about possible acts of sabotage by Japanese agents against those railways and even the bombing of them by Japanese aircraft, the possible occupation of Hainan and the Paracel Islands, and finally the unfriendly feeling of Japan towards France. No arguments of mine could shake him, and I feel",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, 3, 1937.\n\nCHINA AND JAPAN\n\nBasic Facts Reviewed By an Observer\nPEACE IN EUROPE\n\nLittle Entente Policy Announced\nWAICHOW UNEASY\n\nFear of Air Raid Causes Exodus of Residents\nMY COFFEE MUST BE A FINE BLEND\n\nWELL, I THINK IT'S MORE IMPORTANT.\n\nTO HAVE IT REALLY FRESH\n\n13\n\nBUT I INSIST ON HAVING IT GROUND JUST RIGHT\n\n32\n\nWaichow, Sept. 1. It is reported that a bomb was dropped from a Japanese airplane flying over Au-tau, at the head of Bias Bay, fifty or more miles from Waichow. Yesterday, it is further rumoured that Waichow is one of the several places to be attacked from the air, which of course causes much uneasiness. Quite a number of women and children have previously retired to the village and others are leaving the city pursuant to these unfavourable reports.\n\nCHANGE OF VIEWPOINT\n\nThe motives which urged the Japanese to take advantage of the Lukouchiao and Shanghai incidents to start the present war are explained by a competent observer, Mr. E. M. Gull, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian. He says:\n\nSir, May I begin this letter, which I have been wanting to write for some time, by congratulating the Manchester Guardian on its presentation and treatment of the conflict between China and Japan? It needed real knowledge and insight to see and considerable courage to declare, as you did in your issue of July 13, that \"there is every reason to believe that, should the Japanese go forward, political necessity as well as his personal inclination will force General Chiang Kai-shek to fight at last.\" You were, I felt convinced, absolutely right, and so too, I thought, had been your correspondent in Nanking in the admirable messages which he had been sending to you.\n\nBucharest, Sept. 1. Members of the Little Entente have issued a communique on their policy, which is based on the same principles as the United States.\n\nMost observers in England, among them persons who had recently been in China, thought that China would not fight—not, some said, in any circumstances, and among them were men for whose respect I had a high regard.\n\nWashington, Sept. 1. Asked whether the United States and Britain contemplated further joint action in the Sino-Japanese crisis, Mr. Bingham replied that any statement would have to come from the Department of State.\n\nReports that British and American naval commanders at Shanghai were discussing the possibility of convoys to escort vessels were treated with circumspection by the Department of State, which takes the view that such a step would require Mr. Roosevelt's approval.—Reuter.\n\nTension Relieved\n\nUpon its presentation and treatment of the Far Eastern crisis \"to some extent.\"\n\nIt is expected that American cargo and passenger ships will be permitted to enter freely into Chinese waters soon, but Mr. Roper added that the American Government had to proceed upon a daily, and nigh an hourly basis, dependent on developments as they occurred.—Reuter.\n\nChinese Make Amends\n\nWashington, Sept. 2. The State Department has announced that the American Ambassador to China, Mr. N. T. Johnson, has cabled advising that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has officially apologised in connection with the mistaken bombing of President Hoover and made amends.—United Press.\n\nBritish Co-operation\n\nShanghai, Sept. 2 (7 p.m.). Admiral Yarnell, interviewed by Reuter, expressed his appreciation of British co-operation in the present difficulties. He stated that he was conferring with Vice-Admiral Little frequently on questions of common interest, keeping the river open to navigation, and he described the help given by H.M.S. Cumberland to the United States supply ship Gold Star as a sterling example of Anglo-American co-operation.\n\nThe Basic Facts\n\nI say all this not by way of sending you an agreeable letter but because it enables me to state what I conceive to be the basic facts in the present situation. First, the Chinese are not temperamentally fighters, and they have a moral and intellectual antipathy to violence. The commonest coolie will describe as \"too fierce\" the threatening, blustering type of person, and once that has been said three or four times of a man, he is marked as inferior \"for keeps.\" But what the Chinese feel today transcends this constitutional dislike. They feel that unless they fight Japan, they will become a second-rate people, dominated by an inferiority complex, under the influence of which they could accomplish none of the tasks which they know must be undertaken and completed before they can rank again as a first-rate people.\n\nThe communique states that the development of the economic and political relations with the Danubian countries is increasingly hopeful.\n\nThe communique praises M. Paul Van Zeeland's efforts for international economic accord.—United Press.\n\nETHIOPIAN CONQUEST\n\nBelgrade, Sept. 1. Semi-officially, the newspaper Vreme reported that members of the Bucharest conference agreed that the question of recognising the Italian conquest of Ethiopia should be liquidated as soon as possible.\n\nIt is believed that members of the Little Entente are ready to originate a common move for the recognition of the conquest, and eliminating the subject from further European consideration.—United Press.\n\nHAILED IN FRANCE\n\nParis, Sept. 1. The country has hailed the results of the conference at Bucharest as the greatest victory of French foreign policy since Herr Adolf Hitler's policy changed the international line-up.\n\nAttention has been drawn to the communique, which endorses every principle of French foreign policy. It is said that the \"Hands-off Spain\" policy adopted at Bucharest is a direct blow to the Italo-German interference doctrine that in the civil war is justifiable because of the danger of the establishment of an extreme Leftist regime in Spain.—United Press.\n\nOPIUM PROBLEM\n\nCase of the British Colonies\nFUTURE CONTROL POINT\nA plea for the closest co-operation between the United States and this country in regard to the opium traffic was made at a gathering in Westminster by Mrs. Howell Morrhead, of the Foreign Policy Association, U.S.A., who for twenty-two years has been making a close study of the opium problem, discussing it with experts in many countries, and watching the work of the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee.\n\nMrs. Moorhead spoke of a conference that would be held at Geneva in about two years, a conference of plenipotentiaries of the various Governments, to consider the drafting of a treaty to limit the supply of raw materials to the needs of doctors and scientists.\n\nMedical and scientific needs are already known, but to arrive at the world requirements of raw material, the League must also know the amount of raw material required by the opium-smoking monopolies and how long that need is to continue.\n\nIt should therefore also know what policy Great Britain intended to pursue in regard to such of her colonies as still allow opium-smoking. In some of those colonies, there are only a few—the smoker is registered but not rationed; in some, he is rationed, and in some, the registered list is closed, though new names may be added on medical authority.\n\nMrs. Moorhead, who made it clear that she was not speaking for her Government, said that the one point at issue between opinion in the United States and in Great Britain was the indefinite continuation of the opium-smoking monopolies in certain British colonies.\n\nAPPEAL TO MAYOR\n\nSan Francisco, Sept. 1. Teamsters throttled waterfront longshoremen's gangs attempting to unload ships here today, and cargoes are not leaving the docks.\n\nIn Clashes\n\nJerusalem, Sept. 1. Four more persons were killed today as a result of clashes between Arabs and Jews.\n\nJewish leaders have issued a proclamation in similar terms used by the Arab Higher Committee yesterday, urging their people to keep calm. Police and aircraft are standing by for emergencies.—Reuter Bulletin.\n\nMartial Law Threat\n\nA spokesman for the shippers asserted: \"Outbound ships will soon be without cargoes. All shipping will be badly crippled. We are not party to the dispute but are watching developments closely.\n\nJerusalem, Sept. 1. Two more Arabs have been shot to death. The toll for the 72 hours is seven Arabs and three Jews. The British authorities have threatened martial law.—United Press.\n\nAppeal to Mayor\n\nArab Killed\n\nJerusalem, Sept. 2. Shots were fired at the British High Commissioner's summer camp today, killing an Arab constable.\n\nSan Francisco, Sept. 1. Seventy-five women, mostly the wives of longshoremen, some leading and others carrying children, marched to the offices of the Mayor, Mr. Angelo J. Rossi, and appealed to him to terminate the embargo.—United Press.\n\nThe High Commissioner is at present residing there.—Reuter Bulletin.\n\nThe meeting agreed that the problem of Hongkong, where the control system has broken down, would require separate consideration.\n\nAMOY MAYOR QUITS\n\nAmoy, Sept. 2. Mr. Li Shih-lin, the mayor of Amoy, resigned today. It is reported that Mr. Kao Han-chiu will be appointed to succeed Mr. Li.—Central News.\n\nThe Canton-Hankow Railway has now resumed its regular service, which was lately interrupted by flood in Hunan, says the Canton Gazette. The large quantity of Hunan rice intended for Kwangtung and held up by the flood is gradually pouring into Canton.\n\nPage 13\n\nPage 13\n\nPage 13\n\n...\n\nPage 32\n\nPage 32\n\nPage 32",
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        "content_text": "14\n\n28\n\nBIRTH CONTROL NEWS\n\nDoctor's Case for Small Families.\n\nA defence of mothers who \"provide the State with a small number of good citizens rather than a rabble of neglected starvelings\" is made by Dr. John Kershaw, medical officer of health for Accrington (Lancs.)\n\nThe number of first-born children, he points out, had increased in Accrington, and was higher in 1936 than at any time since 1930. The number of second children had also increased during recent years.\n\n\"If young parents prefer pleasure to perambulators and cars to cradles,\" Dr. Kershaw writes,\n\n16 we should expect to find a decrease in the number of first children, since once the first baby has arrived a life of pleasure is seriously hampered.\n\n\"It is in the third and subsequent children that the decrease has been steadily progressing during the last dozen years.\n\n\"If these figures mean anything, they mean that women are as ready as ever to become mothers, but that they are unable to afford a large family.\n\n\"Parents are still courageous. It is fear for the child's future and not for her own comfort that deters a woman from continuing to bear children.\n\n'Until she is relieved of this fear, it is futile to mouth well-meaning but empty phrases about duty to the State.'\n\nYour Own Opinion.\n\n(\n\nI do not think the writer of the article on empty cradles worked out how a mother with only £2 a week coming in can provide for a newcomer without robbing those she has already.\n\nI have two big and healthy children, and I have just had another in Crumpsall Hospital.\n\nI borrowed £2 for a second-hand layette for my new babe, expecting to\n\nOctober, 1937\n\nreceive £2 maternity money, and now I am informed by the Post Office that I am not entitled to draw any.\n\nI have drawn just 24s. 6d. in money and I have put ninety 1s. 2d. stamps on my cards, expecting it now my babe is here. I have no money to buy even a second-hand pram, nor anything to pay back what I borrowed for the layette. Then we have to read articles on why there are not more children!\n\nD. S., Belper Street, Harpurhey.\n\nLandlord Bans Babies.\n\nA young couple in Aberdeen have been forbidden by their landlord to have any children. If they do they must leave the house.\n\nThe identity of the couple is being kept secret, but the matter has aroused tremendous indignation and is being investigated by the Aberdeen House Proprietors' and Factors' Association.\n\nThe clergy have taken strong objection to the landlord's ruling, and steps may be taken to have the whole case officially reviewed.\n\nInvestigations have revealed that although it is seldom a factor makes the stipulation so definite many young couples have been given houses, but told when they take over that no children were wanted.\n\n\"There is no A young wife said: doubt that many young couples are afraid to have families for fear they are put out of their house.\"\n\nMEDICAL HELP\n\nON\n\nBIRTH CONTROL\n\nBY\n\nHAROLD CHAPPLE, M.C.\n\nSIR JOHN COCKBURN, K.C.M.G., M.D. SIR W. ARBUTHNOT LANE, C.B.\n\nSIR JAMES BARR, C.B.E., M.D.\n\nAnd others.\n\nOf all Booksellers\n\n6s. net. Putnam, 24, Bedford St., London, W.C.2\n\nVol xvi, No. 3.\n\nBIRTH CONTROL NEWS\n\nParis-International Population Congress.\n\nPrison Ban.\n\n29\n\n15\n\nA woman friend who has just become a visitor to Holloway Prison is puzzled and disturbed because she finds she is unable to get permission to give the inmates any instruction in birth control.\n\nCC\n\nAt the Congress held in Paris on July 29 to August 1, under the Presidency of M. Adolphe Landry, a large number of speakers from different countries assembled to listen to a wide range of theoretical papers. The\n\nHere, if anywhere,\" she says subject arousing most discussion and indignantly, \"it is needed.\n\nit is needed. Most of on which the Congress members got\n\nthese women, who have either got no thoroughly bogged was that of \"Race.\" brains at all, or the wrong sort, and are It is clear that the word as used at\n\noften physically unsound as well, have large families, some of them eight or ten, even in these days.\n\n80\n\npresent is charged with much political significance and based on so little truly diagnostic character that it would be better not to use the word at all at any scientific meeting.\n\nA full Report of the proceedings is to be issued by the Congress Secretary in due course.\n\nSir Leonard Hill's Warning.\n\nSir Leonard Hill, specialist in physical medicine, discussed the prospect of a greatly diminished population, with a growing proportion of the aged, in his Presidential Address to the Sanitary Inspectors Association Conference at Brighton.\n\nHe said that, if the present trend continues, in one hundred years Britain's population may have fallen to 5,000,000, little more than half the present population of London. In every 100 people there were now 23 under 15 and 12 over 60. In thirty years' time the figures would be 10 and 24, and in sixty years 4 and 45.\n\nThe infant mortality had been halved and the expectation of life at birth had gone up since the middle of last century, from thirty-nine to fifty-nine years.\n\nIt was not that the late middle-aged people were now living to be older, but that the young were not dying. If the present trend was followed there would by 1941 no longer be any excess of births over deaths.\n\n'They would like to know how to stop, having children; the prison officials would like them to. I would like to tell them. But none of us is the Home Office will not even listen to able to do anything about it, because\n\nargument on the subject.\"\n\nNot \"Three Score Years and Ten.\"\n\nC\n\nThe child born in this century can hope on the average for thirty more years of life than his ancestor in the fourth century and twelve more years than if he had lived 200 years ago,\" said Professor D. Burns, speaking at the British Association.\n\nCC\n\nMore and more people of all ages are being protected against natural death, and the proportion of people unfitted for life's struggle is increasing, especially in the more sheltered classes, and they are likely to fall victims to any sudden physical or mental crisis. That explains why the average expectation of life of the male of 65 is less to-day than it was at the beginning of the Christian Era.\n\nTHE C.B.C. LIBRARY is there for use Members can use the Reading Room or borrow books. Join the C.B.C. and use it.",
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        "content_text": "## 56\n\n3 \n\n2 \n\nof previous assistance to China. In reply to His Majesty's Ambassador's enquiry, the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated on the 24th July that Baron Hiranuma's statement had been quite informal and, in part, incorrectly reported.\n\nIn fact, Mr. Chamberlain made it clear in the House of Commons on the 17th July and again when he announced the text of the formula that there could be no question of a change in British policy at the dictation of a foreign Power and that the formula amounted simply to a recognition of a situation existing in fact. The formula was communicated in advance to the Chinese Government on the 23rd July, together with an oral communication from Sir A. Clark Kerr on the same lines as Mr. Chamberlain's two statements.\n\n243. Agreement having been reached on this point, an energetic start was made with the detailed discussions. At the first meetings of the United Kingdom and Japanese delegates on the 24th July, Mr. Kato put forward the Japanese agenda, consisting of twelve points, eight of which related to police measures and the remaining four to economic questions. The first eight points were referred on the same day to a fact-finding committee, which subsequently reported on the actual situation at Tientsin, and on the detailed respects in which the Japanese would wish to see it changed. Good progress was made at the third and fourth meetings of the conference on the 26th. Private talks between members of the two delegations proceeded concurrently on the questions of the four alleged terrorists, of Ssu Ching Wu and the three other Chinese interned with him, and of Li Han-yuan and other alleged anti-Japanese elements in the British Municipal Police. A provisional solution of all these problems had been reached by the 30th July, in return for which it was understood that General Muto, the principal Japanese military delegate, would be willing to assure that there would be a material improvement in the situation at Tientsin. With the assistance of Mr. Dennis, chief of the British Municipal Police, who had left for Tokyo on the 28th July, it was possible by the end of the month to reach provisional agreement on all points raised in items 1 to 8 of Mr. Kato's agenda, except for one question of detail (subsequently cleared up) regarding the exact number of Japanese gendarmes who were to be stationed in the British Concession as observers. The British negotiators were successful in maintaining the principle that all executive functions within the concession must be carried out by the British Municipal Police.\n\n244. Less satisfactory progress was made with the economic discussions. The question of currency was broached at the afternoon meeting of the 27th July, at which the Japanese negotiators requested a prohibition of the circulation of `fapi` in the concession. On the morning of the 28th, the question of the silver deposited in Chinese banks in the British Concession was discussed, with equally little result, and at the end of the month, His Majesty's Ambassador was still awaiting instructions from the Foreign Office on both subjects.\n\n245. Close contact had been maintained by Sir Robert Craigie with his United States and French colleagues throughout the month. Meanwhile, His Majesty's Government had been endeavouring to enlist the co-operation of the two Governments concerned in regard to the economic issues under discussion at Tokyo. On the 15th July, the United States Government stated in reply to a British enquiry that they must regard the currency question at Tientsin as a local issue connected with the administration of the British Concession and that they could offer no advice on the subject. On the 27th July, the French Government, in response to a similar British enquiry, instructed their ambassador at Tokyo to support Sir Robert Craigie on the currency and silver questions, and they, moreover, informed the United States Government of their action. On the 29th, His Majesty's Government made a further approach to the United States Government, urging them to make clear to the Japanese Government that the question of currency was of concern to them. On the following day, His Majesty's Ambassador, Paris, was instructed to inform the French Government of this approach and to ask whether they would instruct their ambassador at Tokyo to inform the Japanese Government that they were not prepared to agree to an arrangement regarding which they had not been first consulted, a request to which the French Government acceded on the 1st August. Meanwhile, the United States Government, on the 31st July, instructed their chargé d'affaires in Tokyo to continue to show to the Japanese Government their interest in broader phases of the Tientsin question, including the currency issue. They indicated, however, that they were not particularly interested in the silver question.\n\n## Anti-British Activities in Japan\n\n246. The press campaign against Great Britain, led by the **Hochi**, a paper believed to be closely connected with the German Embassy, continued and reached a climax about the middle of the month. There were hostile demonstrations in front of His Majesty's Embassy on the 7th July, the second anniversary of the outbreak of the incident, and again on the 14th, 16th, 17th, and 31st. Similar meetings were organised throughout the country. Attempts were made to intimidate the staff of His Majesty's Embassy and to induce them to leave its service; for instance, the Japanese lady telephone operator was rung up and informed that she ought to be killed, while the press published an interview with the nephew of the embassy gatekeeper, now fighting on the China front, who stated that he was ashamed of his uncle. One Tokyo theatre displayed notices stating that hostile Britons would not be admitted. At the height of the agitation, however, the vernacular papers published statements to the effect that, in spite of everything, the military attaché was still popular in Japan, and they enlarged on Major-General Piggott's fondness for eels and rice, a Japanese national dish.\n\n## Detention of Colonel Spear\n\n247. On the 4th July, His Majesty's Ambassador made further energetic representations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject. On the 13th July, on receipt of news that it was proposed to try Colonel Spear before a military tribunal, Sir Robert Craigie took the question up with the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, complained of the fact that no official notice of this new decision had been received, and requested the necessary facilities for a British language officer, whom he proposed to send to Kalgan to establish touch with Colonel Spear. On the 26th, the question was raised by the military attaché with the Director of Military Operations. In spite of these representations, Colonel Spear was still detained at the end of the month.\n\n## Tsingtao\n\n248. The current anti-British agitation in North China assumed serious proportions at Tsingtao, where there was an anti-British riot on the 11th July, while on the 14th, two bombs were thrown at His Majesty's Consulate. In addition to the general representations made to the Japanese Government on the subject in connection with the Tientsin conversations, His Majesty's Ambassador took up the specific question of Tsingtao in a letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 8th July and again with the Vice-Minister on the 13th. On the 16th, Mr. Acting-Consul Pilcher was despatched from Osaka to assist His Majesty's Consul at Tsingtao.\n\n## Group Captain Bryant's Visit to China\n\n249. In the course of the month, Group Captain W. E. G. Bryant, Air Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy, accompanied by Major Stables, language officer, and other foreign service attachés from Tokyo, made a tour of the battlefields in the territory occupied by the Japanese in China.\n\n## Malaya\n\n## British Empire\n\n250. On the 31st July, two battalions of Indian troops arrived at Singapore. These were understood to represent the beginning of a substantial reinforcement of the British forces in the Malay Peninsula.\n\n## Canada\n\n251. On the 3rd July, the Canadian Chargé d'Affaires made representations to the Japanese Government regarding the bombing of a Canadian Mission building in China.\n\n## United States of America\n\n## Abrogation of Commercial Treaty\n\n252. Anti-Japanese feeling was reported to be rising throughout the United States during the month. After two abortive attempts to pass anti-Japanese legislation through Congress, the first being Senator Pittman's motion of the \n\n## 57",
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        "content_text": "# ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG PEACE CONFERENCES\n\n(Continued from Page 3)\n\nAfter this I had no idea where I was to go, but as my escort boarded one of the buses I got on at the other off. At last we began to breathe freely but, to my disappointment, my escort got off and we only sailed across Three Fathoms Cove to another village called Sam Chung. Here we stayed for two days and nights and, as it was only one more day to Chinese New Year, we almost gave up hope of reaching Free China. Late in the afternoon of the sixth day after the start of my journey, however, we proceeded as far as Tong, and when my escort alighted I started to sail down Tolo Channel.\n\nNear the mouth of the Channel we anchored at about 10 p.m. We were then spent about the most uncomfortable night that I can ever remember. There were 17 people, with luggage, crammed into the small well at the stern of the junk. The floor space was approximately 36 square feet, so there was little more than 2 square feet per person. I think very few of us slept more than a few moments that night.\n\nAt the crack of dawn we were off again, and soon came in sight of the pretty islands at the mouth of Tolo Channel. At last we sighted Tap Mun, the island home of my mythical patient. Fortunately, I never had occasion to produce the letter summoning me to visit a hypothetical patient on Tap Mun island, and I started off in the wake of my guide who took the road which led towards Kai Tak airport.\n\nThe guide, who had been twice over the road, had already ascertained at what points Japanese sentries were posted, and at what times they changed guard. The guards at the entrance to the airport changed duty at 8 a.m. and it was planned that we should pass by at that time, when presumably the soldiers would be somewhat less intent on scrutinising the passers-by.\n\nThe plan worked perfectly, and the incoming guard marched past us a few moments before we reached the entrance to the airport. I was instructed, in a note handed to me by my second guide, to send a message to my friends after passing the island of Tap Mun in safety. I scribbled the following message on a piece of paper: \"Patient on island is well. Anticipate satisfactory progress.\" The star (*) was a pre-arranged signal indicating my name and continued safety. I handed the note to my guide, and over a year later learned that the message had been safely delivered.\n\nFrom Tap Mun we steered north-east across Mirs Bay towards Peng Chau Island and then almost due north to Sha U Chung. I carried a small watch-chain compass in my waist-coat pocket and, sewn into my inside parts, I had a map of the whole area, extending as far north as Kukong, which I had cut out of a Postal Atlas. These two things were of the utmost value during the rest of the journey, and I still count them among my most treasured possessions.\n\nLater we picked up a small sailing boat and made somewhat quicker progress. Two days before reaching Lulong I was able to send a telegram to the British Ambassador in Chungking telling him of my escape and asking him to inform my family in Australia, and at the same time to request my wife to cable out some much-needed money. On the way up we ran into two or three parties of men who had escaped from North Point and Shamshuipo camps and were delighted to make their acquaintance and to hear their stories. Some of them, I am glad to say, are back in Hong Kong again at the present moment.\n\nAfter reaching Lulong we felt, for the first time, that all risk was over. We had reached a point where motor transport was available and there was a well-made road leading to our immediate destination of Kukong.\n\nAt Lulong, we parted company. Marsman, Lavrov, and their remaining Chinese friend had an opportunity of travelling by private car to Kukong, so they went ahead. I proceeded by the somewhat more tedious transportation offered by a salt truck. It was my first experience of the devious methods necessary for obtaining the privilege of joining the crowded mass of humanity on one of these trucks, and I shall always be grateful to a young student of Lingnam University who initiated me into the technique.\n\n## Journey To Kukong\n\nOn the journey to Kukong was the inevitable breakdown of the boat and made somewhat quicker progress. Two days before reaching Lulong I was able to send a telegram to the British Ambassador in Chungking. The weather was extremely cold and there was actual snow on the hills above Sha U Chung. I felt very glad that I had sewn an old goatskin into my raincoat.\n\nWe passed through beautiful country, and some of it reminded me forcibly of parts of Surrey. If it had not been for the circumstances of our journey we could have imagined ourselves on somewhat strenuous walking tour.\n\nThe hospitality of the villagers was amazing. We met with nothing but the utmost kindness, courtesy, and generosity at their hands. We were robbed by a lone bandit, who robbed us each in turn of wrist watches, fountain pens, and money. I only lost my fountain pen; I had no money and my Rolex wrist watch was pushed above my elbow and covered by a bandage over skin painted with mercurochrome.\n\nMy time has already gone and I shall not attempt to tell the story of the Hong Kong University students in China, as that has already been told in full elsewhere. But I think there is no time to tell the story of the rest of my experience in ex-China.\n\n## Guide Turns Up\n\nOn the following morning my permanent guide turned up. I recognised him at once by the fact that he was carrying my suitcase and a bundle containing my Jaeger sleeping bag. For the rest of the journey, about 4 p.m. on the afternoon of the fourth day, there was a great commotion in the village. Villagers dashed about excitedly and soon gunboats had apparently come up from Hong Kong, and at last I was able to get into touch with friends whom I knew.\n\n## Reach Wai Chow\n\nWe reached Wai Chow after five strenuous days of walking and on the third day after leaving Lulong. It had taken me twenty days to complete the journey from Hong Kong.\n\n## Future of University\n\nUltimately some 346 Hong Kong University students, out of a total student body of about 600, made their way into Free China, of whom no fewer than 319 continued their studies at 17 different Chinese Universities.\n\nIn Chungking I went to see the British Ambassador, Sir Horace Seymour, and Mr Han Lih-wu, of the Sino-British Cultural Association. As a result of conversations with them, and with the Chinese Minister of Education, I returned almost immediately to Kukong, via Kweilin, carrying relief money for the students from British Government funds.\n\nThe addition of Marsman and his friends made the party six, and my plans had all been made on the assumption that a party of two could make good speed and would attract little attention. However, as things turned out, we had a very unpleasant experience during the second night. The guerillas and the crew of the junk slept on shore, leaving only the five of us who were refugees to sleep on the boat.\n\nAbout 3 a.m. I was awakened by the blinding light of an electric torch shining in my face and the barrel of a revolver pointed straight at my head. It was the first time I had been confronted with this particular type of situation and I must say one feels in rather a weak and essential position to be suddenly awakened out of a confused sleep to face such circumstances flat on one's back!\n\nThe lonely robber then dropped from the side of our junk into a waiting boat and was rowed away into the darkness.\n\nAt the Hosai Hospital I could literally say that I was penniless. I shall never forget the warmth of the welcome I received, nor the luxury of lying on a real bed again after sleeping for three weeks on bare boards, boat decks, and stone floors.\n\nAfter three hours I was taken up to the school on the hill and here, to my surprise, was ushered into a room where Messrs Marsman and Lavrov and two of their Chinese colleagues were waiting.\n\n\"No Impossible Problems In Pacific\"\n\n## FRASER IN AMERICA\n\nMr Fraser said he wanted such a conference immediately to follow the Paris Conference which would draft the peace treaty for the war in Europe.\n\n## SWORD SURRENDERED\n\nJapanese Commander At Malaya Ceremony\n\n### SERVICE CHIEFS PRESENT\n\nWashington, Feb. 25.\n\nOne of the highest-ranking Japanese officers in South-east Asia General Itakgaki, Commander of the 7th Area Army, embracing Malaya, Java, Sumatra, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and parts of Siam and Borneo, has formally surrendered to the General Officer Commanding in Chief, Malaya Command, General Messervy, at a ceremony at the Command Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, witnessed by a large gathering of Service chiefs.\n\nBe-ribboned, greying Itakgaki, at the head of a line of his staff officers, was marched onto the parade ground and halted between the lines of British and Indian guards to come to attention as General Messervy took up his position at a flag-draped table and called on him in a loud voice to surrender his sword.\n\nAt a slow, halting pace, the Japanese commander advanced to the table bearing his sword, encased in a colourful cloth bag tied with purple ribbon, and offered the sword across the Union Jack, after which General Messervy announced that the remaining 12 senior Japanese officers, headed by General Itakgaki, would hand over their swords to Brigadier C. P. Jones, C.B.E., M.C., the General's Staff Brigadier, at Malaya Command.\n\nMr Fraser foresaw \"no impossible problems in the Pacific. There will be problems, naturally. China has her many problems. There are other problems of organising the so-called trusteeships. There are also the economic and political problems concerning the stability of all Asia.\"\n\n## DANISH KING BETTER\n\nCopenhagen, Feb. 26.\n\nIt was officially announced today that King Christian's condition has improved.-United Press.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "## 2 - \n\n`PRO/1040/3`. \n\n## 28 \n\nThe Wah Kiu Yat Po of July 16 carried a sensational report regarding the railway disaster on the Canton-Hankow Railway on July 10, when a bridge collapsed under a train. The bridge was of wooden construction and in a bad state of repair. The train was considerably overloaded with freight as a result of shippers bribing railway officials. Railway police and regular troops, who were supposed to be saving passengers who had been thrown in the river, instead started a gun battle between themselves after quarrelling over the division of loot from the wrecked train.\n\n## 2. \n\n### HONG KONG. \n\nThe Wah Kiu Yat Po of July 17 reported that the Chinese Engineers Institute (one of the leading local trade unions) was preparing a third petition for an increase in wages. Two previous petitions had been rejected. The new petition would ask for a 150% increase in basic pay.\n\nThe same paper on July 19 expressed concern over the prevalence of violent crime in the New Territories, which it attributed to poverty resulting from war losses, ease of obtaining arms left behind by the Japanese, shortage of Police personnel and inadequate organisation of village guards. It asked for Government assistance for the rehabilitation of farmers and more co-operation between the Police and the Chinese authorities on the other side of the border.\n\n## 3. \n\n### WORLD AFFAIRS. \n\nConcern was again expressed over the possibility of a Japanese revival. The Kung Sheung Daily Press feared the swamping of Far Eastern markets by the products of Japan's light industries, the Wah Kiu Yat Po protested against MacArthur \"monopolising control over Japan\", and the Sing Tao Jih Pao doubted the genuineness of Japan's conversion to democracy and considered that a Japan with the same industrial capacity as in 1930 would again be a potential aggressor.\n\nThe Hwa Shiang Pao doubted whether the states participating in the Paris Conference would obtain American aid without being subjected to American political domination.\n\n## 672 \n\n**J.H.B. Lee**, \n\n`P.R.O.` \n\n`JHBL/APC`",
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        "content_text": "## 2. HONG KONG\n\n- 2 -\n\n`PRO/1004/3`\n\nThere was nothing of interest under this head, except a report by the Sing Tao Jih Pao to the effect that Americans are becoming more and more interested in making investments in Hong Kong.\n\n## 3. WORLD AFFAIRS\n\nThere was some comment on the Paris Conference on the Marshall Plan, predicting that the conference would be a failure.\n\n`JHBL/APC`\n**J.H.B. Lee**\nP.R.O.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-628-11 War Damage Compensation- individual claims 1-3-1951 - 31-3-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-628-11 War Damage Compensation- individual claims 1-3-1951 - 31-3-1951",
        "content_text": "I 11011/7\n\nOUT FILE\n\nPORTION\n\nMICH\n\n5.3.1.\n\n30th March, 1950.\n\n34\n\nBar,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary Bevin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th March concerning your claim for compensation in respect of war loss and personal injury sustained in China, and to state that although he appreciates the unfortunate position in which you find yourself as a result of the war in China, he regrets to be unable materially to add to what was stated in Foreign Office letter of the 30th August 1948.\n\nI am to explain that in the view of His Majesty's Government, compensation in respect of war damage to property situated in the territory of an Allied Power which was occupied by the enemy is the responsibility of the Government of that territory. This general principle was recognised by the Governments of the States who signed the Final Act of the Paris Conference on Reparation (from Germany) on the 31st December 1945. The Chinese Government, however, were not parties to that instrument, and have expressed their unwillingness to pay compensation to foreign nationals in respect of war damage, and, since they do not compensate their own nationals and are under no obligation to do so, there are no grounds on which His Majesty's Government could successfully contest their refusal even if there were no doubt of their capacity to pay.\n\nIn these circumstances, therefore, the only recourse is against Japan. No Peace Conference has yet been convened for the purpose of drawing up a Treaty of Peace with Japan, and although His Majesty's Government's views on the desirability of concluding a peace settlement in the Far East are well known, this is not a matter in which they can make progress alone.\n\nAs Mr. Bevin is aware, the only payments which have so far been made to British subjects whose property in the Far East sustained war damage are ex-gratia grants under the Far Eastern Private Chattels Scheme. These grants, so far as they are available to British subjects who sustained war damage in China, are only available to those British subjects formerly interned in Japanese-controlled territories who now intend to make a permanent home in the United Kingdom. As you do not fulfil this last condition, it is regretted that you are not eligible to apply for such a grant.\n\nIn the case of ex-employees of the Shanghai Municipal Council, pending a settlement by the Chinese Government who by the Sino-British Treaty of 1943 assumed inter alia the obligations of the Council, His Majesty's Government have prepared a scheme for ex-gratia advances on account of claims to service benefits to certain former members of the Council.\n\nB.P. Dillon, Esq.,\n\nc/o Chartered Bank of India,\n\nAustralia and China\n\nHong Kong",
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